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EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Three years after Theory Wellness opened as the first retail cannabis outlet in Berkshire County, 24 licensed recreational-use companies in the Berkshires pull in roughly $200 million in yearly sales. One company accounts for more than a quarter of that, according to estimates The Eagle derived through public records requests.
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Shootings have jolted Pittsfield neighborhoods. Residents say that in the weeks and months since, they’ve tried to go back to life as normal, but can’t get images and sounds out of their heads.
Meg Britton-Mehlisch
Pittsfield Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: The court battle over Very Good Properties LLC has involved allegations of fraudulent billing, threats, defamation, side deals and stolen business opportunities.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Twelve families in the city's Morningside neighborhood, most with school-aged children, lost their homes in fires that hit three buildings April 22. A month later, their lives remain in flux, as assistance wears thin and new apartments prove scarce.
Amanda Burke
Cops and Courts Reporter
More than 100 Massachusetts police departments have or have promised the state to start a body camera program. The Pittsfield Police Department is playing catch-up. We look into how other departments are using the technology and answering handling the legal concerns cited by Pittsfield police.
Meg Britton-Mehlisch
Pittsfield Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Friends and family say that in the last years of his life, Miguel Estrella tried to break free from troubles of his youth, including links to people with criminal records. One night in February 2020 showed how hard that can be, when Estrella tried to claim he owned the gun Adams police found in his car. Police believe he was coerced to say that.
Larry Parnass
Managing editor for innovation
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Investigators hired last year to probe complaints at Town Hall found the Monterey town’s administrator central to most conflicts, engaging in a misuse of power though “a pattern of conduct” that is retaliatory and manipulative — findings she strongly denies.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
When Berkshire Flyer service got the green light this week, it seemed a dream of easier rail trips linking New York City with Berkshire County had been achieved. But simply getting to Berkshire County isn’t the whole story for rail travelers. We follow one family trying to get four miles in Pittsfield without a car.
Meg Britton-Mehlisch
Pittsfield Reporter
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EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Over the past two decades, Pittsfield police officers have shot seven people. In four instances, the shootings were fatal. In all but the most recent incident, which remains under investigation, the shootings were deemed justified and the officers were cleared of wrongdoing.
Amanda Burke
Cops and Courts Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: A map prepared by a federal government agency in 1936 fashioned once refined Circular Avenue on Pittsfield's West Side into a kind of bull’s eye, advising bankers where not to invest. Nearly a century later, it’s plain that decades of disinvestment rubbed this place raw.
Larry Parnass
Managing editor for innovation
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: It wasn’t Jim Crow laws that helped lock a poverty cycle in place — those were illegal in Massachusetts. It was a map of Pittsfield. A groundbreaking report, "Redlining in Pittsfield: A Case Study," tells the story.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Since Shaker High School English teacher Meghan Marohn went missing in their neighborhood, life hasn't quite been the same.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: The people who knew and loved Miguel Angel Estrella can’t believe his life ended as it did last week, with two bullets to his chest outside his Pittsfield apartment, during a police response to a man in a mental health crisis.
Larry Parnass
Managing editor for innovation
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: As the opioid crisis turns as deadly as it has ever been, people touched by substance use disorder in the Berkshires have thrown themselves into the fight, working on keeping themselves and others alive. Helping people move toward “recovery,” however they define it.
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: As the pandemic recedes, another public health crisis lingers in its wake, one that has caused immense grief and suffering for years and will continue to plague the Berkshires. That crisis is addiction.
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Mayor Jennifer Macksey said addressing blight is a priority. We checked in to see what the city is doing about the problem properties and what obstacles stand in the way of finding a solution for these neighborhood eyesores.
Greta Jochem
Reporter