Letter: Vote for Right Team for North Adams

To the Editor:

Hi there! How many North Adams folks know that Election Day is on Tuesday, Nov. 7? How many residents realize that the current mayor is up for re-election? Luckily for us, the signs on the lawn of City Hall remind us of our civic duty.

Me, I voted early right there in City Hall, for nine members for City Council (phew!) plus the city mayor. I'm eager to earn bragging rights for electing the right team. Because, coming soon, North Adams will be reviewing the 10-year update to our Vision 2030 Comprehensive Plan.

We have made progress, despite the COVID-19 setback, and now we are looking ahead to a prosperous future. Vote, and get the right team on board in City Hall. Thank you.

Alice Bojanowski
North Adams, Mass.

Colegrove Summer Program Capped With North Adams Recreation

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
06:22AM / Saturday, August 01, 2026

Mayor Jennnifer Macksey speaks with Drury intern Cypress Smith and artist Robert Fitzgerald at the summer program at Colegrove Park Elementary School. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There were squeals of laughter as children did their best to fly planes by some of the city's most iconic structures. 

 

The planes were paper, the buildings cardboard and Main Street was a hallway at Colegrove Park Elementary School, but the setup represented nearly two weeks of creative research and design by the pupils in the public schools' 21st Century Summer Program. 

 

Local artist Robert Fitzgerald has been doing for summer camp five years, working with Grades 3 through 6.

 

"This has been an incredible summer," he said Thursday as children showed off their masterpieces to Mayor Jennifer Macksey. 

 

"The idea really grew out of a project we did last year, which was ... [Grade 4 teacher] Emma Marino had an airplane competition, and so the students we had been working with cardboard in the art room. So we built a city to surround the runway. 

 

"This year, when I asked her if she was going to do it, I said, 'Let's build North Adams.'"

 

He asked the students what was important and unique in North Adams, laughing that, of course, a lot of them went to fast food places.