Community Legal Aid: 'Know Your Rights' Sessions at North Adams Public Library

03:25PM / Tuesday, January 27, 2026Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Community Legal Aid will hold a Northern Berkshire information session on Massachusetts housing law, with a special focus on how eligible tenants can seal past evictions.

It will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, at 5:30p.m. in the community room at North Adams Public Library, located at 74 Church Street.

Community Legal Aid is a non-profit organization that provides free legal services annually to over 700 low-income and elderly residents of Berkshire County. The information session, which is free and open to the public, will

be led by Community Legal Aid Housing Law Attorney Angelina Morisi.

This information session, a collaboration between Community Legal Aid and the North Adams Public Library, is the first event in a series of Know Your Rights presentations that will be held in 2026. Other presentations may include Know Your Rights topics such as Family Law, Public Benefits Law, Education Law, and other topics of interest to the Northern Berkshire community.

At the event, Community Legal Aid will provide important general information on Massachusetts housing law, including how eviction cases work, how tenants can defend themselves and their homes, and how

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First Responders Respond to Two Recent Accidents in North Adams

Staff Reports10:31AM / Tuesday, October 13, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — First responders in North Adams were called to two separate vehicle crashes in recent days, resulting in four hospitalizations.

According to North Adams 911, on Saturday, Oct. 10, around 2:30 p.m., there was a head-on collision between a car and a pickup truck on Curran Highway in front of Duke's Lumber.

Both vehicles were traveling northbound when one vehicle departed from its travel lane, clipping the rear of the other and causing it to roll over.

Four people were transported to the emergency department (ED), and both vehicles were towed from the scene.

The North Adams Fire Department, North Adams Police Department, and Northern Berkshire EMS were on the scene. A State Police officer was also on the scene.

On Tuesday, Oct. 13, around 6:25 a.m., there was a two-car motor vehicle accident between a pickup truck and an SUV on West Main Street.

North Adams 911 reported that the SUV was traveling west and the pickup was traveling east when the SUV left its travel lane and struck the rear of the truck, spinning it 180 degrees to face the opposite direction.

No one was transported to the hospital. Firefighters shielded the SUV window to make sure a dog in the passenger seat could not jump out and run away.

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