Last year, the event was held outside at Monument Mountain's track. However, four hours into the event, a microburst storm hit the track, destroying the event area. This year, event organizer Ray Gardino told The Berkshire Edge they are not taking any chances and will hold the event indoors.
In an email sent to members of the school community on Tuesday, Jan. 2, Principal Wheat wrote that eighth-grade ELA teacher Arantzau Zuzene Galdos-Shapiro would be taking a temporary leave of absence.
As a parent of three young children at SBRSD and an alumna of the district, I cannot in good faith support the current merger proposal in its current form and will vote no.
The word “merger” is misleading. Make no mistake, the new Regional Agreement that is being offered is a blueprint for the total elimination of an educational campus in Sheffield and for the construction of a new high school and the consolidation of all education in Great Barrington.
Let’s stop the chest-pounding as to which school is better or growing faster. Please vote at your town meeting and don't let naysayers prevail. The merger will cast a new direction for the next half-century, after more than a quarter-century of merger studies.
The merger decision can’t be about emotions, egos, or nostalgia. This is about the future of those children who aren’t even here yet – the young and the new.
To quote E.F. Schumacher, “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”
The Eight Town Regional School District Planning Board is facing a $150,000 budgetary shortfall and would be out of money by October 1, as projected by Project Manager Jake Eberwein at the August 23 board meeting.
Nell loved animals and was a veterinarian technician for many years. Later, she was a library assistant at the Berkshire Hills Regional School District.
If the town meeting is not able to pass a budget by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the town of Great Barrington, like hundreds of other small municipalities in the state with a town-meeting form of government, has a problem.
In a letter to the editor, Roger Kavanagh writes, "As a project manager and team leader, I worked with diverse groups from all organizational levels who often had conflicting agendas."
Graduating seniors have been coming into school, three or four at a time, and walking across the auditorium stage to receive their diplomas. The video footage of the students will be incorporated into a virtual graduation.
In a letter to the editor, Kristi Farina and Peter Dillon writes, "We’d love to see our community line the route in a socially distanced way with masks on and make a lot of noise in admiration of our graduates."
"Business as usual" does not exist for any industry at this point. With that said, county horticultural businesses have taken steps to keep both staff and consumers safe while still adapting to increased demands.
