Mount Greylock Regional School presents 'Lights Off'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Mount Greylock Regional School presents "Lights Off" in the school’s auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown.

Performances are May 16–18 at 7 p.m.

According to a press release:

When stately Phipps Manor, in the sleepy backwater of Phippsfordshire, is rocked by scandal and murder, the local constabulary must rise to the occasion. But can they match the genius of the resident celebrity detective? A sendup of Agatha Christie–style mysteries, this original whodunit features a parade of characters sure to please mystery lovers: a wealthy patriarch, suspect family members, colorful servant staff and insufferably cocksure detectives. A joyous romp full of both witty wordplay and classic physical comedy, "Lights Off" is theater for all ages.

Written and directed by Mount Greylock sophomore Frankie Evans and senior Quin Repetto, "Lights Off" marks the first student-led production at Mount Greylock since 2018. Thomas Ostheimer is the faculty adviser. Sophomore Natasha Nugent provides musical accompaniment on violin. Levi Cohen-McFall and Alec Sills assisted with fight choreography.

Show tickets must be purchased online — $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens, and $5 for students — and are available by visiting bit.ly/3QwM3K8 or by scanning the QR code on show posters. 

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Mount Greylock Schools Focus on Student Literacy

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is placing an emphasis on literacy instruction that is reflected in the preliminary budget that the administration put forth last week.
 
Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Joelle Brookner laid out the reasons why literacy needs to be a priority for the district and the steps staff plan to take to address that need during the School Committee's Feb. 13 meeting.
 
Bergeron opened by emphasizing that while there are issues that need to be addressed, the district continues to do a good job educating the students of Lanesborough, Williamstown and surrounding towns.
 
He noted that Mount Greylock ranks 25th in the commonwealth and first in the Berkshires in the most recent U.S. News and World Report "Best High Schools Rankings" and pointed out that most of the Massachusetts schools ranking higher on the list are magnet or charter schools like No. 1 Boston Latin and No. 2 Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter of Hadley.
 
And in the area of literacy itself, 65 percent of Mount Greylock's students are above the national average in literacy benchmarks as assessed by the California-based FastBridge Learning system.
 
"So we're starting from a good place, but we're nowhere near perfect," Bergeron said.
 
To help address the 35 students performing at or below average on literacy assessment metrics, district faculty have been pouring over data and looking at what personalized instruction strategies will work for individual students, the administrators said.
 
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