Greylock Thunder 14U Goes to 3-0 at Greenfield Tourney

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GREENFIELD, Mass. – Avery Lane threw a 1-hitter in the circle and went 2-for-3 with a triple at the plate Saturday in leading the Greylock Thunder 14U travel softball team to a 10-0 win over the Prime Softball Blue of North Reading at the Mid-Summer Storm tournament.
 
Lane struck out four in the four-inning win as the Thunder improved to 3-0 in the tournament.
 
Ava Jagiello and Kendall Moran each had two hits in a nine-hit attack for Greylock in its second win of the day.
 
The Thunder started Saturday with a 5-3 win over Vermont’s 8zero2.
 
Moran went the distance in the circle in that six-inning win, striking out six and allowing no earned runs.
 
Kyleigh Cooper was 2-for-2 with a triple at the plate.
 
Lane and Sydney Payson each doubled.
 
The Thunder moves on to bracket play on Sunday.
 
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Hoosac Valley Seeks to Prevent 'Volatile' Assessments

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
ADAMS, Mass.— The "volatile" shifts in Hoosac Valley Regional School District's town assessments year to year is hard for smaller towns to absorb; however, a proposed change to the regional agreement would fix that. 
 
During the Select Board meeting last week, Superintendent Aaron Dean presented the proposed change to the regional agreement that would set assessments based on a five-year rolling average rather than the annual student enrollment.
 
"The long-term goal is to make the assessment process a little bit more viable for people from year-to-year," he said. 
 
An ad hoc committee was convened to review the district's agreement, during which concerns arose about the rapid fluctuations in assessments.
 
"I think you have to look short term, and you have to look long term. The goal is to kind of level it off and make planning easier and flatten that curve in terms of how it's going to impact both communities," Dean said. 
 
Every year, it is a little more difficult for one community because they are feeling disproportionately impacted compared to the other, he said. 
 
"The transient nature of this population right now is like nothing I've ever seen," Dean said. 
 
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