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Mount Greylock Announces Honor Roll| 11:20AM / Friday, July 18, 2014 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - Mount Greylock Regional School District has announced its fourth quarter honor roll.
Total school enrollment 572 of which 268 have made Honor Roll for the fourth quarter.
– Nicholas Bolognia, Miranda Bucky, Robert Buffis Jr., Alana Chesney, Alexander Cheung, Melodybelle Crowell-Morse, Raquel Crowell-Morse, Nicholas Dastoli, Alexandra Delano, Erin Dodig, Geff Fisher, Taylor Fohrhaltz-Burbank, Kendal Frye, Amanda Galib, Madeline Gaskill, Kayla Goodwin, Celeste Gravel, Kelsey Hebert, Emily Kaegi, Sophia Leamon, Devon Lennon, Celestine Lockhart, Evelyn Mahon, Rosemarie Mele, Steven O’Brien, Caleb Raymond, Renzi, Devyn, Randi Rocca, Emily Rudd,
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Williamstown-Lanesborough Tri-District Back on TrackBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:08PM / Wednesday, July 16, 2014 | |
 Mount Greylock School Committee members, from left, David Langston and Gary Fuls and district counsel Fred Dupere. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Tuesday decided to move forward with a search for a Tri-District superintendent after learning that the Lanesborough Elementary School Committee has decided to maintain the current structure. Lanesborough is part of a superintendency union with Williamstown Elementary; that union, Union 71, in turn, shares a superintendent with the regional junior-senor high school. But the LES Committee's commitment to the shared services arrangement was in doubt throughout the winter and 0 Comments
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Nursing Program Building Approved for McCann SchoolBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
09:06PM / Monday, July 14, 2014 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Planning Board on Monday night approved a 2,700 square foot addition to the McCann Technical School for its practical nursing program. With the closing of the North Adams Regional Hospital, the program was left with incomplete facilities. Northern Berkshire Vocational School District Superintendent James Brosnan said renting a facility is not an option, and it would be more effective to add an addition onto the building. Although the students are able to use the available hospital resources as well as other care providers in the area for the clinical aspects of the class, a designated area for the program is a must. "We have 20 students and two faculty;
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Veterinary Scholarship Program Hoping to ExpandBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
01:28PM / Saturday, July 12, 2014 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — A local man wants to expand a scholarship fund that benefits Berkshire County high school students looking to pursue a career in animal medicine. Roy Thompson, founder of the Adams Friends of Animals, is hoping to expand aid to aspiring veterinarians and veterinary technicians through the Roy Thompson Scholarship Fund. "We are looking at two fold: education, which is important, and animals, which is a super big deal to me," Thompson said this week. Thompson and his partner in the effort, Hoosac Valley High School teacher Tarah Lucier, have recently moved the scholarship onto Facebook, where they hope they can reach more people and receive more
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State Says SU71 Did Not Violate Open Meeting LawBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:35PM / Thursday, July 10, 2014 | |
 LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The state vindicated Robert Barton from any wrongdoing when he attempted to engage in a discussion about an employee during a Supervisory Union 71 meeting. Resident Richard Cohen filed a complaint against Barton because he had attempted speak to the personnel matter during a meeting on Feb. 24. Barton, who sits on the committee, specifically named TriDistrict Office Assistant Ginni Ranzoni in a discussion about how much workload his requests for information was having on the district office. Cohen said the discussion about Ranzoni should have been held in executive session and the employee should have been notified in 1 Comment
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Mount Greylock Committee Moves Toward Complaint ResolutionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
10:20PM / Tuesday, July 01, 2014 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Tuesday voted to approve a resolution to a the Open Meeting Law complaint that resulted from an email sent by one of its members. By a vote of 5-0-1 with the member in question, Robert Ericson, abstaining, the committee OK'd language negotiated by the district's legal counsel and the complainant, Lanesborough resident Richard Cohen. The letter explains that Ericson "did not intend to violate any provision of the Open Meeting Law" and, in fact, only communicated with three other members of the committee — the other two Lanesborough representatives and the chairman — because 1 Comment
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Lanesborough Elementary's Affiliation Study ProceedsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:14AM / Thursday, June 26, 2014 | |
 LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — School Committee member Robert Barton on Wednesday continued his push to have Lanesborough Elementary consider its options for a new superintendency. Barton outlined a plan for three meetings that he hopes will bring the committee closer to a final decision some time next fall about whether the district will remain partnered with Williamstown in Superintendency Union 71. Barton reported to the committee that as a result of a recent meeting between SU-71 and the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee, he thought it made sense to "assume Lanesborough will remain" in SU-71 and, by extension, the Tri-District partnership between SU-71 and 1 Comment
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Williamstown Elementary Says No to PARCC Test, Mount Greylock Weighs OptionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:39AM / Saturday, June 21, 2014 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Williamstown Elementary School Committee has decided not to accept the commonwealth's offer to try out a new standardized test. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is in the middle of a two-year trial run for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for Colleges and Careers (PARCC) exam, a national exam that could eventually replace the well-established Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Systems (MCAS) testing. DESE administered the PARCC exam in selected districts this spring and offered all districts the opportunity to use it in the 2014-15 academic year with the incentive that districts will not be penalized for
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Ten McCann Students Achieve State Certification By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
09:32PM / Thursday, June 19, 2014 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Ten McCann Technical School students received Massachusetts Manufacturing Advancement Center Workforce Innovation Collaborative certificates Thursday morning for excellence in Machine Technology and Manufacturing. Machine Technology instructor Tom Metuszak said the state-developed test challenges students and allows them to receive credits toward an associate's degree in manufacturing technology. He said that students can reach a new level every year they take the test and pass; 10 McCann students out of the 27 students in the program reached level one. Metuszak said the test represents an employer-led statewide effort to standardize
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Recent Mount Greylock Grad Building Charitable FoundationBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:13PM / Thursday, June 19, 2014 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mia DiSantis says she knew for a long time that she wanted to make a difference in the world. But it's a big world, and she had no idea where to start. Then she and her mother came across the 2009 ABC News documentary, "A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains," and Mia realized that the world is not so big after all -- even if its problems are. "You always hear about Haiti, and they have so many service trips to places like that, but this was something I never heard about," DiSantis said. "And I was shocked to learn that it was so close to us, but people aren't even aware of 5 Comments
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