SHERIFF’s RACE: WHERE’S THE REPORT? … DEATH CERTIFICATE RAISES HUGE QUESTIONS ABOUT PITTSFIELD WOMAN’S DEATH 3 DAYS INTO LOCKUP AT WOMEN’S JAIL IN CHICOPEE
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
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(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION SEPT. 2, 2022) — On July 11, approximately three days into her sentence, a 46-year-old Pittsfield woman died in custody at Chicopee’s regional lockup for women. There’s where Berkshire County sends its female population, which presently numbers between 12 and 14.
Shortly after, candidate for sheriff Alf Barbalunga blasted Berkshire County sheriff Tom Bowler, saying the woman’s death “is part of a pattern of what happens to Berkshire County residents who find themselves in state or county jails.” Barbalunga said that “on average, every 10 months there has been either a death or an escape” under Bowler’s supervision.
Bowler excoriated Barbalunga for using “a family tragedy as fodder for his political purposes.” Bowler said Barbalunga failed to mention that “[t]his woman died from natural causes.” Bowler said “The medical examiner ruled that her death was the result of natural causes due to a pre-existing condition.” Hamden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi concurred. “Natural causes.”
But did she die from natural causes? This question has haunted the campaign since it first emerged in July and exploded during the August debate THE PLANET hosted between Barbalunga and Bowler.
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THE PLANET obtained a copy of the death certificate, signed by Boston Dr. Irini A. Scordi-Bello. It lists the immediate cause cause of death as “PENDING.” The form also has this: “Manner of Death: PENDING INVESTIGATION.”
Our questions:
- Has such an investigation been conducted?
- If so, by whom and has it been released? (If it has, we missed it)
- If not why not?
Death to “natural causes?” If so, why does the death certificate say that the manner of death is under investigation.
Alf Barbalunga Speech 1 September 2022 – SD 480… (Courtesy of Thieves of Light Productions)
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SIDEBAR (FROM WBUR)
Hampden County Jail
Current sheriff: Nicholas Cocchi
Total deaths 2008-2018: 22
Average inmate population (2018): 1,165
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A WBUR investigation by Christine Willmsen and Beth Healy found that from 2008 to 2018, 195 people died in custody of Massachusetts’ sheriffs. WBUR said gathering that information (including cause of death) proved extraordinarily difficult.
“Jails are perhaps the least accountable part of government in the United States,” said David Fathi, director of the ACLU National Prison Project. “When you combine that lack of transparency, that lack of oversight, with a marginalized, unpopular captive population, it’s a recipe for neglect and mistreatment.”
The WBUR probe mentioned the case of an inmate in Worcester County who died “in agony” of a treatable type of meningitis after jail staff ignored his complaints. The sheriff’s report said the death came from “natural causes.”
Sound familiar?
So what, if anything, is being covered up in the Pittsfield woman’s death?
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The investigation found that “when people suffered from dire medical conditions in Massachusetts county jails, they were often ignored or mistrusted, with fatal consequences. The sheriffs … responsible for inmate health care face little oversight, and often have withheld the circumstances of these deaths from the public — even from inmates’ families.”
Is that what is happening in the Pittsfield case?
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Where’s the report?
From the WBUR investigation:
“The federal Death in Custody Reporting Act requires the government to collect data on the more than 1,000 inmates who die every year in American jails. Sheriffs have been required to file a form called a CJ-9, which provides the inmate’s name, age, race, cause of death and other information.
So where’s the report on the death of the Pittsfield woman?
According to WBUR, “compliance by the roughly 3,000 U.S. jails has been voluntary. The DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics … has no enforcement teeth. The result is that an unknown number of deaths go uncounted, and since 2014, reports have been years late.”
Voluntary reports.
Delivered late, if at all.
Written up, according to one lawyer quoted in the report, to be “all self-congratulatory.”
Did negligence occur in the Pittsfield woman’s death? The public in Berkshire and Hampden counties, to say nothing of the woman’s family, deserve a full report.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
LOVE TO ALL.
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Name one M-E’s report that came back within months, it doesn’t happen! Even her own family has said this is a witch hunt disgraced into scandal by Barbalunga. An easier report to find is the Barbalunga north Adam’s invest he said during the NAACP debate he said he’d let more light on as the summer goes but has not said a word as of yet.
There is only one truthsayer for the taxpayer.Thee Water Wizard.
No question. G is what’re question a City Treasure for the taxpayers.
Will never know who putz is,will we? I doubt he has ever been to a Clowncil meeting to tell the truth let alone throw darts with his pseudonym names on here.
A legend in your own mind.
Thanks putzy
You are the only one having a lovefest with yourself. It’s more than obvious via the multitude of fake names you post under.
Get help!
C.G. is a fraud. How any supports that moron is a mystery.
It is disgusting that this unfortunate death is still getting press! Goes to prove that there is no respect for people anymore. Hasn’t her family suffered enough. Her family is not going to the press and blogs to have her death debated. Miggy’s family does go to the press and that is their choice. Once again It is not the choice of her family. Barbalunga and all OTHERS that continued to turn her death into a disrespectful trash talking conversation are doing nothing but inflating their gross egos to the point of being evil. Shameful to all that continue to trash her death over and over. Hope nothing like her death ever happens in their family, but then again people that own this type of disrespectful mind could care less who they harm.
There are so MANY other issues that should be written about and discussed!! Time to end this crap!
Why is asking about the death disrespectful? The number of deaths in custody seems very, very high. It’s a question of public service and apologies to the family but there are more important things at stake.
KERMIT
It’s clear that you GET IT. Questions about this death are necessary, the most vital one being: Where is the full report? If there’s “nothing to see here,” then issue the mandated report and spell it out.
00.21 seconds on Google
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/how-death-certificates-are-completed
Pending cause and manner of death
After our examination of the deceased, the cause of death may not be immediately apparent.
The medical examiner may require more testing, such as toxicology. The medical examiner may also request additional information, such as medical records or police reports.
The additional testing will not delay the deceased’s release from our office.
A death certificate will still be filed, but the cause of death will be listed as pending.
If you are the closest legal living relative, you may contact a family liaison at (857) 377-2203 or (857) 377-2204 for additional information and assistance.
Good heavens, man. Did you read this? “Pending investigation” is done when the cause is not “immediately apparent.” Hello?! McFly?!! That means that anyone in offcialdom declaring definitively that the cause to be “natural” is pronouncing prematurely. The non-political thing to do in such cases is to hold off and wait for the investigation to be complete. When the question of the Pittsfield woman’s death came up as a campaign issue, and two sheriffs and political allies immediately declared the death could be attributed two “natural causes” that strikes a thinking person as and an inquisitive journalist to merely ask questions.
Also, read what you just posted, with which we are well familiar. It refutes what you declared earlier, that “natural causes” simply means officials are writing for the toxicology report. The law reads “more testing, such as toxicology. In other words, it say toxicology is one of the tests, not THE test. Consider these lessons we’re giving you free and on the house!
Incidentally, if THE PLANET is such a poor newshawk, how come you have no problem with our coverage of the D.A.’s race?
in any case, no hard feelings and nothing personal. And as always, thanks for the feedback!
Questions are always good, but why are they so concerned now? Where was the concern from Alf and friends prior to announcing a run for sheriff about the deaths of the incarcerated happening? That’s the problem, do people really care or do they only care now? These people could have been bringing more attention to the issue long ago. I don’t believe for one minute this just came into view for Alf.
A reasonable question, OP. My guess is that the death occurred on July 11, already a month and a half into the active part of the campaign. It then took several more days for a death certificate to be issued. My point: It was during the campaign, leaving no option for bringing it up earlier.
Understanding your point on the dates. What I’m also saying is ,that even prior to the death and campaign began where was Alf’s and others concern about all incarceration deaths? He is in contact with people in the know about these things since he mentions it himself as head of probation in south county.
Understanding your point as well. I think it was the fact that this was a Pittsfield woman who died. That hits home. The fact that it occurred in the middle of a hot campaign, unfortunate as it is, guaranteed that the death would become political. Thanks, OP.
I think the issue here is the secrecy in general. Is this any different than what happens in hospitals or assisted living? Natural causes or negligence often kinda look the same, just like an election recount will give you the same number even if someone voted twice using another identity. They look at the result, not the cause. Wonder who does the investigation now???
Alf is here to unseat Bower. He has the cajones to throw around the allegations. Alf may be a thug, but Bower is thug for certain. Maybe we do a AH and get rid of Bower and then get rid of Alf? It might take a couple of flushes to get rid of big turds.
It is totally irrelevant to this election. Lock em up and throw away the key and all the shitbags can die in prison.
A desperation hail mary aimed at the ignorant voter.
Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield city clerk affirms integrity of elections after a candidate flags risk of fraud
PITTSFIELD — The city clerk issued a statement Thursday refuting a sheriff candidate’s claims about elections.
A post was published Wednesday on the official campaign Facebook page of Alfred E. “Alf” Barbalunga, a candidate for Berkshire County sheriff. It contained allegations about the integrity of the elections process in Pittsfield.
City Clerk Michele Benjamin said Thursday that she viewed statements in the post as “irresponsible” and “false.”
Barbalunga’s post has since been deleted.
Benjamin did not identify by name the politician who made the post she was responding to in her statement.
In a since-deleted Facebook post, candidate for sheriff, Alfred E. “Alf” Barbalunga, claimed the state was “watching” the sheriff and DA races following “multiple complaints of voter fraud. The Pittsfield city clerk categorically denied the claim.
According to a screenshot, Barbalunga’s post opened with a statement in capital letters proclaiming the message a “notice.”
It then made claims about voting that Benjamin, in her statement, said were false, including that the Elections Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth is “watching” the DA and sheriff races “due to a lawsuit and multiple complaints of voter fraud …”
“There’s no truth to the post whatsoever, and the state Elections Division confirmed that,” Benjamin told The Eagle in an interview Thursday.
Barbalunga, when asked for comment, said in a text message from a campaign event, that he’s “not familiar with the post.” He said his team is going to send additional information soon.
Benjamin, the longtime city clerk whose office oversees elections in the city, said she confirmed with the state there “have been no confirmed reports of violations of election laws by election officials in Pittsfield.”
She said the state division is “not party to or privy to any lawsuit regarding any elections in Pittsfield and they did not receive ‘multiple complaints of voter fraud’ in Pittsfield in 2019,” as Barbalunga claimed.
She added that state elections officials are “not ‘watching’ the contests in the Berkshires because of issues in Pittsfield in 2019 and they are not ‘watching’ the elections in the Berkshires any differently than” those in other parts of the state.
In 2020, the husband of Pittsfield Mayor Linda M. Tyer sued her challenger in the 2019 election after the challenger suggested he tampered with ballots.
That allegation by Melissa Mazzeo, Tyer’s challenger in the Nov. 5, 2019, election, was investigated by the state Elections Division, which found it to be baseless.
Mazzeo had claimed that a recount was needed because of “significant concerns my campaign has about the integrity of the election here in Pittsfield.”
The recount affirmed the original result.
Benjamin said that process showed the city’s ability to conduct a fair and accurate election.
“I feel that we proved ourselves by the recount in 2019 that these are fair elections for all candidates,” she told The Eagle.
The city complies with all state and federal election laws and “every person involved in the election has taken to heart the oath they have sworn to uphold the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,” she said.
“Elections in Pittsfield are honestly and fairly held for all candidates,” Benjamin said in her statement. “The City of Pittsfield and the Secretary of the Commonwealth take violations of election law very seriously and encourage anyone with concerns to bring it to our attention.”
Benjamin said elections officials “confirmed to me that the post was not accurate, and they communicated that to the person who posted the statement.”
“It’s disheartening that people can make [a] false accusation,” the city clerk said.
The primary is Sept. 6 and early voting has begun. There are county elections and state
elections on the ballot.
Will Barry “Flat Tyer” be watching the votes come in, in the backroom Michelle?
You can’t fault Barry “vigilante” Tyer, for getting lost in Pittsfield City Hall. He probably worked a few late night Cumby’s parking lot patrol shifts. He was probably tired.
Barry thought he found an exit door to leave city hall for the night. Instead, the door he thought was an exit, actually led him to where they were counting ballots during the last mayoral election.
It’s an honest mistake. How could one honestly expect Barry, being a former city councilor and wife to the current mayor, not know his way around city hall?
Love the “no confirmed cases” hee,hee, coming from the person who is in charge. Maybe the citizens police force can take over the voting oversight citizens board
I don’t get it, the State investigated Mazzeos complaints, and they now claim they aren’t aware of multiple complaints in 2019? What? Didn’t they investigate them?? I don’t think the State actually pays attention to any election.
Dan, pending usually means awaiting further testing, such as toxicology screens, or perhaps the ME has send out tissues for a more expert analysis, or is consulting certain experts. The death certificate is amended in all these cases, down the road. So, there will be, or should be, another one. And the ME officer won’t even release a death certificate to the police. Only the DA gets them. Hope this helps.
Good post Joe!
this is something!
And that is if they even do one. They often just run toxicology reports based on blood draws, and look at the body and the police reports. In other words they do tnot even dissect the bodies much of the time.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/06/metro/state-medical-examiners-cut-autopsy-rates-among-lowest-nation/
They take about a year to get unless homicide and sometimes the DA does not even give them to the police. I have seen that happen, even in a homicide. It’s like pulling teeth. If it’s a murder you might get it in like several weeks, maybe months. And just because an ME says it’s a suicide doesn’t mean it was. Plenty of people get away with murder and one of the sure fire ways is to have a homicide written off as an accident, suicide, or “natural causes”. It all happens.
If no one questions shit, than no one questions shit.
And that’s where the expression “no shit” comes from. Just sayin.
4. Alleged “Miggy” Alleged “shot”
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/it-was-another-female-calling-for-help-after-estrella-death-girlfriend-of-man-fatally-shot-by-pittsfield-police-in-2017-sees-similarities/article_98da9596-c7dc-11ec-ba3a-db9a74acd4c2.html
Who allegedly called for help?
Get the 911
who cares?
Here’s another similarity she tends to forget…
Both men were belligerent, violent, heavily under the influence of alcohol and ran at police officers with knives.
Many people are confronted by police during mental health meltdowns, they aren’t all killed. You know why? They don’t try to attack gun wielding police officers with knives
I know everyone says, ” just take the knife away” or “it’s only a knife” but anyone with self defense training will tell you RUN AWAY FROM A KNIFE, even a small 1″ blade can cut a person up horribly and possibly kill them. They are nothing to sniff at.
Street rule: Flee a knife, charge a gun. You can’t outrun a bullet.
Actually you flee both. You don’t outrun bullets, you miss them and call the bluff. Chance of a gun getting shot is not 100%.
Problem with that is this. Dude holding a gun on you will react more quickly if you run away than if you run toward (allowing for distances and proximity to the gun holder). In grad school, one of my roommates in a “Bachelors III” apartment had a black belt (or equivalent) in Jeet Kun Do. Mike Barton taught me about self-defense. He cited studies of such situation. If you’re near a dude who’s got a gun on you, try to bolt and the trigger gets pulled before you get far enough away to dodge, duck, or weave. Charge, throw the dude off balance, and the tendency is not to shoot but to defend oneself with the hands and arms. No guarantees, of course, but if you can’t reason with the chap, that’s your best shot (pun intended).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62762421
Or you can hope for a miracle
Odds of death are greater if you charge. Run away, and you make it harder to be hit, and you decrease odds the other will shoot. and if hit, odds of dying are halved.
It’s hard to hit a man sized target with a handgun even if still and you are able to concentrate.
Beating this subject to death: the best hope is to know what you’re going to do before it happens. That means knowing your situation and what you able to do. Distance and distraction your best tools.
Mace and split.
A one person Board is called something else.
PARB
“It’s unclear when the board – currently comprised of solely Lt. Col. Thomas Grady – is scheduled to meet next.”
The Pittsfield Police Advisory Board had a mass resignation because Mayor Linda Tyer’s administration’s legal counsel ruled that the board would not be able to review the PPD’s internal investigation in its deadly use of force against the intoxicated and self-harming young man with a knife whose name was Miguel Estrella who had a well-known history of mental illness. While I do not disagree with the city and Berkshire County D.A. Andrea Harrington’s affirming reports that the deadly use of force was justified, I strongly disagree with the PPD’s finding that on the night of the incident that took the young man’s life, that Miguel Estrella was not a person in distress under the law. To me, that is like saying the 2 + 2 = 5 or that Pigs have Wings and Fly around Unicorns in Fields full of Toys made by Santa’s Elves before Christmas. How on Earth could Mayor Linda Tyer and D.A. Andrea Harrington rationally affirm the PPD’s report that Miguel Estrella was not a person in distress under the law on the night of his death at the hands of the Pittsfield Police Department? I am disappointed in both of the women politicians: Mayor Linda Tyer & D.A. Andrea Harrington.
The plum post of Berkshire County Sheriff is nothing more than a no-show position for a politically connected Democratic insider hack. That is why Carmen Massimiano sat on his fat ass for 30 years. That is why Dan Bosley wanted to sit on his fat ass as a would-be Sheriff in order for him to have doubled his state pension. That is why Tom Bowler is sitting on his fat ass. That is why Alf Barbalunga wants to sit on his fat ass, too. Nobody wants to end up in the county jail no matter who you are. The no-show Sheriffs’ lack of oversight of inmates’ deaths is due to the fact that they all sit on their fat asses and collect their huge public pay plus perks for doing nothing for many years until they get to collect their huge public pension plus perks.
JM I’m going to try to explain to you Miggy situation, so you will understand.
Miggy was armed with a large knife (deadly weapon). For a police officer, this now has become a potential deadly force encounter. A deadly force encounter will supersede (take precedence) over any mental health issues a person might be suffering at the time. He advanced on the officers for over 30 yards, ignored verbal commands, and paid the price. Miggy forced the action. End of story.
If you had paid attention during combat training for the couple of weeks you were in the Army, you probably would have learned this. Or were you in sick call during that time?
Also, what is your fascination with Carmen, the former sheriff? He’s been dead for a few years now, yet you bring him up like he still runs BCHC. You seem to have another unhealthy obsession with him too. Did he not fondle you at camp like the other boys and you feel left out?
Melle was issued a knife for peeling potatoes
Oh no! Your disappointed in Harrington? Did she finally turn you down?
Doess anyone have Sigmund Freud s telephone number handy?
1-800-PENISENVY
I tried that number and Pete White answered.
This seems like one of the few sensible posts on here. Maybe in the world of the blind the one eyed man is king.
DA H didn’t want to annoy the police anymore than she already had, and was desperate to appease them. It still didn’t work.
If it’s all above board why can’t the public see the report? City Atty a shifty shifty dude. Or has no shame.
You lookin’ for this report by chance?
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/15143/report-of-independent-counsel-110910.pdf
I’d be very interested in Alf’s employment record and the discipline findings.
Then again even the city clerk has called Alf irresponsible.
A post was published Wednesday on the official campaign Facebook page of Alfred E. “Alf” Barbalunga, a candidate for Berkshire County sheriff. It contained allegations about the integrity of the elections process in Pittsfield.
City Clerk Michele Benjamin said Thursday that she viewed statements in the post as “irresponsible” and “false.”
Barbalunga’s post has since been deleted.
Alf is a disgusting, entitled, small minded little man-child. He’s been that way his entire life. He’s been handed everything he’s gotten, plucked from the fires of criminal charges and promoted, and still can’t understand how lucky he’s been.
The fact that Dan is a supporter, is disappointing.
PR
Thanks for the feedback, but I am not “supporting” anyone in the sheriff’s race.
Yeah and neither is the stooge.
I believe you Dan, for what it’s worth, and I believe if I got my hand on Barbalungas disciplinary file you would publish it if there were any relevancy to the race. I can tell you this – Bowler had an unblemished record as a cop, and a got damn good reputation.
Isn’t this the same clerk who defended the night creeper, scary barry, creeping around her office full of ballot boxes on election night, late after city hall closing time? I’m not voting for any of them. SCOUNDRELS, ALL OF THEM!
I talked in person to the city clerk this morning about election business, in fact.
and was she upset about anything?
Yes, she was upset that Melle never emails her.
Dan, if I may be permitted to be so informal as to call you Dan, no one would believe that if the night creeper actually tampered with ballot boxes/votes on election night when he was permitted to creep around in an area, where he had no business being in the first place, at least not without arousing suspicion, no one, including the GREAT PLANET, could expect to ferret out the truth from people who have tons of reasons not to let that happen. No one’s deviating from their story. There’s not going to be a Perry Mason episode. That’s their story, and they’re sticking to it.
Yeah, call me Dan. There’s still a lawsuit pending. If and when it comes to trial, we will let the court decide it.
Extremely disappointing, I’m out. Can’t sit by and watch Alf get special treatment. He is a disgraceful human being who doesn’t deserve what he’s been handed so far. I hope that people do the right thing- vote Bowler and Shugrue!
I just got back from admonishing my parents for both voting for Biden,………………… then I left the cemetery.
Their dead dog voted for Biden too, Nov 2020
Jesus, you did not kill them did you? You do know this is a public forum and that the DA reads this twice an hour?
My cat’s voting in person in Pittsfield, you don’t need an ID or proof of citizenship.
Cool. In your case having your cat proxy vote for you makes sense.
My cat is an independent voter Fizze.
I already voted for the bad, instead of the ugly worse, in the D-primary. Didn’t see anything good on the ballot.
Bought the conmans lie hook line sinker.Trump has been lying and not paying good hardworking people for 50 years.You lost you abilities the day you thought Rush was a great American
POTUS Trump has had you hooked 7 years now TSC. The TDS is strong in You.
TSC is in training for the special Olympics….. then next month for the alcoholic Olympics
I don’t doubt for one second that the Planeteer who announced his/her intention to vote multiple times was joking. It was a joke! But there are genuine concerns of the alleged abuse of unverified mail-in ballots from more than just a handful of conspiratorial voter fraud fruitcakes. It’s easier to believe that Barbulunga was ordered to back away from the subject of voter fraud, not because it isn’t a very real threat to the integrity of voting, but because it actually is a very real threat to the integrity of voting. I’m not fruitcake, and I don’t have any trust in the integrity of allegedly fair and free elections. I could easily believe that the very last thing Elections Division would want is if voters really knew the truth about the integrity of elections. I know there are incidents where citizens have gone to vote in an election, only to be informed that they’ve already voted, when, in fact, they had not.
Mark Atlas, of Worchester, Massachusetts, was charged in 2013 with voter fraud for voting under someone else’s name. Although Atlas’ attorney claimed it was just a prank, he admitted to sufficient facts for a guilty finding. The charge was continued without a finding for one year, and Atlas was ordered to pay $1000 in court costs, as well as serve 200 hours of community service.
Source: https://herit.ag/3y8oSu9, https://herit.ag/3x95sEq, https://herit.ag/3zHOMFO
I was always fascinated about the stories of Kevin Sherman’s uncles ability to get “a thousand votes for candidates with his endorsement” Now he is buddies with Alfie so I am wondering if the same story holds true. These stories of getting the backing of certain families in Pittsfield is the only way to win makes me think that the state should come in and clean out our election board and system, seems corrupt unless you think Pittsfield voters are a bunch of sheep that do as they are told with no intelligent thought in their heads. If this is what you believe then there is no need for a school system at all. Very puzzling
He already pulled a Harrington and threw a “campaign volunteer” under the bus because, you know, random volunteers are allowed access to the campaigns officially social media and can post with impunity
No one believes Alf or Bowler posts to Facebook. They are too busy out fundraising and getting their photos taken.
Here it comes. Alf and his backers coming in low at the last minute. Carry an umbrella as the shit storm is approaching.
Scratch the belly of a snake low.
Big news Dan. Barbalubga campaign copied my post from this blog a few days ago where in I pointed out how I could vote mutilple times (because there is no ID required), and that a vote for bowler and Shugrue was a vote against Harrington and Barby, and therefore 4 votes, and so his campaign issued a NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC on Facebook, about voter fraud effuckingcetera. Seriously?????
He also called and reported my blogpost to the secretary of commonwealth. Wow! For the record Alffie Boy, I did vote 4 times – for bowler, against you, for Shugrue, and against Harrington. As I wrote in the original post, 2+2=4, and I wrote that even Harrington knew that. I assumed you already did. Well, now you know too. I mailed my vote in a few days back and I will not be voting any more times than that. Even if I wanted to, (and someone could do it, since ID is ludicrously not required) i will not go to the polls. Pittsfield is too unsafe. I could get robbed. But don’t worry Alffie. You will not have the election stolen out from under you, you will loose fair and square, despite your dirty pool.
City clerk knocked him into next month. He deleted it and proclaimed he never knew it was posted. What integrity.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central_berkshires/city-clerk-elections-pittsfield/article_e13ac692-2a3f-11ed-8bac-57075ee4b902.html
“You show me a woman who can shoot pool, and I’ll show you a dirty house”
Who said that? Is that a line from a movie?
I don’t t know where it originated but back in the day, when I hung out with a guy named Bud Weiser, we was in The Crossroads and I was shooting pool. Can’t recall if I was playing or someone else was her opponent, but a woman ran the table. She was pretty hot looking too but I was more impressed with the way she was banging balls in the corner pocket (not to be confused with banging in the corner office, which I also have know of). A guy turned to me and said “you show me a women who can shoot pool, and I’ll show you a dirty house”. It’s funny what we remember. It always stuck with me, and that was decades ago.
The Husler?
Who knows, but there are plenty of politicians who hustle people all the time, and plenty of dirty pool being played in politics. It’s a blood sport, as Dan says. And Barbalubga plays dirty pool.
You show me a guy who can play pocket pool and I’ll show you Pete White.
Everyone knew exactly what you meant. No ID means you can walk into any polling precinct and say a name and address and vote. You can ask for provisional ballots without any ID.
You can’t check a library book out without ID but you can vote for the leader of the country without ID.
It shows exactly how slimy Alf is to
1) Raise that to an official complaint (and he did absolutely call that in)
2) Concoct a notice to the public on his Facebook page (he helped write it). There was an entire strategy session on it.
Worse still is that this family of the dead inmate refuted this bogus story, run again by Dan (for what reason is unknown but it does seem like interference for Alf’s campaign)
“ Pratt’s father told The Eagle his daughter’s death was the fault of no one, and said he did not like that it became a political issue.”
Jaime Lynn Pratt’s death last week came to light after a challenger for Berkshire County sheriff, Alfred E. “Alf” Barbalunga, announced Monday that a woman died while in custody at the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center in Chicopee.
Jail officials and Pratt’s father attributed her death to natural causes. But Barbalunga alleged her death was part of “a pattern of what happens to Berkshire residents who find themselves in state or county jails,” a claim that prompted swift rebuttal from incumbent Sheriff Thomas Bowler and his counterpart in Hampden County.
Alf you are a disgusting little man with zero integrity and not enough brains to know when you need to just be grateful for the jobs your father bought for you.
I make you this promise Alf, after you lose the election for Sheriff, and after Shugrue gets elected DA. I will make it part of my life’s mission to legally bring forward to the DA the details of your behavior as a court employee in North Adams and bring forward sworn affidavits from probationers and their family members (including three women that will have have plenty to say).
When done you won’t just be out of a job, you will hopefully be in jail and under the supervision of the person you are running against. Your dad will not be able to make this go away by buying or bullying your way to freedom.
@PoliceReport, how do I donate to your cause?
And this is no doubt just another of those Pittsfield coincidences Dan writes about, but a nail was found in my car tire this am.
Could be worse, sawzalled out your cat converter………
What a dumb ass Alf is!
He couldn’t read and make out the posts meaning ? Hmm, and he wants to run the entire BHOC operation?
He couldn’t run a McDonald’s. Neither could Tyer or Biden or Harrington.
I have never seen Dan run interference for a candidate like he has for Alf.
A pending report only means that all the toxicology hasn’t come back and the report will be amended as such. A common example would be death by myocardial infarction, that would be a normal diagnosis but they’d wait for toxicology to make sure the contributing cause wasn’t the presence of cocaine. Which would change the entire diagnosis.
This blog runs the gamut of truth and honesty and lies and innuendo in the name of “free speech” but I’ve noticed recently that people have complained about edited posts or missing posts and most are related to Alf somehow. I’ve read posts by Dan with a large slant towards Alf, saying Alf was winning in debates, when clearly he wasn’t.
Dan you can endorse a candidate, it won’t matter to us but at least be honest about it.
Don’t edit posts to favor your candidate, don’t slat your “reporting”, just come outright and endorse Alf. We will probably and collectively think a little less of you but only for a couple days. You are doing damage to your lifetime credibility by this underhanded version of bias in editing and articles.
PR
Thanks for the feedback. You’re one of this board’s favorite info sources. But again, I’m not “running interference” for anyone. I’m simply sharing news and commentary. As for editing comments, I only do that with unproven, salacious comments that go over the rim and under the belt. It’s all a judgment call.
Yet there has been discussion of an unproven OUI for how long? You do appear to be on man child Alf’s side.
Yes it seems that if the narrative fits the slant of the board and Dan, it runs full tilt.
Where is the employee report promised? The story should have highlighted that Alf has refused to release his employee discipline findings.
The story should have been how Alf just got “bitch slapped” and called irresponsible by the Pittsfield City.
We all know what happened, Alf was making his own news.
He read a stupid comment on here that was clearly a joke, escalated it to a complaint and called Galvin’s office.
He coordinated the posting of the Facebook post because he wanted one more fabricated event and to be out in front of the news, and got caught with his pants down, again.
Dan you get press release, why not run that story? The press release from the city clerk? Any mid day breaking updates about the press release?
“There’s no truth to the post whatsoever, and the state Elections Division confirmed that,” Benjamin told The Eagle in an interview Thursday.
Alf is responsible for his campaign, there isn’t a chance in hell some low level volunteer posted that post without approval. It wasn’t an “overheard” conversation, it was a fabricated post by Alf, I know this because I know two of the people working on his campaign. Jonalee is working those releases directly with Alf.
Alf you’ve lied and cheated your whole life, man up and take responsibility for the things you do.
And shame on Dan for dragging this dead woman through the mud again. Making her family have to see this BS again. So disgusting, all to support the man child Alf.
You say you are supporting a candidate but the bias for Alf is so strong, it’s pathetic and transparent as to what you are doing.
PR
Of course THE PLANET alone decides full tilt. That is the one delectable we get to choose from the buffet of thankless repast. In your last sentence, I think you left out a not.” There is no bias. There is an all-things-being-equal but not necessarily assumptive pull for the underdog, true. That’s not bias. I let my words speak for themselves and allow the interpretations of those words to the readers.
You did reject my allegedly salacious, Strange, But TRUE, comment on a predatory SIDE SHOW oddity spawning a REAL MERMAN. But this is your litter box where in the past I’ve read about a war criminal public-school superintendent and acts of bestiality involving middle school students. Both subjects that apparently did not meet your criteria of going over the rim or under the belt. But please don’t judge this comment as pick on Dan Day, because it’s not.
Wondering if anyone caught Illegitimate last night sounding like in was in Germany in 1930…wtf!!! People should be very careful it seems the illegitimate government is coming after any opposition. How are all the good people allowing this to happen? Time to start an impeachment on Illegitimate. Don’t trust anyone who supports this shell of a person. Has anyone seen the Hunger games? He just reminds me of the leader in that movie, crazy how that happens
This would apply to the Turnip’s speech yesterday……
In 1943 the following directive was issued to all party members from communist headquarters in the US, when certain obstructionists become to irritating, label them after a suitable buildup as fascists or Nazis or anti-Semitics, and use the prestige of anti-fascist tolerant organizations to discredit them, in the public mind associate those who oppose us those names who already have a bad smell, the association will after enough repetitions, become fact in the public mind
The Turnip’s handler’s are big Alinsky fans. Read any of Rules for Radicals?
“The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.“
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.
The despair is there; now it’s up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
–Saul Alinsky
Another proven lie by Alf, he’s certainly getting desperate as the days tic by. To take a joke on here that someone said they’d vote multiple times and report as facts is beyond laughable. Should’ve stayed in your office Alf arriving at noon and doing nothing but sports. Daddy already got you promoted to your highest level of incompetence.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/69326/Sheriff-Candidate-s-Deleted-Post-Says-Election-Under-Scrutiny-.html
Alf is slimy through and through. He is a complete politician who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He’s going the Andrea OuttheDoorea route and hob knobbing with the political elites like Smitty PiggyTaley.
He constantly screams about racism with Bowler, and he constantly brought up Jason Cuyler. What people don’t know is that after the library debate Jason not only was showing his support for Bowler in the audience, but he hugged him afterwards.
the only POC’s that are whining about racism are former drug dealers like Kelvin something on FB who is clearly just bitter that he wasn’t promoted. Keep disparaging your boss online and admitting you’re a former crackhead and I’m sure it will do wonders for your career. Just claim it’s all racism.
What Alf’s “committee” doesn’t realize.. (Kelvin Santos, Melissa Gallagher/Pixley/Odell) is that their reputation supersedes their current position. Your past follows you, and makes it very difficult to “speak truths” and have the public view you in a respectable light.. etc. etc.
His whole committee is a joke- Brandon Mauer as Campaign Manager? Give me a break. He has stepped down from every board he’s been on- No follow through. Talk about Alf trying to cater to a certain demographic.
September 6 can’t come soon enough. So tired of trying to wade through the swamp of lies Barbalunga is leading us through.
I can’t wait for Kelvin Santos to be fire for being the incompetent race baiter he is, then suing the dept for racism.
These people are put on earth for my entertainment. nothing more
Who is Jimmy Ruberto endorsing?
Barbalunga, of course! Lovely “favor” called in by Daddy.
Dan I think it’s beyond pathetic that you are aligned with Alf in trying to make this woman’s death in a CHICOPEE prison a political issue.
I completely agree. My posts are being held in post jail because I dare mention his name. I left her before because of the treatment of some community members and think it’s time to go again.
When you edit posts to protect people like Alf and Krol, yet profess to be about free speech it says volumes for what speech is really free.
Shame on you Dan.
I understand your points. But our paper of record is a complete propaganda machine. The Eagle almost never correct the record, and they have a few good reporters. The water conservancy guy who is trying to get his actual quotes/facts out about the Housatonic cleanup has said this too (forgot his name). The Beagle knowingly manipulates regular people by printing things that aren’t fact checked or have intentional bias for the ‘business’ community they are tight with. It’s been at least ten 10 years of brown, shitty water in Housatonic – how many investigative articles on this? Not many. Martin was/is the lawyer for the water company. A reporter could walk to his office from their office at little expense to get on the record, The Eagle never ask the right questions. The byproduct of Dan’s blog is that occasionally you see a glimmer of truth seen nowhere else.
For me, can’t stand either sheriff. I believe this is the resting place of bad law enforcement and think jM was on the money of them all sitting on their asses. Luckily, I have little involvement with any of them.
Two Barbs, during campaign. If I had my druthers I’d rather not run for Sheriiff And the infamous , he ( Jack Quinn ) would have done it for nothing,concerning the 70 g he received? On the done it for nothing comment,he literally threw himself,Quinn and his Bowler under the bus.
President Biden’s speech last night was horrific. The background looked satanic and militaristic as he said MAGA people are a huge threat to this country. This isn’t normal he says. What isn’t normal is how Biden and the far left are destroying our country while trying to put the blame on Trump and his supporters. Biden takes no responsibility for anything and projects and projects. Biden seemed mean and angry and wanting to get MAGA people upset and his own supporters upset against MAGA people. What is Biden trying to do?
Biden is warning about another radical MAGA insurrection and people had better listen. The pot stirrers are agitating the gun nut cowboys who are ready to start a civl war without even knowing who their real enemy is. That makes it dangerous for everyone Pat. Even you. Do you want to open your door to a squad of Oath Keepers and have to prove to them that you nor anyone in your family knows any democrats but if you do you need to name them and give addresses?
That is where we are at Pat. We are at a tipping point of lunacy.
Left wing lunatics are the problem. They hear a nut like Biden and attack innocent people.
Left wing lunatics don’t run around with guns and storm the capital and believe bogus election lies by a maniac lawyer and a pillow head. They are more likely to save a forest from logging to protect a snail. Id rather have left wing lunatics.
pelosi was behind 1/6 goofball
No. Those were Trump’s knuckleheads, Pelosi is too focused on making sure she can sell her stocks without interference from Congress
The 0ath keepers are infiltrated by the FBI. Probably more FBI in the group than true believers.
This is the best analysis of our lying demented prez that I’ve seen;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/stephen-miller-biden-tonight-gave-speech-dictator-style-dictator-visual-dictator-using-words-dicatator-video/
He stated over 1/2 of Americans are his enemy.
Liberals having voter remorse for the Selection Nov 2020?
I’ll add, he used Marines, as PROPS IN THE BACKGROUND, almost a year to the day after 13 Marines were killed due his bungled disgraceful handling of Afghanistan withdrawl. Then when their dead bodies came home, he was fixated on his watch at the airport, unconcerned and unfeeling for the dead Marines families.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/30/biden-ripped-for-apparently-looking-at-watch-at-troops-ceremony/
still have people in Afghanistan that didn’t get out
Pittsfield and Springfield need to get some of these banners….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/naked-hunter-biden-jockstrap-pops-dallas-interstate-overpass/
FBI sat on Hunter’s “laptop from hell”, that has the goods on the Biden crime cartel, the whole of 2020.
“What would it look like if a nation surrendered itself to evil? If we rejected the God of the Bible and created our own? If babies were killed in the womb and children were confused, castrated, mutilated, and sterilized? If families were forced to endure scarcity and pestilence? If communities were divided by color and resentment? If evil rulers demanded complete compliance and obedience of their subjects?
It would look a lot like this…Joe Biden”
“You can’t be pro-democrat and pro-America”
-Dr Milton Wolf
Biden looked like he was standing at the gates of Hell during his speech. The only thing missing was the horns.
Biden is driving America’s bus, down the Highway to Hell full speed ahead and recklessly. I hope America gets off the bus, before Biden gets there.
What is not reported. A 15′ satan was on route to be installed at the back, a dark menacing reminder that Satan now runs the show. In fact,
the statute was just a magnified version of a dungeon dragon piece. APMRF engineering corps located the satanic idol hours before it was to be deployed. Ten tons of bronzed epoxy and blew up the container with two well placed rounds. A horn embedded in a UPS truck. It burned 7 hours! There is a section on PA Ave now taped off as slip hazard. APMRF, as you know, will not let satanic ‘art’ stand. Bad art is satanic art – a desecration of form and nature.
I am surprised the ‘marines’ (more likely actors on loan as all actors are satanic too) weren’t outfitted with glowing eyes.
I agree with about those actors. Being an old oater fan I used to write scripts for western movies and True Grit was one of them. I was going over some word changes with John Wayne one afternoon when he insisted I change my phrasing of “put down that gun cowboy”, to “drop it honcho”. Long story short he got so mad he grabbed a nearby baby out of a stroller and ate it right in front of me. AND, yes his eyes did seem to be glowing like you say. No salsa, no mayo nothing.
Actors are deficient people. They have no self, no human integrity. They are all satanic. At death’s door, the ‘man with a thousand voices’ will beg the almighty for just one. What prayer will save the man that is not a man? Plato explains the vice associated with actors – his concerns would be magnified ten fold if he saw what they do today. Nothing is off limits, yet it’s fiction they perform that they believe to be real.
Example Alex Baldwin brandishes loaded handgun, and to emulate authentic scene points it at person and pulls a trigger and a real bullet is fired at a person. Fiction was disproved by reality, but the actor does not recognize his incurable idiocy which by metamorphosis, transformed him from man to humonculus shape shifter.
Ban Shakespeare!
actors. Do not let your sons and daughters near them.
MAGA is the number 1 threat to democracy in the United States of America. He has sworn to uphold the constitution and defend it…..You dont even know the background building used.Sad.
Vote Alf on Sept. 6.
Mark Prisco, Medway
The writer is the former treasurer of the Massachusetts Chief Probation Officer’s Association.
So essentially, like Andrea OuttheDoorea, Alf is picking up useless support from ultra liberals who don’t even live in our area or have a clue what’s doing on. (i.e. Healy and Warren)
For the first 72 hours, newly booked inmates are quarrentined on watch. TB test etc.
Lie of the day from the Fake DA. The ultra progressive Atty Knight has been calling out Harrington’s deceit for years. This time Harrington lied to the NAACP. If she will lie about this case she will lie about yours. Will anyone listen?
To the editor: In 2018, I ran as a progressive candidate for district attorney.
Now, I’m supporting Tim Shugrue. The depth and breadth of Tim’s legal experience will enable him to actually bring substantive criminal justice reform to Berkshire County.
The current DA has not done this, nor will she. This story is one example of how I know this is true.
In 2017, I was hired to represent an 18-year-old Latinx man who was working two jobs and had no criminal record. He had been beaten and hit with a stun gun by three white police officers inside his home while in his stocking feet. He was charged with three counts of assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Police unapologetically reported that they had struck my client with batons, punched him in the face and shocked him with a stun gun numerous times. Months before the August 2019 trial, I repeatedly asked Harrington’s office to dismiss this case due to the officers’ obvious use of excessive force and the lack of criminal conduct by my client. Each time, Harrington refused.
On the morning of trial, I confronted Ms. Harrington in the hallway and asked her again to dismiss the charges, reminding her of her promise to bring a more enlightened approach to the criminal justice system. She refused. Instead, Ms. Harrington deferred to the officers who brutally beat my young Hispanic client — exactly the kind of conduct she purportedly stands against.
Thankfully, the jury did the right thing and acquitted him on all charges. (“Jury: No assault of Pittsfield officers during in-home arrest in 2017,” Eagle, Aug. 6, 2019.)
Worse, Harrington later told the NAACP that by the time she learned about the case, it was too late for her to dismiss it. This is not true.
We’ve had four years of progressive rhetoric without action. The verdict is in. With Ms. Harrington, it’s just rhetoric, not deeds. A progressive DA would never have prosecuted my client.
In contrast, Tim Shugrue is a stand-up guy. He ran against David Capeless in 2004 for many of the same reasons that I ran against Capeless in 2006. We shared a disdain for the thuggish use of mandatory minimums by that office to incarcerate nonviolent individuals. Now, we both believe that there remains a deep need for criminal justice reform in Berkshire County and that this can be accomplished hand in hand with effective law enforcement, not in spite of it.
Judith C. Knight, Lee
The writer is an attorney with a practice in Great Barrington and also was a candidate for Berkshire district attorney in 2018.
When PPD thugs brutalize citizens/violate their civil rights, you can bet their victim[s] will be charged with the usual lies, assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Never underestimate the depravity of depraved cops, and Andrea Harrington and David Capeless and Gerald Downing and Daniel Ford and Anthony Ruberto.
A 56-year-old Dalton woman was assaulted and injured by PPD cops when she went to the Pittsfield police department to file a complaint against the Pittsfield Police. After Pittsfield police assaulted the woman, and injured her, Pittsfield police arrested her and charged her with assaulting a police officer and disorderly conduct. Because that’s what depraved cops do.
Dalton woman is not guilty of assaulting officer – June 22, 2014
This is far from an isolated case.
This type of police corruption is not the exception; this is the rule for PPD corruption.
Not prosecuting crime leads to less crime being reported. Film at 11.
and city leaders do not look like they are doing an absolutely abysmal job…
Well, yah they do cuz people ain’t as stupid as she would like to believe
Never underestimate the depravity of the depraved.
Josh Landes seems to think the Bowler campaign has no respect for him. That’s not true. Nobody does.
Andy is on the right
Landes
No one respects either of them because of their bias and unwavering dedication to Andrea Harrington
I wouldn’t want any of those terrifying assclowns crashing my birthday.
Would need three more cakes!
Who is Pete Marchetti campaigning for? Has the mayor told him who to vote for yet?
He’s gearing up to be the G man’s campaign manager next year.
What a relief when these elections are over, and we can go back to Dan’s pet-names for city officials and Jon Melle can write the exact same comment on every post about toxic waste dump schools and the mayor’s gated mc-mansion.
Doesn’t JM have his own blog? I thought someone on here, or maybe it was JM himself, who said he has a blog.
If he does, why doesn’t he just post his random thoughts there?
If a trees falls in the forest, and no one is there to here it, does it still make a sound.
If it fell in Lee who knows?
If it was a money tree, the ex chief thief would be the first one there, stripping it of cash, before he called it in. Stealing from the dead ain’t nothing new.
People will believe what they want to believe, often without letting facts or truth get in the way. It’s hard speaking truth to power. The good news is that on September 6th we get to vote. Samuel Tilten quote says it best, “ I still trust the people “.
Benefactor to the city of pitiful no not the last five parade marshals no not Larry Bossidy, no not Kitty Liechtenstein. Biggest one was none other than the great G-man number one ibenefactor For the taxpayer in soon to be number one in the media again, his shows is coming back.
Everyone love that man. Not so much for stooge Dan
, furry friends, and now the police advisory board.
BIC had more business last night
Give it a rest, fraud!
Huh?
The gman wants to be Parade Marshall!
Tool!
Absolutely agree with G Man being most popular of the dozen and trodden.
Italian Job movie:
“ I trust the people just not the devil inside them”.
Guess what Andrea? The crime rate isn’t the problem. You are. You can’t put together a case and get witnesses to court. You dismiss domestic violence cases left and right because your prosecutors aren’t trained yet you have the nerve to claim you are women’s champion. What about the lady with three kids who got choked half to death and pushed almost out the window by a repeat offender? You dropped the case because she refused to testify. There are so many examples like this yet you stand on a soap box a week before election and claim crime is down? Shame, shame, shame shame on you!
Andrea Harrington does not give a shit about REAL victims of REAL domestic violence and REAL RAPE. Case in point http://www.wwlp.com – August 29, 2018
Second person arrested in connection with Pittsfield Child Rape case –
‘A Pittsfield woman was arraigned Monday afternoon after being charged with raping an 18-mouth-old boy. Following her arraignment, she was released on condition of not having any contact with the alleged victim. Erica Emerling has been charged with aggravated rape of a child with force, posing a child in a sexual act, and aggravated indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.’
This 29-year-old monster, aka mother, is facing serious charges.
And I’ve read, that while free, this monster gave birth to another victim. And she’s still not locked up.
January 17, 2020 – GUILTY PLEA – Woman Blackmailed into Assaulting Toddler Pleads Guilty
A depraved tale about a monster who took explicit photos of herself and shared them with another monster who then threatened to distribute the explicit photos if the mommy monster didn’t RAPE her own baby. So, the mommy MONSTER RAPED HER OWN BABY, and didn’t go to prison for this monstrous depravity. This Baby Raping MONSTER is another one of Andrea Harrington’s depraved victims.
This is exactly the point other posters and letter writers have made about AH saying one thing and doing another. Well-trained prosecutors know how to investigate, prepare, and present a domestic violence case without a victim. There are a myriad of reasons to do it this way, not the least of which is victim safety. AH professes to prioritize gender violence, yet did not train her ADAs on the fundamentals of evidence based (victimless) prosecution. DAs Downing, Capeless, and Caccaviello all pursued domestic violence cases in this manner with success, which under these circumstances mean holding the offender accountable and making victims safer. Shame is right.
Harrington bragged she was doing cases without victims like she invented the concept and then did not do it. She’s as phony as it gets.
Why would any woman’s organization endorse Andrea Harrington? How lazy can you get? It’s like endorsing Sarah Palin. All you have to do is google her.
If you look at online reviews for correctional facilities our local jail gets a 4 star review, while the facility in Chicopee gets a 3 star review. In speaking with someone who did a brief stay in Chicopee her chief complaints were the food and it takes too long to see a counselor. The question becomes how to address this situation. Do you bring part of the population back here or fix the problem out there?
Option three is, “don’t get your ass put in jail”, cuz it was not meant to be pretty and cater to your every need. Parents need to tell their kids this cuz they do not seem to be aware of it.
You are prolly pretty stupid.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/01/western-mass-womens-correctional-center-gets-top-score-from-auditors.html
https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/womens-jail-in-chicopee-earns-perfect-score-in-audit/
To the editor: As a formerly incarcerated person, I have a question for the public.
Have you been incarcerated yourself? Has your family? If you’ve answered no to either of those questions, you don’t have enough facts or experiences to be writing about this subject. My family and I have been through this twice. Simply being incarcerated and away from your loved ones is a traumatic experience.
I was sentenced to the Berkshire County Jail and House of Corrections in 2012. My daughter was 15 at the time — not an easy time to be separated from your mom. We made it work somehow. My family wanted me to be able to receive education on what I needed to fix. My husband and daughter came every visiting day. Location shouldn’t be the issue; it’s getting better that should be the main focus.
Jail isn’t really designed to be convenient for anyone. You can’t have the men and women come in contact with each other, therefore the women were able to go to a classroom for a few programs that were offered 10 feet outside the “pod” and at night a few that were classified went and cleaned the cafeteria. That’s it. Do you think this creates a healthy and healing environment? I can tell you it does not.
Sheriff Thomas Bowler realized the women of his county would be getting more: more movement within the facility to earn good time and more programs in the community to help acclimate them into society by moving the female inmates to Chicopee. I was in the minimum security section of the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center where I was able to go out Monday through Friday working on crews outside and go to NA or AA meetings at night. I never felt disconnected from my county.
The sheriff didn’t just ship the women off; he is closely involved in every decision that is made concerning their safety and well-being, even going as far as hiring a women’s reentry and aftercare case worker to meet with them every week. In Chicopee, we had programs for education and for areas of need such as addiction, abuse, human trafficking, trauma and more. Women are in jail because they need help; let them get the help they need and make the distance work somehow. It’s worth it for everyone in the long run.
Jennifer Thurston, North Adams
Barfbalunga the buffoon will say anything. Maybe he can help Harrington make sandwiches at a store in west Stockbridge
A three star jail? In the Berkshires?!?!
Did the police ever catch the guy they were hunting for the other day who fired shots in a road rage incident in Pittsfield? Things arre getting more and more hairy here in Little Chicago. Anyone hearing anything? Is the person connected?
No and they will have a bit of a tough time doing so. No ballistics (casing or bullet) was found. Unless they can find video of the car with registration info, it’s going to be difficult.
How convenient is that?
Revolver?
Doubtful these days. The shells probably stayed In shooters car.
You mean the one the Eagle had a teeny weeny, barely could see it article about, buried in their paper today?
Yup, somehow this guy alluded the police for hours and rejoins the growing mob of of idiots on Pittsfield roads. But instead of the mayor focusing on some semblence of traffic control she and her sycophants are hell bent on ramming in a new ball park before anyone knows what is happening.
No and talking about it is a scare tactic according to WW DA Harrington.
He ran into saint joe church and they were able to catch him by the organ.
They found Megan’s body in Lee.
Wow. I was starting to believe that she had intentionally disappeared. Supposedly she was found not far from her car. That seems impossible since that area has been searched repeatedly.
Found not far from her car the article is saying. How is that possible?
My question as well. I thought that area had been thoroughly searched with dogs? Something seems fishy….
Maybe Nipples the Ghoul had her in her deep freeze. Waiting until just the right moment to thaw her out and plant her where she was sure to be found just in time for the above suspicion election. Exploiting the dead for political gain has done wonders for Alf the Grim Reaper. Both of them, bringing out their dead, just in time!
Yes. My thought too
Maybe some nut had her body in a freezer and just dumped it recently figuring they wouldn’t look in an area that was heavily searched. Or maybe the searchers just suck. It’ll be interesting to hear what the ME has to say about state of decomposition
Im going to tell you a secret the Lee police department is pretty inept. Their former Chief was running a shakedown scheme for years. There were always allegations of him shaking down prostitutes for favors and cash and local dealers for money.
The MSP out here is a catch all for probies, who if they do well get moved closer to Boston. Troopers who plan to retire, or screwups. If you screw up off to the Lee or Cheshire barracks.
A few years ago a trooper who was married to an MSP command officer’s daughter, cheated on said daughter. He ended up in Lee.
A former State Trooper’s son got caught with steroids, he will never leave the Berkshires.
We are not looking at the best and brightest out here. Just think of Pittsfield and how they fought so hard for an affirmative action hire chief.
So that explains why they 86’ed any record of Harrington’s professional courtesy?
The felony convicted former Lee Police Chief wasn’t just shaking down a businesswoman he was also stealing LOTS of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ from a toy fund he ran for decades to allegedly make Christmas a little happier for disadvantaged kids, and he was also stealing Bingo $$$$$$$$$$$$$ from his church Bingo instead of depositing the money for the church. But he was a 30 plus year trusted police officer/police chief. And the daughter of the convicted career police thief is a state trooper, and his state trooper daughter’s wedding couldn’t have been cheap. And the taxpayers still had to pay the attorney fees for this criminal. The police chief thief was supposed to sell his Pittsfield home and repay the taxpayers who paid for his defense. But I don’t believe that he ever complied with that. But I digress, decades ago a high-ranking state trooper was accused of leaving SOMETHING in the mailbox of a woman after she broke off their illicit relationship. The state trooper’s behavior resulted in the high-ranking state trooper having to sign his gun business over to a family member. And THESE are the best and the brightest, rising through the ranks. And don’t even get me started that affirmative action hire chief.
It would only make sense if the body was put in that area recently. They used dogs and heat sensing devices so why didn’t they pick up on her body being there months ago if the body was that close to her car?
There’s no heat on a dead body. She was missing for days, her body would have been at room temp or ambient temp.
The dogs would have detected a scent of a dead body that close to her vehicle. Maybe she wasn’t dead just unconscious until the cold nights did kill her, but nobody even knew she was missing until days after her car was found abandoned in the park. Until we know cause of death, if they can determine it, we can only speculate on what happened to her.
While there may be some truth to what you are reporting, (back when Kennedy rolled the Olds off the bridge with the poor damsel it, a trooper was threatened to be exiled to the Berkshires )
a dead body can be very hard to find in the woods, especially after decomp. And the Lee Chief is a top shelf leader and cop.
Bullshit I know the some Troopers in question. A good man got transferred to a shit detail for being a hero.
2013
In July, Murphy, 48, was suspended with pay for one day for the leak. A month later, he was transferred from his job as a tactical photographer at state police headquarters to a rural patrol job working the overnight shift.
Sgt. Sean Murphy a good friend, was transferred to a shit detail in Athol.
So don’t talk about things you don’t know boy.
The Lee chief is a rube and part of the Lee police department problem.
He was a Sgt when Buffis was chief. He knew exactly what was going on, did he do anything all those years? No. He took his promotions and kept his mouth shut. And if you say he didn’t know what kind of cop does that make him? I get your a badge bunny/jock sniffer but you don’t know what you are talking about.
You are so wrong on so many levels and obvious never a real cop, or at least a very good one. I am going to enjoy my weekend but I may just come back and set you straight before Mondays edition. By the way, wasn’t Murphy the one that gave Boston magazine crime scene photos? He should have been fired if he is the one.
Buffis had a long history of corruption and false testimonies that resulted in innocent people being railroaded in court proceedings. To think those within the crooked department didn’t know what was transpiring would be nieve.
Was this the guy who went to prison for embezzling funds from the toys for tots or something? To pay for his kids dirt biking career?
Buffis was the chief with the hookers and drug dealers and the toys for kids fund that he was using as a piggy bank. He also did something with having free cellphones for his family.
There was a complaint that he solicited sex from a motorist with a suspended license (not Harrington).
Lots of corruption in that department and there still is.
Just in time for Harrinton to claim she another feather in her cap, eh mate?
Exactly where it was placed.
Sound like Bubbalunga wants this report expedited more for political reasons?
We are all still waiting for his employment reports from his time in North Adams.
Or his drug tests, let’s see those.
You know, THE PLANET is not the only medium in town that could attempt access to these reports. Of course, we’re been the “Man in the Middle” in this campaign solely, getting enormous flack and praise because we’ve been consistent in publishing the most breathtaking news and views. We get that, both “Dan, it’s totally your fault. You’re secretly trying to control this election for nefarious purposes” and “Dan, great job and thanks for making this board available for the FREE expression of views at FREE cost, unlimited.” We’re just doing our best with what we have. Not many have in the press or citizenry have the steel to create completely independent content, keep it consistent (nearly 2,500 columns and running; hundres of hours of video) and assume the avante guard and all that goes with it, especially the flak.
You didn’t get much of anything you got his attendance reports and a couple reviews from a judge and people who know what side their bread is buttered on.
Actually, you don’t know what I received, since I obtained the material with an agreement of confidence. I have NEVER broekn a pledge of confidence, off-the-record, anonymity, or anything of the sort, and I am not going to begin now.
Good for you Dan a man of his word few and far between my friend. These idiots need to leave it alone it has been like 18 years who cares. I care about the money that is being paid out and wasted at bchc.
TT2
Many thanks!
It’s better that way as people will probably assume it’s worse than what’s in it. Not a good move on Alfies part.
Dan again you didn’t let my post go through, I listed what you got and from whom without and names.
I know what you got because I know the people that sent it.
A
The post that “listed what I got and from whom” wasn’t accurate. I try not to publish misinformation. Again, A, when info is supplied to me for my eyes only, as backgrounder, I don’t reveal it. It’s a matter or honor and ethics. I’ll say this, though. When someone sends me verified public records that are relevant to a story, I publish them. Likewise with verified private records, with just a tad more checking.
You are so right Dan. Maybe you need a new catch phrase, or moniker, or whatever it’s called – Dan Valenti, Man of Steel. Steel Balls that is. Thank you.
This is like what happens when Trump supporters turn on Fox News reporters when they don’t stick to the mantra. Keep being you, it’s why people are here, even if they complain.
Tell me what’s different about these pictures
They are both the same
Satanic!
The guy in the bottom picture doesn’t have a mustache.
Heil Biden, Heil Melle
or a brain!!!
the difference is the top one offends Jon Melle and the bottom one gives both him and School Committee hard ons and goose bumps
That’s messed up on so many levels. I didn’t support Trump but someone working for Biden should be fired.
Bird Scooter Drug Dealers
Looks like the deal was transacted with a hot cat converter
Todays Eagle, “Board resigns en masse”. Many interpret this as good news. Really? Why are you there in the first place? Are you there to review, to criticize, to change decisions made by elected officials. In this case the chief of police made a decision that is very good, within his authority to make, a decision we citizens expect a chief executive to make, and a handful of citizens are critical of this decision. Thank you chief, for a decision that is gutsy, accurate and authorized to make. And how about the mayor? We have to give her a maximum of credit for guts and brains. Not easy to go against an independent citizen committee, but she did it.It is not easy to go against a citizen group in Pittsfield. Nice job Mayor Tyer and Chief Wynn.
I don’t know I heard this one I don’t know if he was a member or what he was he can’t tell what the zoom name begin with a K he had all these radical explanations of the incident the restroom prior so let’s get the hell out of here in the bottom line it was the mayor they gave this kid a proclamation not too long ago so she’s the blame too
Thanks for the wisdom, CG!
Where is the recording of the citizen reporting the erratic driver on 8/5?
Good video Dan. Thanks for putting it out there.
The International Brotherhood of Police Officers, Locals 447 and 447S, said they back Bowler’s reelection as sheriff. The locals, which represent Pittsfield patrol officers and superior officers, said Bowler earned their support because of his experience, service, collaborative leadership, accessibility and embrace of education, treatment and work programs.
“Over 12 years ago, when then-Detective Bowler left the Pittsfield Police Department, he left a lasting impression on the members of the department,” the unions said in a joint statement. “If asked to describe him: honest, professional, inquisitive, and attentive to detail, are words you would frequently hear. He took those traits to the Berkshire County Sheriff’s office and the men and women who serve in that agency reflect that.”
In North Adams, the union that represents patrol officers and sergeants with the North Adams Police Department threw its support to Bowler. In a statement, MCOP Local 382 said it backs Bowler because it sees him as “an integral part of the community [who] has forged many partnerships that have created a great number of resources for Berkshire County … We believe integrity and experience matter.”
Bowler also picked up an endorsement from the State Police Association of Massachusetts, which called him a “collaborative leader who has been an integral partner to” its members.
“He has a long history of supporting law enforcement, but our support stems from so much more than that,” the association said in a statement. “Sheriff Bowler has integrity, experience, compassion and commitment to his community. We are proud to endorse his candidacy and urge voters across Berkshire County to vote for him this Tuesday.”
Al was endorsed by the international brotherhood of bums who smoke on north street
When a union endorses someone is it a vote of leadership only? I’ve never been in one.
Berkshire County Idiots List
HARRINGTON ENDORSEMENTS: Harrington’s campaign announced endorsements from the following local officials and community leaders: Joe Nowak, Adams Select Board;
Jamie Minacci, Stockbridge Select Board;
Stephen Bannon, Great Barrington Select Board; Brian Tobin, Mount Washington Select Board;
Jeff Johnson, Williamstown Select Board;
Community grifter Shirley Edgerton of Pittsfield
Did the Richmond Selectmen endorse her?
Mayor Tyer? Any of the mayors in Berkshire County? Did Hinds endorse her this time around?
We know Alf did but Alf is an idiot.
This list is relevant because of the names NOT ON IT.
Also noticably absent is head of the Harrington underachievers club Tricia Farley Bouvier who is so spineless she’s barely alive.
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
Please remove the picture of Hitler that is posted on your blog. The Holocaust and Hitler’s evil legacy is less than 100 years old. Posters on your blog can make their unfavorable criticisms of Joe Biden without comparing him to Hitler by putting Hitler’s picture above Biden’s picture. Lastly, I had brunch with my mom and her friend on her friend’s birthday today, and I said to them that I believe that MAGA equals NAZI under Donald Trump’s racist White Nationalist political movement in the USA (and Europe). Donald Trump is a lot more similar to Hitler than Joe Biden!
Jonathan A. Melle
Don’t piss dementia joe off or he’ll straff your ass with an F-15
The only choices democrats want you to have is cut your Johnson off and be transgender or the choice to have an abortion. Otherwise they want to control your life just like Hitler and Biden.
Hello blogger clogger Jonathan A. Melle,
No President Of United States, past or present, should be compared to Hitler. Even Donald Trump. Trump and Biden may be many things but neither deserves to be compared to Hitler. You keep using the Hitler comparison for Trump like some people use the word “rascist” when they have nothing else to say. It’s ok to disagree with a President, its one of our rights. Feel free to use any of these adjectives instead of Hitler in the future: dispicable, evil, abscent minded, feeble, ect.
Melle equals Marxist.
And the pics comparing Biden to Hitler are spot on!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/barstool-sports-founder-dave-portnoy-president-looked-like-fking-hitler-anyone-says-otherwise-full-sht-video/
FU Melle.
Make America Great Again. You have an issue with that? Instead of turning it into a 3rd world crap hole the last 18 months?
According to H-Beast, I’m “deplorable”.
To Traitor Joseph Stolen, I’m a “Nazi/facist”.
How about this John, both of them are Traitors.
And the doctor in the maternity ward, should have slapped your mother, not you.
You should have skipped brunch and made a special trip to the “Couch Trip” Doc today.
The Democrat Party is a satanic cult.
No. Definitely not. Stupid yes, not satanic.
True
Quit bitching JM! Just like a whiny lib who can post and say what he wants about others, but is offended and wants removed something he doesn’t like. Cry more!
The comparison and picture is fair and reasonable. The mass murders and mass graves are not off limits of the imagination.
Harrington will lose due to a health problem. The voters are sick of her.
My favorite line!!!’mm
I only steal the best jokes Chuck
Did anyone else notice that MedExpress finally closed? I have heard that place had a lot of issues w/staffing and had to deal with a significant amount of ‘clients’ trying to game the system for false prescriptions for opioids. That being another reason medical professionals were fed up with the client base. Does anyone know if that is true?
Seen a post by that Josh Landes guy saying that overall crime in Pittsfield has dropped 40% in the last five years. This is absolute unadulterated bulllshit and he should be ashamed for lying so blatantly to his community. He and his handlers can manufacture all the statics they want and keep what we are seeing with our own eyes out of the newspaers, but people see, hear and talk and we know he is lying through his teeth. It is insulting and shameful and says a lot about his character.
If there is one thing that has become absolutely certain over the course of this election cycle, it’s that Josh Landes is not only comfortable lying through his teeth, he lacks any shame in his blatantly biased political stances and reporting. While most of us wish we had a VooDoo doll of Harrington, Josh is happy just to have a polaroid that he has unashamedly worn out and is sticking to the wall by his bedside.
Like a canine getting excited over the scent/taste of blood, Landes does so over the word “progressive” and the acronym POC
Crime reporting has gone down by 40% because the police refuse to take reports on property theft.
The problem is not Josh Landes. The problem is not progressives. The problem is Andrea Harrington. She is a disaster of a lawyer, arrogant, vengeful and out only for herself. Poor Berkshire County. The sooner voters send her and her hustle packing the better.
Fizz,
These clowns manipulate data all the time to make it look good or bad on the data depending on what they want the citizens to believe as facts.He left out of his 40% reduction, unreported crimes, crimes not being prosecuted, etc…
So there are 14 pending homicides in the Berkshires. There were not 14 homicides in a quarter of a century before Andrea Harrington came along. Harrington is on record not prosecuting crimes. News quickly spread so we have out of town liquor store thefts with no bail. Did I miss WAMC’s coverage of that? I guess I wasn’t listening when they covered Fair and Just prosecution and Harrington’s association with that radical group and its ideas about “reform?” I must have missed that overdose deaths have skyrocketed here while they are down elsewhere in the state because out of town drug traffickers like the guy Harrington let go live with his sister in Springfield. Obviously WAMC doesn’t give a shit about the Berkshires.
The 5 worse prosecutors in Berkshire history:
Mr. Cartolk loves in the Berkshires: wealthy stretches in Great Barrington, expensive restaurants, wealthy mayors, and sliming neighbors who don’t call him ‘doctor’ – a title that he wore out decades ago.
Are you referring to Herr Doktor?
Fizze, the border is secure and the economy is booming, Joe Biden said so.
I thought crime dropped everywhere in Massachusetts recently but what happened in 2013 that it spiked through 2018? Who got elected or appointed?
https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ma/pittsfield/crime-rate-statistics
No Andrea the problem is not the judge. The problem is you. You ineffectively argued your case because you suck. Your ADAs suck because you suck. Another Anyone But Andrea problem that can be solved by voting you out!
Wow comparing Biden to hitler? Please tell iuus when the g mans show is on. We need facts from the benefactor of the people
Have you learned how to operate your cell phone yet?
Dan this was a disgusting and needless article that does nothing but continue the pain for a family so you can support that scumbag Alf.
It’s so very clear you support him, it’s a bias that everyone can see.
I guess I though you were better than this but aren’t.
UH OH
As someone else put it on this board, inquiring about the death of a prisoner while in custody, where the death certificate says the cause of death is under investigation, in a state that has a bad history of inmate deaths, is not only justifiable but necessary. As for “supporting” any candidate for sheriff, you’re wrong on that score, my friend.
You want to look into a death of inmates, look into the ones that were released during Covid at Harrington’s insistence as part of the national “Difference a DA Makes” and Fair and Just campaign to reduce incarceration. At least two had no safe place to go and died of overdoses. So much for Harrington’s protection of vulnerable addicts.
Here is the letter signed by Harrington demanding accelerated release. Overdose deaths among recently incarcerated are widely known to be many times higher. The Brien Center and others in the treatment and recovery community were against firmly against it.
https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Open-Letter-to-Our-Nations-Governors-FINAL.pdf
It was part of a major campaign to use covid to to release inmates.
https://fairandjustprosecution.org/issues/covid-19/
Excellent point, TS. When ultra-progressives talk of things such as “fair” and “justice,” you know it ends up being just the opposite, as in DIE. Even the name “progressive” has come to means something else from the opposite direction.
You would think a story like that would get media attention locally. It would have made such a nice one for Overdose Awareness Day.
Harrington’s “Fair and Just” Progressive prosecutors are tanking all over the country. One reason is due to the disaster of the no cash bail program. Here’s proof: NY went so far to pass legislation reducing the state’s ability to keep even violent criminals detained after they were arrested. Then the spike in violent crimes forced Dem. governor Kathy Hochul to roll it back two years later. You’ll be shocked to know detaining violent criminals between arrest and trial is critical to public safety.
Good point squatdrone. I remember back in the day lawyers posted the bail and the criminal robbed while out to pay the lawyer fee. But seriously. Four items must happen. Body cameras. Bail for the offense that is committed,no bail for serious offenses,like killing a cop. Police are vulnerable and overworked with idiots let go every time,the police say why arrest?
I’ll admit there has to be something done strategically in cases like Miggy there;has to be a better way. I really don’t think most police want to kill as the last option. It needs to be fixed but it’s a tough tough process. The police advisory committee cheers to assemble and go over the rules and when they found out they had no say in the last situation they quit. One person and one person alone isn’t to blame.
Really the attention paid to this one guy who went after cops when there are 50 dead addicts because Harrington dropped the ball on drug trafficking. We’re getting a new DA willing to set high bail on traffickers.He starts next Wednesday.
Trump ain’t looking too good lately.
I was a great fan of Homer! Morrall and Tarkenton to Jones. TD! Jints win!
Homer actually beat Bob Hayes in the 100 meter
As someone who lives in great Barrington Shame on Stephen Bannon and Andrea Harrington for politicizing our need for clean water. She’s so desperate to have it look like she has a crowd that she jumped in the middle of our standout.
Steven Bannon you are a dirtbag for inviting her and telling her to join with her political signs.
Steven you’ve done absolutely nothing to help in Housatonic and your little brown nosing dwarf of a town manager is making things worse.
Andrea keep your racist and sexist husband away from our cause.
ANGRY
The photos tell all!
This is the real story.
A post was published Wednesday on the official campaign Facebook page of Alfred E. “Alf” Barbalunga, a candidate for Berkshire County sheriff. It contained allegations about the integrity of the elections process in Pittsfield.
City Clerk Michele Benjamin said Thursday that she viewed statements in the post as “irresponsible” and “false.”
I think it prudent to report election fraud or irregularities.. People think long and hard about Bowler / Shagrue.. Bowler says he’s built a Dynasty? Really , build a dynasty with taxpayer money ? Hand out our tax dollars to benefit himself , friends ? It’s repulsive , not fair , and dangerous .. He’s got good old Melissa Mazzeo involved in campaign , Dangerous person who getting sued by Mayor for defamation , poor missy lost , but can’t accept .. Many dangerous people involved , 12 years is enough .. Shugrue , has character issues , he’s a great liar ( defense attorney ) , who if elected is also dangerous , he’s vindictive , mean , and not fit for job .. Good old missy involved as well , do you really want that wanna be politician involved with leaders of community.. Alf and Andrea are compassionate people who would help this area get the most out of over 30 million dollars of combined budgets .. Please consider voting Alf and Andrea
I’ve considered voting for Alf and Andrea, I got violently ill.
Bowler and Shugrue all the way
Kronicks chronic questioning at c c will force Benji to retire. FROM anEARACHE’!!!
Thanks NAPD. Now if he isn’t allowed by WW to plea out !
Berkshire Eagle today.
North Adams police make firearm and drug arrest Tuesday at North Adams Housing Authority
NORTH ADAMS — City police arrested a man on firearm and drug charges earlier this week on Ashland Street, they said in a statement on social media on Friday.
On Tuesday, an officer investigated possible drug activity while working a security detail in the apartment building on Ashland Street for the North Adams Housing Authority, according to police. Police arrested Quentin Harris of Springfield on a number of charges, which include: possession with the intent to distribute heroin, trafficking cocaine (18-36 grams), possession of firearm without FID (second offense), carrying a loaded firearm without a license, possession of ammunition without FID, possession of firearm while in commission of felony, improper storage of a firearm and firearm violation with one prior violent/drug crime.
The man was arraigned in Northern Berkshire District Court Wednesday and held on $25,000 cash bail, according to the statement. He has multiple open firearm charges out of Hampden
Superior Court.
Andrea Harrington shows once again that she can break the law with no punishment in Pittsfield. In driving around the City today noticed that City owned median strips on East Street (especially in front of PHS) and also along Dalton Avenue are now holding her campaign signs. What right does she have to post her signs on City property? Thought that was illegal. Did Flat Tyer and Mikey Wynn give her permission to do this? Guess she is beyond the law once again, as we all know she does not know the laws and she has also gotten away with breaking the law many times with no consequences. Must be nice huh?
That is illegal. Those signs shold be removed and burned.
Actually report it to the building inspector he is in charge of that believe it or not!
mailto:jclemons@cityofpittsfield.org
Of course city hall is closed until Tuesday
We saw what happened last time a white man burned something political. Got a worse sentence than the POC who shot someone
Cakk PPD to go get them. They will.
Take pictures send it to the clerk also send it to Galvin’s office.
As a citizen you can also report it to the police, meet them there, and they will remove the signs.
Political signs are not allowed on city, state, or federal property
Alf Barbalunga has done the same thing, report those signs as well.
Andrea Harrington – soft in the head and soft on gun crime.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include further detail on the actions taken by the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office prior to Laquan Johnson pleading guilty to illegal possession of a firearm. The story now clarifies that the DA’s office unilaterally reduced the charges pending against Johnson, resulting in the removal of a mandatory minimum jail sentence of 18 months, leaving the judge to decide the defendant’s sentence.
You know it’s that progressive restorative Justice for POC under 26.
The clerks in the courts hate her so much that they sent the information to the Eagle on a Saturday!!!
I’m not surprised. Harrington once accused the clerk’s office of losing evidence that her office forgot to file. She’s a backstabber and you don’t recover from that in a small town.
Just a reminder folks the NAACP is offering rides to polling places. Make sure you call and schedule your ride! This is a great service, vote early!
NEED A RIDE TO VOTE?
September 6, 2022
Your voice matters in the Massachusetts State Primary on Tuesday.
The NAACP will provide transportation to anyone that needs a ride to their polling place. Call (413) 770-2031 from 7:00am to 7:00pm.
They will drive you to any poling place. They can’t ask who you are voting for.
They can’t refuse a ride based on candidate, race, color, creed, religion, gender.
If you call them and happen to be a Shugrue voter, if you wear your Shugrue shirt on the bus, just make sure it’s covered before you get to the polling place proper.
Same goes with any political affiliation shirt. They can’t refuse you a ride based on who you are voting for but you can certainly let them know who they are helping if you want to.
Harrington has angered and lost the support of most law enforcement in Berkshire. She now claims that’s ok. But remember this??
“It is really important to have a close relationship between the district attorney’s office and the law enforcement community. I would want to have somebody on call at all times to respond to the scenes of crimes as they happen. You need to work hand in hand with the police from the very beginning of prosecution to ensure there is no a rush to judgment, that we get competent evidence,” Harrington said.
Anyone wonder what Sheriff Bowler motivation is to seek another 6 years ? Anyone wonder why sheriff is involved in all elections in Berkshire county ? Anyone wonder why sheriff hangs around with people who don’t play by the rules ? Answer s , Influence , greed , Dynasty desire , organized crime mentality , power .. Facts.. Revenge . ( 1 and 6 in last 7 elections ) Narcissistic behavior , just like his bodyguards who threaten people who don’t support his campaign…ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING .. Facts , these thugs literally physically threaten people .. Soprano style .. This is embarrassing to the democratic process , the voters of berkshires, and someone who speaks of running a Dynasty with 22 million dollar budget .. Get rid of this man .. We need change not a frat party where only inner circle gets helped ..
Maybe but not Alf.
So I’m about done bitching for the weekend! seems conspicuous that people like Bouvier ain’t out there supporting Herrington and or there’s sheriff? can we get a list of the people that are supporting all the candidates. Are police are going for Shugrue or Alf?
Somerset what have you done for our city you couldn’t compare with CG in any capacity CG is the cities greatest benefactor and will never be equal especially not by a troll such as yourself ,the G-man lives in breathes for the tax and ratepayers of the city.See his TV show and get yourself educated. It is evident by your post that you didn’t graduate from fifth grade and you are no one to be throwing stones . Watch the G-man’s show, you will see the king of media at work. No one compares to the him.and I mean no one. I know him and think he is the smartest man I know, and he has balls of stainless steel between his legs. Long Live the wizard.
G says hello Dan and thanks to all who have kind words to say about him lately on this blog he greatly appreciates his supporters.
The Communist regimes killed many millions more people and Peoples, including the Jewish People, than Hitler’s Nazi regime’s genocide that resulted in the deaths of over 6 million Jewish People during the Holocaust. I believe that Communism, Fascism, Nazism and other forms of violent extremism is evil and should always be stopped by military force. When the neo-Nazis marched in Boston earlier this year of 2022, I felt that I should have taken action to stop them from waving their fascist flags behind their hidden faces, but I also believe in the rule of law over the rule of men. That being said, if I could go back in time 100 years ago, I would assassinate Hitler prior to his rise to power in Germany that resulted in the Holocaust and many millions of other deaths during that dark period of human history. I am very upset that Dan Valenti did not remove Hitler’s picture that someone posted on his blog’s comment section. We must all denounce Hitler and other violent and evil dictators instead of allowing someone whose real name we do not know to post Hitler’s picture on a blog that is about Pittsfield politics and beyond. Dan Valenti must denounce Hitler or else he is a moral failure!
Jonathan A. Melle
Yeah ok tuff guy,
You should have taken action? Weren’t you the one who freaked out because you saw someone in a fall foliage parade in North Adams?The one you claim to be your life long enemy and were glad you had your two body guards with you because he supposedly stared you down while marching in a parade.
But not BLM and Antifa, very interesting….and Trump but not the President who has made the most executive orders, aka dictatorship, and continues to break the laws and even claim it on TV