The pain from the abrupt closure of the hospital nearly a decade ago is still felt in the community and among its former staff, but the recent news of re-opening
The main reason the idea did not garner much interest among the board members is that between the time it posted the Wednesday morning meeting and the time it actually met, the commonwealth announced that its Stop the Spread testing program is expanding to three sites in Berkshire County, including North Adams. Like everything else going on with COVID these days, events have moved beyond this, Williamstown Health Inspector Jeff Kennedy told the board. Since this meeting was scheduled, Berkshire Health System and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center both stepped up a lot of their testing. I m not sure if this is applicable to the Board of Health anymore.