Snowstorm Headed for Berkshires Downgraded

• Pittsfield has declared a snow emergency beginning Thursday at 7 p.m.  with cars parked on the even side until Friday 7 p.m., when they should switch to the odd side. 
• Adams is warning motorists not to park on streets or in municipal lots beginning noon on Thursday through noon on Saturday.

Here's a look at what's to come with Winter Storm #Viola, affecting the Midsouth through the Northeast. The snow will be problematic, but doable. The ice will be unforgiving. pic.twitter.com/P1yZLXi2UO

— Mike Bettes (@mikebettes) February 17, 2021

A winter weather alert has been issued for part of Southern New England. #nhwx #mawx pic.twitter.com/f5ydQqnI92

— Dustin 🏳️‍🌈 🌨️ (@Wx_Dustin) February 17, 2021

NWS issues winter weather advisory for most of Southern New England...for warning to be issued forecast has to call for 8" in 24 hours or 6" in 12 hours...neither of those will happen pic.twitter.com/0rJQpAmr57

— Terry Eliasen (@TerryWBZ) February 17, 2021

The model ensemble is starting to converge on the 2-6" range for the next storm Thursday night and Friday. Notice a couple of outliers at the top which can not be ignored, but the cluster gives us confidence in a 3-4" snowfall. @WNYT pic.twitter.com/FORjNJ7nZ2

— Paul Caiano (@PaulCaiano) February 17, 2021

Here's a look at what's to come with Winter Storm #Viola, affecting the Midsouth through the Northeast. The snow will be problematic, but doable. The ice will be unforgiving. pic.twitter.com/P1yZLXi2UO

— Mike Bettes (@mikebettes) February 17, 2021

North Adams Hopes to Transform Y Into Community Recreation Center

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:19AM / Thursday, May 02, 2024

Mayor Jennifer Macksey updates members of the former YMCA on the status of the roof project and plans for reopening. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city has plans to keep the former YMCA as a community center.

 

"The city of North Adams is very committed to having a recreation center not only for our youth but our young at heart," Mayor Jennifer Macksey said to the applause of some 50 or more YMCA members on Wednesday. "So we are really working hard and making sure we can have all those touch points."

 

The fate of the facility attached to Brayton School has been in limbo since the closure of the pool last year because of structural issues and the departure of the Berkshire Family YMCA in March.

 

The mayor said the city will run some programming over the summer until an operator can be found to take over the facility. It will also need a new name. 

 

"The YMCA, as you know, has departed from our facilities and will not return to our facility in the form that we had," she said to the crowd in Council Chambers. "And that's been mostly a decision on their part. The city of North Adams wanted to really keep our relationship with the Y, certainly, but they wanted to be a Y without borders, and we're going a different direction."

 

The pool was closed in March 2023 after the roof failed a structural inspection. Kyle Lamb, owner of Geary Builders, the contractor on the roof project, said the condition of the laminated beams was far worse than expected. 

 

"When we first went into the Y to do an inspection, we certainly found a lot more than we anticipated. The beams were actually rotted themselves on the bottom where they have to sit on the walls structurally," he said. "The beams actually, from the weight of snow and other things, actually crushed themselves eight to 11 inches. They were actually falling apart. ...