Drury High Names Valedictorian & Salutatorian for 2025 Graduation| 10:04AM / Wednesday, June 04, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Drury High School has named Colin Matthew Daly and Atlas Lescarbeau as the valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the class of 2025. Both will speak at graduation ceremonies on Thursday, June 5, at 6 p.m. A livestream of the event will run at www.napsk12.org/graduation. Daly, son of Anthony and Shelley Daly of North Adams, has challenged himself academically, going out of his way to take advantage of the opportunities offered to him and will graduate with a GPA of 4.6. and having completed eight college courses through the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Early College Program. He has been inducted into both the Nu >> Read More |
North Adams School Committee Hears Last Report From SuperintendentBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:39AM / Wednesday, June 04, 2025 | |
Superintendent Barbara Malkas steps back to give her seat at the School Committee meeting to Timothy Callahan, who is replacing her on her retirement. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Tuesday's School Committee meeting was a passing of the torch — or rather the nameplate — as Superintendent Barbara Malkas gave her last report. Malkas is retiring after nine years with North Adams (her retirement party was last week) and her report was about the new administrators who will be leading the school district. At the end, she called incoming Superintendent Timothy Callahan up, handed him his nameplate and gave him the seat next to Mayor Jennifer Macksey, committee chair, in >> Read More |
McCann Tech Postsecondary Grads Advised to Be Flexible in CareersBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
10:02PM / Monday, June 02, 2025 | |
The graduates were cheered as they received their diplomas and pins. See more photos here. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — McCann Technical School awarded diplomas and pins to 23 graduates of the cosmetology, dental assisting, medical assisting and surgical technology programs on Monday night. The gymnasium at the school was filled with family members cheering the graduates. Superintendent James Brosnan noted that it was an opportunity to celebrate not just for the students completing their postsecondary programs but also for the families. "You can celebrate their success, your success, because without you they wouldn't be here tonight," he >> Read More |
Drury Middle School Students Learn About Volunteering, NonprofitsBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
12:45PM / Saturday, May 31, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Drury High eighth-graders recently spent their semester researching and learning about the work that Berkshire nonprofits do in the community. The course was a program of the Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires, "Philanthropy in Schools." The students researched what they were passionate about and found the organizations that aligned with their passion. They wrote an essay and presented a persuasive speech to convince their classmate to vote for their organization to receive a monetary donation. Founder Liana Toscanini started the program in 2020 as a way to introduce young minds to community service and understanding what nonprofit >> Read More |
Astronaut Suni Williams Meets With Boston Students at State House| 01:00PM / Sunday, May 18, 2025 | |
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey hosted a meet-and-greet Thursday at the State House with astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams and local students. Williams, a retired Navy officer, is from Needham. She is the first woman to fly on a flight test of an orbital spacecraft during the 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test and recently returned from nine months on board the International Space Station after technical problems stretched out the planned eight-day mission. She was joined by students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, British International School of Boston Middle School, Boys and Girls Club of Boston students and members of the Science Club for Girls. The >> Read More |
MCLA Graduation Highlights Love, Kindness, JusticeBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
05:28PM / Saturday, May 17, 2025 | |
MCLA James Birge awaits the graduates' traditional walk through the college's gates on the way to commencement. See more photos here. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA's Class of 2025 was reminded to move forward with love, kindness, and pursuing what is just.
"I grew up wanting to be like my grandmother. When my grandmother was alive, she always talked about us living in the end times, but somehow her acceptance that we were living in the world's last movement made her capacity for kindness even higher. It made her want to be better at love," said keynote speaker Kiese Laymon, an award-winning author and Rice University professor.
"She understood
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Clarksburg School Cuts $39K More Out of Budget By Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
03:31PM / Friday, May 16, 2025 | |
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The school budget for fiscal 2026 has been reduced by another $39,000, bringing the percentage increase down to 3.98 percent. At the same time, the tuition proposed for prekindergarten was lifted. The budget approved by the Finance Committee and Select Board at Wednesday's joint meeting with the School Committee has a bottom line of $3,085,643, a $118,233 increase over this year. The School Committee opened up five school-choice slots in first grade, which will offset the loss of an estimated $30,000 in preschool tuition. The school is anticipating $187,000 in school choice and budgeted more conservatively at $180,000. "At the last >> Read More |
Pittsfield Interviews Prospective Interim SuperintendentsBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:10PM / Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | |
The School Committee is expected to make a decision on Wednesday. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The School Committee is set to appoint an interim superintendent at Wednesday's regular meeting.
They have a choice between three candidates: Roland Joyal Jr., Latifah Phillips, and Robert Putnam. Outgoing Superintendent Joseph Curtis will step down from his position on July 1 after 30 years with the district. Mary Jane Rickson, superintendent of the Granby Public Schools, withdrew from consideration shortly after her name was announced. During 70-minute interviews on Wednesday and Thursday at Reid Middle School, the three finalists were asked to detail how they would approach the
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McCann Preparing for MSBA Roof, Windows ProjectBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
04:25PM / Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — McCann Technical School is preparing for a major overhaul of its 30-year-old roof and 60-year-old single-pane windows and will be shifting the school calendar to accommodate the project. The vocational school was invited into the Massachusetts School Building Authority's accelerated repair program last fall. Superintendent James Brosnan told the School Committee on Thursday that 16 designers and engineers from Gale Associates spent three days in the school during April vacation assessing the project. "We did roof cuts, we did masonry cuts. We did all the examinations," he said. "We had sent them a tremendous >> Read More |
Clarksburg School Opens School Choice Spots for Next School YearBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:31AM / Wednesday, May 07, 2025 | |
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — School officials last week voted to open five school-choice slots in first grade but held off on a decision for kindergarten. These are first open spots since 2023 as the school's residential enrollment has risen over the past few years. But with 12 pupils forecast for Grade 1, officials felt confident in opening school choice. "We've gone over the last five years or so that the understanding is if a grade level had 18 students, we wouldn't open additional school choice slots to keep the numbers reasonable," said Superintendent John Franzoni at last week's School Committee meeting. "We're pretty tight right now >> Read More |
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