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Mount Greylock Regional School District Honor Roll
08:00AM / Tuesday, July 02, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District 2023-2024 4th Quarter Honor Roll.   Total school enrollment 554 of which 328 have made Honor Roll for the 4th quarter.   Ava Anagnos, Lex Anagnos, Thomas Art, Riley Babcock, Jude Bakija, Phoebe Barnes, Liam Berryman, Mirabel Boyer, Jacqueline Brannan, Emma Brennan, Kaylie Bryan, Lily Catelotti, Sylvie Clowes, Levi Cohen-McFall, Storm Colandria, Julia DeChaine, Benjamin Dingman, Karlie Dowling, Emily Dupuis, Abaigeal Fuls, Belen Galvez, Isabella Garivaltis, Louis Gotlieb, Che Guerra, Emma Kate Hane, Mia Harding, Phoebe Hughes, Jason Jaros, Shea Johnson, Talia Kapiloff, Erin Keating, Caleb Low, Savanna Mabey,

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Update: Mount Greylock Wins ‘As Schools Match Wits' Title
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:18AM / Saturday, June 22, 2024
Update: Mount Greylock won the championship with a 310-155 win over Longmeadow.    WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — If New England Public Media's "As Schools Match Wits" had questions about the meaning of perseverance or continuity, the Mount Greylock Mounties might ace those, too.   Mount Greylock this spring advanced to the championship match of the quiz show's 63rd season, which will be telecast on Saturday at 7 p.m.   And the Mounties did it with a team of four seniors that includes two three-year ASMW veterans and another competing in his second straight season.   One of the three-year veterans, Caleb Low, agreed that the team's collective

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On a IV-II Vote, Mount Greylock Keeps Latin Program
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:04AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A divided Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Tuesday voted to restore the middle-high school's Latin program for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond.   Six members of the committee attended the special meeting called last week to decide on whether to keep Mount Greylock a two-world language school or only offer Spanish to incoming seventh-graders starting in the fall.   Steven Miller moved at the outset of Tuesday's session that the School Committee utilize more or less $66,000 from the committee's reserves to close a funding gap for fiscal year 2025 and commit to funding Latin until at least next year's seventh-graders have

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Mount Greylock Committee Accepts ARPA Offer, Sets Vote on Latin
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:18AM / Sunday, June 16, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday moved forward with a proposal to fund a consultant with about $66,000 of Williamstown's American Rescue Plan Act funds.   Meanwhile, it held off on a decision about whether to resuscitate the middle-high school's Latin program, scheduling a special meeting for Tuesday, June 18, to make that call.   The 4-0-1 vote on the DEI consultant work came after the Select Board earlier in the week affirmed its support for the idea, which was brought to both the town and school district by parents concerned about the school district's policies about and response to "bias-based, hate, bullying

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Mount Greylock Super Taking Principal Job in Great Barrington
09:45AM / Friday, June 14, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After years of leading school districts, Jason "Jake" McCandless is taking a step back to focus on a single school.   Mount Greylock Regional's superintendent will take over as principal at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington on July 1, according to a report in the Berkshire Edge.   McCandless tendered his resignation last month from Mount Greylock after four years at the helm and just one year into his current contract. He had previously been superintendent of the Pittsfield Public Schools and in Lee.    The Berkshire Edge reports the Berkshire Hills Regional School District announced the hiring via press

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Williams College Activists 'Disappointed' in Decision not to Divest
iBerkshires.com Staff,
05:02AM / Thursday, June 13, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN. Mass. – Williams College students pressuring the school to divest from companies that sell weapons to the Israeli Defense Forces say they will continue those calls in the wake of a June vote by the school’s trustees.   “We want to express that we are deeply disappointed in President [Maud] Mandel and the Board of Trustees over this decision, but we are not surprised by the college’s continued tendency towards inaction,” a member of the college’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine wrote in an email this week.   The student group was responding to a 1,200-word open letter from Mandel and the chair of Williams’ Board

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Williamstown Select Board Discusses Justice Department Program for Schools
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:25PM / Wednesday, June 12, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday discussed inviting a U.S. Department of Justice program into the local public schools to help address bias incidents.   Randal Fippinger told his colleagues about the DOJ's "School-SPIRIT" initiative, which is similar to but not a part of the federal agency's Strengthening Police and Community Partnerships program, which came to Williamstown two years ago.   SPIRIT, which stands for Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together, involves bringing trained facilitators from the DOJ to the schools to lead conversations addressing "tension and conflict related to issues of race, color,

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Scholarships & Awards for the Mount Greylock Regional Class of 2024
03:22PM / Monday, June 10, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The following awards and scholarships were presented to the Mount Greylock Regional School class of 2024 during class night on June 6.   Ava Anagnos, Lex Anagnos,Thomas Art, Phoebe Barnes, Liam Berryman, Mirabel Boyer, Jacqueline Brannan, Kaylie Bryan, Sylvie Clowes, Julia DeChaine, Belén Gálvez, Isabella Garivaltis, Ché Guerra, Emma Kate Hane, Talia Kapiloff, Erin Keating, Ryan Keating, Caleb Low, Cecilia Malone, Lily McDermott, Quinn McDermott, Lucy McWeeny, Anne Miller, Emily Mole, Catherine Moriarty, Dylan Nevarez, Margaret Nichols, Emily Ouellette, Andrew Petropulos, Owen Petropulos, Alexa Politis, Quinlan Repetto, Declan Rogers,

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'Nobody' Better Than the Mount Greylock Class of 2024
By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:43PM / Saturday, June 08, 2024

Class speaker Judge Martin offered apologies all around for the chaotic class of 2024. See more photos here. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The class speaker for the 104 graduates of Mount Greylock Regional School apologized for the wild and crazy antics of the class of 2024.    "Our class was not that easy. We came into this brand-new school like a bull in a china shop. It was crazy," Judge Martin said. Students came into the middle school from surrounding towns, and "with that mix of kids, chaos happened."    They lost field trip privileges, the right to use the staircase and claimed credit for the burst pipe that flooded the new school and sent

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Mount Greylock Names Student Speakers for 2024 Graduation
12:06PM / Wednesday, June 05, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Two students will be the speakers for Mount Greylock Regional School's 2024 graduation ceremonies on Saturday, June 8, at 11 a.m. in the school gymnasium.    Judge P. Martin was chosen to speak by the graduating class and Vincent P. Welch was selected by the faculty. The high school provided the following information about their educational and athletic achievements.   Martin has shown dedication to academic excellence and  his athletic prowess has been remarkable. On the basketball court, his skills and leadership were evident as he served as a key varsity team member for four years, culminating in this role as team captain during his

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