MCLA Announces 2024 Commencement Speaker and Honorees| 12:22PM / Saturday, February 24, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The keynote speaker at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 125th commencement exercises will be Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. This year's commencement will be held Saturday, May 11, at 11 a.m., in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts sits on the ancestral land of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians. In addition, MCLA will confer honorary doctorates to four individuals: President Holsey, state Sen. Paul Mark, Mass Humanities Executive Director Brian Boyles and former president and CEO of Child Care of the Berkshires Anne >> Read More |
McCann Passes $12.1M Budget for Fiscal 2025By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
12:37PM / Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire Regional School District is looking at a 5 percent increase for fiscal 2025. The total budget is $12,092,886, up $593,820 over this year. Superintendent James Brosnan noted that the net school spending for the communities in the regional district has also increased, putting the total over minimum assessment at 1.9 percent. "I want you to notice at the very bottom it says the budget is gone up $593,000, or it's up by 5.16 percent," Brosnan told the McCann School Committee on Thursday. "But I want you to look at the next one, the net school spending was up $340,331. The delta between those two is >> Read More |
FEMA Awards Funds to Massachusetts for COVID School Testing Costs| 11:42AM / Saturday, February 17, 2024 | |
BOSTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending almost $13.5 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse it for the cost of providing testing at public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $13,450,826 Public Assistance grant will reimburse the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for contracting with Trans Med USA Inc. and Merrow Medical to provide test kits at schools between July 2022 and May 2023. The department purchased and distributed 1,089,354 COVID-19 antigen tests to students, faculty and staff at schools statewide during that time period. "FEMA is pleased to be able to assist >> Read More |
BCC to Hold Open House| 08:03AM / Thursday, February 15, 2024 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Learn more about Berkshire Community College (BCC) on Saturday, March 9 from 9-11 am, including a financial aid workshop at 10 am. The event takes place in the Connector on BCC's main campus, located at 1350 West Street, Pittsfield. Prospective students and their guests are invited to meet one-on-one with BCC representatives from various offices. Participants can speak with faculty about the programs that interest them, take a campus tour and learn about paying for college, transferring to a four-year school, internships and career opportunities. All attendees will receive a breakfast, a discount at the BCC >> Read More |
MCLA Physics Department Launches Speaker Series with Recent Grant Award| 08:00AM / Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass.—The MCLA Physics Department will host its first speaker this month as part of a larger campaign supported by funding from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Foundation through its TEAM-UP Together Expanding Expertise, Championing Excellence & Leadership (TUT EXCEL) program. Trevor David Rhone, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will deliver a presentation on Atoma, a laboratory artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, and how it can be combined with materials research to accelerate science innovation and discovery. The talk will take place in the Feigenbaum Center for >> Read More |
MCLA Announces Music, Gallery and Theater Performances for Winter, Spring Semester| 08:00AM / Monday, February 12, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Department of Fine and Performing Arts at MCLA announced the Winter/Spring 2024 programming including cultural events, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and musical experiences. According to a press release: The first exhibition of 2024 will examine the entangled histories of ecology and migration. "Unfortunately It Was Paradise" features three artists, Lorena Molina, Larissa Rogers, and Jumana Manna, who address how ecology surfaces in our memory, imagination, and present that are shaped by the legacies of slavery, war, and settler colonialism. The show is on view through March 29. To close the semester, the gallery will feature work from a
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Teacher of the Month: Mary QuintoBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
06:28AM / Saturday, February 10, 2024 | |
Mary Quinto has been teaching at Clarksburg School for 11 years. CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Clarksburg School prekindergarten teacher Mary Quinto has been selected as the February Teacher of the Month. The Teacher of the Month series runs for the next three months in partnership with Berkshire Community College. Quinto has spent her entire career working at Clarksburg School. She started as a kindergarten teacher 11 years ago. "I love everything about teaching. It's hard to name just one thing, but I think my favorite thing is just getting to spend my days with four year old kids who are so energetic, and so full of wonder and excitement >> Read More |
North Adams School Committee Takes Slow Roll on Greylock ClosureBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:33PM / Wednesday, February 07, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Committee delayed discussion Tuesday on closing Greylock School until more information could be provided by the administration. The Finance & Facilities subcommittee is recommending closing the deteriorating building that is set to be replaced by a new school in 2027. 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. Closing Greylock is estimated to save around $1.2 million. "We are presented with basically three scenarios. One was status >> Read More |
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 |
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