Adams Free Library offers Pastel Painting Workshop

11:42AM / Monday, November 18, 2024Print Story | Email Story

ADAMS, Mass. — Award-winning pastel artist Gregory Maichack will present "Seascapes: Maintaining Habitat Inspired by Winslow Homer," for adults and teens 16+, to be hosted by the Adams Free Library.

Friday, Nov. 21. Registration is required. Library events are free and open to the public.

This program is supported in part by funds from the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

This workshop is designed for participants of all skill levels, from beginner to advanced. Attendees will create a personalized, vivid seascape painting based on Winslow Homer's beautiful pastel renditions of "Summer Squall," and "West Point, Prout's Neck." All materials will be supplied. Seating may fill quickly, so please call 413-743-8345 to register for the class.

Maichack is an award-winning portraitist and painter working primarily in pastels living in the Berkshires. He has taught as a member of the faculty of the Museum School in Springfield, as well as at Greenfield and Holyoke Community College, Westfield State, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

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Memorial Building Owner Seeks Name Change

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
06:00PM / Tuesday, September 08, 2026

ADAMS, Mass. — The selectmen tabled a request from the owner of the Memorial Building, who wants to change his company's name to qualify for more grant funding.

During Wednesday's Select Board meeting, the proposal was initially approved but later tabled after a resident urged the board to have town counsel review the documents.

According to Town Administrator Nicholas Caccamo, the owner, Michael Mackin, is seeking to change the name from Memorial School Redevelopment LLC to 30 Columbia Redevelopment LLC, which he said would make him eligible for more grant funding.

In a follow-up with iBerkshires.com, Mackin said the property must be twice removed from town ownership to be eligible for certain grant funding.

Mackin was not present at Wednesday's board meeting, but Caccamo explained that the change would make Mackin eligible for the Berkshire Brownfields Revolving Loan Program to help fund hazardous-material abatement and the removal of heating oil tanks.

Caccamo told the board the change is solely creating a delineation of ownership and does not change anything in the lease, building permits, lease agreement with the town, or any work planned or in progress.

The town has signed a lease to use the building once renovations are complete and the space is usable, which it currently is not, Caccamo said.

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