nbCC's 2022 Community Resource Guides Available in Spanish

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Physical copies of this free community resource guide are now available in Spanish.
 
This past July, the 2022 Edition of the Northern Berkshire Community Resource Guide (CRG) went to print and over 17,000 copies landed in mailboxes throughout north Berkshire County. Since then the Coalition has distributed an additional 775 guides to local residents and organizations. 
 
The guide offers contact information of local resources covering everything from food access and meal sites, education services, financial and family support, immigrant services, mental health and counseling services, in addition to dozens of others. The guide is updated digitally throughout the year and a new edition is published every other year. The 2022 edition includes a LBGTQIA+ Services and Support, as well as a Vaccine Guide, both new to the CRG.
 
The CRG is free to the public. Printed copies of the English and Spanish editions of the guide can be obtained by calling our office at 413-663-7588, or by stopping by the office during regular office hours.  If you did not receive your copy in the mail, or you would like copies to distribute, download the guide on the Coalition website, nbccoalition.org. The pdf can be found under "Resources" on the website.
 
This mailing was possible thanks to a Rural Vaccine Equity Initiative grant from the Office of Rural Health through the Department of Public Health.
 
For more information, contact the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition at (413) 663-7588.

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North Adams Hopes to Transform Y Into Community Recreation Center

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

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. ...
 
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