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PLANET HAD IT WEEKS BEFORE: 4th PERSON NAMED IN TRIPLE MURDER … DEMS SHOW OF UNITY FOR BLT NOT MUCH OF ONE … KINNAS ROCKS SCHOOL BOARD … and TEACHERS’ 3% PAY HIKE BOOSTS AVERAGE PAY TO NEARLY $72,000 A YEAR!!

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 2011) — So much to get to and so little time. Ah, the Sophie Tucker lament. You remember Sophie Tucker? She was the Beatles’ favorite group. PLANET HAS THE STORY — We were in weeks ago wit hthe solid information that […]

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ANALYSIS: BIANCHI ‘MAYORAL MATERIAL,’ MARCHETTI ‘INCREDIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE’…plus…WHY DID TOWN OF LEE SPEND $20K MORE THAN THEY SHOULD HAVE FOR WHITEWASH? … and … LOVE THINE ENEMIES … FINALLY, MR. MITT SCORES BIG

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 2011) — Pride does not come before the fall, which we can attest to on this first day of the autumnal equinox. The earth has begun to tilt away from the sun in the Northern Hemisphere. Does that mean the lefty […]

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COMMENTARIES AND EXPLANATIONS ON TWO RACES: STATE REP AND MAYOR, AS MARK MILLER AND DAN BIANCHI ANALYZE FOR THE MASSES

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 2011) — And so the cynical but successful electoral scam continues on track. The Larkin-to-Larded-to-Sandwich Lady has worked like a charm. The TFB end of Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance around-the-horn twin killing seems poised for victory Oct. 18, the date for the special election. […]

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UP ON TRIPLE CREEK … LAY OFF BELLA … LAWSUIT IS NEWS TO BUDDY … PLUS, DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD RESORTS TO EUPHEMISM TO FIGHT MEAN STREETS

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 2011) — Odds and ends must be tied, and corsets of corruption loosened, which is one of the things this web site is all about. UP ON TRIPLE CREEK — It wouldn’t be Pittsfield, though we write this FAr from that […]

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!!EXCLUSIVE!! REMAINS TURN UP IN VACANT LOT IN BECKETT!! PLANET GETS IN FIRST, AGAIN, AND SPURS BB TO SOME, YOU KNOW, ACTUAL REPORTING … plus … DOWNTOWN BLUES HAVE MERCHANTS SINGING THEM … and TWO DEBATE QUICKIES

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary ADD 1 TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY, SEPT 20-21, 2011 REMAINS OF THREE WERE FOUND IN VACANT LOT IN BECKETT THE PLANET has just learned and it appears confirmed that the three bodies in Pittsfield’s notorious triple murders were dismembered and buried in an empty lot in Beckett. Sharp-eyed […]

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TWO PLANET EXCLUSIVES!!!! NEW DETAILS ON PITTSFIELD’S INFAMOUS TRIPLE MURDER … plus … PLANET HAS INSIDE STORY ON THE DEMISE OF THE COLONIALS

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 2011) — There are several new developments in Pittsfileld’s infamous triple murder case. Only THE PLANET has these exclusive developments, obtained from various sources connected with the investigation. This information was obtained off the record, and therefore cannot be considered  official. […]

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FIRST IN ON THE SINKING OF THE SS PITTSFIELD COLONIALS: NO ONE HAS THE ANSWERS, EXCEPT THE PLANET, AND THEY’RE ON THEIR WAY TO YOU, JOHN and JANE Q PUBLIC … YOU WILL SCARCE BELIEVE!

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 2011) — No one has been digging into the muddied situation surrounding the fate of the Pittsfield Colonials and professional baseball in Pittsfield the way THE PLANET has. And NO ONE has the story that we do. Finally, Some Answers: THE […]

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BORING BROADSHEET IGNORES SATANIC TRIPLE-MURDER STORY SO AS NOT TO RILE ITS GOB MASTERS … PLUS, EXCLUSIVE NEW INFO: SIGNS POINT TO OTHER SUSPECTS IN CASE … and … PITTSFIELD TAXPAYERS TO GET WHACKED FOR $17 MILLION … OLVER TO PUT PITTSFIELD GOBs TO SLEEP TOMORROW AT ITAM

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 2011) — For the openers today, we start off with this comment from Ray Ovac, also known as BAT(erry) MAN. Ray gets to the essence of why the Boring Broadsheet is covering like a quivering child during a thunderstorm in light […]

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MORE INFORMATION ON PITTSFIELD’S NOTORIOUS TRIPLE MURDER CASE … CAPELESS CAN BE BELIEVED … plus … BORING BROADSHEET SINKS TO NEW LOW, and NEW DETAILS EMERGE ON CAIUS’ SATANIC AND VAMPIRIC PAST

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 15, 2011) — Bits and pieces of the now-notorious Pittsfield Triple Murders continue to float in the air, in reality, and in cyberspace. Capeless Deserves Some Slack — If and only until evidence to the contrary emerges, the most credible source of […]

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!!PLANET EXCLUSIVE!! DA DAVID CAPELESS GOES ON RECORD ABOUT NEW DETAILS IN NOW INFAMOUS TRIPLE MURDER … DA DEFENDS ACTIONS IN WITNESS PROTECTION … plus … HOW, WHERE, and WHEN THE THREE WERE KILLED

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 2011) — Sources within a local law enforcement agency have told THE PLANET that prior to his murder, David Glasser, who was to be the prosecution’s star witness in the trial of Hell’s Angels’ member Adam “Leo” Hall, made multiple requests […]

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MAIL BAG BRINGS CRITICISM OF DA IN HELL’S ANGELS MURDER CASE … REVEALED: THE CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY SCAM NOW PLAYING IN PITTSFIELD … PATRICK’S PUB CAUGHT STEALING FROM ITS OWN WAITSTAFF, plus, WHERE DOES SHIT RUN UPHILL? IN PITTSFIELD, OF COURSE

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 13, 2011) — We received a lot of mail (and several comments for posting here on THE PLANET) concerning yesterday’s column. We share two typical responses, each with permission. We hit a nerve. THE PLANET can tell, objectively, when our readership spikes. […]

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‘HELL’S ANGELS’ CASE: IT ISN’T PITTSFIELD ANYMORE. ‘THIS IS THE THIRD WORLD’ … plus … MARCHETTI THIRD MAN IN, DUCKING AND RUNNING, and NEW PHOTO BOOK OF CAROUSEL PROJECT IS A MUST ORDER

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary TRIPLE MURDER SHOCKS BUT CONFIRMS: ‘IT’s OVER’ (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, SEPT. 12, 2011) — “This is the Third World.” Thus a friend and Pittsfield resident described the murder of three men, the so-called Hell’s Angels case.  THE PLANET will not comment on the details of the […]

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JOE’s IN, DAN’s A MAYBE, and PETER’s a NO SHOW … plus … 9/11/01 REMEMBRANCE, SHOCKING COLONIALS’ STORY, and HILARITY FROM BLOGGER MARK MURPHY

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Joe’s in, Dan Maybe, but Where the Heck is Pete? (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 2011) — As most of you know, THE PLANET invited The Big Three mayoral candidates — Peter Marchetti, Dan Bianchi, and Joe Nichols — to an informal “discussion” on issues. It […]

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!!EXCLUSIVE!! LEWIS SAYS COLONIALS HAVEN’T MADE A DECISION FOR ’12, IMPLIES TEAM COULD STILL RETURN; PLANET’S SOURCES, MEANWHILE, STICK TO STORY: C’s GONE FOR ’12 … plus … LT. GUV. MURRAY WAS IN TOWN. THE FIX IS IN and HANG ON TO YOUR WALLETS

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 2011) — In connection with the story we ran yesterday about the Pittsfield Colonials not returning to the city in 2012, a commentator asked if we had contacted managing partner Buddy Lewis or anyone else in the organization. The answer is […]

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!!PLANET EXCLUSIVE!! COLONIALS GONE FOR 2012, BUT TWO COLLEGE BASEBALL FRANCHISES FROM TWO DIFFERENT LEAGUES WANT TO PLAY IN WAHCONAH PARK

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary !!EXCLUSIVE!! (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 2011) — THE PLANET has learned that representatives of two college baseball summer leagues have contacted the city of Pittsfield expressing an interest in playing their home games at Wahconah Park for the 2012 baseball season. This is significant news […]

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STATE CALLS BLUFF ON JAIL BUDGET … ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD … and MORE ON COLONIALS SITUATION, INCLUDING COMMENTS FROM MAYOR RUBERTO

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Tighten the Belt (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7, 2011) — You can always make do. That’s a lesson THE PLANET learned early in life from our parents, who grew up in the Depression and understood the twin concepts of adaptation and value. They appreciated what they […]

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