‘THE RING OF FIRE’: KROL SETS STRAIGHT ‘BANKING ERROR’ TIMELINE; UNLIKE THE BB, PLANET PUBLISHES UNEDITED VERSION … PAPER TRAIL EXPLAINS GREYLOCK MISTAKE
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
ADD 1 SEPT 28 p.m. — As THE PLANET predicted down to the last dotted “t” and crossed “i” the Boring Broadsheet pretended it had uncovered news of the Clairmont-Mazzeo lawsuit settlement. We had it almost two days before the local daily. One of the paper’s newbies, Matt Martinez, was saddled with the thankless assignment.
As we also Nostradamus-ed, the BB did not give THE PLANET credit for breaking the story. That’s a professional courtesy they have never given for any of the countless times we’ve scooped the pathetic rag. Call it professional jealousy. Just more embarrassment for the paper, as it continues its death watch over dwindling circulation.
Our newsroom spies also said that John Krol was spotted at the paper today, “conferring” with Kevin Moran, Meg B-M, and Linday Hollenbaugh. Our source said Judge “Free ’em Freddy” Rutberg joined in via phone and hogged the “discussion.” Our source described it as a hostile encounter, with the paper doing the browbeating. Watch for another Eagle hit piece on Krol.
The paper is running interference for someone(s) for some rea$on. Will the truth ever emerge? All we can say for sure is that there’s lots of fear surrounding the whole sordid mess. Think about it. The lone local daily, whose job it is to act as the Fourth Estate, complicit in dirty politics designed to take the focus off of the real issues that face the city — taxes, city spending, failing public schools, lack of private investment, decaying infrastructure, rise in crime and drugs, influx of undesirables, lack of public safety, clogged roadways, and so much more.
It’s part of Team Marchetti’s strategy to keep the focus off of such problems, since their boy Pete, with a citywide post for 16 years including council president, has his name stamped all over the decay.
Marchetti has abetted the horrible lack of attention that has allowed Pickeflield to become the laughingstock of the Commonwealth. That alone makes him a poor choice for the corner office.
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(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, LONG WEEKEND EDITION, SEPT. 28-OCT. 1, 2023) — It’s been a rough week for mayoral candidate Peter Marchetti. THE PLANET‘s Right Honorable Good Friend, council president, and The Suits’ favorite bagman reached this morning for the Preparation H to soothe his aching muscles from the rigorous stumping the night before, but mistakenly, he took the Ben Gay.
This explains the unusual report of Pete belting out a loud version of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire.”
The good news: At least he knows Johnny Cash is not a pay toilet. That Picklefield’s smart council president, sharp as a bowling ball, to quote Foghorn Leghorn.
Pete’s committee — headed by Sgt. Shultz, which had “nothing, NOTHING” to do with the Eagle‘s hit job on mayoral opponent John Krol — might want to use the song as Marchetti’s official campaign theme.
Now on to less serious matters.
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To the Boring Broadsheet, the hit job keeps on giving. They ran another story Wednesday.
Meg Brittany-Mehlisch (BM) wrote: “Krol has not disputed the accuracy of [t]he Eagle‘s [original] story.” Actually, Meg, Krol has “disputed the accuracy of the story” from here to eternity.
We might add that the Eagle has not disputed the accuracy of THE PLANET‘s stories laying out the truth of the case, namely, that Marchettian fingerprints, though not Pete’s, have been dusted by Hemlock Holmes and been shown to be all over the dirty tactics.
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BM’s summation story of Wednesday leaves out important details. Evidently, BB editors did not have enough news hole to present to full story. Fortunately, THE PLANET, which scooped the paper on the settlement of Barry Clairmont’s lawsuit against Melissa Mazzeo, has way more photons than the BB.
When BB executive editor Kevin Moran sent his invitation to both candidates Sept. 20 at 8:11 a.m., he wrote: “The sit-down would be an hour or so. It would be filmed for broadcast on berkshireeagle.com and it would be covered in paper.”
When the Eagle released the forum, however, it was chopped, doctored better than Kildare with title cards paraphrasing questions instead of the actual images and voices of Eagle personnel being shown and heard on the tape. Two questions come to mind:
- Why hide the faces and voices?
- Why edit the tape so severely?
To gain any credibility, the paper must issue the complete, raw tape.
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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” ― Arthur Conan Doyle.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
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As usual, the planet comes through where the eagle fails. Great job, Dan!
Basically the Planet has listed a bunch of attachments. At least the Eagle published documents with the account numbers redacted.
This article tells me nothing.
Who are you to make demands?
He is a tax paying Kapanski who has been over a barrell for years in this city. And Dan is The Voice of The Little Guy, which means he is looking out for us, in theory anyway, and let’s face it, if the shoe were on the other foot, and this was App Kal, or Ben Gay Pete, Dan would not have exonerated either based on this flimsy explanation.
Dan,
You’re being played.
What do you expect from , THE LEFT WINGED PARROT, Rutberg et al……
Trump has a hundred felonies and big financial troubles.He accuse Biden of starting WW2 and he needed to beat Obama…lol Trumps a mental mess
WWII was 1939 , TSC. Same Nazis Zelensky is using now. That’s a fact Jack!
Traitor Joe is poking the Bear working on #3, want that? If Putin nuked DC with Congress in session it might save America
Crawl up under Freddies dress TSC, a “safe place” for you.
For Snarky
In America
“snark shark
Reply to
Mad Trapper
7 hours ago
Actually antelopes are NOT out west. They are not even in America ya big buffoon.
But I once had a cat that did want to eat the deer that kept coming to the apple trees in our back yard. And what he did was to make friends with the deer and they talked about their problems, in particular their medical issues and such, but I digress. So the deer became complacent and one day my cat just wallop the deer over the head with a shovel and ate it right there next to the back steps. So maybe you don’t know as much about cats as you think you do bozo.”
You missed your calling trapper. What a beautiful photo.
That’s actually his girlfriend
IF it was, better looking than your mama!
Ewe stay out of the barn Snarky!
Maybe he was thinking cantaloupe?
That is hard to grow here unless you start it inside early..
It has less than a cantalope cranium, micro…sub micron at best.
‘Where the cantelopes roam’
Reminds me of the city-slicker vs farmer joke regarding the hornless cow with a saddle.
A Congressional candidate dropped in on a farm and introduced himself.
“wait let me get my wife, we’ve never seen a Republican before”….he came back with his wife, and asked him to give a speech.
He looked around for a podium. The only thing he could find was a pile of stuff the late Mrs Truman said it took 35 years for her to get Harry to call it “fertilizer”. He stepped up on that pile and made his speech.
And apparently he won them over, they told him first time they’d heard a Republican. He replied “first time I gave a speech on a Democrat platform”
Ha! Better than mine.
Stole it from Ron Reagan, former Democrat
Give me a home where the pan handlers roam/ where Marchetti and Tyer play/where often a turd will be your way and you’ll see needles all day/home, home of the deranged
Maybe a few more years of fake global warming and they’ll thrive here.
We can call them Marchetti melons
Trapper, if you teach me how to post pictures I can post photos of the bums at the intersections, and the human shit in the parks, the bums charging cellphones in city parks, the needles and Nips. Vibrant and Dynamic I tell ya.
Not sure Dan would be happy with too many pictures? I try not too.
Those might shame the CC and absentee Mayor to do something.
I think moving the poop to Allen St stairs might have an effect, on Tuesdays.
You mean like Third Thursdays but we call it Terd Tuesday’s? I like it.
Turd Tuesdays, in honor of Flat Tyer.
Is pronghorn a deer or antelope?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwzVaUVgZs0OulzFFuuvYlxYCFWzlSNQAmJV8IIIDCyfzjb0gPbB-q5Z9Cow&s
The pronghorn is a unique North American mammal. Its Latin name, Antilocapra americana, means “American goat-antelope,” but it is not a member of the goat or the antelope family and it is not related to the antelopes found in Africa.
Hope you are not teaching any wildlife biology courses.
Ya big bozo.
Splitting hares.
It’s still trying to figure out difference between male and female and thinks there are 32 genders………….
You claimed there were no antelopes in America, fool. Then insulted me, twice.
Very liberal/leftist of You.
Concerning wildlife biology, I’ve hunted fished trapped and farmed, since before the best part of you ran down….. mama’s leg.
And my understanding is that you have a particular fondness for sheep. Is that correct?
And you children. Chester
I will reserve judgement and wait for the Eagle to do a thorough review since they have the statements and it looks like Dan isn’t going to take the time, but I will say this:
According to the above, by the time he went to make the $370.58 payment, he had already theoretically made payments totaling $6,459 from the account but he says there was $5,507.70 in the account when it actuality it should have been minus $951.30 if the $6,459 had actually been deducted from his account.
So it begs the question; if it was a mistake, why didn’t he wonder why the balance in his OM never seemed to go down.
Maybe I’m misreading this. We’ll see what the Eagle says.
Fair enough, JON.
Don’t trust the Eagle
Parrot with Two Left Wings!!!!
“Any questions” Krol asks? You betcha. Why did you input your wrong checking account number into the Amex portal to begin with? In fact, why were you paying Amex that way and not paying your Amex bill directly from your Greylock business account using Greylock’s on line bill pay? Why did your Amex payments fluctuate so much each month during this time? What was the actual amount due each month during this time? Were you paying the minimum or another amount? did it require balance to be paid in full monthly? What were your monthly expenses that caused your payments to rise so much? Let’s see all your Amex statements for the time in question and your business and personal Greylock statements for the time in question, so we can see what was really going on. The fact is you inputted the cat fund account number into Amex’s pay portal multiple times to make multiple payment’s totaling over 6,000 dollars for your alleged business expenses and you got away with it because your name was on the cat account, and had Stacy not called you out on it you would have skated on it. You were winding down your business you say yet paid over 6,000 to your Amex business account with charity dollars and yet your own Greylock business account never dropped the 6,000 and you know it and knew it, and you said nothing. You sir are not fit to manage a lemonaid stand let alone a city.. you are either crooked or incompetent or perhaps both. You couldn’t last two rounds in an interrogation room with me buddy.
So a couple questions still are not answered. If he had the money he says he had and wasn’t overdrawn, which it actually looks like he was twice [he only shows ending balance not carried balance at date of transaction]
Why couldn’t he immediately pay back the money? By his own statements he should have be able to easily pay the $750 [not wait weeks] and if he’s being truthful he should have been able to easily pay off the debt of $6,800 immediately.
What this seems more like is the Krol Kash Shell Game.
He had way more debts than cash, he was paying some debts with a credit card, some with personal money, some with business money, but floating the payments and debt.
He needed to other Kat Kash account to help him with the floating of debt. Too much debt coming in at once messed up the shell game and he needed another funding source.
Has he paid Harris back the $6,100?
Danno, you have been duped.
Pls explain!
Seriously?
Looks like it.
I’m not buying it either. Too many discrepancies.
You can definitely trust the accountant.
Oh yeah.
The account was constipated but was able to work it out with his pencil.
I would check Barry for the money, was he the one making the numbers work? He did a good job of getting paid for illegally being in city hall during an election. I can’t even get into city hall after 3:30 the doors are already locked and employees running for their cars
Lol running to their cars. That’s funny.
I am a single person, with one Greylock member number, attached to two business accounts.
Twice I have made a cash deposit at the drive thru, given the teller my member number and the proper business name, and the money was deposited into the other business account.
A simple mistake, “Because that’s the one that came up first” when they went into the computer. (Even though I verbally specified the business name).
I can very easily see how any person looking in the computer to give someone their account number could relay the wrong number, by accident.
Why is Biden giving CRIMINAL ALIENS $2200/month untaxed and elderly USA CITIZENS only $1800/month SS taxed?
$2200 will pay to deport the criminals.
Joe is treasonous, and those who support this invasion.
And more Biden treason…
“House Oversight Chairman James Comer recently identified the NINE Bidens who are implicated in the corruption.
Jim (James) Biden was one of them.
“Bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies,” Comer said.
“Joe Biden’s son. Joe Biden’s brother. Joe Biden’s brother’s wife. Hunter Biden’s girlfriend/Beau Biden’s widow, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife. Hunter Biden’s current wife. And 3 children of the president’s son and the president’s brother. So we’re talking about grandchildren – a grandchild. That’s odd. Most people that work hard every day a grandchild doesn’t get a wire from a foreign national,” Comer said.
1. Hunter Biden
2. James Biden
3. Sara Biden
4. Hallie Biden
5. Kathleen Biden
6. Melissa Biden
7. Niece/nephew
8. Niece/nephew
9. Grandchild”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/house-republicans-release-jim-bidens-text-message-hunter/
Trump is now bankrupt and out of business….lol
What if it turns out he was way over valuing all his Florida assets as well. He will be living in a tent with MT.
How do you get wifi at Springside park, Snarky?
You have to be connected
To get TP.
POTUS #47
He wont get hung for treason like Biden and Barry Sotero
2O24 is year seven of the Biden investigation and yesterday’s show was a comical MAGA circus of dumb.
I’ve got trees, they can adorn the Bidens with.
After the treason convictions……capital crimes.
Joe Jim Hunter Jill ……et al
PS they have been on POTUS Trump since 2016, with a crooked: DOJ, FBI, CIA, DHS,……..same crooks covering Traitor Joseph Stolen
Dem -Rats worrking on since 2016 on POSTUS Trunp, nothing
They have the goods on Joe Bidens whole fanily, now
It still looks to me like we’re gonna have to ride this mayoral election crazy train to the end of the line. I don’t see any more stops coming up.
Maybe having the two candidates do Ring Of Fire for October surprise/tournament? Would be interesting. Would certainly bring more to the polls.
Marchettis campaign is portraying him as the second coming of Jesus Christ. It is becoming on a par with a Saturday Night Live skit. The guy does not come close to the picture they are trying to paint of him. It is beyond insulting that they think the people of Pittsfield are that damn gullible.
A year from now he will be giving us that shit eating grin of his on a video telling us he had to raise the taxes another 8 percent due to unforeseen expenses that he no way of knowing were coming down the pike. Guarantee it.
And you guys talked into voting for him will be paying deep out of your pockets as well. And it will be too late for you as well as everyone else. He just wants you to allow him to get his foot in the door. Then just try to get rid of him. Just like Tyer.
But there really is no good option at this point. We are fucked.
More like the second coming of cheese and rice
Don’t forget with the comments by the bmm people is was a theft. A lot at stake with those comments going forward with a defamation lawsuit.
Call Herb Pease with the Walmart issued law degree.
You know him very well . If you have the itch you call him.
I would recommend he explore a law suit.
If Harris gets sued perhaps he could get Kameron Spaulding to recommend a good lawyer.
Thank goodness for curbside delivery! I didn’t even have to get out of my car.
It dawned on me who you are. I saw you walking out of George’s with your JD….Jack Daniels
Smitty Pignatelli calls it Monopoly money. John Krol calls it bad banking. Barry Clairmont calls it settlement cash. Nuciforo calls Pot pay. Tricia Farley-Bouvier calls it immigrant benefits. PAC Man Richie Neal calls it K Street millions. Joe calls it all Biden Buck$!
But Barry is philanthropic , so he’s giving it to charity.
I’m still not buying it. Let’s do some math.
In item #8 in Dan’s article, John says he had $5,961.70 in his account at the time of the $3,000 withdrawal. If you take that balance and subtract the $3,000.00 payment, the $2,750.00 payment from item 7, the $500.00 payment from item 6, and the $209.00 payment from item 5, you have a negative balance of $497.30. So he didn’t really have the money if he used his account for all the payments.
You can conclude that it isn’t his fault because the bank balance is higher, fine, good point. Bit consider this…
Wasn’t Mr. Krol recording these transactions in his accounting software? If he was, his software would have told him he didn’t have enough money. Didn’t he wonder who the previous payments didn’t clear the bank?
He points to Carver’s bad bookkeeping. What about his own poor or non-existent bookkeeping?
He said in one of his video’s that Greylock was famous for making this type of mistake, giving out wrong account numbers. Let’s say that is true. Ask yourself, would you ask an organization that is famous for giving out wrong information to provide you an account number? Where is the logic in that? Wouldn’t you just go look at one of your checks, or even better, log-into your Greylock account and look at the number yourself? Where is the self-accountability?
His explanation only makes sense to the financial illiterate.
Either way, this isn’t a guy I want running the City.
It’s everyone else’s fault but his own.
Do you think Barry will give his settlement to worthy Pittsfield charities?
He’ll go to Cumbys!
So what has Marchetti done for, rather than to, Pittsfield voters/taxpayers?
Name one or two………..not even one? Krol same question.
Just like Biden…….
Could Krol’s account be the one who messed up?
He muddied the water. That is often good enough in politics.
I am staying home. The mayoral part of this election was a joke before this story broke and that part has not changed. Not worth the gas. Either one of them will blow up the cities budget so it makes zero difference who you vote for or if you stay home and watch Bonanza reruns.
So John either a) embezzled from a non-profit or b) accepted $6100 from Allen Harris while a sitting City Councilor, which is a campaign finance violation. Either way, not someone that should be mayor.
Krol’s company is not allowed to accept a payment from Berkshire Money Management? Please explain how that is a campaign finance violation.
If Harris gave the money to Krol personally, not to one-eighty media, that is a campaign finance violation.
Explain how it’s a campaign finance violation
It’s not either or, it’s 6,000 from the cat fund and accepting 6,000 from Harris.
I think it’s also important to note that Krol states his business had debts. Have they been totally cleared up? Does he have any other outstanding debts business or personal? He refuses to share his financials which Marchetti has already done. Why is he not being transparent, which he claims his administration would be? He has stated he wants to be Pittsfield’s “watchdog.” A pretty tall order for someone who can’t manage their own finances!
Marchetti shared his financials? With who?
Budweiser
Bud Lite
Not from what I see.
Butt like
Seemlike there’s a serial scam like where where entrepreneurs getting money for restaurants and movie theatre’s for instance, and selling them at will after a few years? Or should I say abandoning them with no payback repercussions for t I f for instance.
Yookies raked some in. I wunner how that happened.
Just another of those Picklefield Coincidences.
Yes. What financials? When? With whom?
North street, the fake movie place/theater. Flat goes there.
IRS? I share mine every year.
Demand for IRS reports is intrusive, subject to media manipulation, and irrelevant. No one reports a ‘crime’ on their 1040.
Ask Joe Biden
You suppose he lists his crimes on his 1040?
He don’t know nothing, Democrats like that…….
They should disclose investments.
Are you a buffoon? Can you name a business that doesn’t have debts?
McDonalds
Because Lenny likes to buy Happy Meals?
McDonald’s are franchisees and the individual owners have debt
Wal Mart. Ma and Pas Tyler street.
Apple. Home Depot – they always have cash in the drawer.
Yookies
Cash. Going to the Chi-Coms.
Shop at Carr’s, they have free parking.
They never owe anything to anyone?
Rattling you cage.
Cash in the drawer doesn’t mean no debt
Point is solvency. Yoi know I get that.
Responsible borrowing allows one to use cash to make wealth.
But then ya can’t go around over valuating stuff cuz that gets yer ass in trubble.
But most banks are corrupt.
THE FED the biggest one.
Ask Ron Paul…..
If there was no FED,
Americans would not be TRIILLONS OF DOLLARS IN DEBT
We know that Tyer is a financial genius but does she or Kerwood keep the books.. you should run for city council you and Dina should add your 70 IQs and together you’ll be a genius.
https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?sysvalue=ZIAjzFaWs5ItrRNuOkZ6hF1cldAVRLyYv7W.6luUEl0-
Anyone else see this? Krol’s company was dissolved on June 30, 2017
So what does this mean exactly?
Date of Involuntary Dissolution by Court Order or by the SOC: 06-30-2017
It could mean a lot of things and this is why the full account statements are needed.
It could be related to fraud, lack of filing by Krol for the needed paperwork [that doesn’t normally get you a court ordered dissolution], by agreement during a bankruptcy, by agreement during a divorce, by agreement from a civil case/lawsuit.
It’s not rare that it happens but most of the reasons are not good.
Since Krol is listed as the only officer of the corp, things like death of a partner or principal in the corporation isn’t one of the reasons.
I know he pleaded economic hardship to Harris, meaning he didn’t have the $6,100 to pay back AD. So based on that I’d guess some money issue forced the court to intervene.
Did Krol file for bankruptcy.
It’s another question that he should answer.
Maybe continued under sole proprietership?
No sole prop listed in Pittsfield.
I think we should contact Herb Pease, Esc., to interpret this data, that is, if she’s not too busy with her defamation lawsuits.
Give me a call, I’m at your cervix
Hey Doe,
Go read the latest Eagle article uncovering his “mistake”. He was trying to use the AD account to pay his business excise tax. $456 in years 2016,17,18,19… Yeah, I’d say it was court ordered for sure.
Chief, Is Marchetti the subject of a discrimination law suit or a suit being investigated by MCAD?
I got burned by the taxes of tyer
Her flames shot high and taxes got higher
The taxes of tyer, the taxes of the
AI poetry
Sounds like a Johnny Cash tune?
You could make a whole new song spoof.
Starring Flat, Barry and CC……
It should be rewritten in “The Beverly Hillbillies” fashion.
‘This is the story of a vigilante and a mayor named Flat….’
You’d definitely have to include the line “up from the ground came a bubbling crude,” except instead of Black gold or Texas tea, it’s a black bubbling sludge of human waste, nip bottles, and uncapped and used needles.
And Marchetti won’t be any better. Who will the virtue signaling school personnel vote for?
Biden corruption/treason hearing live feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIvCY6VvZaU
They are all corrupt career politicians in the Swamp!
Is it going on today too?
I was watching Gaetani show a few weeks ago and he was talking about Wahconah Park restoration and that it would cost tens of millions. I was in disbelief when I heard today in the parrot it starts at 30.
Started at 10. Final cost will be way higher than signed contract, assime 35. It will jump to 50 million. Then, ‘miracle!’, they will find 7 reduction.
Utterly hilarious stacked with sycophants voting survey (according to the paper) suggest 80% of people want to spend every cent they can find for a new ballpark? What a bunch of totally misleading bullshit is that?
PUT IT ON A REAL REFERENDUM EAGLE….not your bogus slanted survey
And stuff like this is why they do not want referendums in Pittsfield. The voters would have beaten this proposal to death on arrival. (if only they had been given a chance like they do in normal jurisdictions.) The horseshit gets deeper by the minute. Do not trust everything you read these days.
You heard it right. “Initial estimates” 30 million. They rebuilt the goddamn airport for less than that.
But puleeese do not do any kind of audit. Total waste of time. Everything is hunky dory. (unless you are a Pittsfield taxpayer)
No oversight. No one to say no not at this time ….we have way to much going on right now.
The Kardashians have taken over the city’s budget and they want everything that shines and glitters. Pittsfield will dry up if they do not get a brand new stadium right this effing minute.
Get out now if you can because the taxes you pay will be coming out of your kids college fund.
Psssttt…Democrats did that Snarky.
You vote for them! Why?
One of the options, The Renovation, said it would use a lot of the existing structure suggesting the pilings are sound. This is just going to be another big dig for the Berkshires . Its overkill for the amount of use it will get. There is no flood mitigation. The grandstands will be high and dry but the rest of the lot will still flood. And then there is the reputation of taking care and responsibility of public property in Pittsfield, which is terrible. I have wondered since the grandstand first closed and if the pilings were sound if an easier less costly fix would just be replacing the bad girders and i-beams. Thats all thats under the stands. A skeleton of girders and beams.
One thing missing in the weeds,you’ll have to take care of it and contingencies and Water problems for who knows where.
Dredge it and make a fish pond.
No.
The live feed is still there to hear about Biden crime family et al
The liberal drivel to deflect from the treason is hilarious!
Live feed is still up, but not live.
Bidens all need a tree and rope. Treason is a capitol offense.
The downtown business owners are seeking solutions to North street problems from the mayoral candidates. See local paper for details.
So after 8 years of Marchetti and Tyer the North street business owners are asking new mayoral candidates for help fixing a long existing problem? Whatever is glaringly wrong with this picture?
First of all is speaks loudly that Tyer and Marchetti failed miserably after 8 years and millions of dollars of doing what? It looks like they spent enormous sums of money and time and made it worse than it was before they came on the scene. That much is quite clear.
And secondly, and weirdly, they are seeking solutions from a mayoral candidate that was city council president for a very long time and had great power to effect change but did not? And if he was unable or unwilling to help before, what has changed that he might be able or willing to help now?
And does all this seeking solutions set the table for the taxpayers to pony up another 5 to ten million dollars to FIX IT? Is this just one more boat sinking iceberg headed the taxpayers way? Is constantly reinventing North street a money laundering operation?
Spending countless millions to make it worse. That alone spells “Peter for Mayor!”
Dan, do You remember “vibrant and dynamic”?
England bros, Newberrys, Woolworths, The Rosa, …..Thursdays when every store was open late…when the YMCA was not a flop/halfway house…..
North Street is a shithole. Plain and simple. Marchetti had a lame response to the merchants and so did Krol. It is time to kick ass and take names, and get the bums off the street, and yes it can be done, legally. Put a cop next to every bum, until they move along. For the bums own safety, of course.
Now we have spent needles, feces. and urine on every sidewalk. It is not safe to walk city streets at all.
This is Tyler and Clairairmonts vision/legacy.
Current mayor canidates are the same ilk.Proven by their past.
Note two way traffic north and south,with free parking.
And all the “vibrant and dynamic happy citizens”, shopping and doing business,
I remember, Trapper! It used to be a beautiful city with lots of great stores and easy parking. What took the downtown merchants so long to speak up? Or have they been complaining the last 4 years? The traffic pattern with the bike lanes and crazy line markings is nothing short of confusing. I was glad when Karen Kalinowsky petitioned to put the bike lane issue on the ballot. Installing the parking meters was the worst thing the Tyer administration could have done to the downtown, which was already struggling to attract customers.
All I can say is write in Karen,
Marcetti and Krol presided over all/more decay. Too late to get rid of Flat.
I don’t have a horse in the race.
And thank Jesus I don’t live in that evolving heii kole .
Pete plus a homogenized council = nails in the coffin for the city.
From the article you mentioned about business owners wanting help.This says it all to me about the leadership from the mayor, council president and most other council members on this issue.
Without naming Mayor Linda Tyer, Tierney said the “failure of our administration” to help and listen to North Street business owners makes
them angry.
Can you blame Tierney? Barry and Linda just racked up a couple big wins against their enemies this week.
Don’t blame her one bit for bringing up something that should have been addressed long ago. She shouldn’t be afraid to say Tyer! Truth isn’t liable.
Where were they when I submitted a petition on their behalf to address the squatters seizing their parking lots, stealing utilities, aggravating customers, and otherwise telling proprietors to ‘get lost’ when asked to move?
They called, I petitioned, they fled.
It’s obvious that Marchetti and several other city councilors are homologus
Boomer Scott…Eddie Popowski,Fireball Fred Wenz…Paula Dowd…Reggie Smith…Owen Johnson…Alan Montreal..Chris Coletta…Jim Russin….Joe Buzis…Pat McKernan…..Carm Franzone Jim Thornton….These are people we all have great memories of as Red Sox fans of yesteryear. We will never get that back. I don’t think an affiliated team would bring the fans back either.Cherish the memories Pittsfield and move on.
Felix Maldonado, Pete Jernigan, Billy Conigliaro, Jerry Moses, Pudge Fisk, John Thibdeau, Pete Magrini, Dave Gray, John Harmon, Tony Torchia, Billy Gardner, Russ Nixon, John Wockenfuss, Jerry Kaneski, Gary Waslewski and so many more. Now the “renovation” will be $30 million? No red flags there, for sure, nor opportunities for corruption given the typical lack of oversight in Picklefield. Maybe that will be the name of the new team: The Pittsfield Red Flags.
Baseball is “woke”.
Fkm all. No more for me, football , seals shooting balls in hoops, hockey, NASCAR, green haired dykes playing soccer, ……nope.
Take your kids out hunting and fishing.
“Take your kids out hunting and fishing.”
Plinking and fishing: two useful pastimes.
Who will tyrant Newsome appoint, now that fossil Fienstein croaked?
Maybe that slut Kaitie Hill?
The liberal bitch who posted herself naked smoking drugs, having sex…… She would fit in….Commiefornia
Shifty Schiff
He needs a rope and a tree
Shift Schifty Schiff Over a seat?
Pittsfield politics in the 21st Century: the now late Mayor Barstool, millions (still) missing, state receivership, the Consent Decree, Hill 78 abutting Allendale Elementary School, capped leaky landfills, Mayor Aberration turns Level 5 Schoolmarm, Mayor Rolodex and his failed Renaissance and his Good Old Boys club, Mayor Bust and his job at Montello, Mayor Gated Community and her record setting secretive city spending, Mayoral candidates career banker who bangs his gavel like an angry Judge versus the mid-life political comeback kid who touts his backing from Rolodex and Melissa Mazzeo, the 25-year-old polluted PEDA debacle with its millions of dollars in always growing unfunded liabilities (debts), dangerous downtown Pittsfield that has become a black hole money pit of scams, Pittsfield’s Pot King stinking up residential neighborhoods with his unpleasant pot growing odors on Dalton Avenue, and the fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family always pounding sand….
Did you think the Eagle should have buried this story Dan?Are you saying it’s not true? Just asking .
The Eagle should have allowed Krol a fair and timely chance to respond. It was sandbagging to spring it on him in the way that it did, and it reveals the paper’s hidden agenda to take Krol down? Why? Ad money and pressure from the oligarchs. It’s also curious that the newspaper does not care to investigate the possible scandals — long whispered — that involve Pete Marchetti.
Looks like a bad business between three people.
A took money from B.
B demanded it back.
A went to C.
C gave A money from B (who did not know)
Now A owes C who owes B.
The whole thing was a long ago resolved he said she said story
THE LEFT WINGED PARROT
lost credibility long ago
When the Millers left town.
THE LEFT WINGED PARROT
lost credibility long ago
When the Millers left town.
Used to be an awaerd winning publicarton.
Now not fit for cat litter
Concerning the mayoral candidate who the local news is all in on promoting to be the next mayor.
This wedding venue has been bought and paid for sometime in advance, they will go forward with the marriage because they don’t want to lose their down payment on it.This is even well before the Krol questionable financial issues came to light ,which should be scrutinized. I’m not giving the Gavel Man a pass on his past and current leadership that needs to still be front and center.
If only there was a mechanism to hold a mayor accountable in Pittsfield. If Mr White gets the gavel, as he has been promised, it will be same shit different day in Pittsfield with the tax man chasing us all up the tree again. There has been zero oversight from Marchetti and there is zero reason to believe White will bring anything of the sort to the dais. He is baked into the special interest agenda and will do what the other Pete did….keep his head low and his mouth shut when it comes to challenging any mayoral spending storm. May already have been in discussions about how the 30 million will get to 55 million for the ball park. Soon we will be hearing about the 30 million that will be needed to put diagonal parking on North street (30 mil for openers) could be more if the price of road paint goes up.
SNARK
It won’t be the same bullshit. It will be MUCH WORSE. Your sentence says it all: “There has been zero oversight from Marchetti and there is zero reason to believe White will bring anything of the sort to the dais.” If anything, this supports the case of KROL FOR MAYOR. If JK gets in, you an be sure there will be oversight from the city council.
Remember when Harrington got caught commingling funds? Guess who was the treasurer in that debacle? Just take a wild guess.
PITTSFIELD — Two accounts related to District Attorney Andrea Harrington’s inauguration and campaign committees were flagged this month by the Office of Campaign and Political Finance for running afoul of state campaign finance law.
The office’s review looked at the Berkshire DA’s political finances during 2020 and found failure to comply with Massachusetts law governing inauguration funds, which are known as segregated funds, due to the commingling of money between her campaign committee and an inauguration fund.
“Harrington told The Eagle that Berkshire Bank put the money into her inauguration account by mistake, adding that both accounts went by the same name. “It was my intention to put the funds in the campaign account but the bank [sounds familiar] put the funds into the inaugural account,” said Harrington, adding that she was not looking to lay blame.” Who was the bag man making the deposits? Guess.
Yes, these berkshire banks do not use account numbers, but adjectives and the like.
I absolutely will not vote for Marchetti. He has had many years to separate himself from the steady demise in this City and he opted to be part of the fabric that has destroyed every inch. No way will he get my vote. City Hall and City Council need a clean sweep
New slogan: “A vote for Pete is a vote for payola.”
The Berkshire Eagle website lists their “ethics advisory board”, and a member of that advisory board is John Bissell CEO Greylock Federal Credit Union. The Eagle states that journalists should “take responsibility for the accuracy of their work” and “verify information before releasing it.”
That’s phunny! Bissell on the advisory board making sure the BB is “accurate.”