Berkshire Comedy Festival Returns

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Comedy Festival returns this summer at their new home, Barrington Stage Company. 
 
The Comedy Festival will run over three days of the Memorial Day Weekend, with performances on each of Barrington Stage Company's three stages: Mr. Finn's Cabaret (Opening Night), St. Germain Stage (Night Two), and the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage for the big Comedy Festival closing night finale.
 
The dates of the shows are Thursday May 23, Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25. All performances are 8pm show times.
 
Tickets start at $25.
 
The Comedy Festival is produced by Comedian, Producer and Promoter Paul Anthony and the Long Island Comedy Festival. 
 
"We are so pleased to announce the re-launch of The Berkshire Comedy Festival to kick off the summer season in the Berkshires," said Paul Anthony. "Our new home at Barrington Stage Company is an exciting opportunity for us to expand the Comedy Festival, which was our plan from the very beginning. This will be our 6th year producing the Berkshire Comedy Festival, which will now run over three days, giving us an opportunity to feature so many more comedians."
 
He added that the Berkshire Comedy Festival celebrates the art if live Stand-Up Comedy, and will feature comedians from the New England comedy scene, the NYC comedy scene, and beyond. 
 
Each performance will feature a different line-up of 4-6 comedians. 
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Wahconah Students Join Statewide 'SOS' Call for Rural School Funding

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff

DALTON, Mass. — Students at Wahconah Regional High School are urging the state to fully fund Rural School Aid that supports essential services that shape their future.
 
Rural districts across the state participated in Rural and Declining Enrollment Schools Week of Action to insist Beacon Hill fully fund rural aid at $60 million. 
 
Schools across Massachusetts sent their pleas for aid to lawmakers through letter-writing campaigns, sign-making, and coordinated gatherings where students and educators formed the letters "SOS."

Wahconah students did something different — they created an educational video detailing the need for increased funding for rural schools with the school's music teacher Brian Rabuse, who edited the video, Assistant Superintendent Aaron Robb said. 

The advocacy efforts move the issue from spreadsheets to show the human cost of a funding formula previously described as "remarkably wrong." 
 
During an interview with iBerkshires, students expressed how districts without rural aid would have to make reductions in world language programing, mental health support, extracurricular opportunities, and other areas they find essential. 
 
"Our students deserve the same quality of education as any child in Massachusetts, regardless of their ZIP code," Superintendent Mike Henault said in apress release.
 
"The week of action is an opportunity for our communities to come together and make it clear to Beacon Hill that the status quo is no longer acceptable." 
 
Rural schools attempt to create the same quality education as urban and suburban areas while balancing high fixed costs of transportation and operations of geographically large, low-population districts.
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