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But Saturday s return of the Williamstown Farmers Market is not a sign that organizers are reacting to Monday s announcement that the commonwealth s economy is reopening. I went back and checked my emails to see when we made a decision to open an in-person market for this season, Anne Hogeland said on Wednesday. And it was mid-February. That is when we announced to the community and, most importantly, the vendors at that point, that we would be opening and it would be this weekend. The market returns Saturday at 9 a.m. in the parking lot at the bottom of Spring Street and will be open for business every Saturday from 9 to 1 p.m. through Oct. 16.
A Sunday afternoon email from Director Carrie Gagne informed affected families that the college learned on Saturday that a single teacher at the preschool had tested positive, prompting a decision to shutter the facility for 10 days. The letter said the decision was made with the consultation of college leadership and the local Board of Health, which noted the closure at its Monday morning meeting. In other scenarios we might have only closed one classroom, Gagne wrote. However, the Pine Room has an exceptionally large number of siblings and family members moving through seven other classrooms. Although we limit mingling among students and do not have teachers moving between rooms, the center-wide risk was greater because of the Pine Room s unique situation than it might have been otherwise. That fact fueled our decision to reluctantly close the entire school.
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The Williamstown, Massachusetts board of health is requiring a town motel to close after a slow response to code violations.
Health Inspector Jeff Kennedy says The Berkshire Hills Country Inn hadn’t taken steps to respond to issues the town brought to its attention in 2020.
“I placarded the building on January 6th, saying it was closed by the board of health for violations of the housing code, which requires a potable supply of water and the environmental protection water supply code, which requires certain requirements for a transient non-community water supply as Berkshire Hills motel has, he said.
The motel cannot accept guests until the Department of Environmental Protection approves the its water supply plan. A plan has been submitted, and is under review.
The main reason the idea did not garner much interest among the board members is that between the time it posted the Wednesday morning meeting and the time it actually met, the commonwealth announced that its Stop the Spread testing program is expanding to three sites in Berkshire County, including North Adams. Like everything else going on with COVID these days, events have moved beyond this, Williamstown Health Inspector Jeff Kennedy told the board. Since this meeting was scheduled, Berkshire Health System and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center both stepped up a lot of their testing. I m not sure if this is applicable to the Board of Health anymore.