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Sottile Park Is A Pittsfield Public Pedestrian Park
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Dedication of Park
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The Parks On North @ Eagle & Columbus Offer Location & Convenience In The Heart Of Upstreet
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One cannot write about Sottile Park without the inclusion
of the Miller Family's generousity to the city for Park maintenance 
and their publication The Berkshire Evening Eagle, later Berkshire Eagle,
the latter of which was sold in 1995 and is now owned by Media News Group. 
 
Our inclusion of the Eagle brand / logo* is not meant to be coopting,
merely attributing photos and articles first appearing the The Eagle 
 
Today, we foster a cordial relationship with the Berkshire Eagle.
 Nonetheless, we are independent from them as they are us. 
Our goal is to offer content which is different from theirs.
 Opinions stated in this site, if any, are solely ours.
 
 
*Neither the past or current owners show a trademark
of their eagle or text with eagle.
 

 

Adapted from Wikipedia...
 
The Berkshire Eagle, "The Eagle" as it is called locally, is a daily newspaper published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  The paper's circulation covers all of Berkshire County, which is the western-most Massachusetts county bounded on the north by Vermont. the south, Conneciticut, and the west by New York.. For many "hilltowns" residents, The Eagle is their defacto pulp daily news source.
 
Founded in the early 1890s by Kelton Bedell Miller, The Eagle has been owned since 1995 by MediaNews Group, which publishes three other daily newspapers in Massachusetts and several others in western New England, including the other leading newspaper based in Berkshire County, the North Adams Transcript.
 
History...
 
The Eagle's last independent publisher was Michael G. Miller, grandson of Kelton, Michael was president of The Eagle Publishing Company which owned
  • The Berkshire Eagle -- Pittsfield MA -- Daily
  • The Middletown Press -- Middletown, CT -- Daily
  • The Bennington Banner  -- Bennington VT -- Daily
  • The Brattleboro Reformer -- Brattleboro VT -- Daily
  • The Journal in Manchester -- Manchester VT -- Weekly  
Brother Mark C. Miller was editor of The Eagle, while brother Kelton B. Miller II was publisher of the Vermont newspapers. Sister, Margo Miller, a writer for The Boston Globe, was a on Eagle Publishing's Board of Directors. 
 
Expansion...
 
In the early 1990s, in need of more space due to the purchase of multi-million dollar four-color printing presses, the company moved from it iconic  and eponymous "flatiron" building on Eagle Street to the former Shaeffer-Eaton paper mill building about one half mile away. 
 
Rather than build new, the Millers chose to renovate a nearby former Sheaffer-Eaton stationery company paper mill. The cost of the entire project—at $23.5 million for presses, land and renovations.
 
Bad timing...
 
Unfortunately, by the time the new headquarters construction was complete, with staff moved in, and 'bugs' worked-out from the new presses, the regional economy was feeling the effects of recession.  Moreover, City of Pittsfield was imploding with the loss of the General Electric Transformer Division that had required about 10,000 jobs.
 
Obviously, The Eagle's circulation and advertising revenues plummeted. Worse, the local real estate went bust.  therefore, the extra office space that the Millers had built into the renovated structure -- space intended for renting out to help service company debt -- was not attracting tenants.
 
The result was a severe cash crunch: Revenues were insufficient to service the eight-year, $17.9 million mortgage, taken to finance the presses and renovation, which was held by State Street Bank & Trust Company in Boston,
 
The Millers sought an investor who would help them weather the current fiscal storm.  This was their preferred option. Optionally, the Millers sought a buyer for the entire publishing group to keep the company intact so that they would not have to sell assets piecemeal.
 
In 1995, the Millers  accepted an offer from MediaNews Group, a company founded by William Dean Singleton of Denver, Colorado. Singleton, the publisher of the Denver Post and owner of a string of daily newspapers throughout the country, was in the business of acquiring publishing properties at firesale prices.
 
Singleton agreed to purchase the assets of the Eagle Publishing Company, including all its newspaper and publishing properties and debt, but conditioned his investment on absolute control.  The Millers became "retired."
 
The transaction closed on September 1, 1995. Simultaneously, MediaNews Group sold the Middletown Press to the Journal Register Company. The following year, MediaNews added the North Adams Transcript to its western New England holdings.
 

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Pittsfield, MA Historical Newspapers 1788-1922; 1998-Today

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Title:
The Berkshire evening eagle. : (Pittsfield, Mass.) 1892-1955
Alternative Titles:
  • Eagle
  • Evening eagle
Place of publication:
Pittsfield, Mass.
Geographic coverage:
  • Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
Publisher:
Eagle Pub. Co.
Dates of publication:
1892-1955
Description:
  • Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 9, 1892)-v. 64, no. 205 (Dec. 31, 1955).
Frequency:
Daily (except Sunday)
Language:
  • English
Subjects:
  • Pittsfield (Mass.)--Newspapers.
Notes:
  • Published as: The Evening eagle, Feb. 13, 1896-Feb. 20, 1897.
  • Weekly ed.: Berkshire County eagle, May 11, 1892-June 24, 1953, issued also as the Wednesday ed. of the Berkshire eveing eagle.
LCCN:
sn 85033227
OCLC:
11774122
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