BHS Urgent Care North Holding Community Open House on Jan. 14?

03:37PM / Monday, January 12, 2026Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems has announced it will hold a community open house at Berkshire Health Urgent Care North later this week.

The open house will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 14, from 5 to 7 pm, at 197 Adams Rd., Williamstown. Visitors can tour the new Urgent Care that has been serving North Berkshire patients since mid-December, 2025.

Berkshire Health Urgent Care North is open weekdays from 11 am to 7 pm and weekends from 8 am to 12 noon, providing convenient, accessible care for minor illness and injuries, as well as on-site x-ray services and testing for common illnesses. Like its counterparts in Pittsfield and Lenox, the North site also provides patients with access to BHS's coordinated system of care, and fostering collaboration across each patient's team of providers.

Berkshire Health Urgent Care North accepts a wide variety of health insurance plans, including private commercial coverage, Medicare, and MassHealth through the Berkshire Fallon Health Collaborative, all of which are also accepted at the Pittsfield and Lenox Berkshire Health Urgent Care locations. ?

Light refreshments will be served at the open house, which is open to all in the community. Registration is urged, but not required, and you can register at: tinyurl.com/BHSUCNorth.

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Williamstown Select Board Plans Off-Camera Evaluation of Town Manager

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:24AM / Friday, October 09, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board plans to take extraordinary measures to avoid having its discussion of the town manager's performance recorded by the town's Public, Educational and Government cameras.

At its Sept. 28 meeting, the board decided to hold a special meeting in a room not covered by WilliNet cameras to complete its annual evaluation process of Town Manager Robert Menicocci.

Chair Peter Beck said that while the evaluation is "absolutely" to be conducted in an open meeting, the board could follow a process similar to the off site, unrecorded meetings that past Select Boards have characterized as "retreats," a term not contemplated by or included in the commonwealth's Open Meeting Law.

The current board met on June 29 for what it characterized as a "planning session" where no formal votes were taken. That meeting was held outside of Town Hall, at the new fire station on Main Street, in a room equipped with audio and video recording equipment that the Select Board chose not to use.

At the Sept. 28 meeting, one board member indicated that an unrecorded meeting was preferable to discuss the annual evaluation of the one town employee supervised by the board.

"I'd like to do it without all the Willinet stuff," Stephanie Boyd said in a discussion toward the end of a two-hour meeting. "I think it's more conducive to conversation."

With the board expected to meet just once in October — its "regular" meeting date coincides with Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 12 — Beck suggested that the panel could find a date for a special meeting, suggesting the third Monday of the month, Oct. 19.

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