Williamstown Medical Associates Earns Leadership Development Award

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Marilyn Lefevre
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Marilyn Lefevre of North Adams, a nine-year employee of Williamstown Medical Associates (WMA), recently earned WMA’s Leadership Development Award. The award was presented at the medical practice’s “all-stakeholder” meeting at the Williams Inn.

Lefevre was nominated by several co-workers and patients to receive the Leading by Example Award. She has worked for WMA since 1990 and is a medical assistant to Dr. Karen Dobe-Costa. “Marilyn is an extraordinary medical assistant. She is fantastically organized, highly competent, and great with patients. She embodies much of what the WMA leadership award is all about,” said Robert Jandl, M.D., President of WMA.

The Leadership Development Award, given three times each year, was established to recognize one or more employees who exemplify the ideals to which Williamstown Medical Associates aspires, including patient-centered service, demonstrable quality of care, and a motivating workplace. In addition to receiving a cash award, recipients have their names inscribed on a plaque in WMA’s waiting rooms, and are given a special name badge.

WMA has been providing comprehensive healthcare to the community since 1958.

WMA has offices at its new health center on Adams Road in Williamstown and in the Ambulatory Care Center at North Adams Regional Hospital. For information about the physicians and services of WMA, call (413) 458-8182 or visit www.williamstownmedical.com.
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Williamstown Planning Board Narrowing in on Subdivision Bylaw Changes

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board late last month discussed specific features of what it plans to pass as a new subdivision control bylaw this year.
 
The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.
 
This spring, the town engaged consultants from Northampton's Dodson and Flinker Landscape Architecture and Planning to go through the existing bylaw, compare it to more contemporary regulations in other communities and help craft a revised bylaw.
 
Unlike the zoning bylaw, where amendments require approval of town meeting, the subdivision control bylaw is a creation of the Planning Board, which can make changes on its own after a public hearing process it hopes to complete this year.
 
At a special Planning Board meeting on May 26, Dillon Sussman of Dodson and Flinker and his colleagues walked the board through a dozen different decision points that the board must resolve — either by leaving the bylaw as is or making a change — and offered suggestions based on best practices.
 
All of the issues are technical and ranged from the fundamental, like how the bylaw will define types of subdivisions, to the highly specific, like what turning radii will be required in new streets that are constructed to serve planned developments.
 
One example of a topic that came up in the recent approval of a four-home subdivision off Summer Street is stormwater management.
 
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