Snow, Sleet Predicted Overnight Wednesday

01:36PM / Wednesday, November 08, 2023Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshires could be in for a wintry mix of snow and ice on Thursday morning.

The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., has a winter weather advisory in effect beginning at 9 p.m. on Wednesday through 1 p.m. on Thursday.

Plan on slippery road conditions, especially on untreated surfaces. The hazardous conditions could impact the Thursday morning commute.

Affected areas in Southern Vermont and the Northern Berkshires could see up to an inch of snow and ice accumulations of 2/10ths of an inch. The advisory also covers New York's southern Adirondacks and the Lake George-Saratoga region.

Precipitation will begin as a period of snow and sleet late this evening into the overnight hours, then transition to freezing rain by early Thursday morning. Freezing

rain will then change to plain rain by Thursday afternoon.

The temperatures dropped precipitously since Tuesday morning, when it was in the low 60s in North Adams. Wind chills brought the temperature down into the 20s on Wednesday morning.

But this is the Berkshires, so expect snow, rain and chills over the weekend with the possibility of the return of warmer weather next week. A low front moving up from the southeast is expected to bring higher than normal temperatures for much of the region.

Long-range forecasts show a rise into the 50s by the end of next week.

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North Adams School Project Awards $51M Bid

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
05:10AM / Friday, February 13, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Building Committee has awarded the Greylock School project to Fontaine Bros. Inc. of Springfield.

Mayor Jennifer Macksey said she could "breathe a little better" with a bid contract that comes in nearly $2 million under budget.

The committee approved a bid of $50,498,544 on Thursday night that includes two alternates — the rebuild of the Appalachian Trail kiosk and the relocation and reconstruction of the baseball field.

"I will say, all in all, for us to have overall the number of bidders that we had interested in our project, and especially to receive the GC bids that we did, the team Colliers and TSKP certainly did a good job attracting people to us," she said. "But this project ... really shows the testament of the good work that Colliers and TSKP and all of you have been doing throughout this process."

Fontaine had the low bid between Brait Builders of Marshfield and J&J Contractors Inc. of North Billerica.

The project had been bid out at $52,250,000 with three alternates: moving the ballfield, the kiosk and vertical geothermal wells.

Committee members asked Timothy Alix of Collier's International, the owner's project manager, about his impressions of the bidders. He was most familiar with Fontaine, having worked with the company on a half-dozen school projects and noted it was the contractor on the Mountain View Elementary School in Easthampton that the Massachusetts School Building Authority has held up as an example school. He also had some of his colleagues call on projects that he had not personally worked on.

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