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Mount Greylock Announces Second Quarter Honor Roll

12:24PM / Tuesday, March 05, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School has announced the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2018-19 school year.

Students are placed on the honor roll when their quarterly letter grades average a B or better, and when the student receives no grade lower than a B- in all graded classes. If students earn any grade of a C+ or lower, their names will not be placed on the honor roll. The student must be carrying a minimum of four graded courses to be eligible. Students who withdraw from a course are not eligible for the honor roll for one semester.

Grade 12

Maddison Albert, Hallie Anderson, Rachel Bisson, Sage Bohl, Daniel Buell, Marley Buffis, Hannah Byrnes, Taylor

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Southern Vermont College to Close Doors

Staff Reports,
12:01PM / Monday, March 04, 2019

BENNINGTON, Vt. — Southern Vermont College, facing "insurmountable pressure," will close at the end of the spring semester. In an announcement made Monday morning, President David R. Evans cited declining enrollment, financial pressure, and adverse action by the college's regional accreditor concerning institutional resources. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Mass., has agreed to accept SVC's new students in the fall semester. MCLA staff are expected to be on the Vermont campus on Tuesday afternoon to meet with any interested students. "Following notice at the end of January from the New England Commission of

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Preschool, Kindergarten Registrations Scheduled Around County

10:43AM / Monday, March 04, 2019

Berkshire County schools are starting to schedule preschool and kindergarten registration dates for the 2019-20 school year. Schools can send their information to info@iberkshires.com to be included on this list.

All students, regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or homelessness, have equal access to the general education program and the full range of any occupational, vocational programs offered by public school districts.

Adams/St. Stanislaus Kostka

Preschool open house and registration for 3- and 4-year-olds will be held on Tuesday, April 2, at 6 p.m. in the St. Stanislaus Kostka preschool building on

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Pine Cobble Alumnus Give Students DNA Lesson

By Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:59AM / Sunday, March 03, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Before Tyler DeWitt did a TED Talk, before he had a website and a YouTube channel, before he received his Ph.D. in microbiology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before he taught high school chemistry and biology in both the United States and South Korea, before he was a National Science Foundation fellow, he was just a student at Pine Cobble School.

On Feb. 27, DeWitt returned to the private school from which he graduated in 1997. It wasn't his first time back; he actually spoke at the school's commencement ceremony in 2013 and helped facilitate a STEAM summer camp session in 2018. And as often as he can, he comes back to Pine Cobble to

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BCC Announces Adjunct Faculty Fellow, Several Other New Hires

02:18PM / Friday, March 01, 2019

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has hired a new director of Safety and Security and a new building maintenance supervisor II. It has also announced it has a new adjunct faculty fellow and interim dean of Business, Science, Mathematics and Technology.

Ellis Richardson has been hired as the new Director of Safety and Security. Richardson, a retired chief of police for the city of Hudson in New York, brings an extensive law enforcement background with a community-building mindset. He most recently worked as the Public Safety sergeant for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He attended University at Albany and received an associate's degree from Columbia-Greene

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Mount Greylock School Committee Advances Turf Field Plan

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:40AM / Thursday, February 28, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Monday moved forward a plan that could have an artificial turf athletic field in place at the middle-high school within a year. By a vote of 6-0, the committee authorized expenditures not to exceed $158,000 for design documents and permitting services to begin an estimated $1.7 million project to install a multi-purpose turf field to the west of the school. The panel first heard a report from the ad hoc committee of School Committee members, community representatives, faculty and students tasked with developing a plan to address deficiencies in the school's field. The impetus is the recently

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Alumna Donates $5 Million To Support Teachers At Miss Hall's School

By Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
05:04PM / Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Theresa Thompson PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's School will bolster its efforts to attract and retain faculty with the help of the largest single gift the school's ever received. Theresa Thompson, who graduated from the all-girls school in 1964, donated $5 million with an eye toward retaining faculty who deliver innovative curriculum at the school. "The gift is directed to supporting salaries ... the salaries are our largest expense and our most valuable asset," said Head of School Julia Heaton on Wednesday. Heaton said the gift had been in the works for some time and is being celebrated this year to honor Thompson's 55th

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Mount Greylock School Committee Educated About Baseball Program Change

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:15AM / Friday, February 22, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School's athletic director last week appeared before the school committee to explain a program change that has riled some seventh-grade parents at the middle-high school. Lindsey von Holtz laid out the reasoning behind a move announced in August to open the school's baseball program to students in eighth grade and up, rather than allowing seventh-graders, as was done the last few years. Like other schools that have middle schoolers in the same building with high school students, Mount Greylock is allowed to open athletic opportunities to the younger grades according to the rules of the Massachusetts

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Mount Greylock Committee Finalizes Teacher Contracts, Talks Calendar Reorganization

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:50AM / Wednesday, February 20, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday approved a three-year contract with the district's teachers union. By a 6-0 vote, the committee voted to accept the terms of the contract that previously had been approved by the union, bringing to a close months of negotiation that included a brief work action by teachers at the start of the 2018-19 academic year. "I want to quickly say thank you to the members of the negotiating committee who are here, to [former Mount Greylock School Committee member] Chris Dodig, who was here for many months prior and to the union who worked through the not the simplest negotiation in the

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Mount Greylock Gets Access to School's Auditorium

By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:39PM / Tuesday, February 19, 2019

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Five months after it moved into the renovated Mount Greylock Regional School, the district has full access to the building. Mount Greylock Superintendent Kimberley Grady said Tuesday that the district has received a certificate of occupancy for the middle-high school, an approval that includes use of the school's auditorium. The auditorium, which along with the gym was one of two public spaces remaining from the old Mount Greylock, has been off-limits to the school because of construction delays. While the school opened for classes in September under a temporary certificate of occupancy, the auditorium remained closed. At last

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