Stubbs, Brown Lead Teams to Narrow Wins in Giorgi League

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Dion Brown scored 31 points, and Izaha Stubbs scored 20 to lead their respective teams to narrow wins as the high school division of the John Giorgi Summer Basketball League got underway Thursday at the Armory.
 
Brown had a double-double, grabbing 10 rebounds and blocked a shot to lead Monument Mountain to a 77-76 win over Drury.
 
Connor Hanavan had 20, and Nick Robbins added 16 in the win.
 
Scott McGuire Jr. had a game-high 39 points, and Tim Brazeau had a double double with 16 points and and 16 boards for Drury.
 
In Thursday's other game, Hoosac Valley beat Mount Greylock, 65-63, behind 20 points and nine rebounds from Stubbs.
 
Carson Meczywor scored 19, and Joe Delmolino added 14 in the victory.
 
Tobey Foehl led all scorers with 2, and Liam Brady had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds for Mount Greylock. Malcolm Waynick chipped in with 13 points.
 
League play continues Sunday with two games in the men's division at Noel Field.
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North Adams Regional Reopens With Ribbon-Cutting Celebration

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

BHS President and CEO Darlene Rodowicz welcomes the gathering to the celebration of the hospital's reopening 10 years to the day it closed. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The joyful celebration on Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital was a far cry from the scene 10 years ago when protests and tears marked the facility's closing
 
Hospital officials, local leaders, medical staff, residents and elected officials gathered under a tent on the campus to mark the efforts over the past decade to restore NARH and cut the ribbon officially reopening the 136-year-old medical center. 
 
"This hospital under previous ownership closed its doors. It was a day that was full of tears, anger and fear in the Northern Berkshire community about where and how residents would be able to receive what should be a fundamental right for everyone — access to health care," said Darlene Rodowicz, president and CEO of Berkshire Health Systems. 
 
"Today the historic opportunity to enhance the health and wellness of Northern Berkshire community is here. And we've been waiting for this moment for 10 years. It is the key to keeping in line with our strategic plan which is to increase access and support coordinated county wide system of care." 
 
Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, under the BHS umbrella, purchased the campus and affiliated systems when Northern Berkshire Healthcare declared bankruptcy and closed on March 28, 2014. NBH had been beset by falling admissions, reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments, and investments that had gone sour leaving it more than $30 million in debt. 
 
BMC was able to reopen the ER as an emergency satellite facility and slowly restored and enhanced medical services including outpatient surgery, imaging, dialysis, pharmacy and physician services. 
 
But it would take a slight tweak in the U.S. Health and Human Services' regulations — thank to U.S. Rep. Richie Neal — to bring back inpatient beds and resurrect North Adams Regional Hospital 
 
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