Saturday Night Storm Expected to Drop 1-3 Inches Over County

Motorists are urged to use extra caution if traveling over the next few hours, as snowfall intensity increases.*

Even though the Winter Solstice and the official start to winter is still over a week away, Mother Nature could bring an early taste of the season to many in the Northeast: https://t.co/j5S0tJgvmh

— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) December 10, 2022

The evolution of the pattern heading into Christmas has yet to be resolved and can change dramatically, but early signs of extreme cold and extreme warmth on a highly amplified jet stream are showing up. Something interesting to watch for sure in the coming 10 days. pic.twitter.com/F7e3zUAa49

— Dave Epstein (@growingwisdom) December 10, 2022

The evolution of the pattern heading into Christmas has yet to be resolved and can change dramatically, but early signs of extreme cold and extreme warmth on a highly amplified jet stream are showing up. Something interesting to watch for sure in the coming 10 days. pic.twitter.com/F7e3zUAa49

— Dave Epstein (@growingwisdom) December 10, 2022

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. ...