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Viewpoints

AMPLIFICATIONS: Listen up, kids

So children, stay home and wash your hands. Stop going to parties. Stop flying around the country. JUST STOP.

by Rochelle O'Gorman
Posted on March 20, 2020
Viewpoints

AMPLIFICATIONS: Free time

My daughter’s life is very different. She is scheduled within an inch of her life, and while she is reaping benefits from her activities, it certainly comes at a cost.

by Rochelle O'Gorman
Posted on November 20, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Meritocracy Trap’: The rich and the rest

But despite the one-in-a-million, up-from-the-bottom stories we all know and love, equal opportunity was never real. We’re not united by this new system any more than we were under aristocratic rule.

by Sheela Clary
Posted on November 16, 2019
News

Simon’s Rock classes canceled after student assaulted on campus

Security has been supplemented with additional officers from the Great Barrington Police Department and from the main Bard campus.

by Edge Staff
Posted on September 30, 2019
News

Berkshire DA Office secures rape conviction of former Williams College student

“When I took office in January, my first priority was to seek justice for victims by aggressively prosecuting violent crime. This is what being tough on crime should look like.”

— Berkshire County District Attorney Andrea Harrington

by Edge Staff
Posted on September 6, 2019
Viewpoints

Alan Chartock: Gov. Cuomo’s student assistance plan isn’t free — or fair

Glick is the chair of the Committee on Higher Education in the Assembly and she seems a little ticked off about a tuition assistance program that she believes doesn’t live up to its promises.

by Alan Chartock
Posted on February 12, 2019
Learning

Profile of a first-generation college-bound student: Stone Murphy

“People knew going into it that there was a lot of potential money at stake, and the kids who were contending for the scholarship, that money meant a lot to them, because they didn’t have a trust fund or something. So it was a little bit nerve-wracking.” –Stone Murphy

by Sheela Clary
Posted on January 24, 2019
Learning

Berkshire Hills achieves AP honor roll designation from College Board

“Congratulations to all the educators and administrators in [Berkshire Hills] who have worked to clear a path for more students of all backgrounds to participate and succeed in AP.”
— Trevor Packer, head of AP and Instruction at the College Board

by Terry Cowgill
Posted on January 29, 2018
News

News Brief: Temporary closure of Route 183 Housatonic bridge; Mass. Senate passes legislation to curb campus sexual violence; Mass. Ranked fourth most bicycle-friendly state

The closure of the bridge is to facilitate the removal of the temporary bridge and implement a new traffic pattern onto the newly constructed Phase I bridge.

by Edge Staff
Posted on November 6, 2017
Arts & Entertainment

SHORT STORY: The Reading

This is sixth story from Jonathan Baumbach’s forthcoming collection, “The Pavilion of Former Wives,” to be published by Danzig.

by Jonathan Baumbach
Posted on May 1, 2016
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