More Sleet, Snow on the Way

Staff Reports04:43PM / Wednesday, February 05, 2025Print Story | Email Story

It's starting to feel like the cold and snow will never leave. Get ready for another blast of snow Thursday and again on the weekend across the Berkshire region.

The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., has issued a winter weather advisory for Western Mass, Southern Vermont and eastern New York beginning at 7 a.m. on Thursday through 6 p.m.

It will start out with snow but later turn to a sleety mix of rain and ice in the afternoon. Be prepared for slippery roads.

There's a chance for up to 2 to 4 inches of snow but ice seems more likely. Our friends at Greylock Snow Day are only giving a 10 percent chance of a snow day largely because the storm will hit the Berkshires after everyone's in school, and end by afternoon.

"Your only real chance for a snow day tomorrow is if your superintendent is in a very generous mood," GSD writes.

Temperatures will continue to hover around freezing — dipping into the single digits again on Wednesday night.

It may warm up slightly this weekend, enough for another round of snow and sleet on Sunday. Last year, according to Accuweather, the temperatures were in the 50s. The temperatures have hit 32 degrees or higher about a dozen times in the past 36 days, with a high of 41 on Monday. The year ended with highs in the 40s and 50s in the days leading up to New Year's Eve and on New Year's Day.

More snow is coming to New England on Thursday. Here are the forecast maps.

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— The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com) February 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM

The Next 48 Hours:

TONIGHT: Cold-increasing clouds late at night-snow arrives 5-7am.

THURSDAY: Snow-tapering off as a little sleet/fr. drizzle by early afternoon.
Expect slow gonig for the morning commute.

FRIDAY: More clouds than sun, windy-flurries. pic.twitter.com/YAPE5iEsa4
— Steve Caporizzo (@SteveCaporizzo) February 5, 2025

A quick couple inches falling tomorrow, topped with ice, will make for slippery roads. If there was a time to avoid traveling if you don't like driving in snow, 9am-2pm would be the window to avoid. #wbz pic.twitter.com/hdTP9alKg4
— Eric Fisher (@ericfisher) February 5, 2025

NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Winter Weather Advisory * WHAT...Freezing rain expected. Total ice accumulations around two tenths of an inch. * WHERE...Portions of central and west central Ohio. * WHEN...Until 5 AM EST Thursday. * IMPACTS...Difficult travel... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...

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— National Weather Service Alerts (@skeetbot.watchedsky.social) February 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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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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