BCC to Offer New Cooking Workshop for Young People

Print Story | Email Story
Berkshire Community College will offer a new cooking workshop this fall for young students on the college’s main campus in Pittsfield.

“Teens & Tweens Cook Healthy” (WKS 484) teaches children to cook foods they like to eat the healthy way. Participants make delicious tasting meals, desserts and snacks. The workshop, taught by Barbara Kirshner, a children’s culinary expert, is designed especially for young people ages 10 to 16.

The course will be held Saturday morning, from 10 to noon, beginning Sept. 13 and ending October 18. The cost is $105, with an additional $10 food fee payable to the instructor at each class.

For more information, or to register, call BCC’s Office of LifeLong Learning at 413-236-2122.
If you would like to contribute information on this article, contact us at info@iberkshires.com.

Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Holds Awards Banquet

Community submission
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Friday honored outstanding contributors to the Berkshire County sports scene at its third annual Awards Dinner at the Polish Falcon Club.
 
The foundation supports youth sports throughout the county each year.
 
In 2025-26, those donations totaled more than $30,000 to groups ranging from youth football and cheerleading programs, Pittsfield Little League, Northern Berkshire Softball and the Pittsfield Boys and Girls Club Recreation Therapy Program, to name a few.
 
Funds raised by the foundation also go to support its annual Vera Barborotta Memorial Sportsman Scholarship, which this year went to Lee High School graduate Joey Abderhalden and Taconic grad Madeline Harrington.
 
Two other recently graduated high school standout athletes were recognized as winners of the Al Bianchi Memorial Athletes of the Year: Madison McCarthy and Cooper Calvert, both of Wahconah Regional High School.
 
Pittsfield High School girls basketball coach Kristy Conyers and Hoosac Valley boys basketball coach Matt Larabee received the foundation's Coach of the Year Awards.
 
John Castonguay received the Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Living Legend Award. A.J. Ziter took home the Connie Bianchi Memorial Award of Merit. And Mark Moulton rounded out the honorees with the foundation's Volunteer of the Year Award.
 
View Full Story

More Berkshire County Stories