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  Duval and Rosenberg were the clear winners in the town election with both collecting more votes than the third candidate and former selectman Donald Sommer.     There were no other races in Adams and open seats were either filled by incumbents or candidates running unopposed.   Around 1 p.m. in Adams, just over 450 of the town's 6,084 registered voters had cast their ballots.   In Cheshire, there were two open selectmen seats, and Raymond Killeen and Shawn McGrath were the top vote-getters. Killeen received 252 votes and McGrath received 244 votes. Candidate Michael Biagini Jr...

CHESHIRE — Voters on Monday will choose two new selectmen from among three candidates during the annual town election.

  There will be two three-year term selectmen seats up for election this year as well as one Hoosac Valley Regional School District Committee seat.   Robert Ciskowski resigned last month from the Board of Selectmen, months short of the end of his second three-year term in May, leaving that seat vacant.   The second selectman seat is currently held by Ron DeAngelis, who won it as a two-year term in 2019 as part of the expansion of the board from three to five members. This year, the winner of the election will have a full three-year term.   There are three Planning Board seats up f...

  "As much as I like this Town, my ability to serve in Town Government has been compromised by what I believe to be serious violations of the Public Trust by another elected official," Ciskowski wrote. "My moral convictions and what I hold as true are more powerful than my like for helping out with local government."   Ciskowski wrote that around the time of Town Administrator Edmund St. John IV's departure late last year, he felt he had experienced state ethics violations and Open Meeting Law violations while on the board.   "I contemplated filing with the appropriate State agencies...

CHESHIRE — Town officials and the Hoosac Valley Regional School District have reopened lease negotiations after a misunderstanding about the space the district is renting at the former Cheshire Elementary