Williams-Led Research Team Awarded $1.6M Grant| 08:40AM / Friday, July 23, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Ron Bassar, assistant professor of biology at Williams College, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The three-year, $1.6 million dollar grant will support research aimed at understanding how temporal variation in ecological and evolutionary processes allow similar species to coexist. The project, titled "The Evolution of Fluctuation-dependent Species Coexistence," integrates theoretical and empirical research in four experimental communities of Trinidadian guppies and killifish on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. "Understanding the processes that allow similar species to 0 Comments
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College Notes: Summer & Fall 2021| 03:25PM / Thursday, July 22, 2021 | |
 Two Berkshire County graduates have been accepted to in Potsdam, N.Y., as a member of the class of 2025. Gracie Towler of North Adams will be majoring in electrical engineering and Kate Kerwood of Pittsfield will be majoring in aeronautical engineering. Graduations in Worcester awarded 490 bachelor degrees, 501 master degrees, and 10 doctorates, and conferred three honorary degrees during the university's 117th commencement ceremonies this past spring. Graduates were urged to ask the hard questions, drive change, and even occasionally stir some trouble. Among the graduates were Audriana Esperat, of Pittsfield, earning a master of business administration and Setareh Margaret 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Looks Beyond PandemicBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:50AM / Tuesday, July 20, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week talked about the post-pandemic "new normal," both from a public health and academic standpoint. One item on the agenda for the panel's Thursday meeting was the revocation of an interim policy requiring that all students — even homeschoolers — participate in the district's novel coronavirus pool testing program in order to participate in in-person extracurriculars. The committee ultimately approved the revocation on a vote of 7-0, but first it talked a little about health and safety in the "new normal." "The culture of the high school … 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Commits to Athletic Field ImprovementsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:23AM / Friday, July 09, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday voted to accept the low bid for a contract to make gender equity and accessibility improvements to the middle-high school playing fields after the bidder agreed to trim the project by $93,500. Last week, the school district opened two bids for work to bring the school's ball fields into compliance with the Americans with Disability Act and Title IX. But the School Committee balked at a bottom line that was 22 percent above the architect's estimate. Art Eddy of Traverse Landscape Architects and administrators of the school spent the last few days looking for ways to scale back the 0 Comments
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Bids Come Back High on ADA, Title IX Work at Mount GreylockBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:19AM / Friday, July 02, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Wednesday voted to ask bidders on an athletic field contract to "sharpen their pencils" and come back to the district with ideas for cost savings. This week, the district opened bids from two respondents to a request for proposals to bring the middle-high school's playing fields into compliance with Title IX and the Americans with Disabilities Act. In a development reminiscent of the School Committee's stalled efforts to complete a more ambitious athletic field project, both bids came in above estimate. In April, the committee discussed an estimated price tag of $1,087,026 0 Comments
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College Notes: June 2021| 03:40PM / Wednesday, June 30, 2021 | |
Cadet Holly Boudreau of Clarksburg, a Drury High School 2020 graduate, was selected to participate in the's Interpersonal Leadership Training program that requires cadets to take courses focusing on emotional intelligence, growth mindset, and innovation, and addresses moral and ethical dilemmas. She also participated in the Basic Freefall Parachuting Program that is designed to develop leadership traits. After the completion of five jumps, Boudreau earned the Air Force basic parachutist badge Jump Wings, which she can wear on her uniform for her Air Force career. She has finished her first year at the academy on the dean's list both semesters and on the 0 Comments
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Gallery 51 to Reopen for North Adams First Friday Event| 08:01AM / Tuesday, June 29, 2021 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA's Gallery 51 will reopen with a reception for the exhibit "Hostile Terrain" from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 2. The gallery is joining the city of North Adams' First Friday event, when downtown shops and galleries remain open until 8 p.m. on the first Friday of each month. Originally scheduled for September 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic, "Hostile Terrain" has been a "year-and-a-half in the making," said Berkshire Cultural Resource Center Director Erica Wall. During that time, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts students and faculty were able to participate in 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Schools Present Improvement Plans to School CommitteeBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:10AM / Saturday, June 19, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Lanesborough Elementary School is hoping to form community partnerships to help teach its pupils about sustainability. The kids already are leading the way. "About five weeks ago, we had a fourth-grade group start the Lanesborough Environmental Squad club," Principal Nolan Pratt said last week. "They're all about being environmentally friendly and seeing what we can do within the school. "That kind of inspired this goal within the School Council. We want to reach out to community partners … and do field trips to see places working on sustainability. I believe they're putting a solar field at Skyline [Country 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Grads Prepared for Ever-Changing WorldBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:10PM / Saturday, June 12, 2021 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In reflections both sweeping and intimate, the Mount Greylock Regional School's 2021 class speakers Saturday talked about the often frightening ways the world has changed them and how the school prepared them to change the world. "High school was a playground, a sandbox, to have a simulated go at real life," Julius Munemo told the crowd assembled outside the school. "A real life defined by what you say and what you do; by what you chose to be, when the world wants you to be something else. The fact that we can remember moments from our time here and cringe is a good thing. It's proof that we've developed 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Announces Class of 2021 Speakers| 11:24AM / Wednesday, June 09, 2021 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Speakers have been selected for the Mount Greylock Regional School 2021 graduation that will be held on Saturday, June 12, at 11 a.m. outside the school. The speaker profiles, as submitted by Principal Jacob Shutz, are as follows: Ruth J. Weaver was chosen by the faculty to speak at graduation. The daughter of Katie Kent and Ben Weaver of Williamstown, she has completed seven Advanced Placement courses and spent a semester in a Williams College dual enrollment seminar studying 19th-century British literature. Exceptionally talented, she has a passion for acting, music and classics. In roles as varied as Dolly Levi in "Hello Dolly!" to 0 Comments
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