McCann Tech Scholarships & Awards 2015

The following awards and scholarships were presented at class night ceremonies on Tuesday, June 2.

Adam Ziarnik Memorial Scholarship: Tiana Mack

Adams Community Bank Scholarship: Laura Netti, Zoe Loughman,  Natalie Howe, Daniel Burdick III,  Brett Gibeau & Andrew Corsi

Adams Lions Club Scholarship: Zoe Loughman

Adams Outdoorsmen For Youth Scholarship: Zoe Loughman

Albin Anthony Bunik Biros Memorial Scholarship: Jonathan Pierce

Alexander C. W. McNicol Memorial Award: Brett Pecor

Alma L. Riello Scholarship given by the NBCTC: Nicholas Belanger

American Culinary Federation Certified Junior Culinarian: Amber Foster & Nathan Reiter

American Culinary Federation Secondary Culinary Graduate Certificate: Allexia Andrews, Gabrielle Bartlett, Felicia Belisle, Tyson Campbell, Thalia Crespo-Diaz, Luke McKay & AmandaPini

American Legion School Award: Kyle Affhauser & Margaret Megaro

Anne and Anthony Sacco Memorial Scholarship given by American Legion Auxiliary: Levi Lawson

Athletes of the Year: Elizabeth Culpepper & Shane Fuller

Automotive Achievement Award: Cody Laframboise

Barbara J. Sinnott Scholarship given by the Better Business Bureau: Laura Netti

Berkshire County Arc Carol Craighead Memorial Scholarship: Laura Netti

Bernard R. "Bucky" Bullett Memorial Scholarship: Shane Fuller

Brendan E.Hayes Memorial Scholarship: Matthew Meranti

Business Scholarship given by TuxExpress: Steffani Brothers

Charles B. Cooper Memorial Scholarship: Derek Sumner

Clarksburg Parent Teacher Group Scholarship: MatthewMeranti

Class of 1977 Scholarship: Joshua McAdoo

Class of 1982 Scholarship: Laura Netti & Andrew Corsi

Councilor Daniel F. "Danny" Alcombright Scholarship: Adam LeClair

Daniel H. Petithory Memorial Scholarship: Matthew Meranti

DAR Good Citizen Certificate: Laura Heritage

Donald C. Blanchette Scholarship: Daniel Charron

Edwin E. Silvia Memorial Award: Edward Laird

Excellence in Carpentry: Matthew Meranti & Jonathan Pierce

Florida Mountain PTG Scholarship in Memory of Barb Downey: Austin Worth

Francis Millard Memorial Scholarship: Shane Fuller & Zoe Loughman

Frank N. Costa Scholarship: Laura Heritage

Frank R. Stiles American Legion Post 125 Book Award In Memory of Paula Raymond: Laura Netti

Friends of McCann Tech Award: Brett Pecor

George L. Knight Memorial Award: Natalie Howe

Grace S. Hampel Scholarship: Matthew Meranti, Roslyn Basinger & William Rivard

Greylock Community Club: Derek Sumner

Hancock Community Dollars for Scholars: Jacob Quimby & Roslyn Basinger

Irene and Tom Chalmers Memorial Scholarship: Zachary Fletcher

Jimmy & Kay Wondoloski Memorial Scholarship: CodyO'Neill

Joan Solari Memorial Award: Zoe Loughman

Jocelyn Leclair Memorial Scholarship: Adam LeClair, Rahmer Vincent & Shane Fuller

Joe Choquette Memorial Award: Gustavo Montoya

John and Abigail Adams Scholarship: Drew Burdick, Daniel Burdick III, Haley Carson, Mathew Christiana,  AndrewCorsi, Nathan Cote, Elizabeth Culpepper, Sean Davis, Brodie DiGennaro, Max Filion, Zachary Fletcher, Amber Foster, Dylan Gigliotti, Laura Heritage, Marcus Hillard, Natalie Howe, Cody Laframboise, Jonathan Leal, Adam LeClair, Skiler Lillie, Zoe Loughman, Tiana Mack, Matthew Massari, Joshua McAdoo, Laura Netti, Brett Pecor, Jesilyn Rolnick & Jacquelyn Schneider

John M. White Sr. Memorial Scholarship: Nary Hang

John W. Scarpito Memorial Award: Jonathan Pierce

Joseph A. Bernier Memorial Scholarship: Amber Foster

North Adams Hopes to Transform Y Into Community Recreation Center

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:19AM / Thursday, May 02, 2024

Mayor Jennifer Macksey updates members of the former YMCA on the status of the roof project and plans for reopening. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city has plans to keep the former YMCA as a community center.

 

"The city of North Adams is very committed to having a recreation center not only for our youth but our young at heart," Mayor Jennifer Macksey said to the applause of some 50 or more YMCA members on Wednesday. "So we are really working hard and making sure we can have all those touch points."

 

The fate of the facility attached to Brayton School has been in limbo since the closure of the pool last year because of structural issues and the departure of the Berkshire Family YMCA in March.

 

The mayor said the city will run some programming over the summer until an operator can be found to take over the facility. It will also need a new name. 

 

"The YMCA, as you know, has departed from our facilities and will not return to our facility in the form that we had," she said to the crowd in Council Chambers. "And that's been mostly a decision on their part. The city of North Adams wanted to really keep our relationship with the Y, certainly, but they wanted to be a Y without borders, and we're going a different direction."

 

The pool was closed in March 2023 after the roof failed a structural inspection. Kyle Lamb, owner of Geary Builders, the contractor on the roof project, said the condition of the laminated beams was far worse than expected. 

 

"When we first went into the Y to do an inspection, we certainly found a lot more than we anticipated. The beams were actually rotted themselves on the bottom where they have to sit on the walls structurally," he said. "The beams actually, from the weight of snow and other things, actually crushed themselves eight to 11 inches. They were actually falling apart. ...