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Low-income workers in Massachusetts will receive $500 payments as part of the COVID-19 Essential Employee Premium Pay program, announced by the Baker-Polito Administration Tuesday. The first round of payments will be distributed in March to 500,000 Massachusetts residents that made more than $12,750 from employment and meet the total eligible income. These payments represent the…

MassEcon, the state’s private sector partner in promoting business growth in Massachusetts, today announced its Eighteenth Annual Team Massachusetts Economic Impact Award winners, recognizing 14 companies for their outstanding contributions to the Massachusetts economy. The companies were selected for establishing new operations in Massachusetts or expanded existing operations. Each employer added new jobs and facility…

Banks and credit unions have long touted their role in supporting local nonprofits through philanthropic efforts, but those efforts took on more urgency over the past two years, especially in areas such as food insecurity and other basic human needs. But even before the pandemic, these institutions were giving back in ways that went well…

BusinessWest Editor George O’Brien has a lively, wide-ranging discussion with Barbara Trombley a financial advisor and CPA with Wilbraham-based Trombley Associates. The two talk about the current volatility on Wall Street, the many different forces behind it, and what investors should be thinking — and doing. Or not doing, as the case may be. It’s all…

The Baker-Polito Administration announced the award of 65 grants totaling over $20 million to 62 organizations through the Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant Program. Lt. Governor Karyn Polito and Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy made the announcement at UTEC, one of the grant recipients, where they were joined UTEC Executive Director Gregg Croteau,…

Cummington resident and Springfield native Laura Sullivan is heading to Beijing to be an Olympic official for Alpine ski racing. Sullivan will be the first U.S. women to serve as an official or “technical delegate” for the women’s Ski Racing event. Sullivan told 22News that she grew up ski racing and has been officiating for…

United Way of Pioneer Valley (UWPV) will host the grand opening of its new Springfield Community Service Center during a statewide videoconference celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, Feb. 11. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Senate President Karen Spilka, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders, and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno will join the United Way…

The MassDOT has presented its first design of the proposed Armory Street Bridges replacement project in Springfield. This isn’t the final design, but so far it does address infrastructure issues of the bridges as well as traffic safety. Chris Cignoli, the Director of the Springfield DPW, said, “Over the last number of years there’s been…

Berkshire Bank announced that it received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. Berkshire joins the ranks of more than 840 major U.S. businesses that also earned top marks this…