Graffiti beneath the Berkshire Mall overpass at Partridge Road has been replaced by Lanesborough sixth graders’ artworks

LANESBOROUGH — Students at Lanesborough Elementary School have been enlisted to combat a problem plaguing the Berkshire Mall Road overpass at Partridge Road: graffiti. In a yearlong project, 28 sixth-graders thought carefully about their happiest memories in town — and then put them on paper in colored pencil. They’ve since measured and cut mat boards to frame their artworks that are being painted on the overpass walls in latex high-gloss exterior paint, which is easier to clean in case more graffiti shows up. First, the Department of Public Works painted over the graffiti in a dark gray. Magnus Plumb and Wrex Wojtkowski, both 12, work on a mural they will give to their school as a class gift. A wall-sized version is being painted on the Berkshire Mall Road overpass at Partridge Road. JANE KAUFMAN — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE The mural was along the way to completion by Tuesday, having been started last week by artists Stephanie Quetti and Kristen Tool, who came up with the concept and won two grants to help pay for supplies and labor to undertake it. The original artworks will be exhibited in a one-day art show at the school on Monday. Accompanying their works...