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EYES TO THE SKY: The Year of Planet Mars
February 19 – March 4, 2018 Coming soon! Get up before dawn for a great view of the moon and the morning planets! Image courtesy EarthSky.org Mount Washington — A rare and extraordinary celestial event...
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A model of collaboration: Public education and public health working together...
Great Barrington — Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School principal Mary Berle announced this past week in a letter to the school community that she’d be stepping aside at the end of this school year....
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EYES TO THE SKY: Venus, Mercury paired in evening twilight. EDT the 11th,...
March 5 – 18, 2018 Image courtesy EarthSky.org Mount Washington — Viewing all five naked-eye planets might fit more easily into our days with the beginning of Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) this coming...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Equinox tomorrow. Nobel Laureate to address Northeast...
March 19 – April 1, 2018 Where does the celestial equator intersect your horizon? No matter what your latitude is, it intersects your horizon at points due east and due west. Image courtesy...
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Rise: Monument Mountain students organize against racism, sexism and gun...
Great Barrington — The shock of the presidential election to the future of this country was not lost on young people at Monument Mountain Regional High School in November 2016. During the campaign...
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EYES TO THE SKY: All out for Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and spring stars...
April 2 – 15, 2018 Mount Washington — The pattern of a great lion outlined in stars, from billowy mane to tucked tail, climbs in the east-southeast as darkness deepens on early spring evenings. The...
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EYES TO THE SKY: The right to night in the Berkshires
April 16 – 29, 2018 Our tri-state corner of Southern Berkshire, Litchfield and Columbia counties is a small green spot on the map. Can we protect our dark skies by preventing light trespass locally and...
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MMRHS senior Sophie Shron earns award for W.E.B. Du Bois mural
Great Barrington — “I knew it was right down my alley” said Sophie Shron, a senior at Monument Mountain Regional High School, of her creating the designs for a series of downtown murals celebrating...
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Vocational education making a comeback: Carpentry in the classroom
Great Barrington — According to an alarming video shown during education expert Bill Daggett’s talk at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on April 24th, houses will one day be built by robots. But...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Stars of astronomy and space shine at NEAF
Mount Washington — The Northeast Astronomy Forum is a magnet for amateur astronomers, professionals, and those simply curious about astronomy and space exploration. Over Earth Day weekend – which...
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Lenox superintendent hired as new Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School...
Lenox Public Schools Superintendent Timothy Lee. Photo courtesy Lenox Public Schools Great Barrington — The search is over. And Berkshire Hills Regional School District Superintendent Peter Dillon...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Jupiter — all-night planet all the month of May
May 14 – 27, 2018 Mount Washington — As twilight deepens, the star-like light of bright Jupiter appears above the southeastern horizon. Jupiter climbs to its highest point around midnight, then...
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With enrollment increasing, Montessori School adds new educational spaces
Montessori School of the Berkshires Head of School Todd Covert. Photo: David Scribner Lenox Dale — A recent spate of warm weather has students and teachers beginning to tally the waning days of the...
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The universal language of soccer: An interview with Sean Flynn
Great Barrington — This summer marks Monument Mountain Regional High School guidance counselor and long-time soccer coach Sean Flynn’s 28th year as director the Berkshire Soccer School. Sheela: When I...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Night sky delights: Saturn to join Venus, Jupiter. Full Corn...
May 28 – June 10, 2018 Mount Washington — A note from a reader: “It is now 9 p.m. For the past few months, about this time in the evening, I view a very bright “planet.” I face west and this object is...
View Article‘Tubby the Tuba’ sings in the Berkshire Hills
Through grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Berkshire Music School treated children from four Berkshire County primary schools to a performance of...
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New scholarships awarded for first generation college-goers at MMRHS
On May 31st, Monument Mountain Regional High School held its annual senior awards ceremony, where over 100 small scholarships are presented to graduates every year through athletic booster clubs; the...
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EYES TO THE SKY: New Mexico Tech astronomers, Magdalena Ridge Observatory,...
June 11 – 24, 2018 Mount Washington — When we look up to the night sky, we see beyond Earth’s protective atmosphere to the planets in our solar system and the universe of stars that comprise our...
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MVRMS 8th graders just say YES to community service
Great Barrington — It’s a phenomenon as perennial as the end of the school year itself: restless students and their deadline-driven teachers slog through the waning days of June while boredom...
View ArticleGreat Barrington Rotary reaches million-dollar mark in student scholarships
Great Barrington — On Wednesday, May 23, at Crissey Farm, the Great Barrington Rotary awarded more than $60,000 in scholarships to 58 students from Monument Mountain Regional High School and Mount...
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