Archive for January 2020
Massachusetts commits $469K to boost women, minority workforce through Tech Foundry in Springfield, Boston’s Hack.Diversity
The STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — workforce in Massachusetts is growing and highly paid. But it’s also 76% white. Only 26% of information technology jobs are held by women.Jobs in the field are growing mostly in a few Boston-area communities — making a compelling argument, business boosters heard Thursday, for increasing training…
Read MoreRep. Richard Neal, Gov. Charlie Baker to celebrate final step in Union Station rehab; Platform C caps $103M project
Gov. Charlie Bake, fresh off his State of the State speech that focused on mass transit, will join U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Springfield Mayor Domenic J. Sarno Friday for the ceremonial opening of the final phase of construction at Springfield Union Station. Read the source article at masslive.com
Read MoreSTCC to Offer Legal Interpreting Certificate Program
nterested in working as a legal interpreter? Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) will offer training beginning Feb. 25. The course runs through April, with classes meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Offered as a certificate program through the Workforce Development Center at STCC, this class is open to Spanish-, Portuguese-, Arabic-, and…
Read MoreAgawam’s Bridge Becomes an Attention Span – BusinessWest
Mayor William Sapelli said he received the text late on a Friday afternoon earlier this month, and it was somewhat unexpected; he was anticipating word coming later. But it was very, very welcome. It came from state Lt. Gov. Karen Polito, and it said, in essence, that the state had approved what’s known as an…
Read MoreYouth basketball players from Springfield and Holyoke hoop it up during Winter All-Star Festivities (photos) – masslive.com
Youth basketball players from Holyoke and Springfield showed off their talents Wednesday evening as part of the Winter All-Star Festivities at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The event was hosted by the Holyoke Safe Neighborhood Initiative, C3 Forest Park and Hampden County Sheriff’s Department. Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno also took part. Read the…
Read MoreAgway in Westfield closed; landlord searching for new tenants
Kelly’s Home and Garden, the Westfield Agway store, closed at the end of December but building owner Nabil Hannoush said he’s hopeful about bringing in a new tenant to run the lawn and garden store. “I’ve been talking with Agway and with other Agway operators in the area,” Hannoush said Tuesday. “It doesn’t even have…
Read More‘Set yourself apart from everyone else’: State labor chief Rosalin Acosta gives advice at Westfield High School career center
Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski loves what Westfield High School’s Reed Career Center is doing to get students ready not just for the job search but also for the jobs they get. And on Tuesday he found a ready audience in Rosalin Acosta, the state’s secretary of Labor and Workforce Development. Acosta toured the center Tuesday morning,…
Read MoreWith top MGM Springfield executives out after low gaming revenue, where does casino go under Chris Kelley
MGM Resorts International’s move of Mathis from Springfield — where he’d worked since 2014 preparing for the casino’s construction and August 2018 opening — may be a reaction to gambling revenues that have been about half the pre-opening projections, employment levels that are not at the 3,000 jobs MGM promised and commercial development around the…
Read MoreFive College Consortium Awarded $2.5 Million for Native and Indigenous Studies
Five Colleges Inc. has been awarded a $2.5 million, four-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help its member campuses transform how they approach Native American and indigenous studies (NAIS), with the goal of enhancing teaching, learning, and scholarship in the field. The grant is one of the largest made by foundation to…
Read MoreBrewmaster’s Tavern in Williamsburg closed, brewery to remain in business
The Brewmaster’s Tavern in Williamsburg went out of business Monday, according to its landlords who continue to run the brewer business — Brewmasters Brewing Services LLC — out of the same building . It’s a location on Main Street, where there has been a tavern or restaurant for 208 years according to an online history.…
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