For the Mount Greylock Regional district, a new COVID-19 testing protocol will go into effect on Monday, January 17th. This updated protocol will end the current test and stay program, excluding Pre-K,...
School communities, while unique in their own ways, often reflect broader issues of the world at large. Even with relatively small and isolated districts, such as ours, it is important to recognize that...
The largest spending bill in the nation’s history, the American Rescue Plan (ARPA), was passed in March 2020. The plan is funded with $1.9 trillion, and acts as a COVID-19 rescue package that will help...
Mount Greylock began offering free lunches in September 2020. The state of Massachusetts was the driving force for this, and the goal was to be able to offer free lunches to all students to help...
Having grown up in the Berkshires, I've found that it is easy to take my surroundings for granted; in fact, I have rarely given myself the opportunity to explore activities that are famously iconic to...
On September 2nd, the Mount Greylock Regional School District school year commenced. Although COVID-19 persists, this year seems to better reflect the traditional learning model from pre-COVID times. Returning...
After spending the past thirty years hiding in the trees in the front of the school, the Hershey kiss shaped structure, formally known as “Solar Tangent,” has been put on display once again.
This...
On Sunday, September 19, a protest broke out on the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s campus outside the Theta Chi fraternity house. Around 300 students gathered to protest the fraternity group after...
On Wednesday, April 28th, Mount Greylock Regional School reopened five days a week to all middle school students. On May 3rd, high school students were also welcomed back fully in-person. Students can...
During early March of this year, Mount Greylock Superintendent Dr. Jake McCandles sent a letter to the district’s elementary school teachers instructing them to remove the following titles by popular...
Although many fall sports were postponed earlier this year, they got a second chance to compete in a newly created “Fall II” season. The season started at the end of the winter sports season and overlapped...
