Nominations Open for Springfield Regional Chamber’s Super 60
Nominations are now open for the Springfield Regional Chamber’s 2023 Super 60 event. This year, Super 60 is reimagined and expanded with newly configured categories, providing an opportunity to honor more deserving businesses and nonprofit organizations within the Greater Springfield region. Super 60 seeks to recognize and celebrate businesses that have achieved remarkable success and…
State leaders coming to Franklin County to announce child development grants
Members of the Healey Administration visited Leverett on Wednesday to announce $15.5 million in grants to local school districts and nonprofits. Those grants will support organizations providing child development services and resources to families with young children, and promote school readiness, according to a news release from the Department of Early Education & Care. Read…
Springfield to host first-ever LEGO convention this weekend
Springfield is hosting its first-ever LEGO convention this weekend at the MassMutual Center. The Springfield Brick Convention will be held on August 19th and 20th at the MassMutual Center. Tickets are $14.99 and are available on their website for either date. According to the MassMutual Center, there are two sessions on both Saturday and Sunday,…
Western Mass EDC and Springfield WORKS Host Press Event
Springfield WORKS, a community-wide initiative with The Western Mass Economic Development Council (EDC) invite the community and elected officials to their press event and community conversation to share the results of the second Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Grant. Funding from this grant is helping to facilitate systemic socioeconomic changes in the city of Springfield, MA.…
BusinessTalk with Dr. Andrew Lam, retinal surgeon with New England Retina Consultants
Dr. Andrew Lam has forged an intriguing dual career. The first is in medicine, as a retinal surgeon with New England Retina Consultants, an attending surgeon at Baystate Medical Center, and an assistant professor of Ophthalmology at UMass Medical School. But he’s also turned his lifelong passion for history into four acclaimed books: two in…
STCC’s Architecture and Building Technology Program Turns 10
Warren Hall calls April 23, 2013 — the day the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved architecture and building technology as a two-year associate-degree program at Springfield Technical Community College — “a great day.” “We were approved after a seven-year process,” said Hall, a professor in the program at STCC. “Creating programs is something I…
EDC, UMass Amherst Enhance Economy Through Internships
The Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council (EDC) and the UMass Amherst iCons program, under the umbrella of the iCons Industry Consortium, recently joined forces to provide UMass iCons students with internship and career opportunities in the Western Mass. region. iCons is a certificate program focused on real-world problem solving in biomedicine/biosystems and renewable energy, catering…
Baystate, Lifepoint Celebrate Opening of Valley Springs Behavioral Health Hospital
Baystate Health and Lifepoint Health celebrated the opening of Valley Springs Behavioral Health Hospital yesterday with a commemorative ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new, 122,000-square-foot, four-story facility has 150 private and semi-private rooms for inpatient behavioral healthcare for adults and adolescents. Located on Lower Westfield Road in Holyoke, the hospital is operated by Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a…
Springfield Museums Announce 2023 Ubora, Ahadi Award Recipients
The African Hall Committee of the Springfield Museums announced the recipients of the 2023 Ubora Award and Ahadi Youth Award, which will be presented at a ceremony at the museums on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. Lisa Green, a distinguished professor at UMass Massachusetts Amherst, is this year’s Ubora Award recipient, and Catherine Thompson,…
Enshrinement weekend for the Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2023
It’s enshrinement weekend for the Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2023. Festivities for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame 2023 Enshrinement are underway at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut where VIP guests and fans are rubbing elbows with the 11 legendary players and coaches that are being honored this weekend. The new class of…
New shop lives up to its unique, eclectic name
The city’s newest retail addition to downtown is named appropriately “Downtown,” with the second line of the name being “Curiosities, Oddities & Art.” The space at 114 State St. is one-part antique shop, one-part collectible shop and one-part art gallery. It is a collaboration between Gretchen Stibolt, Dino Baiardi and Jennifer Tatro. Baiardi and Tatro…
Berkshire Black Economic Council Announces First Round of Vibe North Street Grants
The Berkshire Black Economic Council (BBEC) announced four grant awardees for the Vibe North Street storefront recruitment grant program, in collaboration with Downtown Pittsfield Inc. This grant program, funded by MassDevelopment’s Transformative Development Initiative (TDI), aims to revitalize downtown Pittsfield by supporting businesses relocating to the North Street TDI district. The awardees are: • Guelce…