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Elms College, Square One sign agreement to enhance opportunities

By Tyler Garnet | Sep 23, 2024

Elms College, Square One sign agreement to enhance opportunities

Dawn DiStefano (left) and Harry Dumay (right) officially sign a memorandum of understanding between Square One and Elms College.Reminder Publishing photos by Tyler Garnet CHICOPEE — On Sept. 17, Elms College in Chicopee and Square One in Springfield signed a...

Recycling initiative donates boxes of school supplies to Springfield teachers

By Laura Mason | Sep 23, 2024

Recycling initiative donates boxes of school supplies to Springfield teachers

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.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Sep 23, 2024

DA donates to recovery house, pledges to support future women’s house

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.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Sep 23, 2024

O’Dell Women’s Center running community diaper drive

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.

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Former factory site will be new home for 40 families in South End

By G. Michael Dobbs | Sep 23, 2024

Former factory site will be new home for 40 families in South End

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.

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Cybersecurity center will provide training for growing job field

By G. Michael Dobbs | Sep 23, 2024

Cybersecurity center will provide training for growing job field

U.S. Rep. Richard Neal was honored for his work on helping to create the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence that bears his name at a ceremony on Sept. 16 at Union Station.Reminder Publishing photo by G. Michael Dobbs SPRINGFIELD — The Richard E. Neal Cybersecurity...

Thousands experience ‘Magic’ at 34th Springfield Puerto Rican parade

By Sarah Heinonen | Sep 23, 2024

Thousands experience ‘Magic’ at 34th Springfield Puerto Rican parade

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.

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Blandford administrator excited to be ‘making a difference’

By Amy Porter | Sep 18, 2024

Blandford administrator excited to be ‘making a difference’

BLANDFORD — Town officials and neighbors gathered at the new patio outside the Porter Memorial Library on Sept. 10 to get acquainted with Cristina Ferrera, the new town administrator who started in the position on July 8.

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By Deandra Rodriguez | Sep 16, 2024

Players, coaches, officials celebrate new Ted Plumb Field

SPRINGFIELD — Fulfilling Mayor Domenic Sarno’s pledge to replace what was lost, the new Ted Plumb Field officially opened to the public on Friday, Sept. 6, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Sep 16, 2024

Organizations receive funding to confront opioid epidemic

SPRINGFIELD — The battle to mitigate damage done to communities by the opioid epidemic is fought by hundreds of organizations across the state. Two such organizations in Springfield recently received state funding to aid them in their work.