Letter: Political Bias

To the Editor:

Do you only report about Democrat candidates or am I missing your reporting on Republican candidates some how? The Berkshire Eagle is a left-favoring periodical that I've learned to simply ignore because of their bias. Please clarify my dilemma sooner than later.

I appreciate your efforts & overall coverage but it appears a political bias is showing itself.

Chuck D. Wright
North Adams, Mass. 

Editor's note: iBerkshires covers all local candidates and state candidates who visit Berkshire County (and let us know they're coming!) We have been focusing on the upcoming primary, which has no local Republican races. We wrote about gubernatorial candidate Geoffry Diehl and two candidates who recently came to Pittsfield. 

Colegrove Summer Program Capped With North Adams Recreation

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
06:22AM / Saturday, August 01, 2026

Mayor Jennnifer Macksey speaks with Drury intern Cypress Smith and artist Robert Fitzgerald at the summer program at Colegrove Park Elementary School. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There were squeals of laughter as children did their best to fly planes by some of the city's most iconic structures. 

 

The planes were paper, the buildings cardboard and Main Street was a hallway at Colegrove Park Elementary School, but the setup represented nearly two weeks of creative research and design by the pupils in the public schools' 21st Century Summer Program. 

 

Local artist Robert Fitzgerald has been doing for summer camp five years, working with Grades 3 through 6.

 

"This has been an incredible summer," he said Thursday as children showed off their masterpieces to Mayor Jennifer Macksey. 

 

"The idea really grew out of a project we did last year, which was ... [Grade 4 teacher] Emma Marino had an airplane competition, and so the students we had been working with cardboard in the art room. So we built a city to surround the runway. 

 

"This year, when I asked her if she was going to do it, I said, 'Let's build North Adams.'"

 

He asked the students what was important and unique in North Adams, laughing that, of course, a lot of them went to fast food places.