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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,...

  The council on Tuesday voted to solicit interest in filling the seat left vacant on the nine-person council by the resignation of President Paul Hopkins last week. Hopkins stepped down because he is moving out of the area.    The last two vacancies had been filled by the 10th candidate on the ballot, a move that Councilor Wayne Wilkinson advocated for.    "I'm a firm believer that person that is on City Council should have been voted by the people," he said. "I know in the past that we've asked letters of interest, and that the council then gets together and goes over those lette...

  The improvements will be funded by a $6,000 Safe Routes to School grant accepted by the City Council on Tuesday.   The public schools have partnered with the state Department of Transportation program since 2016 and more recently was the recipient of a $622,000 project to reconfigure the entrance and sidewalks to the Northern Berkshire Family YMCA and Brayton Elementary.   The application for this latest grant from the federally funded program was accepted last fall. The Signs and Lines program is for low-cost infrastructure around elementary and middle schools.   A committee of...

      "This is an extremely preliminary look at where we are in the budget, some of the categories in General Government are still under review," he said. "We'll be tweaking those for a while, as we as we go forward but this is this is where we are at the starting point of the budget."   The General Government budget is up 12 percent, or $156,083, over this year's budget of $1,245,525. Bernard reminded the committee that this year's budget line had been reduced by moving some items to reserve accounts to balance the full budget for what was expected to be a tough fiscal year because...

  The request was the only substantive issue on the agenda and, although seemingly straightforward, it engendered some discussion on its reasoning and the way it was presented on the agenda.   It caused some frustration for Temescal's attorney Joshua Lee Smith, who pointed out that the Planning Board had approved the cannabis cultivator's special permit and site plan the night before.   "Respectfully, I would hope that the council could be able to vote tonight in favor, so we can move forward," Smith said. "It's been a long road for us, we've had to get over a number of hurdles both ...