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CITY BULLETIN BOARDS
-- Old School --
Long before Internet Bulletin Boards... and even long before people received local newspapers at
home, there were newspaper bulleting boards, usally near the presses, to which people would flock to read and discuss
the posted news.
Sottile Park is literally a park-built-on-a-bridge. Before Sottile Park was constructed,
there was a concrete bridge barrier on which The Berkshire Evening Eagle, (later The Berkshire Eagle in 1957 when
it became a morning paper) had its newspaper bulletin board anchored over time. The Miller Families of Pittsfield, with a history of publishing dating back to the 1890s, owned the papers and the
bulletin boards.
There were at least two such bulletin boards. The one shown below is the last to be
constructed. By then standards of modern, it was leading edge: Headlines and text could be printed from
inside the flat-iron Eagle Building where the newspaper had its offices. However, as can be seen, photos had to
be carried from the newsroom and posted by hand in the showcases below the news. Also visible are basic weather
instruments which were a new addition from the penultimate bulletin board. The last-standing bulletin board was
removed in 1957, years before Sottile Park construction began in 1984, as can be seen in the photo page Past & Present.
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A database of campaign contributions
for statewide and legislative
offices.
(Mass. Office of Campaign
and Political Finance)
The Federal Election Commission's
campaign finance reports.
(Federal
Election Commission)
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CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR GOVERNOR
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FROM PHYSICAL CITY NEWSPAPER BULLETINS
(c) Berkshire Eagle Archives
TO DIGITAL ONLINE WORLDWIDE BULLETINS
In The Heart of Upstreet
In The True Heart of the Berkshires
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POLITICAL REPORTS &
SURVEYS
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