Here's why Superintendent Leslie Blake-Davis of the Central Berkshire Regional School District decided to delay use of a new high school until Oct. 12, even though teachers had packed up their old Wahconah Regional classrooms in Dalton.

Getting building materials during the coronavirus pandemic has been a struggle for the team constructing the new Wahconah Regional High School. Rather than begin use of the school Sept. 1, as planned, students will start the year in their old building next door in Dalton.