SPRINGFIELD — The city’s future construction of a new Springfield Regional Justice Center moved one step closer after the state’s Asset Management Board approved a proposal from the Massachusetts Executive Office of the Trial Court to pursue a long-term lease for the building, during its Jan. 21 meeting in Boston.
SPRINGFIELD — More than five years after the City Council first approved it, the senior tax work-off program is officially coming to the city of Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD — The city of Springfield honored the life, legacy and message of Martin Luther King Jr. at City Hall on Jan. 20.
SPRINGFIELD — Many things were covered during Superintendent Sonia Dinnall’s state of the schools address on Jan. 17; but one key word repeatedly bounced off the walls of the St. Anthony’s Cedar’s Banquet Hall: “believe.”
SPRINGFIELD — Members of the School Department’s negotiating team told the School Committee during its Jan. 23 meeting that contract negotiations with the Springfield Education Association are still ongoing.
Massachusetts’s new legislative session has begun, and state Sen. Jake Oliveira has his eye on several issues he plans to address over this two-year term. Oliveira, who was first elected to the state Senate in 2022 and reelected in November 2024, said he wants to continue to tackle education, transportation and healthcare.