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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A new, summer weekend train service from New York City to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is about to take its inaugural run. -
David Gillham's new novel, "Shadows of Berlin," tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who is working through the trauma she endured in Germany while she builds a new life in New York.
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The Barre, Massachusetts, Museum Association has started the process of hiring an expert to evaluate native items for possible repatriation. Tribal members say they should all be returned.
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When the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, budget came up for a vote, one city councilor made a motion to "charter object," which stopped the vote.
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A bylaw in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, would restrict owner-occupied properties to renting out rooms for no more than 150 days a year.
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After a mother black bear and two cubs were killed in a car accident in Greenfield, police rescued the only surviving cub. A New Hampshire wildlife rehabilitator is raising the female cub. By next year, she'll be released back into the wild.
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Voters in Lee Massachusetts approved a nonbinding question to rescind a Housatonic River cleanup agreement which includes a PCB dump in town.
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Sarah Kim, the interim Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission chair, replaces former chair Steven Hoffman who resigned in April.
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Northampton concert to promote peace canceled after concerning text message and a burst heating pipeThe event, which was designed to celebrate "the yearning for peace," would have featured Karim Wasfi, known as the cellist of Baghdad, and Jehann El-Bisi, a western Massachusetts poet and painter.
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After Steve Hoffman, the first chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, abruptly resigned, a former commissioner said new members can be a little more bold.
