SPRINGFIELD — The residents at the West Street Village Community in Ludlow, a mobile home park, have taken their case of their landlord increasing the rents from $207 to $503.60 a month to Western Housing Court.
WILBRAHAM — During its Aug. 22 meeting, the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School Committee officially voted to move forward with conversations surrounding modifying the lease agreement between Hampden and the distric over future use and ownership of Thornton W. Burgess School.
HOLYOKE — The St. Patrick’s Committee of Holyoke has named James M. Lavelle as the 2025 Grand Marshal, the highest local honor given to a person who has distinguished themselves as a loyal person to their career, their family and to their Irish ancestry.
Way Finders has received a $285,000 grant to further digital equity and community advocacy work that will continue digital equity programs in Springfield and now in Holyoke.
SPRINGFIELD — When Joe Austin, 33, was in college, he thought he was the big man on campus, because his father told him he was. After taking advanced courses at his high school in North Carolina, Austin was convinced he would earn all A’s when he went to Boston University.
SPRINGFIELD — Election season is in full swing with half a dozen contested races for the state House of Representatives and Senate in Hampden County. With primaries for these races on Sept. 3, Reminder Publishing wanted to provide information on polling places in Springfield.