After the Slush: Warmer Weather Arrives

Staff Reports12:15PM / Thursday, March 05, 2026Print Story | Email Story

Yuck. After Tuesday's surprise snowstorm (1 to 2 inches??), which sent kids home early and canceled activities, there's another mess headed our way.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for all of Western Massachusetts, Southern Vermont, northern Connecticut and most of Upstate New York and the Capital Region.

The warning runs from 5 p.m. on Thursday to noon Friday, with a forecast of snow and sleet and icy rain.

The region can expect total accumulations of one to 2 inches, with greater expectations of ice totals in the higher elevations.

This will start as rain on Thursday afternoon, before changing over to sleet and freezing rain, and then snow across the northern region. This is expected to taper off on Friday morning.

The evening and morning commutes will be messy with black ice and slippery roads.

Greylock Snow Day's confidence meter is at 45 percent for school delays on Friday morning.

But wait, according to Accuweather, temperatures are going to finally break out of the frozone this weekend and spike across the Midwest and Northeast. We're talking high 40s and maybe even the 50s for New England.

"The pattern from late this week into the weekend will give tens of millions of people in parts of the Midwest and Northeast a serious case of spring fever," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Matt Benz said.

Spring is 17 days away.

A messy storm will begin with plain rain showers this afternoon across southern New England. As cold air bleeds south, a change to ice, sleet and snow will occur from north to south. The storm has trended colder with more sleet potential. #MAwx #CTwx #RIwx #NHwx #MEwx #VTwx

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— New England Storm Center (@nestormcenter.bsky.social) March 5, 2026 at 11:09 AM

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McCann Tech Deems Social Media Threat 'Not Credible' After Police Investigation

Staff Reports 09:19AM / Thursday, March 12, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — McCann Technical School officials confirmed Thursday that a threatening social media post directed at the school was found to be a illagitaemt following an investigation by the North Adams Police Department (NAPD).

School administrators notified families that the NAPD determined the social media account responsible for the post was not legitimate and there is no credible threat to the campus.

"The post did contain threatening content to McCann Tech, but after investigation by NAPD it was found that the threat was NOT credible and that the social media account was NOT legitimate," the school stated in a message to the community.

While authorities have concluded that students and staff are not in any danger, McCann officials have requested an increased police presence at the school Thursday morning. The school emphasized that this measure is being taken out of an "extreme abundance of caution" to help students and families feel comfortable starting the day.

The NAPD is asking anyone with information regarding the origin of the post to contact the department directly.

Following the internal notification from McCann, North Adams Public Schools (NAPS) issued an "all-call" to its own district families Thursday morning.

"North Adams Public Schools will continue to operate using its standard safety procedures," the NAPS statement read, echoing the police department's conclusion that there is no active threat to local students.

McCann is part of the Northern Berkshire Regional Vocational Technical School District, not NAPS.

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