Springfield planting 2,400 trees as part of ‘Greening the Gateway Cities’ – masslive.com
The City of Homes could soon be known as the City of Trees, thanks to a 3-year $1.5 million grant from the Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, As a result of the ‘Greening the Gateway Cities’ funding, the city has been on a mission to complete the planting of 2,400 free trees in the Old Hill, Upper Hill and McKnight neighborhoods over the next 18 months when the grant expires.