Doctor Joins Berkshire Osteopathic Health in Adams

ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems has appointed Dr. J. Boyd Vereen, a board-certified family medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine specialist, to the medical staff of Berkshire Medical Center and the physician staff of Berkshire Osteopathic Health of BMC. 

Dr. Vereen is accepting new patients in need of primary care or Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy, serving patients in the North Berkshire office of Berkshire Osteopathic Health of BMC, 2 Park St., Adams.

He joins doctors Adam Hetland, Stephen Kisiel, Vanessa Mervyn-Cohen, Michelle Sansky, Victoria Tuttle and Mary Yee at Berkshire Osteopathic Health of BMC.

Vereen comes to the Berkshires from Cape Cod, where he served at Falmouth Primary Care for the past eight years, and previously worked at Fribromyalgia & Fatigue Center, Seattle, and had his own osteopathic manipulative medicine practice in Spokane, Wash., as well as family medicine practices in Washington state, Illinois and Kansas, and occupational medicine care in Kansas.

He is board-certified in family practice by the American Academy of Osteopathic Family Physicians, and received his medical degree from the University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kansas City, Mo. He completed his residency in family practice at HCA Doctors Hospital, Tucker, GA.

For an appointment with Dr. Vereen, call Berkshire Osteopathic Health of BMC at 413-442-0085.

Cheshire Goes for Prop 2 1/2 Override to Fund School District

By Daniel MatziBerkshires correspondent
05:37PM / Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Recently retired Town Clerk Christine Emerson was recognized for her 30 years of service.

 

CHESHIRE, Mass. — The town will have to vote on a Proposition 2 1/2 override to raise taxes in order to fund its portion of the budget for the Hoosac Valley Regional School District.

 

That outcome was reached at town meeting on Monday only after nearly an hour of discussion among more than 100 voters, the Selectmen, Finance Committee and school officials. 

 

The first eight of 30 articles the annual town meeting warrant passed relatively quickly and unanimously at the start of the three-hour meeting. But with Article 9, the assessment to the regional school district, the meeting became more of an information session and sounding board for many in the town.

 

The town's assessment for the $23 million regional budget is $3,098,996, an additional $150,534 over this year's $2,948,462. Adams town meeting approved its assessment of $6,345,380 last week. 

 

The motion for an override was put forth by Selectmen Chair Shawn McGrath as an alternative to using free cash and stabilization funds to pay for the budget.

 

If the Proposition 2 1/2 override is rejected, the school district's budget would have to be amended and approved by the town.