LENOX, Mass. — The Southern Berkshire Public Health Collaborative is pleased that registration is open a series of mobile clinics covering their 12-towns in South County this fall, including two in Lenox.
These clinics will provide updated COVID vaccines (for ages 6 months or older), as well as regular-dose flu (for ages 6 months or older) and high-dose flu (for ages 65 and older).
For a full list of all these clinics, go to the 2024 SBPHC Vaccine Clinic Schedule. Note that several clinics in Lenox have been consolidated to just the two this year.
Registration is required for and can be done using one of two methods:
There will also be a clinic on Sat, Sept. 28 from 10am – 1pm at W.E.B. Dubois Middle School in Great Barrington.
Insurance: Although the flu and COVID vaccinations are provided at no cost, we ask that you have your insurance card with you at the time of registration as well as the day of the clinic. If you have a hard time entering your insurance information, you may select "No Insurance" as long as you bring that information to you to the clinic.
Questions: email or call SBPHC staff at (413) 243-5540 x109. Also call this number if you, or a loved one, has difficulty leaving the house for an appointment and needs a public health nurse to come to their home.
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The Classical Beat: Tanglewood Music Festival Concludes Its Classical Season
By Stephen DanknerSpecial to iBerkshires
This week, the Tanglewood Music Festival concludes its magnificently curated, presented and performed 2026 classical season, culminating with the traditional performance of Beethoven's enthralling Symphony No. 9 ('Choral'.) Read below for the details.
THREE TANGLEWOOD CLASSICAL HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
• Thursday, Aug. 20, 8:00 p.m. in Ozawa Hall: The world-renowned Silk Road Ensemble presents "Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual." Led by North Carolinian musician, actor and author Rhiannon Giddens, this program explores how we can experience music to better understand our world, find comfort, process loss and a changing environment, and rebuild community, based upon our mutual humanity.
• Saturday, Aug. 22, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston Symphony, with violinist Randall Goosby, a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grantee, boy soprano Edward Njuguna and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in an uplifting program of Leonard Bernstein's mellifluous "Chichester Psalms," Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 and Dvorak's sumptuous Symphony No. 8.
• Sunday, Aug. 23, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: Maestro Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducts Beethoven's magisterial Ninth Symphony, with vocal soloists soprano Mané Galoyan, mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams, tenor Ben Bliss and bass Solomon Howard.
For tickets for all Tanglewood/BSO concerts (lawn and Shed seating) and for special events call (617) 266-1200 or (413) 637-5180; online: tanglewood.org or customerservice@bso.org. In Lenox, visit the Tanglewood box office at the Main Gate located at 297 West Street.
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