Family Medicine Provider Joins Williamstown Medical: Accepting New Patients in Need of Primary Care

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems announces the appointment of Shauna O. Dunton, MD, to the medical staff of Berkshire Medical Center and the provider staff of Williamstown Medical, a rural health clinic of Fairview Hospital affiliated with BHS. 
 
Dunton is accepting new patients in need of primary care, including broad spectrum women's health services. She joins doctors Steven D. Cherry, Karen E. Dobe-Costa, Kristin Lamontagne, Douglas O'Neill and Sarah Turner, Nurse Practitioners Sarah Kangas, Jennifer Mygatt and Ana Luisa Neal, and Physician Assistants Colleen Henry, Jacob Shelsy, Katie Thurber and LaTasha Turner at Williamstown Medical.
 
Dr. Dunton received her medical degree from the Medical School for International Health at Ben Gurion University in Israel and completed her residency at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y.
 
For an appointment with Dr. Dunton, please call Williamstown Medical at 413-458-8182.

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Williamstown Housing Trust Commits $80K to Support Cable Mills Phase 3

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust last week agreed in principle to commit $80,000 more in town funds to support the third phase of the Cable Mills housing development on Water Street.
 
Developer David Traggorth asked the trustees to make the contribution from its coffers to help unlock an additional $5.4 million in state funds for the planned 54-unit apartment building at the south end of the Cable Mills site.
 
In 2022, the annual town meeting approved a $400,000 outlay of Community Preservation Act funds to support the third and final phase of the Cable Mills development, which started with the restoration and conversion of the former mill building and continued with the construction of condominiums along the Green River.
 
The town's CPA funds are part of the funding mix because 28 of Phase 3's 54 units (52 percent) will be designated as affordable housing for residents making up to 60 percent of the area median income.
 
Traggorth said he hopes by this August to have shovels in the ground on Phase 3, which has been delayed due to spiraling construction costs that forced the developer to redo the financial plan for the apartment building.
 
He showed the trustees a spreadsheet that demonstrated how the overall cost of the project has gone up by about $6 million from the 2022 budget.
 
"Most of that is driven by construction costs," he said. "Some of it is caused by the increase in interest rates. If it costs us more to borrow, we can't borrow as much."
 
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