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Mount Greylock Regional School Committee Moves Draft Budget Forward By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:10AM / Tuesday, March 04, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee Thursday agreed to move ahead with the draft budget largely intact from the version the panel reviewed at its Feb. 13 meeting. If moved forward by the full committee after its March 13 public hearing and, ultimately, approved by voters in each member town, the fiscal year 2026 spending plan would continue a recent trend of spending down the district's reserves and still translate to assessment increases of nearly 8 percent for Williamstown and 7 percent for Lanesborough from the fiscal year that ends on June 30. "Between now and March 13, there will be areas where we're refining utilities and >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Regional School Presents 'Grease'| 11:50AM / Friday, February 21, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School presents "Grease" on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 27, February 28 and March 1, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the school’s auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown. According to a press release: Join Sandy, Danny and the rest of the gang at Rydell High for a night of laughs, dancing and timeless show tune classics like "Summer Nights," "Greased Lightnin’" and "You’re the One That I Want." With the book, music and lyrics written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, this beloved musical is an irreverent take on teen love, friendship and rebellion. First staged in
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Mount Greylock Regional School District Second Quarter Honor Roll| 08:16AM / Thursday, February 20, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District has released its 2024-2025 second quarter honor roll, with 346 students out of a total enrollment of 534 achieving honor roll status. Emily Alvarez, Marshall Baya, Jameson Bayliss, Nicholas Bellora, Jayne Beringer, Oliver Bingemann, Claire Burrow, Miguel Camacho, Olivia Cook, Vera de Jong, Kaeya Durley, Katherine Goss, Chase Hoey, Charlotte Holubar, William Igoe, Jaclynn Kastrinakis, Caliegh Kiernan, Noah Klompus, Malia Koffi, Jaden Lash-St. John, Kelsey MacHaffie, Mila Marcisz, Rafael Mellow-Bartels, Cameron Miller, Arthur Millet, Mai O'Connor, Mia Patrick, Erik Powell-Bechtel, Polly Rhie, >> Read More |
Presentation on The Future of Wolves at MCLA's Green Living Seminar| 08:07AM / Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Carnivore Conservation Director Renee Seacor will give a presentation on the future of wolves on Feb. 26 as part of MCLA's Green Living Seminar Series. Seacor, who directs Project Coyote at the Carnivore Conservation, will discuss the potential of wolf recovery in the Northeast, highlighting the history of wolves in the region, previous attempts at reintroduction in the Adirondack Park, the emerging science of wolf and coyote genetics, and the intersection of these issues with public policy. Despite being federally protected as an endangered species, the wolf faces significant challenges as it attempts to reclaim its historical range in the >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Schools Focus on Student LiteracyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:04AM / Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is placing an emphasis on literacy instruction that is reflected in the preliminary budget that the administration put forth last week. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Joelle Brookner laid out the reasons why literacy needs to be a priority for the district and the steps staff plan to take to address that need during the School Committee's Feb. 13 meeting. Bergeron opened by emphasizing that while there are issues that need to be addressed, the district continues to do a good job educating the students of Lanesborough, Williamstown and surrounding >> Read More |
PowerSchool Offers Identity Monitoring in Wake of Data BreachBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:59PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Families of school-children concerned about the PowerSchool data breach announced last year can sign up for two years of free identity monitoring services paid for by the school information system vendor. Mount Greylock Regional School interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron mentioned the offer at last week's meeting of the School Committee and said he was hoping to spread the word through as many channels as possible. "We have plenty of folks whose emails have changed," Bergeron said, pointing out the difficulty in reaching every former student or staff member who could have been affected by the data breach. Bergeron said a link >> Read More |
Higher Taxes, Loss of Latin Seen in Mount Greylock's Tentative Spending PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:17PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday began honing in on a budget that will require much larger assessment increases than the district's two member towns typically see. While repeatedly stressing that the fiscal year 2026 budget on the table was a draft, interim Superintendent explained that the spending plan he has crafted reflects the reality of non-discretionary cost increases, state aid that is not rising anywhere near the rate of those increases and some of the investments in personnel and course material that came from the district's three school councils. As it stands now, the district would see an increase in its >> Read More |
Mount Greylock District Updates Williamstown Select Board on Equity WorkBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:31AM / Friday, January 31, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The interim superintendent of the Mount Greylock Regional School District updated the Select Board on Monday on efforts to improve the culture in the public schools, including two that rely on American Rescue Plan Act funds supplied by the town. Joe Bergeron was at Town Hall to talk about the middle-high school's participation in the U.S. Department of Justice's School-Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together (SPIRIT) program and a districtwide assessment of its process for responding to incidents of bias and bullying. SPIRIT was a model similar to the DOJ's Strengthening Police and Community >> Read More |
Lanesborough, Williamstown Schools Make FY26 Budget RequestsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:12AM / Monday, January 13, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District's elementary school principals Thursday presented their fiscal year 2026 budget requests to the School Committee. The presentations followed last month's discussion about needs for the middle/high school with Principal Jake Schutz, who also Thursday reiterated those budget requests. Lanesborough Elementary School Principal Nolan Pratt told the committee that the preK-through-6 school is requesting level staffing for the 2025-26 school year. In terms of new funding initiatives, Pratt again called for an investment in short-throw projectors. "I think I've asked for this >> Read More |
BArT Theatre to Stage Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' | 08:00AM / Thursday, January 09, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Tech Charter (BArT) Theatre will present a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at the Adams Memorial Theater. Performances are scheduled for Friday, Jan. 17 at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 18 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. According to a press release: "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare is a delightful mix of romance, mistaken identities, and witty pranks, set in the whimsical kingdom of Illyria. The story kicks off when Viola, shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother Sebastian, disguises herself as a man named Cesario. She becomes entangled in the love life of the Duke >> Read More |
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