Adams Lions Club Hosts Children's Halloween Parade

Print Story | Email Story
ADAMS, Mass. — The Adams Lions Club's annual, free children's Halloween Parade steps off at 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 27.
 
Children should gather at 2:30 pm in the parking lot of the Adams Community Bank on Center Street, across from the Adams Hometown Market.
 
The parade will proceed north onto Park Street, then turn right onto East Maple Street to the Adams Visitors Center parking lot, where the club will provide hotdogs and water to the marchers. Trick-or-treat candy will be distributed to children at the Visitors Center.
 
"We are pleased to host the annual children's parade, which Adams Lions launched in 1945," said Scott Kelley, Adams Lions Club Parade Chair.

Tags: Halloween,   parade,   

If you would like to contribute information on this article, contact us at info@iberkshires.com.

Hoosac Valley Seeks to Prevent 'Volatile' Assessments

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
ADAMS, Mass.— The "volatile" shifts in Hoosac Valley Regional School District's town assessments year to year is hard for smaller towns to absorb; however, a proposed change to the regional agreement would fix that. 
 
During the Select Board meeting last week, Superintendent Aaron Dean presented the proposed change to the regional agreement that would set assessments based on a five-year rolling average rather than the annual student enrollment.
 
"The long-term goal is to make the assessment process a little bit more viable for people from year-to-year," he said. 
 
An ad hoc committee was convened to review the district's agreement, during which concerns arose about the rapid fluctuations in assessments.
 
"I think you have to look short term, and you have to look long term. The goal is to kind of level it off and make planning easier and flatten that curve in terms of how it's going to impact both communities," Dean said. 
 
Every year, it is a little more difficult for one community because they are feeling disproportionately impacted compared to the other, he said. 
 
"The transient nature of this population right now is like nothing I've ever seen," Dean said. 
 
View Full Story

More Adams Stories