Drury First Quarter Honor Roll| 10:59AM / Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Drury High School honor roll for the first quarter of the 2023-2024 school year. Bailey, Abigail Lyn Bishop, Brooke Yvonne Bordeau, Danni Mary Brothers, Marley Elizabeth Catelotti, Daphne Erin Herrmann, Rachael Lyn Klein, Mackenzie Elizabeth Liang, Jessalyn NMN Miksic, Ferris Alastair Moresi, Melanie Sage Patenaude, Olivia Marie Worthington, Chandler David Brulé, Grace Margaret Ciempa, Tatum Leigh Dukes, Mearra Renee Goman, Camron Joseph Goodermote, Elijah Bowen Howard, Aiden Cole Hurlbut-Morgan, Emma Jo Kerkhoff, Elise Marie Kingsley, Hailey Patricia Kozik, Kaelyn Deanna Lesage, Logan Ford Martin, Kendall Elsie Matys, Lauren >> Read More |
MCLA, Habitat for Humanity Partner Offer Free Tax Assistance| 08:00AM / Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) and its Department of Business Administration are partnering with Habitat for Humanity to offer free tax preparation services to residents in need through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. MCLA will offer in-person, drop-off, and virtual tax assistance to qualified taxpayers beginning Feb.12. Habitat for Humanity administers VITA, a program of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), to assist taxpayers with disabilities, limited English-speaking skills, those 50 years of age or older, or individuals and families who earn $64,000 or less a year.?MCLA students will be available to >> Read More |
North Adams Officials Mull School ClosureBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:27AM / Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — School officials are eyeing an accelerated closing of an elementary school as they prepare for the coming fiscal year's "fiscal cliff." A draft budget for fiscal 2025 is up $2,430,054, a 12 percent increase over this year. This is largely being driven by three factors: contracted obligations, higher costs related to out-of-district placements and the loss of nearly $1 million in ESSER funds. Administrators presented the initial figures to the Finance and Facilities subcommittee on Monday morning along with preliminary proposal to close Greylock School to offset costs. The subcommittee wasn't ready to make any decisions, >> Read More |
MCLA Professor's Research Featured in Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2023 | 08:01AM / Monday, January 29, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA Physics Professor Dr. Emily Maher, one of 65 scientists in the MINERvA collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab), has published work that has been chosen as one of the Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2023 in Physics World. Over a 10-year span, the MINERvA detector recorded the interactions of neutrinos and antineutrinos, the antimatter partners of the neutrino. The physicists working on the MINERvA experiment used the data to make a ground-breaking new measurement which was published last February in Nature titled "Measurement of the axial vector form factor from antineutrino–proton >> Read More |
Clarksburg Officials Want to Study School RegionalizationBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:12PM / Sunday, January 28, 2024 | |
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Town officials are asking the school superintendency union to consider regionalization as a way to reduce education costs. The Select Board met with school officials during a joint meeting on Wednesday night at Town Hall. Select Board member Daniel Haskins said he and John Franzoni, superintendent of Northern Berkshire School Union, had "spoken briefly about the possibility of moving forward with investigating the advantages and disadvantages." Franzoni pointed to the study that had been done with Clarksburg and Stamford, Vt., a few years ago for an interstate school merger and recommended a similar >> Read More |
North Adams Seeks Extension on MSBA Study AgreementBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:25AM / Wednesday, January 17, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Building Committee is asking for an extension of the timeline of the $61 million Greylock School project. The idea of an extension has come up several times over the past year in terms of meeting the design and funding deadlines. "We will be requesting a feasibility study agreement extension and the logistics of that are being discussed with the MSBA as to exactly how much time we would request," Matthew Sturz of Colliers International, the owner's project manager, told the committee on Tuesday. The project to build a new Greylock School entered the schematic design module after the feasibility study was >> Read More |
Berkshire Organizations, Schools Awarded Mass Cultural Council Grants| 08:53AM / Tuesday, January 16, 2024 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Mass Cultural Council announced the 299 recipients of the Fiscal Year 2024 STARS Residencies grants. This $1,502,450 investment will place teaching artists, scientists, and humanists, into schools, bringing cultural enrichment to more than 32,000 Massachusetts students. "Connecting young people to creativity and a broad range of cultural experiences helps students develop essential skills that set them up for future success," said Michael J. Bobbitt, Executive Director, Mass Cultural Council. "The academic enrichment provided through STARS does exactly that by challenging students in new ways and encouraging them to tap into their >> Read More |
Drury High School to Host End-of-Semester Showcase| 10:42AM / Friday, January 12, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On behalf of the Drury Portrait of a Graduate Student Team and Drury staff, North Adams Public Schools families and community members are invited to attend Drury High School's first annual End of Semester Showcase. The showcase takes place on Jan. 23 from 11:30AM–2:00PM at the school. The showcase will offer audiences an understanding of what Drury students have learned during their Project-Based Learning courses, and the types of academic content they've explored. End-of-semester work from Project-Based Learning classes will be presented and displayed by Drury students. Students will also share a video presentation >> Read More |
BArT Theatre Presents 'She Kills Monsters' | 11:00AM / Thursday, January 04, 2024 | |
ADAMS, Mass. — BArT Theatre presents, "She Kills Monsters," by Qui Nguyen. The dates of the performances are: Friday, Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are available to purchase online at this link. According to a press release: "She Kills Monsters" tells the story of Agnes Evans, an average woman who loses her parents and little sister Tilly in a car accident. Having been very distant from her sister while she was alive, Agnes >> Read More |
Berkshire Athenaeum's 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten| 08:00AM / Thursday, January 04, 2024 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Families with young children are invited to join the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program at the Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield's Public Library. The Library will host a launch party on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, from 10:30 am to noon for families with children ages 0–5. 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten is a free nationwide initiative encouraging regular reading habits in families with children five and under. The program is based on research that reading is an early indicator of academic success and the more books children under six have read to them, the more prepared they are to learn to read upon reaching >> Read More |
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