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

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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's Gas Supply Is at Capacity, and Economic Development Is at Stake

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com
05:48AM / Monday, September 21, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For more than a decade, town officials have been grappling with how the Village Beautiful can spur economic development.

Last week, the Select Board heard about a major impediment the town can do nothing about.

"Berkshire Gas had reached out to me last week," Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the board during his report at the twice-monthly meeting. "I did meet with them, and they're reaching out to let us know they're out of capacity for Northern Berkshire.

"The pipeline that comes up through North Adams and feeds into us is at its maximum capacity. So there will be no additional installations for the very foreseeable and, probably, distant future."

That means that soon no more new residential or commercial hookups for natural gas will be available in town. And new development is exactly what Williamstown has been hoping to spur, particularly in its population center.

Economic development was the focus of an intensive, yearlong town study in 2015. It has been at the heart of many of the initiatives of the town's Planning Board in recent years. And it has been a rallying cry of the Finance Committee, which has consistently told residents that without "new growth" in the property tax base, the spiraling tax burden will continue to be split among existing taxpayers.

As recently as Aug. 24, during the Select Board's annual tax classification hearing, Town Assessor Christopher Lamarre told the panel why growing the tax base is the only way to avoid either cuts to town services or a Proposition 2 1/2 override vote.

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