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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Despite falling temperatures, some people in western Massachusetts without homes are sleeping outside — camping on public or private land, or curling up outside of storefronts, churches and libraries. It takes resourcefulness and fellowship to survive. -
After decades of requests from the Oglala Lakota, the Barre Museum Association returned more than 100 items to tribal leaders. Some of the objects are believed to come from the bodies of those massacred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
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At least eight religious groups in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from different faiths wrote more than 1,200 thank-you notes to public school employees thanking them for their work with students since the start of the pandemic.
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The Pittsfield, Massachusetts, police department has planned to start testing body cameras this month with the goal of choosing a vendor by the end of the year. But at a city council meeting Tuesday night the police said the testing is delayed because of concerns from the police unions.
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Fifty lawn signs, banners and a booklet describing Mohican history in Williamstown, Massachusetts, recognize the displacement of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans, who now live on a reservation in Wisconsin.
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Great Barrington's new regulation against feeding wildlife will be enforced by police. The goal is to stop human behavior that draws wildlife, especially bears, into populated areas.
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A museum in Barre, Massachusetts, is returning items — include pipes, weapons and children's moccasins — to the Oglala Sioux tribe from South Dakota.
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Homeowners on a street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, asked the town to change the name of their road, which contained a word considered to be a racist, sexist slur against Native people.
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Berkshire County is the only county in Massachusetts to have a high COVID rating by the CDC. Only three counties are rated low—including Hampden County. The rest are currently rated medium.
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Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer said after the city hires two social workers, they should weigh-in on the creation of a community-based mental health service.
