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EYES TO THE SKY: Spring star Arcturus, planet Jupiter, full Egg Moon, more NEAF
April 3 – 16, 2017 In any year, you can follow this imaginary arc to Arcturus and Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo the Maiden. But this year, 2017, is extra special because the...
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BCD opens state-of-the-art learning center, library, music performance spaces
Lenox — A series of intersecting footpaths, crisscrossing the center of the Berkshire Country Day School campus, is evidence of the school’s emphasis on making connections for the students and...
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ON DREAMS: Dream interpreters
Stockbridge — Because dreams are the stuff of imaginative thinking during sleep, they are often experienced as unclear, ambiguous, and confusing. Spotty memory also contributes to the feeling that...
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Mahaiwe’s school-time field trips: Exceptional learning outside the classroom
Great Barrington — On an otherwise unremarkable spring morning, while 4th graders across Berkshire County sat for the first of five days of MCAS testing, 640 students and teachers from nine different...
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In the Berkshires, a school crisis – and opportunity
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Commonwealth magazine https://commonwealthmagazine.org/education/in-the-berkshires-a-school-crisis-and-opportunity/. It has been republished here...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Crescent-phase Venus gift of amateur astronomer; Lyrid...
April 17 – 30, 2017 Throughout April 2017, Venus will be appearing a bit higher each morning in the east before dawn, and it’ll be getting brighter! Watch for it on April 23, when it’ll pair with the...
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Montessori School celebrates new education spaces, announces further expansion
Lenox Dale — Parents, faculty and students gathered around the aptly named “big rock” at the Montessori School of the Berkshires on Friday morning to hear co-founder and Head of School, Todd Covert,...
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Egremont files legal action against SBRSD over closure of local school
Egremont — In what could become a protracted legal battle to keep the only school within its border open for local students, the town of Egremont has filed a complaint against the Southern Berkshire...
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PROFILE: Kira Payer, a girl and her bike
Housatonic — For high school senior Kira Payer, it’s all about choosing to be present. And, in a nod to fellow New Englander Robert Frost, taking the “road less traveled.” On Monday morning, when the...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Williams College astronomer prepares for solar eclipse
May 1 – 14, 2017 My first impression was disbelief. It had to be a typographical error. The letter from Williams College that announced Astronomer Jay Pasachoff’s April 13 and 14 public programs, “Our...
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MVRMS English instructor Alison Fisher honored as exceptional educator
Great Barrington — It is not unusual for overt praise to render Alison Fisher what she refers to as “verklempt.” Fisher, a veteran teacher and member of the faculty at Monument Valley Regional Middle...
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The sophomore who could: Monument student directs school-wide Lip Dub
Great Barrington — Life, you might say, is something akin to a lip dub. You can prepare as much as possible for it, but at the end of the day, you only get one take. And yet, when done right, it can...
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First ‘Student Film Festival of the Berkshires’ attracts enthusiastic...
Great Barrington — A film festival created and organized by Monument Mountain junior Dan Santos attracted 15 entrants from three area schools and a cheering crowd of more than 100 attendees on Friday...
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Berkshire talent showcased at high school cabaret
Stockbridge — The Berkshires seem to have an uncanny number of children with artistic talent, and that creative energy was on full display Wednesday night (May 10) at the Berkshire Theater Group’s...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Bird watcher’s spring constellation and the Astronomical...
May 15 – 28, 2017 Mount Washington — When evening twilight deepens, Corvus the Crow takes flight, easily spotted in the south 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon in dark and moderately dark skies. To...
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Empowered Monument Mountain writers inspire audience and themselves
West Stockbridge — Ten female high schoolers from Monument Mountain Regional High School read their works of writing to a packed audience in West Stockbridge on Friday, May 12, as part of the fifth...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: The Sun
May 29 – June 11, 2017 Mount Washington — I first glimpsed the image above as the cover design for astrophysicist Leon Golub and astronomer Jay Pasachoff’s latest book, “The Sun,” to be released around...
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The curious accomplishment of Benjamin Zoeller
While most students dream of presents and maybe even a chance to go skiing during Winter break, let alone catching up on sleep, Ben Zoeller decided to sit down, and, well … write a full-length drama....
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At issue in Southern Berkshire: Are small schools worth keeping?
Sheffield — Though not quite as old as the Berkshire Hills, it’s a debate that’s been kicking around at least since the school consolidation movement began a hundred years ago. Which is better for...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Drunk on daylight, meet Saturn rising – and other flirtations
June 12 – June 25, 2017 Mount Washington — Closest, brightest and most visible for the year, planet Saturn rises looking like a gold-tinted star above the southeast horizon around the time the Sun sets...
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