Clark Art Institute to Air "Figaro" Broadcast

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present a broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of "Figaro" on Saturday, April 26, at 1 p.m. in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

The broadcast is part of "The Met: Live in HD" series and will feature the full opera performance, including backstage interviews and commentary. Joana Mallwitz will conduct the ensemble cast, which includes Michael Sumuel, Olga Kulchynska, Joshua Hopkins, Federica Lombardi, and Sun-Ly Pierce.

Prior to the broadcast, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper will host a display of prints, drawings, and photographs related to the theme of marriage.

Tickets are $25, with discounts available for Clark members, students, and children. Advance registration is recommended. Tickets can be purchased at clarkart.edu/events or by calling 413 458 0524.

The next "Met: Live in HD" performance at the Clark will be "Salome," screening on May 17 at 1 p.m.

BHS' New North County Urgent Care Center Opens Tuesday

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
05:44PM / Monday, December 15, 2025

There is a waiting area and reception desk to the right of the Williamstown Medical entrance. 

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Staff and contractors were completing the final touches on Monday to prepare for the opening of Berkshire Health System's new urgent care center. 

 

Robert Shearer, administrative director of urgent care, said the work would be done in time for Berkshire Health Urgent Care North to open Tuesday at 11 a.m. in a wing of Williamstown Medical on Adams Road.  

 

The urgent care center will occupy a suite of rooms off the right side of the entry, with two treatment rooms, offices, amenities, and X-ray room. 

 

"This is a test of the need in the community, the want in the community, to see just how much we need," said Shearer. "One thing that I think Berkshire Health Systems has always been really good at is kind of gauging the need and growing based on what the community tells us. 

 

"And so if we on day one and two and three, find that we're filling this up and maybe exceeding the capacity of the two exam rooms and one provider, then we look to expand it."

 

Hours will be weekdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and weekends from 8 to noon, but the expectation is that the center will "expand those hours pretty quick."

 

BHS has two urgent care centers in Lenox and in Pittsfield. The health system had tried a walk-in center at Williamstown nearly a decade ago but shuttered over low volume of patients.