Pine Cobble School's Early Learning Center Enrolling 2 & 3-Year-Olds

03:11PM / Thursday, July 30, 2026Print Story | Email Story

The Early Learning Center at Pine Cobble School reflects the school's commitment to providing a curriculum-based early learning program where curiosity drives instruction and learning happens through exploration and discovery.

Beginning this fall, the program will welcome children into our 2-year-old classroom, creating new opportunities for families seeking a nurturing and engaging start to their child's educational journey.

The Early Learning Center combines the nurturing environment of an early childhood program with the resources of an independent school, offering young learners opportunities to build foundational academic, social, and emotional skills while experiencing the joy of discovery every day. Students learn with a team of dedicated teachers who are specialists in their fields, including early literacy and numeracy, Spanish, art, music, library, and movement and sports.

Set on Pine Cobble's beautiful 20-acre campus, The Early Learning Center embraces outdoor education as an essential part of the learning experience. Children regularly explore wooded trails, fields, gardens, and natural spaces, using the outdoors as an extension of the classroom. Through exploration and experiential learning, students develop curiosity, confidence, and a lasting connection to the natural world.

Families interested in learning more are invited to attend one on Pine Cobble's summer information sessions:

Wednesday, August 5 | 9:00–11:00 a.m. and 3:00–5:00 p.m.

Visitors will have the opportunity to tour the campus, meet teachers, and learn more about Pine Cobble's innovative approach to early childhood education.

For more information, contact Sue Gundrum – s.gundrum@pinecobble.org

Williamstown Studying Major Overhaul for Main Street

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:14AM / Wednesday, July 29, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town is working with a Worcester civil engineering firm to redesign Main Street with an eye toward a major project sometime in the next decade.

Community Development Director Andrew Groff was before the Select Board on Monday night to talk about Town Hall's use of a $500,000 state grant to do preliminary design on major improvements to that portion of Route 2 that runs from Water Street west to the Field Park rotary, through the middle of Williams College's campus.

Groff introduced the elected officials to Amanda Bazinet of Worcester's Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, who is helping the town to develop a plan for Main Street that would align with the commonwealth's Complete Streets Program.

"Our project goals, in addition to the increased pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, is just, in general, improving the sightlines and improving the intersection geometry," Bazinet said.

"Complete Streets … has a lot of different facets to it. As Andrew had mentioned, the goal is to improve the safety for all of the roadway users — not just the motorists. We're looking at improving it for pedestrians, bicyclists, anyone using a mobility device. We want to create streets that are safe for all ages and abilities to use. So, while bicyclists will still be allowed, legally, to use the roadway, we want to look at providing a separate bicycle accommodation along the corridor, whether it's a shared use path along both sides of the streets that is a little more accessible to young children or older people with disabilities to look at all transportation options."

One goal is to encourage "active transportation." The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, who the town hopes one day might fund the construction, has a "healthy transportation policy," Bazinet said.

That MassDOT funding would come through the Transportation Improvement Program, which is managed locally by the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission. The design work underway now is being done with an eye toward going after TIP funding years down the road.

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