image description — Interim Police Chief Mark Bailey, left, Officers Christopher Voss, Jasmine Knapp and Samuel Demolino, and Lt. Anthony Beverly. Image via North Adams Police Department's Facebook page.

North Adams Swears in Three New Police Officers

01:10PM / Thursday, May 22, 2025Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city welcomed three new police officers to the force last week.

City Clerk Tina Leonesio swore in Samuel Demolino, Jasmine Knapp, and Christopher Voss at Tuesday's City Council meeting. All three had graduated from the Police Academy a few days earlier.

Mayor Jennifer Macksey introduced the officers and urged them to embrace their new responsibility with "integrity and purpose."

Delmolino is a native of Adams and a 2017 graduate of McCann Technical School and earned a degree in sports management from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2021. He had been working at a bank in Westfield but moved back to pursue a career in law enforcement.

"Officer Delmolino hopes to put his computer skills that he gained at McCann to use in helping protect vulnerable individuals by targeting online predators," said Macksey, adding that he is following a family legacy as his grandfather was an Adams police officer.

Knapp is also from Adams and graduated from Hoosac Valley High School in 2016 and earned an associate's degree in criminal justice from Berkshire Community College. Her background includes "compassionate care," working at Berkshire Medical Center and No Paws Left Behind and running a dog-walking service.

"She has long felt a calling to make a deeper impact on her community," said the mayor. "Her love for animals inspires her dream of one day serving as a K9 officer."

Voss has the most diverse background, growing up in Lexington and graduating from Lexington High in 2007. He earned a bachelor's degree and the received a master's in vocal performance and opera.

"He was a familiar voice behind the afternoon drive time in Boston," Macksey said, until moving here to work in construction during the pandemic. She said he has a "strong sense of empathy and people skills which led him to pursue a career in policing. ...

"He was a standout at the academy, which made me very proud, as class president and received the prestigious academy leadership award."

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Berkshires Remember First Responders, Military Personnel Lost at 9/11 and Aftermath

By Jack Guerino & Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
02:30PM / Friday, September 11, 2026

North Adams Mayor Jennifer Macksey, with Fire Chief Brent Lefebvre speaks at Friday's memorial.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The county's two cities held memorials on Friday morning to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Great Barrington was scheduled to hold a dedication of piece of steel from the World Trade Center at 6 p.m.

North Adams held its ceremony in the fire station's side garden starting at exactly 8:46 a.m., the time Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower.

The small square of grass was packed with police officers, firefighters, wire and alarm personnel, dispatchers, and Northern Berkshire EMS employees, and city employees, officials and community members.

After the ceremonial tolling of the bell, an honor guard presented the colors.

Mayor Jennifer Macksey said it felt odd welcoming people to a very solemn event.

"What happened 25 years ago put a mark on emergency services. It put additional pressure on police, fire, EMS, and dispatchers," Macksey said. "While we remember those who lost their lives during 9/11, and those who ran to help as many as they could during 9/11, we have to pause and appreciate those who continue to serve despite that awful threat that occurred 25 years ago."

She said it was a direct attack on the United States and all of its people.

"It was a question of our freedoms and our ability to be safe in our communities," the mayor said. "I can say today that here in North Adams, it could happen to us, but I know with the professionalism of our Fire Department, Police Department, EMS, and our dispatch team, we are a better community; we are a safer community than we were 25 years ago."

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