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Work Begins on New Williams College Museum of ArtBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:28AM / Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | |
The museum is projected to open in fall 2027. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Site work has already begun on the new Williams College Museum of Art with a grand opening projected in fall 2027. The building will feature a single-story layout with expansive public spaces and integrated landscape on the site of the old Williams Inn. "The other thing that I love to highlight at this early point in talking about the building's location is it is at the entrance to campus and at the entrance to town, and it carries a really energizing message that Williams and Williamstown are a place of creativity and community," said Pamela Franks, Class of 1956 director of the >> Read More |
Williams College 'Pluriverse' Pavilion Example of Intersection of DisciplinesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:51PM / Tuesday, October 08, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Williams College class has brought together art and architecture, sustainability and design, and learned a whole lot about carpentry and math, in a curling, open pavilion on Main Street. The product of professor Giuseppina Forte's fall 2023 class "Design for the Pluriverse" took nearly a year to design, model and construct and is meant to be a welcoming space to meditate and connect. President Maud Mandel said she'd been getting quite a few queries about the little structure between First Congregational Church and Hopkins Hall. "If you tell them you're building a pluriverse, they just kind of >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Class of 1975 Planning 50th Reunion| 01:09PM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional High School class of 1975 has begun the process of planning its 50th class reunion. Organizers are looking to update the current class list and are reaching out to family, relatives and friends to help in this endeavor. What is needed is the graduates' names (maiden name or name change, if applicable) along with email and phone numbers. Email Suzy Gigliotti at weeze56@verizon.net with this information. Anyone interested in being on the planning committee or having any suggestions as to what you would like as part of the festivities, please note that in your email. Graduates/attendees are
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Mount Greylock District Addressing Shortfall in State ReportBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Monday, September 23, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is working to address a deficiency identified in the commonwealth's recent Special Education and Civil Rights Monitoring Report. The three-school district last spring went through a periodic review by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that focused on standards ranging from "licensure and professional development" to "parent/student/community engagement" to "equal access." The district was found to have implemented "universal standards" in 27 of the 29 criteria covered in the review. One criterion where the Lanesborough-Williamstown >> Read More |
Mount Greylock School Committee Accepts Gifts for DEI Work, Nutrition ProgramBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:09PM / Sunday, September 01, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week accepted a couple of financial gifts to the district and heard that a project eight years in the making should be ready for use this spring. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron told the committee that the district's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Advisory Committee is taking shape and will within the next couple of months develop a request for proposals to find a consultant for the district. The school district, which previously received a commitment from the town of Williamstown for up to $66,000 of the town's American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for that >> Read More |
Mount Greylock School Committee Taking Two Years to Find SuperintendentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:56AM / Monday, August 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The last time the Mount Greylock Regional School District looked for a permanent superintendent, the search process lasted 20 days. This time, the School Committee wants to take two years. On Thursday, the committee decided on a vote of 6-0 to formally begin a search for a new superintendent in the fall of 2025 with hopes of having a top executive for the district in place by the start of the 2026-27 academic year. The committee formalized a course of action that first was developed in a July 11 in-person meeting with officials from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees. On Thursday, the committee reviewed some of the >> Read More |
Williamstown ZBA Passes Art Museum ProjectBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday approved plans for a new Williams College Art Museum on the former site of the Williams Inn. On a vote of 5-0, the board granted the college the two special permits it needed and finalized the body's development plan review, wrapping up a hearing that began in July. The decision cleared the way for the college to break ground on the project in September with a planned opening in 2027. First, the college's development team addressed some questions raised by the board during the opening of the hearing and responded to concerns raised by abutters in the Main Street and >> Read More |
Incumbents Only Candidates for Mount Greylock School CommitteeStaff Reports, iBerkshires
03:40PM / Monday, August 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The composition of the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee likely will remain unchanged after November's election. Only three incumbent members of the seven-member panel returned nomination papers for the seats that will be on the ballot for voters in Lanesborough and Williamstown on Nov. 5. Lanesborough resident Ursula Maloy and Williamstown's Julia Bowen and Jose Constantine each will be seeking another four-year term on the committee. Bowen and Constantine each will be seeking a second full term on the School Committee after they were elected to the post in 2020. Maloy was appointed to fill 18 months of an unexpired >> Read More |
Teacher of the Month: Frani MiceliBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:35PM / Friday, July 26, 2024 | |
Students say teacher Frani Miceli makes learning fun. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williamstown Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Frani Miceli has been selected as the July Teacher of the Month. The Teacher of the Month series, in collaboration with Berkshire Community College, will run for the next 12 months and will feature distinguished teachers nominated by community members. You can nominate a teacher here. Miceli has been teaching for 26 years and has worked to develop a happy, comfortable, and creative learning environment for her pupils. Through her connection with her students and the decor on her classroom walls, Miceli hopes >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Records To Be Destroyed| 10:57AM / Friday, July 26, 2024 | |
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 School during the 2016-2017 school year will be destroyed on Friday, August 23, 2024. 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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