MCLA Receives American Institute of Physics Grant | 08:01AM / Tuesday, February 06, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass.—Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) announced it has received $110,351 from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Foundation through its TEAM-UP Together Expanding Expertise, Championing Excellence & Leadership (TUT EXCEL) program. Over the next two years, this funding will advance the College's efforts to increase its African American physics student enrollment, increase African American students' sense of department belonging, and introduce systemic changes to the physics bachelor of arts degree program to ensure positive outcomes for the department's African American students. "The Physics Department is >> Read More |
School Subcommittee Recommends Closure of Greylock School By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:27AM / Tuesday, February 06, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The schools' Facilities and Finance subcommittee is recommending that Greylock School close at the end of this school year. School officials say a number of factors are being considered in accelerating the closing — declining enrollment, the building's physical condition and, not least of all, a looming $2.4 million budget deficit. The city is currently pursuing a school building project to replace Greylock with a new $61 million structure at same location to open in fall 2027. At that time, Brayton Elementary will close. The subcommittee began discussions last week as administrators laid out a preliminary proposal to >> Read More |
McCann Second Quarter Honor Roll| 11:15AM / Monday, February 05, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The following is the list of students for the Q2 McCann Honor Roll. High Honors Name YOG Name YOG Name YOG Name YOG Astorino, Shaun 2024 Boyer, Alexander 2025 Anderson, Abigail 2026 Boulger, Curtis 2027 Auger, Kelson 2024 Bressette Jr., >> Read More |
MCLA Kicks off 2024 Green Living Seminar| 04:22PM / Sunday, February 04, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass.—MCLA's annual Green Living Seminar Series returned in January and continues through April presenting a series of lectures on the theme of "Greening in New England." Presentations occur every Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation (FCSI) Room 121. The series kicked off on Jan. 25 with the presentation "Advancing Sustainability in Urban Residential Neighborhoods of Massachusetts" led by Urban Foresters Samantha Eanes and Sarah Greenleaf from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Urban and Community Forestry Greening the Gateway Cities Program. The program is >> Read More |
McCann Tea Room Schedule 2024| 08:00AM / Thursday, February 01, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The McCann Tea Room reopens in February and is open from 10:45 am to noon. Buffet: Thursday, Feb. 8 Wednesday, Feb 14 and Thursday, Feb. 15 Buffet: Thursday, Feb. 29 Buffet: Thursday, March 7 Wednesday, March 14 and Thursday, March 15 Thursday, March 29 Buffet: Thursday, April 4 >> Read More |
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 |
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