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Howard Kurtz Tabbed as MCLA's Hardman Lecturer| 09:30AM / Friday, October 12, 2012 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Howard Kurtz, the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will speak at this fall's Hardman Lecture event at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in the Church Street Center's Eleanor Furst Roberts Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. The lecture, made possible through the generosity of the Hardman Family Endowment, is free and open to the public. In addition to serving as the Washington bureau chief for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, since 1998 Kurtz has been the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources," the network's long-running media analysis show. The program explores the standards, performance and biases of the 0 Comments
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McCann Senior Honored With RPI MedalBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
05:15AM / Friday, October 12, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — When McCann senior Tyler O'Neil graduates he hopes to become an electrical engineer and $60,000 will now help him get the training he'll need.
O'Neil was honored by the School Committee with the Rensselaer Medal - an annually awarded scholarship to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute worth at least $15,000 a year.
O'Neil was selected by staff to receive this year's honors because he has excelled in his math and science courses.
"He's been in the highest level math course that we offer every year and he is currently in the AP calculus course. In science, he's been in all honors courses since his freshman year and a member of the National Honor Society, which is no 2 Comments
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Hoosac Hall Renovations Capped Off With Ribbon CuttingBy John Durkan, iBerkshires Staff
09:15PM / Thursday, October 11, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts celebrated the completion of a two-year, $5 million renovation to Hoosac Hall on Thursday afternoon. "It's a great building, always been a great building, and this project knocked it out of the park," said Dianne Manning, the director of residence life at MCLA and the former resident director — when she started working for the college in the 1980s — of Hoosac Hall. The project was completed in two phases mostly during the previous two summers.
The first summer, the primary renovations were done to the bathrooms.
This past summer, the lobby was transformed into a residence floor. A new lobby was 0 Comments
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MCAS Data Shows Pittsfield, Adams, North Adams Schools Under PerformingBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
08:04AM / Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — The school districts that serve the county's three largest municipalities are not meeting their proficiency goals.
Adams-Cheshire Regional, Pittsfield and North Adams school districts have at least one school performing in the bottom 20 percent of the state, according to the newest method of analyzing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) testing scores for school improvement released last month.
The scores and schools were once assessed by Adequate Yearly Progress but the state received a waiver from some federal requirements implemented by No Child Left Behind in January and have switched methods.
The new method, the Progress and Performance Index, 1 Comment
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MCLA Police On Pace To Begin Carrying Firearms By JanuaryBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
07:07PM / Monday, October 08, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA campus police are months away from carrying firearms.
According to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Director of Public Safety Joseph Charon, seven officers are nearing completion of firearm training and will start patroling before the new year.
The college's Board of Trustees approved arming campus police last February and since then the department has created policies and procedures, put all officers through suitability screening and begun training with the state Municipal Police Training Council, according to Charon.
"We're taking a slow, deliberate, professional approach," Charon said on Friday, adding that the trustees said the implementation 6 Comments
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BCC Granted $21.1M For Hawthorne & Melville HallsBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:25PM / Wednesday, October 03, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The two main academic facilities at Berkshire Community College will receive a $21.1 million facelift.
Gov. Deval Patrick announced on Wednesday that $21.1 million in capital funds are heading to the Berkshires to renovate Hawthorne and Melville Halls. The projects include exterior masonry repairs as part of the renovations.
"This is the first investment in those buildings since they were built," college President Ellen Kennedy said of the 40-year-old academic halls on Wednesday. "There is no air conditioning here, which makes it difficult for us to run summer programming, the laboratories are the old style and they don't reflect the way our faculty 0 Comments
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MCLA Receives Grant For Dual Enrollment Program| 10:45AM / Monday, October 01, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts was awarded a $27,000 grant from the state’s Department of Education to fund its participation in the Commonwealth Dual Enrollment Program during the 2013 fiscal year.
MCLA’s dual enrollment program offers local area high school students the opportunity to enroll in college courses.
Through the program, academically qualified high school juniors and seniors can register for one or more classes at MCLA free of charge. While earning college credits, students are introduced to college life and experience the academic expectations of a college course.
According to Monica Joslin, dean of academic affairs at MCLA, earning 0 Comments
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North Adams Cuts Half-Million From School ProjectBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
08:58PM / Monday, September 24, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Building Committee on Monday night voted to pare down a proposed play area in the front of Conte School to a minimum before sending the project off to the Massachusetts School Building Authority.
The change is expected to drop cost to the city to about $6.5 million, down from the nearly $7 million presented last week.
Site costs and exterior restoration had pumped the pricetag for the entire project up to $30.4 million; the biggest hit was a jump of $1 million for the city's piece. Fueling that increase was an estimate of nearly $400,000 (cut down from $700,000) to fix a retaining wall and $467,000 for filling and grading the play area. The committee was 4 Comments
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Community Leaders Stress Importance of College to Local YouthBy John Durkan, iBerkshires Staff
11:15AM / Saturday, September 22, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — More than 25 pupils from Brayton Elementary and Hoosac Valley Middle schools met with community leaders to learn about the importance of going to college as part of Berkshire United Way's YOU First Day of Caring program at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts on Thursday. "I just want these kids to know they have a community that supports them and really wants them to succeed," said Brenda Burdick, the senior manager of marketing and public relations for General Dynamics and the vice chairman on the Berkshire United Way Board of Trustees. The program, which also took place at four other locations — Dalton, Lee, Pittsfield and Great 0 Comments
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Retaining Wall Could Hold Up Conte School CostsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
09:12PM / Monday, September 17, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Site costs, including work on a 300-foot retaining wall, could have a major impact on the city's share of the Conte School project.
Those figures were presented to the School Building Committee on Monday night along with a list of line items that could be eliminated.
Carl Weber, owner's project manager, and landscape architect Julie Sniezek of Guntlow & Associates said they were taken aback by the price tag attached to replacing the wall on the southwest corner of the property by the estimators.
"The retaining wall, that's estimated about $700,000, that's a lot more than we had to spend," Weber told the committee. "We're working on ways to bring 2 Comments
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