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Hoosac Valley Elementary Unveils New Sign

12:37PM / Saturday, May 18, 2024Print Story | Email Story

The school community gathered Friday morning on the school's front lawn.

ADAMS, Mass. — On Friday morning the Hoosac Valley Elementary School community gathered on the school's lawn to welcome the school's first sign.

Nearly seven years ago, Cheshire Elementary School and CT Plunkett Elementary School joined together to become Hoosac Valley Elementary School. After the closing of Cheshire Elementary School, the school district voted to rename CT Plunkett as Hoosac Valley Elementary School.

"At HVES, we share the importance of identity and belonging in every classroom as part of our Responsive Classroom approach," Principal Erin Beaulac said in a statement Friday. "Every student is called by their name and everyone is a part of our community. With that being said, we felt it was very important for our school's exterior to match our school's interior. There hasn't been a sign of the school's name on the outside of the building. This morning, all of that changed."

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Greylock Thunder 18U Team Wins Tourney in Extra Innings

iBerkshires.com Sports09:04PM / Sunday, August 09, 2026

TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- Paxton Ebling hit a sacrifice fly, and Izabela Tart doubled in a run in the top of the eighth as the Greylock Thunder 18-and-under travel softball team earned a 5-4 win in the championship game of the 37th End of Year Invitational benefiting ALS research.

The Thunder went 3-0 in bracket play on Sunday after starting the tournament 1-1-1 on Saturday.

Along the way, it avenged its only loss of the event, beating the New England Elite DiMauro squad, 5-3, after falling to that team, 8-7, on Saturday.

In the championship game, the Thunder edged the Shoreline Sting out of Connecticut behind pitchers Emma Lemire and Marlee Arnhold, who combined to allow just two earned runs.

Tart went 2-for-4 with three runs batted in, and Ebling doubled in addition to her sac fly. Kaleigh Jaros sparked the offense by going 3-for-3 with an RBI in a seven-hit Greylock attack.

In the bottom of the eighth, Shoreline got a run across and put two runners on with one out before Arnhold got a groundball out to Nevaeh Lopez and a pop fly to Grace Julieano at first to end the game.

Greylock started its Sunday with the win over NE Elite DiMauro. Grace Julieano went 3-for-3 with solo home run and scored one other time in the win. Kenadi Arnhold was 2-for-3 with a double, and Tart doubled in a run.

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