🌱 How will the Brown Street Bridge reopening change your daily drive?
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In today's newsletter:
- How will the Brown Street Bridge reopening change your daily drive?
- Are you on the North Adams streets still under boil orders?
- How could federal health cuts hit hospitals serving North Adams?
Also on today's calendar: Crescendo's Second Holiday Production: A Tapestry of Traditions: Unraveling the History of Christmas and 6 more events.
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- Wednesday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 41 and low of 25 degrees.
- Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 46, low: 40.
- Friday: Morning rain, then flurries, with a high of 54 and low of 19 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
📰 News we're reading
• Brown Street Bridge reopens after two-year closure in North Adams (berkshireeagle.com) — Drivers in North Adams can once again use the Brown Street Bridge, which reopened Monday after a two-year safety closure that snarled traffic and slowed emergency response times. The $350,000 repair, funded with Chapter 90 and state flood-control money, fixed corroded beam footings and restores a key cut-through near Northern Berkshire EMS. City and state officials hailed the project as an early Christmas present for residents. 
• 3 water main breaks over the weekend in North Adams; boil water advisories remain in effect (wnyt.com) — Some North Adams residents are still under a boil water advisory after three weekend water main breaks left parts of the city with little or no water and temporarily closed several businesses. The advisory now covers specific addresses on Main Street, American Legion Drive, State Road, and Biltmore Road, and officials are testing water daily in hopes of lifting restrictions within days.
• Neal, Baystate sound alarm on health cuts (gazettenet.com) — Major federal health care cuts outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill could ripple into facilities that serve North Adams, including Berkshire Medical Center’s North Adams campus, through layoffs, reduced services, and higher private insurance premiums. Western Massachusetts leaders warn the changes may strain hospitals’ finances and push up costs for commercially insured patients as they try to offset shrinking Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.
📸 Around North Adams
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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Crescendo's Second Holiday Production: A Tapestry of Traditions: Unraveling the History of Christmas
Saint James Place, 352 Main St, Great Barrington
4:00 pm
Sunday December 21
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Other local events
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Monthly Grooming — Roxies Barkery
Roxie’s Barkery & Boutique , 60 Roberts Dr Suite 107 , North Adams
5:00 pm -
Noir Film Series with Images Cinema: The Third Man
Clark Art Institute , 225 South St , Williamstown
6:00 pm -
Clark Art to Screen Noir Film Series
Clark Art Institute , 225 South St , Williamstown
6:00 pm -
Green Mtn. Stitcher's study group
North Adams Public Library , 74 Church Street , North Adams -
Family Storytime @ MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA , 1040 Mass MoCA Way , North Adams
10:30 am -
What to wear
MASS MoCA , 1040 Mass MoCA Way , North Adams
3:00 pm -
Library closes at 12 pm
North Adams Public Library , 74 Church Street , North Adams -
Library Closed for Christmas
North Adams Public Library , 74 Church Street , North Adams
Thursday December 18
Saturday December 20
Sunday December 21
Wednesday December 24
Thursday December 25
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Hoosac Valley Hurricanes vs Drury Blue Devils
Hoosac Valley Middle & High School , 125 Savoy Rd , Cheshire
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Green Mtn. Stitcher's study group
North Adams Public Library , 74 Church Street , North Adams -
Library closes at 12 pm
North Adams Public Library , 74 Church Street , North Adams -
Library Closed for Christmas
North Adams Public Library , 74 Church Street , North Adams
Friday December 19
Saturday December 20
Wednesday December 24
Thursday December 25
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Route 20 in Becket is closed at mile marker 23.5 due to a crash with a fuel spill, with one lane reopened on Route 20 westbound and Route 20 eastbound still closed.
6:53AM on Dec 16: Route 20 in Becket is closed at mile marker 23.5 due to a crash with a fuel spill, with the closure expected to last throughout the… (Nextdoor ) - Looking for a lost package on Massachusetts Ave.
Its marked as delivered but my camera is not showing it in the mailman's hands and its marked delivered after he already left. (Nextdoor West End North Adams)
- Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts posted a job opening for Visiting Assistant Professor-Education - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams. Apply here.
- Big Y posted a job opening for Kitchen Clerk in North Adams. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near North Adams here.
🗞 Nearby News
Adams
- Hoosac Valley Students' Interconnected Art Installation Debuts at the Adams Theater (iberkshires.com)
- Former Adams Ale House to be reimagined as community food and service hub (wwlp.com)
- BHS' New North County Urgent Care Center Opens Tuesday (iberkshires.com)
Williamstown
- Link413: Pioneer Valley Transit, bus systems in Berkshire, Franklin counties share in MassDOT grant (masslive.com)
- Pamela Anderson Talks Romance With Liam Neeson - And Finally Comes Clean (doyouremember.com)
- Williams College Librarian Anne Peale on Institutional Collecting and George Mason's Constitution Draft (finebooksmagazine.com)
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