SPRINGFIELD — The blueberries in a morning smoothie. The tomatoes in a BLT at lunch. The asparagus on a dinner plate. The food people in Massachusetts eat every day is often grown here. But the people who harvest the crops that feed Baystaters are often paid nearly half of what other workers in the state receive.
With 16 years in the state House of Representatives, Brian Ashe finds himself working on core issues each term.Reminder publishing file photo
SPRINGFIELD — What was once a former bank and liquor store is now an authentic Puerto Rican restaurant right off Interstate 291’s Indian Orchard exit.
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.