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LEONARD QUART: My time in America

My being at odds with dominant American values in Ohio gave me a clarity that living amid New York's many complex subcultures had not.

‘JUUL’ of the Housatonic: Vaping seen as ‘epidemic’ in Southern Berkshire schools

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week that e-cigarette use has increased almost 80 percent among high schoolers and 50 percent among middle schoolers since last year.

PROFILE: Charles Miller, new SBRSD elementary principal

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast: If you don’t understand the school culture, you’re not going to be able to change things effectively and in a way that is sustainable." SBRSD elementary school principal Charles Miller

Setting the record straight about the South Egremont School

In their letter Danile Kelly and Sarah Blaugrun write: "Due to ongoing political disagreements between the Southern Berkshire Regional District (SBRSD) and the Town of Egremont, questions of remediation (and financial obligations towards that end) have delayed a date of entry into the building for our students."

Egremont’s 243rd birthday celebrates school restoration

The Egremont Historical Commission thought it fitting to give the school’s new teacher a piece of 100-year-old chalk found in the walls of the Egremont Village School to start her off.

Connections: Legislating morality, Part I: Fornication

Premarital sex was sanctioned and encouraged when two people were engaged to be married so the couple could determine beforehand if the marriage would be fruitful. What the women in the fornication trials were actually being punished for was not the act but failing to marry the man afterward.
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