EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Are officers beaten down by a beat-up police station? “I feel like every issue we bring ends up getting a Band-Aid,” said Dave Sherman, a detective and president of the union that represents North Adams police.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: While a state program helps cities and towns pay for new school buildings, no such program exists to help communities build police and fire stations. It’s not at all clear how North Adams would pay for a new public safety building estimated to cost more than $10 million.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Hospital price transparency data offer a revealing look at health care prices. But they're not usually helpful for patients.
Francesca Paris
Data and public records reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: The job perk that comes with a steering wheel is alive and well for the state’s district attorneys in Massachusetts, despite efforts to reduce the number of state employees allowed to take cars home from work.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: A look at why Marie Harpin, who just quit her post on the North Adams City Council, filed a police report last year. She feared for her safety after reading social media posts. The people commenting? They insist they were kidding.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: On a day that could have been her last, a woman struggling with substance use disorder in North Adams remembered a business card in her wallet — and picked up her phone. Call by call, the Never Use Alone program is saving lives.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: In recent months, Vermont and Rhode Island have decriminalized possession of small amounts of buprenorphine, a medication used for opioid use disorder treatment. Advocates say decriminalization helps spread the treatment, destigmatize the medication and save lives.
Francesca Paris
Data and public records reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield admits it failed Sheri A. Biasin, after she came forward to report clergy abuse. And not only once.
Larry Parnass
Investigations editor
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EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: A Lanesborough police officer got caught using a state criminal records database to look up women he had dated or wanted to date. It's not your "personal Google," he was told before being fired.
Larry Parnass
Investigations editor
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: What happens in a tiny water district when nothing comes out of the taps? Volunteers get to work, against long odds and with scant resources. Meet the heroes of the Briggsville Water District in Clarksburg.
Francesca Paris
Data and public records reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: For most of her life, Teagan, 10, has suffered from an autoimmune disorder. Last year, advocates won a major battle when the state Legislature approved a bill to force insurers to cover treatments for the ailment known by the acronym PANDAS, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars for families like Teagan’s.
Francesca Paris
Data and public records reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Skyrocketing supply costs during the pandemic, and years of stagnation in MassHealth reimbursements, have cut the number of dentists providing care to poor children.
Francesca Paris
Data and public records reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Williamstown police officers say Sgt. Scott E. McGowan accused others of conduct he exhibited himself, including open and frequent use of an anti-Black epithet, as well as displays of sexual and racial harassment.
Larry Parnass
Investigations editor
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: A Williamstown police sergeant altered a police record in 2005 in an apparent attempt to hide his role in an alleged assault on a Williams College student, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Eagle.
Larry Parnass
Investigations editor
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Living in laptop limbo. Long waits and frustration. Bizarre messages on wait times. Here are readers' tales about their search for COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
Larry Parnass
Investigations editor
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Lee Healthcare rehired a nursing home aide who faces criminal charges for allegedly touching the genitals of a female resident last year. It says an internal investigation cleared him of wrongdoing.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
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The best of the best of Berkshire County, chosen by Berkshire Eagle readers.
1Berkshire presents the official guide to the 65th Annual Fall Foliage Parade.
News, information and resources geared towards senior citizens and their caregivers, in the Berkshires and beyond
The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires presents the 2021 Berkshire Nonprofit Awards
The Berkshire Eagle's annual business feature puts a spotlight on downtown renaissances in Berkshire County.
