Letter: Breen Has Right Experience for North Adams Council

Letter to the Editor02:00PM / Wednesday, November 01, 2023Print Story | Email Story

To the Editor:

Well, I just voted, and I gave my first vote for City Council to Pete Breen. Why, you ask?

No other new candidate has the experience and devotion and has been as generous with their time. Over the past 40 years, Pete has served on many boards and commissions. He has worked for a variety of employers including MCLA, where Pete was a facilitator and instructor for technology and curriculum development and assistant registrar. Pete took that experience over into the town of Adams, where he implemented the town's entire computer system, serving as the town's technology administrator. Pete then went farther south, where he was a member of the adjunct faculty at BCC for four years.

Shifting gears into education, Pete taught computer science at Hoosac Valley for 12 years, while also serving in the district office and as the pupil transportation officer.

After retiring from compensated work, Pete set his sights on volunteering in North Adams serving on the License Board Commission and serving as the North Adams representative for the Northern Berkshire Vocational School District, and finally, Pete's current passion, serving on the Hoosic River Revival Board.

That's why I gave my first vote to Pete Breen. And I hope that you do too.

David Willette
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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