Mount Greylock Announces Third Quarter Honor Roll

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional Middle and High School has announced its honor roll for the third quarter of the 2016-2017 school year.

Grade 12: Dagny Albano, Kyle Alvarez, Zachary Armet, Evan Arthur, Elizabeth Bartlett, Jenna Benzinger, Caroline Carlough, Cameron Castonguay, Catherine Cavalli, Serena Chow,  Abigail Coleman, Niku Darafshi, Grace Dodig, James Ellingwood, Olivia Gravel, Mercer Greenwald, Hailey Guest, Sydney Gurek, Cameron Hadley, Mark Hayden, Manas Jain, Aaron Kleiner, Matthew Kleiner, Lina Marcinczyk, Margaret Martin, Carly Munzer, Joshua Narey,  Sean Nemtzow, Neel Patel, Daniel Schiek, Darrien Smith, Sarah Stripp, Robert Sutter, Claire Whitaker.

Grade 11: Colton Adams, Kristen Aliberti, Alex Babcock, Alexander Backiel, Angela Baumgartner, Katherine Bernardy, Isabelle Bote, Owen Brandriss, Aleya Cappadona, Elena Cerveira, Kayla Cerveira, Samuel Culver, Ada DeGooyer, Samuel Dils, Richard Donati, Kate Doucette, Joshua Duncan, Sam Edge, Kelly Egan, Conor Fitzgerald, Caroline Flynn, Brady Foehl, Josephine Gollin, Jacob Hane, Maia Hirsch, Taylor Hoffstedt, Lauren Howard, Quinn Johnstadt, Grace Kelley, Cedar Keyes, Tara Kristensen, Emily Little, Christian Markovic, Connor McClanan, Sean McCormack, Gabriella Orpin, Garret Ostheimer, DiMaggio Paris, Jade Phair, Emma Polumbo, Jude Rorke, Cole Seaman, Tenley Smith, Emma Stankiewicz, Michael Stevens, Sabrina Templeton, Patricia Thistle, Madison VanDeurzen.

Grade 10: Maddison Albert, Hallie Anderson, Sage Bohl, Daniel Buell, Marley Buffis, Anna Butcher, Taylor Callahan, Catherine Cangelosi, Giovanni Cavalli, Joshua Cheung, Connor Daley, Josephine Dalsin, Autumn Delorey, Elizabeth Dudley, Aidan Duncan, John Ellingwood, David Falk, Jacob Fink, Caroline Hadley, Cameron Honiker, Katrina Hotaling, Alison Howard, Lauren Jacobbe, Sophie Jones, Cole Kuster, Cameron Macuch, Isabella Nicastro, Isabel Northington, Morgan Nottke, Elizabeth Paglier, Dominic Paris, Avery Powers, Cameron Sabin, Theodore Sandstrom, Jesse Seid, Margo Smith, Josef Soza-Foias, Colette Stapp, Maverick Sumner, Andrew Sutter, Luke Swann, Samanatha Trybus, Christian Voorhies, Michael Wellspeak, Jared Whitman, Samanatha Whittum.

Hancock Town Meeting Votes to Strike Meme Some Found 'Divisive'

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:40PM / Monday, May 06, 2024

Hancock town meeting members Monday vote on a routine item early in the meeting.

HANCOCK, Mass. — By the narrowest of margins Monday, the annual town meeting voted to strike from the town report messaging that some residents described as, "inflammatory," "divisive" and unwelcoming to new residents.

 

On a vote of 50-48, the meeting voted to remove the inside cover of the report as it appeared on the town website and in printed versions distributed prior to the meeting and at the elementary school on Monday night.

 

The text, which appeared to be a reprinted version of an Internet meme, read, "You came here from there because you didn't like it there, and now you want to change here to be like there. You are welcome here, only don't try to make here like there. If you want to make here like there, you shouldn't have left there in the first place."

 

After the meeting breezed through the first 18 articles on the town meeting warrant agenda with hardly a dissenting vote, a member rose to ask if it would be unreasonable for the meeting to vote to remove the meme under Article 19, the "other business" article.

 

"No, you cannot remove it," Board of Selectmen Chair Sherman Derby answered immediately.

 

After it became clear that Moderator Brian Fairbank would entertain discussion about the meme, Derby took the floor to address the issue that has been discussed in town circles since the report was printed earlier this spring.

 

"Let me tell you about something that happened this year," Derby said. "The School Department got rid of Christmas. And they got rid of Columbus Day. Now it's Indigenous People's Day.