St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28 Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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Mammography Dispute The government's issued controversial new guidelines stating that women shouldn't get annual mammograms until age 50, rather than age 40.
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STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Dr. Andrew J. Plager, a board-certified internal medicine physician, has opened a primary-care practice and is accepting new patients.
Plager, formerly an emergency medicine physician and hospitalist at Berkshire Medical Center for many years, provides the full spectrum of acute and longitudinal care services in a patient-centered, calm setting, combining evidence-based traditional care with alternative, cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. His practice welcomes adolescents and adults in need of primary-care services and accepts nearly all health insurance plans.
Plager worked in emergency medicine at BMC from 1990 to 2003 and again from 2008 to 2009. He worked as a hospitalist at there from 2003-2004 and as a staff physician from 2003 to 2008 at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, where he was clinical liaison to the Cleveland Clinic from 2006 to 2008.
Cerrtified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, he received his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He received a master of science degree in nutrition from Columbia University.
Plager's office is located at 1 Maple St. For an appointment, call 413-298-3168.
