Peter Yeskey News Today

ADAMS — The Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously approved a special permit allowing Cumberland Farms to operate 24 hours a day at the corner of Elm and Commercial streets. The board imposed conditions on advertising and music broadcast at the fueling pumps — only allowing it from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. — to be sure the noise doesn’t bother neighbors overnight. Board member Nat Karns also asked that more vegetation, of the evergreen variety which keeps its leaves in winter, be insta...

ADAMS — Some neighbors of a proposed Cumberland Farms project in Adams can’t wait to get rid of the unsightly junkyard that is there now. The Conservation Commission heard a new proposal for a Cumberland Farms gas station and convenience store at Commercial and Elm streets. After noting several endorsements of the project from neighbors, the panel unanimously continued the topic until April 8, when an engineering peer review of the design, as it relates to wetlands rules, will be pres...