STCC to host back to business career fair
Springfield Technical Community College will be hosting a back to business and transfer fair Wednesday for their students, alumni, and friends of the college who are searching for their next career move. There will be opportunities to connect with companies around the area looking for people seeking employment. Attendees will also have a chance to…
Monson Savings Bank celebrates 150 years of service
Monson Savings Bank is celebrating 150 years of serving the local community. The bank was incorporated on March 28 in 1872. Monday morning’s reception was the kickoff to a year of events focused on building the bank’s relationship with the community. They’ll be working with local non-profits to do things like help kids build their…
Yankee Candle and Its Deerfield Village Remain Powerful Draws
Yankee Candle has long been a national and even global powerhouse in the scented-candle business, but the company will always have special appeal in Western Mass., where Michael Kittredge launched it more than a half-century ago. That appeal is partly — perhaps largely — due to Yankee Candle Village, which has become a significant attraction…
Colebrook Announces Sale of Multiple Northampton Industrial Park Properties
Colebrook Realty Services Inc. announced it has brokered the sale of 168 and 178 Industrial Dr. in Northampton. The firm announced the sale of approximately 58,443 square feet of class-A industrial/flex space in the Northampton Industrial Park, along with a 12,000-square-foot R&D building and a 2.10-acre adjoining land site. Kissell Inc. and PVC West Inc.…
Greater Springfield Housing Report Releases Second Study
The second report of a multi-phase project studying Pioneer Valley housing issues was released yesterday by the UMass Donahue Institute, Way Finders, the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, and the Metropolitan Springfield Housing Study Advisory Committee. Phase 2 analyzed regional segregation and the important relationship between place and opportunity in area communities. The research also…
Holyoke High School to receive $75K early college grant
Holyoke High School will receive $75,000 in state grant funding to continue expansion of its early college programs. The Baker Administration announced $1.3-million for programs around the state that get high school students into college classes. The money will fund those classes for around 8,700 new students by the 2024 to 2025 school year. Read…
Greenspace CoWork Launches Business Networking Series
While the past two years haven’t exactly been kind to co-working spaces, Jeff Sauser said, the long-term view is much rosier. “COVID has really accelerated the trend toward remote work,” he explained, noting that the business world was already taking steps in that direction, but at a much more gradual pace. “One silver lining from…
Region’s Cultural, Recreational Destinations Anticipate a Strong 2022
For the region’s large and very important tourism and hospitality sector, the past 24 months have been a long, grueling slog marked by COVID-forced restrictions, new variants impacting attendance, a workforce crisis, and large doses of uncertainty about what will come next. Pivoting has been the order of the day, and normalcy has been an…
Greenfield Keeps a Sharp Focus on the Future
When it comes to her city, Mayor Roxann Wedegartner takes the long view. “In five years or less,” she said, “you will not recognize Main Street in Greenfield because so many good things will be happening.” Two notable projects in the works involve the building of a new, $20 million library on the east end…
CitySpace Launches Pay It Forward Program
CitySpace launched its application for Pay It Forward, a pilot program for artists who live in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties. The program provides free venue access to CitySpace’s Blue Room, a performance and incubator space located in Old Town Hall in Easthampton. Applicants may apply at cityspaceeasthampton.org/pif through Friday, April 1 at 11:59 p.m.…
Arbella Insurance funds Growing Garden initiative
Rachel’s Table will have some extra money to use over the next three years to help alleviate hunger and reduce food waste in the region, thanks to a gift from a local business. Arbella Insurance has pledged $75,000 to the Growing Garden initiative, which officially launches later Monday. The program will train other service organizations…
BusinessTalk with Julie Quink, managing partner at Burkhart Pizzanelli, P.C.
On the next installment of BusinessTalk, BusinessWest Editor George O’Brien has a lively, wide-ranging discussion with Julie Quink, managing partner of the West Springfield-based accounting firm Burkhart Pizzanelli, P.C. It’s tax season, so the two talk about new tax laws and what they mean to businesses and individuals, but they also discuss what has been called the…