“All [kayak rental] transactions occur at the Arcadian Shop,” Arcadian Shop co-owner Chris Calvert told The Berkshire Edge during a July 9 phone interview.
Thousands of students nationwide are protesting the epidemic of school shootings. Gun violence in schools and the slaughter of school children has become a weekly affair. So far in 2018 there have been 20 school shootings, an average of 1.25 per week.
BCD students invite neighbors, siblings, friends, and other students they may know and who may be available, especially with the public school vacation week, to meet them at Lilac Park and share in the event.
Her career included being a piano teacher; the organist and choir director at St. Peter’s Church, Great Barrington; mathematics and computer teacher at Berkshire Country Day School; computer programmer at Geary Corporation and more.
For as anyone who has attended one knows, high schools are a peculiar mix of social awkwardness and lack of inhibition. Indeed, high school is where the attitudes we learn at home are staged for all to see.
On Make a Difference Day, 50 members of the Berkshire Country Day School community including students, parents, faculty, alumni, and community members participated in the sorting, boxing and shipping of 78 packages.
Berkshire Country Day School invites community members to meet in its Fitzpatrick Hall gymnasium Saturday, Oct. 28, at 9:30 a.m. to help pack boxes of aid to be sent to Puerto Rico.
LitNet's gala event will honor its volunteer tutors, who share their time and talents to provide adult students in Berkshire County with free educational support
The community garden will be available to Egremont residents who are interested in growing their own food, and special efforts will be made include lower-income families.
“The kids come home filthy dirty and falling asleep at the dinner table, and that is what summer camp should be.”
-- Kim Hamberg Wilder, mother of two boys and a sales associate at Barnbrook Realty
The Mahaiwe has hosted more than 17,000 students from 57 schools since the program began. “Our goal is to share these performing arts experiences, engage students with their own unlimited potential, unleash their imaginations, and inspire their spirits.”
-- Beryl Jolly, executive director of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
The new state-of-the-art learning commons and the dedicated music room intentionally balance a comprehensive, challenging curriculum with the culture and spirit of the Berkshires.
Prior to his military service he was assistant basketball and baseball coach at Lenox School where he also assisted in coaching varsity football and JV soccer, and was Athletic Director at Berkshire Country Day School.
Drs. Tony Makdisi and Sukhpal Mann will receive LitNet’s Founders of America Award, which recognizes individuals whose strength of character and commitment to service have improved lives in the Berkshires and beyond.
