BMS Announces Talent and Merit Scholarship Recipients

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Music School announced the 2025-2026 Talent and Merit Scholarship recipients. 
 
Students who are accepted into the Talent & Merit Scholarship Program benefit from up to 100 percent tuition assistance. Last year, BMS awarded over $35,000 in Talent, Merit, and Need-Based Financial Aid Scholarships. BMS continues to take Need-Based Financial Aid Scholarship applications on a rolling basis, with enrollment open in August. 
 
The BMS Scholarship Program, which includes the Talent & Merit Scholarships and the rolling Need-Based Financial Aid Scholarships, remains integral to its mission of allowing students to learn and grow in the Berkshire County region without financial constraints.
 
The 2025 – 2026 Talent & Merit Scholarship Recipients: 
  • Tracy R. Wilson Scholarship – Shira Weiner
  • Helen and Milton Fink Memorial Scholarship - Artois Sancho
  • Gia Cox Caird Scholarship - Alyviana Manion
  • England/Scott Family Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation- Nina Rather
  • Paul Houston Memorial Scholarship - Sai Meesala
  • The Ruberto Scholarship - James Ryan
  • Daniel Pearl Scholarship - Abigail Kunzmann
  • Paderweski Scholarship - Kendall Heck
  • Chopin Scholarship - Anderson Durfee
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Dalton Eyes New Software to Streamline Payroll

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — Since taking on the role of town manager, Eric Anderson has been finding ways to streamline operations to save on labor hours — now he is eyeing improving workforce management. 
 
"By my rough math, we're chewing up some 1,500 hours a year doing payroll, and there's just no reason for that. The way we're doing it now is incredibly inefficient," he told the Select Board last week. 
 
The board approved Anderson's recommendation to undergo contract negotiations with TimeClock Plus, a scheduling software designed to simplify employee time tracking and workforce management.
 
The town has 62 paid employees who currently submit their timesheets on paper, which are then manually reviewed by department heads, who calculate hours, vacation time, and prepare cover sheets before forwarding them to the treasurer or town manager to be approved. 
 
The assistant treasurer then spends several days each week processing the town's payroll, Anderson said. 
 
As part of his efforts to streamline this process, Anderson looked at multiple different services narrowing it down to TimeClock Plus, or TCP, because of its ease of integration with the town's regular financial software and that it's commonly used by municipalities. 
 
"Some of the payroll programs are designed to go directly to payroll companies, but since we do our payroll in house, this cuts all the manual correlation, and it filters directly into our existing [Enterprise Resource Planning] financial software," he said. 
 
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