ssistant director Molly Rideout talks wtih artists as Assets for Artists holds a workshop in the Prow of Mass MoCA. Press photo by Sofia Taylor, courtesy of Assets 4 Artists

Learning

Here are the Hill Country Observer’s articles about learning, listed from newest to oldest. Knowledge matters at the Hill Country Observer — Public education, freedom to think and read, revel in ideas and share them — and life in our schools, from elementary to colleges.

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    With colleges gone, new plans for campuses take shape

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      The campus of Green Mountain College, seen here in its final semester of operation in 2019, was sold at auction in August to an entrepreneur who says he hopes to revive it as an agricultural work college. The campus is one of three in southwestern Vermont that are in the process of being converted read more

    With colleges gone, new plans for campuses take shape
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    Now back to class? Colleges prepare for influx of students

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    Area colleges make plans to welcome students back as virus surges nationally   A seating area behind the Case Campus Center at Skidmore College awaits the arrival of students. The college is among several in the region that aim to resume in-person classes this month.Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CASTLETON, Vt. read more

    Now back to class? Colleges prepare for influx of students
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    Small schools weigh interstate merger

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    Cross-border district would be first linking Vermont and Mass.   The local school in Stamford, Vt., housed in the same complex as the town office and library, has fewer than 100 students in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. The Stamford school district is considering merging with a district across the state line in Clarksburg, Mass. Susan read more

    Small schools weigh interstate merger
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    Lush gardens, growing mission

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    Pact with neighbors allows Berkshire Botanical Garden to expand A winding path is lined by lilies at Berkshire Botanical Garden, which recently expanded its land area for the first time in its nearly 90-year history. Susan Sabino photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. Winding trails curve through a peaceful setting where towering pines read more

    Lush gardens, growing mission
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    Creating a community forest

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    Deal preserves land at a village’s edge for education, recreation A group visiting the new Cambridge Community Forest last month included Alex Dery Snider, Elliott Norman, Bill Arnold, Sarah Ashton and Jared Woodcock. George Bouret photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. A wooded hillside on the edge of the village of Cambridge, the read more

    Creating a community forest
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    College aims to strengthen creative ties

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    New MCLA institute builds links to Berkshires arts organizations The poet and essayist Nikki Giovanni spoke in June at a conference organized by the new Institute for Arts and Humanities at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Courtesy photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. The bowls lay on the paths under the read more

    College aims to strengthen creative ties
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    Judge bars college from selling arts center

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    The founders of the Bennington Center for the Arts have gone to court in an effort to annul their gift of the center to Southern Vermont College. In a lawsuit filed May 21 in Bennington Superior Court, Bruce Laumeister and Elizabeth Small argue that when they agreed to donate the arts center and its collection read more

    Judge bars college from selling arts center
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    Colleges on the brink

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    Demographic, financial pressures spell doom for three area schools Southern Vermont College President David R. Evans stands on the patio outside his office in the college’s Everett Mansion. The college is one of three in the region that plan to close this spring. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer     With read more

    Colleges on the brink
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    Honoring black history in the Berkshires

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    Group aims to transform former church into visitor, cultural center Beth Carlson and Wray Gunn Sr. stand in front of the former Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church in Great Barrington. Carlson and Gunn both serve on the board of a 2-year-old nonprofit group that hopes to transform the building into a visitor and cultural center celebrating read more

    Honoring black history in the Berkshires
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    School radio station plans for rebirth

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    Pittsfield’s WTBR, begun as school project, will have broader mission Shawn Serre, the executive director of Pittsfield Community Television, shows off the new home of radio station WTBR-89.7 FM, which temporarily suspended broadcasts in June. Susan Sabino photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. A local FM radio station that got started in 1969 read more

    School radio station plans for rebirth