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The Bergen Circle apartments on Girard Avenue in Springfield celebrated its renovation completion at the 201-unit housing community on Wednesday. According to the City of Springfield, Mayor Domenic Sarno announced three years ago that the complex has dealt with many different problems and that it was time for a change. MassHousing closed on $21.2 million…

Virginia “Ginny” Desorgher is a retired emergency-room nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of nine. She had no real desire to add ‘mayor of Greenfield’ to that personal profile, but Desorgher, a transplant from the eastern part of the state and, by this time last year, a veteran city councilor and chair of the Ways…

The UMass Aeronautics placed 1st in New England during a Design, Build and Fly event last weekend. The team drove over 24 hours to Wichita, Kansas to compete at this year’s Design Build Fly competition The team spent months designing and building a carbon fiber remote control plane to carry out missions, like taking off…

Please join MTF for our upcoming webinar: The Economic Impact of Higher Education in Massachusetts. The event is on Wednesday, April 25th at 10am. The event will feature brief presentations examining how demographics will shape the future of higher education and assess the sector’s unique role in the state’s economy. Presentations will be followed by…

After nearly 12 years in the City of Holyoke, Gateway City Arts announced LightHouse Holyoke has agreed to purchase the complex. Gateway City Arts, a three-building arts complex located at 92 Race Street in Holyoke, opened in 2012 and provided a venue for events theatre, concerts, a restaurant, and an art gallery. Last year, the…

Taking Flight In a location that once thrived as part of a computer manufacturing facility for Digital Equipment Corp., a joint-venture development team of Winstanley Enterprises LLC and NorthPoint Development is moving forward with approved plans to build a general warehouse and distribution facility. The recently obtained state and local approvals for the sought-after location…

Construction Work to Begin April 8, 2024 The City of Springfield Department of Public Works (DPW) announced today that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is in the process of reconstructing the St. James Avenue and Tapley Street Intersection into a roundabout. As a result of the construction, traffic will be impacted. Beginning the week…

Several western Massachusetts organizations gathered Tuesday at the State House for a briefing to bring attention to the Cliff Effect, which largely affects low income households. The Cliff Effect happens when an individual who relies on public assistance receives a slight increase in their salary, and they get pushed over the cliff to disqualify them…

CitySpace announced the launch of its 2024 Pay It Forward program, aimed at supporting artists and organizations across Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties. This initiative provides free access to CitySpace’s Blue Room, a performance and incubator space situated in Easthampton’s historic Old Town Hall. Interested applicants can submit their proposals at cityspaceeasthampton.org/pif through May 6.…

Palmer is known to many as the Town of Seven Railroads, a nod to a very rich history as a transit center. Indeed, several passenger and freight rail lines ran though the community at one time, most notably the Boston & Albany, which ran east-west between the two cities, and the Central Vermont, which ran…