Chicopee

Chicopee Fire Department receives grants for safety education

By Tyler Garnet | Jul 10, 2024

Chicopee Fire Department receives grants for safety education

CHICOPEE — The Chicopee Fire Department received over $10,000 in student awareness of fire education grant funds to be used for safety education for different age groups in the city.

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By Tyler Lederer | Jul 2, 2024

Visitor Bureau says Western Mass. needs to promote itself

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Western Massachusetts tourism marketers stressed to Greater Springfield mayors the importance of their industry at a June 14 roundtable talk at the Eastern States Exposition grounds.

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By Tyler Garnet | Jul 1, 2024

Chicopee School Committee begins work on evaluating superintendent

CHICOPEE — During the School Committee meeting on June 26, the group met the incoming Chicopee Education Association president, as well as discussed a superintendent evaluation proposal for the previous school year.

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Summer concert series returns to Aldenville Commons

By Tyler Garnet | Jul 1, 2024

Summer concert series returns to Aldenville Commons

CHICOPEE — The Aldenville Summer Concerts kicked off on July 2 and will run through Aug. 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Aldenville Commons on Grattan Street.

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Police pedal 300 miles in Unity Tour for fallen officer fund

By Staasi Heropoulos | Jun 25, 2024

Police pedal 300 miles in Unity Tour for fallen officer fund

In May, a team of five Western Massachusetts police officers honored all fallen cops — 23,785 throughout American history, according to the memorial fund — by pedaling more than 300 miles from northern New Jersey to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Staasi Heropoulos has been a broadcast and print journalist as well as a corporate communications practitioner, in Western Mass. and internationally for more than 40 years. He loves writing feature articles on local people and places but also welcomes story ideas about corporate and government malfeasance. Staasi can be reached at Staasi.Heropoulos@gmail.com.