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Williamstown's Art Chosen to Fill School Committee Seat

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:15AM / Tuesday, June 25, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — By a vote of 10-3, Jamie Art was chosen Monday to fill a vacant seat on the Mount Greylock School Committee. Per the regional agreement that joins Lanesborough and Williamstown in the preK-12 district, the vacancy created by the departure of Joe Bergeron required a meeting of the remaining School Committee members plus the select boards from both the district's member towns. That made for 14 eligible voters. Thirteen attended Monday's meeting with one member of the School Committee, Williamstown's Alison Carter, currently on maternity leave. There were five candidates before the joint meeting after Monday's withdrawal

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BArT Announces Fourth Quarter Honor Roll

11:27AM / Monday, June 24, 2019

ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School has announced the students who made honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2018-19 school year.

Students who earned 80 percent or above in all of their classes received the distinction of "Honors." Students who earned 90 percent or above in all of their classes received the distinction of "High Honors."

Academic courses at BArT are aligned with the Massachusetts State Curriculum Frameworks for the appropriate grade level and include all standards deemed necessary for a complete, college-preparatory, middle and high school education.

Grade Six

Persephone Clark, Tucker Danylin, Sascha Ehrlich,

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Q&A: 'Big Sneakers to Fill,' Williamstown Phys Ed Teacher Retires After 43 Years

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:35PM / Sunday, June 23, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Sue Kirby can remember when physical education classes looked a lot different than they do today. "Muriel Flagg had two canes. I don't know what happened to her, because she wasn't always like that," Kirby said this week while reminiscing about her career. "I remember you had to climb the ropes, and she hit you with a cane to get you up the rope. "We don't even have the ropes." And they certainly don't have the canes. But Kirby found her own ways to get the most out of her pupils over more than four decades as an educator in the Williamstown public schools. This past

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Six Candidates Emerge for Vacant Mount Greylock School Committee Seat

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:31AM / Sunday, June 23, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee and select boards from Williamstown and Lanesborough will have at least six candidates to choose from to fill a vacant seat on the School Committee. A special joint meeting of all three elected bodies Monday at 5:30 p.m. at the middle-high school has a single agenda item: to determine a replacement for Joe Bergeron, who announced his resignation from the panel last month. This week, members of the School Committee and two select boards received applications and supporting information provided by the candidates who declared their intention prior to the meeting. Bergeron occupied one of four Williamstown

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Mount Greylock Committee Hears Concerns About Turf Field Plan

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:31AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee last week declined to slow plans for installing an artificial turf field at the middle-high school but members noted that there is still time to weigh health and environmental concerns before shovels go into the ground. The full School Committee earlier in the spring authorized the Phase 2 grounds subcommittee to put the turf field out to bid this summer. Since that time, committee members have heard from a number of residents concerned about studies that have linked "infill" materials in used in turf fields to higher rates of cancer and environmental contamination due to runoff from those

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Mount Greylock School Committee Completes Superintendent Evaluation

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:31AM / Monday, June 17, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee gave first-year Superintendent Kimberley Grady passing marks on her first formal evaluation while recognizing that the evaluation process itself was incomplete given Mount Greylock's transition to a fully regionalized PreK-12 district. Four of the six committee members who completed the evaluation process gave Grady an overall mark of proficient in the evaluation rubric established by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for administrators across the commonwealth. Two gave her an overall score of "needs improvement," though at least one commented in the written evaluation that she is at the

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Berkshires' Summer Jazz Camp Enrollment Open

By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
04:15PM / Sunday, June 16, 2019

CHESHIRE, Mass. — The Berkshires' Summer Jazz Camp returns this August and sign-ups are open now. In mid-August, high school and middle school students throughout the county will get a chance to sit in with a group of master jazz musicians at Hoosac Valley High School. "The students will be able to hear and play with some of the top musicians in the world today," professional trumpeter and North Adams native Richard Boulger said. "It is a real pleasure to see how the students are inspired by hearing our faculty. Not to mention, hearing how much the students progress in just a matter of days." This is the second Jazz Camp

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MCLA Launches Institute of Arts and Humanities

By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
07:00PM / Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Professor Lisa Donovan, director other institute, center, speaks with attendees before symposium begins. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is partnering with the area's myriad cultural entities to further its mission as an inclusive educational institution. The college launched its new Institute for Arts and Humanities on Wednesday morning with a three-day conference on diversity, equity and inclusion that included an address that night by activist and commentator Nikki Giovanni and a lunchtime talk by Mathew Knowles, father of Beyonce, on Thursday. The institute was made possible by a three-year $360,000 grant from The

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Mount Greylock School District Seeks Williamstown Resident to Fill Vacant Committee Seat

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:01AM / Tuesday, June 11, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District has a vacancy on its School Committee and less than a month to fill the position. School Committee Vice Chairman Dan Caplinger informed the Williamstown Select Board on Monday that Joe Bergeron, one of four Williamstown residents on and chairman of the seven-person committee, has resigned. The committee is seeking applicants for another Williamstown resident to fill out the remainder of Bergeron's term, which expires with the November 2020 biennial election. The regional agreement that binds Williamstown and Lanesborough, last approved by the voters two years ago, spells out the procedure for

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Miss Hall's School Graduates 47 Students

02:18PM / Monday, June 10, 2019

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Forty-seven students, including 14 from Berkshire County and nearby communities, graduated on Sunday, June 2, during Miss Hall's School's 121st commencement. Ceremonies took place under a large tent on the front lawn of the school's Holmes Road campus. Kristina Delgado, a social impact strategist and the founder of Hearts on Fleek, a social change consultancy, as well as a member of the class of 2009, delivered the address. Among the graduates were the following local students: Charlotte Adelson, of Lee; Elizabeth Cachat, Dalton; Samantha Elliott, Pittsfield; Trudy Fadding, Glendale; Haylee Gleason, Pittsfield; Emily Grady, Pittsfield;

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