Ellen Bernstein, Bryon Sherman elected to N. Berkshire Healthcare Board of Trustees

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North Adams - Corporators of Northern Berkshire Healthcare elected Ellen Bernstein of Williamstown and Bryon Sherman of Pittsfield to the NBH Board of Trustees, and re-elected Mary Grant and Stephen Pagnotta to three-year terms on the NBH Board of Trustees. Bernstein is a consultant and the former publisher of The Advocate. Since her departure from The Advocate in June 2003, she has continued to work on consulting assignments while expanding her role as a volunteer in the community. She is a former director of Inland Press Association, a national newspaper organization, and continues to be involved as co-chair of Inland's Minority Outreach Committee and director of the Inland Fellows Program. She is a director REACH Community Health Foundation and serves on its executive committee. She has been on NBH's Governance Committee since January 2005 and was a member of the NBH Development Committee and active in the CARE Campaign for North Adams Regional Hospital prior to joining Governance. Bernstein is also a director of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition and a partner in the North Adams SteepleCats. Sherman is a partner and certified public accountant with Smith Watson & Company in North Adams and Great Barrington, which he joined in 1998. Sherman is president of the North Adams Rotary Club and treasurer of the Catholic Youth Center, and is active in the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce. He shares his enthusiasm for sports by coaching youth baseball, basketball, and soccer. Sherman lives in Pittsfield with his wife Stacie and their four children. Grant is President of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and has been on the NBH Board since 2003, and now serves on the Quality Committee. Pagnotta, a member of the Board since 2000, is an attorney with the law firm Donovan & O'Connor and chairs the NBH Governance Committee. Corporators also added 10 new members to their ranks, including Richard Alcombright, Jane Allen, Julia Bowen, Rod Bunt, William Judge, Mark Moulton, Robert Moulton, Jr., Thomas Pelczynski, Jennifer Segala, and David Woods. NBH Corporators serve as liaisons to the Northern Berkshire community and have the authority to approve nominations to the Board of Corporators and the NBH Board of Trustees, and make adjustments in the bylaws governing NBH. Northern Berkshire Healthcare is the parent corporation of North Adams Regional Hospital, the Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice of Northern Berkshire, Sweet Brook Transitional Care & Living Centers, Sweetwood Continuing Care Retirement Community, and the REACH Community Health Foundation. For information about NBH, visit www.nbhealth.org.
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Lanesborough Fifth-Graders Win Snowplow Name Contest

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — One of the snowplows for Highway District 1 has a new name: "The Blizzard Boss."
 
The name comes from teacher Gina Wagner's fifth-grade class at Lanesborough Elementary School. 
 
The state Department of Transportation announced the winners of the fourth annual "Name A Snowplow" contest on Monday. 
 
The department received entries from public elementary and middle school classrooms across the commonwealth to name the 12 MassDOT snowplows that will be in service during the 2025/2026 winter season. 
 
The purpose of the contest is to celebrate the snow and ice season and to recognize the hard work and dedication shown by public works employees and contractors during winter operations. 
 
"Thank you to all of the students who participated. Your creativity allows us to highlight to all, the importance of the work performed by our workforce," said  interim MassDOT Secretary Phil Eng.  
 
"Our workforce takes pride as they clear snow and ice, keeping our roads safe during adverse weather events for all that need to travel. ?To our contest winners and participants, know that you have added some fun to the serious take of operating plows. ?I'm proud of the skill and dedication from our crews and thank the public of the shared responsibility to slow down, give plows space and put safety first every time there is a winter weather event."
 
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