Business Development

UMass Amherst and the Tech Foundry announced a new collaboration enabling staff and community members of the Springfield workforce development nonprofit to complete their undergraduate degrees through the university’s flexible, customizable online program. Tech Foundry members can take classes, receive academic counseling, and map their educational pathway through UMass Amherst’s University Without Walls Department of…

To explain why the MassHire Franklin Hampshire Career Center and the MassHire Franklin Hampshire Workforce Board merged their operations in July, Maura Geary first explained how the MassHire network is set up. “There are 16 workforce areas in the state of Massachusetts, and every area has one workforce board and at least one career center,”…

Work of Arts As he talks about Hope for Youth & Families (HYF), the foundation he created in 2022 after selling his Pride chain of gas stations and stores, Bob Bolduc will inevitably reference the “three legs of the stool,” as he puts it, meaning its main focus points. One is literacy, where the family…

No one likes loading boxes onto a pallet. But machines don’t seem to mind. Mike Holmberg noted as much as he pointed to a neatly palletized pile of boxes from a liquor distributor. In a non-automated facility, he said, someone would be loading those by hand. “They’re making the different spirits, and then they put…

The Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony is set to take place Saturday night, honoring nine inductees, including NBA legends Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard, and WNBA stars Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, and Maya Moore. The ceremony will also recognize the 2008 USA Men’s Team, which featured both Anthony and Howard, as well as coach…

Eversource and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame recently commemorated a milestone in Massachusetts’ ongoing energy transition with the ceremonial installation of a smart electric meter. The event on Aug. 7 marked the symbolic kickoff of Eversource’s work to install smart meters at homes and businesses across the state — a project that officially…

Gene Cassidy understands that the Big E generates traffic jams outside the fairgrounds — and sometimes traffic jams inside the grounds as patrons flock to new attractions and food vendors. What he can’t understand is why some can’t look past those ‘good problems to have’ and see the annual fair as a true economic engine…

Tom Senecal recently announced he will retire at the end of 2025 after more than 35 years in the banking industry. PeoplesBank, which he joined in 1995, has grown from a $450 million institution to almost $7 billion at the bank’s mutual holding company. “I just feel it’s the right time to allow a new…

Liberty Bank turned 200 on May 4. Founded in 1825, the bank is committed to supporting the communities it serves. Since its inception in 1997, Liberty Bank Foundation has awarded more than $21 million in grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the bank’s market area, and employees volunteer their time in the community. Now, in celebration…

More than $420,000 worth of grants is helping to support local summer programs in Springfield. 16 local summer programs in the city are to benefit from this funding. The Jewish Community Center will be part of hosting some of the summer programs. Officials like Mayor Domenic Sarno and the Springfield Public School Superintendent gathered there…