Misty Blues Benefit Concert Scheduled for Berkshire Nursing Families

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Nursing Families (BNF) has announced a benefit concert featuring the band Misty Blues. 
 
The event is scheduled for Friday, May 16, 2025, at 7 p.m. at the '62 Center at Williams College. Misty Blues is expected to perform their Queens of the Blues set.
 
The concert will support BNF's mission to provide free feeding and parenting support to families in the Berkshire County region. Established in 1998, BNF offers services such as in-home lactation consultations, a 24/7 support line, peer groups, playgroups, and childbirth and breastfeeding classes. The organization relies on community support to offer these services at no cost to families.
 
Ticket registration is currently open and can be accessed through the BNF website at www.berkshirenursingfamilies.org/store. Additional information about Berkshire Nursing Families is available at www.berkshirenursingfamilies.org.
 
 
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Williamstown Government Presents Communication Plan

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williamstown is working to improve communications with residents.
 
The town manager told the Select Board last week that the town obtained a Community Compact Best Practices grant from the state's Division of Local Services to fund a consultant from the University of Massachusetts at Boston's Collins Center for Public Management to develop a communications strategy.
 
Improved communications is a growing concern for small towns like Williamstown, Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the board.
 
"The world has changed with social media," Menicocci said. "The expectations of what a community communicates to its citizens — the game has been upped.
 
"I think this was a new area for government and many communities are looking at a need to staff up to address communications, where, in the past, maybe a big city would have a communications director. Now that has trickled down to almost all small communities."
 
To that end, the town has completely revamped its website and hired its first communications director — both steps that were included in the November 2025 Collins Center report, "Roadmap for Inclusive and Accessible Municipal Communications in Williamstown, Mass."
 
Brianna Sunryd, a public services manager at the Collins Center, presented her group's findings to the Select Board.
 
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