Adams Narrows Town Administrator Search to Three Finalists

Staff Reports 09:58AM / Wednesday, October 15, 2025Print Story | Email Story

ADAMS, Mass. — The Select Board has named Nicholas Caccamo, Dillon Maxfield, and Peter White as the three finalists who will interview before the board next weekend for the Town Administrator position.

The names of the candidates were officially listed on the Select Board's regular meeting agenda, posted ahead of their meeting on Wednesday. The board is seeking a permanent replacement for the town's top administrative post.

Nicholas Caccamo, of Pittsfield, is currently serving as the Town Administrator for Williamsburg. Caccamo is also a former Pittsfield City Councilor, having stepped down from the council in 2021 to take the Williamsburg role. Peter White, also a Pittsfield resident, is the current Pittsfield City Council President.

The third finalist, Dillon Maxfield, is from Amherst. He is involved in Amherst town government and works for the town of Easthampton as an Associate Planner.

Interviews will take place on Saturday, Oct. 25, at 8 a.m. in Adams Town Hall.

The search for the new administrator was aided by Groux-White Consulting LLC of Lexington, with the town having authorized then-interim Town Administrator Kenneth Walto to enter into the contract.

Groux-White Consulting sent out 400 invitations and brochures and contacted every manager in Western Mass. 27 managers from border communities in Vermont and New York State were also contacted.

The vacancy was created when former Adams Town Administrator Jay Green was hired as the Lenox Town Manager in 2024. Currently, Librarian Holi Jayko is filling the role of Interim Town Administrator.

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Adams Town Meeting Members Approve All Special Town Meeting Warrant Articles

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
07:51PM / Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Kyle Danforth and Patrick Kennedy state the case for the tax exemption they were seeking for their recycling business.

ADAMS, Mass. — Town meeting members on Wednesday night approved a tax exemption for a local business, the partial funding recension of a previously approved project and a $173,000 boost in the fiscal 2027 budget to account for additional personnel costs.

Some 98 of the town's 150 town meeting members attend the hourlong special town meeting in the Memorial Building gymnasium. All three articles on the warrant passed unanimously.

The item that faced the most discussion was Article 3, granting Dream Green Recycling a seven-year special tax assessment agreement.

The business, owned by Kyle Danforth, Dan Haskins, and Patrick Kennedy, has operated from leased facilities at 15 Printworks Drive in Adams and a 10,000-square-foot facility in Pittsfield. The partners recently purchased the Adams building.

The vote gives Dream Green Recycling with a temporary exemption from real estate taxes during its expansion under the following schedule:

Fiscal years 2027 & 2028: 100 percent
Fiscal year 2029 & 2030: 75 percent
Fiscal year 2031: 50 percent
Fiscal year 2032 & 2033: 25 percent

The hope is to expand its Adams facility and consolidate its Pittsfield operations by, eventually, moving all of it to Adams.

Part of the agreement requires the owners to execute its intention to renovate and upgrade its facility at 15 Printworks Drive, with an estimated capital investment of approximately $1.2 million to $1.8 million and add 12 jobs.

Over the last couple of years, the town's tax bill has left the owners operating "pretty much paycheck to paycheck," Danforth told the town meeting members.

The agreement will help ease some of that financial pressure as the company moves forward with its expansion, including the costs of purchasing new equipment, hiring additional employees and growing its operations, Danforth and Kennedy explained.

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