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, D.C.
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.
She can be reached at nancy_cohen [at] nepm.org.
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The nonprofit Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds purchased a stretch of storefronts in Pittsfield. It has converted one into a food pantry where classes and events are held, including dance classes for children and a recent meeting on immigration law.
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The owner of the Pittsfield Suns said this week the baseball franchise won't form a team this year because of the seating. For the past two summers, fans at Wahconah Park sat in temporary bleachers because the grandstand is deemed unsafe.
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The acclaimed conductor Seiji Ozawa died Tuesday. For 29 years he was the music director for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His tenure brought global attention to both the orchestra and to Tanglewood, where Ozawa was once a student.
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The Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary is giving itself more time to consider a bill that would amend the state's charitable immunity law so that it does not apply to lawsuits for sexual or physical abuse of a minor.
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Berkshire Health Systems plans to reopen the North Adams Regional Hospital, a decade after it closed.
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The new regulations for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, require institutions like museums and schools to obtain "free, prior, and informed consent" before exhibiting human remains and cultural objects, or giving people access to them or conducting research on them.
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At a Citizens Coordinating Council meeting Wednesday night, Berkshire County residents and officials pressed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make sure General Electric's proposed clean up plan is protective of human health.
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New federal regulations governing the return of Native human remains and objects to tribes went into effect earlier this month.
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The Massachusetts charitable immunity law caps damages in lawsuits against a nonprofit at $20,000 — including those alleging child sexual abuse. That means some lawyers won't take these cases.
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After police searched a Great Barrington, Massachusetts, middle school classroom for the book "Gender Queer," a school committee plans this week to discuss what happened and school policies going forward.