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Drury Students Producing Comedy Show By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
11:46AM / Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | |
Drury students set up for Thursday's performance. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Drury Performing Arts Center will host "Comedy Coffee House" with Moody McCarthy this Thursday. The New York City comedian is being brought to the high school by Drury Performing Arts Management program as part of the Drury After Dark Series. "He is hysterical, and he is very witty," DPAM student Yvonne Koperek said. "It is definitely a clean show and it is very inclusive. He has been on many nighttime shows." McCarthy has performed on "Conan," "Late Show with David Letterman," "Jimmy Kimmel 0 Comments
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E3 Academy Students Debut Book of North Adams RecollectionsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:42AM / Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Students at the E3 Academy have focused their larger projects over the years to aspects of the community: a line of merchandise celebrating the city, a food pantry, teaching younger kids about healthy food, researching social and civil rights in the area. On Saturday, the alternative high school program put forth perhaps its most ambitious project: a series of interviews with residents collected into the book "The City Before You." "Stories, smiles, laughter and an occasional doughnut were shared as students formed friendships with these local historians," read Rayven West on Saturday before an appreciative crowd in the 6 Comments
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Norman Rockwell Museum Presents 33rd Annual Berkshire County High School Art Show| 02:53PM / Monday, January 28, 2019 | |
 STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — In celebration of Norman Rockwell's 125th birthday, Norman Rockwell Museum will present the 33rd annual Berkshire County High School Art Show, with a special exhibition opening to be held on Saturday, Feb. 2, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the young artists and at 2:30 p.m. hear a lecture from acclaimed illustrator Gregory Manchess, whose work is also currently on view at the museum.
In the tradition of Norman Rockwell, who began his professional career as a teenager, the High School Art Show celebrates the creative talent found in Berkshire County's local high schools. Original works in all media — from painting and
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MCLA Opens 125th Year With New Strategies, InitiativesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:31PM / Wednesday, January 23, 2019 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Some legislators are calling it the "year of education" but for Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, it's not about one year but about 125 years of education.
The college will celebrate its quasquicentennial in 2019 with a series of events, exhibitations, signage and celebrations. President Jamie Birge announced the anniversary along with other college news as the spring semester kickoff breakfast held in the Centennial Room on Tuesday morning.
Established in 1894 as the North Adams Normal School to train teachers, the college has gone through a number of names and some significant academic and physical changes over the past 125 years. It
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School Officials Updating Greylock Elementary's MSBA ApplicationBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:58AM / Wednesday, January 23, 2019 | |
The facilities subcommittee and administrators discuss the conditions at Brayton and Greylock schools. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The roof leaks, the windows weep, parts of the school are cool and others are hot — and a water line to the outdated boiler's kept open with a clothespin. That's only scratching the surface. The School Committee's finance and facilities subcommittee toured Greylock School on Saturday to get a close up look at the 60-year-old structure's challenges. The consensus at the end was to push forward with an updated application to the Massachusetts School Building Authority to address the building's many 2 Comments
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Congressman Neal Teaches Civics Class at Drury High School By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:22PM / Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | |
Holly Boudreau speaks to U.S. Rep. Neal about her application to the U.S. Air Force Academy. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — It's not often teens have a chance to quiz their congressman. So the students in Stephanie Kopola's college-level world history class spent some time developing the questions they wanted to pose to U.S. Rep. Richard Neal on Tuesday. "They generated questions based on what interested them," Kopola said. "Then they voted on the ones that really encompassed what they were interested in." Many of the questions, not surprisingly, dealt with current events and topics that could affect their futures: border 1 Comment
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Community Forum Set for Clarksburg/Stamford School Merger StudyStaff Reports,
02:37PM / Monday, January 21, 2019 | |
 CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Residents in Clarksburg and Stamford, Vt., are encouraged to attend Tuesday's public forum on merging the two towns' school districts. The forum will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 6:30 p.m. at Clarksburg Elementary School. Representatives from Public Consulting Group of Boston will be on hand to walk attendees through the timeline for the feasibility study on creating an interstate school district. "We encourage people from both towns to attend this meeting because it is their first opportunity to meet with Public Consulting Group and to hear more about the study being conducted," said Kimberly Roberts-Morandi, a 0 Comments
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North Adams Schools Will Hire Full-Time Business AdministratorBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:29PM / Tuesday, January 15, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Committee is ending its attempt to share financial services with another educational entity after just a year. The committee last week voted not to renew its contract with the North Berkshire School Union to share the services of its business manager. Rather, the school district will seek a full-time business administrator effective July 1. "The conditions since we created that initial agreement have changed," Superintendent Barbara Malkas explained to the School Committee at its monthly meeting. "We have been the recipient of several large competitive grants that require not just the grants management coordination for 0 Comments
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McCann Tech Drone Program Taking OffBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
02:34AM / Tuesday, January 15, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — McCann Technical School unveiled its new drone after-school program last week. Principal Justin Kratz and teacher Perry Burdick gave the School Committee a drone presentation Thursday night and demonstrated what the little aircraft could do even in the confines of the meeting room. "It's going to be one more great avenue for our kids to get involved in the school and I think you will see a large number of kids interested in it," Kratz said. "I think they are really going to get into it." The idea was brought forth late last year by School Committee member Robert Reilly who saw a presentation of a similar program at the 1 Comment
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Williams' BioEYES Program Expanding to Six More SchoolsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:30AM / Monday, January 14, 2019 | |
Brayton third-graders look at zebrafish hearts through a microscope. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — For 10 years, North County elementary students have been learning about how zebrafish populations multiply and grow through the BioEYES science program. This year, the program itself is multiplying with plans to go into more than twice as many schools throughout the region. BioEYES, a curriculum developed by the University of Pennsylvania, has been used for a decade by Williams College professor Martha Marvin and Williams students to teach about genetics and basic biology in third- and fourth-grade classrooms. The outreach started modestly, with Marvin and a single 0 Comments
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