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Truck Rollover Closes Church Street
  A paving truck rolled over into Southview Cemeter after apparently losing its brakes coming down steep West Shaft Road. |
Church Street was expected to be closed or reduced to one lane during the afternoon for the truck to be removed.
Police Lt. David Sacco said state police are investigating the cause but witnesses told police they heard the Atlantic Paving truck's airhorn as it came down the hill.
The driver took a left at the bottom of West Shaft and the truck, which was filled with cold patch, rolled onto its passenger side on the cemetery's slight incline along Church Street, stopping just a couple feet from a tree. Asphalt spilled onto the ground but no gravestones appeared to damaged.
Dean's Towing was called to remove the vehicle and city crews were dispatched to remove the cold patch. Joseph Dean said the truck's removal was completed by the spilled patch and because the dump body had come off its guides.
It was estimated that the removal would take one to two hours. Both lanes of Church Street were closed at West Shaft Road shortly after noontime.
Updated information, Jan. 19, 9:15 a.m.: The truck was a 1997 Mack 600 registered to Atlantic Paving of Peabody.
Two Men Sentenced To State Prison For 2010 MCLA Robbery
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Joshua Jadusingh, 19, and Charlton Goodson, 29, both of North Adams pleaded guilty in Berkshire Superior Court on Wednesday to two counts of armed robbery and single counts of conspiracy to commit armed home invasion. Judge Daniel Ford sentenced the two men to two to three years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction and placed the men on three years probation.
An additional charge of armed home invasion was dismissed by the state.
At about 6:30 p.m. on December 14, 2010 Jadusingh and Goodson committed the armed robbery at one of the on-campus student apartments. About a month later, North Adams Police, members of the state police Violent Fugitive Apprehension section, Crime Scene Services and the Berkshire County Drug Task Force arrested four suspects for the crime after executing a search warrant at 3 Secor Ave. and 105 West Main Street in North Adams.
Three of those suspects were juveniles whose names were not released and police suggested that more arrests would be on their way.
Woman Arrested After Fleeing Scene Of Three-Car Crash
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According to police, Michelle Bard, 46, of Adams was charged with driving under the influence, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of property damage.
According to a witness on the scene, a van and a gold sedan stopped for a pedestrian crossing Ashland Street shortly after noon. A Subaru, allegedly driven by Bard, rear-ended the sedan at "a high rate of speed."
The driver of the Subaru then put the car in reverse and "ripped the sedan apart" trying to get away. The driver then sped away down Main Street, the witness said.
An employee at Boxcar Media, who saw the accident, provided police with a description of the car and license plate number.
According to police, the vehicle was found with "heavy front-end damage" in the parking lot behind 85 Main St. shortly after and Bard was arrested.
The driver of the sedan was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, police said. No further information was immediately available.
North Adams Swears In Firefighter, Police Officer
 North Adams has two new public safety personnel in Police Officer Ben Austin and firefighter Kevin Alicia. The two were sworn in by Mayor Richard Alcombright last month to comply with a public safety grant but had their public swearing in for family and friends at Tuesday's City Council meeting. |
North Adams Blaze Blamed on Oil Burner
 Firefighters quickly doused a small oil burner fire on South Street on Friday night. |
The first 911 call occurred around 9 p.m. after the homeowners were alerted when their smoke alarms went off. A second call, a few minutes later reporting the same fire, confirmed it.
The home owners met Police Officer Mike Goodson in their front yard, then took him around back and down the basement stairs where the fire was. Two fire trucks responded to the scene and quickly contained a small blaze in the basement.
"It was a small basement fire that the oil burner caused," said Fire Director Stephen Meranti at the scene.
The fire trucks blocked up both ends of the street, which connects Spring Street and Washington Avenue, and police detoured traffic.
"The smoke alarms did their job to — keep a small fire, small that is," said Meranti. "Keeping a small fire small is a goal firemen and police officers hope to quickly establish in these situations."
There were no injuries but large fans were brought in to take ventilate the house and eject the smoke (and its strong smell) left behind.
Meranti said it was not clear why the fire started at the oil burner but he recommended residents get winter heating appliances anually checked, "whether it be gas, electric or oil," to prevent accidents.
The road was reopened before 10 p.m.
