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Children enjoy a lunch break recently at Ready Set Learn Preschool on Dalton Avenue in Pittsfield. The center will open another location in the fall, at the former American Legion site on Wendell Avenue.photos by BEN GARVER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE PITTSFIELD — When Melissa Fawcett and her husband were looking for options for their young son, the child care programs they found kept coming up short. So, the Fawcetts set out to make the program they were dreaming of: an all-day child care facility equally focused on fun and learning and with the kind of structured instruction meant to pr...

Springfield Museums to show ‘How People Make Things’ Updated Jan 11, 2021; Posted Jan 11, 2021 A child explores making things with wax and wax forms at the Springfield Museums exhibit "How People Make Things.' Facebook Share A child explores making things with wax and wax forms. (Submitted photo) When Jenny A. Powers was a child, she watched “Mister Rogers Neighborhood” almost every day. She enjoyed the factory tours Fred Rogers took his television audience on; her favorite was the crayon factory tour. “Crayons were a big part of my life, and that episode really opened my imaginat...