Following the screening, filmmaker Hilan Warshaw joins BBS artistic director and violinist Eugene Drucker for a conversation about Bach’s life, music, and the ideas behind the documentary.
Great Barrington resident David Long explains why his 'Draft Alternative Plan' to the proposed renovation of Monument Mountain Regional High School explores viable options not considered by the Berkshire Hills Building Committee.
"Steve Bannon has done an exceptional job balancing the needs of kids and the community and keeping his eyes on a long-term vision for the schools. Our communities are lucky to have someone who cares so deeply about learning."
-- Berkshire Hills Superintendent Peter Dillon
The Berkshire Hills Regional School District is trying to explain the necessity of a high school renovation project to tax-weary Great Barrington voters amid a landscape studded with stealth opposition campaigns, and what some say are weapons of mass distraction.
Family, friends and colleagues paint the picture of a humble, hard-working man, a generous spirit who gave his time and love to legions of youth -- troubled or not -- and to everyone who crossed his path, including those he didn’t even know.
"It’s hard for voters to feel that students are in such a desperate state, which is a credit to the school board. The output is so successful here that crying wolf really doesn’t work in this town."
-- The Rev. Charles van Ausdall of the First Congregational Church
This is what happens when we manage things like this. In any other business, they would spend money to get it back up and running.
-- BHRSD School Committee member Rich Bradway
Total revenue for Berkshire Hills from students choicing in to the district is $1,450,000. Subtracting what is lost by students choicing out, net revenue comes to $850,000.
“You have to ask ‘What’s the risk?’ in taking this proposal to the voters. There are attitudes out there.”
-- School Building Subcommittee Chair Richard Coons.
