It was the biggest robbery Pittsfield had ever seen, but that wasn’t what really interested folks about the diamond heist on North Street in the fall of 1920, recounts columnist
There was a certain enthusiasm in the press when writing of James Blake’s case in the 1930s, a romanticism that while not condoning his crimes, painted them in a daring,
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett has tapped a pastor-social worker, an attorney, and a labor organizer-state legislator, among others, to help her find a new…