Nutshell Playhouse Library Event in Adams

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ADAMS, Mass. — Adams Free Library is hosting Nutshell Playhouse on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. for "SpyJinks!" 
 
Nutshell Playhouse creates theater for children and families. Their shows are designed to reach children of various ages and to appeal to parents as well. 
 
Nutshell Playhouse is a non-profit company. Their productions have been performed in theaters throughout the Berkshires, including Barrington Stage Company, The Berkshire Athenaeum, Main Street Stage, the Guthrie Center, Berkshire County Community Center, the Spectrum Playhouse and the Clark Art Institute.
 
According to a press release: Three intrepid spies and a parrot named Taco are on their first spy mission. They must rescue someone famous, who has been hidden on the Island of Very Bad Luck. Can they save her? Follow their adventures and ferocious battle, as they sink up to their belly buttons in quicksand, get unexpected help from a local singing llama, defy gravity, learn to speak backwards, and a lot more silliness. Performed by Berkshire County actors Stefanie Weber, Johnny Segalla, and Mark Hohlstein, with live music by Don Jordan.
 
An adult must accompany children under 8 years of age. Library events are free and open to the public. Attendance at library programs constitutes consent to be photographed; photos Massy be used in print or electronic publicity for the Adams Free Library. Questions? Call the Adams Free Library at (413)743-8345 or visit the library's website www.adamslibraryMass.org for more information.
 
This performance is partially funded by the Adams Community Bank, Berkshire Bank, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Feigenbaum Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
 

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Cheshire Rejects Override, Votes Reduced School Budget

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

The decision to vote on the budget by secret ballot on Monday night was overwhelming. An override to fund the school budget failed in Monday's election. 
CHESHIRE, Mass. — Voters on Monday rejected a Proposition 2 1/2 override and passed a motion that would level fund the town's fiscal 2025 school assessment.
 
They also voted down a debt exclusion to purchase a $67,000 police cruiser 228-267, but approved an exclusion for an $850,000 fire truck 296-200. An article to separate the positions of town tax collector and treasurer failed 230-261.
 
All four questions had passed at the annual town meeting.
 
Question 1 on the warrant would have added $150,534 to the town's levy limit to cover the town's $3 million portion of the $23 million Hoosac Valley Regional School budget.
 
The question failed 141-355. At the special town meeting following the vote, Selectmen Chair Shawn McGrath motioned to level fund the assessment at $2,948,462, the same assessment as last year, and that passed 47-20 on a secret ballot.
 
The failure of the school budget means the School Committee has the choice to make cuts or resubmit its budget to a districtwide vote. The budget passed in Adams, the other town in the two-town school district.
 
Hoosac Valley's Business Manager Erika Snyder said the school district will request a meeting of all voters in the school district, which would decide the budget by majority vote.
 
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