Genesis Baez and Christine Kelly: Book Launch and Reception

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Artists Genesis Báez and Christine Kelly are scheduled to hold a book launch and reception at MASS MoCA on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 5:00 PM. 
 
The event will feature Báez's debut monograph, "Blue Sun," and Kelly's "Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid."
 
Báez's "Blue Sun" (Capricious Publishing, 2025) is described as spanning "a decade of photographic work made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora," offering "a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship through images of the elemental and generational." Kelly's "Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid" (PRROBLEM, 2025) engages with geometry, with Kelly stating, "my dispersal is at your disposal." 
 
Tickets for the event are $5 in advance, with the cost deducted from any purchase made in the R&D Store on the night of the program. Admission is free for members.
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Clarksburg Students Write in Support of Rural School Aid

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

Mason Langenback calculated that Clarksburg would get almost $1 million if the $60 million was allocated equally.
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Eighth-graders at Clarksburg School took a lesson in civic advocacy this week, researching school funding and writing letters to Beacon Hill that call for fully funding rural school aid. 
 
The students focused on the hardships for small rural schools and their importance to the community — that they struggle with limited funding and teacher shortages, but offer safe and supportive spaces for learning and are a hub for community connections.
 
"They all address the main issue, the funding for rural schools, and how there's a gap, and there's the $4 million gap this year, and then it's about the $40 million next year, and that rural schools need that equitable funding," said social studies teacher Mark Karhan.
 
A rural schools report in 2022 found smaller school districts cost from nearly 17 percent to 23 percent more to operate, and recommended "at least" $60 million be appropriated annually for rural school aid. 
 
Gov. Maura Healey has filed for more Chapter 70 school aid, but that often is little help to small rural schools with declining or static enrollment. For fiscal 2027, she's budgeted $20 million for rural schools, up from around $13 million this year but still far below the hoped for $60 million. 
 
Karhan said the class was broken into four groups and the students were provided a submission letter from Rural Schools Advocacy. The students used the first paragraph, which laid out the funding facts, and then did research and wrote their own letters. 
 
They will submit those with a school picture to the governor. 
 
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