April Storm Could Bring Snow, High Winds and Power Outages

Several cities previously lacking snowfall this winter are now in line for a late-season snow as Winter Storm #Tormund tracks toward the Great Lakes and Northeast. This system has already prompted winter alerts with the potential for hazardous conditions.@WXMolly has more: pic.twitter.com/cQjW4uHK14

— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) April 2, 2024

Complex, long, drawn out event... Nasty few days. pic.twitter.com/Otlz2KPfms

— Dan Brown (@dbrownweather) April 2, 2024

[Storm Briefing Wed into Thu] A late season Nor'easter will impact the region Wed into Thu. This will bring the potential for heavy rain with renewed river flooding, wet snow mainly across the high terrain along with strong winds and coastal flooding too. pic.twitter.com/YHqZu3KrQR

— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) April 2, 2024

Here are the latest Key Messages for a developing, strong winter storm that will begin to impact portions of the Great Lakes later today and extend into the Northeast on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/wE7ZYnNsxY

— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) April 2, 2024

MCLA in Talks With Anonymous Donor for Art Museum, Art Lab

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:19AM / Monday, April 29, 2024

Andre Lynch, the new vice provost for institutional equity and belonging, introduces himself to the trustees, some of whom were participating remotely.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts may be in line for up to a $10 million donation that will include a campus art museum. 

 

President Jamie Birge told the board of trustees on Thursday that  the college has been in discussions for the last couple years with a donor who wishes at this point to remain anonymous.

 

"It's a donor that has a history of working with public liberal arts institutions to advance the arts that those institutions," he said.  "This donor would like to talk with us or has been talking with us about creating art museum and an art lab on campus."

 

The Fine and Performing Arts Department will have input, the president continued. "We want to make sure that it's a facility that supports that teaching and learning dynamic as well as responding to what's the interest of donor."

 

The college integrated into the local arts community back in 2005 with the opening of Gallery 51 on Main Street that later expanded with an art lab next door. The gallery under the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center had been the catalyst for the former Downstreet Art initiative; its participation has fallen off dramatically with changes in leadership and the pandemic. 

 

This new initiative, should it come to pass, would create a facility on MCLA Foundation property adjacent to the campus. The donor and the foundation have already split the cost of a study. 

 

"We conducted that study to look at what approximately a 6,500-square-foot facility would look like," said Birge. "How we would staff the gallery and lab, how can we use this lab space for fine and performing arts."