Candidates Sought for Vacant North Adams School Committee SeatBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
02:59PM / Friday, December 05, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Committee is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy on the committee. Letters of interest should be submitted to Bobbi Tassone, administrative assistant to the superintendent, at btassone@napsk12.org by 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 6. The School Committee and City Council will hear from candidates and vote for the new committee member at the council's regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 13. The schedule presented by Mayor Jennifer Macksey was approved at the School Committee's meeting on Tuesday. The successful candidate will fill the four-year seat won by Chelsey Lyn Ciolkowski in the Nov. 4 election. >> Read More |
North Adams Schools' Food Service Being Spotlighted by DESEBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:07AM / Thursday, December 04, 2025 | |
A photographer from DESE captures an employee serving lunch. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The public schools' food service department is being featured in a video by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The marketing department at DESE visited Drury High School the week of Thanksgiving to showcase the district's farm-to-school food initiatives and look at student attendance. Food Service Director Thomas Lark, in a presentation to the School Committee on Tuesday, said the district is in line for grant funding, but he couldn't release details just yet. "We did secure some grant funding to do some farm-to-school >> Read More |
Drury High School Announces Winners Of John And Abigail Adams Scholarship| 08:14AM / Wednesday, December 03, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Drury High School announced that 13 students from the Class of 2026 have earned the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. This merit-based award grants recipients a tuition credit for up to eight semesters of undergraduate study at any Massachusetts state college or university. To qualify for this scholarship, students must achieve both an Advanced score on one of the MCAS assessments in English Language Arts, Mathematics, or STE subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Introductory Physics, or Technology/Engineering) and earn Proficient or Advanced scores on the other two assessments and rank within the top 25 percent of their district, based on combined >> Read More |
North Berkshire Secondary Schools Study Group Hones RFP to Find ConsultantBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:16AM / Sunday, November 23, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire Secondary Sustainability task force Tuesday finalized the objectives it wants addressed in a study it plans to commission this winter. Representatives from three North County school districts plus the school union serving elementary schools in Clarksburg, Florida, Rowe and Savoy met for about an hour and a quarter in a City Hall conference room to craft the request for proposals they plan to issue to education consultants. The group of administrators and school committee members from North Adams, Hoosac Valley, Mount Greylock and the North Berkshire School Union agreed to meet again on Tuesday, Dec.9, at 4:30 to finalize the >> Read More |
McCann Tea Room Provides Real World Culinary ExperienceBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
06:54AM / Saturday, November 22, 2025 | |
The fall entrees include Philly cheese steak sandwiches and chicken Parmesan. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Culinary students at McCann Technical School are serving up delicious meals for the community while learning essential skills. The McCann Tea Room opened for its 64th year this fall. It offers a lunch menu to the public twice a month during the school year. Offerings range from baked stuffed shrimp and chicken Parmesan, to soup and salad, and grilled sandwiches. The students learn essential skills that will aid them in a career in the food industry. "Our students are learning a lot of sanitation and safety skills that they'll carry >> Read More |
North Adams ADU Challenge Winners Focus on Cost, SustainabilityBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:48PM / Monday, November 17, 2025 | |
Jenny Wright of the North Adams Partnership explains the challenge at the awards ceremony on Nov. 6 at Hotel Downstreet. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Sustainability, aging in place and cost effectiveness were the focus of the winning ADU designs in the North Adams Partnership's Small & Smart Design Competition. Grace Perrault and Ryleigh Holland of McCann Technical School, and Ruth Estien Garcia of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst were the top student designers. Estein Garcia of Springfield, an architecture student at UMass, said her experience working with older people had really informed her light-filled design, which incorporated >> Read More |
MCLA Shows Off Mark Hopkins' Needs to Lieutenant GovernorBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:26PM / Saturday, November 15, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The outdated lockers are painted over, large air conditioners are in the windows, and professors are still using chalkboards and projectors in the classrooms. The last significant work on Mark Hopkins was done in the 1980s, and its last "sprucing up" was years ago. "The building has great bones," President Jamie Birge told Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, as they stood in a third-floor classroom on Friday afternoon. "The envelope needs to be worked on, sure, but it's stable, so it's usable — but it just isn't usable in this form." The "new" Mark Hopkins School opened in 1940 on >> Read More |
College Notes: Fall 2025| 05:04PM / Thursday, November 13, 2025 | |
Madeline Tillem of Lenox was assistant stage manager for the fall theater production of "The Play That Goes Wrong," directed by Jim Van Valen, showing Oct. 30 to Nov. 2 in 's Baker Theatre. A graduate of Miss Hall's School, Tillem is studying history and psychology at the college in Allentown, Pa. Katie Aragon Alvarez of Pittsfield began her first semester in the fall of 2025 atin Newton.
Olivia Goewey of Ashley Falls, Emanuel Brown of Great Barrington, Sasha Taft of North Adams, Molly Pope of Pittsfield and Jayne Beringer of Williamstown were among the more than 360 first-year students participating in 's New Student Day >> Read More |
DPAC To Perform 'Radium Girls'| 07:41AM / Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Drury Performing Arts in collaboration with the 21st Century Afterschool Program announced performance dates for its production of "Radium Girls" by D.W. Gregory. According to a press release: In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same >> Read More |
Greylock School Project Gets Nod From Planning BoardBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:40AM / Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Greylock School project sailed through the Planning Board on Monday night with unanimous approval. This sets up the $65 million project to go out to bid on Nov. 17. Jesse Saylor of TSKP Studio, the school's designer, and Chelsea Christenson, a civil engineer with Nitsch Engineering, made the presentation. "Regarding the site, context has been an important theme to the design of the school," said Saylor. "The site's unique. It's got the massive Mount Greylock to the south, Taconic range just to the north, with the Appalachian trail running right down Phelps Ave in front of the school >> Read More |
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