Pittsfield High School's Lisa Chen and Taconic High School's Nicholas Kerwood were given the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents' Certificates of Academic Excellence during Wednesday's School Committee meeting.
Under an arch of purple and white balloons, 184 seniors concluded their high school experience at Tanglewood on Sunday. It was the first time in five years that graduation had been held at the Lenox institute.
The senior class at Pittsfield High School has elected Frankielys Payano De La Cruz, Abigail Malumphy, Brooke Tripicco to speak at graduation this Sunday, June 9, at 4 p.m.
The nearly 100-year-old boilers are original to the building and have exceeded their useful life, officials say. They are converted locomotive engines that are extremely inefficient and expensive to maintain.
The Pittsfield High School student who was the victim of a spitting incident in the state basketball semi-finals issued a public statement on Wednesday reacting to the assault and calling for consequences against the offender and his school.
Pittsfield Public Schools has launched a district-wide Arts Integration and Community Partnerships program set to embed the fine and performing arts into all aspects of the district's learning culture by means of partnerships with 38 Berkshire County education and cultural institutions.
Many of the performers described the PHS as a welcoming, tight-knit community that helped them develop as humans and said they would be very different if they went somewhere else.