Letter: Jennifer Macksey for Mayor

Letter to the Editor12:30PM / Sunday, October 24, 2021Print Story | Email Story

To the Editor:

Jennifer Macksey is quite simply the best mayoral candidate for North Adams. As any of Jen's coworkers, current or former, will tell you, Jen is a strong independent woman who has been successful in every position she has held. I have personally seen her incredibly strong work ethic and she puts her whole heart into everything she does — just imagine what she will do for the city she loves.

What an incredible benefit to have our new mayor walk into City Hall with the knowledge of how city government works. She will brainstorm with all the city departments to figure out what needs to be prioritized and get to work on it. There will be no long learning curve.

I find it disturbing that the only reason I hear to not vote for Jen is that she will be our former mayor's "mouthpiece." For those of you who have made that statement, you obviously don't know Jen.

She is as passionate about this city as anyone I have ever met. Safety, jobs, education and housing are all on the top of her to-do list and she wants to work with the citizens of the city to improve them all.

If you are on the fence about who to vote for, I urge you to talk to Jen, she welcomes any and all conversations. I also urge you to watch the 10/21/21 debate.

I support Jen Macksey and urge you to do the same, she will make this city proud.

Rebecca Cellana
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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