Springfield Central Cultural District Receives $25,000 Grant
Morgan Drewniany, executive director of the Springfield Central Cultural District (SCCD), announced the receipt of a $25,000 Beveridge Family Foundation grant to help the organization create an artist database, as well as increase internal capacity. Part of the grant from the Beveridge Foundation will be utilized to hire the UMass Arts Extension Service, a nationally…
Hampshire College goes green thanks to yellow sun: 100 percent of school’s electricity now comes from solar power | masslive.com
Hampshire College is now powered by the sun. One hundred percent of the campus electricity will now come from a 19-acre solar-energy system approved by Eversource late last month. Half the system at Hampshire had been operating since June. At Hampshire, the 15,000 photovoltaic-panel arrays on two fields have a capacity of 4.7 DC megawatts…
Frank Mantero of Baystate Health
Frank Mantero, an accomplished communicator with over 20 years of experience as a strategic leader in marketing operations in global agency and corporate environments has been named vice president of Marketing & Communications for Baystate Health. In his new role, Mantero will oversee the marketing, public affairs, digital strategy, internal communications, creative services, and loyalty…
Having placed more than 1,300 people with jobs, Snapchef expands to offer free culinary job training in Worcester
The culinary industry staffing company Snapchef is expanding its operations in Worcester, with plans to open a full-scale commercial kitchen to support its training operations. The new space, adjacent to Snapchef’s current offices on Southbridge Street, will give local residents access to a free 10-week training program with potential job placements across the region, Snapchef…
Springfield Schools to Launch Culinary and Nutrition Center
Pat Roach likes to share an anecdote that speaks to the occasional absurdity of school lunch. It involves the community gardens that dozens of Springfield schools have planted and maintain. “Take Kennedy Middle School, which has a beautiful garden, where kids grow their own vegetables,” said Roach, chief financial officer of Springfield Public Schools. “If…
Springfield Plaza owner sees new tenants in Kmart spot in ’18
An owner of Springfield Plaza expects to have one or more new tenants in the shopping center’s former Kmart space sometime in 2018. But don’t expect one big major retailer to take the entire 70,000-square-foot space occupied by the discount retailer until this fall. Charles Irving, a principal of Springfield Plaza co-owner Davenport Companies, said this…
Big Y Food opening 9 new supermarkets in Massachusetts, Connecticut
Big Y Foods Inc. is getting bigger on the eve of its 75th anniversary. Wednesday, Big Y announced that it had purchased seven Connecticut supermarkets from the faltering A&P chain. Read the source article at masslive.com
Three County Fair to receive $4 million grant to build horse barns
“This is fantastic news,” Anderson said. “It will have a significant impact on Northampton and the entire region.” Read the source article at masslive.com
Campanelli breaks ground in Chicopee
WMDC’s president, Allan W. Blair, welcomed the Campanelli investment, saying, “We are pleased that the Campanelli Companies have joined the Westover family. Their project represents a fitting capstone to WMDC’s 35 year effort to convert this 224 acre vestige of the Cold War to a source of employment for the people of Western Massachusetts and…
Northampton Coca-Cola announces $33 million expansion project at bottling plant
The Coca-Cola Co. Monday announced a $33 million expansion project, the project is also expected to create a minimum of 40 new jobs. Read the source article at masslive.com
Former site of Mastex Industries chosen as home for Holyoke’s high performance computing center
Gov. Deval L. Patrick, speaking at Heritage State Park this morning, named the former Mastex Industries Inc. facility as the chosen site for a proposed $100 million high-performance computing center Read the source article at masslive.com
A Tale of Two Cities and One Region
Economic-development leaders on both sides of the border generally agree with that assessment. And they say this education is ongoing, albeit hampered by a lack of public investment in that process, especially in the past few years. Read the source article at BusinessWest