Miss Hall's School Adds New Marketing Director

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's School announced that Lisa Lewis of Pittsfield has joined the school as its new marketing director.
 
A seasoned nonprofit marketing and communications executive, Lewis comes to MHS from the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge where she was the communications director since January 2005. Prior to joining the Center, Lewis was the marketing director at the Berkshire Museum. She has also previously held marketing and public relations positions with the San Francisco Health Plan and the California College of Podiatric Medicine, both in San Francisco, and Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Mass.
 
At Miss Hall's School, Lewis will oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive marketing communications program that includes new media strategies, public relations and advertising. This effort will allow for greater collaboration among the school's admission, development and publications offices to market the school's position as a nationally recognized, boarding and day secondary school with programs that include Horizons and the Girls' Leadership Project.
 
"We are very pleased to have Lisa join MHS," Chief Advancement Officer Janis Martinson said. "All of us at the school know that preparing girls for college and lives of great purpose beyond college is important and meaningful work and adding Lisa to our award-winning communications team will move us that much further as we continue informing the broader community about the Miss Hall mission."
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Pittsfield Council Says 'Yes' to Soccer at Crane Park

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

The pitch will have the logos of the city and the US. and Massachusetts soccer associations. 

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city is gladly accepting a "mini-pitch" from the U.S. Soccer Foundation to bring games back to Crane Park. 

Fueling excitement around the World Cup, U.S. Soccer has been working with the Massachusetts Youth Soccer League to make these facilities available to 20 communities — one of which will be at the park at the intersection of Benedict Road and Springside Avenue. 

The City Council accepted the gift on Tuesday during its regular meeting. 

A mini pitch is a compact, modular field typically used for soccer, and it can also accommodate inline skates. It has a galvanized steel border with built-in goals and a rubber plastic surface that is clicked together; installed on the existing inline hockey court. 

Ward 2 Councilor Cameron Cunningham said he has gone door to door speaking with nearby residents, and they are "really excited" about the upgrade. He also sees it as a great addition. 

"They say that nobody really uses the court a ton now, and they are excited to see kids back on there playing," he said. 

Decades ago, the Crane Park facility was a wading pool. It closed in 1980, and before the turn of the century, it was filled in and marked for hockey. 

Parks, Open Space, and Natural Resources Manager James McGrath explained that the wooden border around the rink is showing its age, has been vandalized and tagged, and the facility is seeing a "real decline" in use. 

"This would seem to be an appropriate spot for us to remove the board system that's in place and install the mini pitch system through this grant," he said. 

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