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Local Schools Receive Olmsted Awards from Williams College

12:58PM / Monday, May 07, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College has announced its 2018 Bicentennial Olmsted Awards for Faculty and Curricular Development to the Adams-Cheshire Regional School District, Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School, Lanesborough Elementary School, McCann Technical School, Mount Greylock Regional School, North Adams Public Schools and Williamstown Elementary School.

Each entity will receive $5,000 for professional and curricular development projects.

Adams-Cheshire will fund the implementation of Project Lead the Way at Hoosac Valley Middle School. PLTW will help teachers engage in student-centered instruction and improve student learning through increased engagement

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Economic Development Secretary to Speak at BCC Commencement

11:07AM / Friday, May 04, 2018

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Jay Ash will be teh keynote speaker at Berkshire Community College's 58th commencement exercises to be held Friday, June 1, at Tanglewood in Lenox. Ash is responsible for directing and executing Gov. Charlie Baker's agenda on housing and community development, job creation, business development, consumer affairs, and business regulation. Since joining the Baker-Polito administration, Ash has prioritized efforts to grow jobs, help communities realize their economic development priorities, connect citizens to new economic opportunities, and build prosperity across

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BArT Announces Third Quarter Honor Roll

07:16PM / Thursday, May 03, 2018

ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School has announced the students who made honor roll for the third quarter of the 2017-2018 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

Abreyana Avila, Tiana Carver, Addison

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Mount Greylock Announces Third Quarter Honor Roll

08:13PM / Tuesday, May 01, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional Middle and High School has announced its honor roll for the third quarter of the 2017-18 school year.

Grade 12

Alex Babcock, Alex Backiel, Angela Baumgartner, Katherine Bernardy, Isabelle Bote, Owen Brandriss, Elena Cerveira, Kayla Cerveira, Samuel Culver, Samuel Dils, Caroline Flynn, Brady Foehl, Anna Giguere, Jacob Hane, Maia Hirsch, Taylor Hoffstedt, Lauren Howard, Grace Kelley, Emily Little, Gabriella Orpin, DiMaggio Paris, Jade Phair, Emma Polumbo, Jude Rorke, Cole Seaman, Tenley Smith, Emma Stankiewicz, Sabrina Templeton, Patricia Thistle, Madison VanDeurzen, Lilliana Wells.

Grade 11

Maddison Albert, Hallie Anderson, Mitchell Bath,

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Mount Greylock Transition Committee Sees New Projected Costs for Fields

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:05AM / Tuesday, May 01, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Transition Committee on Thursday got some sobering news about the cost estimates for site work it plans to fund from a $5 million capital gift the district received from Williams College. Architect Dan Colli of Perkins Eastman reported that before the district even considers adding a new multi-purpose field and bleachers to the west side of the school, the district's priority items require a budget a little north of $3.7 million. That's concerning both because the committee has targeted a goal of $1.5 million for a building endowment fund and because many in the community were hoping the

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Former Pro Pitcher Promotes Passion, Perseverance at Williamstown Elementary

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:55AM / Saturday, April 28, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Retired professional pitcher Ryan Cameron was back in Williamstown on Thursday to share some life lessons with the third- through sixth-graders at Williamstown Elementary School. But when he opened the floor to questions, the first one he received looked to be a little off topic. "How much money did you make?" asked the first child he called upon. The career .119 hitter handled the curveball with aplomb. "That's a good question," Cameron said, before quickly turning it around. While we tend to hear about today's Major League Baseball players in terms of the size of their contracts, that is not

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BCC Phi Theta Kappa Scholars Honored at State House Ceremony

04:09PM / Friday, April 27, 2018

BOSTON — Two Berkshire Community College students were honored by the Massachusetts Community Colleges Executive Office at a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House on April 18.

Iolani DeRis and Bridget Wnukowski were among a small group of scholars honored as the highest academic achievers of the community colleges system and were presented with medallions and certificates for being named to Phi Theta Kappa’s All-Massachusetts Academic Team.

Every year, MCCEO hosts this event at the State House in Boston to showcase the best and brightest of the 15 college system. The event is co-sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for community colleges, and the

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MCLA Names Winner of Innovation Challenge

03:55PM / Friday, April 27, 2018

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts senior Shannon Cahill of Grafton was the winner of the college's second annual Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Her winning idea was for "Greylock Sound," a performing arts booking and promotion agency she co-founded in December 2017.

The challenge aims to match entrepreneurial students with resources and networking opportunities that will help them to make their ideas a reality. Also recognized at the competition as the runner-up was senior Ashley Anderson of Springfield, for "Kumba," a cross-platform, digital mental health counseling mobile phone application

For her winning idea, Cahill

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Williamstown Student Honored at State House

12:10PM / Friday, April 27, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Massachusetts Center for the Book welcomed 30 students in grades four through 12 to a State House awards ceremony held in the Reading Room of the State Library on April 24. Williamstown resident Flora Birch, a fifth-grader at Pine Cobble School in Williamstown, received honors in the Level 1 division for her letter to author Lynda Mullaly Hunt about the resonance of her book "Fish in a Tree. "

Both Sen. Adam Hinds and Rep. John Barrett provided State House citations for Flora. Rep. Kate Hogan, chairperson of the Joint Committee on Public Health and a director of MCB, provided the legislative welcome and urged the gathering of students to make

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Mount Greylock Building Committee Opts to Move Forward with Whiteboard Installation

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:10AM / Friday, April 27, 2018

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A deeply divided Mount Greylock School Building Committee on Wednesday declined to halt the installation of interactive whiteboards in order to give the district time to explore replacements. Committee member Richard Cohen, who brought the issue to the committee's attention at its April 10 meeting, moved to direct the construction manager to stop taking delivery on whiteboards that he argued were inferior, keep any that are on the job site in their boxes and, instead, study whether the district should acquire boards that are both larger in display area and capable of allowing touch manipulation of images. That motion failed on a vote of

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