It started with a conversation between commission members. Elizabeth Bone and Dawna Jenne, both members of the Longmeadow Recycling Commission, were speaking one day when Jenne told Bone about her work with Springfield Public Schools’ Tools 4 Teaching, a nonprofit that organizes the donation of gently used school supplies to Springfield teachers.
SPRINGFIELD — District Attorney Anthony Gulluni’s office awarded a Community Support Grant of $20,000 to Christian and Brian’s House, a recovery house in Springfield. In total, Gulluni’s office has awarded $45,000 to the house.
SPRINGFIELD — The O’Dell Women’s Center, an organization that supports low-income women in Western Massachusetts, is seeking the community’s help to provide something every parent knows is essential — diapers.
SPRINGFIELD — What was once a location for a clothing factory in the city’s South End is now a 40-unit condo complex designed to help bring additional home ownership to the neighborhood and opportunities to potential home buyers.
SPRINGFIELD — The music, the pageantry, the celebration. The 2024 Springfield Puerto Rican Parade had it all on Sept. 15. Thousands of people lined a two-mile stretch of Main Street to watch the parade, which had so many people participating that it took an hour and a half to pass by.