BHS Urgent Care North Holding Community Open House on Jan. 14?

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems has announced it will hold a community open house at Berkshire Health Urgent Care North later this week. 
 
The open house will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 14, from 5 to 7 pm, at 197 Adams Rd., Williamstown. Visitors can tour the new Urgent Care that has been serving North Berkshire patients since mid-December, 2025.
 
Berkshire Health Urgent Care North is open weekdays from 11 am to 7 pm and weekends from 8 am to 12 noon, providing convenient, accessible care for minor illness and injuries, as well as on-site x-ray services and testing for common illnesses. Like its counterparts in Pittsfield and Lenox, the North site also provides patients with access to BHS's coordinated system of care, and fostering collaboration across each patient's team of providers.  
 
Berkshire Health Urgent Care North accepts a wide variety of health insurance plans, including private commercial coverage, Medicare, and MassHealth through the Berkshire Fallon Health Collaborative, all of which are also accepted at the Pittsfield and Lenox Berkshire Health Urgent Care locations. ? 
 
Light refreshments will be served at the open house, which is open to all in the community. Registration is urged, but not required, and you can register at: tinyurl.com/BHSUCNorth.  

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Williamstown Planning Board Narrowing in on Subdivision Bylaw Changes

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board late last month discussed specific features of what it plans to pass as a new subdivision control bylaw this year.
 
The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.
 
This spring, the town engaged consultants from Northampton's Dodson and Flinker Landscape Architecture and Planning to go through the existing bylaw, compare it to more contemporary regulations in other communities and help craft a revised bylaw.
 
Unlike the zoning bylaw, where amendments require approval of town meeting, the subdivision control bylaw is a creation of the Planning Board, which can make changes on its own after a public hearing process it hopes to complete this year.
 
At a special Planning Board meeting on May 26, Dillon Sussman of Dodson and Flinker and his colleagues walked the board through a dozen different decision points that the board must resolve — either by leaving the bylaw as is or making a change — and offered suggestions based on best practices.
 
All of the issues are technical and ranged from the fundamental, like how the bylaw will define types of subdivisions, to the highly specific, like what turning radii will be required in new streets that are constructed to serve planned developments.
 
One example of a topic that came up in the recent approval of a four-home subdivision off Summer Street is stormwater management.
 
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