Letter: Breen Has Right Experience for North Adams Council

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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 Disputes Report of 'Data Breach'

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Mayor Jennifer Macksey says a Facebook post accusing the city of a data breach is false. 
 
She has scheduled a press conference for Monday to take questions. 
 
Michael Milazzo posted that he received "private confidential records" from the city in response to a public records request. 
 
These records were purportedly unrelated to his request but rather to a third party and inadvertently sent to him. 
 
"It appears that the person who received the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of at least 419 individuals from the local area may be associated with web or AI-related development," he wrote on Facebook. 
 
In a late-night message to local media on Thursday, the mayor wrote that "the City has found no evidence to substantiate the claim that a widespread data breach involving personally identifying information has occurred."
 
The information was a vendor list provided to Starbridge, which had vendor names, addresses, ID numbers and amounts paid. Starbridge is a public sector vendor platform run on artificial intelligence systems. 
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