NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Public Arts Commissioner Bryan Sapienza was voted 5-3 onto the nine-member City Council on Tuesday. Sapienza replaces Paul Hopkins, council president,.
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Town meeting on Thursday approved a school budget that includes a prekindergarten program and using free cash to purchase a new backhoe and police cruiser and to fix the.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday signed an executive order rescinding more than a year of pandemic protocols that restricted business and school operations. The governor cited the dramatic drop in new cases and hospitalizations since the earlier in the year and the state s progress in vaccinating the population. Thanks to the people Massachusetts who made enormous sacrifices over the course of the past year to get us to this point, brighter days are very much upon us, he said at his Friday COVID-19 update. We ve been battling the virus for too long, but today we have an opportunity to put an exclamation point on all the hard work that so many people have done and continue to move Massachusetts forward together.
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — There were no surprises in Tuesday's town election, which turned out fewer than 10 percent of the electorate. There were no races on the ballot.
North Adams Fire Chief Brent Lefebvre updates on the fire with Mayor Thomas Bernard, right, and Southwick Fire Chief Russ Anderson. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Dozens of firefighters labored through the day to bring a raging fire at a local scrap yard under control. Fire Chief Brent Lefebvre said the blaze has largely been contained but that crews will be working through the night to dig out the fires burning in the 100-foot long pile of automotive debris. He was hopeful it would be out by morning. There s a small area of fire still burning, we re still working to pull it apart. The pile is deep, and its rooted in the pile, said Lefebvre, speaking at the incident command center Tuesday evening. It s about a two-story pile of rubble.