Rudolf Steiner School Adds New Kindergarten Teacher

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Somer Serpe will begin teaching the Rainbow Room kindergarten class this fall.
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School announced that Somer Serpe will teach the Rainbow Room kindergarten this fall. She joins experienced Waldorf Early Childhood teacher Michelle Kuzia, who leads the Sun Room kindergarten class and has taught at GBRSS since 1978.

Serpe moves to this position from the nursery program, located in the same Early Childhood building on campus, where she has taught since 2007. 

“I'm excited to return to the kindergarten, where I began my Waldorf teaching journey," Serpe said. "While I will miss the very young children in Nursery, I am looking forward to being with children from current and previous classes as they embark on the next phase of childhood.”

Serpe trained as an artist and a teacher, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Parsons School of Design and her Masters in Education at Sunbridge College. Serpe enjoys using puppets to tell stories to her class, frequently making the puppets herself. She is also a parent at the school, with two daughters in the grades, and is an avid Morris dancer who performs at May Day celebrations at the school and throughout the community. 

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Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Holds Awards Banquet

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Friday honored outstanding contributors to the Berkshire County sports scene at its third annual Awards Dinner at the Polish Falcon Club.
 
The foundation supports youth sports throughout the county each year.
 
In 2025-26, those donations totaled more than $30,000 to groups ranging from youth football and cheerleading programs, Pittsfield Little League, Northern Berkshire Softball and the Pittsfield Boys and Girls Club Recreation Therapy Program, to name a few.
 
Funds raised by the foundation also go to support its annual Vera Barborotta Memorial Sportsman Scholarship, which this year went to Lee High School graduate Joey Abderhalden and Taconic grad Madeline Harrington.
 
Two other recently graduated high school standout athletes were recognized as winners of the Al Bianchi Memorial Athletes of the Year: Madison McCarthy and Cooper Calvert, both of Wahconah Regional High School.
 
Pittsfield High School girls basketball coach Kristy Conyers and Hoosac Valley boys basketball coach Matt Larabee received the foundation's Coach of the Year Awards.
 
John Castonguay received the Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Living Legend Award. A.J. Ziter took home the Connie Bianchi Memorial Award of Merit. And Mark Moulton rounded out the honorees with the foundation's Volunteer of the Year Award.
 
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