Springfield

By Sarah Heinonen | Aug 26, 2024

Scholarships awarded as Springfield Partners turns 60

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Partners for Community Action, a local social services organization celebrated its 60th birthday on Aug. 7 by doing what it does best, helping members of the community get ahead in life.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Aug 26, 2024

Vet’s dream of memorial garden coming to life

SPRINGFIELD — Sometimes, all it takes is one person with a good idea.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Aug 26, 2024

Where and how to vote in Springfield for the Sept. 3 state primary election

SPRINGFIELD — Election season is in full swing with half a dozen contested races for the state House of Representatives and Senate in Hampden County. With primaries for these races on Sept. 3, Reminder Publishing wanted to provide information on polling places in Springfield.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Aug 26, 2024

What to expect when heading to the polls in Springfield

SPRINGFIELD — With the Sept. 3 primary less than a week away, Reminder Publishing reached out to Springfield’s Election Commissioner and City Clerk Gladys Oyola-Lopez to ask about what can be expected at the polls.

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Officials discuss crime, legislative priorities at Sheriff’s Picnic

By Chris Maza | Aug 26, 2024

Officials discuss crime, legislative priorities at Sheriff’s Picnic

SPRINGFIELD — Considered by many to be the political event of the year in Western Massachusetts, Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi’s annual golf tournament and picnic again drew a bevy of local and state elected officials.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Aug 21, 2024

Grant allows STCC to expand free adult ed programs

SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Technical Community College has been awarded a $301,250 grant from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s Community Mitigation Fund for the college’s WorkReady program, the Hampden Prep Program.

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Huang aims to bring new life to Springfield Commonwealth Academy

By Staasi Heropoulos | Aug 21, 2024

Huang aims to bring new life to Springfield Commonwealth Academy

SPRINGFIELD — When Wall Street hedge fund executive Angelene Huang was asked if she could help turn around the failing Springfield Commonwealth Academy, she agreed to take a look at the property on Ames Hill Drive. The college preparatory school educates children in grades 6-12.

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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.

By Sarah Heinonen | Aug 21, 2024

Thousands of Springfield residents request ballots ahead of early voting in the state primary

SPRINGFIELD — Early voting is still a relatively new method of exercising the right to vote in Massachusetts. The first election in which residents could choose to cast their ballots early instead of on Election Day was in 2016. A 2014 state law made early voting a mandatory option for all municipalities, be it in person or voting by mail. The state does not differentiate between absentee and vote-by-mail ballots.

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By Payton North | Aug 21, 2024

Debate proves contentious as Gomez, Brown vie for Senate seat

SPRINGFIELD — Both City Councilor Malo Brown and state Sen. Adam Gomez were on the receiving end of accusations slung back and forth at Focus Springfield’s Hampden District state Senate debate on Aug. 15.

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By Sarah Heinonen and Trent Levakis | Aug 19, 2024

HCC, STCC prepare for potential influx of free tuition students

With free tuition to community colleges now available for adult Massachusetts residents 25 years-old and up, Reminder Publishing reached out to Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College to find out how they are preparing for potential influxes of new students on campus this fall.