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 lawsuit, filed in Berkshire Superior Court on Thursday, alleges both companies knew decades ago that PCBs could be harmful when they sold and used the chemical compound. The EPA classifies PCBs as "probable human carcinogens."
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Federal database says Springfield museum has Native remains from central Mass. The museum disagrees.The Springfield Science Museum says it repatriated the remains of 25 Native people unearthed in Worcester County, but there is no official record. The federal office that governs repatriations says the Springfield Science Museum needs to figure out what happened.
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The polls in Massachusetts closed at 8 p.m. on Super Tuesday. Within an hour, the Associated Press called the primaries for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said a cancer study of communities near the Housatonic River will be completed sometime this year.
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Outside investigators hired by the Berkshire Hills Regional School District found the district did not follow its own policies when it allowed police to search for the book, "Gender Queer" in a classroom and look into alleged behavior of a teacher, after police received an anonymous complaint. Investigators "found no facts" to support the claims against the teacher.
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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.