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MCLA Opens 125th Year With New Strategies, InitiativesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:31PM / Wednesday, January 23, 2019 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Some legislators are calling it the "year of education" but for Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, it's not about one year but about 125 years of education.
The college will celebrate its quasquicentennial in 2019 with a series of events, exhibitations, signage and celebrations. President Jamie Birge announced the anniversary along with other college news as the spring semester kickoff breakfast held in the Centennial Room on Tuesday morning.
Established in 1894 as the North Adams Normal School to train teachers, the college has gone through a number of names and some significant academic and physical changes over the past 125 years. It
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Miss Hall's School Names Business Administrator| 02:10PM / Friday, January 18, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's School has named Helen Telfer of Newcastle, Maine, as the school's director of finance and operations.
Telfer, who brings 28 years of experience as a financial manager to the school, most recently served as chief financial and operating officer at Lincoln Academy in Newcastle, Maine. She also previously served as director of finance and operations at Bridgton Academy in Bridgton, Maine, and as chief financial officer at the Long Trail School in Dorset, Vt.
At Miss Hall's, Telfer works with senior administration and the Board of Trustees to ensure fiscally responsible and mission-aligned decision-making. Her role includes overseeing all
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Heating System Repairs Eyed For Reid Middle SchoolBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
03:24PM / Thursday, January 10, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A few classrooms at Reid Middle School have been closed off because of high levels of carbon dioxide. Superintendent Jason McCandless said on Wednesday that recent testing done by the state revealed the issue. He said the elevated levels of carbon dioxide stem from the heating exhaust system and that will need to be redone in February. "We took them offline as heating season began out of an abundance of concern," McCandless said. McCandless said the issue appears to have "been going on for some time." The classrooms are now closed off and he said the city's Building Maintenance Department has worked on 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Schools Also Concerned With Government Shutdown's ImpactBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
01:19AM / Thursday, January 10, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — North Adams isn't the only municipality worried that the government shutdown could lead to the end of the free lunch and breakfast program. Assistant Superintendent Kristen Behnke reported Wednesday night that the schools have two months worth of savings in the bank account to keep the program going but if the shutdown continues, the program's funds would run dry. Behnke said the city has $774,000 to keep the program going but it costs $400,000 a month to run. "It is a possibility we will not have the funding if the federal shutdown continues," Behnke said. The program is funded through reimbursements by the U.S. Department of 0 Comments
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BCC Hires Financial Literacy Coordinator| 12:56PM / Monday, December 24, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has filled the position of financial literacy coordinator and coordinator of Student activities and also welcomes Eleanore Velez, an admissions counselor and coordinator of the Multicultural Center, back to the college.
Tina Schettini, who previously worked as a Senior Special Projects coordinator, has moved to the Student Engagement Center to work as the coordinator of Student Activities.
Nancy Stoll has joined the college as the Financial Literacy coordinator, a position based in the Student Financial Services office and funded by a grant to the college from Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Stoll comes to the college with
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Pittsfield Councilors Look to Honor Financial Support For Turf FieldBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
01:25AM / Thursday, December 20, 2018 | |
Attorney Michael MacDonald outlined the history of the project on Tuesday. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city will honor its previous commitment to the Berkshire Community College turf field project. But councilors still have some questions about the operations, Particularly, at-Large Councilor Earl Persip raised concerns that there is no guarantee that the field will be accessible to the city's youth years into the future and he dislikes that city schools are being charged the same price to rent the facility. "I would like to see our fees be cheaper than somebody from outside," Persip said, citing schools from towns that hadn't contributed to the 2 Comments
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Tyer Meets With Herberg's Future LeadersBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
11:00AM / Wednesday, December 12, 2018 | |
The students asked Mayor Linda Tyer to visit the program to discuss leadership. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — How do you handle negativity? That's what seventh-grader Ella asked Mayor Linda Tyer on Monday afternoon. The mayor responded: "I make a choice -- and this is important for leadership -- to approach my work with an attitude of optimism. If I felt negative about everything, I would just be stuck. I wouldn't be able to think clearly or view my city with a positive lens. "What I think is that people in our city work really hard, everyone does their very best, you come to school or parents go to work, so it is my job to work just as hard and to 0 Comments
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BArT Seniors Receive John and Abigail Adams Scholarship| 02:50PM / Friday, December 07, 2018 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — Half of the BART Charter Public School senior class are recipients of the John and Abigail Adams scholarship.
Recipients of these scholarships, upon acceptance, are entitled to attend any Massachusetts state school tuition-free for up to eight semesters of undergraduate education.
The recipients are Isaiah Albright, Ruth Bristol, Natalie Celebi, Thomas Cook, Dylan Dermody-Battaini, Joshua Donovan, Joshua Doubiago, Matthew Failla, Macie Fitch, Shanique Maloney, Braydon Peterson, Hannah Stringer, Caitlin Terpak and Abel Ward.
To be eligible, students must score at the advanced level on one of the three Grade 10 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assesment System (MCAS) tests
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Miss Hall's Students Chosen for Music Festival| 02:27PM / Friday, December 07, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Three Berkshire County students are among the six Miss Hall's School musicians and vocalists selected to perform at the Massachusetts Music Educators Association’s Western District Festival Concert in January.
Cellist Trudy Fadding, a senior from Glendale, and violinist Ria Kedia, a junior from Pittsfield, will perform with the festival's District Orchestra, and vocalist Andi Loehr, a senior from Pittsfield, will sing with the District Chorus. Additionally, vocalists Chelsie Li, a sophomore from Beijing; Scarlett Wang, a senior from Shanghai; and Riagain Wiley, a junior from the Bronx, N.Y., will sing with the District Chorus.
The Miss Hall's
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Home From Afghanistan, Mount Greylock Vice Principal Settling InBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:57AM / Thursday, December 06, 2018 | |
Schutz speaks to the young students about personal responsibility and the school climate. He says he's still acclimating to the new school. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Vice Principal Jacob Schutz welcomed the class of 2024 to the middle-high school on Wednesday, even as the Mount Greylock community continued to welcome Schutz back to the United States. Schutz addressed the 120-member class of seventh-graders in a midday meeting in the school's gymnasium, on his third day back after serving a year in the National Guard. "I've been at Mount Greylock for five or six years," he told the 12- and 13-year-olds by way of 8 Comments
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