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Ski Butternut Joining World Record Attempt

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GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Ski Butternut is joining 80 resorts across the United States and Canada this Friday, Jan. 6, in trying to set a Guinness Book of World Records for "The World’s Largest Lesson."

All lessons will take place simultaneously in seven different time zones - 9 a.m. Alaska time,  10 a.m. Pacific time, 11 a.m. Mountain time, noon Central time, 1 p.m. Eastern time, 2 p.m. Atlantic time and 2:30 Newfoundland time (with the last two time zones in Canada only).

To encourage participation, and to mark January as National Learn to Ski/Snowboard month, Ski Butternut will offer a special $10 "First Timer Learn to Ski/Snowboard" package on Jan. 6. The event, dedicated to spreading the joy of skiing, snowboarding and winter sports for all, offers guests a $65 savings off of the regularly priced first-timer package available all season long.  

Participants 4 years of age and older can purchase a $10 "first-timer package," which includes a Beginner Area lift ticket, a one and a half-hour group lesson, and rental equipment.

Group lessons will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.; those participating in the 1 p.m. lesson will be part of the World Record attempt. More information can be found online.

 


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North Adams Regional Reopens With Ribbon-Cutting Celebration

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

BHS President and CEO Darlene Rodowicz welcomes the gathering to the celebration of the hospital's reopening 10 years to the day it closed. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The joyful celebration on Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital was a far cry from the scene 10 years ago when protests and tears marked the facility's closing
 
Hospital officials, local leaders, medical staff, residents and elected officials gathered under a tent on the campus to mark the efforts over the past decade to restore NARH and cut the ribbon officially reopening the 136-year-old medical center. 
 
"This hospital under previous ownership closed its doors. It was a day that was full of tears, anger and fear in the Northern Berkshire community about where and how residents would be able to receive what should be a fundamental right for everyone — access to health care," said Darlene Rodowicz, president and CEO of Berkshire Health Systems. 
 
"Today the historic opportunity to enhance the health and wellness of Northern Berkshire community is here. And we've been waiting for this moment for 10 years. It is the key to keeping in line with our strategic plan which is to increase access and support coordinated county wide system of care." 
 
Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, under the BHS umbrella, purchased the campus and affiliated systems when Northern Berkshire Healthcare declared bankruptcy and closed on March 28, 2014. NBH had been beset by falling admissions, reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments, and investments that had gone sour leaving it more than $30 million in debt. 
 
BMC was able to reopen the ER as an emergency satellite facility and slowly restored and enhanced medical services including outpatient surgery, imaging, dialysis, pharmacy and physician services. 
 
But it would take a slight tweak in the U.S. Health and Human Services' regulations — thank to U.S. Rep. Richie Neal — to bring back inpatient beds and resurrect North Adams Regional Hospital 
 
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