by Michael Ballway | Jun 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Photo Slider, West Springfield
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Despite the billboard, the mailers and the warnings of “false promises” and “blank checks,” town councilors on June 17 voted unanimously to borrow $11 million to continue building a municipal fiber-optic network.
by Tyler Lederer | Jun 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, More Local Headlines, West Springfield
WEST SPRINGFIELD — A Connecticut-based Southern fried chicken chain is planning to open a franchise in West Springfield this month. It will be located at 164 Elm St., the former location of Ichiban Asian Bistro. “We’re coming for Massachusetts,” said Lou Sterling,...
by Michael Ballway | Jun 25, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, West Springfield
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Four town councilors stood by their school budget cuts, but it wasn’t enough to override the mayor’s veto, averting layoffs to five “interventionist” educators. “The need for interventionists in our schools is huge, to make up for the lost academic...
by Tyler Lederer | Jun 25, 2024 | Agawam, Hampden County, Local News, More Local Headlines
AGAWAM — The City Council unanimously approved the $132 million fiscal year 2025 budget on June 17. Councilor George Bitzas was absent, though he, too, had supported it in past meetings. “This is the second good thing we have this year,” said Council President...
by Tina Lesniak | Jun 25, 2024 | Agawam, Hampden County, Holyoke, Photo Slider
HOLYOKE — Roseanne “Rosie” Caracciolo, principal of Dean Technical High School in Holyoke and a resident of Agawam, has received the Community Heroine Award from the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women.
by Mike Lydick | Jun 25, 2024 | Agawam, Hampden County, More Articles, West Springfield, Westfield
WESTFIELD — Ava Skowron, a sixth grader at Doering School in Agawam, is one of two statewide winners of an annual Americanism essay contest to be sponsored by the Westfield-West Springfield Lodge of Elks.
