Bay State Winter Games Returning to Berkshires

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The 2024 Bay State Winter Games Figure Skating Competition will return to the Berkshires for the 37th year Jan. 26-28 at the Williams College Lansing Champman Skating Rink in Williamstown.
 
Figure Skating
The competition will include over 400 performances from skaters representing the United States Figure skating Association and the Ice Sports Industry Skating program. All events will be held at the Williams College Lansing Chapman Skating Rink. These skaters will range in age from 5 to over 60 and represent communities from throughout Massachusetts as well as Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire & Rhode Island 
 
Skating Show
The show will feature skating performances from athletes who won a gold medal during competition events held earlier in the day on Saturday. The show will also include a performance by Berkshire County resident, John Michal Harden who is a New England Championship medalist. The show is open to the general public. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets will be available for sale on Friday evening from 7pm-9pm, all day Saturday an before the show at the Lansing Champman Skating rink located on the campus of Williams College.
 
Schedule:
 
Friday, Jan. 26
Competition 7pm-9pm
Practice Ice 9pm – 9:40pm
 
Saturday, Jan. 27
Practice Ice 6:30am-7:30am
Competition 8am – 6:30pm
Bay State Skate Show 7:30pm – 9pm
 
Sunday, Jan. 28
Practice Ice 6:30am-7:30am
Competition 8am – 8pm
 
Local participants include:
 
LAST FIRST US / IS TOWN STATE CLUB
Anderson Samantha USFS Lanesborough MA Christmas Brook FSC
Art Amelia USFS Williamstown MA Christmas Brook FSC
Benson Lukas USFS Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Benson Madalyn USFS Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Blair Rachael USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Boillat Emma USFS Clarksburg MA Christmas Brook FSC
Gabriel Emily USFS Pittsfield MA Christmas Brook FSC
Johnson Alaina USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Jones Bailey USFS Pittsfield MA Pittsfield Figure Skating Club
Juras Michela USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Juras Marlee USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Juras Colton USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Juras Mila USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Kemp Anna USFS Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Kopiec Ashley USFS Pittsfield MA Charter Oak FSC
Malone-Smith Katie USFS & ISI Hinsdale MA Christmas Brook FSC / Bay State Games SC
Merchant Aliza USFS Clarksburg MA Christmas Brook FSC
Miller Kayla USFS Williamstown MA Christmas Brook FSC
Moore Avery USFS Pittsfield MA Pittsfield Figure Skating Club
O'Leary Elliana USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Perry Morgan USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Piechowski Marcy USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Pinheiro Nicole USFS Winthrop MA North Shore SC
Robbins Sophia USFS Cheshire MA Pittsfield FSC
Shapiro-Van Dusen Penelope USFS North Adams MA Christmas Brook FSC
Shore-Sheppard Lara ISI Pownal VT Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink
Thurston Anna USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
Wells-Vidal Ava USFS Cheshire MA Christmas Brook FSC
 
 

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Local Authorities Responding to State's Action on Kratom

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health on Monday began a discussion about regulating the sale of kratom products in town.
 
The board's monthly meeting came four days after the governor's office in Boston announced that the commonwealth temporarily will designate kratom, also known by its chemical name and marketed with the term "7-OH" as a Schedule I drug, greatly restricting its sale in Massachusetts as of Aug. 28.
 
The board already was meeting virtually with the director of South County's Tri-Town Health Department on a different matter. Jim Wilusz stayed on the conference call to discuss the implications of Gov. Maura Healey's Thursday announcement on 7-OH, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has called potentially "The Next Wave of the Opioid Epidemic."
 
Wilusz said he already was working on draft regulations for Tri-Town based, in part, on an ordinance enacted by Northampton before Gov. Maura Healey's announcement. But in the wake of the announcement and the classification of kratom as a Schedule I drug, he might have to change the language of the proposed ordinance.
 
Healey's emergency order of Aug. 14 is intended to "give local boards of health and other municipal officials additional authority to take enforcement action against retailers selling kratom products," according to a news release announcing the move.
 
"I was actually hoping they were going to pass a statewide ban on this thing," Wilusz said. "This goes into effect Aug. 28, so effective the 28th, they can't have kratom in the entire state on their shelves with a one-year [period] to give not only boards of health but, possibly, the Legislature, time to enact regulation.
 
"I don't know if the intent is to work on a statewide Department of Public Health regulation, which would be ideal, where you would have uniformity across the entire state. It does authorize the boards of health to enact local regulations."
 
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