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MCLA Announces Theatre, Music Productions for 2023-2024 Season | 02:00PM / Wednesday, October 04, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre and Music departments announced the 2023-2024 season of performances with four productions including visiting performing artists, guest directors, and student directors in addition to two student concerts. The fall season opens on Nov. 3 with a MainStage production titled "Antigone by Sophocles" translated by Anne Carson and guest director Rudy Ramirez. The show is scheduled to run on Nov. 3-4, 10-11 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. in Venable Theatre. Rudy Ramirez, Benedetti Teaching Artist in Residence, is a director, writer, and teaching artist specializing in >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Announces 2024 National Merit Scholarship Recipients | 04:01PM / Sunday, October 01, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Principal, Jacob N. Schutz, of Mount Greylock Regional School announced that Che A. Guerra and Lucinda R. McWeeny have been named Commended Students in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program. A Letter of Commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation which conducts the program, will be presented by the principal to these seniors. About 34,000 commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2024 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the 2024 >> Read More |
Teacher of the Month: Shawn BurdickBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
12:28PM / Saturday, September 30, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School physics teacher Shawn Burdick has been selected for the September Teacher of the Month. The Teacher of the Month series runs for the next eight months in partnership with Berkshire Community College. Burdick has been working as a teacher for 25 years but his path to this career wasn't a straight line. He worked in the physics research field for a number of years prior to becoming a teacher. He studied physics at Williams College and moved on to get a doctorate degree in physics from Boston University. But his inclination for education surfaced during his experience as a >> Read More |
Mount Greylock School Committee Talks Sports TicketingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:15AM / Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee last week received an explanation of how and why fans are charged to attend sporting events at the middle-high school. The discussion was prompted by a move this year to start charging for admission to volleyball games. Mount Greylock's director of athletics and co-curricular activities explained that the school's policy is to charge for admission for indoor events (basketball, volleyball and wrestling) and night games played on John Allen Field (soccer, lacrosse and football). The school also charges for nighttime performances in the auditorium. "Schools in Berkshire County have been charging >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Track Bids 40 Percent Over EstimateBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:44AM / Friday, September 15, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday looked at how to make $1.3 million in cuts that will be needed in order to bring the middle-high school track and field project in on budget. "Unfortunately, the bids came back nearly 40 percent higher than we had estimated," District Business Manager Joe Bergeron told the committee at its monthly meeting. "What that means is we needed to go back and figure out both what happened as well as how we can move forward, if at all possible." The district has in hand $3.5 million, the remainder of a $5 million capital gift from Williams College, a $100,000 grant from the >> Read More |
BArT Announces Upcoming Enrollment Deadline| 08:00AM / Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | |
ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts and Technology (BArT) Charter Public School is currently accepting applications for students in grades 6 through 10 for the 2023-2024 school year. The next enrollment deadline for the 2023-2024 school year for grades 6 through 10 is Thursday, Oct.12, 2023, at noon. The easiest way to apply is to visit https://bartcharter.schoolmint.com/. Interested families should note that the best way to secure a seat, or a desirable waitlist spot for the 2023-2024 school year is to apply before the Oct. 12 deadline. More information on the school's enrollment and lottery process can be found at www.bartcharter.org. Interested >> Read More |
Williams College Plans Temporary Athletic Facility on North CampusBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:15PM / Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College this week announced plans to build a temporary recreation facility on the north end of campus to fill the gap left by the closure of its Towne Field House. President Maud Mandel mentioned the new athletic facility as part of a Monday email to the campus community. "The facility, to be built north of the tennis courts, is already attracting alumni support," Mandel told members of the community. "The WEM Foundation and Jim Hield [Williams Class of 1977] gave $15 million to support a comprehensive program and site planning study, the construction of the new multi-purpose recreation facility and the eventual >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Students Stage Wilde Classic for a CauseBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:25PM / Wednesday, September 06, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Che Guerra's biggest problem with school-based theater programs is that they end when the school year ends. "The real reason we're doing this is we are obsessed and we were going through theater withdrawal," Guerra said recently. "This" is a student-led production of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" that Guerra is co-directing with fellow Mount Greylock Regional School senior Quin Repetto. The show will have just one curtain, on Friday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children, and proceeds benefit The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis >> Read More |
1Berkshire Welcomes Youth Leadership Program Class | 02:15PM / Monday, August 14, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — 1Berkshire welcomes its 13th class into the Berkshire Youth Leadership Program. This group of 27 rising high school juniors from across the Berkshires was selected through a competitive application process to begin a year-long leadership development program that kicked off in June with a three-day, two-night retreat held at Camp Becket. The 1Berkshire Youth Leadership Program is focused on helping students in the region develop and grow through career opportunity awareness, leadership skill development, and the design and completion of a 9-month-long collective-impact project focused on positively impacting the Berkshires. Selected students have shown >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Regional High School Records To Be Destroyed| 08:37AM / Thursday, July 27, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In accordance with state regulations, all temporary cumulative school and health records for students who have graduated from or left Mount Greylock Regional High School during the 2015-2016 school year will be destroyed on Wednesday, August 25, 2023. State regulations require that student records be destroyed seven years after the student graduates. However, the high school transcript that includes the grades for the four years of high school is maintained for 60 years following graduation. Any student who is interested in retrieving their records before destruction should contact the Counseling Office at (413)458-9582 >> Read More |
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