TENSION & THE TOWER: CELL SELL HAS SHACKTOWN IN SMACKDOWN, PT. 1
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
First in a Two-Part Series
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 29, 2021) — There’s a clan war going on between some residents of the Shacktown section on upper Holmes Road and the city of Pittsfield over a now-built and running cell phone tower there.
In 2017 Verizon petitioned the city to construct a 5G, 115-foot, 12-antennae tower. The Zoning Board of Appeals approved a special permit, and construction began in March 2017. The ZBA, city planner C.J. Hoss, and city solicitor Stephen Pagnotta say residents within 300 feet of the tower were properly notified. A handful of residents opposed to the tower disagree and went to court. Late last summer, Superior Court judge Doug Wilkins dismissed the neighborhood’s claims out of hand. Wilkins said residents had a 90-day window to raise concerns about the construction but no one came forward within that period.
“While the result may seem harsh to abutters, the opposite rule may be harsh to applicants, who may invest time, effort, and money in acting under a permit in the honest belief that no one intended to contest or appeal from the permit,” Wilkins said in his late-August 2020 ruling.
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The tower, located at 877 South Street, hovers over a neighborhood that includes Plumb, Alma, Fairhaven, and Ora streets; Elmer, Atmer, Stanton, and Oliver avenues; and Lori Court.
The neighborhood’s story keeps moving. First they complained they weren’t notified. Then they objected on aesthetic grounds. Now they claim health hazards — headaches, cardiovascular stress, birth defects, and cancer.
The FCC disagrees: “Measurements made near typical cellular and PCS installations, especially those with tower-mounted antennas, have shown that ground-level power densities are hundreds to thousands of times less than the FCC’s limits for safe exposure. This makes it extremely unlikely that a member of the general public could be exposed to RF levels in excess of FCC guidelines due solely to cellular or PCS base station antennas located on towers or monopoles.”
The American Cancer Society also disagrees, saying there is no credible evidence that exposure to RF from cell towers causes any noticeable health effects.
What’s not in dispute are the facts. Cell phone towers emit large amounts of radio frequency radiation (RF) — “microwaves,” the kind you use everyday to cook your food. Of course, unlike ovens, cell towers emit massive amounts of radiation, which is the combination of electronic and magnetic waves moving together at the speed of light — almost faster than Peter White could coin the word “houseless.” That’s why they are built tall and out of reach. Measurements on the ground show little to no increased radiation from typical ground readings.
Board of Health director Gina Armstrong said that only one resident of the area complained of heath concerns and no one submitted any specific claims.
The most vocal resident of Shacktown has been Courtney Gilardi. On Sept. 21, sent the following e-mail to Armstrong:
“In response to the concerns raised by residents, the Health Department is preparing resource information for a review with the Pittsfield Board of Health. Because there are no MA state or Federal EMF/RF safe limit regulations, local public health does not have the standards or process to access EMF/RF conditions locally, nor the expertise to conduct a health assessment of neighboring residents. At the next meeting of the Pittsfield Board of Health, the Board is prepared to review options for next steps to address the neighborhood health concerns.
“With advancements in technology and a demand for health impact studies related to that technology, State legislation has been filed that would establish a special commission to conduct health studies associated with electromagnetic and radiofrequency radiation. Unfortunately, there is no state funding at this time to support the bill.”
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In Part Two, THE PLANET follows up with more, include our verdict on this Solomon matter.
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Little too late residents. Way late.
Pittsfield has 2 toxic waste dumps that abut Allendale Elementary School, a nearly 23 year old vacant and polluted PEDA park with huge liabilities where former Mayor Jimmy Ruberto’s useless rolodex is buried in the PCBs-tainted soil, a new 5G cellphone tower that is causing public health concerns, state and local career politicians who vote themselves generous taxpayer-funded pay raises and public perks that the average resident can only dream of, Matt Kerwood’s +$10 million to around $14 million slush fund plus $41.6 million in promised Biden Buck$ over the next 2 years, a dangerous downtown that is called “Social Services Alley” full of dozens of empty storefronts and “The Shooting Gallery” after hours that most people avoid for their own personal safety, Level 5 inner city public schools, pot odors stinking up working class neighborhoods, a shrinking population caused by decades of losses in living wage jobs and shuttered businesses, and record setting municipal budgets, taxes, fees, public debts and other hidden liabilities in the hundreds of millions of dollars that are always deferred decades into the far off future via Matt Kerwood’s creative accounting schemes. Did I miss anything?
The streets?
You need some new content Melle. Reading the same old from you day after day is getting old!
I agree. I post the same old criticisms of Pittsfield politics day in and day out on Dan Valenti’s awesome blog. How about this? Pittsfield is dynamic and vibrant. The Lovely Linda will makeover Pittsfield anew after GE left the area over one generation ago. TFB and Adam Hinds go to Boston to represent the taxpayers. Richie Neal goes to Capitol Hill to represent the people who live in his Western Massachusetts Congressional District. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey advocate for the Green New Deal to save us all from global warming. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are working on behalf of the American People to someday get us out of the “K-shaped” recovery (for Wall Street)/recession (for Main Street) so that the average working family will someday get ahead of the game again. How is that for blowing hot air that state and local career politicians say to the people of Pittsfield, Massachusetts?
Not Jon’s fault, he is just stating the facts that Pittsfield is a total mess and getting worse by the day.
And a bum in every park. Along with the nip bottles, needles, and lots of other trash.
They are “experiencing homelessness”, they are not bums.
“houselessness”
Homeliness.
You forgot about a bum on every street corner holding up the woe is me sign, despite all the help wanted adds.
Just because they are holding up signs trying to bum money off you Kapanskis, doesn’t make em bums or does it? It does make you Kapanskis dumb if you’re dumb enough to give them a plug nickel.
Those signs are part of the “vibrant and dynamic” “street art” that adorn much of PITTSfield. Part of Mayor Tyers band of merry trolls. That’s why they live under bridges and in the woods, and only venture out to seek money for a 40 oz or narcotics.
Perhaps The LEFT WINGED PARROT will hire some of them in the advertising department, as the are taking in more loot than the liberal toilet paper publication
What about the gay mafia?
The only way to have less corruption in gov’t is to have less gov’t.
That’s at ALL levels of gov’t.
Essentially all gov’t is now just a racketeering scheme.
Not 1 woman I know is afraid in any way to go to downtown Pittsfield. Almost evety Trumper is afraid of everything.
My Doberman is afraid to walk the streets. Who you kidding?
You must know lots of hookers.
ROFLMAO!!!
All the women you know must be whores and/or addicts.
Are you kidding? Every electronic appliance in these idiots homes gives off more radiation than that tower does to their house.
I’d ask everyone of those 5G loons if they have a cell phone, if the do then STFU AND GTFO!
Nipples Harrington told us minors don’t commit violent crimes! What is going on here?!?
I hope she lets him off with a good scolding!
“He was a good boy, getting his life straightened out. He wouldn’t hurt anyone.”
“I thank the detectives for their meticulous work over the last four days to quickly solve this crime and bring the suspect into custody,” Harrington said. “I plan to release him as soon as I can find the courthouse.”
I would love to see the addresses to the people that were notified. From the description I read 300 ft seems to be a small radius. I am not sure if the neighbors have any recourse except to sell and get out of Dodge! This week begins the new election cycle so maybe the neighbors can get some candidates to run who are sympathetic to their cause. In today’s climate I don’t know who to believe, everyone seems to have experts and papers to support their side.
Our own Senator Markey, 74 years old, will try to merge the green new deal with the infrastructure bill. It will be a tricky bill that is mainly about climate change and only a small part about infrastructure. Markey and Liz Warren, both climate fanatics, will push for adding as much of the very controlling green new deal to the bill as possible. Even very wealthy Barack Obama and his wife, while spouting off about climate change and the eventual erosion of our coasts, bought a multi-million dollar mansion very near the ocean. The elites don’t even believe their own climate change rhetoric. It’s a means of control over the country.
Malarkey has been an abject failure.
Silvio Conte was the last decent honest person to serve mASSachusetts.
The democrats double standard:
Are you here illegally? And Covid positive? Go forth and infect.
Are you a citizen? Get stuck in a foreign county because of a sketchy test from China.
‘I can’t believe this is happening’: Travelers recount tales of getting stuck in Mexico after positive COVID-19 tests.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cant-believe-happening-travelers-recount-120046029.html
https://nypost.com/2021/03/08/surge-in-covid-positive-migrants-being-released-in-us/
Surge in COVID-positive migrants being released in US
The number of migrants testing positive for the coronavirus before being released into the US by the Border Patrol is surging, almost doubling the amount from last week, according to a report.
Felipe Romero, a spokesman for Brownsville, Texas, said 185 migrants rapid-tested at the city’s main bus station showed they were infected with COVID-19, up from the 108 who tested positive last week, Fox News reported Monday.
Just ONE border crossing Xiden is letting in 200 Kung Flu+ criminal aliens/day.
Americans paid for the testing, then their care, housing, food,………
I’m pretty sure cell towers are “built tall and out of reach” to provide better coverage, not because of radiation.
I’m wondering if those with physical symptoms since the tower was activated have sought treatment from a physician before contacting the board of health.
Now with the cell tower and the dump south city living will be lower quality once Tyler st. Gets done.
What dump?
Yes, of course. That too.
Doesn’t Country live in that area of the city? Where’s she been on this?
License Board takes up outdoor dining debate today. Pctv
Shacktown’s latest fashion trend.
Where’s the masks?
Have you modified your DNA, and gotten your reverse transciptase Kung Flu vaccine yet?
GMO humans.
WHHAAA!!!
Will the real TDS stand up
Since the board of health “does not have expertise”, what are Gina Armstrong’s qualifications to run the department?
Does she at least hold a bachelors degree in a field of science? Microbiology, biology, biochemistry, come to mind. That would lend her some sort of competence
Or are her qualifications just GOB connections?
Who’s in charge of the forty million Pittsfield is receiving. And before it’s distributed let us see the criteria?
See the criteria? If it is released at all, it will be in Braille.
Criteria? Criteria? Did somebody say Criteria? Must be one or more of the following:
A GOBSIG
Queer
transgender
Questioning
Lesbian
LBGTQOXYZ
Black
Identify as black
Person of Color
Latinex
Bum
Houseless
Drug addicted
Jailbird
Layabout
Femdyke
Did I forget anything?
Yep,
Fly by night, take the money and run, out of town “businessman”.
Colorado house painter.
Criminal aliens, whoops not PC, er “undocumented immigrants”
Playoffs, Playoffs, did somebody say Playoffs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7fjDS0jKiE
Classic.
Don’t worry Lovely Lying Linda has created a small group of spouse swappers who meet at Meth to decide what to do. Rumor has it Stanley has created new seats for the Beacon so you can ride your bicycle right in to watch the movie. They put your bike in a nice lift so you can continue to bike while watching and your peddling is the electricity to run the theater. As a bonus for the city funding it he will only raise prices $5 a ticket
Her qualifications are simply stamina. When City Hall was open, she handled the daily commute from her out of state residence with acumen for many years. Pittsfield is her paycheck and pension, not her city.
TRUTH
Where does Gina live?
Hey there, are all you posters okay ? There was a fatality in Becket. Very sad news.
There’s fatalities everyday In Pittsfield
Guess who wasn’t in court today for a hearing for a teen alleged to have murdered a guy.
A. DA Andrea Nipples Harrington
B. DA Andrea WRONG WAY Harrington
C. A. DA Andrea Suspended license Harrington
D. A. DA Andrea Why Meeee Harrington
E. All of the above
Another day another yoga class, some fundraising, and she left the office early.
Somebody has a crush on the DA,,,
She was there. She squeaked out some a couple sentences someone wrote down for her and then let the adults do the talking. She was texting a lot on her cellphone and playing candy crush. You can tell it’s her by the weak chin and bad roots.
Sounds like you are a jealous hag! picked on in high school i get it.
Given someone just got shot in the back of the head, I think they just want a real district attorney. Why don’t you grow up?
What are you like 12 Grow up!
But she was available to meet with reporters after the work was done by someone else
Fox News and all the insurectionist are worried about Joes success.So they have talked about the border every loop.Ted Cruz is in the swamp lol get deep inside the Corporate workers Republicans have let accross for 50 years to break unions……Put business owners in jail for 1 year mandatory for hiring an illegal and the border problem STOPS…YOU’RE welcome.
If you call waking up in the am with help, then yes Joe is a success.
Kamala greased the stairs on Air Force One.
They are going to retrofit the plane with a stair lift for ole Joe
Chair Force One
Funny, Trapper.
You will close down all of CA with this so I think it’s brilliant
Tyer,and all city councilors should freeze real estatevTaxes on seniors 65 and older.If anyone runs on this you will be elected in a landslide
You are so stupid. There’s no legal way to do that and what about those who are 65 and have ample income? Those too? So shift the tax burden from those that can afford it to those that can’t, based solely on age? You are an idiot.
Property taxes should not be based on income or age or whether or not you are the minority of the month. What about equity for Pete’s sake? The rate should be the same for all us Kapanskis.
1/06/2021 is Republican party insurectionist day.NEVER FORGET
Stop being a pussy.
Galore.
BlueQanon don’t forget 1/8/21 when Pelosi ordered the military to oust a sitting President
CNN reports 24/7
Nov 3-4 2020.
The days America died.
I find it totally pathetic that ALL OF A SUDDEN some City Clownsil members want to look into this issue! Where were these clowners a year ago, how about for the past 10 months? Amazing since elections are coming up ALL OF A SUDDEN they are interested in helping these residents. Where were these clowners when it was “discovered” well over a year ago that the address of the cell tower was amazingly incorrect, so that is why supposedly these residents were not notified as abutters. What a convenient maneuver by City Hall. Real slimy maneuver, is that why Armstrong and Tyer never respond to these taxpayers? Feel really sorry for these residents. Feel their frustration as I live in a neighborhood off Dalton Avenue that is inundated with pot smell and us taxpayers had no input in Tyer’s famous Vibrant and Dynamic POT Campus.
Going on five years of incompetemcy,Period! HESS still stands.
It’s up as a National Heritage site — Hess Forest — part of the original Lewis & Clark Expedition.
Dan,.Does Hess get C P A monies?And what about the St Joe coach of years past.
PIC
Don’t know, but THE PLANET would be glad to send Monopoly money.
The address of the tower was correct. The clerk via the assessors who are responsible for generating the list of abutters did it wrong because a family member is a consultant to the cell company.
https://www.radiationhealthrisks.com/5g-cell-towers-dangerous/
Coming to a street near you! Plans are for small 5G cell tower antennas every 300 meters in every street across the country. They can be put on street lights, electric poles and on the tops of buildings. The city councilors who approved the local plan know this.
Can we replace “Vibrant and Dynamic” with “Lifeless and Stagnant”?
Sweet Pete White has already renamed “homeless” with “houseless.”
I’m just trying to stay hip like Linda, Floggy Moll…I mean Barry, and Country Buffet.
“Dying and Putrid”?
Make state and local Pittsfield politicians and their families all live in inner-city Pittsfield, earn minimum wage salaries, be insured by MassHealth (Medicaid), buy their groceries with food stamps and eat at the soup kitchen in town, rely on busses and taxis for their transportation, send their children to level 5 inner-city Pittsfield public schools, and the like. Then, ask them how they feel about Pittsfield politics after a couple of months living on the edges of society. I bet they would say they are unhappy with how Pittsfield is run by the out-of-touch politicians who earn big salaries, public perks, lucrative retirements (and then predictably become greedy lobbyists like Dan Bosley and Peter Larkin), and put millions/billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars into huge slush funds.
JM I didn’t know you could see into the future, unfortunately that’s the Kapanski’s future you are seeing not the members of the Party
If you are one of those Covid denyers and think shots are for pussies, you really might want to throw some salt over your shoulder for good luck cuz we are in a new more deadly wave, and there is a florescent target on your back right now. Make sure your papers are in order so that your family does not wind up fighting for whatever you leave behind.
Hey Anal Gas,
You have the O’Biden/Harris regime to thank, as they have opened the borders and are bussing/flying covid infected, disease carrying migrants all over the country DURING A PANDEMIC.
Biden is working on vaccine passports for taxpaying citizens, but migrants can roam freely.
Democrat Socialists are destroying our country.
I don’t understand how people can turn a blind eye to what these far left Democrats are doing. The illegals, many with COVID, are being spread across the country. Before they are bussed across the country, they are being housed in facilities meant for 100 people, but in which they are putting 4,000 young people guaranteeing a spread of the virus. The far leftists are still trying to thin out the herd in this country to make way for their future guaranteed voters.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/teachers-will-sent-san-diego-convention-center-provide-person-learning-migrants-schools-county-remain-closed/
Teachers being sent into the convention center to teach the migrant kids while their own public schools are closed!
Where the hell is the teachers’ union?
Don’t they realize that all these covid infected, unvaccinated disease carrying migrant kids will eventually end up in the public schools? Health records? Not!
Do the teachers think their covid vaccinations will protect them from all third world illnesses?
Or what about the variants of the virus the media and Democrats have been trying to scare us about for the past months? All of a sudden, it’s all good as they pack 4,000 kids into a building meant for 100. Don’t worry, the teachers are looking out for themselves. Just as they stepped to the head of the line before people age 60 and over for the vaccines, they are now demanding a smaller number of young people in their classrooms, but they also know that they will be teaching lots of these illegal immigrants in the future since so many parents are taking their kids out of public schools after seeing just how little concern they have for their kids.
Deaths and cases are at record low across America . 0.16 percent of Americans have died from Corona, and that includes the fake reporting and deaths attributed to Covid that weren’t. 333,000,000 population, about 550,600 dead and less than 600 yesterday. All CDC stats. So do the math, ditch the mask, and reclaim your freedom.
In the first wave the Covid virus targeted the elderly and those with weakened immunity. This wave is targeting the just plain stupid folk. Is the grim reaper hovering over you?
Never tempt fate.
Anal Gas you almost sound giddy over the “new wave.”
Maybe you should spend the next 6 months in your basement.
A. I stay my distance
B. I don’t touch the T Zone
C. Had it already
One of the “vaccines”, uses reverse transcriptase to modify your bodies DNA.
No way in hell I’d get that one and be GMO human guinea pig.
99% of people infected recover without any vaccine, some don’t even have symptoms
More people have died from vaccinations this year, than the last decade
Spot on, Trap.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/29/new-andrew-cuomo-accuser-sherry-vill-speaks-out-about-allegation/
Another accuser steps forward! Cuomo accosted her in her own home, during a tour of flood damaged areas of New York!
The Luv Guv, just livin’ up to his nickname.
Cuomo belongs in prison for a long time, with any incarcerated grandchildren/children whose grandparents/parents died from Mario putting infected people into nursing homes.
Mario’s buddies, the nursing home owners, got a big pile of loot for each infected person they took in.
If he’s a skinner too, life will be all the more miserable in the crowbar hotel.
The student teaching the teacher about racism.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-high-school-teacher-berating-student-not-acknowledging-race-during-lecture.amp?__twitter_impression=true
J2S
Great video. The student teaches the teacher, as you say, but my guess is that the teacher is too woke to allow learning to take place.
Trump going to the border to look at Bidens problem.Trump has been singled out as the cause of 450 000 Covid deaths that could have been stopped with Truth and leadership.After this failure he conspired to overthrow the US goverment and this lunatic is going to the border….LOL LOL LOL
Stop watching Rachel Maddow and CNN. President Trump had the border running very efficiently. The Democrats putting 4,000 young people in a building meant for 100 during a pandemic is a disgrace!!! Not to mention spreading COVID across the country because they aren’t being quarantined. They are just being bussed across the country.
Spot on Pat.Close the damn entry points like Trump did and no worries.Biden going Backwards on this Again!
The question is about the border crisis. “what more can be done sir?”
BIDEN: “A lot more. We are in the process of doing it now. Including making sure that we reestablish what existed before; which was, they should stay in place and make their case from their home countries. Thank you”
Uh-oh. Joe got away from his handlers again!
Someone get the nets!
Joe got the same plan as Obama. No Plan.