Friendship Center Food Pantry Adds Thursday Evening Hours

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Al Nelson Friendship Food Pantry announces that it will begin opening on Thursday evenings starting on Thursday April 9.
 
It will be open from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Thursday. The pantry, at 45 Eagle Street, serves households in North Adams, Clarksburg and Florida Mountain.
 
The Board of Directors decided to add the hours to serve those who can't come to the pantry during its Wednesday hours in the morning and early afternoon.
 
On Wednesdays they are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with sign-ins at the Eagle Street Room of the First Baptist Church. On Thursdays, sign-ins will take place at the food pantry at 45 Eagle Street.
 
The Friendship Center Food Pantry, a member program of the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, is an all-volunteer program of the Northern Berkshire Interfaith Action Initiative Inc.
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Jillian Tatro's Killer Guilty of First-Degree Murder

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Jillian Tatro
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A Berkshire County jury on Tuesday returned a verdict of guilty in the murder of Jillian Tatro four years ago. 
 
Luis Rosado, 53, was found guilty of murder in the first degree with extreme atrocity for stabbing his 38-year-old wife to death in an apartment they shared at 46 Charles St. on May 28, 2022.
 
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
 
In a statement, Berkshire District Attorney Timothy Shugrue said his thoughts were with Tatro's family and that her son "demonstrated tremendous poise and courage during his testimony in the trial."
 
"Ms. Tatro was a victim of domestic violence. The most dangerous time in a victim of domestic violence life is when they are prepared to leave," he said. "We know that Jillian was planning to leave on the Tuesday following her murder. Her death is a tragic example of lethal consequence of domestic violence and the lasting impact these crimes have on families and communities."
 
He and Tatro had been married five months and during that time, Tatro had sought a restraining order against her husband.
 
Rosado had been convicted of domestic violence on another individual in October 2020. At the time, he was charged with three counts of assault and battery on a household member, strangulation and larceny and was sentenced to a minimum of a year in the Berkshire County House of Corrections.
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