GREENFIELD As part of a community-wide effort to increase access to safe and affordable housing in Franklin County, the Franklin Regional Council of Governments (FRCOG) is co-sponsoring a workshop on how individual boards of health can pass.
The Adams Board of Health stopped short of requiring masks but will put its vaccination and masking recommendations on a sign that will be distributed around town.
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.