Letter: Harrington Deserves Another Term

Letter to the Editor07:00PM / Sunday, September 04, 2022Print Story | Email Story

To the Editor:

I'm writing to express my wholehearted endorsement of Andrea Harrington — we have been friends for many years, through thick and thin. I look at the criminal justice system through the lens of our community's most marginalized neighbors. Andrea walks the walk on showing up to make change.

She understands the value of harm reduction better than any other politician I’ve worked with. She has been a champion for keeping drug use in the realm of public health where it belongs. She has focused the arm of justice on where it belongs — domestic violence and murder.

She has faced extremely biased reporting by our local paper of record. It has been very disappointing to see the repeated smears. It has made people afraid to support her publicly, even though in private they think she is doing a good job.

It is also worth noting that the courts were fully closed during a significant portion of her tenure. Now that they are open, violent crimes are being successfully prosecuted.

Andrea has earned your vote for another four years.

Stephen Murray
North Adams, Mass.

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North Adams Alerting Persons in SS Number Release

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
03:46PM / Monday, August 17, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — City Hall is sending out 419 letters to individuals who received some form of compensation from the city using their Social Security number.

The numbers were inadvertently included in a public records request made by Michael Milazzo regarding airport operations. Milazzo returned a thumb drive that included the file to the Police Department.

"We will notify those people. We are working on a letter. We're working on setting up the credit monitoring," Mayor Jennifer Macksey said, speaking to the press on Monday. "We will do whatever we have to do. But again, right now we've only disclosed that information to one individual."

The mayor said she was thankful Milazzo returned the file but recognized that the city had erred in allowing it to be included without redactions. She repeated several times that the file had only been released to Milazzo and she could only confirm the thumb drive had been returned.

A query to Milazzo's lawyer, who had spoken with the city public records officer Marya Kozik, had not been returned by publication. This article will be updated with any response.

"It should not have happened, and we all recognize that we're not trying to hide anything, but we will do the right thing and protect these 419 individuals," the mayor said.

It is not illegal to disclose Social Security numbers with the exceptions such as they are being used for fraud or be publicly posted. The numbers are used widely for governmental and financial actions.

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