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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 |
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, >> Read More |
Update: Mount Greylock Wins ‘As Schools Match Wits' TitleBy 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 >> Read More |
On a IV-II Vote, Mount Greylock Keeps Latin ProgramBy 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 >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Committee Accepts ARPA Offer, Sets Vote on LatinBy 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 >> Read More |
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 >> Read More |
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