LONGMEADOW — Jodi Falk, executive director of Rachel’s Table of Western Massachusetts, stood on the loading platform of a 16-foot, insulated box truck as it rose up into the air, celebrating the lives that it will improve.
EAST LONGMEADOW — About 200 families woke up bright and early on April 19, put on rain boots and grabbed their tackle boxes for the East Longmeadow Lions Club Fishing Derby at Heritage Park.
WILBRAHAM — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal visited Life Care Center of Wilbraham, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, to discuss how potential cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security would impact long- and short-term care providers and their clients.
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Black lights, canvas, cardboard and tissue paper: in the hands of children, it becomes art. On April 15, children eagerly ran around the West Springfield Boys & Girls Club showing their creations to family members at the West Springfield Boys & Girls Club Art Exhibit.
EAST LONGMEADOW — The story is well known. Battles between members of colonial militias and British soldiers broke out in the towns of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. It was, as Ralph Waldo Emerson described it, the “shot heard ‘round the world.” The American Revolution had begun.