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4:22 As North Adams, Massachusetts continues to struggle with malfunctioning fire hydrants, the city council heard a presentation on safety infrastructure Tuesday night. Stoked by concerns around a fire at a public housing complex in late January, Council Vice President Jason LaForest filed a request for an update on the city’s hydrants. He got a response at this week’s city council meeting. A North Adams fire hyrant Credit Josh Landes “We’re talking about a system of 630, 631 hydrants through the city, and the estimate that we have right now is that 500 of them would be fully operati...

3:17 The North Adams, Massachusetts city council has rejected a proposal to turn a former school building into 75 units of affordable and market rate housing. City residents attended Tuesday night’s virtual city council meeting to protest the project. Michael Fierro said he represents many who live near the Sullivan Elementary School property on Kemp Avenue. “We propose you demolish the current school building, revitalize and expand Kent Park into a neighborhood park, seeing our tax money put into green initiatives and a community space rather than more infrastructure,” he said. Council...

NORTH ADAMS — For weeks now, police have used space heaters to keep the basement of the city’s public safety building warm, as a broken heating system becomes the latest issue to plague the aging structure. The North Adams Public Safety Committee took up concerns about city infrastructure at a meeting Monday night, including fire hydrants in disrepair and acute problems in the building that houses the city’s fire and police departments. Councilors and police officers said the building’s basement has been without heat since mid-December and that indoor temperatures have dip...

The council voted 9-0 not to move forward with negotiations or additional discussions about the potential sale. Ahead of the meeting, 125 people signed a petition asking the city not to sell the property to Xenolith Partners, a New York-based developer that proposed creating 75 housing units, the majority of which would have been affordable housing. Opponents voiced a wide range of concerns at Tuesday’s meeting. Several councilors also spoke up against the proposal, including City Council Vice President Jason LaForest, who said that placing another low-income complex in the neighborhood,...

New Jersey could be seeing plenty of gold soon. The state was represented well as the nominees for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced Wednesday morning. Ethan Hawke, who grew up in West Windsor, scored a nomination as Best Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for his work as abolitionist John Brown in the Showtime series "The Good Lord Bird." The Blumhouse Television production was based on an acclaimed novel by author James McBride of Lambertville. Work filmed in New Jersey also earned nominations. "Hunters," the Paterson-shot Amazon Prime series, p...