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Berkshire Community College Awarded $5.5M for Student Center| 05:20PM / Tuesday, July 10, 2018 | |
 We are here in Westfield to celebrate the signing of our capital investment bond bill worth nearly $4 billion. Included in this plan is $950 million towards public higher education to address the deferred maintenance backlog and to support workforce skills needs. pic.twitter.com/f4T0JxqWr3 — Charlie Baker (@MassGovernor) July 10, 2018 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has been awarded $5.5 million for a project that will transform the first floor of the Field Administration building into a One Stop Student Success Center. Gov. Charlie Baker announced this award on Tuesday at Westfield State University. The funding is part of a five-year $190 million 0 Comments
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More Drury Student Art Installed on Cascade BuildingBy Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:58AM / Tuesday, July 03, 2018 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — This was the seventh year new artwork by Drury High School students has been installed on the side of the Cascade School Supplies building on Brown Street.
"Again we stand here in awe," Cascade President Pete Cote said Monday during a brief ceremony.
This was the first year that Mayor Thomas Bernard was on hand during the ceremony to see the art and a handful of the artists first-hand.
"It's incredible," Bernard said.
And this was the last year that Drury High art teacher Phoebe Pepper posed with the students whom she shepherded through the process and accepted the annual monetary donation from Cascade, which also donates the wood
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BArT Announces Junior Book Awards| 12:18PM / Friday, June 29, 2018 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School presented Junior Book Awards during a ceremony on Friday, June 15, at an all-school assembly.
Ruth Bristol
Darrel Lynch
Thomas Cook
Isaiah Albright
Natalie Celebi
Hannah Stringer
Joshua Doubiago & Johnyce Lanphear-Dyer
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Berkshire Country Day School Names Interim, Future Heads of School| 11:16AM / Friday, June 29, 2018 | |
 STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. &mash; The Board of Trustees of Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, welcomes Dr. Mark Segar, who joins the school on July 1 as interim head of school for the 2018-19 school year, and Jenifer Fox, who has been appointed head of school beginning in the 2019-2020 year.
This announcement comes following an extensive search process with substantive input from a broad array of stakeholders, and both decisions by the board were unanimous approvals of the search committee's recommendations. Stephanie Buchanan, search committee co-chair and board member, said, "We are thrilled to have both Mark and
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Berkshire Country Day School Holds Grade 8 Awards Ceremony| 04:00PM / Monday, June 18, 2018 | |
 LENOX, Mass. — Berkshire Country Day School, an independent school for students in preschool through ninth grade, celebrated its seventh- and eighth-graders at an awards and end-of-year closing ceremony held Wednesday, June 13. Certificates for completing the course of study through eighth grade were presented to Aurora Benson, Symaira Elliott, Donald Miller, and Will St. John, all of Pittsfield; Abbey Boyd of West Stockbridge; Anje Capala of Spencertown, N.Y.; Halle Davies of Lenox; Esme Lazar and Ryan Sonsini, both of Great Barrington; Jamie McDonnell of Old Chatham, N.Y.; Clara Mollerus of Otis; Keely O'Gorman of Lee; Alex Rodriguez-Benjamin and Sean Sylbert, both 0 Comments
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BCC Announces Spring Semester Dean's List| 02:28PM / Monday, June 18, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has announced its spring 2018 dean's List.
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 spring semester; and achieved a 3.250 to 3.749 grade point average for honors, or a 3.750 to 4.000 grade point average 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. Alexandria T. Brandon, Justin N. Kaczowski, Laurie A. McArthur, Sonia M. McWhirt, Kelsy M. Pero
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BArT Announces Fourth Quarter Honor Roll| 02:21PM / Monday, June 18, 2018 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School has announced the students who made honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2017-18 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.
Addison Chen, Terra Lim, Joseph McGovern, Jonathan Nondo,
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College Notes: June 2018| 03:37PM / Tuesday, June 12, 2018 | |
 Student Emma Whittum of Williamstown, a junior atin Allentown, Pa., studied in Spain during spring 2018 semester. The program she participated in is one of 100 study-abroad programs offered to undergraduates. Annie Wenger-Schulman of Pittsfield, a graduate of the Advanced Inquiry Program atin Oxford, Ohio, recently traveled to Mongolia with the program's Project Dragonfly. Wenger-Schulman studied the ecology of steppe ecosystems, with a focus on the Pallas' cat, Przewalski's horse and participatory conservation media. Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses offers firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in
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Miss Hall's School Graduates 56 in Class of 2018, Community Submission
03:28PM / Monday, June 04, 2018 | |
The private girls' high school included 18 area students in this year's graduating class. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Fifty-six students, including 18 from Berkshire County and nearby communities, graduated on Sunday, June 3, during Miss Hall's School's 120th commencement. Ceremonies took place under a large tent on the front lawn of the school's Holmes Road campus. Vanessa Stair, corporate relations officer for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and a member of the Miss Hall's School Class of 2006, delivered this year's commencement address. Among the Class of 2018 graduates are the following local 0 Comments
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After Leaving Their Mark on Monument, Class of 2018 GraduatesBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:44PM / Sunday, June 03, 2018 | |
Throughout the ceremony, beach balls were being batted around. More photos of the ceremony are available here. LENOX, Mass. — For half a century students were asked to leave their mark on Monument Mountain High School. Salutatorian Emily Martsen remembers clearly the day she was asked the consider the same questions, "How will I leave your mark on the world? and How will I leave my mark on Monument?" It was freshman orientation. She remembers the prior year's graduation video playing. She remembers names being mispronounced. She remembers being greeted by Assistant Principal Scott Annand. And she remembers those questions. "By now, 0 Comments
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