MCLA To Hold Alumni Reunion June 6 & 7

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NORTH ADAMS – Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will hold a alumni reunion on Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7. Featured classes will be those ending in 3s and 8s, but all alumni are invited.

On Friday, June 6, the College will welcome the Class of 1958 to a special dinner in the newly renovated Smith House on campus. Also invited to this dinner are members of all classes that graduated before 1958. In addition, the Class of 1978 will host a reception in Murdock Hall at 6 p.m. All local alumni are invited to attend. Hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available.

A special feature of this year’s reunion is an event to be held at Fish Pond in North Adams, from noon until 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 7. Games are planned and there will be a chance for some class competitions. Also on Saturday, the Peg Lanoue `38 Memorial Tea will be held in Smith House at 3 p.m. At 5 p.m., there will be a chicken barbecue, complete with live music, on the MCLA campus. Tom Corrigan and his trio will lead the festivities.

For more information and a complete schedule of events, go to www.mcla.edu/alumni/reunion , or call 413-662-5224 to receive a reunion brochure or to register for any events.
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Sanford, Maine, Edges SteepleCats in Season Opener

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The SteepleCats Sunday started their 2026 season the way they ended their 2025 campaign: with a narrow loss to the Sanford Mainers.
 
Sanford, which won a best-of-three playoff series against North Adams last August, scored four runs on 14 hits to earn a 4-2 win at Joe Wolfe Field.
 
The Mainers broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run rally in the third inning, and four Sanford pitchers combined to collect 11 strikeouts as the visitors improved to 2-1 this summer.
 
North Adams, which saw its planned road opener rained out on Saturday, got to open the season in front of its home fans.
 
And those fans saw a strong performance from the North Adams pitching staff, which, despite allowing 14 hits, including five doubles, gave up just three earned runs.
 
“I like the grit,” SteepleCats coach Mike Gladu said of his team’s Game 1 performance. “I thought the pitchers performed pretty well. We had a couple of situations where we definitely should have gotten some runs in and didn’t get that hit.
 
“And there were a couple of plays with a little rust. Certainly, the ball that was hit over [Evan] Meier’s in left field, he just mistracked that one. And the extra run they scored in the eighth, the kid wasn’t going to go [from third on a fly ball], we made a throw and nobody could stop it.
 
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