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Three Finalists to Interview for Pittsfield SuperintendentBy Joe Durwin, Pittsfield Correspondent
06:12PM / Thursday, January 24, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Three candidates will be interviewed over the next two weeks for the position of school superintendent in what the School Committee hopes will result in the culmination of a troubled yearlong quest to fill the job left vacant by Howard "Jake" Eberwein last spring.
The three finalists, Ann Bradshaw, Jason McCandless and William Hart, emerged from a pool of 18 applicants responding to a revised search conducted with the help of consultants from Future Management Systems, which included an increase in the salary range from $125,000 to a range of $150,00-$170,000. The three were chosen out of six semifinalists interviewed in
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BCC Announces 2012 Fall Semester Dean's List| 02:07PM / Thursday, January 24, 2013 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has released the the dean's list for fall 2012.
According to Frances Feinerman, vice president for academic affairs, to be eligible for the list, full-time students must have declared a major; completed a minimum of 12 non-repeated, traditionally graded credit hours during the fall semester; and achieved a 3.250 to 3.749 grade-point average for honors, or a 3.75 to 4.00 GPA for high honors. Part-time students are eligible for the list if they meet the same requirements, except that their credit hours may have been completed during the fall and spring semesters of one academic year.
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Neal Promotes Need for Communication, EducationBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
02:02PM / Thursday, January 24, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal thinks modern technology has hurt communications. And he is willing to put $168,000 of federal funds toward fixing that at Reid Middle School.
Neal visited the school on Thursday to announce a 21st Century Learning grant which will create an array of enrichment programs and increase tutoring for students. The programming will focus on verbal communication, math science with hands-on projects.
"There is nothing wrong with completing a sentence," Neal told about a dozen students. "Part of the problem with modern communication is that we don't finish a thought."
While testing standards are
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Decision Postponed on Pittsfield Vocational ChoicesBy Joe Durwin, Pittsfield Correspondent
12:47AM / Thursday, January 24, 2013 | |
 y. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The School Committee will wait until late February to vote on which vocational programs will be sought for an anticipated new school to replace the current Taconic High facility.
The committee opted Wednesday to pursue further dialogue with vocational experts in subcommittee over the next month about options for balancing key current programs with new proposed curriculum to see if there is a way to save some popular trade programs while opening up offerings in newer emerging fields.
A determination has continued to be delayed since November in light of extensive push back from the local business community to the possibility of eliminating some of
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Neal to Announce School Grant, Small-Brewery BillStaff Reports, iBerkshires
02:27PM / Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The county's new congressman, U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, will be in the Berkshires on Thursday to announce a grant for Reid Middle School and offer a plan to help the region's burgeoning micro-brewery industry.
Reid is the receipient of a $168,000 federal Massachusetts 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant to support additional learning time for students in Kindergarten through Grade 12 for before-school, after-school and summer programs. Federal funding for Massachusetts schools through the CCLC Grant totaled $5,633,387; Reid will receive more than $500,000 over the next three years.
The congressman will
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Sports Illustrated Writers Teach Ways of StorytellingBy Stephen Dravis, Williamstown Correspondent
11:29PM / Sunday, January 20, 2013 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — While tweets and blogs and sound bites may drive sports journalism in the 21st century, there still is a place for storytelling.
This past week, that place was the basement of Williams College's Hopkins Hall, where two of the industry's top storytellers were doing their best to pass the torch to the next generation of scribes.
Sports Illustrated senior writer and Williams alumnus Tim Layden is back on campus this month teaching a class to about 15 students as part of the college's Winter Study program. Last week, he was joined for a class by his SI colleague Jack McCallum, who lectured about the process of creating a long-form,
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Miss Hall's School Adds New Marketing Director| 09:17AM / Thursday, January 17, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's School announced that Lisa Lewis of Pittsfield has joined the school as its new marketing director. A seasoned nonprofit marketing and communications executive, Lewis comes to MHS from the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge where she was the communications director since January 2005. Prior to joining the Center, Lewis was the marketing director at the Berkshire Museum. She has also previously held marketing and public relations positions with the San Francisco Health Plan and the California College of Podiatric Medicine, both in San Francisco, and Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Mass. At Miss 0 Comments
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Temple Anshe Amunim Plans Preschool Open Houses| 11:02AM / Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Temple Anshe Amunim announced that starting Monday, Feb. 4, weekday preschool programming will be offered for children ages 3 through 5. To showcase the program and renovated classrooms, open houses for children and parents will be held on Friday, Jan. 25 and Sunday, Jan. 27 at 10 a.m. at the Temple on 26 Broad St. The Temple's preschool program is designed to provide a stimulating and nurturing environment for children to develop their talents and find their interests through play, music and hands-on learning activities. While the program will be based around Jewish-themed content, children of all religious backgrounds will be accepted subject to 0 Comments
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BArT Releases First Trimester Honor Roll| 09:25AM / Thursday, January 10, 2013 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School announced the honor roll for the first trimester of the 2012-2013 school year. Students who earned 80 percent or above in all of their classes received the distinction of Honors, and 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. Vincienza Alicandri, Thomas Cook, Cortney DeVito, Matthew Failla, Ythen Kaigle, Faia Kronick, 0 Comments
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College Notes: January 2013| 02:52PM / Tuesday, January 08, 2013 | |
 , daughter of James and JoAnn Rivers of Dalton, is studying abroad in Stellenbosch, South Africa, at Stellenbosch University for the spring 2013 semester. Rivers, a junior psychology major at Saint Michael's College in Burlington, Vt., graduated from Wahconah Regional High School. Two local students studying at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., completed internships last summer: of Lanesborough, a senior majoring in electrical engineering, interned at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Pittsfield.
of Dalton, also senior majoring in electrical engineering, interned at TRC Solutions in Liverpool, N.Y. of Adams, a junior majoring in robotics engineering at Worcester
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