Berkshire County Arc received two loans totaling $635,000 that helped build a new home in Lanesboro to give new lives to four men with brain injuries. Funding for $435,000 came from the State Facilities Consolidation Fund, and $200,000 from the Federal Home Loan Bank. “This is part of a larger, state [...]
Posing in the front yard of her program. Jamie Sigoski intended to go to school to learn sign language, but never did. By chance, while working at Berkshire County Arc, one of the individuals she oversees cannot hear. “So they sent me to an intensive training program to learn to sign,” she said. To [...]
Mary Manzolini has not only the longest history of attending any Berkshire County Arc program, she and her family are one of the initial 11 families that conceived and launched BCArc in 1954, Kenneth Singer told some 240 people at BCArc’s 65th Annual Meeting on Friday at the Berkshire Hills Country C [...]
Rachel Nicola made the choice to work with adults over children a few years ago because adults with disabilities, she said, “have been through some tough times over the years, they weren’t always treated so well.” “I connect on a unique level with the adults in my program,” she said. “They put a smil [...]