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New Greylock School Vote Edges Yes VictoryBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
08:54PM / Tuesday, October 08, 2024 | |
The vote was close with some 1,309 voting no for the debt exclusion over concerns of burdensome tax increases. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The new Greylock School project will move forward after a successful debt exclusion vote on Tuesday. The proponents won a narrow victory with a 136 votes. The unofficial tally was 1,445 yes to 1,309 no. The vote was to determine a debt exclusion that would allow the city to bond out nearly $20 million over 30 years. The Massachusetts School Building Authority will be picking up $42.2 million of the $65 million cost with the balance being covered by a federal grant for a geothermal system. "We're very 0 Comments
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Berkshire Schools Awarded CPPI Grants | 10:45AM / Tuesday, October 08, 2024 | |
BOSTON — The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that 30 school districts in partnership with community-based preschool programs are receiving $20.3 million in Commonwealth Preschool Partnership Initiative (CPPI) grants to support their continued efforts to expand access to high-quality affordable preschool. In Berkshire County: Pittsfield Public Schools was awarded $250,000 North Adams Public Schools was awarded $316,000 Hoosac Valley Regional School District was awarded $1,000,000 Universal access to preschool is part of Governor Maura Healey's Gateway to Pre-k agenda to make early education and child care more affordable and 0 Comments
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Driscoll Marches in North Adams, Meets With Local DemocratsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:28PM / Monday, October 07, 2024 | |
Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll waves in the Fall Foliage Parade. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll said she sees optimism and potential in the Steeple City after marching in Sunday's Fall Foliage Day Parade. Driscoll is the first sitting lieutenant governor to appear in the parade since Timothy Murray and his family back in 2007. She and Gov. Maura Healey were elected to four-year terms in 2022. "Absolutely picturesque to be able to see, you know, this time of year in this region, and then this parade, the history of it, like multiple generations of families on the sidelines, excited to either watch the parade or be in the parade, 0 Comments
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Guest Column: North Adams Is Leading on Climate ResponseBy Dicken Crane & Henry Art, Guest Column
04:01PM / Monday, October 07, 2024 | |
 After several years of careful planning and invitations for public involvement to create a plan that will increase the resiliency of the woodlands in the Notch Reservoir watershed, restore its ecological function and intentionally manage the area using science-based, sustainable practices, a few citizens groups are now voicing opposition to the proposed forest management. Along with the city's leaders and the conservation organizations providing technical assistance to plan this restoration work, these groups share a sincere concern for the well-being of the forests. However, one of their key objections to the proposed work is that Mother Nature can best manage the 0 Comments
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MCLA: Panel of Drag Performers to Celebrate Queer Identities and Performance Art | 01:45PM / Monday, October 07, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) invites the community to an evening of discussion and insight featuring a panel of local drag performers as part of the annual Lavender Lecture. Panelists Vuronika Baked, Gemini DaBarbay, and Jackie Leggs will take the stage on Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 5 p.m. in Venable Theater to share their personal experiences with drag and their journeys in exploring their queer identities. This panel, presented in a moderated Q&A format, offers an opportunity to hear from the performers about the role of drag in their lives, the challenges and triumphs they've faced, and how the art form has 0 Comments
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Poetry Reading at Bear & Bee Bookshop | 12:30PM / Monday, October 07, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Boiler House Poets Collective celebrates its annual residency with a reading at the Bear & Bee Bookshop, 28 North Holden Street in North Adams at 7 PM on Wednesday, Oct. 9. The Boiler House Poets Collective will be in residence on the MASS MoCA campus from Oct. 7-13, an annual event since 2015. Ten poets spend their studio time creating new work, honing works in progress, and collaborating with their fellow artists in residence. Individually and collectively, they explore creating work including ekphrastic poetry inspired by museum installations, exquisite corpse poems, cleave poems, and video poems. "MASS MoCA's art and the Berkshires'
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North Adams Voters to Decide Greylock School ProjectBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
08:45PM / Sunday, October 06, 2024 | |
Mayor Jennifer Macksey at the project forum held at Greylock earlier this summer. She says she feels optimistic about the vote. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Voters will decide the fate of the long-gestating Greylock School project on Tuesday. There is only one question on the ballot, whether to approve a debt exclusion that will allow borrowing for the project outside the limitations of Proposition 2 1/2 for the life of the loan. It is not an override. The City Council approved the spending in July but a ballot vote is required to exclude the debt. A yes vote will move the project forward; a no vote will essentially kill it. Voting will take place from 0 Comments
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Letter: Vote No On Oct. 8Letter to the Editor,
01:00PM / Sunday, October 06, 2024 | |
 To the Editor:
My issue is that the numbers just don't add up. [Grades] preK to 2 numbers are trending down. MCAS scores are down. The amount of surplus property the city owns is growing.
Disingenuous people sending their children to private schools while claiming the need for a new school. Additional burden to taxpayers for the need of a new public safety complex.
Sitting city councilor profiting from his documented pro new school position. The omission of up-to-date enrollment numbers.
City employee running a private business in a public building that NAPS oversees. A member of the School Committee that has voted for increases to his employer's bus contract. (Editor's
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North Adams Kicks Off Fall Foliage Weekend with Return of Dog Costume ParadeBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
06:29AM / Saturday, October 05, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — More than a dozen dogs and their owners swarmed the sidewalks of Main Street on Thursday for the return of the Dog Costume Parade. The last time the city had this parade was in 2021, and due to the pandemic, it had to be skipped in 2020. "This is the first time bringing it back in quite a few years. Everyone has reached out to us wanting to bring the dog parade back. We thought it was important to give back to the family of the animal community," said Lindsay Randall, director of tourism and community events. The event brings people together event organizers said. "It's a nice family event 0 Comments
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North Adams Man Guilty of Murder| 05:18PM / Friday, October 04, 2024 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A North Adams man was convicted Friday of murdering his wife, Charli Gould Cook, in 2019. A Berkshire Superior Court jury found Michael Cook Sr., 47, guilty of murder in the second degree, assault and armed assault with intent to murder, and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury and assault and battery on a family or household member. Cook had broken into the Chase Avenue home of his estranged wife on July 11, 2019. The 41-year-old woman was in her bed when Cook hit on the back side of her head with a hammer. The assault resulted in significant injury to her skull causing traumatic brain injury. 0 Comments
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Greylock Project Proponents, Opponents Getting Message OutiBerkshires Staff,
04:09PM / Friday, October 04, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Proponents and opponents have been busy on social media and mailers in getting out their messages on which way to vote on the Greylock School project. Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday, Oct. 8, to decide a debt exclusion for borrowing on the $65 million project that will include the demolition of the 70-year-old current Greylock School. The city will be responsible for just under $20 million over the next 30 years. School officials have held a number of informational forums at both Brayton and Greylock schools and at smaller venues. Two groups have emerged on opposite sides of the question and have created Facebook pages and sent out mailers 0 Comments
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Letter: Halt the Notch Reservoir Logging ProjectLetter to the Editor,
03:06PM / Friday, October 04, 2024 | |
 To the Editor:
I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed logging project at the Notch Reservoir in North Adams, a key source of our city's drinking water. While the city has released minimal details regarding this project, what has been shared raises significant concerns about both the environmental and community impact. After attending the Conservation Commission meeting on Oct. 3, it is clear that both the commission and the community feel ill-prepared to assess the project and its potential impacts on the surrounding wetlands. There are several reasons this project must be reconsidered: Risk to our watershed: Logging around our drinking water supply introduces
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