Nancy Eve Cohen
Senior ReporterNancy Eve Cohen is a senior reporter focusing on Berkshire County. Previously she served as the editor of the Northeast Environmental Hub, a collaborative of more than a dozen public radio stations. Earlier in her career she was the Midwest editor for NPR in Washington DC. Before working in radio, she produced environmental television documentaries. As part of a camera crew, Nancy also recorded sound for network television news, with assignments in Russia, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba and in Sarajevo during the war in 1992.
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Northampton concert to promote peace canceled after concerning text message and a burst heating pipeThe event, which was designed to celebrate "the yearning for peace," would have featured Karim Wasfi, known as the cellist of Baghdad, and Jehann El-Bisi, a western Massachusetts poet and painter. -
After Steve Hoffman, the first chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, abruptly resigned, a former commissioner said new members can be a little more bold.
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Invest In Pittsfield, a coalition of groups calling for the city to make just and ethical investments, says the investigation into an officer's shooting of Miguel Estrella was not independent.
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The Pittsfield Police Department released a preliminary report that found the shooting of Miguel Estrella was in compliance with department policies.
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Berkshire County Superior Court Judge John Agostini dismissed a manslaughter case against foster parents from North Adams, Massachusetts.
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Weeks after a Pittsfield man was shot and killed by police, the city's police advisory and review board held a meeting to hear public input and concerns.
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The Elizabeth Freeman Center in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, has displayed the images and words of women who have been harassed on the street to call attention to the impact of sexual harassment.
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A group of tribal leaders from South Dakota visited a small museum in Barre, Massachusetts, to ask it to return the belongings of their ancestors. They believe the museum's collection includes items taken off the bodies of people massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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General Electric and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will start sampling a section in the floodplain of the Housatonic River in Massachusetts in preparation for the toxic waste clean up.
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The Berkshire District Attorney's office hired a media relations firm in 2019, along with management consultants and coaches in 2019 and 2021. The funding came from the office's state budget.
