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Mount Greylock District Addressing Shortfall in State Report
By 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

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Mount Greylock School Committee Accepts Gifts for DEI Work, Nutrition Program
By 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

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Mount Greylock School Committee Taking Two Years to Find Superintendent
By 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

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Williamstown ZBA Passes Art Museum Project
By 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

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Incumbents Only Candidates for Mount Greylock School Committee
Staff 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

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Teacher of the Month: Frani Miceli
By 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

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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

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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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