Page 28 - Wayne Wilkinson News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

  City Councilor Jason LaForest had initially submitted the proposal for the creation of a "Fire Hydrant Division" with a request to refer to his Public Safety Committee but on Tuesday night instead asked it be fast-tracked to publication and a second reading.    The rest of the council balked at taking a shortcut in the process, rejecting the motion and voting 7-2 to send the language to the General Government with LaForest and Councilor Marie T. Harpin voting no.    The ordinance relates to issues regarding non-functioning fire hydrants and how information is shared between the W...

NORTH ADAMS — Mayor Tom Bernard has announced that he will not seek reelection to a third term this year. Bernard, who first was elected in 2017, said Tuesday he wants to focus on running the city and managing the pandemic rather than conducting a reelection campaign. “It’s become clear for me we have really big, important work to do in the city over the next few months,” he told The Eagle. “Things I had really wanted to be at the top of my agenda in 2020, I can point to reasons why they didn’t get done, but the fact is, they didn’t get done.”

4:14 North Adams, Massachusetts Mayor Tom Bernard will deliver his annual State Of The City address tonight. Bernard is in the final year of his second two-year term as mayor in the city of around 13,000. “I think we’ll really continue to see work focused on our microbusiness lending program to help small businesses recover, in addition to programs like the one that the state announced last week, and then really continuing to focus on downtown development, economic development,” said Bernard. The mayor also identified climate resilience and long term fiscal planning among his 2021 goals...

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...

  This is the second bid on the vacant 12-acre property the council has turned down, the first being a plan for an advanced manufacturing school a year ago.    Xenolith Partners LLC of Bedford, N.Y., and SanoRubin Construction Services LLC of Albany, N.Y., had offered $10,000, well below the assessed value of $2,333,350, and requested a 30-year tax incentive that set the tax bill on each unit and capped increases to 2 percent annually.    It was the only bid on the property, which has been put out for requests for proposals nine times now. Approval would have given Mayor Thomas Ber...