North Adams ADU Challenge Winners Focus on Cost, SustainabilityBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:48PM / Monday, November 17, 2025 | |
Jenny Wright of the North Adams Partnership explains the challenge at the awards ceremony on Nov. 6 at Hotel Downstreet. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Sustainability, aging in place and cost effectiveness were the focus of the winning ADU designs in the North Adams Partnership's Small & Smart Design Competition. Grace Perrault and Ryleigh Holland of McCann Technical School, and Ruth Estien Garcia of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst were the top student designers. Estein Garcia of Springfield, an architecture student at UMass, said her experience working with older people had really informed her light-filled design, which incorporated >> Read More |
MCLA Shows Off Mark Hopkins' Needs to Lieutenant GovernorBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:26PM / Saturday, November 15, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The outdated lockers are painted over, large air conditioners are in the windows, and professors are still using chalkboards and projectors in the classrooms. The last significant work on Mark Hopkins was done in the 1980s, and its last "sprucing up" was years ago. "The building has great bones," President Jamie Birge told Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, as they stood in a third-floor classroom on Friday afternoon. "The envelope needs to be worked on, sure, but it's stable, so it's usable — but it just isn't usable in this form." The "new" Mark Hopkins School opened in 1940 on >> Read More |
College Notes: Fall 2025| 05:04PM / Thursday, November 13, 2025 | |
Madeline Tillem of Lenox was assistant stage manager for the fall theater production of "The Play That Goes Wrong," directed by Jim Van Valen, showing Oct. 30 to Nov. 2 in 's Baker Theatre. A graduate of Miss Hall's School, Tillem is studying history and psychology at the college in Allentown, Pa. Katie Aragon Alvarez of Pittsfield began her first semester in the fall of 2025 atin Newton.
Olivia Goewey of Ashley Falls, Emanuel Brown of Great Barrington, Sasha Taft of North Adams, Molly Pope of Pittsfield and Jayne Beringer of Williamstown were among the more than 360 first-year students participating in 's New Student Day >> Read More |
DPAC To Perform 'Radium Girls'| 07:41AM / Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Drury Performing Arts in collaboration with the 21st Century Afterschool Program announced performance dates for its production of "Radium Girls" by D.W. Gregory. According to a press release: In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same >> Read More |
Greylock School Project Gets Nod From Planning BoardBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:40AM / Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Greylock School project sailed through the Planning Board on Monday night with unanimous approval. This sets up the $65 million project to go out to bid on Nov. 17. Jesse Saylor of TSKP Studio, the school's designer, and Chelsea Christenson, a civil engineer with Nitsch Engineering, made the presentation. "Regarding the site, context has been an important theme to the design of the school," said Saylor. "The site's unique. It's got the massive Mount Greylock to the south, Taconic range just to the north, with the Appalachian trail running right down Phelps Ave in front of the school >> Read More |
McCann First Quarter Honor Roll| 10:44AM / Friday, November 07, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The McCann Technical School First Quarter Honor Roll. Grade 12 Anderson, Abigail Belsky, Brett Bentley, Arthur Bills, ALisandra Bolte, Brady Burgess, Jeffrey Champney, Aidan Demers, Mya Dimitropolis, Jaydon Driscoll, Gabrielle Ellsworth,Skyler Foucher, Hayley Gaffey, Ella Gregory, Emma Hall, Ehryn Holland, Ryleigh Howland, Zachary Hubby, Kylee Jacobbe, Gianna Kanelos, Noah Kincaid-Chesbro, Leyla Kondel, Nora Kratz, Ava Lane, Emerson Lawson, Shaylee LeClair, Landon Lemaire, Jaxin Lincoln, Rhea Lloyd, Jordyn McPherson, Aimee Meaney, Andrew Miller, Jonathan Moran, Sage O'Neil, Marley Ouellette, Keegan Parkman, Riona Perreault, Grace Perry, Paige Pratt, >> Read More |
MCLA Announces Fall 2025 Hardman Journalist in Residence| 08:05AM / Friday, November 07, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass — Massachusetts College Of Liberal Arts (MCLA) announce that Jodie Ginsberg will deliver the Hardman Journalist in Residence Lecture, "Defending Journalism in an Age of Rage," on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m., in MCLA's Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation atrium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Jodie Ginsberg is the chief executive officer of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that defends press freedom worldwide. A journalist by profession, Ginsberg joined CPJ in 2022 from Internews Europe, where she was the chief executive officer. Ginsberg began her career as a >> Read More |
McCann Tech Roof, New Monument Mountain High School OK'd by VotersBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com
09:46PM / Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | |
ADAMS, Mass. — By wide margins, school infrastructure projects were approved by voters at both ends of the county on Tuesday. In Adams, the question of whether to allow a Proposition 2-1/2 debt exclusion to enable McCann Tech’s roof and window replacement project received a resounding yes by a margin of 553-169. In South County, the three member towns in the Berkshire Hills Regional School District all approved a $152 million project to build a new Monument Mountain Regional High School, according to the Berkshire Edge. Up north, Adams was the last town to weigh in on the $16.8 million project at McCann Tech. It was one of only two communities in >> Read More |
McCann Practical Nursing Program Graduates 23Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
12:08PM / Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Twenty-three graduates of the McCann Technical School Practical Nursing program were welcomed into their "noble vocation" Monday night during a pinning ceremony focused on commitment, teamwork, and remembering the smallest acts of kindness. "Nursing is not really a profession, it is a calling. A noble vocation that demands compassion, skill and commitment to the well-being of those you serve," said Kelli Ann Milne, guest speaker and Berkshire Health Systems Education Specialist. "You will touch lives in ways you cannot imagine; you will be there for people on their best and worst days. You will face miracles, you will face >> Read More |
Teacher of the Month: Kyle StrackBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:18PM / Saturday, November 01, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — During his six years as an educator, Drury High School art teacher Kyle Strack has encouraged exploration and instilled in his students a sense of resiliency and self-acceptance. It is this impact that has earned him the iBerkshires Teacher of the Month designation. The Teacher of the Month series, in collaboration with Berkshire Community College, will feature distinguished teachers nominated by community members. You can nominate a teacher here. In Strack's classroom, students learn not to fear failure but rather to change their perspective and carry on, students said. He started his career at >> Read More |
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