Drury High School Announces Winners Of John And Abigail Adams Scholarship

08:14AM / Wednesday, December 03, 2025Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Drury High School announced that 13 students from the Class of 2026 have earned the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship.

This merit-based award grants recipients a tuition credit for up to eight semesters of undergraduate study at any Massachusetts state college or university.

To qualify for this scholarship, students must achieve both an Advanced score on one of the MCAS assessments in English Language Arts, Mathematics, or STE subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Introductory Physics, or Technology/Engineering) and earn Proficient or Advanced

scores on the other two assessments and rank within the top 25 percent of their district, based on combined MCAS results.

The 2025 scholarship recipients from Drury High School are: Layla Brooks, Ian Brulé, Brayden Canales, Kyra Conklin, Eden Duval, Hollyann Field, Lucas Hamilton, Connor Hinkell, Vane Jacobs, Sariah Larko, Jocelyn Phelps, Eva Moser, and Jamil Wheeler.

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Q&A with State Representative Challenger Andrew Fitch

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:01AM / Sunday, August 23, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On Sept. 1, voters in the First Berkshire District will decide whether they want to send a new representative to Beacon Hill in Boston.

Andrew Fitch, currently a city councilor in the district's largest municipality — and the commonwealth's smallest city — is challenging former North Adams Mayor John Barrett III, who won the First Berkshire seat in a 2017 special election, in the Democratic Party primary.

There is no Republican on the primary ballot for the First Berkshire seat so the primary will effectively be the election for the seat.

The two candidates met for their only debate on Aug. 13 at Williams College. iBerkshires.com reached out to both candidates to follow up on some of the points raised in the debate and get their thoughts on some other issues facing the district.

Below are excerpts from a conversation with challenger Andrew Fitch:

Question: From the very beginning, you talked about the campaign as a listening experience, and this week you're continuing that with the bike tour …

Andrew Fitch: Knocking on doors that have never been knocked on before. … I was riding through, I believe it was Hinsdale coming into Windsor, and they started to yell at me, 'No!' And then the guy was like, 'Wait a second. That's Andrew Fitch.' They actually knew who I was, and they were actually wanting to chat with me.

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