PEDOFIELD MAYOR FAILS ANOTHER ONE
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JAN. 13, 2025) — The funniest part of the Pedofield School Committee’s meeting last week had to be when His Rotundness, mayor Peter Marchetti, blew kisses to the students who spoke. That the kids were “coaxed” (not “bribed,” mind you) to do this THE PLANET shall put aside. As one astute commentator noted, they were as spontaneous as hostages forced to read propaganda statements … or else.
The mayor yakked about dropping into PHS not long before our brilliant scholars got their well-deserved winter break. He said the young Einsteins “wanted to make sure the mayor walked out with a cup of hot chocolate with a peppermint stick in it and a cider donut.”
Yes. He actually said that.
Shame on cynics who complain that Marchetti hasn’t addressed the burgeoning school scandal. What leadership! It was the mayor’s Churchillian Moment. THE PLANET should also be obliged to add that, yes, the kids wanted to stuff the mayor with donuts, but also that some on the staff prolly wanted to slip a date-rape drug into the hot chocolate. We aren’t sure if PHS principal Maggie Esko was among these wayward personnel. As one student cracked, “Yes, we made sure he got peppermint stick to shove you know where.”
Mayor Marchetti’s dog
Then the Holy Spirit descended, and our Right Honorable Good Friend began to speak in tongues. He spoke as one familiar with tongues, as quoted by reporter Brittany Polito in iBerkshires:
“I really felt that day that the black cloud that is circling — and no one’s going to deny that black cloud is circling — is damaging a lot of students who potentially are arm’s length away from anything that has ever happened, right?” he said.
“‘Everybody knows’ so that means the entire student population of PHS knows what’s going on? Very doubtful, in my mind, and for that to be the focus for the last month and will continue to be, what are our seniors of Pittsfield High walking out of Pittsfield High as? ‘We’re the graduates of the year of the Pittsfield High School scandal?'”
“The black cloud is circling.”
Black?
There we go, playing the race again.
Think of two models of leadership. The first is what Marchetti presented at the school committee meeting: mealy mush. The second is, in a situation like this, the mayor or CEO calls a press conference and directly addresses the mess: Here’s what we know. Here’s what we’re doing about. Here’s why it WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN!
Mostly, a leader gets across FIRMLY that such behavior IS INTOLERABLE and that blame will be assigned and HEADS WILL ROLL. In short, a True Leader takes OWNERSHIP. Marchetti, who not only heads up what is now a hopelessly tarnished Administration but is also an ex officio member of the PSC, did none of that.
Once more, Marchetti has failed a crucial governance test. THE PLANET submits a Grade F.
Remember. It’s for The Children.
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“We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.” — Aesop.
“OPEN THW WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Anyone can be a Developer.
Anyone can be a fiduciary
This is ah’Merca!!!!
Now this ain’t for no small booties
No, sir, ’cause that won’t pass (show me what you workin’ with)
But if you feel you got the biggest one
Then mama come shake ya ass
Shake ya ass, but watch yourself
Shake ya ass, show me what you workin’ with
Shake ya ass, but watch yourself
Shake ya ass, show me what you workin’ with
Stop your cryin’, heffer, I don’t need all that
I got a job for you,
Watch ya self,
In case you don’t decipher code: he is a “developer” too. and significantly less of a lard ass.
The insider trading is what I am pointing to okay.
Build yo seff a bridge right to Africa
Quoted from Dans article: Pete talking?
“I really felt that day that the black cloud that is circling — and no one’s going to deny that black cloud is circling — is damaging a lot of students who potentially are arm’s length away from anything that has ever happened, right?” he said.
My understanding of “arms length” is to mean it is “right there up against you”. Peter seemed to be suggesting sarcastically that most students are not affected by drug dealing or pussy picturing deans of students in school so why all the fuss? It is only a few random kids that accidentally came to know about stuff.
What he is still NOT saying is who hired these two student deans in the first place. And the fact that Pete does not want to talk about THAT apparently insignificant detail is curious as hell. It seems obvious that people were poorly vetted or hired with the help of political maneuvering and someone seems to want a dark cloak over who these people are and any process that took place. Why would they be hiding hiring practices unless they were very ashamed of how and who was doing it????? HUH?
That’s why the Pedofield Pubic Scohol Committee, Lumpy Marchetti, and Wimpy White, are quickly injecting race into the equation.
It’s a subtle warning that those who dare broach that subject publicly will be labeled a “racist” with the local officials and the local press is already in lock-step with this “warning.”
Just ask Sir Chaz when he “dared” question DEI and the duplication of services with HR, and what was the true necessity?
Fn joking always throw the race card when all else fails. The SRO at PHS should have picked up on all this crap unless she was told by higher ups leave it alone.
Go ahead – ask. It was wholly predictable and comic. Political slapstick.
You should have seen the faces on the city’s elite collapse when I introduced my objection. Tears! The roundtable creative exercise in groupthink sanctimony from 9 other councilors is worth revisiting. Save it for a future generation who will need something to laugh about.
These psychopathic freaks in academia that kept churning out these more mindless fanatics for the Marxist who became administrators and people in positions of power to hire more fanatics.. Are now having reality slap them in the face..
OP the problem is, they don’t see it.
They still believe that filling skilled positions based simply on skin color or hatred of masculine white men, is making a difference.
It is. The problem though, it’s pretty much playing out like every other DEI program in the US. A complete FAILURE.
Luckily, the “woke tide,” has turned.
Nicely said! Truth!
The black cloud has been over Pittsfield since the liberals took over. Won’t leave until they do.
And not one iota of that decay is accidental.
Any hiring in the private sector is finalized by a Human Resources Manager. So what’s going to happen here are two things, they’ll say he slipped and blame it all on mental health, or they’ll say they (hiree,unknown) never saw it coming. Or both. One thing for certain if he’s found guilty he’s done in the public sector.
They’re farming babies, while the slaves are working.
Blood is on the table, and the mouths are choking.
Monday January 13, 2025
18°
Snowshowers developing in the afternoon
“farming babies” often refers to unethical or exploitative practices involving the systematic creation, acquisition, or trafficking of infants for profit, adoption, or other purposes. This term is commonly associated with illegal activities, including child trafficking, coerced surrogacy, or exploitative adoption schemes. It can also describe systemic abuses in certain institutions, where children are separated from families under questionable circumstances to serve financial or political interests.
Be sus re:
Your local Farm Center
Throttle effect of greed and overindulgence in a society where resources are unevenly distributed. It suggests that those who take more than their fair share—hoarding resources and wealth—are figuratively “choking” on their excess, while others suffer from lack.
The cost and consequences of greed and inequality, that the abundance and wealth enjoyed by some often come at the expense of others’ suffering. The exploitation, sacrifice, and pain endured by those who are oppressed, marginalized, or deprived of basic necessities in a world of disparity.
Would you expect anything different from a “guy” who sends pics of his bleached a**hole around, allegedly?
If he sent it, he probably knows how metadata works. And perhaps he isn’t a coward.
To change topics briefly, I’m curious how many caught that piece of sh!t, Lyin’ Liz “Pocahontas” Warren, trying to fleece her supporters using the Los Angeles fires as bait for donations to Act Blue?
Read that again!! Yes, she really did that.
aka on X: “BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has been caught trying to scam her supporters. https://t.co/nBHgPekrwB” / X
If you clicked on the link Pocahontas gave, your donation went to Act Blue, a democRAT fundraising platform, and not directly to the LA fire victims.
What happens to the elected “leaders” in MA? Do they get frontal lobotomies upon getting elected?
A side effect of this procedure is “intellectual impairment” and/or “disinhibition and inappropriate social behavior,” amongst others.
Take a peek at this “murderers’ row” of useless MA politicians, both statewide and locally:
Lyin’ Liz “Pocahontas” Warren
Maura “F**k US Vets” Healey
Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D-illegal aliens)
Linda “Flat” Tyer
Pete “Lumpy” Marchetti
Pete “Wimpy” White
Illegal arrested for carrying a blowtorch in burnt down Malibu.
Do you think anyone in Malibu gives a shit if your house burnt down.
We can always be assured that these iniquitous ingrates of the narcissistic kind, will prevaricate, pilfer and putrefy any and all legislation/policy they put their hands on. Their moral compass malfunctioned long ago and it is abominable that these( and so many others) are actually in positions to “ lead” locally as well as nationally. We keep shouting from the house tops for the fools of sheepledom to wake up but alas , their terminal catalepsy rejects any semblance of an awakening
Excellent. I need a dictionary for at least one of those words. A good bit of greek to me.
Understood Sir Chaz. Ofttimes loquacious babbling can be a bit multiloquent. Thanks., always appreciate your comments.
I wouldn’t change a word, Festus. Keep the language alive. (Pardon the poke at the Bard.)
is this better, Sir Chaz? Compris, monsieur Chaz. Des bavardages souvent loquaces peuvent être un peu multilocutifs. Merci. Je suis toujours heureux de recevoir vos commentaires.
Touche
Add Markey to your list of useless state Demonrats…..
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2025/01/12/democrat-sen-markey-la-fires-are-climate-disaster-stoked-by-trump/
January 13, 2025
Governor Maura Healey is favorable to Veterans. She has done a lot of wonderful things for Veterans, including supporting the new Holyoke Soldiers Home, signing the HEROES Act, and appointing a great executive staff in her administration who are helping Veterans.
I am a permanent and total 100 percent service-connected disabled Veteran myself. If I did not believe in Maura, the I would speak out about her leadership, especially when it comes to Veterans. But instead, it is all New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte’s political propaganda, and Kelly is playing her CRINGE cards against Maura and Massachusetts alike.
I hope that Kelly will do at least as much as Maura for Veterans in New Hampshire during Kelly’s 2-year term as Governor of NH from 2025 – 2026. Kelly should focus on New Hampshire instead of fixating on Maura in Massachusetts.
As for my relative, Pittsfield (Mass.) Mayor Peter Marchetti, he has not changed anything for the better in Pittsfield politics that predictably pounds people’s purses and purges public participation.
Jon Melle
Why do you post about politics Jonathan you should post and share with everybody the happy things in your life. Things like your naval career or when your dad finally accepted it when you came out of the closet or being the 1994 MA High School State Champion Pocket Pool Player when you went to PHS.
Does PHS still have your state championship golden-fist trophy still in there trophy case?
John, if You were in mASSachusetts, Healey would kick your ass out into the snowbank to make a place for a CRIMINAL ALIEN.
Watch out for yellow snow
ActBlue needs to be investigated for campaign fraud and those Liberals involved prosecuted. They were funneling Chi-Com/CCP monies into the DNC coffers.
I wonder how much loot Lieawatha Warren got from them, so far?
While we on topic of crooked mAssachsetts politicians, a US house bill was recently voted on to immediately detain , prosecute and deport CRIMINAL ALIEN rapists and pedophiles.
183 DEMOCRATS voted AGAINST the bill.
D-Ritchie Neal, Western Ma Rep., was one of the many D-mASSachsetts legislators siding WITH the CRIMINAL ALIEN rapists and pedophiles.
How many reading this voted for this vile piece of offal?
You know how they have those coffee with a cop type things in different communities – Pedofield should invoke a have a coffee with an administrator program
Wouldn’t it be snort a line with PPS a Administraitor?
Yeah, line dancing
Perhaps, but there should probably be a chaperone on site just in case the administrator was vetted at Mercer.
Don’t let PPS provide the chaperones.
A coffee with the dancin Dean. Or coke.
Dan. If you can check out 1302 at Six thirty tnight. T h S j v team looked like the Celtics. Even I’m impressed.
Drugs with a Dean?
Dope fueled orgys with PPS AdminisTRAITORS.
How many PPS Administraitors will fit in the closet?
Doobies with the dancin Dean
Bump & Grind
La fires planned?
You betcha!
Just making way for SmartLA 2028!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/california-wildfires-ignite-shocking-theories-claiming-fires-were/
I agree. Newsome just happened to cut the fire department a few months before the fires. Lack of water in so many areas. The mayor also cuts the fire department budget. This is to destroy our country by putting us in debt right away as Trump takes office. Will they rebuild single family homes? Doubtful. They will build apartment buildings with no parking allowed if you are within a mile of a bus stop. That will kill both home ownership and driving. They care so much about the environment by spending billions on it with green energy in California, but they are burning their cities.
Going to be a big land grab for the burnt out properties. Land speculators are already in LA, how many are Newscum’s friends?
LA is supposed to host 2028 Olympics. Bigger land grab than Maui! Both places run by,……DEMOCRATS!
Man arrested near LA fires with possible blowtorch is an illegal immigrant: ICE sources
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/man-arrested-near-la-fires-possible-blowtorch-illegal-immigrant-ice-sources
The fires started in a wet market in Encino by bats. Fauci says so.
A satire.
Trump: I want to deport 11,000,000 CRIMINAL ALIENS and two puppies!
Fake News/MSM: Why two puppies?
Trump: See, nobody cares about illegals……
Dan you know i shoot straight…The fact that no one knew anything is a little bit hard to swallow…i understand why no wanted to come forward, they feared for the job, they themselves were herassed…I support the rank and file, the teachers, they have nagotiated in good faith, they have a fair proposil. I do have problems with the administaration, i was taken to task by the committee chair, the current committe chair…He, Mr. Camaron, said i ” was nagotiating out of order, i was giving information not yet given to the public.” When i went to school, grade school, i was taught, speak the truth, if you don’t, you will be punnished…i went to a religious school, but the same is present…I have asked for some, any answers, i have gotten nothing..I will, not put myself or my family out there, unless we don’t get answers…if i don’t get answers, i will put several thousand into this race, maybe me, maybe someone else…but the 2024 local election will have my hand print, not my foot print, not my finger print, my full on endorsement..
January 13, 2025
I find it hard to swallow the facts of the framing of Bernie Baran in Pittsfield around 40 years ago in the mid-1980’s. Gerry Downing allegedly illegally hid the audio tape recordings of the children who said that Bernard Baran was innocent, while Bernie Baran sat in state prison for over 2 decades of his adult life. It took David Capeless several years after Gerry Downing died of a heart attack for the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office to release the aforementioned hidden exculpatory evidence, which led to Bernard Baran to be freed after he was raped 4 times and also beaten up in Massachusetts state prison for crimes he did not commit. Bernie Baran passed away less than one decade after he won his freedom from Pittsfield’s persecution, which also involved Dan Ford as Gerry Downing’s co-prosecutor around 40 years ago.
I find it hard to swallow that Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior and his conspiratorial Nuciforo network conspiratorially bullied and persecuted me since I was 20 years old during the Spring 1996 – for over 28.5 years of my adult life – and he also filed multiple state “ethics” complaints to multiple Massachusetts state agencies from the Fall 1997 – Spring 1998 against my dad, Berkshire County Commissioner Bob Melle, to try to get my dad, Bob, fired from his state government job in the Pittsfield District Court Probation Office back then; my dad, Bob, is now 80.5 years old; I, Jon Melle, am now 49.5 years old.
Nuciforo, who will turn 61 next month, is a millionaire who is a disgraced politician, corrupt Attorney, and a greedy marijuana business owner of Berkshire Roots. Nuciforo lives in a $950,000 mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community west of Berkshire Community College that is only 0.3 miles from Barry Clairmont and former Mayor Linda Tyer’s mansion. Nuciforo also has a residence in Boston, a law office in Boston’s financial district, and he is an owner and landlord of buildings in Boston and Pittsfield alike. Nuciforo associates with billionaires, such as John Forbes Kerry, who, in 2004, he wore matching tuxedos with when the two politicians co-hosted John Kerry’s fancy fundraiser together, but George W. Bush won re-election back then.
To Nuciforo, a have-NOT such as Jon Melle is a doormat, a toilet to shit on, and a man he mockingly laughs at when my name is mentioned to him. But if I were a billionaire HAVE such as John Forbes Kerry, Nuciforo would treat me with dignity because Nuciforo is all about himself, money and power. Nuciforo is a sorry excuse for a human being who was hell-bent on ruining my life, hurting my dad, Bob, many years ago, enriching himself through corruption, pot, and insurance companies.
Now, Pittsfield’s Level 5 public school district has multiple scandals, including faculty/staff allegedly having sexual relations with minors, a black Dean of PHS students who is facing felony indictments for alleged cocaine trafficking, and a retired PHS English teacher who is being sued by a former PHS young woman student for sexual harassment. The Mayor, School Committee and School administrators say that they did NOT know anything about these matters prior to the news media’s reports. Then, they hired an alleged stacked law firm to limit the city/school district’s legal liabilities, which is a foregone conclusion that these controversial events will cost taxpayers a lot of money when these legal matters are settled in the future.
I am relieved that I live in southern New Hampshire instead of my native hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts! Enough is enough, Pittsfield!!!!
Jon Melle
Hey Luigi Melle time to up the meds again.
Bill, what I remember during your run for Ward 3 was that you didn’t show up for the Ward 3 candidate debate.
I do hope you run for School Committee, but you have to be willing to show up & debate.
To run is a commitment to walk everyday and knock on doors from may1 to election day and stand at your polling station, rain, snow, or sun from open to close.
Commitment, to me, is to follow up with the stories you told people on their doorsteps. Not doing an about face and pulling out the checkbook for special interests and raising citizens taxes to pay for it. Commitment would be taking a serious look at the budget and cutting the obvious 50 million in bloat and waste. Commitment would be having a forensic audit to identify these wasteful areas and then following up with eliminating them.
Knocking on doors and knowingly lying right to taxpayers faces makes one an asshole of the highest order. Take a look at the podium to see exactly what I am saying. School committee as well.
As reported here some days ago, Mike Daly replacing Andersen at CoOp Bank. Just another Pittsfield coincidence. Andersen was muscled out!
Perhaps Dan’s pal Marchetti will give him the inside scoop!
Marchetti is iced out, and clueless. Other GOBSIGs orchestrated this.
How on earth did Mike Daly swing that?! Remarkable, I’m stunned. Will he move his broadcast to the penthouse office?
It’s not the same person. Different Mike Daly.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/77722/Daly-Announced-as-CEO-of-Pittsfield-Co-op.html
The news is in the eye of the beholder.
No he was B!TCHSLAPPED, but don’t worry Daly is of similar ilk
Didn’t they already use the “janitor closet” thing previously on the great Barrington billboard
Fun Friday Story! (Trigger alert – ageism)
I’m at Walgreens yesterday evening. Throughout the store rings this horrible LAAAA-DEE DAA DA DA DA DAAAA LAAAA DEE DA DA DA da da LAAAAAAA DEEEEE DA DA DA DA DAAAAAAAA….”
It’s really bothersome and I assume it’s a child in the aisle wherever I go. I discover it’s a young woman at the sales counter. He coworker, middle age, is saying, “pick another tune it’s hurting my ears.”
“NO!”
MAC: “Then pick a different octave! Truly, it hurts my ears!!”
“No! I am not responsible for another person’s triggers. So I’m not going to stop.
LAA DEEEE DA DA DA DA DAA DA LAA LA LAAAAA DE DA”
Muttering to myself outloud, “For real!?…If she were to press those triggers where I work she’d be out alone in the cold.”
That’s the crop of our fine higher educational institutions. Fit to work a supercharged Walgreens computing system, not fit for a damned thing else.
Yes. Truly representative of the accomplished young scholars being turned out by our stellar public schools.
Most folks in Pittsfield prefer to use undocumented pharmacists
(It’s got to be Friday somewhere)
Why is Joe Friday’s badge number 714?
When the original Dragnet went into syndication, the show was renamed “Badge 714”, so named for Joe Friday’s police badge. A recurring myth was that Jack Webb chose the number 714 because he was a fan of Babe Ruth, who slugged 714 home runs during his career, but it was later asserted in TV commentator Michael J.Oct 28, 2019
Phun Phact.
Warren and Conant will request to raise the stipend for the school committee tonight? First of all members like Cameron are well healed I’m sure. Secondly, school committee should be a volunteered public service. Bad petition.
Imagine no candidates to begin with, and now that their on board want to give them more money?
Bad move, worse timing. For decades, centuries, it was a volunteer position. Until a few years ago. Because … liberals.
Suprised they don’t get insurance and dental. That’s next. Bitchfield will be give out meritorious service awards tonight. Check out the dais. You could give awards like that out every week to the ambulance service people who are doing this,saving lives, job but they don’t.
Are you sure they don’t get that? I thought they did.
Yes Sherman and Barbalunga pushed that through at the same time they pushed through the current city charter that has screwed the Kapanski’s
That should come with a minimum age. Perfect time to raise the point at open mic.
Do any other Berkshire towns pay board members?
Doesn’t Warren owe Pittsfield thousands in back taxes?
Maybe he can get them forgiven like the guy that owned that big mess way out on W. Housatonic st. for 30 years and never paid taxes. Probably not though.
Warren’s ED meds are covered. And Conant NoDoze is covered
Everyone has me very confused today. I’m not sure if I live in the Pitts, B!tchfield, Pedofield, Good old boys field, Rainbowfield, Kapanski’sscrewedfield or some other place! Can someone help me out?
Bitchfield, SHIRL. Its Sister City is Pedofield. Odd thing is that no one has ever seen the two cities in the same space at the same time!
Herberg Middle School in the city of Pittsfield will be closed on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 as heating and electrical issues in the building continue
Unacceptable when all the money that we give the school department
Just think… we had MILLIONS in ARPA funds that were squandered during the tenure of the lovely Linda Clairmont (ever wonder why she kept her maiden name during office then changed it? I would have!)
Ask Shirley if she saw any boilers in Africa, or have the BBEC help out, lots of BIPOCS in those schools.
You didn’t get that same warm-fuzzy feeling Linda “Flat” Tyer had, as she was handing out our tax money to a man and a woman, simply for being black.
No more, no less.
One of them, even worked for the Pedofield Pubic Scohol at time and went on a taxpayer funded “black teaching recruitment” in NC, that netted the same amount of teachers, as Blutarski’s GPA.
Giglio Brady
This state law is needed in MA…..
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/14/ohios-new-parental-rights-law-protects-both-students-and-educators/
Wondering why the Pittsfield Police doesn’t put all their calls in their log? Sunday night a man pistol whipped 2 men on Francis Ave. no mention in the Log. When Wiggins and he’s partner were arrested no mention. How many other arrests are being expunged? We need transparency .
In fairness to the PPD, they did send out a press release about the incident on Francis Avenue. They were upfront and transparent with the press.
Also, DA Shugrue’s office sent this:
On Monday, January 13th, Solomon Jones III (15 Esther Terrace, Pittsfield: 9/10/1992) was arraigned in Berkshire District Court. The Defendant was charged with:
2 counts of Assault & Battery by means of a Dangerous Weapon, to wit: a handgun
Assault & Battery by means of a Dangerous Weapon, to wit: shod foot
Assault by means of a Dangerous Weapon, to wit: a handgun
Threat to Commit Crime, to wit: murder
Carrying a Firearm without License
Possession of Ammunition Without an FID Card
Improper Storage of a Firearm
The Defendant is being held for 120 days on dangerousness.
Additionally, Mr. Jones III had bail revoked for 90 days on outstanding charges from two pending cases. These charges include:
Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon x3(2 handgun, 1 shod foot)
Assault with a Dangerous Weapon(handgun)
Carrying a Firearm without a License
Ammunition without and FID
Improper Storage of a Firearm
Please see Pittsfield Police Department’s press release regarding the incident.
Pittsfield Police Department
Subject: Arrest of Solomon Jones III
Authored By: Captain Matthew Hill
Authorized By: Chief Thomas Dawley
Released At: 13 January 2025 3:39 PM
On Sunday, January 12th at approximately 7:38 PM, multiple officers were dispatched to 10 Francis Ave. for a report of a party with a firearm. 10 Francis Ave. is a multi-unit housing complex.
Upon arrival, officers encountered two parties with facial injuries. Those parties reported that an altercation had occurred in the parking lot involving a party who then fled the scene & ran into one of the nearby apartments. That party was later identified as Solomon Jones III, age 32 of Pittsfield.
Mr. Jones had allegedly pulled out a handgun on the victims and began making threats. He subsequently struck both victims in the head with the firearm and kicked one of them while they were on the ground.
Officers later located Jones inside the apartment and ordered him out, to which he refused. After an initial standoff, entry was made & Jones was placed under arrest. A firearm was recovered from inside the apartment and seized by officers as evidence. The victims were transported to Berkshire Medical Center where they received treatment for their injuries.
Solomon Jones III was charged with the following:
-2 counts of Assault & Battery by means of a Dangerous Weapon, to wit: a handgun
-Assault & Battery by means of a Dangerous Weapon, to wit: shod foot
-Assault by means of a Dangerous Weapon, to wit: a handgun
-Threat to Commit Crime, to wit: murder
-Carrying a Firearm without License
-Possession of Ammunition Without an FID Card
-Improper Storage of a Firearm
Sounds like one helluva party. Jones musta been outta ammo. Too bad the cops didn’t get a chance to shoot the bastard, and thin the herd.
Sometimes good people do bad things.
Yes, and that has a familiar ring. Didn’t someone recently say that, on Tee Vee?
Tonight at c c meeting there will be proclamations and awards I’m sure. They do this for one thing and one thing only. Applause. Feel good Applause. When B M gave the speakers The recent school committee and atta girls. He got zero applause! Why is Mike Daly taking a job now anyway. Ego. Power move ? Jack Welch on steroids. Aside. Persip is the only one with any balls
True. They did release a statement the next afternoon. Just wondering why it was not in the log?
Ask any old time reporter (like Dan) that had to go to the police station in person and check the daily “Blotter” (Log), they have always been inconsistent, especially with serious calls. Often It’s to let the investigation develop before they have to answer media inquiries.
True, TWO. And I love the term “blotter.” That’s what we called it on the “late cops” beat in Syracuse.
So that’s a first at city clowncil tonight. A speaker calling in his three minutes from the jail.And of course the proclamations for the fire department which needs to get on the tread mill,including its. Chief. The highlight though was Deb S. awesome again.
That man is Citizen Talley. Lamarre Talley. ((Forgive my spelling.) He is probably the most eloquent and sensible person in my old ward who I have met as Ward 2 Councilor. I’d trade him for any on the Council.
My final petition was to have his ‘no trespass’ from City Hall order reviewed and reprieved by the next Mayor. That order is nothing but based upon prejudice and conflict. It is my hope that the following councilor follow up upon my request.
Don’t these people realize that Maura Healey and her nitwit democrat friends passed a new stupid gun law that was going to make the world safe? Maybe she could give them free subscriptions to the Eagle
I thought all this nonsense crime was going to come to a screeching halt under Mr law and order clown shoes Shagrue? Dan, crime in Pittsfield is at an all time high.Crack heads on every corner / mayhem / theft/. Promises promises..
and That slob of a Mayor. Fed Ex is walking right out of town
another one gone.will the last one out of town turn out the lights.
….more taxes to the homeowner, and the excessive levy on businesses will continue.
At least they sent me some ky jelly with the bill
Be conservative – you’ll need to make it last
The chiefs sleeping in Windsor and is probably unaware of this.
She need s no help.
Hegseth made a fool out of Pocahontas…..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/onlookers-burst-laughing-when-pete-hegseth-completely-wrecks/
I think Tony soprano spoke at c c tonight.
Did he call Matchetti a fanook?
Kenny chewing candy or Pctv Stooge rubbing his beard for an hour. Creepy.
It’s not candy, it’s chewable Viagra.
Lumpy needs shirts that fit. He can’t button the top button. That’s why he doesn’t wear a tie
He oughta get a pair of Rhonda x ray glasses with it.
So does d p w Chief same look.
Worst dressed Pete or Paul Marks…just a representation of our community
Paul who? No show Paul ?
If Paul Mark gets any fatter he’ll have to change his name to Stretch Mark.
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Mayor Marchetti will be hosting his first State of the City address on Thursday, January 16 at 6 p.m. at Taconic High School. This event is free and open to the public. The Mayor will be sharing a recap of 2024 and plans ahead for the new year.
For those unable to attend in person, Pittsfield Community Television will air the address live on PCTV CityLink Channel 1303, PCTV Select-1 and on PCTV’s Facebook page.
Nothing like a speech by Lumpy.
I’d chip in a couple of dollars if Lumpy had Wimpy White in the background, either having a battle with his action figures or eating a triple meat cheeseburger meal and slugging it down with a strawberry shake.
It’d distract the viewer from having to watch Lumpy and listen to him speak.
Will Battlestar Galatica between Chewbacca and his army?
Or how much of that meal will Wimpy be wearing by the end of it.
It’d keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
Will he wear a tie?
He can’t button the top button on his shirt. So no.
Yeah. All the dignitaries will be seating behind him as a show of support. This crap keeps going on and on and on.
Seeing how our current Mayor has been part of city government for over 20 years shouldn’t he look in the mirror and see one of the problems of Pittsfield? He has been supposedly a city leader for a long time. Just shows you where he wants to lead the city!
He worked hand in hand with Tyer for at least 8 years and between the two of them they managed to raise city taxes about 30 million dollars. Marchetti deserves any and all discredit he gets but never forget he learned a lot of his mismanagement technique from Tyer who was herself very good at it. She could dump a shovelful of dirt over any taxpayer and do it with a smile on her face. Marchetti at least pretends he cares.
One year in with this latest City Clownsil meetings and they are getting more pathetic by the minute. What have they accomplished so far, absolutely NOTHING.
Last nights meeting was beyond pathetic. The two Pete’s totally ruined Chief Sammons presentation of the Life Saving Awards, constantly interrupting him because he wasn’t doing it THEIR way. Two complete pompous asses at their best!
Highlight of the meeting was when the grub ball Mayor Lumpy brags about still putting garbage he acquired out from his Christmas parties because the toters are too small. This accumulation of garbage by taxpayers homes is rampant around the city. Now we know why the local pest control businesses are so busy. Bitchfield is full of RATS both political and animal. Kudos to Counselor Lampiasi for TRYING to get some answers for this growing problem, too bad Morales and Lumpy couldn’t comprehend her question. Wow!
Yeah,Lampiasi with a stellar performance last night. She got rewarded with another vehicle accident on west street this morning.
Maybe we need speed lumps, a rotary and a bike lane on West Street
The highlight last night was when Deb told Wimpy to keep his fifteen seconds at open Mike.
Deb S: you did good. Very fine work. Now I grant that you have one up on me.
For Amuso, Acosta, Noto, Serre: you violate in spirit, and probably in letter, the First Amendment right to petition your representative. You came to City Council, upon which is an agenda item to hear your citizens, and you turned your backs and bolted. That is an obstruction of City Council work and obstruction of the public right to address their representatives in formal meetings.
Councilors: Your $8,000 salary, and whatever else you take from taxpayers in the form of benefits, obligate you first to 1) accountability for every cent of public funds and 2) to listen to your constituents. To step out the door because you don’t want to hear presumes you care for neither obligation.
D.S.: you are the first person to bring that behavior to the stage.
Thank you Sir Charles for stating that. I was also offended that PCTV didn’t actually show the stampede into the backroom. Didn’t Conant slither off the stage as well?
Despicable behavior.
If 6 left, the meeting was disrupted.
No point filming it – they are irrelevant anyway.
Loved DS’s insults pursuing their asses out the door. Perfection.
I was offended when the fatass women councilors and the two puppy dogs left the meeting because they didn’t want to hear what Simonetta had to say. Simonetta broke no laws saying what she said,
Did 6 leave? That would break the quorum and shut down the meeting. Act of deliberate disruption. If so, the President should have stopped the clock and recess until they grew up and returned.
Amused-So is in direct conflict in my opinion on the license board. She is not a liaison she is appointed by the Mayor.
Asdide…..And Carm look— alike tri-town health guru Wilusz wants Pittsfield to ban flavored tobacco paper ? Wilusz was the one who suggested years ago how much food you ate at the all you can eat when he himself at the time was overweight?I Wonder if he has spoken to one of the health board members who is only about 150 pounds overweight ? And Jim. I see your drinking a Dunkin’ fat boy beverage? Looked like a 16 ouncer.
Check out my most recent post on Council agenda items 25/26. It directly addresses your observation.
Bitchfield looks to be wearing the fashion trends latest version of mobster gear. As opposed to the collegiate octogenarian pct Stooge,and School Chair Cameron preppie line of clothing.
Ward 6 councilor Disco Dina was saying how great Ricardo has been., but gad several complaints?Disco was awesome last night with her interrogative questioning, then gets another bad look west street accident this morning . For you Disco maybe,No Dina, the totes aren’t working.
The totes don’t empty fully. They end up open lids, garbage all over the street, they have no buoyancy…,a five mph wind will knock them over. If there’s no clear path in your yard you have to drag them.
Yup,they’re either to small or not large enough forcing to have to purchase another, just what you need another toter to navigate in ice rain and snow, three totes. Did anyone catch the awards proclamation last night. At least four of the recipients have been under scrutiny including a promotion to the officer who was allegedly innocent in the Miggy shooting years ago.
Not everyone has as big a house as Marchetti to store extra garbage. So he should have qualified his remarks so as not to poke fun at us lesser haves for not having all that extra room.
And not everyone has a beer belly as big as his
Were beer cans recycled.
They to…….need,……Ninety More Days.
I agree. I have plastic backed up so much because I asked for a second toter for recyclables and still haven’t received it yet. That was many months ago. Maybe the city has changed their mind about giving a 2nd recyclables toter for free? The communist far left wants to discourage people from having so much garbage, but as with all of their policies, this is going to end up creating lots of other problems like pest issues and garbage strewn all over the city.
Pat, maybe you can crush some plastic bottles or tuck soda bottles in side string bean cans to save room. You can double your room this way. Plastic bottles are all full of air and take up a lot of room.
Pete and that White clown do know full well that the tiny toters work for only about one third of residents. They are pretending it is all hunk dory because they are super embarrassed that they let Casella sell them this plan. Casella on the other hand is making huge bucks hand over fist and love Mr Marchetti for doing things as they requested.
Got my chronically escalating tax bill the other day. Wow. Just pathetic management. They could have included a schedule for the recycling with it but chose not to. Also got my census form. Again a return envelope with no postage. I read this as they are not at all serious about the numbers so this time I am not returning it. Says on it I may lose my voter registration..guess what? I don’t care about that anymore either. It really is not all that it is cracked up to be with all the lobbyists owning your legislators anyway. Which way do you think they will vote? For your interests or the company giving them millions of dollars? And it is exactly the same in Pittsfield with special interests pretty much owning these people.
If you requested a trash toter, they would have been there with bells on. No money in recyclable totes.
Maybe some civil disobedience and dump the stuff on the Mayor/Councilors lawns
That’s a good idea, TRAP. It would get their attention.
Lumpy and most of the council are so fat that they’d get internal bleeding if they bent over to clean it up.
Just melt the cans and plastic. Pour a layer of concrete into the other base, and burn it into a small brick. Bring it to the curb twice a year. I bet you could get 200# recycling into a single toter.
Lampiasi asked questions that Morales had already covered. She was either not paying attention or more concerned with putting on a show for tv.
That’s just it ! She knew nothing she asked but said he was doing a great job?……..
Her hair dye has gone to her temple.
When will the results of the DCF “investigation” be made public? It’s been over 15 days. When will the PHS principal be held accountable for her Asst & 2 Deans who allegedly were involved in cocaine sales & inappropriate behavior with minors?
Where are the local investigative reporters covering this story – you know, the ones the Eagle asked for donations in order to hire them?
They are having trouble trying to find out who will be willing to take the rap for hiring obviously unvetted people. The ones responsible may be saying that if they have to take the blame they will bring the whole city down with them. Quite the conundrum I imagine.
Going to go out on a limb here and predict any final report will take us all in circles, into and out of tunnels and then through a fun house of alternate facts, strobe lights and Ai generated gibberish. Then all parties involved will get promoted, a pay raise and a key to the city.
A year or two from now we do it all over again because nothing will have changed…cuz it’s Pittsfield.
Dan. Did you see the (Views) version of the city council woman leave their seats when one of the Open Mike speakers spoke?
PCTV didn’t show them waddling out
Is the waiting room in he back big enuff to hold them?
It looked stupid. Gender politics
Maybe it was that time of the month?
I didn’t know you could do the open Mike from a cell phone. Now that’s ingenious.
How about smoke signals?
Mail drop. Thought you couldn’t speak in any form unless your signed in?……Wasn’t someone arrested for not being signed in? By Bitchfield?…. Lawsuit.
Rules say if you are put on hold for three minutes it counts against your time and they hang up on you. It is in the revised charter.
Could you be at o p with Morse code?
Pam Bondi AG Senate confirmation hearing live feed.
On recess now, Ted Cruz just got done tearing the Leftists a new butthole concerning the Biden/Harris junta’s corrupt AG Garland/DOJ/and THE FIB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQWmVqIZjJY
This is a little off topic, but is important to know.
Morales said the data collected so far shows that the new system is in fact saving Pittsfield money on waste collection as promised.
Yeah, right Morales but the Taxie gets to pay $160 more for some trash that used to be paid for with tax money
And that does not count the $120 he needs to get a permit to take stuff that won’t fit into the tiny toter to the transfer station. And that is just the permit fee cost. You also must pay for the actual trash you bring. For instance if you have a large throw pillow that will not fit into the toter you must pay a $120 permit fee and then $10 more dollars to dispose of it.
Oh yah….it’s true. Ask Peter White
Just throw the pillow
Minus the $150k the city had to spend to hire someone do Morales’s job because working is too hard for him
Morales should stay home at city council meetings, every time he opens his mouth he says something stupid.
https://tzeroconsulting.com/
Consultants everywhere literally
Funny how everything has become very quiet in the school scandal in Pedofield. Do you remember “queergate” in GB there was an article everyday for almost a whole month,,,,there is still articles on it. Not the issues in B!tchfield, the hate rag can only focus on their rage towards Trump. This is how you know the local rag is in bed with the powerbrokers and will not print truthful information for their customers.
The Eagle only prints one side of the story, especially if the other angle is against there woke agenda. Climate change is a religion at the paper. Saying that there are only 2 genders is blasphemy. Anything positive about President Trump cannot be printed. No articles about stream lining the School dept. to save taxpayers money. Simply put the paper sucks.
D-Ritchie Neal, again voted AGAINST a bill, H.R.30, to deport CRIMINAL ALIENS WHO ARE SEX OFFENDERS, RAPISTS, PEDOPHILES/CHILD MOLESTERS.
D-Neal does not represent American citizens.
Bob Uecker dies at 90. R I P.
The old goat needs to be put out to pasture, along with the old bag Pelosi and Maxine Waters, Harry Reid and some others.
The most significant agenda items, aside from the free loot known as Shannon Grant (it all goes into a private pocket and is completely unaccounted for) are items 25 & 26. It classifies most of the City Commission appointments as “Special Municipal Employees”. My read is that it is a move to add monetary compensation for the appointed boards. As you know, the only boards, established by Charter, are staffed that the past mayors want to see staffed. Commissions that promised gadflies and accountability were ignored by Mayor Tyer and ultimately abolished by petitions from Councilor Warren.
These boards strictly serve the intentions of the Mayor and enjoy rubber stamp approval from an indolent and indulgent Council whose members blanch when an appointee is challenged for even the most concrete and practical grounds.
So what does the Mayor and his Council have up their sleeves with the reclassification of volunteer government which has been working for the history of modern Pittsfield?
Definition of Special Municipal Employee per MGL
G.L. c. 268A, Section 1(n) ” Special municipal employee “, a municipal employee who is not a mayor, a member of the board of aldermen, a member of a city council, or a selectman in a town with a population in excess of ten thousand persons and whose position has been expressly classified by the city council, or board of aldermen if there is no city council, or board of selectmen, as that of a special employee under the terms and provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that a selectman in a town with a population of ten thousand or fewer persons shall be a special municipal employee without being expressly so classified. All employees who hold equivalent offices, positions, employment or membership in the same municipal agency shall have the same classification; provided, however, no municipal employee shall be classified as a “special municipal employee” unless he occupies a position for which no compensation is provided or which, by its classification in the municipal agency involved or by the terms of the contract or conditions of employment, permits personal or private employment during normal working hours, or unless he in fact does not earn compensation as a municipal employee for an aggregate of more than eight hundred hours during the preceding three hundred and sixty-five days. For this purpose compensation by the day shall be considered as equivalent to compensation for seven hours per day. A special municipal employee shall be in such status on days for which he is not compensated as well as on days on which he earns compensation. All employees of any city or town wherein no such classification has been made shall be deemed to be “municipal employees” and shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter with respect thereto without exception.
Special Municipal Employee cont…
So the appearance is that the Mayor wants to reduce the standard for conflict of interest for commission appointees. Why is he interested in softening those standards?
About Special Municipal Employees in regards to their exposure to Conflict of Interest and public ethics:
Section 17 generally prohibits municipal employees from representing a private party before municipal boards or departments. It also prohibits municipal employees from acting as agent (or attorney) for a private party in connection with any matter of direct and substantial interest to their city or town. Finally, it prohibits municipal employees from accepting pay or other compensation in connection with any matter of direct and substantial interest to their municipality.
However, if you are a “special municipal employee,” you may:
Example: You are a Conservation Commissioner. The Commission has been given “special municipal employee” status. You are also an engineer in private practice in town.
Note that the prohibition against “acting as agent” covers any type of activity that involves representing someone other than your city or town. Activities which can be considered “acting as agent” include: serving as someone’s spokesperson; making phone calls or writing letters; acting as a liaison; affixing professional seals or signing supporting documentation; and participating as an electrician, plumber or other contractor during municipal building inspections. For more information about section 17, request Advisory No. 13: Municipal Employees Acting as Agent from the State Ethics Commission.
Well done, SIR CHAZ, exposing another hosing of the citizen taxpayers by the Special Interests that completely control Bitchfield elected “Officials.”
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