BMC North Adds Urologic, Gynecologic Surgeries

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems has announced a further expansion of outpatient surgical procedures being performed at the Northern Berkshire Campus of Berkshire Medical Center.

Urologic and gynecologic minimally invasive surgery procedures are now being scheduled for the new operating rooms at the former hospital. They join outpatient orthopedic surgery, which started in January of this year.

Urologic surgery is being performed by Drs. Stephen St. Clair and Kevin Killeen, board-certified specialists with Urology Professional Services of BMC. The urologists are scheduling outpatient surgery for anyone from the age of 15 years and older, including scrotal procedures that cannot be performed in an office environment, and prostate biopsies, low risk ureteroscopy for stones, low-risk bladder tumor resection and botox injections in the bladder, among others.

Gynecologic surgery is being performed by Drs. Charles O'Neill, Susan Yates and Kalpesh Patel, who all provide care through Berkshire OB/GYN of BMC's Northern Berkshire office. They are providing minimally invasive loop electrosurgical excision (LEEP), a procedure that can remove abnormal cells or tissue in the cervix and surrounding area. Other minimally invasive gynecologic procedures will be added as the service continues to expand in North Berkshire.

Freight Yard Pub Serving the Community for Decades

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
05:26PM / Saturday, December 06, 2025

One of the eatery's menu mainstays is the popular French onion soup. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Freight Yard Pub has been serving the community for decades with a welcoming atmosphere and homemade food.

 

Siblings Sean and Colleen Taylor are the owners Freight Yard Pub. They took it over with their brother Kevin and Colleen's first husband in 1992. The two came from Connecticut and Boston to establish a restaurant and said they immediately felt welcomed in their new home.

 

"The reception that the community gave us in the beginning was so warm and so welcoming that we knew we found home," Colleen Taylors said. "We've made this area our homes since then, as a matter of fact, all of our friends and relationships came out of Freight Yard Pub."

 

The pub is located in Western Gateway Heritage State Park, and its decor is appropriately train-themed, as the building it's in used to be part of the freight yard, but it also has an Irish pub feel. It is the only original tenant still operating in the largely vacant park. The Taylors purchased the business after it had several years of instability and closures; they have run it successfully for more than three decades.

 

Colleen and Sean have been working together since they were teenagers. They have operated a few restaurants, including the former Taylor's on Holden Street, and currently operate takeout restaurant Craft Food Barn, Trail House Kitchen & Bar and Berkshire Catering Co. 

 

"Sean and I've been working together. Gosh, I think since we were 16, and we have a wonderful business relationship, where I know what I cover, he knows what he covers," she said. "We chat every single day, literally every day we have a morning phone call to say, OK, checking in."

 

The two enjoy being a part of the community and making sure to lend a hand to those who made them feel so welcome in the first place.