Top Students Announced for Hoosac Valley Class of 2023

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CHESHIRE, Mass. — Hoosac Valley High School has named Kathryn Scholz and Tia Kareh as the valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the class of 2023.

Graduation exercises will take place at 6 p.m. on Friday in the school gymnasium.

Scholz, daughter of Erik and Laura Scholz of Adams, is a member of the National Honor Society and recipient of the Superintendent's Award. She was a member of the Ski Club and Leo Club, the track and field team and a Hoosac PRIDE (Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, Empathy) mentor. She participated in band and as backstage crew for the school's musicals, and in Project 351.

She was also an intern with the Garden Club and a member of Girls Who Code and Berkshire Community Rowing, and team member and instructor at the Gemini Gymnastics. She was the recipient of the Feel Good in Your Community Award, the Cornell University Sweat Shirt Award and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal.

Scholz is planning to attend the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to study microbiology and German

Kareh, daughter of Paul Kareh and Hasna Nehme of Adams, was president of the local National Honor Society chapter, a class officer for the past four years and vice president of Student Council, and a member of the Athletic Leadership Council for four years. She also was a member of the Link Crew, the Leo Club, Ski Club, the art club, the school's 84th Chapter (on smoking prevention) and World of Difference. She was a PRIDE mentor, co-chair of the District Attorney's Youth Advisory Board and participated in the school's annual musical productions and band. and band.

She was captain of the soccer team and named to the All-League Team and captain of the lacrosse team.

Kareh has received the statewide Youth Leadership Award, the Feel Good in Your Community Award, the Williams College Book Award and the CIAO soccer scholarship as well as excellence awards for Advanced Placement in history, world history, literature and physics.

She plans to first attend Massachusetts College of Liberal and to later transfer to complete a double major at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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North Berkshire School Study Encouraging Stakeholders to Take Survey

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
07:22AM / Saturday, October 03, 2026

CHESHIRE, Mass. — The consultants behind the education study for North Berkshire are hoping for solid responses to its recently released survey.

The survey, released last week, can be found here.

"Our goal is somewhere between 5 and 10 percent overall survey responses, which is somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 responses," project manager Jake Eberwein told the steering committee for the North Berkshire Educational Sustainability Study at Wednesday's meeting at Hoosac Valley High School.

This is the next phase of the study of secondary education in North County being undertaken through state funding and conducted by Berkshire Educational Consulting Group, Berk12.

"Our first phase was project awareness, and that was really our you know attempt to meet the school committees, select boards, and we wrapped that up this past Monday in Williamstown," Berk12 researcher Brendan Sheran said. "And certainly, we'll be doing more of that going back out probably in the midyear or springtime. But in terms of info gathering, really, the data collection — that's where we are now."

The community survey was launched through sharing on social media, the group's stakeholder list, the press, and the district partners, which are distributing it to educators, parents and students. The window is expected to close on Friday, Oct. 9, but Sheran said they can be flexible with the date.

The survey takes about seven to 10 minutes and is open to those in the Hoosac Valley Regional and Mount Greylock Regional school districts and in North Adams, Clarksburg, Florida and Savoy.

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