I am a realist and a humanist who has spent a lifetime trying to understand the lessons of history, and who is watching the planet that I live on, and love, succumb to the first self-inflicted mass-extinction episode of all time.
I asked BHRSD Superintendent Dr. Peter Dillon what it would mean if we failed to rehabilitate MMRHS. He responded with a Winston Churchill quote: “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.”
By using the residential exemption, the towns in the Berkshire Hills Regional School District could pay to update the high school without raising taxes on most of their residents.