SteepleCats Tickets Now Available Online

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — In seasons past, buying a ticket for a SteepleCats ballgame meant ensuring your wallet was filled with cash and receiving a ticket in the form of a stamp on your hand. The 2018 season, however, has brought this transaction into the digital age, allowing for tickets to be purchased online or at the field via credit card or cash.

Using the application Eventbrite, tickets for the SteepleCats can now be purchased online for all of the 22 home games at Joe Wolfe Field. The tickets are sent via email and can either be printed out or brought up on your phone to be scanned at the gate, limiting the amount of time spent waiting in line and getting you into the ballpark faster.

Tickets can also be purchased with cash or credit at the door at the new SteepleCats ticket booth located outside the ballpark on the first base side.

To buy tickets for any of the North Adams SteepleCats home games this season, head to www.steeplecats.org.

MCLA Selects Pennsylvania Educator as 13th President

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
06:47PM / Thursday, April 23, 2026

 Diana Rogers-Adkinson

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The board of trustees on Thursday voted 8-2 to offer the 13th presidency of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts to a Pennsylvania higher education executive.

Diana L. Rogers-Adkinson is senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs and chief academic officer for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, providing system-level leadership for 10 universities serving approximately 80,000 students.

 

"I thought she was really able to articulate the value of a liberal arts education and our mission to both society and, you know, to our students in their lives," said Trustees Buffy Lord before presenting the motion to offer her the post. "I think that she'll be a fantastic advocate for MCLA within Berkshire County, but also in Boston. You know, my sense is that she's going to be able to fight for us if it needs to happen."

 

Rogers-Adkinson accepted the post by phone immediately after the vote, pending negotiations and approval by the Board of Higher Education. 

 

She was one of four finalists for the post out of 102 completed applications. All four spent time on campus over the past month, speaking with students, faculty, trustees and community members. 

 

Trustees expounded on her experience, leadership and communication style. She was also one of two candidates, with preferred by the faculty, the college's unions and Higher Education Commissioner Noe Ortega.

 

The second candidate preferred, Michael J. Middleton, provost and vice president at Ramapo College of New Jersey, withdrew after consultation wiht his family, according to Lord.