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Rotary Announces 2017 Service Above Self Award Recipients| 12:15PM / Friday, December 01, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Rotary Club of Pittsfield President Jeff Hassett and Service Above Self Award Chairwoman Joan DiMartino presented seven local students with "Service Above Self" awards. This award exemplifies student volunteer efforts and their selfless contributions to the service of others. The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise which we both encourage and foster.
DiMartino and committee member Rob Proskin reviewed a number of outstanding nominations for students this year and selected the seven awardees for their service above and beyond in their community.
This year's awardees, all seniors at their
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Richmond Students Build 'Boo Boo Bags' For Children In The ERBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
10:45AM / Friday, December 01, 2017 | |
The students delivered 200 boo boo bags to the hospital on Friday. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Richmond Consolidated School cares. They care about every child in the emergency room, scared and nervous. They want those children to feel like everything is going to be OK. On Friday, 13 seventh-graders from the school piled out of the school bus in front of Berkshire Medical Center with arms full of care packages for those children. The "boo boo bags" are filled with coloring books, crayons, toys, finger puppets and a comic book based on teacher Dan Sadlowski's book "Finding Brooklyn." The nurses in the emergency room now have 200 of those 4 Comments
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Taconic Construction: Progress Aided by Mild FallBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
01:13AM / Friday, December 01, 2017 | |
The gym ceiling is being painted. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A mild autumn has helped move along outside work at the new Taconic High School. As December sets in, concrete is still being poured. The mild weather has allowed workers to put sidewalks all around the school. A parking lot in the north and roads in and out have all received the first layer of blacktopping. If the weather hadn't been as mild, that outside work would have waited until the spring. Inside, the building is already prepared for the winter. Construction managers had a schedule calling for the building to be buttoned up in November, and heating pumped in to keep the building warm for 1 Comment
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Hoosac Valley Kindergarten: How to Cook a Thanksgiving TurkeyCommunity Submission,
08:00AM / Thursday, November 23, 2017 | |
ADAMS, Mass. — The kindergarten classes of Heather Emerson and Robin Poirot at Hoosac Valley Elementary are again offering their knowledge on where to get a turkey how to cook it. From Cheerio stuffing to proper time and temperature — anywhere from 4 minutes to six days at at least 6 degrees — these children offer a range of recipes for a Thanksgiving turkey. The photos in the story are from Poirot's class. The main photo at the top is from Emerson's class. When I buy the turkey, it will be 2 pounds and about as big a Pilgrim kid. Mommy will cook it because she cooks everything. She is a good cook. She 3 Comments
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Craneville Students Show Gratitude to VeteransBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
03:00PM / Wednesday, November 22, 2017 | |
The students presented money and hand-knitted scarves and gloves to Cory Bazinet and Sam Bennett from Soldier On on Wednesday morning during an assembly. DALTON, Mass. — Freedom is not free. At Craneville Elementary School, the freedom to wear hats in class cost the students $1. Those dollars added up and were donated on Wednesday to the men and women who risked their lives to defend the freedom all Americans enjoy every day. Through the program, the students pooled together more than $250 to donate to Soldier On. Another group of students hand-knitted scarves and gloves to donate as well. On Wednesday, the entire school gathered in 0 Comments
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Q&A: Journalist, CNN Analyst Toobin Talks About the Current News Engagement By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
04:35PM / Monday, November 20, 2017 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The last 10 months have been exhausting and invigorating for political and legal journalists, says CNN political analyst and legal writer Jeffrey Toobin. Toobin was the speaker at last week's annual Michael S. and Kitty Dukakis Public Policy Lecture series at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Toobin is a Harvard-trained attorney and classmate of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. He spent time in the office of the independent counsel prosecuting the Iran Contra Affair and later was an assistant U.S. attorney in New York City. He wrote a book about Iran Contra and left the law in the 1990s to continue his writing career, including
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E3 Students Create Recipe Cards for Food PantryBy Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:38AM / Saturday, November 18, 2017 | |
kitchen. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Every Wednesday, clients of the Friendship Center Food Pantry gather down the street in the First Baptist Church to sign in and wait their turn. On a recent Wednesday morning, they got a little extra surprise: homemade treats prepared and presented by the students of the E3 Academy, a competency-based program of Drury High School that features a non-traditional classroom setup for students at risk of leaving school. The students came to the church bearing a set of recipe cards, which they produced as part of their quarter-long service-learning project to address issues related to food insecurity. As an added treat, they prepared samples of some of
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Mount Everett Fall Festival Features Bard's 'Romeo & Juliet'| 08:14PM / Thursday, November 09, 2017 | |
 SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Mount Everett Regional School's Fall Festival production of "Romeo and Juliet" begins this weekend. Performances are Thursday, Nov. 9, and Friday, Nov. 10, both at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. in the Consolati Performing Arts Center (TAC PAC). Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. This year's show will also perform at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox on Friday, Nov. 17, at 6:15 p.m. More information can be found at shakespeare.org. 0 Comments
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Miss Hall's School Presents 'You Can't Take It With You'| 12:07PM / Wednesday, November 08, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Miss Hall's School Theater Ensemble will live life to its eccentric fullest this fall, performing the popular madcap comedy "You Can't Take It With You" on the Miss Hall's campus at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 10, and Saturday, Nov. 11, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 12.
This MHS production stars senior Jayme McGuigan of Pittsfield as Martin Vanderhof/Grandpa; junior Jasmine Briggs as Alice; and sophomore Emily Carmel of Pittsfield and junior Trudy Fadding of Glendale as Alice's parents, Penelope and Paul Sycamore. Guest actor Matthew Gallagher of Pittsfield plays Tony Kirby, while senior Gabby Hinkley of Dalton and senior Miriam Myers of
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BArT Announces First Quarter Honor Roll| 02:47PM / Friday, November 03, 2017 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School has announced the students who made honor roll for the first quarter of the 2017-2018 school year.
Students who earned 80 percent or above in all of their classes received the distinction of "Honors." Students who earned 90 percent or above in all of their classes received the distinction of "High Honors."
Academic courses at BArT are aligned with the Massachusetts State Curriculum Frameworks for the appropriate grade level and include all standards deemed necessary for a complete, college-preparatory, middle and high school education.
Gianna Fosty, Terra Lim, Jonathan Nondo, Marissa
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