Berkshire Community College Students Inducted Into National Honor Society

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College recently held an induction ceremony for students joining the Xi Alpha Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa.

Phi Theta Kappa is the national honor society of junior and community colleges in the United States. The purpose of the society is to recognize and encourage scholarship among students.

To be eligible for membership, students with freshman standing (12 to 29 credits) must have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.7 or better. Students with a sophomore standing (30 or more credits) must have achieved a cumulative average of 3.5 or better.

The ceremony was held in the Boland Theatre located in the Koussevitzky Arts Center on the College’s main campus in Pittsfield.

The inductees include:

Cheshire: Richard Robillard

Chester: Henry Fristik

Clarksburg: Brittany LaVigne

Dalton: Portia Adjei-Donkor, Juliauna Jacobson, Nicole Rudd

Egremont: Stephanie Fredsall

Great Barrington: Juliana Herzen, Joshua Kuhn

Hinsdale: Bonnie Saunders


Lanesborough: Kathleen Adamczyk, Amie Birch, Mary Mick, Mary Boland

Lee: Jastine Somostrada, Vinicius Onorato, Ellen Orell    

Lenox: Adam Gazit

Lenox Dale: Michael King

North Adams: Amy Wood

Pittsfield: Dina Bilotta, Cariss Black, Bernice Boateng, Polana Casian, Megan Charbonneau, Sarah Cicchetti, Kristina Cook, Megan Creamer, Victoria Croshier, Ryan Dion, Maureen Feldman, Kimberly Forrest, Danielle George, Jennifer Hunt, Erik Inbar, Bryan Jones, Allison Kahn, Jessica Koomson, Matthew Lee, Cassidy Lewis, David Litano, Andrew Mais, Dustin Malossini, Lucas  Mancari, Deborah Remillard, Kelly Robertson, Janell Sargent, Anthony Swenson, Nicole Wright

Richmond: Diane Shaheen

South Lee: Zachary Aichner           

West Stockbridge: Amanda Kerswell

Williamstown: Kristen Mabey

Windsor: Danielle Allison
 

 


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Central Berkshire School Officials OK $35M Budget

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — The Central Berkshire Regional School Committee approved a $35 million budget for fiscal 2025 during its meeting on Thursday.
 
Much of the proposed spending plan is similar to what was predicted in the initial and tentative budget presentations, however, the district did work with the Finance subcommittee to further offset the assessments to the towns, Superintendent Leslie Blake-Davis said. 
 
"What you're going see in this budget is a lower average assessment to the towns than what you saw in the other in the tentative budget that was approved," she said. 
 
The fiscal 2025 budget is $35,428,892, a 5.56 percent or $1,867,649, over this year's $33,561,243.
 
"This is using our operating funds, revolving revenue or grant revenue. So what made up the budget for the tentative budget is pretty much the same," Director of Finance and Operations Gregory Boino said.
 
"We're just moving around funds … so, we're using more of the FY25 rural aid funds instead of operating funds next year."
 
Increases the district has in the FY25 operating budget are from active employee health insurance, retiree health insurance, special education out-of-district tuition, temporary bond principal and interest payment, pupil transportation, Berkshire County Retirement contributions, and the federal payroll tax. 
 
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