Great Barrington names yet another acting fire chief, second one in four days

Great Barrington — On Monday, November 9, Town Manager Liz Hartsgrove announced via email that Fire Department Captain Darrell Marks has been named acting fire chief, effective immediately. On Thursday, Nov. 5, Hartsgrove announced that Fire Chief Scott Turner had been placed on administrative leave after serving the town for over three years. Hartsgrove did not specify in her email why Turner had been placed on administrative leave and wrote that Brian Mead would serve as acting fire chief. In an interview for her NEWSletter published on Saturday, November 7, Mead told Eileen Mooney that he would keep his full-time job as vice president of product delivery at Dobbert Companies in North Adams while serving as acting fire chief. After the interview was published, former Finance Committee member Milena Cerna wrote an email to Selectboard Chair Steve Bannon and copied local media on the email: “Steve – I am really concerned about this.

This excerpt comes from the named source. Read the original for the full reporting.