A New Hire For The Town Of Great Barrington
news from our backyard here in Great Barrington. Town Manager Mark Pruhenski is pleased to announce there is a new addition to his staff as
Ross Vivori has been appointed as the town s principal assessor effective April 5th, 2021. The North Adams native will also serve as Vice President of Berkshire County s Assessors Association.
In a recent statement, Pruhenski commented on the addition of his new employee: Ross will lead the town through a period of transition as we upgrade and convert our assessment software systems and as we change our tax billing from twice yearly to quarterly. We welcome Ross to Great Barrington .
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NORTH ADAMS â The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts has removed a swastika found carved into a piece of furniture on campus.
A student informed President James Birge about the symbol Wednesday morning, according to an email Birge sent to college community members. The symbol was found in the campus center marketplace, according to the email. The swastika is a symbol of violence, hate, intimidation, and bias, Birge wrote. There is no place for symbols or words that espouse these actions at MCLA. Although we are a Nation that values free speech, speech that incites or promotes hate and violence against anyone goes beyond the concept of that freedom. Free speech is a responsibility as much as a right; we must choose our words carefully and look hard at our well-worn beliefs and biases.
PITTSFIELD â Schooling is a particularly hard thing to get right during a global pandemic, as you have to balance the benefits of riskier in-person learning with the safer but less-than-ideal qualities of online learning.
This only gets more complicated when you have to sell housing, meals and other commodities to students, as they provide inherent risks you need to mitigate.
Such was the case of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts â my alma mater â and hundreds of other colleges across the country. The college has recently moved instruction fully online after a cluster of 28 COVID-19-infected students was detected in its residence areas, but it is worth noting that, for the previous two semesters, the college did a pretty good job of balancing public safety and limited in-person learning, making the wise moves of going fully online after the spring and Thanksgiving Day breaks of 2020 â periods of time when COVID was spiking around the nation.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will host a virtual panel, âClosing the Gap on Herd Immunity,â featuring three experts in public health, at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 8.
Topics covered will include COVID-19 vaccine access, misinformation and a look ahead as vaccines become available to wider segments of the population.
The panelists are Michelle Williams, dean of the faculty and professor at Harvard Collegeâs T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Dr. Mary Clarisse Kilayko, a doctor of infectious diseases and internal medicine at Berkshire Health Systems; and Dr. James Lederer, chief medical officer/chief quality officer at BHS.
This event is free and open to the public and panelists will be able to answer audience questions about the vaccine. Register at tinyurl.com/ejx62yv4.