Six elected to Northern Berkshire Healthcare Board of Trustees; Pagnotta elected chairman

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Corporators of Northern Berkshire Healthcare elected Jane Allen, Stephen Fix, Bruce Grinnell, Stephen Klass, Denise Richardello, and Martha Storey to the NBH Board of Trustees at the NBH Annual Meeting. Attorney Stephen Pagnotta, who has been a member of the Board since 2000, will now serve as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the next two years. Jane Allen, of Williamstown, is a retired teacher and elementary school principal. She is a member of the Williamstown Board of Selectmen and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She is also vice chairman of the Images Cinema board of directors, and serves on the Fund for Williamstown and the Berkshire Compact. Stephen Fix, of Williamstown, Robert G. Scott '68 Professor of English at Williams College, served on the MCLA Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2006 and chaired its Faculty and Academic Affairs Committee. Professor Fix joined the Williams College faculty in 1979 and served as Dean of the College from 1985 to 1992, and as Chair of the Department of English from 1994 to 1998 and 2000 to 2002. Bruce Grinnell, of North Adams, is a partner in the law firm Grinnell, Dubendorf, and Smith and most recently chaired the CARE Campaign for North Adams Regional Hospital which raised $11.7 million for the expansion and modernization of NARH. Grinnell also sits on the REACH Community Health Foundation's Board of Directors and is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Stephen Klass was named Vice President of Operations at Williams College in August 2006, having served previously at the University of Chicago as Vice President and Dean of Students. His current portfolio consists of Facilities Services; design, planning, and construction; Human Resources; Dining Services; Conferences; the Bookstore; the Child Care Center; Legal Affairs and Risk Management; Real Estate Operations; and related services including liaison with local businesses. Klass lives in Williamstown with his wife Odette and their three sons. Denise Richardello, of North Adams, is Vice President of Enrollment Management and External Relations at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Richardello is responsible for the planning, direction, leadership and management of the enrollment management division. She also serves on many external committees including the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education Admissions Advisory Committee, Executive Committee of the Berkshire County Regional Employment Board, the Berkshire Blueprint Strategy Project, Advisory Committee at McCann Technical High School, and as a corporator for MountainOne Financial Services and Northern Berkshire Healthcare. She also serves on the Berkshire Compact for Higher Education. Martha Storey, a 30-year resident of Williamstown, is founder of two family-owned businesses, Berkshire Direct, a marketing company, and Storey Communications, a publisher. Storey has served on the REACH Community Health Foundation's Board of Directors, the NBH Development Committee, and as vice chairman of the NBH CARE Campaign. Stephen Pagnotta, first elected to the NBH Board of Trustees in 2000, is an attorney with the law firm Donovan & O'Connor. He has served on the Board's Governance Committee and formerly served on the board of the VNA & Hospice of Northern Berkshire. The new members join Daniel I. Becker, M.D., Ellen Bernstein, Mary Fuqua, Bill Greenwald, Bryon Sherman, Erwin Stuebner, M.D., and Arthur Turton, M.D. on the NBH Board of Trustees. NBH President and CEO Richard T. Palmisano and Medical Staff President Deborah August, M.D., also serve as ex-officio members. Corporators also added 11 new members to their ranks, including: From Adams: David Bissaillon and Douglas Karrel, M.D. From Clarksburg: Charles Lewitt From Dalton: Tyler Fairbank From North Adams: Rep. Daniel Bosley From Williamstown: Pamela Art, Jeffrey Bath, M.D., Stephen Fix, Josephine Hart, and Stephen Klass From Stamford, Vermont: William Wilson 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 Care Centers, Sweetwood, and the REACH Community Health Foundation. For information about NBH, visit www.nbhealth.org.
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North Adams Man Indicted on Murder, Arson Charges

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Darius Hazard was arraigned in Berkshire Superior Court on Thursday on two counts of first-degree murder related to deaths of his parents last November. 
 
Hazard, 44, pleaded not guilty to the charges and to a third charge of arson of a dwelling house.
 
He is being held without bail at the Berkshire County House of Correction, where he has been housed since Nov. 25. 
 
Hazard is accused of assaulting his parents, Donald Hazard, 83, and Venture Hazard, 76, on Nov. 24, 2025, and setting fire to the family on Francis Street. 
 
The bodies of his parents were discovered in the home by firefighters. 
 
North Adams Police said Hazard allegedly confessed to the assaults and the arson when he was taken into custody that day.
 
Hazard was initially arraigned in Northern Berkshire District Court on Nov. 26 and was to appear for a pretrial hearing on March 3. That hearing was postponed but he was indicted March 23 on the felony charges and his case removed to Berkshire Superior Court. 
 
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