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Hampden Strives to Increase Revenue, Cut Costs

John Flynn says Hampden is a town rich in community spirit, where many municipal officials are following in the footsteps of family members who served before them.

John Flynn says many people want to make improvements to their homes but are curtailed by their budgets and increases in the cost of living. “Municipalities are no different, and it’s always a balancing act between what we want to do and what we can afford,” said the chair of the Select Board in Hampden, adding that budgetary decisions are determined by residents at town meetings.

He noted that one way to raise additional revenue is to attract new businesses, but Hampden’s ability to do so is limited by its lack of town water and sewer facilities. However, town officials and employees are working diligently to find ways to increase services and make infrastructure improvements without burdening the taxpayers.

Flynn said this is important because Hampden is a small town with a number of significant financial obligations, which include payments on a $2 million bond taken out to improve its roads over a five-year period, and approximately $8 million owed as the town’s share of the new $67.4 million Minnechaug Regional High School that opened two years ago and serves students from Hampden and Wilbraham.

“The payments for the school will be spread out over 30 years, but it’s a pretty big bill to pay,” Flynn said. “However, we are continually looking to reduce costs through grants and programs, including those offered by the state and federal government and the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. As a result, we are able to continue to improve the town while lightening the burden of the cost to the taxpayers, who are our friends and neighbors.”

Jane Budynkiewicz agrees. “The school department has a grant writer, but the town does not, so we take time out from our normal schedules to fit this in,” said the Board of Health coordinator. “I try my hardest to get anything that will help the people in this town. They put their faith in me, so I constantly work to find something, bigger, better, and more helpful.”

Over the past year, proactive measures by the Select Board have led to a number of initiatives, which include two solar-energy projects on town-owed property that have the potential to generate income while reducing Hampden’s electric bill.

Flynn said the selectmen and the energy company Soltage are currently in negotiations, with the shared goal of building solar-collection systems on the town’s capped landfill and the roof of Thornton Burgess Middle School.

Seeds for the projects were sown last year when several companies expressed interest in building solar facilities in Hampden. The proposals led the selectmen to schedule meetings with officials from other communities that have small-scale solar-electricity systems on publicly owned land, and it soon became clear that there were economic benefits with few drawbacks.

Flynn said Hampden’s landfill is an ideal location for a solar-collecting station, which fits in perfectly with the vision selectmen had for the property years ago when it was capped. “It was repurposed to allow the land to generate income; a piece of the property is being leased for a cell-phone tower, but we wanted to find a way to use the large, grassy area on the site to bring in revenue while keeping our overhead to a minimum and limiting the impact on our residents,” he noted, adding that, in addition to generating income, the Select Board hopes the cost of running the town’s streetlights might be mitigated because the line item constitutes Hampden’s largest electric expense.

In addition to these public projects, requests to install solar stations on private property are on the rise. Several weeks ago, construction began on a 3.2-megawatt, photovoltaic electricity-generating facility at the privately owned Kibbe Farm gravel pit on 229 Somers Road. The property is being leased by Minnechaug Solar, LLC (formerly known as Soltas Holdings, LLC).

And earlier this month, a special permit was granted to Stephen Andwood that will allow him to use a portion of a lot he owns for a solar-energy facility that will be built by solar-solutions provider Heliovaas.

“A proposal for a fifth solar project, which would also be built on private property, was presented to the board at our Oct. 6 meeting,” Flynn said. “The number of solar projects taking place in Hampden over the past year has exploded.”

An increase in tax revenue is also expected when a major renovation of Hampden Country Club is complete. The club was sold at auction in 2012 for $1.4 million, and since that time, the golf course and pro shop have been redesigned, and a $9 million banquet facility is under construction that will hold more than 200 people.

Flynn cited yet another project that will add to the tax coffers. “Last year, National Grid started work on a new substation off of Allen Street which is almost finished. We anticipate that all of these projects will increase our tax revenue by $300,000, which is a significant amount for Hampden.”

Exemplary Dedication

Flynn said community spirit is a cornerstone of life in Hampden. He told BusinessWest that it can be seen and felt in places such as Village Food Mart, where friends and neighbors inadvertently meet and enjoy conversations while they tend to the daily tasks of living.

“People who live here fall in love with the town,” he said as he extolled Hampden’s attributes and noted that some families have made it their home for more than a century.

“Many of the people who serve in our town government have family members who held similar positions, and saw how rewarding these roles can be,” Flynn noted, adding that his father and great-grandfather were long-term selectmen, and the Town Hall, which is getting a facelift thanks to Community Preservation Act funds, was donated to the town by a Hampden family.

Senior Center Director Becky Moriarty agrees that community spirit flourishes in all segments of the population. “Hampden is an amazing town, and I have been very fortunate to work here for 12 years. The Senior Center community is like one big family, and our building is like a home away from home,” she said.

However, she concurs that efforts to procure funding for services and amenities to improve the lives of residents has to be aggressive and ongoing in order for the town to continue to offer the lifestyle residents enjoy today.

“The budget we receive from the town is not always enough, so supplementing it with grant funds is how we fill in the financial gaps,” Moriarty explained, as she listed grants the senior center received within the past year.

They include an annual Formula Grant from the Executive Office of Elder Affairs that pays for a part-time activities coordinator; Title IIIB grant funding from Greater Springfield Senior Services, which pays for a portion of the outreach coordinator’s salary; a grant from the Hampden Cultural Council that was used to provide entertainment at a celebratory event; and a grant from the Mass. Assoc. of Councils on Aging that allowed the center to offer an Aging Mastery Program, which is a health and wellness initiative.

Budynkiewicz cited other examples of how the town benefits from grants and outside funding.

“Two years ago, the Hampden Health Coalition purchased a trailer for the Board of Health that costs $5,234, and we were able to fill it with emergency-preparedness equipment, which includes cots, blankets, pillows, medical supplies, and personal-care kits, with state funding,” she noted. “As a result, if we have a major power outage, I can call the fire or police department and have them tow the trailer to a designated site and have a shelter equipped in less than an hour.”

She also just received news that an application for a $1,400 grant for the transfer station was approved by the Mass. Dept. of Environmental Protection. “We want to use it to put up new signage and look into recycling bins,” she said.

Cost-saving measures are also adopted by every town department whenever there is opportunity to do so. “We take advantage of discount pricing for natural gas and gasoline by participating in a county-wide contract,” Flynn said, while the Select Board belongs to a regional group that includes representatives from Wilbraham, East Longmeadow, Longmeadow, and Ludlow, who share ideas to promote growth, increase revenue, and reduce the price tag associated with running their towns.

Graybar Electric recently contacted town officials and offered to help obtain energy-efficient lightbulbs through a Department of Energy Resources grant program. “We were approved for 565 free, energy-efficient lamps for the Town Hall and anticipate they will save us $525 a year,” said Select Board Administrative Assistant Pamela Courtney.

She agrees that town employees are very dedicated, and cited a few examples of their laudatory commitment.

“Eva Wiseman, who is the town clerk and tax collector, is always looking for ways to reduce costs in her office, which she achieves by doing much of the work herself, rather than contracting it out. And the Board of Health coordinator [Budynkiewicz] employs every tactic she can to get the best prices on anything that needs to be purchased for the town and continually goes above and beyond to work for the 5,000-plus bosses who employ all of us on a daily basis,” Courtney said, referring to the residents.

“In fact, the employees of the town of Hampden always do more than is expected from them, particularly when it comes to providing good service and saving money,” she went on. “We live in the town, so it behooves us to work hard to manage our budgets well.”

Gaining Ground

Flynn said residential growth is beginning again after being stalled by the economy for years, and two homes in a 20-lot subdivision were sold last year. A new church is also planned, and the wide range of benefits the community offers is expected to continue.

“We don’t just give lip service to the idea of doing more,” he said. “We believe we have the best roads in the area and great schools, which all adds up to a source of tremendous community pride.”

Hampden at a glance

Year Incorporated: 1878
Population: 5,139 (2010) 
Area: 19.7 square miles 
County: Hampden 
Residential Tax Rate: $18 .00
Commercial Tax Rate: $18.00
Median Household Income: $65,662
Family Household Income: $75,407
Type of government: Select Board
Largest Employers: Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District, Rediker Software Inc., Hampden Police Department

* Latest information available

Building Permits

Building Permits Departments

The following building permits were issued during the month of October 2014.

CHICOPEE

A-1 Snow Machine Products
717 Fuller Road
$29,000 — Reroof

City of Chicopee
277 Front St.
$318,000 — Remodel bleachers and add a handicap ramp

Griffith Road, LLP
218 Griffith Road
$80,000 — Renovate second-floor office

WE 77 Champion, LLC
77 Champion St.
$796,000 — Interior renovations and exterior concrete pad

LUDLOW

Yogurt City
221 East St.
$25,000 — Alterations

NORTHAMPTON

D.A. Sullivan and Sons Inc.
82 North St.
$60,000 — Interior tenant fit out

Matthew Pitoniak
193 Main St.
$59,000 — Build out for Subway

Northampton City Hall
210 Main St.
$6,000 — Install new granite landing and step in the front of City Hall

Pulaski Park Academy of Music
274 Main St.
$183,000 — Repair fire escape

Veteran’s Administration Hospital
425 North Main St.
$5,700,000 — Construction of four buildings for residential units

Windhorse Associates
211 North St.
$68,000 — Office renovation

Wright Builders
74 Village Hill Road
$1,492,000 — Construct two-story townhouse condominiums

SOUTH HADLEY

Loomis Village
246 North Main St.
$35,000 — Repairs

L.P.M. Partnership
314 Newton St.
$10,000 — Roof work

Mount Holyoke College
50 College St.
$32,000 — Build stairs

Mount Holyoke College
50 College St.
$16,500 — Renovations at Clapp Hall

SPRINGFIELD

Sprint
400 Taylor St.
$1,400,000 — Renovate generator room and replace generators

WESTFIELD

City of Westfield
45 Noble St.
$1,324,625 — Construction of a new senior center

Reed Hall Holding, LLC
29 School St.
$4,000 — Renovation for storage area

WEST SPRINGFIELD

380 Union Street, LLC
380 Union St.
$56,000 — New roof system

Bob’s Court Apartments
2073 Riverdale Road
$18,000 — Strip and re-roof

Medallion Motel
18 River St.
$4,000 — Rebuild stairs on the front of building

Real Estate Transactions

The following real estate transactions (latest available) were compiled by Banker & Tradesman and are published as they were received. Only transactions exceeding $115,000 are listed. Buyer and seller fields contain only the first name listed on the deed.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

ASHFIELD

1517 Cape St.
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Anne Schermerhorn
Seller: Kabaniec, Cynthia A., (Estate)
Date: 09/17/14

BERNARDSTON

238 Fox Hill Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $327,500
Buyer: W. S. McMillan
Seller: Karen D. Murphy-Davis
Date: 09/12/14

94 South St.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $252,500
Buyer: Kristina J. Bergeron
Seller: Matthew J. Heilman
Date: 09/12/14

COLRAIN

56 Thibodeau Dr.
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Brian D. Gilbert
Seller: Russell F. Gilbert
Date: 09/11/14

CONWAY

Route 116
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $359,000
Buyer: Karen A. Dunphy
Seller: Edwin A. Rose
Date: 09/19/14

DEERFIELD

38 Eastern Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Thomas Vega
Seller: Karen B. Phillips
Date: 09/16/14

18 Settright Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $212,000
Buyer: Gene L. Divincenzo
Seller: Frederick E. Wissmann
Date: 09/08/14

GILL

74 French King Hwy.
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $750,000
Buyer: Taggart NT
Seller: David L. Manning
Date: 09/15/14

GREENFIELD

335 Adams Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $228,718
Buyer: Brian Kleeberg
Seller: James H. Wright
Date: 09/08/14

337 Adams Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $228,718
Buyer: Brian Kleeberg
Seller: James H. Wright
Date: 09/08/14

93 Conway St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: John V. Crowe
Seller: Raymond F. Yarmac
Date: 09/12/14

5-7 Osgood St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Michael L. Audet
Seller: Kenneth R. Hubbard
Date: 09/08/14

73 Thayer Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Kurt W. Seaman
Seller: Gregory J. King
Date: 09/12/14

107 Vernon St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Karen D. Murphy-Davis
Seller: Kurt W. Seaman
Date: 09/12/14

104 Wildwood Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Matthew R. Smith
Seller: Charlotte A. Baker
Date: 09/18/14

LEVERETT

412 Long Plain Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $259,900
Buyer: Gregory S. Spiridopoulos
Seller: FNMA
Date: 09/11/14

MONTAGUE

36 Davis St.
Montague, MA 01301
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Nicholas J. Wyman
Seller: Jon Wyman
Date: 09/18/14

15 Old Northfield Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Wanamaker
Seller: Casey S. Ryan
Date: 09/15/14

NEW SALEM

60 Stone Hill Road
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $209,000
Buyer: John Desrosiers
Seller: FNMA
Date: 09/11/14

ORANGE

25 2nd St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $197,500
Buyer: Joshua A. Dasilva
Seller: Troy M. Kelly
Date: 09/12/14

SHELBURNE

3 Allen Road
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Vicki L. Martin
Seller: Dorothy F. Page
Date: 09/10/14

SHUTESBURY

88 Shore Dr.
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Joshua A. Kingsbury
Seller: David Price
Date: 09/16/14

WARWICK

65 Royalston Road
Warwick, MA 01378
Amount: $152,069
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Sam Nussenblatt
Date: 09/16/14

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

76 Birch Hill Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $293,000
Buyer: John W. Saulenas
Seller: Edward J. Loguidice
Date: 09/16/14

37-39 Bridge St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Liliya Zimokha
Seller: Nikolay Fronchkevich
Date: 09/11/14

12 Centerwood Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Erol Kumas
Seller: Frank A. Rueli
Date: 09/19/14

46-48 Cooley St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $165,659
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Ann C. Fluet
Date: 09/18/14

39 Hunting Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $299,500
Buyer: Douglas A. Leblanc
Seller: Diane R. Flagg
Date: 09/08/14

86 Ottawa St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Yan F. Zhao
Seller: PHH Mortgage Corp.
Date: 09/12/14

86 Peros Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $211,000
Buyer: Epathea D. Litmer
Seller: Eric M. Hollander
Date: 09/15/14

137 Suffield St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $181,500
Buyer: Sean R. Clark
Seller: Wayne D. Vangsness
Date: 09/12/14

230 Valley Brook Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $271,000
Buyer: David R. Gallerani
Seller: Robert J. Peters
Date: 09/12/14

BLANDFORD

63 Main St.
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Susan E. Arkoette
Seller: Alyshia J. Horvath
Date: 09/10/14

BRIMFIELD

47 Cubles Dr.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: 47 Cubles Drive TR
Seller: Mary L. Buss
Date: 09/08/14

8 Dix Hill Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $302,500
Buyer: Sandra L. Messenger
Seller: Lynne Powel
Date: 09/08/14

Prospect Hill Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: W. S. Gerrish
Seller: Dorothy H. Gerrish
Date: 09/17/14

CHICOPEE

11 Call St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Fairview Fence Inc.
Seller: Ernest J. Bovat
Date: 09/19/14

5 Cochran St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $186,962
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Shawn O. Merriman
Date: 09/12/14

18 Fanwood Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Wesley Gumlaw
Seller: David E. Ruffner
Date: 09/11/14

28 Fisher St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Nicholas White
Seller: Patrycia C. Witwicki
Date: 09/15/14

71 Florence St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $148,400
Buyer: Roseanne P. Brewer
Seller: Richard Szydziak
Date: 09/16/14

75 McCarthy Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Daniel L. Thumm
Seller: Gregoire, Cecile M., (Estate)
Date: 09/19/14

23 Mount Vernon Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $142,500
Buyer: Damon C. Ritter
Seller: Daniel J. Pawlowski
Date: 09/15/14

21 Narragansett Blvd.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Orlando Cornier
Seller: Alex Vilkhovoy
Date: 09/15/14

90 Parenteau Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: James P. Pagan
Seller: David J. St.Lawrence
Date: 09/10/14

57 Ridgewood Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: John M. Fitzgerald
Seller: Diane J. Bourdeau
Date: 09/12/14

788 Sheridan St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: A&C Fernandes LLC
Seller: Tim Dee Rainey Investments LLC
Date: 09/17/14

42 Simone Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $202,000
Buyer: Nathan Staples
Seller: Brandon A. Warren
Date: 09/10/14

123 Wheatland Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $143,000
Buyer: Michael S. Duffus
Seller: Mitchell Nowak
Date: 09/12/14

58 Woodlawn St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Linda Theriault
Seller: George J. Giokas
Date: 09/15/14

EAST LONGMEADOW

82 Avery St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $233,500
Buyer: Kelly S. Macneil
Seller: Jennifer E. Maurer
Date: 09/19/14

27 Betterley Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Christopher F. Conboy
Seller: Bretta Construction LLC
Date: 09/11/14

Capri Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $139,900
Buyer: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction
Seller: Bella Vista Land Holdings
Date: 09/09/14

38 Gerrard Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $199,000
Buyer: 38 Gerrard Ave. LLC
Seller: John F. Mahan
Date: 09/18/14

1 Parker St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: James M. Georgantas
Seller: Walter R. Clune
Date: 09/10/14

371 Pease Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $374,900
Buyer: Hung T. Tu
Seller: Thomas J. Franciosa
Date: 09/15/14

Pembroke Terrace
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $117,000
Buyer: Italo Santaniello
Seller: Brian S. Hampson
Date: 09/15/14

15 Sanford St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Raymond F. Wheeler
Seller: Donald W. Carrington
Date: 09/12/14

190 Somers Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Chad P. Herrick
Seller: Englewood Investment LLC
Date: 09/11/14

GRANVILLE

847 Main Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $300,500
Buyer: Eric Jones
Seller: Jose A. Rivera
Date: 09/10/14

HAMPDEN

14 Echo Valley Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Michela L. Paolucci
Seller: Bryan M. Blair
Date: 09/08/14

45 Mill Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Kimberly A. Varandas
Seller: Irene M. Varandas
Date: 09/15/14

HOLLAND

27 Candlewood Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Richard C. Heineman
Seller: Hampden Bank
Date: 09/19/14

65 Stafford Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $138,154
Buyer: Bank New York Mellon
Seller: Alexander A. Haney
Date: 09/15/14

7 Waterfront Way
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Gerard A. Rocchi
Seller: Kim R. Lawlor
Date: 09/12/14

HOLYOKE

4 Applewood Lane
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Amy Rodriguez
Seller: Andrzej S. Ciborowski
Date: 09/19/14

2 Brenan St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $159,000
Buyer: Justine L. Nugent
Seller: Robert J. Wing
Date: 09/15/14

4 Burns Way
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Gary C. Hammer
Seller: Roxanne F. Maranda
Date: 09/12/14

89 Jarvis Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $245,025
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Celester Sullivan
Date: 09/12/14

185 Mountain View Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Ryan McMahon
Seller: Donna L. Rickerby
Date: 09/17/14

459 Rock Valley Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Thomas J. Cirelli
Seller: Donald J. Damato
Date: 09/15/14

84 Vermont St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $233,000
Buyer: Tamer Ramadan
Seller: Bruno Braglia
Date: 09/12/14

LONGMEADOW

26 Burbank Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $144,000
Buyer: Richard M. Anderson
Seller: Susan A. Anderson
Date: 09/17/14

31-33 Chandler Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Matthew R. Desmarais
Seller: Mary J. Harrison
Date: 09/12/14

147 Hillcrest Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $329,250
Buyer: Matthew J. Zick
Seller: Jeffrey Adams
Date: 09/16/14

12 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $270,300
Buyer: Joseph P. Gasparini
Seller: Devon J. Walterscheid
Date: 09/18/14

259 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $415,500
Buyer: Robert C. Henry
Seller: Susan J. Hall
Date: 09/15/14

88 Meadowlark Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $242,500
Buyer: Gary B. Mantolesky
Seller: Thomas M. Scanlon
Date: 09/19/14

177 Yarmouth St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Lorin Kelleher
Seller: Ruth G. Sandow
Date: 09/10/14

LUDLOW

28 Brewster St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Steven R. Gran
Seller: Kulewicz, Helen E., (Estate)
Date: 09/16/14

7 Eden St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Chrysti L. Orchulek
Seller: Richard D. Orchulek
Date: 09/11/14

53 Helene St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Maria S. Pereira
Seller: Antonio L. Balbino
Date: 09/15/14

Parker Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $129,900
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 09/18/14

201 Wedgewood Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $287,500
Buyer: Porfirio Martins
Seller: Carlos A. Vaz
Date: 09/12/14

MONSON

155 Brimfield Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: David J. Doyle
Seller: Jose E. Martinez
Date: 09/12/14

60 East Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Matthew P. Santucci
Seller: William R. Arment
Date: 09/12/14

51 Lakeside Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $595,000
Buyer: Frederick S. Kadushin
Seller: Andrew Jaffee
Date: 09/19/14

137 Maxwell Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $116,000
Buyer: Alyssa Boudreau
Seller: Swanson, Carl A., (Estate)
Date: 09/12/14

PALMER

2004-A&B Calkins Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Cheryl P. Soper
Seller: Koprek, Barbara J., (Estate)
Date: 09/18/14

11 Christine St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Randall E. Paxton
Seller: Nathan J. Smith
Date: 09/12/14

6 Deborah St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Rosetta Piecuch
Seller: Bank New York Mellon
Date: 09/18/14

145 Peterson Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Edward H. Lamothe
Seller: Kim L. Miller
Date: 09/19/14

RUSSELL

59 Raymur Dr.
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $116,667
Buyer: Kenneth M. Hawk
Seller: Kenneth M. Hawk
Date: 09/08/14

SPRINGFIELD

172 Bacon Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $157,500
Buyer: Lesley A. Ramirez
Seller: Liza M. Rivas
Date: 09/18/14

42-44 Beauchamp St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Jenson Bermudez
Seller: Robert J. Wihbey
Date: 09/16/14

81 Bessemer St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Olga L. Yanginski
Seller: Morneau, Adelyn M., (Estate)
Date: 09/19/14

400 Cadwell Dr.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $1,425,000
Buyer: Palmer Paving Corp.
Seller: Bassette Realty LLC
Date: 09/10/14

15 Catharine St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $2,764,200
Buyer: City Of Springfield
Seller: Early Childhood Centers
Date: 09/15/14

35 Clement St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $189,500
Buyer: Daniel M. Billingsley
Seller: Sylena Echevarria
Date: 09/19/14

37 Denwall Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: James P. Ferris
Seller: Sara E. Courchesne
Date: 09/19/14

58-60 Enfield St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $133,000
Buyer: Paul M. Pereira
Seller: Adelia M. Pedro
Date: 09/19/14

46 Ferncliff Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Lucila J. Santana
Seller: Rickus, Robert M., (Estate)
Date: 09/16/14

17 Gary Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $123,000
Buyer: Elena R. Goodrow
Seller: Norman G. Morin
Date: 09/15/14

125 Granger St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $144,000
Buyer: Mark E. Pariseau
Seller: Zeker RT
Date: 09/12/14

30 Grattan St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: David A. Sanders
Seller: AJN Rentals LLC
Date: 09/19/14

105 Harkness Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Michael Davenport
Seller: Garrett R. McDonald
Date: 09/15/14

130-132 Laconia St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $161,000
Buyer: Daniel Stodulski
Seller: David R. Kotfila
Date: 09/08/14

51 Lakevilla Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Sandra Rivera
Seller: Gary Decoteau
Date: 09/19/14

46 Lancaster St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Ralph V. Angeli
Seller: Kimberly B. Cass
Date: 09/12/14

15 Lawndale St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $141,534
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Christopher D. Broughton
Date: 09/17/14

1070 Liberty St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $125,958
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Erica N. Larner
Date: 09/10/14

137 Millbrook Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Dayaliz Cruz
Seller: Timothy Willetts
Date: 09/19/14

213 Morton St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Leon Jackson
Seller: DNB Assets Inc.
Date: 09/08/14

39 Oregon St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $156,500
Buyer: Tom A. Callard
Seller: Pasqualina D. Cignoli
Date: 09/17/14

77 Oregon St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Markus M. Neugebauer
Seller: Jeffrey A. Nadeau
Date: 09/19/14

1433 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Yolette M. James-Miller
Seller: Ziyu Xu
Date: 09/12/14

19 Parkerview St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $146,500
Buyer: Ekow A. Bortsie
Seller: Megan Ford
Date: 09/12/14

78 Princeton St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $129,000
Buyer: Katrika N. Joseph-James
Seller: Eleonore M. Shell
Date: 09/16/14

48 Rencelau St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Celeste Valdes
Seller: Constance J. Mahoney
Date: 09/17/14

30 Sanderson St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: JP Morgan Chase Bank
Seller: Whitman Properties Inc.
Date: 09/19/14

106 South Shore Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Patrick Burke
Seller: George St.Pierre
Date: 09/12/14

227 Spikenard Circle
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $131,000
Buyer: David A. Aponte
Seller: Whitney, Gene C. Jr., (Estate)
Date: 09/15/14

27 Timothy Circle
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $119,900
Buyer: Jerry J. Forbes
Seller: Clarice M. Hackett
Date: 09/19/14

83 Vann St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $177,500
Buyer: Ryan A. Brown
Seller: Deborah A. Roe
Date: 09/16/14

52 West Bay Path Terrace
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Regina M. Woods
Seller: Roberto Nieves
Date: 09/08/14

11-13 Wait St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $153,287
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Robert J. Hagberg
Date: 09/12/14

106 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Martin Luther King Jr. Family Services
Seller: Presbytery of Southern New England
Date: 09/17/14

65 Wilshire Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $178,233
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Jorge Sepulveda
Date: 09/10/14

57 Woodland Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $231,500
Buyer: Frederick J. Hill
Seller: Christopher Allsop
Date: 09/16/14

SOUTHWICK

6 Evergreen St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Samuel J. Rickless
Seller: Eric J. Lazarin
Date: 09/10/14

20 Gableview
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $538,000
Buyer: Emmanuel J. Avgoustakis
Seller: Edward R. Schultz
Date: 09/12/14

282 Granville Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $191,500
Buyer: James T. Nelson
Seller: Hamann, Sandra J., (Estate)
Date: 09/18/14

7 Veteran St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $159,900
Buyer: Trista L. Casey
Seller: Mount Tekoa Group LLC
Date: 09/17/14

WALES

23 Holland Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $186,663
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Jeffrey J. Brady
Date: 09/15/14

WEST SPRINGFIELD

45 Abigaile Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $411,000
Buyer: David C. Lucia
Seller: Cardinal Homes Inc.
Date: 09/18/14

742 Amostown Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $253,000
Buyer: Joseph M. Labranche
Seller: Olga L. Yaginski
Date: 09/19/14

16 Bonair Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Justin H. Carr
Seller: Scott D. Beliveau
Date: 09/12/14

31 Exeter St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $214,066
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Daniel G. Sullivan
Date: 09/19/14

40 Johnson St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Nicholas M. Belanger
Seller: Jeremy D. Cushing
Date: 09/11/14

23 Kelso Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $125,900
Buyer: Steven Dionne
Seller: Mark W. Holden
Date: 09/12/14

96 Labelle St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $127,916
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Shawn J. Weaver
Date: 09/11/14

190 Laurel Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Lindsey V. Marek
Seller: Karen L. Graziano
Date: 09/18/14

1900 Westfield St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Heritage Ventures LLC
Seller: Deutsche Bank
Date: 09/09/14

166 Woodbrook Terrace
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Sylena Echevarria
Seller: Beverly J. Lodi
Date: 09/19/14

WESTFIELD

23 Allen Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,050
Buyer: Carlos L. Nunez
Seller: Scott P. Martell
Date: 09/15/14

51 Blueberry Ridge
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Kimberly B. Cass
Seller: Mark A. Stewart
Date: 09/12/14

12 Columbia St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $153,000
Buyer: Tatyana Oleynik
Seller: Arthur W. Purdy
Date: 09/09/14

24 Cornish Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Deryck C. Auger
Seller: Luigi P. Dellaluna
Date: 09/15/14

5 Grandview Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $196,000
Buyer: Petro Kabysh
Seller: Jason W. Garvulenski
Date: 09/18/14

3 Locust St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Michael C. Ogilvie
Seller: Clapp, Leona, (Estate)
Date: 09/15/14

658 Montgomery Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Crane
Seller: Eloise H. Adair
Date: 09/08/14

25 Rita Mary Way
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $425,001
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Kenneth J. Czuchra
Date: 09/18/14

Sackett Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Francis A. Friguglietti
Seller: Northwest Realty LLC
Date: 09/17/14

7 Taylor Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $249,900
Buyer: Joshua M. Cline
Seller: Anatoliy Vavreshchuk
Date: 09/08/14

7 Tow Path Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Anthony Ford
Seller: Josephine Nardacci
Date: 09/12/14

28 Woodbridge Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: Paula Ribeiro
Seller: Alyssa M. Goodreau
Date: 09/19/14

WILBRAHAM

100 3 Rivers Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Richard N. Jones
Seller: Michael W. Dane
Date: 09/19/14

41 Cypress Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $457,114
Buyer: Michael R. Boilard
Seller: Mile Oak Land Holdings
Date: 09/18/14

11 Harness Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Anthony E. Poindexter
Seller: Edward C. Murphy
Date: 09/15/14

3 Oakridge Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $219,000
Buyer: Cecelia M. Arsenault
Seller: Thomas P. O’Connor
Date: 09/18/14

4 South Park Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Scott J. Arel
Seller: Hellyar, Eleanor M., (Estate)
Date: 09/18/14

41 Stonegate Circle
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $413,000
Buyer: Daniel P. Joyce
Seller: John E. Fulton
Date: 09/18/14

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

422 Belchertown Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $30,250,000
Buyer: BC Rolling Green LLC
Seller: GPT RG Amherst LLC
Date: 09/10/14

106 Glendale Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Edwin Osorio
Seller: Lisa M. Khanna
Date: 09/12/14

5 Hartman Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Peter G. Talmage
Seller: Shirley R. Pion
Date: 09/16/14

22 Hickory Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $369,900
Buyer: Cheryl E. Mattocks
Seller: JN Duquette & Son Construction
Date: 09/15/14

785 Main St.
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Historic Renovations
Seller: Holness, Evadne, (Estate)
Date: 09/18/14

143 Pondview Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $329,900
Buyer: Alison L. McCoy
Seller: Daniel M. Melley
Date: 09/15/14

BELCHERTOWN

391 Bardwell St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Wayne G. Conant
Seller: James S. Dean
Date: 09/19/14

272 Bay Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $271,500
Buyer: Kenneth W. Douglas
Seller: A. S. Christianson
Date: 09/16/14

151 Chauncey Walker St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Cynthia L. Girard
Seller: Diane M. Neill
Date: 09/11/14

38 Eugene Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Thomas W. Peavey
Seller: Johnson FT
Date: 09/12/14

586 George Hannum Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Kevin M. Cote
Seller: Cheryl A. Smith
Date: 09/08/14

17 Oakwood Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: Donna J. Kelley
Seller: Kathryn C. Wood
Date: 09/09/14

44 Old Sawmill Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: James S. Dean
Seller: Richard W. Boughton
Date: 09/19/14

244 Rockrimmon St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Sean P. Ahearn
Seller: Mary Forcier
Date: 09/18/14

CHESTERFIELD

145 South St.
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Thomas J. Janik
Seller: Daniel R. Meehan
Date: 09/15/14

EASTHAMPTON

11 Chestnut St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $243,825
Buyer: Daniel Berrien
Seller: Mary O’Brien Irons RET
Date: 09/18/14

84 Garfield Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $273,000
Buyer: Melinda N. Grant
Seller: David C. Deswert
Date: 09/16/14

19 Kania St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Stephen E. Lapienski
Seller: Jason Johnson
Date: 09/15/14

106 Lovefield St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $166,071
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Scott E. Young
Date: 09/18/14

57 Northampton St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Shira J. Simon
Seller: Andrew M. Dunn
Date: 09/16/14

16 Saint James Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Kay L. Badgett
Seller: Koing Taing
Date: 09/18/14

19 Willow Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Jessica A. Lucia
Seller: Crown Meadow Corp.
Date: 09/12/14

GOSHEN

47 Fuller Road
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Marcus L. Soifer
Seller: Jason T. McMahon
Date: 09/08/14

GRANBY

124 Carver St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $321,000
Buyer: Michael J. Thornton
Seller: Jason T. Thobodeau
Date: 09/17/14

4 Jackielyn Circle
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $174,887
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Mercedes A. Hunter
Date: 09/10/14

129 North St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Tyler E. Scheinost
Seller: Dianne L. Berrelli
Date: 09/18/14

126 School St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Carl M. Deprey
Seller: Karen Ellard
Date: 09/12/14

HADLEY

370 River Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $389,900
Buyer: Daniel E. Holcomb
Seller: Valley Building Co. Inc.
Date: 09/19/14

HATFIELD

8 Day Ave.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Nicole M. Skorupski
Seller: Gary M. Kuchyt
Date: 09/19/14

38 King St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $336,000
Buyer: Karen L. White
Seller: Yagodzinski, C. J. Jr., (Estate)
Date: 09/19/14

3 Pine Edge Way
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Dorothy J. Yagodzinski
Seller: John G. Knight
Date: 09/19/14

361 West St.
Hatfield, MA 01066
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Elizabeth J. Widner
Seller: Mary G. Sullivan
Date: 09/16/14

HUNTINGTON

128 Goss Hill Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Jason T. McMahon
Seller: Timothy J. Crane
Date: 09/08/14

47 Old Chester Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Yelena Goretskiy
Seller: James E. Greene
Date: 09/12/14

NORTHAMPTON

8 5th Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Alison Hopkins
Seller: Jessica L. Berrien
Date: 09/18/14

256 Bridge Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Frederic Siegel
Seller: James A. Santospago
Date: 09/15/14

575 Bridge Road #G6
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Kimberly Talbot
Seller: Elizabeth A. Sloan
Date: 09/10/14

174 Chestnut St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $277,500
Buyer: Sandra L. Berchulski
Seller: Jacqueline P. Lapienski
Date: 09/15/14

18 East St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Allison T. Flynn
Seller: Scott P. O’Connor
Date: 09/10/14

37 Evergreen Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $351,000
Buyer: Elizabeth A. Codding
Seller: Debra Orgera
Date: 09/10/14

182 King St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: Suffolk Street RT
Seller: Nuger Realty LLC
Date: 09/17/14

98 Market St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $298,000
Buyer: Valley Building Co. Inc.
Seller: Peter J. Martula
Date: 09/19/14

48 Marshall St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $271,500
Buyer: Erotides S. Silva
Seller: Nilanjana Dasgupta
Date: 09/12/14

28 North Maple St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Southpaw Properties LLC
Seller: Treasure Towers LLC
Date: 09/09/14

117 Riverbank Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Vinayak Ramanan
Seller: Rosemund LLC
Date: 09/19/14

87 Spruce Hill Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Scott P. O’Connor
Seller: Lacasse FT
Date: 09/10/14

35 West Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $194,500
Buyer: Laura Linck
Seller: Michelle E. Birrell
Date: 09/11/14
16 Walnut St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Stephen L. Kowalczyk
Seller: Jeffrey Shotland
Date: 09/08/14

PLAINFIELD

91 Pleasant St.
Plainfield, MA 01070
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Keith R. Bohonowicz
Seller: Guyette, Margaret A., (Estate)
Date: 09/12/14

SOUTH HADLEY

598 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $219,000
Buyer: Diane Anthony
Seller: Joan Maciver
Date: 09/15/14

5 Lynch Place
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $125,874
Buyer: USA VA
Seller: Aydin B. Brannon
Date: 09/17/14

4 Marcel St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Sara B. Dugas
Seller: John C. Hotham
Date: 09/19/14

SOUTHAMPTON

5 Jeanne Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Jason E. Johnson
Seller: Jeffrey J. Hines
Date: 09/10/14

Old Harvest Road #6
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Lauryn E. Malanowski
Seller: Triple 7 LLC
Date: 09/17/14

Old Harvest Road #8
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: L. P. Audette Builders Inc.
Seller: Triple 7 LLC
Date: 09/17/14

WESTHAMPTON

63 Pine Island Lake
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: C.C.H. Faith LLC
Seller: Carol A. Tumey
Date: 09/15/14

WILLIAMSBURG

13 Cole Road
Williamsburg, MA 01039
Amount: $352,475
Buyer: Ruth J. Oland
Seller: Donna J. Hansen
Date: 09/11/14

5 Old Goshen Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $203,000
Buyer: Theresa A. Tangredi
Seller: Steven H. Bridgens
Date: 09/10/14

WORTHINGTON

16 Old Post Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Michael P. Frazier
Seller: Thomas F. Cizek
Date: 09/12/14

2 Packard Park
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Michael P. Frazier
Seller: Thomas F. Cizek
Date: 09/12/14

Doing Business as Certificates

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of October 2014.

AGAWAM

2 Moms with a Mop
71 Oak Lane
Nancy Gentile

Best Choice Self Defense
80 Ramah Circle
Antonne B. Mathes

FreshRide, LLC
75 Anvil St.
Nicholas Noto

Majestic Transportation
1 South End Bridge Circle
James McKoy

Marshfellows
562 Springfield St.
Autumn Silva

CHICOPEE

Cabral Concrete by Design
208 Granby Road
Kevin Cabral

Crosstown Courier Service Inc.
165 Front St.
Christopher Noyes

Hannah’s Closet
477 Britton St.
Lindsay Haesqert

KJR Landscaping
15 East St.
Kevin Belder

The Hair Team
19 White Birch Plaza
Maxime Partyka

HOLYOKE

ABC Mini Store
621 South Canal St.
Robert J. Cell

ADK Improvements
120 Front St.
Edward Owen
Cecy’s Café
330 Whitey Ave.
Cecilia G. Perry

Finish Line
50 Holyoke St.
Edward Wilhelm

Jag D
14 Greenwood Ave.
James P. Watson

Lady Boutique
254 Maple St.
Iris Sanchez

Toys R’ Us Express
50 Holyoke St.
Gary W. Hunt

LUDLOW

Butler Carpet Cleaning
23 Cady St.
Carl Mesheau

Royal Paving Construction
196 Rood St.
Peter Fernandes

Wow Bela
255 East St.
Suzette Batista

NORTHAMPTON

Holy Cow Online Marketing
71 Oleander Dr.
Lawrence Daniele

Rayton Logging
331 Burts Pitt Road
Peter Rayton

Ryan’s Jewelers
14 Strong Ave.
John Malikowski

The Sierra Grille
41 Strong Ave.
O’Brian Tomalin

Vendant Multicultural Media
63 Rick Dr.
Natalia Munoz

Woodles Restaurant
257 Main St.
Saowanee Pechanupong

SPRINGFIELD

1 Stop Cuts
494 Central St.
Joselito Sanchez

7th Heaven Pest Control
64 Champlain St.
Wilfredo Gonzalez

AMB Production
73 Denver St.
Jordan Alexander

Angel’s Auto Detailing
15 Girard Ave.
Angel M. Rivera

Architectural Home Improvement
68 Euclid Ave.
Dwight Ware

Attain Therapy Fitness
1739 Allen St.
Performance Rehab

B & R Marketing
27 Terrace Lane
Alycia Brown

Bay State Gas Company
2025 Roosevelt Ave.
Robert E. Smith

Bay State Commercial Cleaning
21 Victoria St.
Jacob Kiniry

Booth Usher, LLC
76 Palo Alto Road
Brandon J. Behnk

Buen Provecho Restaurant
30 Fort Pleasant Ave.
Julio DeJesus

Busy B’s Cleaning Service
24 Harmon Ave.
Patricia E. Blomquist

CM Marketing
122 Johnson St.
Craig McRobbie

Caring Pharmacy
377 Belmont Ave.
Vietaz, Inc.

Ciro’s Restaurant
26 Fremont St.
Rose Marconi

Cottage Street Liquors
276 Cottage St.
Virajsinh R. Mahida

Dollar Tree
1101 Boston Road
Dollar Tree, Inc.

Foundation for TJO Animal Hospital
66 Industry Ave.
Thomas J. O’Connor

Fufu’s Beauty Supply
942 State St.
Dine F. Amadou

Furches Performance
406 Oak St.
Brandon J. Furches

Golden Nails Spa
1198 Parker St.
Thi Tai

Heavenly Grooming
1648 Carew St.
Norberto Crespo

J & L Property Improvement
287 El Paso St.
Luz Y. Reyes

Jemm Productions
25 Luden St.
Juan E. Maldonado

WEST SPRINGFIELD

AMZ Transportation
43 Russell St.
Laylo Niyazova

Andy Home Improvement
268 Elm St.
Anibal Montes

A Taste of Lebanon, LLC
553 Main St.
Maher Awkal

Bart Truck Equipment, LLC
358 River St.
James DiClementi

Brock Investigations
51 Park Ave.
John Brock

Carpet & Floor Store
1497 Riverdale St.
Joseph Spano

G.G. Westside Remodeling
13 North Blvd.
Gheorghe Grigoras

JB Wington & Associates
35 Shady Brook Lane
John Smith

Landmark at Monastery Heights
110 Monastery Ave.
Lisa Burke

M.D.S. Complete Cleanout
22 Bascom St.
Matthew D. Sawyer

Natural Nails
244 Memorial Ave.
Minh K. Dang

Normandeau Memorials
1635 Riverdale St.
John Johnson

O’Connell’s Convenience Plus
2044 Riverdale St.
James J. Zoltek

Omniglow, LLC
865 Memorial Ave.
George Stanbury

Shatlot Thai Cuisine
1435 Riverdale St.
Jirawat Ninsri

Shtarker Moving & Storage
203 Circuit Ave.
Robert Kughner

Sprint
1102 Riverdale St.
Sprint Spectrum

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Massachusetts Community Colleges Consortia Awarded $20 Million
BOSTON — A consortia proposal submitted collectively by the 15 community colleges in Massachusetts, led by Massasoit Community College, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for the fourth and final round of federal funding from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant (TAACCCT). The community colleges are advancing a comprehensive approach to addressing the training and educational needs of workers and employers statewide with a focus on articulated pathways to careers in high-growth STEM sectors (science, technology, engineering, and math, as well as advanced manufacturing and healthcare). The $20 million grant is the highest-funded of the 66 awarded in the country by the DOL. The project, titled Guided Pathways to Success in STEM (GPSTEM), will use the national Complete College America Guided Pathways to Success model to assist eligible students in obtaining degrees and certificates in STEM fields. The model focuses on reducing the time to completion of certificates and degree programs, resulting in more students entering employment in the Commonwealth and/or transferring into baccalaureate programs to add to their credentials. During the three-year grant period, 24 STEM degree options and 58 certificate programs will be newly created or significantly enhanced in partnership with business and industry, the Commonwealth’s workforce system, the state universities, and the University of Massachusetts. The project will also build capacity on the highly successful Career & College Navigator model the Massachusetts community colleges designed and implemented during the round-one TAACCCT grant award in 2011. An important part of the round-four initiative will focus on creating collaborative pipelines for students to seamlessly transfer to baccalaureate programs to meet industry demand in certain STEM industry areas. “Creating key pipeline collaborations in the STEM fields in conjunction with the state universities and UMass will serve as a new model for creating comprehensive higher education and industry partnerships in the Commonwealth,” said Bill Hart, executive officer of the Mass. Community Colleges Council of Presidents. The focus is primarily on helping TAA-eligible, unemployed and underemployed workers and veterans enter STEM programs and obtain high-skill, high-wage jobs. However, the funding to implement Complete College America’s GPS model will assist community colleges in infusing additional comprehensive student supports throughout the 15 campuses that will benefit all student populations. “This grant will help our college better prepare students in high-growth areas such as IT, engineering technology, and science,” said Springfield Technical Community College President Ira Rubenzahl. “Working together to secure this significant federal funding is an incredible accomplishment. It’s a wonderful example of how the collaboration and partnerships between the 15 community colleges can benefit our students and the region.”

Construction Employers Add 16,000 Jobs in September
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Construction employers added 16,000 jobs last month, and the sector’s unemployment rate fell to 7%, the lowest rate for September in years, according to an analysis released by Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said the construction-employment gains come as more firms report having a hard time finding enough qualified workers to fill available positions, citing the lack of local vocational training programs, especially at the secondary level. “While we are eager to see even more construction-employment gains, there is no denying the fact that the industry has been in recovery mode for much of the past three years,” said Stephen Sandherr, the association’s CEO. “But the industry won’t be able to keep filling positions if there aren’t enough qualified workers available to fill them.” Construction employment totaled 6,079,000 in September, the highest total since May 2009, with a 12-month gain of 230,000 jobs, or 3.9%, Sandherr noted. Residential building and specialty-trade contractors added a combined 11,800 employees since August and 129,400 (5.9%) over 12 months. Non-residential building and specialty-trade contractors hired a net of 3,700 workers for the month and 100,300 (2.7%) since September 2013. However, heavy and civil-engineering contractors, which perform the majority of public-sector construction, increased their headcount by only 500 in September and 29,000 (3.3%) over the year amid tight government budget conditions. The number of workers who said they looked for work in the past month and had last worked in construction fell to 604,000 in September. The last time the number of unemployed construction workers dropped that low was August 2007, a time when the construction industry was struggling with widespread construction-worker shortages that prompted project delays and increased costs, Sandherr noted.

United Way Announces Resource Development Council Members
SPRINGFIELD — The United Way of Pioneer Valley (UWPV) has announced the slate of volunteers who will serve on its 2014-15 Resource Development Council (RDC), the organization’s volunteer fund-raising arm. It is comprised of a group of volunteer community and business leaders who are committed to the mission of the UWPV. “This is a very exciting time for the United Way. Today’s United Way is immersed in 21st-century fund-raising, 24-hour community impact, seven days a week,” said Steve Lowell, president of Monson Savings Bank and RDC Chair. “Contributions to the United Way have enabled them to impact our community in ways we can only imagine: a student, otherwise unable, graduated from high school; 1,500 children who were homeless started school ready to learn because they received a backpack loaded with school supplies; a family ate nourishing dinners replete with fresh fruits and vegetables; teen pregnancy was reduced; and, after years of living on the financial edge, a woman improved her credit and opened her first bank account.” In addition to Lowell, the United Way of Pioneer Valley Resource Development Council includes Ann Burke, vice president of the Western Mass. Economic Development Council; Shaun Dwyer, first vice president of PeoplesBank; Lisa McMahon of the Westfield State University Foundation; Jeffrey Fialky, attorney with Bacon Wilson, P.C.; Bennet Markens, president of the Markens Group; Denis Gagnon Jr., vice president of Excel Dryer; Susan Mielnikowski, attorney with Cooley Shrair, P.C.; Mathew Geffin, vice president of Webber & Grinnell Insurance Agency; Barbara Moffat, vice president of Marketing/External Affairs for WNEU; Sam Hamner, CFO and principal of Field Eddy; Arlene Putnam, consultant at Putnam Associates; attorney Cynthia Tucker; Carol Katz; and Jeffrey Sullivan.

Springfield Boys & Girls Club Tops Donor Goal
SPRINGFIELD — Peter A. and Melissa Picknelly set a lofty goal for the Springfield Boys & Girls Club recently. If the club could bring in 150 new donors in the month of September, they would donate $15,000 to the cause. Recently, the club announced that it had secured 184 new donors, who contributed a combined total of $9,102. With the Picknellys’ $15,000 donation, the total raised for the month tops $24,000. The couple decided to offer this challenge grant in honor of Peter’s late father, Peter L. Picknelly, former president of Peter Ban Bus Lines, who credited much of his personal and professional success to the lessons he learned at the Springfield Boys & Girls Club as a child. “The club was a big part of my father’s life, from the years he spent there as a child to his time as an active member of its board of directors,” said Peter A. Picknelly, who has been a member of the club’s board of directors for 10 years. “Melissa and I are so pleased to see how the community rallied around the club and helped us reach this goal. My father would be very proud.” Added Sarah Tsitso, executive director of the Springfield Boys & Girls Club, “we are so grateful to all 184 donors who joined us on this journey. It was exciting to have the opportunity to expose a whole new set of people to the important work going on inside the club every day. We can’t thank Peter and Melissa enough for their leadership and generosity. It is truly humbling.” The Springfield Boys & Girls Club has been a mainstay of youth development in the city for more than 123 years. Its afterschool and summer programs focus on the core areas of academic achievement, health and wellness, and good citizenship. The club serves approximately 1,500 at-risk youth, ages 5 to 18, each year.

DevelopSpringfield Announces Grant for Façade Improvements
SPRINGFIELD — DevelopSpringfield announced that it has awarded a $40,000 grant for façade improvements to 1525 Main St., the new downtown location for New England Public Radio (NEPR). The grant is made possible under DevelopSpringfield’s Corridor Storefront Improvement Program, which provides grants of up to $10,000 per storefront for exterior improvements to first-floor businesses located on State and Main streets in Springfield. Improvements to this space included renovations to multiple storefronts to accommodate fit-out of the new headquarters and studios in Springfield. The recently awarded funds were used to revitalize and repair the existing façade and included new windows, doors, and frames, along with reconstruction of some existing window fixtures. NEPR celebrated its grand opening in September. “DevelopSpringfield is proud to partner with NEPR by supporting façade improvements to their new facility on this important Main Street corridor,” said Jay Minkarah, president and CEO of DevelopSpringfield. “The improvements have made a tremendous visual impact and highlight the vibrancy of our downtown.” DevelopSpringfield’s Corridor Storefront Improvement Program was established in 2009 to enhance the visual appeal of State and Main streets while providing assistance to businesses making investments in these two key corridors within the city. For more information on the Corridor Storefront Improvement Program, visit www.developspringfield.com and click on ‘programs,’ or contact Minkarah at (413) 209-8808 or [email protected].

State Officials Promote Workforce Development
SPRINGFIELD — State officials joined U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan this week at Springfield Technical Community College to recognize the Commonwealth’s leadership in developing a robust workforce pipeline to meet the needs of employers across Massachusetts. Perez and Duncan highlighted two rounds of grants, totaling $40 million, awarded to Massachusetts community colleges by the U.S. Department of Labor to further the efforts of Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration to align educational programs at community colleges with the needs of local employers. “Working together, we have strengthened the connections between our campuses, our employers, and our workforce so that each and every one of our students has the opportunity to thrive,” Patrick said. “Community colleges are a critical asset in our strategy to develop a middle-skills workforce for jobs in demand. I’m proud Secretary Perez and Secretary Duncan have recognized our successful model.” The consortium of Massachusetts community colleges awarded in these two grant rounds has drawn national attention for building systems between community colleges, adult-basic-education programs, and workforce-development partners and industry leaders to offer students more training and education programs that better reflect the needs of local industry. To date, 151 degree and certificate programs have been developed or redesigned for accelerated learning, and credentials for 40 programs have been made stackable for more comprehensive certification of skills. Among students who have gone through these programs, 70% attained employment, while 85% completed online credit hours. The latest round of federal funding received by the Massachusetts consortium will focus on reducing the time it takes students to complete certificate and degree programs that lead to careers in high-growth STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) sectors, as well as advanced manufacturing and healthcare. “This type of collaborative effort between our community colleges and our local businesses bridges career and education, allowing the Commonwealth to lead the nation in career development,” said Secretary of Education Matthew Malone. “This vital combination of skills will give our students the competitive edge they will need to succeed in the global workforce.”

Employment Picture Improves Slightly in Massachusetts
BOSTON — The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported that the seasonally unadjusted unemployment rates for August were down in most labor-market areas, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The preliminary statewide unadjusted unemployment rate estimate for August was 6.0%, down 0.1% from July. Over the year, the statewide unadjusted rate was down 1.0% from the August 2013 rate of 70%. During August, the Worcester area recorded a gain in jobs, while the remaining 11 areas for which job estimates are published reported losses. The largest losses occurred in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, and Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury areas. Since August 2013, nine of the 12 areas added jobs, with the largest percentage gains in the Worcester, Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Framingham, and Springfield areas. The Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner, Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, and Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury areas lost jobs. Job losses were impacted by temporary employment disruptions in the retail-trade sector. The seasonally adjusted statewide August unemployment rate was 5.8%, up 0.2% over the month and down 1.4% over the year. The rate was 0.3% below the 6.1% national unemployment rate.

Florence Bank Awards Team Jessica $5,000
BELCHERTOWN — Team Jessica Inc. has been awarded a $5,000 grant from Florence Bank, and will use the funds to support the building of Jessica’s Boundless Playground (JBP), an effort that has been ongoing for the past four years. Once completed, JBP will be the only 100% all-inclusive playground in New England. It has been carefully designed to be a multi-generational activity structure that engages people of all ages and abilities. Every area of the playground caters to those with mobility concerns, while at the same time being fun and engaging for able-bodied people. JBP will also allow wounded veterans in long-term rehab to experience the healing power and simple joy of playing with their own children. The playground will cost more than $475,000 to build. Team Jessica has hosted more than 15 fund-raising events over the past fouryears, and the efforts have raised more than $385,000, including three Community Preservation Act grants totaling $140,000 from the town of Belchertown. This total also includes several independent fund-raisers thatlocal businesses conducted for the project, as well as many large gifts from area organizations. Last month, more than 200 volunteers came together for a weekend build event that culminated in the construction of the majority of the playground structure. “We’re preparing for the final stages of construction — building the ramps, timing the poured-in-place rubber surface — while at the same time still conducting the last round of fund-raising,” said Patti Thornton, Team Jessica’s grant writer. “This grant comes at a perfect time, and we’re so thankful to the community-minded people at Florence Bank.” Florence Bank’s history in community commitment is 140 years deep. No stranger to corporate social responsibility, the bank distributed $1 million to local nonprofits in the past three years alone. For the past 12 years, the bank has been allowing its customers a voice in where donations will be allotted through its Customer’s Choice Community Grants Program. This year, Team Jessica is listed on the online ballot under the category ‘Community Support,’ which can be found at www.florencesavings.com/vote. Paper ballots are located at any Florence Bank. Voting concludes Dec. 31, 2014. “We are excited to be part of this extraordinary effort to bring an all-inclusive playground to Belchertown,” said Florence Bank President and CEO John Heaps Jr. “The enthusiasm and support for this project is overwhelming. We are happy to be part of it.”

Massachusetts Employment Up 9,400 in September
BOSTON — The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported that preliminary estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show Massachusetts added 9,400 jobs in September, for a total preliminary estimate of 3,425,000. The September total unemployment rate was 6.0%, up 0.2% over the August rate. Since September 2013, Massachusetts hasadded a net of 64,100 jobs, with 62,000 jobs added in the private sector. The total unemployment rate for the year is down 1.2% from the September 2013 rate of 7.2%. BLS also revised its August job estimates to a 4,900-job loss from the 5,300-loss previously reported for the month.

Court Dockets

The following is a compilation of recent lawsuits involving area businesses and organizations. These are strictly allegations that have yet to be proven in a court of law. Readers are advised to contact the parties listed, or the court, for more information concerning the individual claims.

CHICOPEE DISTRICT COURT
Atlantic Charter Insurance Co. v. Eagle Transit, LLC
Allegation: Non-payment of workers’ compensation premiums: $5,143
Filed: 9/19/24

Northeast IT Systems Inc. v. D & D Masonry & Chimney
Allegation: Non-payment of equipment and services: $1,300+
Filed: 9/18/14

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Mark T. Laramee v. Lisa Mackechnie and Vesuvio, LLC d/b/a Carpaccio
Allegation: Default on agreement: $295,457.23
Filed: 8/14/14

Mary Ellen Morisette v. Westfield Meadows Corp. and John J. Shannon
Allegation: Failure to pay wages: $500,000+
Filed: 8/22/14

Victor Shibley, Kathleen Sweeney, and Canterbury Construction Inc. v. United Bank
Allegation: Violation of consumer protection, negligence, wrongful debit, and breach of contract: $815,000+
Filed: 8/13/14

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT
Michael P. Kamenides, as personal representative of the estate of Mark P. Kamenides v. Ryder Funeral Home Inc. and William W. Ryder
Allegation: Breach of contract, interference with a corpse, negligence, and severe emotional distress: $29,305
Filed: 7/18/14

Safety Insurance Co., as subrogee of Thomas and Cynthia Downey v. Rowenta Inc. a/k/a Groupe SEB, USA
Allegation: Product liability causing fire: $585,522.62
Filed: 7/22/14

Saloomey Construction Inc. v. Jet Properties
Allegation: Non-payment of labor and materials: $39,940.60
Filed: 9/3/14

Todd McLeague v. One World Technologies Inc. and Ryobi Technologies Inc.
Allegation: Negligence in the design and manufacture of a circular saw causing injury: $64,900
Filed: 9/19/14

NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT COURT
Easthampton Savings Bank v. David A. Weise d/b/a Weise Design and Construction
Allegation: Breach of contract: $21,000
Filed: 8/11/14

Florence Savings Bank v. Zbignew Kosior d/b/a Kings Hill Construction
Allegation: Monies owed for overdraft and bounced-check fees: $3,016.21
Filed: 8/7/14

Paul Duga v. Bernard F. Shea d/b/a Shea Tree Service
Allegation: Failure to pay rent: $38,000
Filed: 8/5/14

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. NMR Associates Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of workers’ compensation insurance: $9,261.69
Filed: 8/6/14

The Hartford Courant Co. v. Excellence Auto Exchange Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of advertising services rendered: $3,365.00
Filed: 8/19/14

US Foods Inc. v. MGB Inc. d/b/a Electric Café and Margaret Boxold
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $9,137.30
Filed: 8/1/14

Vanguard Mold Remediation Inc. v. DLP Hospitality, LLC and Shailesh D. Patel
Allegation: Non-payment of balance for mold remediation: $17,450
Filed: 8/27/14

2014 Resource Guide Addendum

Sections Supplements

In September, BusinessWest presented its 2014-15 Resource Guide. What follows are needed additions and corrections to the charts that appeared in that issue:

• Changes to Accounting Firms:
Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C.
Services: Management-advisory services; audit and accounting services; multi-state and international taxation; tax planning and return preparation; employee benefit-plan audits; family and independent business services; business valuations; financial planning and wealth management; cost-segregation studies; certified fraud examiners; construction; healthcare; education; not-for-profit; real estate; manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution
Bova, Harrington & Associates, P.C.
Number of CPAs: 7
Number of Partners: 2

• Addition to Audio-Visual/Multi-Media Companies:
Kirby Productions
1 Doane Ave., Agawam, MA 01001
(413) 388-5714; www.kirbyproductions.com
Employees: 1
Services: Full-service HD video production company specializing in writing, videography, and motion design; TV commercials; promotional videos; viral videos; event videos; video blogs; production studio with green screen available
Contact: Al Liptak

• Changes to Auto Dealers:
Balise Chevrolet Buick GMC
General Manager: John Perez
Balise Ford of Wilbraham
General Manager: Charles Dansby

• Addition to Banks in Western Mass.:
Farmington Bank
www.farmingtonbankct.com
Assets: $2,110,028,000
Deposits: $1,513,501,000
Net Income: $3,704,000
Total Equity Capital: $232,209,000
Total Loans and Leases: $1,822,487,000
Commercial Loan Volume: $253,406,000
Secured by Real Estate: $546,350,000
(Figures are year-end 2013. Farmington Bank, based in Connecticut, entered the Massachusetts market in 2014.)

• Change to Colleges with MBA Programs:
Elms College
Contact: Donna Graziano

• Addition to Computer Network/IT Services:
Network Advantage Associates
2098 Roaring Brook Road, Conway, MA 01341
(413) 223-9007; www.net-vantage.com
Contact: Roy Cohen
Service Area: Pioneer Valley
Services: Integrates advanced strategic technologies in small businesses, professional practices, and nonprofits; business continuity/disaster recovery; on- and off-site backup and recovery; information-technology management; systems and network administration; virtualization solutions; custom VoIP solutions; server upgrades and migrations; Enterprise wireless; Google/Oracle solutions

• Addition to Day Spas:
Elements Hot Tub Spa
373 Main St., Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 256-8827; www.elementshottubspa.com
Owners: Jeff and Diana Krauth
Services: State-of-the-art private hot tubs; infrared saunas; aromatherapy steam room; individual and couples massage; advanced therapeutic bodywork modalities; natural facials; spa services
Preferred Product Line: France Laure Natural Care

• Change to Dental Services:
Florence Dental Care
Head of Practice: Benjamin Falk, DDS
Specialties: General and cosmetic dentistry for all ages including tooth-colored fillings, porcelain veneers, and crowns; smile makeovers and ZOOM whitening; preventive care including all phases of gum (periodontal) treatment; comprehensive dental care including root-canal therapy, oral surgery and extractions, dental implants, and bone grafting; digital X-rays and photographs; emergency care

• Addition to Financial Services/Brokerage Firms:
Gage-Wiley & Co. Inc.
120 King St., Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 584-9121; www.gagewiley.com
Licensed Brokers in Western Mass.: 8
Total Licensed Brokers Nationally: 9
Branch Manager: Christopher Milne
Services: Comprehensive wealth management; independent brokerage and investment-advisory services; retirement, estate, and financial planning; life and long-term-care insurance.

• Additions to Home Care Options:
Porchlight VNA/Home Care
32 Park St., Lee, MA 01238
2024 Westover Road, Chicopee, MA 01022
(413) 243-1212; www.porchlighthomecare.org
Director: Holly Chaffee
RN/LPN Care: Yes
Services: Skilled nursing; wound care; infusion therapy; telemonitoring; physical, occupational, and speech therapies; mother/baby care; nutritional counseling; mental-health services; psychiatric nursing; home health aide services; CHF disease management; community health programs
Porchlight Home Care
21 High St., Lee, MA 01238
2024 Westover Road, Chicopee, MA 01022
(413) 243-1122; www.porchlighthomecare.org
Director: Dawn Dewkett
RN/LPN Care: Yes
Services: Care management; personal care attendants; home health aides; certified nursing assistants; homemakers; companionship; live-in services; transportation/door-to-door program; medication reminders; 24-hour care; complimentary assessments; long-term-care planning; 24-hour nurse oversight; home visiting nurse practitioner

• Addition to Insurance Agencies:
John M. Glover Agency
4 Open Square Way, Suite 213, Holyoke, MA 01040
(413) 534-1500; www.johnmglover.com
Full-time Agents: 2
Full-time Employees: 2
Local Offices: 1
Type of Insurance: Property/casualty, auto, home, business, life, health, workers’ comp
Top Local Officials: Kyle Sullivan, John Sullivan

• Change to Insurance Agencies:
The Dowd Insurance Agencies
Type of Insurance: Commercial, personal, life, employee benefits, surety

• Change to Law Firms:
Gove Law Office
Second address: 358 Sewall St., Ludlow, MA 01056
(413) 583-5196; www.govelawoffice.com
Lawyers: 2
Areas of Practice: Business representation; commercial and banking matters; residential and commercial real estate; estate planning and probate administration; landlord/tenant; bankruptcy; personal injury

• Addition to Physical Therapy Outpatient Facilities:
Active Physical Therapy & Wellness, LLC
2301 Boston Road, Wilbraham, MA 01095
(413) 596-5362; www.activeptw.com
Administrator: Patricia O’Brien
Services: Outpatient clinic offering individualized manual therapy treatment for neck and back pain, sports injuries, post-surgery, arthritis, shoulder and knee problems; private treatment rooms; fitness center

• Change to Physical Therapy Outpatient Facilities:
HealthSouth Hospital of Western Massachusetts
Administrator: Victoria Healy

• Addition to Skilled Nursing/PT Facilities:
Life Care Center of Wilbraham
2399 Boston Road, Wilbraham, MA 01095
(413) 596-3111; www.lcca.com/182
Administrator: Dennis Lopata
Services: Subacute and rehabilitation programs provide a bridge between hospital and home; physical, occupational, and speech therapy; orthopedic recovery program; VitalStim therapy for swallowing or dysphagia difficulty; CPI wound care; aquatic-therapy program; long-term and respite care

• Addition to Telecom/Voice/Data Providers:
Network Advantage Associates
2098 Roaring Brook Road, Conway, MA 01341
(413) 223-9007; www.net-vantage.com
Contact: Roy Cohen
Service Area: Pioneer Valley
Services: Integrates advanced strategic technologies in small businesses, professional practices, and nonprofits; business continuity/disaster recovery; on- and off-site backup and recovery; information-technology management; systems and network administration; virtualization solutions; custom VoIP solutions; server upgrades and migrations; Enterprise wireless; Google/Oracle solutions

• Change to Web Development Companies:
Last Call Media
136 West St., Suite 01, Northampton, MA 01060

• Addition to Western Mass. Area Computer Retailers:
Northeast IT Systems Inc.
777B Riverdale St., West Springfield, MA 01089
(413) 527-8090; www.northeastit.net
Employees: 8
Owner/Manager: Joel Mollison
Products/Services: Computer and network equipment sales and service; hardware and software; computer network and IT consulting services for small to midsized businesses and municipalities; firewalls; network security; remote access/VPN; servers; virtualization; VoIP phone systems; backup and disaster recovery; spam filtering

Paragus Among ICIC and Fortune’s Inner City 100 Winners

SPRINGFIELD — The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Fortune announced that Paragus Strategic IT was selected for the 2014 Inner City 100, a list of the fastest-growing inner-city businesses in the U.S.

This year, for the first time in the list’s 16-year history, the Inner City 100 consists of 10 fast-growing businesses from 10 industry categories: construction, manufacturing, professional services, food and beverage, retail, media and communications, software and information technology, transportation and logistics, healthcare and biotechnology, and arts, entertainment, and recreation. Applicants ranked according to revenue growth against their industry peers, as well as overall. Paragus Strategic IT ranked sixth in the software and information-technology category, and 35th overall on the list of 100.

The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner-city businesses and their CEOs as role models for entrepreneurship, innovative business practices, and job creation in America’s urban communities. Paragus Strategic IT, an outsourced IT-solutions business and a nonprofit that trains high-school students in IT, reported 2013 revenues of $3.54 million and a gross growth rate of 328% from 2009 to 2013. The full list of winners can be viewed at fortune.com.

The rankings for each company were announced at the Inner City 100 Awards on Oct. 16 in Boston. Preceding the awards celebration, winners attended a two-day small-business symposium designed exclusively for urban firms featuring business-management case studies presented by Harvard Business School professors, and peer-to-peer learning sessions led by CEOs of fast-growing firms.

The 2014 Inner City 100 winners represent a wide span of geography, hailing from 53 cities and 23 states. The winners grew at an average compound annual growth rate of 39% and an average gross growth rate of 336% between 2009 and 2013. Collectively, the top 100 inner-city businesses employ 8,276 people and created 5,119 new jobs between 2009 and 2013. Not only are the winners powerful job creators in their communities, they also help develop their employees — 73% provide business-skills training, and 69% provide professional-development training to all full-time employees.

“It’s important to recognize businesses like Paragus Strategic IT that are truly driving economic growth and job creation in America’s urban cores,” said Matt Camp, president of ICIC. “We believe that inner cities hold unique competitive advantages for business, and the success of these firms underscores that market opportunity.”

Tickets Selling Fast for Habitat for Humanity Fall Feastival on Nov. 6

By BusinessWest Staff October 17, 2014

WEST SPRINGFIELD — A limited number of tickets are available for the 14th annual Fall Feastival benefiting Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity. The event takes place Thursday, Nov. 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Springfield Country Club, 1375 Elm St., West Springfield. Courtesy valet parking is available.

The evening features a lavish menu provided by 12 of the area’s most popular restaurants, including Chez Josef, the Country Club of Wilbraham, Elegant Affairs, Heartfelt Fine Gifts, Lattitude, theLog Cabin/Delaney House, Nadim’s Mediterranean Restaurant and Grill, Pintu’s Indian Palace, Springfield Country Club, Tekoa Country Club, the Latin Gourmet, and the Magic Spoon.

Guests will have an opportunity to bid on silent and live auction items, including a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame dinner for six prepared by Steve Jackson, former chef for the Chicago Bulls; a one-week Florida escape with four Disney one-day park-hopper passes; Red Sox/Yankees tickets in the Jim Beam Suite at Yankee Stadium; four VIP tickets and backstage passes to the Dropkick Murphys’ St. Patrick’s weekend concert at the House of Blues in Boston; a Napa getaway for two with luxury timeshare condo accommodations; and a backyard barbeque package catered by Log Rolling (Log Cabin/Delaney House) with musical entertainment provided by Pridefalls.

The event’s Gold Sponsor is Babson Capital Management, LLC, while the Silver Sponsor is PeoplesBank. Bronze Sponsors include Consigli Construction; Freedom Credit Union; the Home Builders and Remodelers Assoc. of Western Mass.; Hastings; Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C.; Nicholas LaPier CPA, P.C.; TD Bank; and TNG General Contracting. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available by contacting Jeff LaValley at (413) 739-5503, or [email protected].

Tickets cost $75 per person and are available by registering securely online using a credit card at www.habitatspringfield.org, or by calling (413) 739-5503.

In recognition of the 14th annual Fall Feastival, and of 27 years serving the community and aiding 58 families through home ownership and home-preservation opportunities, Springfield Mayor Dominic Sarno has proclaimed Nov. 6 Greater Springfield for Humanity Day.

Paragus IT Hosts Grand-opening Party at New Hadley Headquarters

By BusinessWest Staff October 16, 2014

HADLEY — After two years of planning and construction, Paragus IT will cut the ribbon today, Oct. 16, on its new headquarters. The new commercial office building is located at 112 Russell St., just down the road from its previous location. The Paragus grand-opening party will begin at 5 p.m. The event is open to the public, but attendees must RSVP in advance by calling (413) 587-2666.

For the past year, Paragus has been operating out of an office in downtown Springfield while waiting for construction to be completed. “We have enjoyed being in Springfield,” said Paragus CEO Delcie Bean. “We’ve made great connections, and we will maintain a strong presence downtown with Tech Foundry, our technology-education program, and Waterdog Technologies, our IT-distribution company. But Hadley is home for Paragus, and we’re very excited for this new space. There are a lot of awesome features we can’t wait to unveil for everybody.”

These include employee perks such as a pub-style break room/lounge with local draft beer and cider, and a ping-pong table. A giant, custom-made weathervane featuring the Paragus baby logo adorns the top of the building. The new space is 8,000 square feet, nearly four times the size of the company’s previous location.

“We’ve really pulled out all the stops for this party,” said Bean. “From Big Head Ed’s barbecue to draft beer from our amazing keg-bot, a good time will be had by all.”

The headquarters upgrade is the latest in a strong pattern of growth for Paragus. Since Bean founded the company as Valley Computer Works at age 13, Paragus has grown from a one-man operation to a regional leader in business computer service, consulting, and information-technology support. Despite a sluggish economy, Paragus has continued to thrive and expand. In 2012 and 2013, it was named in Inc.’s annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing businesses. In fact, with a 546% growth rate over six years, Paragus is the second-fastest-growing outsourced IT firm in New England.

Economists to Present Real-estate and Economic Forecast on Oct. 23

By BusinessWest Staff October 15, 2014

SPRINGFIELD — Nationally recognized economists Dr. Lawrence Yun and Dr. Elliot Eisenberg will present a real-estate and economic forecast on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Western New England University,  Rivers Memorial Hall, 2105 Wilbraham Road, Springfield. Doors open at 8 a.m. for breakfast and registration. The event is sponsored by the Realtor Assoc. of Pioneer Valley and the Home Builders Assoc. of Western Mass.

Topics will include recent developments in the housing market (national, state, and local), the direction of home prices in the next 12 to 24 months, comparisons with past housing cycles, shadow inventory and foreclosure impact, new-home construction, economic backdrop, and a forecast of the economy and housing market. Yun is chief economist and senior vice president of the National Assoc. of Realtors, while Eisenberg is a former senior economist with the National Assoc. of Homebuilders. Tickets cost $20 per person, which includes breakfast.

To register, contact Laura Herring, education coordinator for the Realtor Assoc. of Pioneer Valley, at (413) 785-1328 or [email protected]. Corporate support comes from Abide Inc., PeoplesBank, MLS Property Information Network, the Republican/MassLive, and United Bank.

Florence Bank Awards Team Jessica $5,000

By BusinessWest Staff October 15, 2014

BELCHERTOWN — Team Jessica Inc. has been awarded a $5,000 grant from Florence Bank, and will use the funds to support the building of Jessica’s Boundless Playground (JBP), an effort that has been ongoing for the past four years.

Once completed, JBP will be the only 100% all-inclusive playground in New England. It has been carefully designed to be a multi-generational activity structure that engages people of all ages and abilities. Every area of the playground caters to those with mobility concerns, while at the same time being fun and engaging for able-bodied people. JBP will also allow wounded veterans in long-term rehab to experience the healing power and simple joy of playing with their own children.

The playground will cost more than $475,000 to build. Team Jessica has hosted more than 15 fund-raising events over the past four years, and the efforts have raised more than $385,000, including three Community Preservation Act grants totaling $140,000 from the town of Belchertown. This total also includes several independent fund-raisers that local businesses conducted for the project, as well as many large gifts from area organizations. Last month, more than 200 volunteers came together for a weekend build event that culminated in the construction of the majority of the playground structure.

“We’re preparing for the final stages of construction — building the ramps, timing the poured-in-place rubber surface — while at the same time still conducting the last round of fund-raising,” said Patti Thornton, Team Jessica’s grant writer. “This grant comes at a perfect time, and we’re so thankful to the community-minded people at Florence Bank.”

Florence Bank’s history in community commitment is 140 years deep. No stranger to corporate social responsibility, the bank distributed $1 million to local nonprofits in the past three years alone. For the past 12 years, the bank has been allowing its customers a voice in where donations will be allotted through its Customer’s Choice Community Grants Program. This year, Team Jessica is listed on the online ballot under the category ‘Community Support,’ which can be found at www.florencesavings.com/vote. Paper ballots are located at any Florence Bank. Voting concludes Dec. 31, 2014.

“We are excited to be part of this extraordinary effort to bring an all-inclusive playground to Belchertown,” said Florence Bank President and CEO John Heaps Jr. “The enthusiasm and support for this project is overwhelming. We are happy to be part of it.”

It’s All Relative

Cover Story

Family Business Center Marks 20 Years of Dispensing Insight

Director Ira Bryck

There’s a small sign in front of a parking space near the front door of Notch Mechanical Constructors in Chicopee declaring that it is reserved for Roger Neveu, who founded the company 41 years ago.

He has rarely parked there in recent years, said his son, Steve, one of five siblings now managing the venture, noting that his father stops by once in a while, but considers himself fully retired. The parking space, he said, is a way to recognize the past and the elder Neveu’s vision and drive, and, in a way, it serves as a symbolic bridge between the generations — a way of saying that, while the company’s creator isn’t physically there most of the time, he still has an important place in the enterprise.

Of course, the process of building an actual bridge between the generations managing a business is much more difficult than creating a designated parking space, and this concept of having a ‘place’ is quite complicated as well. And it was these simple realities that helped drive the creation of what is now known as the UMass Amherst Family Business Center, which this month will celebrate 20 years of helping businesses like Notch achieve successful transitions — and also negotiate countless problems that arise when several people with the same last name are running an operation.

The center’s executive director, the colorful Ira Bryck, said the agency was founded through the inspiration of a number of professionals and business advisers, many of whom still serve as strategic partners, and was also part of a movement in the early and mid-’90s to establish university-based education programs for family businesses.

“It became clear to a lot of expert advisers that they needed a sort of safe-harbor environment to be able to talk with business owners about a lot of issues that they normally would not be able to talk with them about if they were just doing their taxes or helping them with some legal issue,” said Bryck, adding that the center has certainly filled this role effectively over the years.

And this is one of many reasons why, two decades or more after many family business centers were established, the UMass facility is one of a relatively few that are, well, still in business.

Other reasons include Bryck’s persistence and imagination when it comes to creating value for members, and his ability to enable the center to evolve over the years and broaden its scope. For example, the center is no longer exclusively for family businesses — it also assists closely held operations — and has extended its main focus to all that it takes for a business to succeed in a changing and challenging climate.

It does so mostly through the many dinner meetings staged annually, during which speakers with a wide range of backgrounds provide insight on the myriad issues facing businesses today, and attendees are given some thoughts — and inspiration — on how to take these lessons back to their plants and offices and implement them.

Roger Neveu, who founded Notch Mechanical Constructors and later was bought out by five of his siblings, sought out the UMass Amherst Family Business Center for help on succession issues.

But it’s also done through a new weekly radio program called The Western Mass. Business Show with Ira Bryck, blogs and other forms of social media, and a host of other media. Summing it all up, Bryck likes to borrow the phrase “marketplace of ideas.”

And it’s a unique marketplace, he went on, because membership crosses virtually all business sectors, from manufacturing to retail to technology, and while these industries have their unique challenges, there are issues and concerns common to all ventures.

“There have been many good conversations where people have gained a broader perspective because they’re talking to people who are not in their industry,” he explained. “Everyone would like to think that they can think outside the box, but what’s really helpful is to talk to someone who’s not in your box.”

Kent Pecoy, founder and owner of West Springfield-based Kent Pecoy Homes, and a long-time member, agreed. He told BusinessWest that he enjoys the diverse nature of the membership and the perspective provided by business owners facing similar issues.

Pecoy said he’s probably years away from dealing with succession issues at the company, but there are still plenty of matters for which he can use that aforementioned safe harbor, many of them involving his son, Jason, who has worked at the company since he was in high school and has been going to work with his father for as long as he can remember.

“Working with my son all the time is a blessing, but it’s not without its challenges,” he said with a laugh.

For this issue, BusinessWest pauses at the center’s 20th anniversary to discuss with Bryck and others how this organization has made an important difference within the local business community.

Public Relations

By now, most in this region know about Bryck’s background, and specifically the many years he spent working beside his parents at the children’s clothing outlet called Barasch’s Kids Store on Long Island.

Kent Pecoy, a long-time member of the Family Business Center, says working with his son, Jason, is a blessing, but is “not without its challenges.”

What was supposed to be one summer at the family business turned out to be closer to 17 years, said Bryck, who has imparted lessons from his experiences at the store and with family businesses in general to center members — and a host of other audiences — in a number of ways.

These include the writing of three plays — A Tough Nut to Crack, based on his time at Barasch’s, as well as The Perils of Pauline’s Family Business and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home — which are still performed on occasion.

But while Bryck became proficient as a playwright, his greater talents have been selling the center to the region’s business community, connecting members with resources, and implementing change within the agency when necessary to maintain relevance.

Retracing the history of the center, Bryck reiterated that it was part of a national trend to create programs focused on family businesses and the issues facing them. MassMutual was at the forefront of that movement, eventually becoming involved with more than 50 centers, and one of its financial advisers, Charlie Epstein, president of Epstein Financial Services, was instrumental in getting the center off the ground.

Epstein’s company remains a strategic partner, along with First Niagara Bank, Giombetti Associates, the law firm Bulkley Richardson, the accounting firm Meyers Brothers Kalicka, and Touchstone Advisors. These partners provide financial and advisory support, as well as input on the center’s mission and the process of carrying it out, said Bryck.

Ross Giombetti, a principal with Hampden-based Giombetti Associates, which provides employee assessment, leadership training, recruitment, and other services, has been a strategic partner from the beginning. He said the center has been successful in fulfilling the safe-harbor role, and in providing a unique forum in which business owners can learn from each other and, in the process, often avoid costly missteps.

“We needed a forum where family business leaders — siblings, husbands, and wives — felt comfortable talking about their issues and the dynamics of operating their business,” he explained, “and also where they could learn from other successful family businesses and professionals, do things better, and perhaps avoid some of the mistakes they made.”

The center hosts six dinner forums each year as well as several workshops and roundtable discussions focused on strategic questions, said Bryck, adding that this year the schedule will include a 20th-anniversary party on Oct. 14 at the Log Cabin Banquet & Meeting House.

There will be much to celebrate at that event, said Bryck, adding that the center remains vibrant, with more than 60 member businesses, including several that have been involved from the beginning, and it continues to evolve and expand its role.

In fact, there was talk a few years ago of changing the name to the UMass Family and Closely Held Business Center, said Bryck, adding that a consensus emerged that the family business was still an effective niche, and the main point of emphasis. However, a new slogan — “a continuing resource for family and closely held businesses” — was adopted to drive home the broader mission, which has come about out of necessity in many ways, he said.

Elaborating, Bryck told BusinessWest that many operations that were family businesses — concerns run by multiple generations or several members of the same generation — are now sole proprietorships or concerns with one owner, with managers who still need the type of support and services the center has provided.

“There were a lot of family businesses that became non-family businesses,” he explained, adding that he’s not sure how national or global this phenomenon is, but does know it’s a pattern regionally. “There are still a lot of multi-generational families in business, but around here, parents retired or passed away, the kids took over … and sometimes the siblings or cousins in business realized that it wasn’t the same and they didn’t get along that well since the parents left. So a lot of family businesses went back to sole owner.

“So we said, ‘are all of these people who are suddenly sole owners or have brought in partners who are not family no longer our concern?’” he went on, adding that all those quickly determined that he answer to that question was ‘no.’ “There were many people who were still interested in what we do, so we started focusing more on the issues of small and medium-sized businesses in Western Mass. and what they needed to succeed.”

Mostly, what they need is insight into coping with the many challenges of doing business today, Bryck noted, adding that members get this through both the speakers he brings to the dinner forums and the other members in the room.

“A business owner or key manager who comes to the meetings gets as much out of the program from discussing issues with other business owners in the room as they might get from the presenter,” he explained, adding that, while speakers will devote most of their time to dissecting an issue, they will leave some for interactive discussion about how attendees can apply what they’ve learned to their operation.

“We’re working more and more on how companies are actually going to implement what they’ve learned, because someone could come in with a grand theory of some kind, and a very practical owner of a small or medium-sized company is going to say, ‘I could use this or that piece of it,’” said Bryck, adding that he’s considering an additional set of roundtable programs or follow-up workshops devoted to the process of implementation.

Not Child’s Play

Notch Mechanical Constructors had been a member for several years, and is now ‘member emeritus,’ a more limited type of membership, said Steve Neveu, who serves as president, adding that the center has played a significant role in what he described as a smooth transition in ownership from his father to the five siblings that take titles ranging from vice president to ‘crew leader.’

“It’s a nice division of labor,” he told BusinessWest, adding that all five worked in their business while their father was running it and they get along, two attributes that certainly help in the challenging environment that is the family business.

“We’re a close family,” he noted. “Like any set of partners, you don’t always see eye to eye on things, but we manage to work things out cleanly and get to the bottom of issues.”

Neveu doesn’t remember the specific circumstances that led to Notch joining the center — whether Bryck reached out to his father or vice versa, or whether a consultant recommended joining — but he can clearly recall a number of occasions when the agency, through its various programs, provided valuable insight to the family, not only about succession, but on a host of other issues as well.

“This was about the time when my father was starting to consider how to pass this on to the next generation and how to do that well,” he recalled. “I had been talking with him about it — I was his president, and he was CEO — and we thought joining the Family Business Center made sense on many levels.

“I have an MBA, but one of things you find is that they don’t talk about these kinds of issues in school,” he went on. “The center offered a unique forum, a way to learn about this whole process. We were a well-functioning family business at the time, but it’s different when you have one owner.”

Neveu said the center, through the speakers at its dinner forums, focused on issues both broad and specific, and in many cases, the subject matter involved something not covered in a textbook or in business school — such as the issue of whether to make siblings not involved in the family business shareholders.

“A lot of companies do that, but I remember a speaker at one of the dinner meetings saying that such a scenario is fraught with difficulty,” he recalled. “When a parent has two children in the business and two outside the business and gives them all equal shares, you can create a division there because there will be different perspectives, and you open up an area for complications when you do that.

“I remember meeting with my father and taking about it, and we decided it made sense to keep the business with those in the business,” he went on. “It was an understanding of what’s healthy, and example of how you really need to think things through when you make important decisions like that.”

Another matter the center has been helpful with is something Neveu called the “hat concept.” Elaborating, he said the owners of a family business like Notch will wear many hats representing their various roles — as employees, board members, and shareholders — and it’s important to remember to keep them straight.

“People need to know which hat they’re wearing and understand the authority and responsibility that goes with each hat,” he explained.

Neveu said speakers at the center’s meetings rarely provide direct advice, but they will explain the parameters of a specific issue and, thereby, help members make smart decisions.

Pecoy agreed, and told BusinessWest that, unlike most other business groups he belongs to or serves as a board member, such as a homebuilders association, the Family Business Center has members across a host of industries, all facing similar issues and challenges in an ever-more-competitive global economy. This mix, and the interactive dialogue it creates, has helped nurture a unique learning environment, one that provides attendees with both perspective and insight.

“This is more widespread and diverse,” he said of the center, “and you get to see how similar all businesses are. It doesn’t make any difference whether you’re in manufacturing or construction — it’s amazing how similar the issues are, and this has been a great takeaway from our involvement.

“And our employees get an entirely different take on things,” he continued, adding that several will attend the center’s dinner meetings over the course of a year. “They begin to see how difficult it is for a business owner and the many challenges he or she faces. It’s a great forum for them to listen to other business owners, which is important, because they see it on some level within my organization, but when you hear other business people in different organizations talk about the same thing, it solidifies it or brings more credibility.”

The Bottom Line

While Pecoy, 56, jokes that it might be 20 years or more before he gets around to transitioning his business to the next generation, he admits that he thinks about succession all the time, primarily because it is one of the main focal points for many of the center’s speakers over the years.

“One of the best lines I’ve heard goes something like, ‘when the owner of the business walks out, no one even hears the door close,’” he told BusinessWest, adding that this colorful wording refers to a completely seamless transition.

These rarely happen in business, but because of the Family Business Center and its informative programming, that complicated matter — and countless others — have become easier for dozens of businesses to negotiate.

George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]

Community Spotlight: Williamstown

Community Spotlight Features

Williamstown Officials Look to Drive Development

From left, Select Board Chair Ron Turbin and Selectmen Hugh Daley and Andy Hogeland enjoy the weekly Williamstown Farmer’s Market.

Hugh Daley doesn’t mince words or spare any hyperbole when he talks about all that Williamstown has to offer visitors and residents alike.

“It is so beautiful that, once people move here, they never want to leave,” said Daley, one of three selectmen serving this picturesque community in the northwest corner of the Bay State. “You can hike in the morning, spend the afternoon in a world-class art museum, and have a nice dinner without ever having to get in your car.”

Andy Hogeland, another selectman, was equally descriptive. “People can go to the farmer’s market for fresh produce and community conversation, then walk to see the Magna Carta exhibit at the Clark Art Institute, or attend the Bluegrass Festival in North Adams,” he said during an interview late last month.

And board Chair Ron Turbin isn’t shy about extolling the town’s virtues either, noting that its elementary school is a state-of-the-art green building, and the Massachusetts School Building Authority recently approved a feasibility study to renovate or rebuild Mount Greylock Regional High School, which serves Williamstown and Lanesborough.

But all three elected leaders are quick to note that this community is lacking something — an economic-development plan. “About 10 years ago, an ad hoc committee was formed to focus on economic development, but nothing much happened,” Turbin said.

That is about to change, though, because Daley and Hogeland have spent the past four months working on a plan to foster growth. They were elected to the board in May after two longstanding members retired, and are adamant about pursuing options that will revitalize the town by encouraging business expansion and increasing the number of young families who live there.

“We want to encourage new investments and get more businesses to move here,” Daley said. “The area offers great appeal, and we are formulating a plan to identify the type of businesses we hope to attract; we need to figure out who our audience is so we can pitch Williamstown to them.”

Such action is particularly important now because the town’s population is shrinking, and many residents are growing older, which is occurring in many neighboring communities in the Berkshires as well.

However, it became more evident earlier this year when the Berkshire Regional Commission released demographic data showing that, although Williamstown is a college town (it is home to prestigious Williams College), its overall population is graying, and with some potential economic consequences.

“If we don’t start working on economic development and regenerate our population, we will become even smaller, and 20 years from now the town may not offer the same opportunities we have today,” Daley said, adding that jobs are needed so young people will feel confident they can move to the area and thrive.

Hogeland recently met with the economic-development director from North Adams, where a “Vision 2030” master plan has been adopted, and says he plans to stage additional meetings with other town economic directors to share and compare ideas.

“We can learn from each other,” he said. “The towns in Berkshire County need to be less competitive between themselves and more complementary so they can team up and market themselves to the broader community, which includes promoting tourism on a regional basis.”

He pointed to examples where it is already happening, such as a partnership between the Clark Art Institute and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. Bus service was instituted between the museums a few months ago, Hogeland said.

He told BusinessWest that Williamstown’s new plan will have several themes, and efforts to increase tourism will be high on the list. “Town officials will strive to promote the town’s attractions so guests will stay in the area longer,” he noted, adding that a group of volunteers has already developed a new website, www.destinationwilliamstown.org, which lists myriad cultural events in Berkshire County.

Hogeland and Daley also want to pursue greater access to broadband connectivity so families and individuals who want to live in Williamstown and work remotely will have the power they need. “It will give them the best of all worlds,” Hogeland said.

New Initiatives

The selectmen noted that several new housing projects are underway, which will increase options available to prospective residents and those who already live there.

The first is Cable Mills on Water Street, which will be a community of 82 new and renovated mixed-income homes. Units will range from lofts and flats to townhouses and single-family-style duplexes created through an adaptive reuse of three historic mill buildings and a number of carefully designed new homes, all set on a nine-acre site.

“It’s a very interesting project and a great regenerative use of an old industrial site that is within walking distance to downtown,” Daley said.

When the project is complete, Hogeland added, it will benefit existing businesses on Spring Street, and may also promote additional development on Water Street, which is already home to three restaurants, two art galleries, and a new retail store.

Earlier this year, he went on, the downtown area, which includes the dramatically expanded Clark Art Institute, was designated as a Massachusetts Cultural District. It includes Spring Street and the upper part of Water Street, and town officials hope it will help their efforts to draw more people downtown and promote events in Williamstown.

“We would also like to create an attractive walkway between Water Street and Spring Street, which are connected now by Latham Street,” Turbin said, adding that the Mass. Dept. of Highways is also scheduled to repave Water Street and some sidewalks.

Hogeland believes the relatively inexpensive cost of living in Williamstown helps make it an ideal setting for businesses whose clients are elsewhere, such as Integrated Eco Strategy on Water Street, which does LEED-certified work.

Turbin agreed. “The only thing we don’t have here is traffic,” he said.

The second initiative, which is a new housing complex for seniors, will replace affordable housing that was lost when Tropical Storm Irene flooded Spruces Mobile Home Park.

“The park had about 300 residents, many of whom were elderly,” said Turbin. “There are still about 40 mobile homes there, but most of the residents were displaced. We are committed to providing replacement housing for them, which is important, as the park is in the flood plain and will be closed in another year.”

A grassroots organization called Higher Ground, which began in the churches to collect money for displaced residents of the park, came up with the concept for the new complex, called Highland Woods, and construction has begun on land donated by Williams College.

“Highland Woods will contain 40 units,” Turbin told BusinessWest. “It has come about as a result of a true partnership between three nonprofit organizations, which include Higher Ground, Berkshire Housing Development Corp., and Boston’s Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development, who are working on it with support from the town.”

Daley agreed. “It’s a reuse and redevelopment of existing space, which we want to focus on in order to protect and preserve the natural beauty of our town,” he said.

In addition, Berkshire Housing Development Corp. and Boston Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development are also studying the best way to convert the former PhoTech mill property on Cole Avenue into housing. The property has been a vacant eyesore for at least 15 years.

“They are the lead developers and will figure out how many units could fit here and how much it would cost to bring the project to market,” Daley said. “There were proposals for the site in the past, but they never came to fruition.”

Preservation efforts were also furthered two years ago when the town created a new agricultural commission. “We want to preserve opportunities for farmers to prosper and promote the sustainable agriculture that already exists in Williamstown,” Turbin said.

Work in Progress

The new economic-development plan will include proposals to promote business growth as well as welcome new companies to town, and officials say there is space for start-ups along with larger firms.

Williams College owns much of the property on Spring Street and leases second-story office space to commercial enterprises. There are also three sites available on Route 2, which include a plot of land and two empty buildings.

One of those properties is the former Williamstown Financial Center, a 16,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art building in an attractive location, with parking, that has been vacant for about a year and is for sale, Daley said.

The second site is a 3,500-square-foot office condo, and Daley said space is also available in a building on Spring Street whose landlord rents to small businesses that share amenities, such as a conference room. “We feel we can help companies grow from home-based businesses into firms with offices,” he noted.

An additional 1.2-acre site at 59 Water St., which housed a town garage in the past, is also available and is zoned commercial.

Hogeland said town officials will refine the economic-development plan they are developing with feedback from the public, which they hope to receive at several community forums that are in the planning stages. “We need to find out what people here want and need, and we hope the new plan will encourage residents to get involved in the community,” he said.

However, the first draft will be presented to the selectmen this month.

“We want to protect the current economy, enhance and entice new investments from existing businesses, and augment what we have by getting new people and businesses to move here,” Hogeland told BusinessWest.

The selectmen said Williamstown benefits from a very active chamber of commerce and generous support provided by Williams College. In addition to donating land for Highland Woods, the college donated $1.5 million to help pay for the elementary school, helped fund a new youth center, and held a business-plan competition last winter for its students that gave winners seed money to start new businesses in Williamstown.

“The town and the college work together whenever our interests align, and it supports our community projects at all levels,” Hogeland said. “We have a lot of professors on our boards, and the college has work-study programs in our schools,” including one called Reading Buddies.

Bright Future

Hogeland owns a manufacturing company in North Adams and believes other business owners may want to settle in Williamstown and enjoy its many offerings, even if their business is located elsewhere in Berkshire County.

“We have everything — good quality of life, access to a high-quality educational system, culture, and hiking trails,” he reiterated. “The pursuit of an economic-development plan is a great step forward for the town.”

Williamstown at a glance

Year Incorporated: 1765
Population: 7,754 (2010) 
Area: 46.87 square miles 
County: Berkshire 
Residential Tax Rate: $15.28 
Commercial Tax Rate: $15.28
Median Household Income: $40,223 (2010) 
Family Household Income: $70,000 (2010) 
Type of government: Town Manager, Board of Selectmen
Largest Employers: Williams College, Steinerfilm, Town of Williamstown

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Court Dockets

CHICOPEE DISTRICT COURT

DeMarys Nieves and Megan Seymour, through her father and next friend, Robert Seymour v. Lane Construction

Allegation: Negligence in repair of a manhole, so that its cover came off, striking the plaintiff’s car and causing personal injury: $5,647.12

Filed: 8/8/14

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT

Andrew R. Shadduck v. GMAC Mortgage, LLC and GMAC Bank

Allegation: Wrongful foreclosure: $100,000

Filed: 9/3/14

Chicopee Concrete Services Inc. v. W.J. Mountford Co. and Western Surety Co.

Allegation: Breach of contract for concrete services provides: $83,693.75

Filed: 9/8/14

Garreb Cox v. Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Associates

Allegation: Refusal to pay homeowners insurance claim: $200,000

Filed: 9/2/14

Ted Ondrick Co., LLC v. Sentry Services Inc. and Rehab. Institute of Western Mass., LLC

Allegation: Non-payment for labor and materials: $169,610.19

Filed: 8/26/14

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT

Anthony Rodriques v. Mark Medaugh, DDS

Allegation: Dental malpractice: $1,200

Filed: 9/15/14

John Regish and CBR Realty Corp. v. Paul Savage, Esq. and Bacon Wilson, P.C.

Allegation: Legal malpractice and breach of contract: $437,636

Filed: 8/4/14

Marion Excavating Co. Inc. v. Mountainbrook, LLC

Allegation: Non-payment of services rendered: $89,755.36

Filed: 8/6/14

NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT COURT

Laurel Neathawk v. Southampton Housing for the Elderly Inc.

Allegation: Failure to maintain plumbing in safe and adequate manner causing second-degree burns: $5,067

Filed: 8/29/14

The Robert Baker Co. v. Angelo’s Golden Harvest Inc.

Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $7,169.01

Filed: 8/26/14

U.S. Foods Inc. v. Spoleto Inc. d/b/a Pizzeria Paradiso and Claudio Guerra

Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $25,000

Filed: 9/14/14

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT

Castella Imports Inc. v. Lansal Inc. d/b/a Hot Mama’s Foods

Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $10,985.26

Filed: 8/22/14

Nancy Rossi v. Northeast Specialty Corp. d/b/a Nescor

Allegation: Breach of contract and failure to perform work or refund deposit: $11,936

Filed: 8/28/14

New England Fire and Security Inc. v. Hub Electric Inc.

Allegation: Non-payment of services rendered: $4,908.31

Filed: 8/29/14

Perkins Paper, LLC v. Crust Pizza and Deli, LLC and Eleni and Nicholas Eliopoulos

Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $5,441.65

Filed: 9/15/14

Real Estate Transactions

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BERNARDSTON

21 Bald Mountain Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Ronald G. McConnell
Seller: Michael P. Amand
Date: 08/29/14

51 Chapin Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $414,000
Buyer: Harry Vanbaaren
Seller: Michael R. Duprey
Date: 09/05/14

179 West Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Mark J. Laprade
Seller: Scott M. Digeorge
Date: 09/04/14

BUCKLAND

35 Avery Road
Buckland, MA 01339
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Marc H. Dodson
Seller: Ann E. Frost
Date: 08/28/14

CONWAY

120 Parsons Hill Dr.
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $437,000
Buyer: Nicholas Lacasse
Seller: John B. Willett
Date: 08/26/14

585 South Shirkshire Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Anna G. Meyer
Seller: Carol Grossmann
Date: 09/05/14

DEERFIELD

52 Graves St.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $268,500
Buyer: Meredith Southergrill
Seller: David Markland
Date: 08/29/14

81 North Main St.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $225,400
Buyer: Jason A. Clark
Seller: Donald A. Cerow
Date: 09/02/14

168 Whately Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $239,900
Buyer: Susan L. Hacker
Seller: David J. Decker
Date: 08/29/14

4 Yellow Farm Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Richard C. Fadus
Seller: Erik E. Lagoy
Date: 08/27/14

ERVING

15 West High St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $174,900
Buyer: Phillip A. Malone
Seller: Jarod J. Boissonneault
Date: 08/29/14

GILL

113 Center Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: Glenn H. Cutting
Seller: Peggy A. Croteau
Date: 08/29/14

252 French King Hwy.
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Alma M. Gynan
Seller: Pamela J. Hubert
Date: 08/29/14

503 Main Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $281,000
Buyer: Brian M. Peila
Seller: Mark Laprade
Date: 09/04/14

GREENFIELD

707 Country Club Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $239,005
Buyer: Carl W. Kingsley
Seller: Timothy E. Herzig
Date: 08/28/14

50 Crescent St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Edward Lee
Seller: F. R. Thomas
Date: 08/28/14

100 Elm St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Alexander Pirozhkov
Seller: Patti J. McConnell
Date: 08/29/14

248 Green River Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: Isaac J. Mass
Seller: Green River RT
Date: 08/29/14

12 Monroe Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Brandon Lively
Seller: Helen Ellis
Date: 08/27/14

38 Orchard St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Franklin R. Thomas
Seller: Judith A. Kelton
Date: 08/29/14

39 Park Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Mark R. Cadran
Seller: Marjorie D. Sobil
Date: 09/04/14

10 Park St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Key Program Inc.
Seller: Mark A. Sirum
Date: 09/04/14

8 Stone Ridge Lane
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Judith A. Kelton
Seller: Cynthia M. McNeilly
Date: 08/29/14

15 Valley View Dr.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Ariel S. Gallantbernstein
Seller: John D. Baldwin
Date: 08/28/14

3 Valley View Dr.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Keith R. Laudieri
Seller: Donald A. Lashier
Date: 08/29/14

29 Woodleigh Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Newell Pledger-Shinn
Date: 09/05/14

HEATH

93 Colrain Stage Road
Heath, MA 01346
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Barbara R. Travers
Seller: Helen Ross
Date: 09/03/14

LEVERETT

45 Depot Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Meghan T. Gerson
Seller: Eva Rosenn
Date: 08/28/14

MONTAGUE

61 4th St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Denise A. Elwell
Seller: Bayview Loan Servicing LP
Date: 08/27/14

ORANGE

23 Battle St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $143,336
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Carl A. Hansen
Date: 08/27/14

72 East Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Robin A. Moberg
Seller: Jason U. Mully
Date: 08/27/14

30 Enfield Dr.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Robin A. Moberg
Seller: Jason U. Mully
Date: 08/27/14

11 Mattawa Circle
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $150,500
Buyer: Skyler Aldrich
Seller: Benjamin J. Welcome
Date: 08/27/14

130 Royalston Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Diane L. Grasso
Seller: Angelina L. Nelson
Date: 08/27/14

Warwick Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $238,700
Buyer: Fred L. Heyes
Seller: Lila M. Foye
Date: 09/03/14

SHUTESBURY

5 Carver Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $192,000
Buyer: Christopher M. Ferrante
Seller: Moira A. Gentry
Date: 08/28/14

387 Montague Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: David R. Devine
Seller: Gary A. Czupkiewicz
Date: 09/04/14

WHATELY

185 River Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $268,000
Buyer: Kristin L. Mayer
Seller: Jason A. Clark
Date: 09/02/14

100 State Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: ALDT Realty LLC
Seller: Northwood Power Equipment
Date: 09/05/14

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

28 Candlewood Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Mark D. Anderson
Seller: Timothy M. McCluskey
Date: 09/05/14

77 Glendale Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Bahtiyar Agayev
Seller: Marie L. Jacobs
Date: 08/27/14

215 Leonard St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: James M. Messier
Seller: Lauren A. Capobianco
Date: 09/05/14

36 Maynard St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Kimberly M. Backus
Seller: Robert P. Doyle
Date: 08/29/14

89 Parkview Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Brendan G. Blake
Seller: Stephen R. Slater
Date: 08/27/14

403 River Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $190,100
Buyer: Amber J. Waters
Seller: Zoe C. Hawes
Date: 08/29/14

18 Royal Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $198,500
Buyer: Joseph F. Leone
Seller: Brendan Blake
Date: 08/27/14

74 South Park Terrace
Agawam, MA 01001
Buyer: Wayne M. Aldinger
Seller: Daniel A. O’Sullivan
Date: 09/04/14

127 Suffield St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Rame Selimi
Seller: Adnan Isufi

15 Vadnais St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Tricia A. Marshall
Seller: Gregory E. Miller
Date: 09/05/14

Virginia St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Rame Selimi
Seller: Adnan Isufi
Date: 08/29/14

BLANDFORD

28 Gore Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Joseph D. Jachym
Seller: Lynn A. Boyce
Date: 08/29/14

BRIMFIELD

51 7th St.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $271,500
Buyer: Paul Hartley
Seller: Michael N. Gartman
Date: 09/03/14

34 Lyman Barnes Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $217,500
Buyer: Jason Bedard
Seller: Robert L. Campbell
Date: 08/25/14

118 Washington Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: James R. Brown
Seller: Cheryl Santucci
Date: 08/25/14

CHESTER

349 Middlefield Road
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Melissa Asher
Seller: Sandra Dunn
Date: 08/29/14

30 William St.
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $132,500
Buyer: Kyle T. Mangini
Seller: Jeffrey A. Bean
Date: 09/04/14

CHICOPEE

48 Bardon St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $182,500
Buyer: David A. Santos
Seller: Frances G. Girard
Date: 08/26/14

129 Basil Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Gene M. Desko
Seller: Claude Dumont
Date: 08/28/14

276 Beauchamp Terrace
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Sheila Biermann
Seller: Wolf RT
Date: 09/04/14

18 Beech St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Vladimir F. Banar
Seller: John J. Costello
Date: 08/25/14

17 Bemis St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Zachary Grzelak
Seller: Daniel J. Ringuette
Date: 08/28/14

19 Bemis St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Zachary Grzelak
Seller: Daniel J. Ringuette
Date: 08/28/14

3 Boileau Terrace
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $129,500
Buyer: Gerald H. Lane
Seller: Kamila J. Chmiel
Date: 09/03/14

69 Chateaugay St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Erin L. Santa
Seller: Douglas P. Helie
Date: 08/26/14

16 Dobek Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $228,500
Buyer: Timothy P. Sullivan
Seller: Ryan S. Kumiega
Date: 09/02/14

19 Emerson St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: MJT Properties LLC
Seller: Mariani Cote LLC
Date: 08/29/14

36 Gill St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $144,900
Buyer: Jeremy A. Cote
Seller: Paul Orszulak
Date: 08/29/14

54 Hudson Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Agapi Salloum
Seller: Mary A. Vecchiarelli
Date: 08/29/14

634 McKinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Joseph A. Huerta
Seller: Rae, Charles C. 3rd, (Estate)
Date: 08/27/14

789 McKinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $132,500
Buyer: Karen L. Morassi
Seller: David Labrie
Date: 09/05/14

599 Meadow St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Jeffrey J. Campbell Inc.
Seller: Raylene P. Mulford
Date: 08/28/14

227 Pendleton Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Alexandr Lapin
Seller: Craig Lebeau
Date: 09/05/14

53 Saint James Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Jenna L. Smith
Seller: Stephen A. Topor
Date: 08/29/14

73 Waite Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Meagan L. Galipeau
Seller: FNMA
Date: 09/05/14

27 Woodcrest Court
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Craig A. Lebeau
Seller: Jocelyn L. Harrelson
Date: 09/05/14

EAST LONGMEADOW

36 Dawes St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $378,000
Buyer: Franco Russo
Seller: Joseph S. Tavella
Date: 08/29/14

4 Laurence Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $162,500
Buyer: Mark Goldman
Seller: Jeffrey A. Morse
Date: 09/05/14

23 Lester St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Rebecca M. Roberts
Seller: Aldo L. Villani
Date: 09/02/14

11 Marshall St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $234,500
Buyer: Luke T. Hayes
Seller: Kenneth E. McGrady
Date: 08/28/14

144 Old Farm Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: United Bank Residential Properties
Seller: Dorothy M. Fleishman
Date: 08/26/14

7 Park Place
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Jose A. Rivera
Seller: Cynthia A. Waite
Date: 08/28/14

33 Speight Arden
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: James E. Moriarty
Seller: Richard E. Moriarty
Date: 09/04/14

9 Waterman Ave
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $121,250
Buyer: Crystal L. Carter
Seller: Shari-Ann Binney
Date: 08/28/14

87 Windham Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $479,500
Buyer: Michael P. Cohen
Seller: David L. Rainey
Date: 08/29/14

96 Windham Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Mohamed Mohamed
Seller: Kathleen M. Cordier
Date: 08/27/14

HAMPDEN

87 Somers Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $199,500
Buyer: Julie M. Lynch
Seller: John A. Johnson
Date: 08/28/14

HOLLAND

112 Wales Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Casey A. Ledger
Seller: FNMA
Date: 08/29/14

HOLYOKE

68 County Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $224,500
Buyer: James E. Masters
Seller: Armando Garcia
Date: 08/27/14

11 Erie Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $142,500
Buyer: Thomas Diemand
Seller: Karwoski, Jeanne M., (Estate)
Date: 08/27/14

891 Hampshire St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $198,500
Buyer: Sherry L. Taylor
Seller: 891 Hampshire Street LLC
Date: 08/29/14

Jarvis Avenue
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Hattie Galazka
Seller: Elizabeth A. Mish
Date: 08/25/14

70 Lindor Heights
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Martin A. Barraza
Seller: Barbara C. Carton
Date: 08/28/14

933 Main St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: 933 Main Street LLC
Seller: Carlex Realty LP
Date: 09/03/14

33 Montgomery Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $279,000
Buyer: Kevin R. Kraus
Seller: Jonathan M. Banz
Date: 08/29/14

110-112 Nonotuck St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Gerald Glasser
Seller: Brenda E. Palla
Date: 08/29/14

24 Parker St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Eric A. Frary
Seller: Meagan Barrett
Date: 08/27/14

101 Sycamore St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Katelyn R. Mathers
Seller: Rosalia A. Deady
Date: 08/29/14

102 Vermont St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Johnathan J. Danek
Seller: Antonio Dafonte
Date: 08/29/14

307 West Franklin St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Wanda V. Shepard
Seller: Gallagher Properties LLC
Date: 08/29/14

LONGMEADOW

123 Academy Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $398,900
Buyer: Michael Glass
Seller: Susan E. Mayock
Date: 09/02/14

294 Anthony Way
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $534,699
Buyer: Tuyet Nguyen
Seller: Joseph O. Chabot
Date: 09/05/14

71 Belleclaire Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Michael A. Siciliano
Seller: Frederick K. Wayland
Date: 08/29/14

9 Captain Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $394,550
Buyer: Lingling Sun
Seller: David R. Williams
Date: 08/28/14

141 Cedar Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $248,500
Buyer: Frank A. Amato
Seller: Oren Brody
Date: 08/26/14

80 Eunice Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $384,000
Buyer: Jing Qian
Seller: Leah Gottlieb
Date: 08/29/14

173 Hopkins Place
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Samuel Fortsch
Seller: Robert A. Gobron
Date: 08/28/14

212 Laurel St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Berkshire Land Co. LLC
Seller: Lieou, Yves, (Estate)
Date: 09/04/14

144 Lawnwood Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: Jeffrey A. Guerra
Seller: Richard J. Graveline
Date: 08/25/14

82 Merriweather Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $323,779
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Debra E. Chernock
Date: 09/02/14

441 Pinewood Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Geetu Shokeen
Seller: John A. Robertson
Date: 08/29/14

105 Riverview Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $213,000
Buyer: Eric Lederman
Seller: Gail A. Federico
Date: 08/29/14

225 Tanglewood Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: John M. Zeroogian
Seller: Marie M. Stebbins
Date: 08/29/14

137 Wheel Meadow Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $298,000
Buyer: Nicholas Fazio
Seller: Aashish Samat
Date: 08/29/14

LUDLOW

687 East St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: George V. Barroso
Seller: Nancy Sojka
Date: 08/29/14

262 Munsing St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Victor M. Rodrigues
Seller: Roger R. Bazinet
Date: 08/29/14

MONSON

3 Main St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $149,000
Buyer: Kyle Politis
Seller: Phillip H. Nothe
Date: 08/27/14

N/A
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $302,000
Buyer: Glenn B. Zanetti
Seller: Jacquelyn S. Haley
Date: 08/28/14

149 Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $146,500
Buyer: Timothy J. Hennessy
Seller: Jason M. Bedard
Date: 08/25/14

52 Silver St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $274,500
Buyer: Caitlin F. Szymanski
Seller: Willard B. Ladue
Date: 09/02/14

125 Thayer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $226,000
Buyer: Ross C. Larson
Seller: John F. Lewis
Date: 08/28/14

56 Waid Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Fontaine
Seller: Kevin D. Ragion
Date: 09/05/14

MONTGOMERY

477 Main Road
Montgomery, MA 01050
Amount: $308,000
Buyer: Stephen M. Adams
Seller: Timothy J. Reardon
Date: 08/28/14

PALMER

25 Birch St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Daniel W. Labrie
Seller: Mark E. Benoit
Date: 08/28/14

6 Danielle Dr.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Christopher W. Breyare
Seller: Robert Strout
Date: 09/03/14

48 Flynt St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $144,500
Buyer: Matthew McGowan
Seller: Mary L. Young
Date: 09/05/14

22 Harvey St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Mark D. Bachand
Seller: Christopher W. Breyare
Date: 09/03/14

6 Homestead St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $284,000
Buyer: Jeffrey A. Nadeau
Seller: Robert A. Schattgen
Date: 09/05/14

150 Mason St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Jessica King
Seller: Frederick C. Byrne
Date: 08/26/14

2014 Overlook Dr.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $144,500
Buyer: Heather L. Hibbard
Seller: Robert G. Faulkner
Date: 08/29/14

9 Peterson Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Erin J. Braden
Seller: Palmer Holdings LLC
Date: 08/29/14

RUSSELL

255 Woodland Way
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Matthew Werner
Seller: Jamie A. Lessard
Date: 08/26/14

SPRINGFIELD

193 Abbott St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $171,500
Buyer: Dieula Cherival
Seller: Scott J. Arel
Date: 08/29/14

150 Acrebrook Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $162,500
Buyer: Robin G. Lopez
Seller: Jackewich, Judith A., (Estate)
Date: 08/26/14

34 Arliss St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Dimas Cotto
Seller: James M. Messier
Date: 09/05/14

67 Aspen Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: Sarah E. Brunelle
Seller: Gregory J. Matthews
Date: 08/28/14

885-887 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $206,000
Buyer: Leslie Rivers
Seller: Sanchez, Victor M., (Estate)
Date: 08/28/14

42-44 Biltmore St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Juan L. Henriquez
Seller: 42-44 Biltmore Street RT
Date: 08/29/14

800 Boston Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $9,820,000
Buyer: ARCPT MT Springfield LLC
Seller: RPAI Springfield Boston
Date: 08/26/14

709 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Anthony J. Batista
Seller: Luis A. Cruz
Date: 08/28/14

26 Chalmers St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $122,000
Buyer: Hung D. Vu
Seller: Kissel, Anne M., (Estate)
Date: 09/05/14

58 Chilson St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Jeremy Slater
Seller: Lawrence E. Bechard
Date: 09/02/14

66 Clantoy St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $183,003
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Suzanne M. Aranjo
Date: 08/28/14

157 Cloran St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Leroy E. Farrior
Seller: Clovette J. Johnson
Date: 08/29/14

246 Connecticut Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $156,500
Buyer: Sean M. Bradshaw
Seller: Anges Visnaw
Date: 08/29/14

50 Copeland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $137,000
Buyer: Madjiguene Poyser
Seller: Thomas R. Howell
Date: 09/03/14

40 Crystal Brook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Michael J. Quinlivan
Seller: Beverly J. St.Pierre
Date: 08/27/14

117 Enfield St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Carlos J. Santiago
Seller: Ryan R. Henrichon
Date: 08/29/14

32 Greenleaf St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $143,000
Buyer: Nelson H. Wells
Seller: Richard Garcia
Date: 09/04/14

66 Hermitage Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Jordan N. Nascimento
Seller: Polly E. Lavallee
Date: 08/28/14

49 Hillmont St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Waldestrudis Ramos
Seller: Richard S. Harty
Date: 09/05/14

99-101 Hood St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Andreas Craig
Seller: James W. Fiore
Date: 08/29/14

53 Howard St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $1,625,000
Buyer: Blue Tarp Redevelopment
Seller: Del Union Realty LLC
Date: 08/29/14

60 Jeanne Marie St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Edward C. Carter
Date: 08/27/14

86 Judson St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $127,200
Buyer: Yesenia E. Vale
Seller: Nicole Migliozzi
Date: 08/29/14

92 Louis Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $144,900
Buyer: Victoria E. Ellis
Seller: Daniel J. Garrity
Date: 09/05/14

206 Mazarin St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $142,000
Buyer: Ramon J. Alvarez
Seller: Grahams Construction Inc.
Date: 08/25/14

133 Melha Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $131,000
Buyer: Israel Lopez
Seller: Carol M. Tourangeau
Date: 08/29/14

117-119 Michon St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Francisco J. Dejesus
Seller: Carmelo Toledo
Date: 09/05/14

144-146 Middle St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $175,500
Buyer: Madeline Rodriguez
Seller: M. D. Leon Fils RE LLC
Date: 08/29/14

25-27 Montcalm St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Jonathan Cabrera
Seller: Raymond L. Cliche
Date: 08/29/14

28 O’Connell St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Katisha D. Woods-Johnson
Seller: NSP Residential LLC
Date: 09/02/14

872 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $159,000
Buyer: Richard Garcia
Seller: Taylor, Philip E., (Estate)
Date: 09/04/14

41 Plumtree Circle
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Jeffrey P. Leone
Seller: Charles Morrison
Date: 08/29/14

168 Quaker Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $137,000
Buyer: Samantha M. Krupczak
Seller: James Goodwin
Date: 08/25/14

28 Rencelau St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: Jennifer K. Rossmiller
Seller: Kevin J. Claffey
Date: 08/27/14

51 Rosemary Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Carlos Figueroa
Seller: Ronald B. Willoughby
Date: 09/03/14

150 Senator St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $209,650
Buyer: Michael A. Bosworth
Seller: Edward W. McDonald
Date: 09/05/14

3 Sorrento St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $147,000
Buyer: Zeicha N. Colon
Seller: Hoa V. Le
Date: 09/05/14

393 Stapleton Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Vianni K. Gomez
Seller: Wayne D. Morphew
Date: 08/28/14

68-70 Union St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $1,625,000
Buyer: Blue Tarp Redevelopment
Seller: Del Union Realty LLC
Date: 08/29/14

52 Warner St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $134,200
Buyer: John P. Chaplin
Seller: Lynne F. Wiley
Date: 08/29/14

310 West Allen Ridge Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $165,700
Buyer: Beth E. Green
Seller: Kathleen P. Mulligan
Date: 09/03/14

SOUTHWICK

44 Bugbee Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $324,900
Buyer: Robert G. Boyd
Seller: Scott W. Wundt
Date: 08/29/14

10 Chapman St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Heidi Allen
Seller: John M. Sinico
Date: 08/27/14

Depot St. (off)
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Jody Emanuel
Seller: 20 Depot Square LLC
Date: 08/27/14

5 Dewitt Circle
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Dhruval A. Amin
Seller: Hillside Development Corp.
Date: 09/02/14

70 Granville Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $234,000
Buyer: Elizabeth T. Kuenzel
Seller: Meredith Powers
Date: 08/28/14

TOLLAND

90 Brook Lane
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Charles D. Koteen
Seller: Joan M. Ellison
Date: 08/29/14

Brook Lane
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Charles D. Koteen
Seller: Joan M. Ellison
Date: 08/29/14

WESTFIELD

40 Briarwood Place
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $149,000
Buyer: Carol L. Griggs
Seller: Robert E. Wenzel
Date: 09/04/14

21 Chestnut St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $188,000
Buyer: Robin A. Glover
Seller: Susan C. Leggett
Date: 08/27/14

121 Colony Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: Andrea K. Castanera
Seller: Mathew J. Carrington
Date: 09/05/14

78 Court St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $204,000
Buyer: Larry A. Williams
Seller: H&H County RE LLC

990 Granville Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: James J. Crean
Seller: Shawn L. Boutet
Date: 08/29/14

183 Highland Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Keith A. Swords
Seller: Swords, Barbara L., (Estate)
Date: 08/26/14

14 Hillside Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $197,800
Buyer: Gregory S. Reed
Seller: Christopher A. Smith
Date: 08/26/14

187 Holyoke Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Angela M. Costigan
Seller: Dominguez, Theresa P., (Estate)
Date: 09/04/14

29 Joseph Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Robert F. Browning
Seller: Kristen E. Browning
Date: 09/04/14

15 Kenwood St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: Chong H. Collette
Seller: Patricia A. Wallinovich
Date: 08/29/14

47 Laflin St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Ronald A. Hall
Seller: John F. Burke
Date: 08/25/14

46 McKinley Terrace
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: Raymond P. Manos
Seller: Anthony R. Braden
Date: 08/27/14

Northwest Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: City Of Westfield
Seller: John P. Pitoniak
Date: 09/03/14

15 Old Park Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $353,700
Buyer: Robert E. Hartmann
Seller: David W. Cherry
Date: 08/29/14

88 Pequot Point Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Jacob F. Dutko
Seller: Saris Resources LLC
Date: 08/28/14

19 Pheasant Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Anthony J. Georger
Seller: Jeffrey S. Piubeni
Date: 08/29/14

20 Pheasant Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $399,900
Buyer: Tyler G. Moore
Seller: John E. Schirmer
Date: 08/29/14

19 Putnam Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Brandon M. Sullivan
Seller: Jennifer Nesbitt
Date: 08/25/14

190 Root Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $282,500
Buyer: Scott Sanderson
Seller: Benjamin Puzankov
Date: 08/29/14

1120 Southampton Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $243,444
Buyer: Home Loan Investment Bank
Seller: Frank R. Ezold
Date: 08/28/14

13 State St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Cherie R. Tabasco
Seller: FHLM
Date: 08/29/14

WILBRAHAM

3 Carla Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $369,530
Buyer: Barry A. Haber
Seller: AC Homebuilding LLC
Date: 08/29/14

4 Carla Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Michael D. Devine
Seller: Custom Homes Development Group
Date: 08/25/14

53 Manchonis Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Charles B. Proctor
Seller: Gerald Johnson
Date: 09/05/14

2 Overlook Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $202,500
Buyer: Nicholas M. Pelletier
Seller: Jeanne Maren
Date: 08/28/14

WEST SPRINGFIELD

18 Alderbrook Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: John C. Nekitopoulos
Seller: Helen J. Brooks
Date: 08/28/14

633 Amostown Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $141,500
Buyer: Christopher M. Mulcahy
Seller: Mozden, Irene B., (Estate)

6 Austin Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: John D. Eaton
Seller: West Meadow Homes Inc.
Date: 08/26/14

45 Bosworth St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Nargiza Afrailova
Seller: Facchini, Robert, (Estate)
Date: 08/29/14

90 Churchill Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $312,500
Buyer: Lizanne Campanini
Seller: Richard Lheureux
Date: 08/29/14

55 Greenleaf Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $166,500
Buyer: Kurtis J. Archambault
Seller: Kusek, Stanley M., (Estate)
Date: 08/29/14

203 Hillcrest Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Brian Santinello
Seller: Holly Malloy
Date: 08/29/14

133 Maple St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: William L. Matte
Seller: Robert S. Nowlan
Date: 08/26/14

13 River St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $690,000
Buyer: River St. TR
Seller: Seawind Inc.
Date: 08/29/14

44 Sherwood Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $170,900
Buyer: Vitaly Klimoshenko
Seller: Paul J. Eggleston
Date: 08/29/14

96 Valley View Circle
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $287,800
Buyer: Janet R. Lacasse
Seller: John J. Ryan
Date: 09/05/14

33 Warren St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $147,000
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Kimberly Spaeth-Barta
Date: 08/27/14

117 Wilder Terrace
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $159,700
Buyer: Kelly Desorcy
Seller: Julia V. Paolucci
Date: 08/29/14

260 Wolcott Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Jonathan E. Ruel
Seller: Cheryl Lee
Date: 09/05/14

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

17 Cranberry Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $247,000
Buyer: Victoria Longino
Seller: Janice C. Denton
Date: 08/28/14

9 Flintlock Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $218,100
Buyer: Stanton L. Eads
Seller: Effie Bell
Date: 09/05/14

28 Frost Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $262,450
Buyer: Christina D. Sackett
Seller: Diane Chajes
Date: 08/26/14

Hawthorn Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: D. Kahn
Seller: Tofino Associates LLC
Date: 09/05/14

15 Hickory Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $271,000
Buyer: Patrick H. Chin-Hong
Seller: Jean M. Jackson
Date: 08/29/14

258 Potwine Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Adam Sitze
Seller: Nancy Antik
Date: 08/25/14

South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: CIL Realty of Mass. Inc.
Seller: RGC LLC
Date: 08/29/14

50 Tracy Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Charles L. Burke
Seller: Kenneth A. Johnson
Date: 09/02/14

BELCHERTOWN

190 Bardwell St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Raymond Cliche
Seller: Timothy J. Cunningham
Date: 08/29/14

10 Hickory Hill
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $362,500
Buyer: Doreen Rios
Seller: JN Duquette & Son Construction
Date: 08/28/14

11 Laurel Ridge Dr.
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Thomas R. Hresko
Seller: Brian W. Sherman
Date: 08/29/14

11 Ledgewood Circle
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Benjamen Delozier
Seller: Karl Richardson
Date: 08/29/14

471 State St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Mitchell E. Davis
Seller: Kenneth F. Kitchell
Date: 08/28/14

CHESTERFIELD

63 Stage Road
Chesterfield, MA 01026
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Robert S. Berniche
Seller: Thomas B. Fern
Date: 09/04/14

CUMMINGTON

190 Trouble St.
Cummington, MA 01026
Amount: $289,500
Buyer: Michael S. Kellogg
Seller: Ralph Jagelavicius
Date: 08/29/14

EASTHAMPTON

10 1st Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Eileen G. Meyers
Seller: Alison Matthews
Date: 08/29/14

20-22 Arthur St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $276,500
Buyer: Thomas R. Hathaway
Seller: Robert A. Labrie RT
Date: 08/29/14

30 Chapin St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Ronald L. Childs
Seller: Stephen A. Parent
Date: 08/27/14

27 Garfield Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $259,000
Buyer: Angela M. Zammarelli
Seller: Andrew Keller
Date: 08/29/14

58 Garfield Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Michaela A. Litzner
Seller: Patricia A. Laurin

16 John St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: Marin Goldstein
Seller: Gloria D. Lebeau
Date: 09/02/14

9 Lang Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $287,500
Buyer: Eve Endicott
Seller: John K. Watling
Date: 08/25/14

15 Lawson Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Martin L. Tessier
Date: 08/27/14

29 Meadowbrook Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $292,000
Buyer: Erica L. Banz
Seller: Wayne F. Corriveau
Date: 08/29/14

108 Park St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: KM Properties LLC
Seller: Mark A. Kessler
Date: 08/29/14

7 Pinebrook Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $246,000
Buyer: Allen S. Hall
Seller: Wayne R. & J. M. Spaulding TR
Date: 08/27/14

18 Sandra Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $291,500
Buyer: Catherine J. Potak
Seller: Chester A. Ogulewicz
Date: 08/27/14

6 Searle Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Colby E. Quinn
Seller: Robert C. Fedor
Date: 09/04/14

20 Strong St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $247,000
Buyer: Raul Escobar
Seller: Jeffrey B. Winston
Date: 08/29/14

13 Water St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Jessica Spaulding
Seller: Diane C. Sjodahl
Date: 09/05/14

15 Winter St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Elizabeth J. Couchon
Seller: Wayne S. Nelson
Date: 08/29/14

GOSHEN

24 West Shore Dr.
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Paul B. Voss
Seller: James J. Ripa
Date: 08/26/14

GRANBY

11 Leo Dr.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $143,279
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Kristen Grabowski
Date: 09/02/14

HADLEY

12 Lawrence Plain Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $121,500
Buyer: CIL Realty of Mass. Inc.
Seller: Jason M. Kicza
Date: 08/29/14

57 Roosevelt St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Brandon M. Daniel
Seller: Andrew Sek
Date: 08/29/14

43 Shattuck Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Scott P. Ring
Seller: Gwen A. Quinlan
Date: 08/29/14

HATFIELD

104 Main St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Red Barn Realty LLC
Seller: Partenheimer, B. L., (Estate)
Date: 08/29/14

46 North St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $252,000
Buyer: Jason D. Charpentier
Seller: Jessie J. Frodyma
Date: 08/29/14

HUNTINGTON

46 Littleville Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Keith A. Boylan
Seller: Gaylon R. Donovan
Date: 09/02/14

69 Worthington Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Karen S. Lucas
Seller: Morgan P. Whitaker
Date: 09/04/14

NORTHAMPTON

24 Audubon Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $267,500
Buyer: Alix L. Olson
Seller: Bernard F. Shea
Date: 08/29/14

71 Bradford St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Norseman Realty LLC
Seller: Comcast of Mass. 2 Inc.
Date: 09/04/14

176 Brookside Circle
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Alice M. Crocker
Seller: Mary A. Riordon
Date: 08/26/14

368 Chesterfield Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Henry E. Rivera
Seller: Mary J. Price
Date: 08/29/14

46 Chestnut Ave.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Molly H. Senn-McNally
Seller: Patrick J. Melnik
Date: 08/29/14

120 Emerson Way
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Hampshire Property Management
Seller: Emerson Way LLC
Date: 08/29/14

83 Emerson Way
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Hampshire Property Management
Seller: Emerson Way LLC
Date: 08/29/14

91 Emerson Way
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $519,900
Buyer: Kimberly B. Dawson LT
Seller: Hampshire Property Management
Date: 08/29/14

9 Laurel St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $392,923
Buyer: Anthony I. Paik
Seller: Transformations Inc.
Date: 09/04/14

97 Marian St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Sheryl Hall
Seller: Lorna Fitch
Date: 08/25/14

61 Nonotuck St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $327,009
Buyer: Elizabeth Pryor
Seller: Sheryl J. Hall
Date: 08/25/14

115 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $198,888
Buyer: Kathleen R. Drummond
Seller: FHLM
Date: 08/26/14

892 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $219,900
Buyer: Arthur Charland
Seller: Maureen F. Senn-McNally
Date: 08/29/14

56 Stilson Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Richard G. Egan
Seller: Richard G. Egan
Date: 08/26/14

20 Walnut St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $373,000
Buyer: Sarah A. Carr
Seller: John S. Gay
Date: 09/02/14

1023 Westhampton Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $273,000
Buyer: Jon Fruge
Seller: Sarah O. Horan
Date: 08/29/14

1045 Westhampton Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Seney
Seller: Mount Tom Properties LLC
Date: 08/28/14

105 Willow St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Adin Thayer
Seller: Walter E. Lempart
Date: 08/26/14

PELHAM

27 Gulf Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $292,500
Buyer: Jeffers L. Engelhardt
Seller: Jennifer J. Tanguay
Date: 09/05/14

17 Harkness Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Kathryn K. Maude
Seller: Shawn C. Charest
Date: 08/29/14

SOUTH HADLEY

67 Amherst Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Wang Z. Hua
Seller: Kelly A. Martins
Date: 09/05/14

88 Bardwell St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $219,000
Buyer: Keith S. Leary
Seller: George W. Schnugger
Date: 08/29/14

6 Birch Hill Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Linda E. Brennan
Seller: Ellen V. Murphy
Date: 09/05/14

4 Birchwood Place
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Andrew D. Harto
Seller: Andrew J. Fox
Date: 09/03/14

24 Canal St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $217,000
Buyer: Christopher L. Deady
Seller: Shirley J. Turner
Date: 09/05/14

12 Central Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Jason E. Arena
Seller: Kendall, Helen I., (Estate)
Date: 08/26/14

7 Crystal Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Jonathan H. Aseltine
Seller: Ralph S. Fiore
Date: 08/29/14

45 Fairview St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $144,827
Buyer: Molly J. Bertles
Seller: Patrick J. Spring
Date: 08/27/14

Jacobs Way #2
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: William B. McDonough
Seller: Home Improvement Assocs.
Date: 09/03/14

548 New Ludlow Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Moynihan Realty Group LLC
Seller: Jacques Construction Inc.
Date: 09/05/14

1 Pheasant Run
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Gregory R. Sheehan
Seller: Mark A. Pijar
Date: 09/05/14

40 Pynchon Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $201,500
Buyer: Kevin R. Lumb
Seller: US Bank
Date: 09/05/14

508 River Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Buyer: Lisa A. Bihler
Seller: Edward L. Orwat
Date: 08/29/14

8 Upper River Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $348,000
Buyer: Kristen J. Steele
Seller: David A. Terrell
Date: 08/29/14

SOUTHAMPTON

37 Bissonnette Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $392,500
Buyer: Nathan C. Layman
Seller: F&G Development Corp.
Date: 09/04/14

120 Brickyard Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Miguel A. Gonzalez
Seller: William S. French
Date: 08/25/14

2 Nicholas Lane
Southampton, MA 01085
Amount: $136,850
Buyer: Kevin J. Wedemeyer
Seller: Chester J. Kellogg
Date: 08/27/14

3 Nicholas Lane
Southampton, MA 01085
Amount: $127,500
Buyer: G&F Custom Built Homes
Seller: Chester J. Kellogg
Date: 08/27/14

7 Nicholas Lane
Southampton, MA 01085
Amount: $127,500
Buyer: Czelusniak Custom Homes
Seller: Chester J. Kellogg
Date: 09/03/14

10 Nicholas Lane
Southampton, MA 01085
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: W. Marek Inc.
Seller: Chester J. Kellogg
Date: 08/28/14

3 Old Harvest Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $129,900
Buyer: Matthew Riel
Seller: Triple 7 LLC
Date: 09/04/14

153 Pomeroy Meadow Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $397,000
Buyer: Ahmet Ibic
Seller: James Boyle
Date: 08/28/14

60 Valley Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $292,500
Buyer: Tiffany A. Ross
Seller: Anjanette Kelso
Date: 09/03/14

WARE

27 Gould Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $119,000
Buyer: Raymond J. Andrews
Seller: Shannon M. Pennington
Date: 08/29/14

15 Greenwich Plains Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: Charles R. Burns
Seller: Kevin D. Roux
Date: 08/29/14

339 Monson Turnpike Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $238,000
Buyer: Kevin Roux
Seller: Steven C. Piubeni
Date: 08/29/14

9 Oakridge Circle
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Christopher Robidoux
Seller: Kyle M. Genereux
Date: 08/28/14

7 Sunnyhill Dr.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Olive M. Moulton
Seller: Bridget L. Rohan
Date: 08/28/14

WESTHAMPTON

65 Kings Hwy.
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $133,000
Buyer: Lynn A. Fournier
Seller: David J. Blakesley
Date: 08/28/14

101 Southampton Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Christopher A. Lafond
Seller: Stanley Greenberg IRT

WILLIAMSBURG

123 Petticoat Hill Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Corey A. Fox
Seller: Paul D. Cronin
Date: 09/03/14

Doing Business as Certificates

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of September 2014.

AGAWAM

Advanced Siding & Window Company
72 Witheridge St.
David Fournier

Atlantic Travel
11 Castle Hill Road
Elizabeth Zebian

Deluxe Limousine Services
81 Ramah Circle
Edward Dersarkis

Galoridon Skin Care
33 Hearthstrone Dr.
Lori Gallerani

LaValley Construction
17 Park St.
G & S LaValley

Master Piece
762 Springfield St.
John Minto

CHICOPEE

Central Cleaning Services
275 Hampden St.
Peter Allen

Chicopee Auto Farm Inc.
980 East Main St.
Dwayne Pafumi

Golden Blossom
728 Grattan St.
Ida Gamiora

JE Ryan Wealth Management
76 Dwight St.
Joseph E. Ryan

Paulo’s Salon
309 Front St.
Rebecca Mathieu

HOLYOKE

A3 Petroleum
636 Main St.
Adeeba Rehman

Bogey & Sons Restoration & Custom Woodworking
19 Shepard Dr.
Bogustan Wolanczyk

Cool Berry
50 Holyoke St.
Kelvin Zheng

Fiesta Café
305 Main St.
Cheena Leroux

Little Creations
254 Maple St.
Keila Cajigas

Salon Jade
234 Lyman St.
Jasmine Reyes

Spanky’s Ice Cream
916 Hampden St.
Susan Goff

The Club House
209 South St.
George E. Airoldi

LUDLOW

Gillespie Car Care
407 West St.
Brian Gillespie

Project Dance
194 East St.
Libby Dowling

Windmill Farm and Garden Center
456 Holyoke St.
Donald Kibbe

NORTHAMPTON

Advanced Small Engine Sales
187 Locust St.
Andrew Mortimer

Birdhouse Music
13 King St.
Glenn Alper

Feeding Tube Records
221 Pine St.
Edward Lee

Starr’s Pizzeria
59 Main St.
Damian Fernandez

Supreme Auto Detail Plus
23 Hooker Ave.
Daniel Stone

Wadi Rum Yoga
30 Aldrich St.
Alena Bartoli

SPRINGFIELD

Joe Young Studios
26 Colfax St.
Joseph Young

Karen’s Incredible
312 Rosewell St.
Karen Yousfi

Moriarty’s Pub & Grill
755 Liberty St.
Michael Moriarty

Number IV Media
89 Perkins St.
Betel Arnold

Pioneer Valley Legal
34 Sumner Ave.
Karen J. Murphy

Plaud’s Style Beauty
604 Page Blvd.
Jose L. Plaud

Red Bird Kids
96 Winton St.
Sarah Haag

Revolution Auto Team
29 Terrence St.
Edward Otero

Roberto’s Bar & Grill Inc.
80 Worthington St.
Paul Ramesh

Ruth Family Daycare
44 Lester St.
Ruthnie Alce

Salazar Jewelry & Gifts
316 Locust St.
Edith Augustin

Sawkat Wally
285 Belmont Ave.
Sawkat Wally

Simple Business Solutions
320 Main St.
Christopher Fern

Solid Gold Beauty Palace
40 Berkshire Ave.
Eunice Kennedy

Spanky Johnson Transport
172 Pheland St.
Orangie L. Cole

Springfield Mobil
1830 Wilbraham Road
Lehigh Gas-Ohio

Sterling Architectural
55 Avocado St.
Alpha Builders Inc.

Strait Cheese
302 Locust St.
Morrell J. Smith

Studio 2000
2460 Main St.
Ana Lopez

TNT Fast Stop
402 King St.
Tyshun O. Riles

T-Mobile
800 Boston Road
T-Mobile Northeast

Tony’s Candy Wholesale
44 Orange St.
Ramon Padilla

Trent Guihan
46 Pilgrim Road
Trent Guihan

Tufts Health Plan Medicare
1441 Main St.
Lois Cornell

VIP Nails
475 Breckwood Blvd.
Tommy Nguyen

Whisper Jesus
93 Druid Hill Road
Rebecca A. Keefe

Zen Welding
133 Ashbrook St.
Kurt Y. Rohmer

WEST SPRINGFIELD

5-Star Bookkeeping Services
169 Main St.
Jeffrey Chickerella

Beauty Gate Salon and Spa
1646 Riverdale St.
Konrad Chimel

Best Western
429 Riverdale St.
Natu Patel

Costco Wholesale
119 Daggett Dr.
Costco Corporation

Coveris Advanced Coatings
69 William Franks Dr.
Ed McCarron

Cumberland Farms
22 Park St.
Cumberland Farms Inc.

D & L Home Productions
148 River St.
Shane Loiselle

Derma-Redi
183 Ashley St.
Dean C. Vogel

Dots
373 Memorial Ave.
Swapnil Shah

Footit Medical Supply
340 Memorial Ave.
Richard Spafford

John Henderson Painting
110 Laurel St.
John Henderson Jr.

Karma Yoga
2260 Westfield St.
Suzanne Marotta

Kuhnel’s Auto Inc.
2309 Westfield St.
Jay F. Walts

Lubanski Construction
57 Hill St.
Brandon Lubanski

Omnicare of West Springfield
85 Interstate Dr.
MHHP Acquisition

Ron’s Flooring
18 Ferry Ave.
Ronald J. Charbonneau

People on the Move

Departments People on the Move

Kamari Collins

Kamari Collins was recently appointed to the position of Dean of Academic Advising and Student Success at Springfield Technical Community College by the STCC board of trustees after serving as the college’s director of academic advising since 2011. Collins began his employment with the college in 2007 as an academic counselor. Prior to his employment with STCC, he served as the director of youth and education programs at the Urban League of Springfield for several years. Collins earned both his bachelor’s degree and his master’s degree with a concentration in organizational management and leadership from Springfield College. He was named one of BusinessWest magazine’s 40 Under Forty in 2009 and currently serves as a board member of the Children’s Study Home and Urban League of Springfield Inc. and the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts education committee.
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William Hart Jr.

John Pucci

Fourteen lawyers from Bulkley Richardson were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2015. Bulkley Richardson had the most honorees of any law firm in Springfield, with 12 of its 14 selected lawyers based in its Springfield office. Two of the firm’s honorees were also named Springfield “Lawyer of the Year” in specific practice areas. William Hart Jr. was so honored in the category of trusts and estates, and John Pucci for criminal defense, white-collar. He was also recognized in the area of criminal defense, non-white-collar. The following Bulkley Richardson lawyers were also selected for the 2015 edition of Best Lawyers:

Peter Barry

Michael Burke

Mark Cress

Francis Dibble Jr.

Daniel Finnegan

Robert Gelinas

Kevin Maynard

David Parke

Melinda Phelps

Donn Randall

Ellen Randle

Ronald Weiss

•Peter Barry: construction law;
• Michael Burke: medical-malpractice law (defendants); personal-injury litigation (defendants);
• Mark Cress: bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights; insolvency and reorganization law; corporate law;
• Francis Dibble Jr.: bet-the-company litigation; commercial litigation; litigation (anti-trust, labor and employment, securities);
• Daniel Finnegan: administrative/regulatory law; litigation (construction);
• Robert Gelinas: personal-injury litigation (defendants);
• Kevin Maynard: commercial litigation; litigation (banking and finance, construction);
• David Parke: corporate law;
• Melinda Phelps: medical-malpractice law (defendants); personal-injury litigation (defendants);
• Donn Randall: commercial litigation;
• Ellen Randle: family law; and
• Ronald Weiss: corporate law; mergers and acquisitions law; tax law.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence. Because it is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 52,000 leading attorneys cast almost 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
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Robinson Donovan, P.C. announced that seven of its attorneys will be included in the 2015 edition of the prestigious national guide Best Lawyers in America. Robinson Donovan attorneys were included in a number of categories, with three lawyers earning additional Lawyer of the Year recognition for their practice area. Only one lawyer in each practice area in each community is eligible to be named Lawyer of the Year. The Robinson Donovan honorees include:
• Richard Gaberman: corporate law; real estate law, commercial; tax certiorari; tax law; trusts and estates (23rd consecutive year); Lawyer of the Year, real-estate law. Also previous Lawyer of the Year award for trusts and estates
• James Martin: franchise law, automobile dealerships; real-estate law, franchise
• Jeffrey McCormick: personal-injury litigation, automobile collision; catastrophic injury; civil litigation; ethics and professional responsibility; insurance; medical malpractice; premises liability; professional malpractice
• Carla Newton: family law; Lawyer of the Year, family law
• Nancy Frankel Pelletier: personal-injury law, defendants (10th consecutive year)
• Patricia Rapinchuk: employment law, management; litigation, labor and employment; Lawyer of the Year, employment law, management
• Jeffrey Roberts: corporate law; trusts and estates; also previous Lawyer of the Year award for trusts and estates
For more than 30 years, Best Lawyers has been regarded, by both the legal profession and the public, as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the U.S. The 2015 volume of Best Lawyers, the 21st edition, is based on a rigorous evaluation process that included thousands of clients, highly skilled lawyers, and law-firm representatives.
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Tina Stevens

Tina Stevens has joined Greenfield Community College as an adjunct faculty member for the academic year. She will be teaching “Principles of Marketing,” an in-depth course covering the fundamental concepts of marketing, including the hands-on preparation of a marketing plan for a local business. Stevens is the principal and creative director of Stevens 470 in Westfield, a multi-channel marketing consultancy. With more than 20 years of experience growing the agency and working with a diverse mix of clients, she has real-world experience in developing and directing marketing plans. She focuses her attention on creating successful strategies for clients and executing those solutions throughout today’s marketing channels. Stevens attended Greenfield Community College and earned an associate degree in graphic design. She received her bachelor’s degree from Westfield State University and also has a master’s degree in advertising design from Syracuse University through its Independent Study Degree Program for working professionals in the creative industry.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected UMass Amherst Professor James Kurose to serve as Assistant Director for its directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). The three-year appointment begins in January 2015. Kurose is distinguished professor in UMass Amherst’s School of Computer Science, a position he has held since 2004. He has also served in a number of administrative roles, including chair of the department, interim dean, executive associate dean of the College of Natural Sciences, and senior faculty advisor to the vice chancellor for research and engagement. With Keith Ross, he co-authored the textbook Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, which is in its 6th edition. CISE’s mission is to promote the progress of computer and information science and engineering research and education and advance the development and use of cyber infrastructure; promote understanding of the principles and uses of advanced computer, communication, and information systems in support of societal priorities; and contribute to universal, transparent, and affordable participation in a knowledge-based society.
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Attain Therapy + Fitness announced the hiring of Michael Fall, who will act as the facility Manager and treating Physical Therapist at the recently acquired facility at 65 Springfield Road in Westfield. Fall has been practicing orthopedic physical therapy for more than 30 years. He has owned, built, and subsequently sold two private practices in Connecticut. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from Quinnipiac University in 1983, a master’s degree in orthopedic physical therapy in 1992, and his Ph.D. in biomechanics from the University of Connecticut in 2001. In 2013, he was accepted into the prestigious Gray Institute, where he completed two 40-week fellowship programs in applied and advanced applied functional science, and earned his fellowship in applied functional science.
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Dr. Thomas Wadzinski has joined Dr. James Bell, Dr. Amy Pelletier, Dr. Hanna Awkal, and nurse practitioner Mary Andaloro on the provider staff at Fairview Pediatrics. Board-certified in general pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology, Wadzinski will be able to provide both primary-care and pediatric-endocrinology services to his patients. Wadzinski earned both his medical degree and his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from UMass Medical School in Worcester, and completed his pediatric residency at Baystate Medical Center. He recently completed a pediatric-endocrinology fellowship at Baystate Medical Center, including service as an adjunct research assistant professor at UMass Amherst.

Construction Employers Add 16,000 Jobs in September

By BusinessWest Staff October 6, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Construction employers added 16,000 jobs last month, and the sector’s unemployment rate fell to 7%, the lowest rate for September in years, according to an analysis released by Associated General Contractors of America.

Association officials said the construction-employment gains come as more firms report having a hard time finding enough qualified workers to fill available positions, citing the lack of local vocational training programs, especially at the secondary level.

“While we are eager to see even more construction-employment gains, there is no denying the fact that the industry has been in recovery mode for much of the past three years,” said Stephen Sandherr, the association’s CEO. “But the industry won’t be able to keep filling positions if there aren’t enough qualified workers available to fill them.”

Construction employment totaled 6,079,000 in September, the highest total since May 2009, with a 12-month gain of 230,000 jobs, or 3.9%, Sandherr noted. Residential building and specialty-trade contractors added a combined 11,800 employees since August and 129,400 (5.9%) over 12 months. Non-residential building and specialty-trade contractors hired a net of 3,700 workers for the month and 100,300 (2.7%) since September 2013. However, heavy and civil-engineering contractors, which perform the majority of public-sector construction, increased their headcount by only 500 in September and 29,000 (3.3%) over the year amid tight government budget conditions.

The number of workers who said they looked for work in the past month and had last worked in construction fell to 604,000 in September. The last time the number of unemployed construction workers dropped that low was August 2007, a time when the construction industry was struggling with widespread construction-worker shortages that prompted project delays and increased costs, Sandherr noted.

Freedom Credit Union Project Among Seven Approved by State

By BusinessWest Staff September 26, 2014

SPRINGFIELD — The Economic Assistance Coordinating Council (EACC) approved seven projects for participation in the Economic Development Incentive Program (EDIP), which are expected to create 433 new jobs and retain 460 existing jobs, in addition to leveraging more than $61 million in private investment and supporting construction projects across the Commonwealth.

Among the approved projects are five manufacturing companies and three projects located in gateway cities, including one involving Freedom Credit Union and a new branch in Springfield. The EDIP program will facilitate the growth of these businesses, which will contribute to job creation and private investment in the state. The EACC meets on a quarterly basis to review applications.

“Supporting companies that are choosing to grow in Massachusetts is an important part and one of the administration’s key economic-development objectives to create economic opportunity in every region of the Commonwealth,” said Michael Hunter, executive director of the Mass. Office of Business Development. “These investments will help these companies expand and continue to enhance the Massachusetts economy by making our communities stronger in the long term.”

The EDIP is the Commonwealth’s investment tax-credit program for businesses. In 2009, Gov. Deval Patrick and Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki, along with the Legislature, reformed the program, and, as a result, the EDIP has become one of the most effective programs helping business grow in Massachusetts. EDIP tax credits and other incentives are available to companies that make qualifying investments in new facilities and create new jobs. Those benefits can be recaptured if a company does not make the investments or create the jobs it projected.

Since these changes, 204 projects have received approval, leading to the potential creation of 14,416 new jobs, the retention of 40,911 existing jobs, and the leveraging of more than $5.5 billion in private investment. The EACC has assisted 111 manufacturers through the EDIP and has supported 94 projects in gateway cities.

The new facility in Springfield will be Freedom Credit Union’s 10th branch. As a result of the growth of the credit union, along with increased federal banking regulations, the organization is seeking to consolidate it’s two leased administrative facilities totaling approximately 7,000 square feet into a 12,000-square-foot facility in Springfield. The tax-increment-financing-only project will require an investment of approximately $2.2 million to consolidate back-office administration into a single location. The project will create 13 new full-time jobs in Springfield, and 16 employees will be transferred from Agawam to Springfield. The city of Springfield is supporting the project with a five-year tax-increment-financing agreement valued at $90,100.

Construction Veteran

Construction Sections

Brian Gibbons Transitions from Military to Successful Building Career

By KEVIN FLANDERS

Brian Gibbons is gratified that his growing construction company does plenty of work that benefits fellow veterans.

Brian Gibbons is not your typical entrepreneur, nor did he follow the conventional routes to becoming a business owner. But success, his staff has learned, isn’t contingent upon adhering to a specific formula. It’s all about being creative and making the most of every opportunity.

Gibbons, president of Springfield-based Brican Inc., opened his construction business in 2007 after a 24-year career as a Seabee engineer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Utilizing the Service-disabled Veteran-owned Business Program of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), he was able to get his business off the ground at a time when the economic climate was about to become much more challenging. Looking back now, he knows he couldn’t have done it without assistance from the program instituted by the SBA in 2003 to help veteran-owned businesses succeed.

“In my case, it [the SBA program] did exactly what it is intended to do,” said Gibbons, who joined the Navy Reserve following his freshman year in college. “I never would have been a business owner without that program.”

Seven years later, Brican is thriving at the corner of State and Dwight streets, specializing in commercial, industrial, and institutional building systems. Its staff of just over 20 is expected to grow, and its project list continues to expand each year. Well-versed in federal contracts, the majority of the company’s projects have been completed for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), with the average job coming in between $2 million and $5 million.

“We have had projects throughout the East, from Ohio up to Maine,” Gibbons said. “We are always checking on different opportunities and bidding them.”

Veterans Helping Veterans

Gibbons, who took an early interest in construction as a teenager cleaning up job sites for his neighbor during high-school summer vacations, never imagined what doors the Navy Reserve would open for him. The experiences accrued during his nearly quarter-century tenure have helped him long after his transition back to civilian life, and he is always eager to take on projects that assist others who served their nation.

As a veteran-owned business, Gibbons isn’t surprised that the VA is Brican’s best client, as the agency routinely sets aside projects to be bid exclusively by small firms led by vets. But for Gibbons, construction for the VA is about far more than erecting structures — it’s about making a difference in the lives of those who served. As such, Gibbons says his most rewarding project to date was the construction of a building for the Northampton VA Medical Center’s acute psychiatric ward. Completed in 2013, the prototype project set new standards for the construction of such facilities, specifically those designed to prevent suicide and injury, with specialists from throughout the nation traveling to Northampton to offer input.

“In the past, they often used many of the techniques you see in prisons, but lately they have realized that the people in these facilities are sick, not prisoners,” Gibbons said. “We approached the job very empathetically. The goal was to help the VA come up with ideas to minimize the dangers to patients and staff. As a veteran, it’s always rewarding to work on projects that help other veterans.”

Brican has also immersed itself in the energy side of construction over the last few years, recently taking on several boiler-plant safety projects. Ground was broken on one such job last month, a combined heat and power plant at a VA-owned facility in Newington, Conn, which Gibbons expects to be finished by the end of next year.

New Growth

While statistics are always valuable, a quick glimpse at the whiteboard in Brican’s conference room sufficiently indicates the direction of the business. Filled from end to end with project information, the board keeps Gibbons’s bustling staff constantly updated on what needs to be done. And they certainly prefer to be busy, especially in an industry that has seen its share of challenges statewide in recent years.

But no matter how one looks at it — project totals, staff size, buildings acquired — Brican is a rapidly expanding company, its reputation building along with its structures. Whenever a project is erased from the whiteboard upon completion, another one quickly replaces it.

Gibbons hopes that his staff, which currently includes about 20 people, will grow to nearly 30 as more work comes in from the private end of the construction spectrum. “Our largest job so far was just under $16 million, and we are definitely looking to increase our work on the private side,” he added.

General contractors go only as far as their staffs take them, though, which is yet another reason for Brican’s success. Gibbons said each of his project managers handles up to three projects at a time — including Gibbons himself, who has focused on everything from management to estimating. He wears many hats as the owner of a small business, but he has also been impressed by his employees’ ability to multitask and split time between multiple projects.

In particular, Gibbons praised engineer Mike Belanger, who brings more than 20 years of experience to Brican, as well as project manager Todd Spooner and his 30-year career in the industry.

But along with more projects comes a need for more employees who can handle an array of assignments, a need Gibbons recognizes. “As we continue to grow, we will probably hire another project manager who can assist with estimating.”

Of course, as a military veteran who takes pride in his years of service and how they helped prepare him for life as a small-business owner, Gibbons is always on the lookout for veterans searching for work. His staff already includes a few vets, and he enjoys providing them with opportunities following their service. As veterans conclude their service in the Middle East, SBA officials have attempted to open as many avenues as possible for job creation and entrepreneurship. One such avenue is the Service-disabled Veteran-owned Business Program that Gibbons qualified for, and now he’s completing the cycle by hiring veterans.

“I try to give as much preference as possible to veterans,” he told BusinessWest. “I am always looking for good people to work here.”

Next-door Options

Brican is also expanding from an acquisition perspective. In March, Gibbons purchased the building adjacent to his State Street office at a tax title auction. He is keeping his options open for the purpose of the 1890s-era building, but he mentioned several possibilities, including using it for additional office space.

“We have done a lot of work to clean it up; it was a real mess before,” he said. “I think it would make a great office for a contractor, and I would love to see it rehabbed. There are a lot of opportunities we are considering right now for the building.”

Gibbons said he likely won’t make a final decision on the building until he learns whether or not the nearby MGM casino project will proceed, a development that would create jobs and drive up demand for rental spaces throughout Springfield and neighboring towns. If the right opportunity were to present itself, a rental or lease situation might prove to be the most beneficial purpose for the building, but no decisions have been made yet.

In addition to the State Street acquisition, Gibbons has a full plate, with 18 active projects and expected staff increases. It’s all part of leading a small business on the rise, a business built by a veteran whose employees and clients are also veterans. But while Brican specializes in federal contracts and institutional construction, what sets it apart from other businesses, he said, is its ability to handle private construction as well.

“We have a great staff,” he said. “Everyone comes from a different background in terms of experiences and education levels, and we work well together as a team.”

Real Estate Transactions

FRANKLIN COUNTY

ASHFIELD

1280 Hawley Road
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Cari Pazmino
Seller: Bickford, George F., (Estate)
Date: 08/13/14

349 Norton Hill Road
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $261,000
Buyer: Sarah C. Spademan
Seller: Fitzgerald INT
Date: 08/15/14

BERNARDSTON

25 Shedd Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Florence Savings Bank
Seller: John Meisner
Date: 08/12/14

BUCKLAND

63 Conway St.
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Eric J. Miller
Seller: Cynthia M. Jarvis
Date: 08/22/14

73 North St.
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Christopher E. Lannon
Seller: Keith A. Sumner
Date: 08/15/14

CHARLEMONT

2129 Route 2
Charlemont, MA 01339
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Lawrence R. Bruffee
Seller: J. G. Wilson
Date: 08/15/14

COLRAIN

236 Ed Clark Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: Barrett G. Martin
Seller: Eileen E. Folan RET
Date: 08/15/14

DEERFIELD

61 Eastern Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $218,000
Buyer: Lucas E. Eriksen
Seller: Kuzdeba, Marie J., (Estate)
Date: 08/12/14

108 Lee Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $196,000
Buyer: David F. Brown
Seller: Lois M. Brown
Date: 08/11/14

54 Sawmill Plain Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Franklin S. Schwerin
Seller: Brian C. Lenarczyk
Date: 08/22/14

ERVING

2 Central St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $154,650
Buyer: Lance R. Bugbee
Seller: Allen L. Constantine
Date: 08/13/14

3 Northfield Road
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $163,900
Buyer: Joseph E. Guidaboni
Seller: Paul A. Cichanowicz
Date: 08/22/14

14 Wells St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Neil E. Jordan
Seller: Black, Edward R., (Estate)
Date: 08/14/14

GILL

4 Main Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Schecterle Properties LLC
Seller: 4-6 Main Road RT LLC
Date: 08/19/14

GREENFIELD

23 Farren St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Tyler J. Clark
Seller: Bruce Bergstrom
Date: 08/14/14

4 Holland Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: Kelly C. Popoff
Seller: William F. Klein
Date: 08/14/14

70 Lovers Lane
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $338,000
Buyer: Karissa A. Johnson
Seller: Richard R. Thompson
Date: 08/11/14

5 Marshall St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $136,000
Buyer: Karen M. White
Seller: Travis Sinclair
Date: 08/15/14

9 Silver Crest Lane #9
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $258,900
Buyer: George D. Mislak
Seller: Country Club Road LLC
Date: 08/21/14

HAWLEY

324 East Hawley Road
Hawley, MA 01339
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Drew M. Harrison
Seller: Paula Wilson
Date: 08/12/14

LEVERETT

1 Depot Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Peter Laznicka
Seller: Margaret M. Marshall
Date: 08/15/14

8 North Leverett Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Mayumi K. Fraser
Seller: Robert A. Lowry
Date: 08/15/14

MONTAGUE

14 Bulkley St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Travis J. Sinclair
Seller: Joseph A. Bastarache
Date: 08/15/14

23 Coolidge Ave.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Kelly R. Renaud
Seller: Eric J. Miller
Date: 08/22/14

18 High St.
Montague, MA 01344
Amount: $289,337
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Nathan G. Peterson
Date: 08/15/14

102 Millers Falls Road
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $160,900
Buyer: Ted Armen
Seller: Raymond D. Kingsbury
Date: 08/21/14

6 Park St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $159,000
Buyer: Lillian J. Moss
Seller: Eileen T. Terrill
Date: 08/15/14

44 Vladish Ave.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $228,900
Buyer: Joshua R. Martin
Seller: Edward F. Wilcox
Date: 08/15/14

16 Winthrop St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Joseph Lapinski
Seller: George C. Caisse
Date: 08/15/14

NEW SALEM

60 Stone Hill Road
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $260,863
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: John F. Pelletier
Date: 08/15/14

NORTHFIELD

40 Pine St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Jenifer McCaskey
Seller: Northfield Mt. Hermon School
Date: 08/22/14

ORANGE

310 Holtshire Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Susan Fried
Seller: Nancy B. Hamel
Date: 08/15/14

2 Packard Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: CIL Realty of Massachusetts
Seller: Eric Kosciusko
Date: 08/14/14

225 South Main St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Sarah M. Higgins
Seller: Brian J. Spear
Date: 08/19/14

49 Warwick Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Julie M. Lemay
Seller: Paul A. Larocque
Date: 08/22/14

SHELBURNE

14 High St.
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Thomas E. Kuklinski
Seller: Margaret S. Jones RET
Date: 08/13/14

40 Reynolds Road
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $243,900
Buyer: Julie Kingsbury
Seller: George D. Mislak
Date: 08/21/14

WHATELY

117 River Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $341,000
Buyer: Andrew J. Pickert
Seller: James M. Rigali
Date: 08/15/14

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

98 Barbara Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $246,370
Buyer: Sistiano A. Liebro
Seller: John J. Cope
Date: 08/22/14

55 Christopher Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Wayne M. Barbour
Seller: Anthony J. Ieraci
Date: 08/13/14

41 Debra Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $214,575
Buyer: Gary T. Stone
Seller: Marjorie Hibbert
Date: 08/12/14

19 Family Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $349,900
Buyer: Paul M. Cooney
Seller: Ernest L. Doucette
Date: 08/22/14

79 Forest Ridge Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Karen A. Garvey
Seller: Marcia J. Hill
Date: 08/22/14

27 Mallard Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $269,900
Buyer: Elias Sanabria
Seller: William T. Reid
Date: 08/15/14

278 North West St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $522,000
Buyer: Derrick M. Turnbull
Seller: Robert P. Brown
Date: 08/15/14

9 Parkedge Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $202,000
Buyer: Joseph O. Levesque
Seller: Charles H. Stowers
Date: 08/22/14

17 Ruth Ave.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Rebecca Budreau
Seller: Paul M. Cooney
Date: 08/22/14

109 South Park Terrace
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $199,999
Buyer: Alan R. Duprey
Seller: Carl M. Wiley
Date: 08/22/14

490 Southwick St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $180,500
Buyer: James G. Devoe
Seller: Eleanor R. Stepanik
Date: 08/20/14

5 Squire Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Karen Crevier-Estes
Seller: William P. Talty
Date: 08/15/14

BRIMFIELD

22 Dearth Hill Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Tracey Lemieux
Seller: Jason Czech
Date: 08/11/14

15 Lyman Barnes Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $206,000
Buyer: Joshua Bartlett
Seller: Garrett S. Beyor
Date: 08/12/14

7 Oakwood Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $188,000
Buyer: Peter J. Szarlan
Seller: Tracey L. Wiley
Date: 08/14/14

CHESTER

117 Bromley Road
Chester, MA 01050
Amount: $147,500
Buyer: Matthew J. Couture
Seller: Nancy A. Meacham
Date: 08/15/14

CHICOPEE

85 Alfred St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $195,200
Buyer: Jennifer L. McKinney
Seller: Eric P. Estes
Date: 08/15/14

160 Artisan St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Vasilii Tsyganenko
Seller: Scott R. Kreitler
Date: 08/14/14

22 Burton St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Peter S. Ellis
Seller: Michele M. Michaelis
Date: 08/22/14

989 Chicopee St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $120,500
Buyer: Paul M. Berneche
Seller: Eda Olivieri
Date: 08/19/14

16 Crestwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Donna M. Cerez
Seller: Paula A. Bak
Date: 08/15/14

141 Cyran St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $174,900
Buyer: Eric R. Larose
Seller: Nostin, Irene M., (Estate)
Date: 08/15/14

69 Felix St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Elizabeth J. Delmonte
Seller: N Riley Construction Inc.
Date: 08/15/14

1111 Grattan St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $1,694,700
Buyer: Solenis LLC
Seller: Hercules Inc.
Date: 08/14/14

68 Hampshire St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $148,000
Buyer: Jonathan G. Rosario
Seller: David R. Beaulieu
Date: 08/13/14

29 Jeanette Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Karen J. Bizon
Seller: Frances L. Alix
Date: 08/22/14

13 Laramee St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $137,554
Buyer: Megan E. Haas
Seller: Mindy L. Goulet
Date: 08/14/14

56 Laramee St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Todd A. Langevin
Seller: Sharyn A. Laterza
Date: 08/11/14

92 Mary St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Renee M. Bouchard
Seller: Bailly, Denise, (Estate)
Date: 08/18/14

128 Monroe St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Romeo Olivieri
Seller: Paul S. Kapinos
Date: 08/19/14

62 Montgomery St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Mya K. LLC
Seller: Deborah Slate
Date: 08/22/14

65 Mount Vernon Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: David C. Labrie
Seller: Walter R. Welch
Date: 08/15/14

92 Oakridge St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $188,900
Buyer: Ronald J. Orzechowski
Seller: Frances A. Cabrera
Date: 08/15/14

20 Peace St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: Adam M. Burek
Seller: Michael E. Dziok
Date: 08/13/14

71 Raylo St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: John F. Tenczar
Seller: Bette J. Lord-Hess
Date: 08/15/14

60 Roy St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Naila Akram
Seller: Margaret A. Morin
Date: 08/13/14

1611 Westover Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Frances A. Cabrera
Seller: Agapi Salloum
Date: 08/15/14

31 White St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Dennis C. Vandal
Seller: James A. Ginnetti
Date: 08/13/14

EAST LONGMEADOW

25 Capri Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Eric M. John
Seller: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction
Date: 08/15/14

220 Chestnut St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Jennifer M. Lyons
Seller: Bednarz, Henry J., (Estate)
Date: 08/12/14

20 Country Club Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Debra Kelly-Hayes
Seller: Michael S. Shea
Date: 08/21/14

47 Evergreen Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $424,900
Buyer: Adam J. Fisher
Seller: Raymond F. Wheeler
Date: 08/21/14

32 Frankwyn St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $307,500
Buyer: Patricia A. Kelly
Seller: Adam J. Fisher
Date: 08/21/14

235 Kibbe Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Jonathan D. Varnet
Seller: Moltenbrey Builders LLC
Date: 08/19/14

127 Pembroke Terrace
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $555,000
Buyer: Michael F. Presnal
Seller: Dan Roulier & Associates
Date: 08/18/14

34 Westernview Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Paul S. Dunkerley
Seller: Louise R. Hayes
Date: 08/15/14

110 Westwood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $213,000
Buyer: Sanessa K. Cortina
Seller: Twinbrook Associates LLC
Date: 08/13/14

GRANVILLE

310 Main Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $157,500
Buyer: Cynthia E. Ashley
Seller: Linda B. Kirsche
Date: 08/22/14

272 Silver St.
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Travis A. Gaffey
Seller: Linda Mihlek
Date: 08/15/14

HAMPDEN

160 Glendale Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $362,000
Buyer: Hugh C. Scott
Seller: Denis R. Desrosiers
Date: 08/22/14

401 North Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $359,000
Buyer: Stephen P. McMahon
Seller: William H. Leslie
Date: 08/15/14

47 Woodland Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Shawn A. Teece
Seller: Dean J. Ethier
Date: 08/13/14

HOLYOKE

22 Coit St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $194,900
Buyer: Carol A. Soltys
Seller: Aaron J. Stone
Date: 08/11/14

25 Edward Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Taryn E. Athas
Seller: Karen J. Griffin
Date: 08/21/14

38 Erie Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Kimberly Moorehead
Seller: Linda Pelc
Date: 08/18/14

798 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Alyse M. Anderson
Seller: Robert D. Clark
Date: 08/20/14

35 Longfellow Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Lynn A. Schwartz
Seller: Robert J. Liptak
Date: 08/15/14

73 Lynch Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: David Estabrook
Seller: Matthew S. Riel
Date: 08/21/14

11 Mountain View Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Stella E. Xanthakos
Seller: Mary C. Tarail
Date: 08/20/14

54 North Bridge St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Jeremiah Barrett
Seller: Daniel S. Colon
Date: 08/20/14

132 Pearl St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: Walter R. Clune
Seller: Carol A. McGrady
Date: 08/22/14

320 Pleasant St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Timothy E. Petrowicz
Seller: F. S. Hemmingsen
Date: 08/15/14

93 Queen St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Joshua C. Cordeira
Seller: Brittnie Aiello
Date: 08/14/14

LONGMEADOW

22 Cheshire Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $460,100
Buyer: Oren Brody
Seller: Lisa H. Katz
Date: 08/20/14

87 Forest Glen Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Good Rock LLC
Seller: Kevin M. McCarthy
Date: 08/22/14

407 Frank Smith Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Glenn Calvanese
Seller: Frederick Lak
Date: 08/21/14

117 Hazardville Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: James Burns
Seller: FNMA
Date: 08/14/14

53 Inverness Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Heather A. Burton
Seller: Laurie Horowitz
Date: 08/13/14

237 Kenmore Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $277,000
Buyer: Jamie C. Mackie
Seller: Richard A. Falzone
Date: 08/15/14

181 Magnolia Circle
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $413,400
Buyer: Aimee L. Leonard
Seller: Luayne Schwartz
Date: 08/12/14

441 Maple Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $206,000
Buyer: Jeffrey Lagasse
Seller: Glenn Calvanese
Date: 08/21/14

132 Massachusetts Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $173,500
Buyer: Arie S. Mobley
Seller: Barbara A. Peck
Date: 08/12/14

99 Merriweather Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: DBR NT
Seller: Fafard, Therese A., (Estate)
Date: 08/12/14

105 Northfield Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $570,000
Buyer: Mark J. Viviano
Seller: Lynn A. Schwartz
Date: 08/22/14

627 Pinewood Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $632,000
Buyer: Laki Rousou
Seller: Benjamin W. Silver
Date: 08/15/14

12 Primrose Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $339,000
Buyer: Haifeng Ge
Seller: Owen J. Moriarty
Date: 08/18/14

140 Quinnehtuk Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Heesung Moon
Seller: Fredi A. Goldman
Date: 08/20/14

38 Twin Brook Circle
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $665,000
Buyer: Paul T. Lameka
Seller: Jill A. Fields
Date: 08/15/14

62 Woodsley Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $845,000
Buyer: 76 Duxbury Lane LLC
Seller: Todd Adelson
Date: 08/13/14

LUDLOW

247 Cady St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $229,000
Buyer: Lusitania Realty LLC
Seller: Bozek Realty Inc.
Date: 08/14/14

1380 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Eric E. Chamberlin
Seller: Pauline M. Ryba
Date: 08/14/14

142 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Jose Alves
Seller: Stanley Pyzocha
Date: 08/13/14

74 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $254,900
Buyer: Daniel J. Hague
Seller: Maria D. Martins
Date: 08/15/14

71 Haviland St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Maria D. Martins
Seller: Julio Dasilva
Date: 08/15/14

Parker Lane #6
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $129,900
Buyer: Tuukakorp LLC
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 08/14/14

36 Posner Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Nicklaus Kalish
Seller: Daniel J. Hague
Date: 08/15/14

146 Prospect Gardens
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: David L. Bernard
Seller: New England Development LLC
Date: 08/22/14

302 Ventura St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Stephen G. Witkowsky
Seller: Nancy A. Domenichelli
Date: 08/15/14

360 Winsor St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: Caitlin M. Clark
Seller: Jennifer E. Bastos
Date: 08/15/14

MONSON

38 Circle Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $294,340
Buyer: Remo J. Pizzichemi
Seller: Joan E. Lotze
Date: 08/22/14

286 Hovey Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Edwin Escoto
Seller: Barbara Godfrey
Date: 08/13/14

194 Silver St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $229,500
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Chad D. Atwell
Date: 08/19/14

7 Valley View Heights
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $161,500
Buyer: William Brown
Seller: Jeffrey K. Walker
Date: 08/14/14

187 Wilbraham Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Polish National Credit Union
Seller: Zyta K. Szczepanski
Date: 08/19/14

64 Woodhill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $469,500
Buyer: William A. McLellan
Seller: Sarnelli, Joseph, (Estate)
Date: 08/15/14

19 Zuell Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $249,900
Buyer: Matthew T. Gendron
Seller: David G. Gamblin
Date: 08/15/14

PALMER

11 Country Lane
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Normand P. Roy
Seller: John P. Boucher
Date: 08/15/14

13-19 Lariviere Ave.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: Gregory J. Fedora
Seller: Michael P. Fitzgerald
Date: 08/22/14

1569-1571 North Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: O’Reilly Auto Enterprises
Seller: Colonial Pacific Leasing
Date: 08/21/14

17-23 North St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: John R. Sullivan
Seller: Estelle E. Nietupski
Date: 08/15/14

2021 Overlook Dr.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Nathan R. Lafleche
Seller: Charter, Maria F., (Estate)
Date: 08/14/14

136 Peterson Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $201,500
Buyer: John P. Boucher
Seller: Thomas K. Pajak
Date: 08/15/14

119 State St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: David G. Lane
Seller: Edward H. Boron
Date: 08/15/14

9 Whalen St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Michael Donaghy
Seller: Roger A. Iversen
Date: 08/22/14

21-A Wilbraham St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $958,000
Buyer: Ham 4 Realty LLC
Seller: Edward R. Greenbaum
Date: 08/14/14

SOUTHWICK

197 Granville Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: Maksym Pichnyi
Seller: Carol A. Hadley
Date: 08/22/14

23 Lexington Circle
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $447,000
Buyer: Thomas M. Zywiak
Seller: Philip R. Smith
Date: 08/22/14

169 Vining Hill Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Matthew A. Gaugh
Seller: Eric A. Swensen
Date: 08/20/14

SPRINGFIELD

29 Benz St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $149,000
Buyer: Amy E. Anderson
Seller: Andrew J. Reed
Date: 08/22/14

55 Blaine St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $129,900
Buyer: Joseph M. Santaniello
Seller: Michael A. Torcia
Date: 08/15/14

100 Briggs St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Euphrasia E. Ihesiaba
Seller: Josue Gomes
Date: 08/15/14

127 Carnavon Circle
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Monica E. Fraser
Seller: Anthony T. Willis
Date: 08/22/14

138-140 Carver St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Modesto Nunez
Seller: Edith M. Brown
Date: 08/22/14

204 Chapin Terrace
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Harry E. Torres
Seller: Devon Boreland
Date: 08/19/14

127 Connecticut Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Bachir Boublenza
Seller: Laura M. Pashko
Date: 08/15/14

63 Eckington St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $132,900
Buyer: Peta-Gaye Y. Ewans-Porter
Seller: Irene C. Hyszczak
Date: 08/15/14

217 Ellsworth Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Brent E. Anderson
Seller: Sean C. O’Connor
Date: 08/22/14

35 Fern St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $139,700
Buyer: Chari Darjee
Seller: Thanh V. Pham
Date: 08/22/14

149 Fernbank Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Rafael A. Bones
Seller: FNMA
Date: 08/21/14

30 Garland St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $169,900
Buyer: Hieu T. Nguyen
Seller: Mario R. Arena
Date: 08/18/14

45 Georgetown St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Angel Camacho
Seller: Campagnari Construction LLC
Date: 08/12/14

325 Gillette Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Eurico F. Ferreira
Seller: Richard M. Dansereau
Date: 08/14/14

121-123 Governor St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $154,002
Buyer: Nationstar Mortgage LLC
Seller: Juan P. Hernandez
Date: 08/12/14

48 Grandview St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Nancy A. Domenichelli
Seller: Arlene F. Howe
Date: 08/15/14

142 Melha Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Anatoliy Shumskiy
Seller: Marie Kirk
Date: 08/22/14

146 Melha Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $118,500
Buyer: George E. Dechert
Seller: Marie Kirk
Date: 08/12/14

31-33 Milford St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $138,416
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Hernan Serna
Date: 08/13/14

342 North Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Paul R. Breveleri
Seller: David L. Richter
Date: 08/15/14

12 Olive St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $156,359
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Tammy Gibson
Date: 08/19/14

98 Pennsylvania Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $136,110
Buyer: Gary J. Torres
Seller: Andrea J. Nolan
Date: 08/15/14

398 Plumtree Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $137,600
Buyer: Marsha M. Brennan
Seller: Nicholas M. Pelletier
Date: 08/18/14

291 Saint James Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $149,442
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Deborah A. Pace
Date: 08/15/14

983 Sumner Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Ryan V. Nguyen
Seller: Global Homes Properties LLC
Date: 08/19/14

27-29 Waterford Circle
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Willie B. Cuffie
Seller: Emmanuel Yeboah
Date: 08/20/14

130 Woodcrest Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $148,000
Buyer: Joshua J. Mastey
Seller: Lincoln S. Flagg
Date: 08/20/14

WESTFIELD

29 Coleman Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $197,000
Buyer: Commercial Distributing
Seller: Paula C. Perkins
Date: 08/11/14

65 Janis Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $312,000
Buyer: Adam D. Ripka
Seller: Wendy B. Krusiewski
Date: 08/21/14

34 Loring Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: Dean G. Varelas
Seller: Nancy B. Stolpinski
Date: 08/14/14

110 Main St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $216,000
Buyer: Gina S. Panzieri
Seller: Angela M. Rizzolo
Date: 08/19/14

252 Munger Hill Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Philip R. Smith
Seller: George M. Catuogno
Date: 08/22/14

52 Park Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Wilfrid J. Bourque
Seller: Cordonier, Charles E., (Estate)
Date: 08/14/14

26 Saint Dennis St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $152,900
Buyer: Karey A. Mulvenna
Seller: Andrew Alamed
Date: 08/18/14

68 Scenic Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $347,500
Buyer: Andrea J. Nolan
Seller: Maureen M. Speight
Date: 08/15/14

251 Steiger Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Richard D. Frost
Seller: George E. Mortimer
Date: 08/13/14

196 Tannery Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $193,000
Seller: Carolyn L. Dewey
Date: 08/15/14

WILBRAHAM

10 Blueberry Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $358,000
Buyer: Michael A. Teixeira
Seller: Stacia M. O’Connor
Date: 08/15/14

20 Ely Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $121,000
Buyer: Vincent M. Decesare
Seller: Richard P. Benton
Date: 08/14/14

9 Highmoor Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $271,033
Buyer: Erica L. Sabia
Seller: Michael P. Sawkiewicz
Date: 08/15/14

2 Hunting Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Paul J. Mei
Seller: Michelle A. Yacovone
Date: 08/19/14

481 Main St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $458,500
Buyer: Sherie A. Schaefer
Seller: Mark J. Viviano
Date: 08/22/14

WEST SPRINGFIELD

539 Birnie Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Cedar Investment Group LLC
Seller: Sliwoski, Lillian E., (Estate)
Date: 08/14/14

190 Chilson Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $232,500
Buyer: Michael A. Beiermeister
Seller: Claire A. Leveillee
Date: 08/22/14

81 Cornflower Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: William M. Walsh
Seller: Raymond P. Ziemba
Date: 08/15/14

145 Dewey St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $283,000
Buyer: Robert J. Link
Seller: Jonathan R. Jaffe
Date: 08/15/14

25 Galaska Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $282,900
Buyer: Navid Obahi
Seller: Oksana Villeneuve
Date: 08/15/14

146 Hampden St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $172,500
Buyer: Kostantinos Tsavidis
Seller: John C. Bellos
Date: 08/13/14

267 Hillcrest Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Sarah R. Chereski
Seller: Michael A. Alfano
Date: 08/19/14

26 Lewis Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: William E. Zing
Seller: Nikolay Lapin
Date: 08/20/14

26 Lotus Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $199,900
Buyer: Christopher L. Wapner
Seller: Michael Beiermeister
Date: 08/22/14

Mulcahy Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Bolduc
Seller: Francis Wheeler Construction
Date: 08/15/14

85 Poplar Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: David R. Beaulieu
Seller: Holly A. Boutot
Date: 08/22/14

72 Roseland Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $199,900
Buyer: Bhakta Khadka
Seller: Luke D. Consolini
Date: 08/15/14

78 Woodmont St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Susan P. Kleciak
Seller: Katherine K. Wilson
Date: 08/14/14

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

12 Fisher St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $204,000
Buyer: Gregory R. Haughton
Seller: Davis, Ingrid, (Estate)
Date: 08/20/14

42 Glendale Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: Yong Q. Li
Seller: Brian S. Fraser
Date: 08/14/14

97 Glendale Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Peter J. Neville
Seller: Christina G. Salgo
Date: 08/11/14

27 Kendrick Place
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Marjorie Alt
Seller: Amherst Housing Authority
Date: 08/11/14

65 Morgan Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $354,900
Buyer: George R. Collison
Seller: Peggy Cole
Date: 08/15/14

107 Pine St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Hannah Moushabeck
Seller: Edna O. Ball
Date: 08/22/14

15 South Mount Holyoke Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Curtis W. Ogden
Seller: Mehr RT
Date: 08/19/14

288 Shays St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Buyer: Cory M. Baxter
Seller: Farquhar, Oswald C., (Estate)
Date: 08/20/14

18 Whippletree Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $327,500
Buyer: Hannah L. Coler
Seller: Susan L. O’Connor
Date: 08/22/14

BELCHERTOWN

241 Bardwell St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Loni G. Wenzel
Seller: Deborah L. Wenzel
Date: 08/22/14

311 Bardwell St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Loni G. Wenzel
Seller: Deborah L. Wenzel
Date: 08/22/14

160 Chauncey Walker St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $192,000
Seller: Gina S. Panzieri
Date: 08/13/14

10 Doe Hollow
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Michael R. Bolduc
Seller: David C. Thibodeau IRT
Date: 08/18/14

157 Federal St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $267,000
Buyer: Greeley A. Kyle
Seller: Peter Halpern
Date: 08/15/14

317 Gold St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Bruce H. Geisler
Seller: Robert Arnhold
Date: 08/15/14

74 Goodell St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $272,900
Buyer: Renee M. Sylvestre
Seller: Jeffrey R. Germaine
Date: 08/15/14

220 Michael Sears Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $232,500
Buyer: Daniel Alpiarca
Seller: Alan R. Duprey
Date: 08/22/14

273 Ware Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Lisa Lariviere
Seller: Michael C. Bonafini
Date: 08/15/14

CHESTERFIELD

17 Don Emerson Road
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Eileen L. Flug
Seller: Sue A. Heffernan
Date: 08/15/14

EASTHAMPTON

21 Button Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $330,600
Buyer: Peter P. Hamelin
Seller: EH Homeownership LLC
Date: 08/22/14

47 Cottage St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Harnish Patel
Seller: Leo C. Bolduc
Date: 08/12/14

346 East St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Katherine E. Buckley
Seller: Linda M. Nolet
Date: 08/21/14

2-4 Federal St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Stephen J. Fleury
Seller: Robert H. & B. M. Laprade TR
Date: 08/20/14

117 Ferry St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Brie A. Beaudry
Seller: Adams, Eileen C., (Estate)
Date: 08/22/14

2 Grandview Lane
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: Nancy R. Bradbury
Seller: Jill T. Rubin
Date: 08/15/14

8 Gross Lane
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $273,500
Buyer: Eric Day
Seller: Christopher Yurko
Date: 08/22/14

329 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Onewest Bank
Seller: Nedo P. Mecchi
Date: 08/15/14

N/A
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $238,500
Buyer: Scott J. Cavanaugh
Seller: Eve S. Eichwald
Date: 08/12/14

113 Northampton St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $900,000
Buyer: FPS Associates LLP
Seller: FPS Inc.
Date: 08/20/14

120 Strong St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Jessica M. Lacroix
Seller: Scott Krawczyk
Date: 08/18/14

GRANBY

122 Carver St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $145,810
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Helen Tucker
Date: 08/11/14

195 East St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Westover Metropolitan Development Corp.
Seller: Ronald J. Orzechowski
Date: 08/14/14

12 Hubbard Dr.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $209,900
Buyer: Shauna Rohan
Seller: John S. Somers
Date: 08/18/14

HADLEY

43 East St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Tamara L. Pascoe
Seller: David W. Windoloski
Date: 08/22/14

28 Meadowbrook Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: John E. Reale
Seller: Catherine D. Fair
Date: 08/12/14

161 Rocky Hill Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Alan S. Hilaire
Seller: Martha M. Little
Date: 08/11/14

8 Sunrise Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $387,900
Buyer: Erica Lorentz
Seller: William J. Mastroianni
Date: 08/11/14

HUNTINGTON

31 Basket St.
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Keith Richardson
Seller: Robert Holmes
Date: 08/15/14

NORTHAMPTON

5 Edwards Square
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $424,000
Buyer: Iyko L. Day
Seller: Timothy J. Jacobs
Date: 08/14/14

41 Emerson Way
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $528,400
Buyer: Ellen R. Solomon
Seller: Rosemund LLC
Date: 08/15/14

45 Fort Hill Terrace
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: 45 Fort Hill Terrace LLC
Seller: Jenny Jelliffe
Date: 08/15/14

104 Jackson St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Charles A. Dumont
Seller: David M. Serlin
Date: 08/15/14

13 Laurel Park
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $233,500
Buyer: Elizabeth I. McCormick
Seller: Positive Spaces Architect
Date: 08/11/14

31 Lilly St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Macgregor J. Thomson
Seller: R. McClellan Sciarra LT
Date: 08/14/14

135 N Main St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Simon D. Halliday
Seller: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Date: 08/12/14

140 North Main St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $339,000
Buyer: Kenneth J. Reade
Seller: James R. Witmer
Date: 08/15/14

10 Park St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $725,000
Buyer: David M. Serlin
Seller: Frederick U. Fierst
Date: 08/15/14

141 South Main St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $374,000
Buyer: Terry L. Blanchard
Seller: Michael D. Connery
Date: 08/15/14

55 Stone Ridge Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $489,000
Buyer: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Seller: Lawrence D. Meinert
Date: 08/12/14

63 Vernon St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Sophy Burnham
Seller: 63 Vernon Street NT
Date: 08/21/14

58 Woodland Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $457,000
Buyer: David C. Deswert
Seller: W. J. Fallows
Date: 08/22/14

SOUTH HADLEY

504 Amherst Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $200,783
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Reza Bartegar
Date: 08/19/14

46 East Red Bridge Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Michael E. Tarail
Seller: David W. Scruggs
Date: 08/20/14

44 Pine St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Leo Correia
Seller: William A. McClellan
Date: 08/15/14

20 Smith St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $125,500
Buyer: Corrina Wcislo
Seller: Margaret A. Hogan
Date: 08/15/14

11 Spring Meadows
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Christine A. Phillips
Seller: Laurie J. Anastasia
Date: 08/22/14

SOUTHAMPTON

4 Brittney Lane
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $535,000
Buyer: Jesse Cleland
Seller: William J. Skorupski
Date: 08/13/14

14 Duggan Lane
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $218,700
Buyer: Christina M. Clark
Seller: Mary E. Nied
Date: 08/19/14

10 Helen Dr.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $160,900
Buyer: Carla R. Mcavoy
Seller: Godard, Esther M., (Estate)
Date: 08/11/14

23 Noreen Dr.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Sarah H. Lavertue
Seller: Johnson, Raymond I., (Estate)
Date: 08/15/14

62 Pleasant St.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Michael E. Lemoine
Seller: Grzegorz Robak
Date: 08/15/14

WARE

20 Bellevue Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Amy E. Kern
Seller: Christopher R. Reynolds
Date: 08/14/14

150 Gilbertville Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Antonio Fernandes
Seller: Maureen Chrabascz
Date: 08/18/14

5 Pearl St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Jessica R. Bolduc
Seller: Krol, Gloria, (Estate)
Date: 08/14/14

WILLIAMSBURG

78 South St.
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Lowell Brook
Seller: Jonathan D. Hoyt
Date: 08/21/14

Doing Business as Certificates

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of September 2014.

AGAWAM

China Star Restaurant
382 Main St.
Yuan Zheng

Gaudino’s
28 Ramah Circle
Charles Gaudino

Rioni Tile & Hardwood
67 Clematis Road
Dominic Rioni

Royal Air
46 Suffield St.
Svetlana Archoulik

CHICOPEE

A Silver Key
61 Cabot St.
Christopher Plewa

Airbag Reset Service
10 Center St.
Max Matsuk

G & M Cleaning Services
160 South St.
Maria Siguera

Harmony Property Management
90 Sheridan St.
Dorenda Taft

Thermocrete Chimney Services
46 Joy St.
Marsha Burek

GREENFIELD

Baystate Medical Practices Inc.
28 Sanderson St.
Douglas Muehlberg

Beck’s Automotive
144 Shelburne Road
Lancelot Beck

Ema’s Country Organic Soap
57 Allen St.
Elise Ainsworth

Hess
245 Federal St.
Andrew Bernstein

Mira Reiki Healing
28 Federal St.
Emma Donoghue

Nancy’s Cosmetology
1070 Bernardston Road
Nancy Steiner

The Bean Cake Co.
329 Wells St.
Francis Mozea Jr.

PALMER

Les’s Auto Center Inc.
1575 North Main St.
Les Skowyra

Roberts & Sons Printing
1415 Main St.
Jeffrey Roberts

Sew Bizzie Quilting
4109 Main St.
Diana Doane

SPRINGFIELD

Adam’s New Age Construction
101 Samuel St.
Adam Bousquet

Angels at Heart Daycare
28 Blake Hill St.
Angela S. Chest

Baystate Children’s Hospital
759 Chestnut St.
Mark Tolosky

BTTR Booths
80 Teakwood Road
Jakub Lakomski

Campus Convenience
463 State St.
Jason L. Ocasio

Chicos Towing & Auto Repair
1095 State St.
Ceceilio Rivera

Cranio and Massage Center
8 Woodstock St.
Gina Welch

CT’s Towing & Auto Repair
466 Main St.
Christine Noel

Don Rico’s Café & Bakery
684 Belmont Ave.
Martha Terrero

Ensena Corp.
1242 Main St.
Hector Fearfield

Fresh Market and Denim
427 State St.
Marcus Navarro

Game World
2475 Main St.
Hoa K. Tran

Higuey Mini Market
298 Hancock St.
Luis J. Pena

Hubble Bubble Hookah
51 Hastings St.
Joshua J. Mastey

Ken Martin HVAC
282 Main St.
Hugh K. Martin

M & R Express Delivery
199 Fernbank Road
Marilu Rios

M. Glushien Electrical
113 Wheeler Ave.
Jay Glushien

Macy’s Retail Holdings
1655 Boston Road
Stephen O’Bryan

Midtown Barber
976 Main St.
Jesse Michael

WESTFIELD

Adams Power Services Inc.
55 Westfield Industrial Park Road
Adams Power Services, Inc.

Family Medicine Associates
75 Springfield Road
Pioneer Valley Medical Center, LLC

Honeyland Farms
4 Russell Road
ADN, Inc.

Karlie’s Kloset
11 Railroad Ave.
Karlie’s Kloset

Kathy’s Nails
85 Main St.
Suong T. Vuong

Noble Express Care
57 Union St.
Westfield Medical Corp.

Allpax Gasket Cutter Systems Now Offers Complete Product Line

CHICOPEE — Allpax Gasket Cutter Systems, a division of Guardair Corp., announced a new, expanded line of extension-style gasket cutters, replacement parts, and accessories, including Zimmerman Spearhead brand-compatible products.

Allpax has broadened its extension-style gasket-cutter line beyond traditional brass (heavy-duty) models and now offers cutters featuring aluminum (medium-duty), plastic (light-duty), and phenolic (compact) construction. All kits include new, non-slip, self-healing cutting boards. Punch offerings have expanded beyond hollow punches to include arch, power, and dovetail types. Packing hooks are now available in 14 convenient sizes.

“Our newly expanded Allpax product line fills a void in the market to help end users meet their gasket-cutting needs through one manufacturer,” said Thomas Tremblay, president of Guardair Corp. “As part of the expansion, we have also upgraded our website, www.allpaxcorp.com, to include product specifications, how-to videos, and the ability to make purchases quickly and easily.”

Allpax Gasket Cutter Systems, founded in 1927, was incorporated into Guardair Corp. in 1999. In 2012, the assets of Allen Gasket Cutting Machine Co. were also acquired, adding rotary-style gasket cutters to the Allpax product line. Today, Allpax is the world’s largest manufacturer of gasket cutters, punches, and accessories used in the fabrication of flange gaskets. Allpax products are sold through a national and international network of more than 1,200 industrial MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) dealers and distributors. End users can also order product direct through the Allpax website. For more information, visit www.allpaxcorp.com.

Fourteen Bulkley Richardson Attorneys Selected as ‘Best Lawyers’

SPRINGFIELD — Fourteen lawyers from Bulkley Richardson were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2015. Bulkley Richardson had the most honorees of any law firm in Springfield, with 12 of its 14 selected lawyers based in its Springfield office.

Two of the firm’s honorees were also named Springfield “Lawyer of the Year” in specific practice areas. William Hart Jr. was so honored in the category of trusts and estates, and John Pucci for criminal defense, white-collar. He was also recognized in the area of criminal defense, non-white-collar. The following Bulkley Richardson lawyers were also selected for the 2015 edition of Best Lawyers:

• Peter Barry: construction law

• Michael Burke: medical-malpractice law (defendants); personal-injury litigation (defendants)

• Mark Cress: bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights; insolvency and reorganization law; corporate law

• Francis Dibble Jr.: bet-the-company litigation; commercial litigation; litigation (anti-trust, labor and employment, securities)

• Daniel Finnegan: administrative/regulatory law; litigation (construction)

• Robert Gelinas: personal-injury litigation (defendants)

• Kevin Maynard: commercial litigation; litigation (banking and finance, construction)

• David Parke: corporate law

• Melinda Phelps: medical-malpractice law (defendants); personal-injury litigation (defendants)

• Donn Randall: commercial litigation

• Ellen Randle: family law

• Ronald Weiss: corporate law; mergers and acquisitions law; tax law

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence. Because it is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 52,000 leading attorneys cast almost 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Branching Out

Construction Sections

Lull in New-home Construction Leads Builders to Diversify

Several months ago, Jos. Chapdelaine & Sons broke ground on the first new subdivision the company has built since 1998. The site has 10 lots, but, in keeping with a changing trend, the homes that will be built on Pondview Drive in East Longmeadow are expected to be much smaller than the McMansion-style structures people clamored for a decade ago.

“Initially, we were apprehensive about the project, as we were not sure what the economy was doing,” R.J. Chapdelaine, the company’s president. “But we have already sold two houses and have a list of seven additional people who are interested. In the last two years, we have definitely seen an increase in business, which is refreshing.”

Todd Cellura agrees. “Things are definitely getting better. Every year, it seems like there is more activity, and there is a lot more interest in new homes than there was in the past,” said the president of Sovereign Builders in Westhampton.

Still, most local companies have put up only one or two houses in the last two years, so although the market is showing signs of improvement, the majority of local builders no longer depend on new-home sales as their primary source of income.

More specifically, when the economy crashed in 2008 and the housing market collapsed, they were forced to diversify into different aspects of their business. Since that time, many have come to rely on additions, renovations, and commercial and institutional work as their primary source of income. And although work has been steady for the past few years, margins are tighter, and bidding is more competitive than ever.

R.J. Chapdelaine stands outside the entrance of a new subdivision his company is building in East Longmeadow.

“Before 2007, our primary market was new mid- to high-end homes built on raw land we purchased and developed,” Cellura said. “But things changed dramatically when the banking crisis hit, and when the market for new homes all but disappeared, we transitioned into commercial work, which has become our main staple.”

Jerry Bolduc’s business also underwent significant change. Prior to the economic downturn, he built several custom homes in the $700,000 to $1 million range each year, along with a few spec houses, which are homes built prior to finding a buyer.

“The years between 1995 and 2005 were really great,” said the owner and president of Bolduc Construction in Ludlow. “But when the bubble started twisting, I began doing a lot more remodeling and additions and more commercial work. A lot of other homebuilders did the same thing, although some specialized in one market.”

Today, one of Bolduc’s specialties is power washing and removing black algae from homes, which is something he never dreamed of doing when the economy was flush. In 2010, he started a second business called Pro Aqua Clean, which has snowballed into a significant source of income (more about that later), although he is still in the construction industry. “I went from building million-dollar custom homes to cleaning them. But I am also saving them,” he said, as he spoke about homes where algae had eaten through the roof and gotten into the attic.

Tomlinson Builders in Greenfield, a third-generation family business, also switched its focus from the custom and spec homes that had been its signature offering to additions and renovations. In fact, when the banking crisis hit, Tomlinson had to call a complete halt to a project. The company had purchased a parcel of land in 2007 in Hadley and planned to develop it, but by 2008, it became clear that it was too risky to build. So the build was tabled, and although Tomlinson held onto the lots, it finally put them up for sale last year.

“We have really had to change. Prior to the crash, we did some large-scale renovations and built 2,800- to 6,500-square-foot homes, and now we are doing 700-square-foot additions. But it has been a little easier for us to weather the storm, as we are a small company,” said owner Tyler Tomlinson, adding he has done a lot of work for local banks, along with a variety of commercial jobs throughout the state. But the majority of the company’s income is dependent on home remodeling.

Although Chapdelaine is putting up a new subdivision, its work has been split between home building and home renovations since the ’60s, when the company was forced to diversify due to an economic downturn.

However, builders agree that past recessions were short-lived occurrences. “But this has been a very long and involved process, and as times became more lean, we had to work smarter and get more in tune with the economy and what people want,” Chapdelaine said. “But the outlook seems to have gotten more positive in the past few years, and we are hoping the calls and influx of work we are getting is something that has some legs, some momentum, and will keep things moving along.”

Paradigm Shift

Mark Ludwell, executive vice president of Wright Builders in Northampton, said the company hasn’t seen a dramatic change in its volume of work, but it has more of a backlog than it enjoyed over the past four or five years.

“People are planning ahead in terms of projects and life decisions, and there has been an upswing in the last year or two,” Ludwell said. “But everyone took a big hit when the economy soured, and we were no exception, even though our business has been based on multiple disciplines for 20 years.

Jerry Bolduc says many people are remodeling their kitchens and baths or putting on additions, which has helped builders stay busy.

“We have always had multiple legs on our stool, which is not by accident, and we have been doing work for colleges for more than 25 years, along with work for the medical community,” he added, citing a number of recent projects, including the majority of residences built at Village Hill on the grounds of the former Northampton State Hospital. “Diversification helped us, but we have had our struggles, and our goal today is movement toward more commercial and institutional work.”

Local construction companies say they have continued building new homes, although most have averaged only one or two a year since the recession began.

However, the majority are smaller than they were in the past, and energy efficiency has become a top priority in every arena. “People don’t want to maintain large homes and are learning to live with less space. But they want their homes be much more energy-efficient,” Cellura said, adding that he recently built a new house in Williamsburg that costs only $1,000 a year to heat.

Tomlinson agreed. “The cost of heating and cooling a home is driving the trend toward smaller homes. People are thinking more long-term than they did before and feel their money is better spent on insulation and air sealing as opposed to crown molding and fancy refrigerators,” he said, adding that his company built one new home last year, which was under 2,000 square feet.

Baby Boomers have had a role in the downsizing trend, as approximately 35% of new homes built today are purchased by empty nesters. “They are building ‘forever homes’ that are their final destination,” Cellura said. “The last two I have built and a new home I am about to start are for empty nesters, and each one was a downsize.”

Chapdelaine said he expects the majority of homes in the new subdivision to be about 2,300 square feet, but the company will build 1,800-square-foot structures if people want them. “Baby Boomers seem to want to downsize, and we are seeing clients move from homes that ranged between 3,500 to 4,000 square feet to homes in the 2,000- to 2,200-square-foot range. They want first-floor master bedrooms with an overall reduction in size.”

The company has also heard from people who have purchased small houses, but want to upgrade them with new windows, front entryways, kitchens, and baths, which Chapdelaine says can be cost-effective if they are on streets with larger, more updated homes. “We are starting to get a lot of phone calls for remodeling that range from the whole house to kitchens and bathrooms. The economy slowed the process, but the trend has been fairly steady for the last two years.”

Bolduc expects the demand for renovations to continue. “Business has been steady for the last four or five years, even during the winter, due to remodeling and additions,” he said. “And as long as interest rates stay low, people will continue to refinance their homes and spend money on them.”

Builders agree that the economy will continue to play a significant role in the amount and type of business they do, but they say return on investment impacts homeowners’ decisions. “Clients are staying away from trends, as they don’t want to date their house,” Chapdelaine said. “During the boom, homeowners did whatever they wanted. But today, budgets are tighter than they used to be. People want to increase the resale value of their homes, but also want to enjoy what the remodeling or addition will add to their lives.”

Different Tacks

Wright Builders was one of the few companies that continued to build homes when the market dried up. However, the majority were at Village Hill in Northampton, which is an ongoing project. “It made quite a difference, but it hasn’t been an easy road,” Ludwell said, adding that the property is controlled by the state, so the parcels were subject to publication of requests for proposals from builders. “While we have always been competitive, things got even more competitive.”

Bolduc’s new venture began after tornadoes struck Western Mass. in June 2011, and he started getting requests to power-wash people’s homes and remove windswept debris. The jobs were a far cry from the custom home building that had been his mainstay since 1980, and he was less than enthusiastic about the work, but he soon discovered a type of black stain on the northern side of homes that was difficult to remove.

Although many people thought the stains were from trees, Bolduc discovered it was a type of black algae that arrives as spores or clumps of cells. If they land on the north side of a roof, where there isn’t much sun and moisture is plentiful, the algae begins to multiply. It also feeds on the powdered limestone filler often added to the liquid asphalt in shingles during the production process.

After experimenting, Bolduc found an environmentally friendly chemical that would remove the algae, which he applied before power-washing and allowed him to remove stains that people had never been able to get rid of.

As word spread about his service, he got so many referrals, he put a truck on the road and opened a business called Pro Aqua Wash.

The enterprise has surpassed anything he could have imagined, and this summer business was so brisk that he employed five people. However, Bolduc has not lost his love for building and told BusinessWest that he still does his share of home renovations. “We often get requests to expand kitchens as well as create open floor plans in homes, which can mean knocking down walls and even additions. And I also do some light commercial work.”

Cellura performs all types of work, but takes real pride in doing modern European design renovations, a minimalist trend becoming popular in metropolitan areas. “It’s almost stark in design, but it’s stunning how striking it is,” he said.

Overall, local builders are glad to see the economy improving. But diversification has become the new norm, and there are no signs of that changing.

Although Chapdelaine is building a new subdivision, other builders don’t feel the time is right. “There are some towns where building lots still sell, but it’s a much greater gamble today,” Cellura said. “So we will remain conservative until there is more activity.”

Tomlinson has similar feelings. The company had a profitable year and is building an estate with a two-bedroom guesthouse, which will be done in phases. “But the housing market hasn’t completely turned around, and buying land and developing it has become very costly, due to changes in regulations and the fact that towns and cities are trying to preserve it, so we are a lot more conservative than we used to be when it comes to doing anything of size, like a subdivision,” he said. “We don’t feel things will ever go back to the way they were before the housing crash.”

But business is steady for those nimble enough to find it, and builders have learned to compensate and sniff out new ways to make money, even though profit margins are tighter.

“When the economy soured, we learned to work harder and smarter, and we made adjustments,” Ludwell said. “We keep reaching out, moving forward, and refocusing. And it’s worked out.”

Caring Health Center to Be Named Richard E. Neal Complex

By BusinessWest Staff September 19, 2014

SPRINGFIELD — Caring Health Center / Community Health Center (CHC), located at 1049 Main St., will be named the Richard E. Neal Complex at a dedication ceremony to be held on Monday, Sept. 22 at noon.

CHC was just beginning construction on its Main Street location when the building was ravaged by the June 2011 tornado, causing $1.2 million in damages. U.S. Rep. Richard Neal has been instrumental in guiding fund-raising efforts, securing federal appropriations and grants to help CHC complete the project. “Congressman Neal has completely dedicated himself to this cause,” said Tania Barber, president and CEO of Caring Health Center. “This dedication is our way of saying thank you.”

CHC is a Section 330 federally qualified community health center, offering medical and dental service to uninsured and underserved populations. The Main Street location is the only refugee health-assessment site in Western Mass. and the largest in the state. It contains medical, dental, WIC, counseling, behavioral-health and administrative offices, as well as a wellness center and a pharmacy. Caring Health Center also has medical facilities on Sumner Avenue and Boston Road in Springfield.

Family Plan

Insurance Sections

T.P. Daley Insurance Navigates a Changing Industry

From left, Tom, Kathy, Anne, and Jim Daley, second-generation principals at T.P. Daley Insurance Agency.

Insurance is certainly in the Daley family’s blood. But their father wanted them to be certain.

“Our father made sure we all worked somewhere else first,” said Anne Daley, one of four principals at T.P. Daley Insurance Agency, along with her siblings, Jim, Kathy, and Tom Daley.

In fact, all four of them were interested in joining the company their father, Thomas P. Daley, started, but he wouldn’t allow them to make the firm their first job. So they cut their teeth at large companies like Aetna, Travelers, and John Hancock.

“He wanted to make sure we liked the business and learned the business; he didn’t want us to come in as the boss’s kid,” Anne added. “That was the message: ‘get a little background prior to coming here. If you hate it, hate it with someone else; don’t hate it with me.’”

None of them, it turned out, hated the insurance field, and between 1985 and 1990, all four came on board, and run the second-generation family business in West Springfield to this day.

“It’s scary that we all ended up in insurance after graduating,” Kathy said, “but we all wound up here.”

They have fond memories of growing up around Thomas Daley’s workplace.

“When we were young kids, Dad used to call on all his customers, and he’d take us with him,” Jim recalled. As it happened, most of those clients were in construction, as Daley focused his business on performance bonds in the construction field. “So we would climb on all the equipment. I don’t remember how many times he’d be talking to the owner, and we’d be climbing on loaders and excavators. I remember coming home filthy, and Mom saying she’d never get the grease out of my coat.”

“We really did grow up with it,” Anne added.

With the help of the GI Bill, their father graduated from the University of Rhode Island, which at the time boasted the only insurance school in the Northeast, Kathy said.

He was a bond manager for Aetna in Springfield during the 1950s when he decided to start an independent insurance agency and become a bond producer rather than work for someone else as a bond representative, Jim explained. So, at the dawn of the ’60s, he and partner Bill Tuttle opened Daley & Tuttle Insurance on State Street in Springfield.

“Then Bill wanted to go to Eastern Mass. and focus his sales pursuits there,” Jim said. “My dad really liked the more parochial nature of Western Mass., so they decided to split up. T.P. Daley started in 1963, just him and one employee.” They moved the business across the river to Park Avenue in West Springfield, then relocated to their current location on Westfield Street around 1981 — the former site of Sweenor’s Candy.

“People come in and say, ‘I can still smell those bon bons,’” Jim said, standing beside a long counter where the Daleys still set out bowls of candy. “This is where the glass was, where they sold candy.”

But it’s not candy running through he family’s veins, Jim said, but insurance; in fact, he met his wife at a four-day-long ‘bond school’ in Texas. Simply put, this is a clan that truly enjoys the business their father started, and for this issue’s focus on insurance, they sat down with BusinessWest to explain why.

Bonding Agents

While the company has diversified considerably since its early days, T.P. Daley still specializes in bonds for contractors. “It’s not really an insurance product,” said Jim. “It’s a financial guarantee that the contractor is going to bid the job according to plan and then complete the job according to plan.

“The key focus for us is still contractors,” he added. “We do an awful lot of construction risk, both in insurance and bonds.”

The industry has changed quite a bit since the 1960s, however, a time when the surety world wasn’t set up to handle very large contracts. “So he had to go out and buy reinsurance for different layers of the contract size.”

Also, Tom noted, “he didn’t go through agents; he went directly to the customer. Now a lot of that is handled through agents.”

Despite the changes, Anne said — and there’s a tremendous variety today of what bond companies will accept — T.P. Daley still succeeds by fostering relationships, even though insurance products are viewed more and more like commodities, with clients in search of the cheapest price. “Although the field has grown and evolved tremendously, it’s still a relationship business here.”

She noted that there weren’t a lot of bond agencies when her father started out, and very few locally. “That has changed over the past 10 years — there are more agents in the area, and more agents in general working in the bond field.”

The agency’s location for the past 30-plus years is the former site of Sweenor’s Candy, which many customers remember well.

That means a much more competitive playing field, Jim said, which is a far greater challenge today than it was when the construction industry was rolling along throughout most of the 2000s. Even when the financial markets crashed in 2008 and triggered the Great Recession, contractors remained busy for awhile.

“Construction kind of lagged, so the industry was still rolling in ’08, ’09, even into ’10,” he said. “Those were good years for most contractors.”

But once backlogs were depleted, times got tough, and remain so today. Contractors have had to “sharpen their pencils” and cut their margins, he explained, and insurance companies heavily invested in construction have felt the pressure. “If there was more work, we’d see the margins come up, but there’s so much competition for the amount of work available out there that the margins have not recovered to their prior levels.”

The situation has been exacerbated, Jim added, by the fact that the government has been reluctant to access funds from the Chapter 90 Program, which pays for infrastructure-improvement projects in Massachusetts, and cities and towns have been loath to dip into their own budgets, “so you’re seeing deteriorating infrastructure; that’s exactly what’s going on.”

Rest of the Story

Fortunately, T.P. Daley’s array of products has widened considerably since the agency’s early days, encompassing a range of both business and personal lines, including home, auto, and life.

That side of the business has undergone changes as well in recent years, particularly with Massachusetts moving from set auto-insurance rates to a managed-competition system in 2008.

But while the Geicos of the world attract consumers with that last $10 off their premium, Anne said, “people buying online have to be astute.”

“They need to know what they’re getting for their dollar,” Kathy added. “A lot of times, people come in here, and we have to explain to them what they’re getting, what they’re protecting. We find that a lot of younger people buying online don’t know what they’re really getting — they just know it costs $400. You have to be educated, and that’s where we come into play.”

Or, as Jim put it, “we don’t want them to find out the hard way that the deductible was $1,000, when they thought it was $500.” Or that they didn’t include collision among their coverages.

“That’s the importance of an independent agent,” Anne said, “to explain what the coverages are, and then you decide what your needs are.”

Added Jim, “it’s more than just buying coverage. All those coverages mean something. It’s not just about the dollars. At the point of sale, that extra money in your pocket sounds like a good idea, but the financial consequences for saving a few dollars could be dramatic.”

That’s just one example of how customer service remains a valuable commodity at T.P Daley Insurance, Anne told BusinessWest. “That’s probably one of the key elements of this agency, our customer service. When you call, you deal with a family member.

“We’re literally 24/7,” she continued. “We give out our cell-phone and home numbers. Especially in the bond business, sometimes you need something tomorrow. I think that sets us apart from other agencies — our love of the service.”

Tom said it all goes back to Thomas Daley never turning anyone away. “Even if it was a tough situation, he always tried to help. He said, ‘give me your papers, and let me see what I can do.’”

Anne said she advised a client on insurance products for six years before writing a policy. “They’d call with questions, and I’d help out any way I could. I knew them from high school. Ultimately, when they needed to make a change, they came to us.”

The Daley siblings hope customers keep coming, and they sense some interest among their own children in turning the business into a third-generation affair someday, but they also know it’s a challenging field, and, like their own father, they want their kids to be sure.

“This is a changing industry, and I think there’s a lot more pressure on people now than there was 20 years ago,” Anne said. “It’s not an easy business, but it’s rewarding.”

Jim agrees. “There have been some dynamic changes from the old-school days to now,” he said. “That’s not to say it’s lost all its luster; it’s still got some positives that make you want to come to work. And I think people here enjoy coming to work.”

Even if they don’t get to climb on heavy machinery anymore.

Joseph Bednar can be reached at [email protected]

Beyond Technology

Health Care Sections

Baystate CIO Joel Vengco Says His Job Requires Wearing Many Hats

Joel Vengco says healthcare IT now involves much more than technology. Increasingly, the focus is on taking data and transforming it into information — and then knowledge.

Joel Vengco was talking about the role of the hospital, or health system, chief information officer (CIO) — the position he holds with Baystate Health — and how it has evolved over the years.

And he started with some subtle humor.

“There’s a lot more meetings to go to,” he said with a laugh, choosing that starting point to explain how and especially why this administrative position is now much more about information and operational strategy than it is about hardware and software.

“CIOs today are more strategic in nature; today, there’s so much reliance on technology and on information inside those technologies that the CIO has to be part of the strategic discussion and the envisionment of business as a whole,” he told BusinessWest. “And that’s a different skill set altogether. You really have to understand strategic development, you have to understand the business that you’re in, and you have to understand finance.

“And you have to be more of a people person than I think CIOs were in the past,” he went on, adding quickly that he certainly wasn’t disparaging those who came before him, just referencing how times have changed. “Many of them would sort of hide out in the data center and focus on putting up a server. We’re now forced to be out there, talking to our partners and our users and really helping to lead the use of technology and information for competitive advantage or progression of the business.”

Elaborating, Vengco said the CIO must now wear a number of hats in addition to those that have been traditionally worn. Indeed, while the CIO is still tasked with keeping a health system running from a technology standpoint — what Vengco called “keeping the lights on,” a reference to everything from PCs to operating-room equipment — there is now much more to this job.

“In many ways, I wear an operating hat, a strategic hat, a finance hat, and sometimes I even wear a clinical hat, even though I’m not a clinician,” he said. “And then, you have to wear the innovation hat, because you can’t be stagnant and just look at the technology in front of you; you need to understand and begin to distill all the new technologies that are coming down the pike and correlate them with the current problems and the future state.”

With that mentality, Vengco was one of the key architects of the Baystate Innovation Center, what he described as a cross between an incubator and an accelerator that is taking shape at 1350 Main St. in downtown Springfield (more on that later).

But perhaps the most important line of the job description for today’s healthcare CIO, he said, may be enabling both a specific health system and the community it serves to make more and much better use of the vast amounts of data that modern technology allows people to collect.

Vengco, who came to Baystate in 2012 after work with GE Healthcare, has spent much of his career focusing on information and analytics, or what he called “liberating data,” and transforming it first into information and then knowledge.

“Data is the raw content of systems; it’s the diamond in the rough,” he explained. “You really have to transform it, or massage it, in layman’s terms, to really come up with information from that data. and then, from that information, you can develop knowledge through the delivery of an architecture that really takes that information and makes it actionable for people.

“If you put most of the raw data we have into a computer or an algorithm, it wouldn’t be able to compute anything out of it. In isolation, it may not necessarily make much sense; it’s just data, not information,” he went on. “But once you put it into context, like if you took a lab value and put it in the context of a disease state, or, better yet, you aggregated all of those labs and correlated it with a specific chronic disease state for a cohort of patients, then you have information about diabetes or information about congestive heart failure.”

For this issue, BusinessWest talked at length with Vengco about the evolving and expanding role of the CIO — and about all those hats he and others who take that title are now wearing.

Technically Speaking

Vengco told BusinessWest that, since childhood, he’s been drawn to the healthcare field, and that he attended medical school to essentially appease his parents and become a doctor. But his career path took an abrupt turn during his second year there.

“I was transitioning into my Ph.D. years, and one of my thesis advisors had suggested that I look at doing some work with a health information technology firm, which back then [2001] was pretty novel,” he explained, noting that the firm in question was Boston-based Eclipsys. “The idea was to develop a national data warehouse where I could develop algorithms for disease progression, outcome measurement, develop new clinical decision-support rules in analytics — a lot of the things we’re talking about now in terms of big data, but perhaps it could be done in this corporation.”

He took on that challenge, and in the course of doing so discovered that there was a considerable challenge behind utilizing the data collected by health systems because it was largely unusable, and not “liberated,” a term he would use early and often to describe this phenomenon.

In short order, finding ways to make such data more usable became his career passion.

He left medical school and entered the field of informatics and analytics. He interned at Partners Health Care and later taught at Harvard before landing at Boston Medical Center for his first IT operations job.

“It was at that time that I started to see the value of understanding technology in the context of a journey toward really understanding information,” he noted. “Because, ultimately, my real interest here was to try to figure out how to utilize this information so we could develop new knowledge and new insights. Technology changes so rapidly, but what is a mainstay and the most important element for me is information that we can gather from these systems. It’s like DNA for the human body; this information is the DNA for coordinating and developing quality care for the future.”

From Boston Medical Center, he went to GE Healthcare, where he became vice president of a global business called eHealth, a job he took to better understand what people in other countries were doing in the emerging field of population health.

He took part in projects in the U.K., France, Australia, Canada, and other countries — many of them involving health-information exchanges, care-management systems, collaboration systems, mobile health platforms, and population-health analytics — and took some valuable lessons back to the U.S.

Vengco said he wasn’t looking to leave GE, but always harbored a desire to return to the setting of the health system CIO, preferably in Boston, and in early 2012, Baystate was advertising for one.

“I hadn’t really thought about Springfield or Baystate — I knew of it, but didn’t really know the culture and the footprint of the community,” he said. “When I was recruited to take the interview, I came out here to see what it was about, not really looking to make an adjustment or a move. But I was really surprised with the vision Baystate had and the leadership it had.”

What’s more, he toured the region and came away with the impression that it would be an ideal setting for the innovation center that is now becoming reality.

“I enjoyed my discussions with Baystate, and was deeply moved by the mission they had for the community and healthcare in general,” he said. “It really matches my vision and my hopes — that healthcare needs to be more patient-centered.”

Making IT Happen

Vengco said the work of the IT Department at Baystate has four main pillars:

• Optimization, or making the most of the technology systems that exist today;

• Community engagement, or community collaboration, a realm that includes an initiative known as the Pioneer Valley Information Exchange (PVIX), which essentially creates a single patient record that optimizes the care delivery of all transitions of care across the continuum;

• Analytics, or the liberation of data; and

• An innovation platform, perhaps best represented by the innovation center.

Focusing on all four, plus that aforementioned work to keep the lights on, has become a considerable challenge, said Vengco, noting that he and his staff of roughly 230 are inspired by the breadth and depth of that challenge.

“You really are thinking well beyond the technology that you have to install,” he noted. “It’s an exciting time, but it’s also very daunting; I feel the enormity of the task, and so does my staff.”

And with that, he returned to his thoughts about how IT now extends into the realm of information — both gathering it and liberating it.

“The historic design of the EHRs (electronic health record systems) in the past and somewhat current state is that they take in data, but they don’t necessarily spit it out easily,” he explained. “And data loses its value if you don’t have the ability to liberate it and use it for the delivery of care. And that has been my mission since I started this journey back in 2001.

“There’s so much to be gleaned and to be achieved through the data we have locked in our systems,” he went on. “That’s why liberating that data is the first mission we should all have, because once we have that information in hand, it becomes knowledge and actionable delivery of care.”

Many of the Baystate IT Department’s initiatives have come together in the creation and operation of the PVIX, said Vengco, adding that the broad aim is to create a single patient record that can be used by a host of area care providers.

“Patients are very mobile; they’ll see a specialist, see a primary-care provider, visit the hospital … and those care organizations may not be affiliated with each other and so may not be on the same electronic medical record system,” he explained. “So when a patient goes in for his next visit and the provider wants to see all the meds they’re on and all the allergies they may have, they may not see all that comprehensive data because it may be in other systems dispersed across the community.

“So, today, we have to hope that a patient knows all the meds they take and all the allergies they have, or that the medical group down the street that they just visited will fax that information,” he went on. “But that doesn’t happen consistently, so you wind up treating patients with the information you have, and it might not be enough.”

The PVIX was created to solve that problem, he went on, by creating a comprehensive record that essentially follows the patient.

Founding members of the exchange include Baystate, Mercy Medical Center, Health New England, Riverbend Medical Group, Berkshire Health Systems, Holyoke Medical Center, and many others, said Vengco, adding that some of the challenges moving forward are convincing patients that their information is secure and also convincing providers that sharing such information is the right thing to do at this critical juncture for the healthcare industry.

“There’s still an uncertainty among organizations that care for patients about whether they should be sharing that data with other collaborating providers,” he explained. “And some of that stems from the notion that this data is competitively advantageous — that, if I share this data, you might know enough about me and my market to steal my patients.

“That’s just not where we need to be to care for our patients in the appropriate way,” he continued. “We have to be able to say, ‘for the betterment of patient care, quality of care, and efficient care delivery, we need to be able to exchange this information.’”

Center of Attention

Putting on that aforementioned innovation hat, Vengco stressed the importance of not simply understanding and maintaining the technology of today, but also anticipating the technology of tomorrow and being at the forefront of its development.

This was the impetus for the Baystate Innovation Center, which is still under construction but is in many ways already operating at One Financial Plaza in downtown Springfield.

“We need to make a mind road map, if you will, of what technology needs to look like in the future for your business,” he explained, noting that the innovation center was created, with the help of a $5.5 million state grant, to focus on solving the problems of healthcare today through technology and informatics.

The center’s creation — not to mention its location — brings another layer to a growing regional emphasis on entreprenurship, technology, and economic development, said Vengco, noting that, within a few blocks of each other, the innovation center, Valley Venture Mentors, and Tech Foundry, a facility dedicated to training individuals for careers in IT, are creating enormous momentum for new technology startups and getting established companies to the next stage.

“For those of us in healthcare, the rapid change that has come as a result of reform and the need to change healthcare delivery requires us to continue to innovate,” he said. “And for Baystate, this is an extension of our mission because it enables us to continue to look forward to doing the best that we possibly can to deliver the best possible care to the community through these innovations, while still maintaining our current operations.”

Elaborating, Vengco said innovation center administrators are looking for ventures that are in what he called the “last mile of development.”

“They come in with a solution already in hand, but it really needs a few more tweaks here and there, and that’s where we really come into play,” he noted. “We provide that innovator with the necessary adjustments and development advisement to get them to a usable product or solution.”

And these products and solutions are carefully chosen to meet the objectives of the health system, he noted, adding that organizers are not necessarily looking for the next Google.

“The intention here is to make sure we’re bringing in solutions that will address system objectives,” he told BusinessWest, adding that these include improving quality of care, patient progress, high-value care, and bending the cost curve. “We’re looking for technology that’s relevant to the problems we’re trying to solve. It’s not about making money; it’s about delivering an innovation that’s going to help us achieve our mission in an optimal way.”

He went on to say that he considers Baystate to be a model health system in a model state — Massachusetts is generally considered to be on or well ahead of the curve when it comes to innovations in healthcare — and that the Baystate system, by implementing products and concepts developed at the innovation center, could become an important proving ground moving forward.

“As you look at all of these other organizations, these integrated delivery systems that are being built or are already in place, they’re aspiring to be what I believe Baystate is already beginning to become,” he explained. “And we’re in a state that in many ways is one and a half to two years advanced in terms of policy and reform, and that becomes very attractive for developing solutions when you’re looking at ways to impact care delivery across the country. If you can do it here, it’s likely that it’s going to be impactful elsewhere; it’s a really great environment to do that kind of innovation.”

For the Record

Summing up his thoughts on health IT and where it’s headed, Vengco said it is going to play an increasingly vital role in the delivery of patient care and overall population health.

And carrying out the many and diverse aspects of his department’s mission will become ever more challenging as it extends well beyond technology and optimizing all that it brings to the table.

“My responsibility is to try to engage our leadership and our strategy so we can focus the use of technology and information,” he explained. “That’s the challenge; everyone wants the next technology, but we have to make sure we’re selecting it strategically and that it continues to support our mission.”

George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]

Real Estate Transactions

ASHFIELD

610 Smith Road
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $135,200
Buyer: Jon S. Redmond
Seller: Ann M. Powers
Date: 08/08/14

BUCKLAND

9 Martin Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $203,200
Buyer: Roger J. Purington
Seller: Brian A. Willis
Date: 07/31/14

15 Walker Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $196,200
Buyer: Richard B. Mosher
Seller: Donna Heussler
Date: 07/31/14

CHARLEMONT

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Charlemont, MA 01339
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Beth Taylor
Seller: Annie E. Rancourt
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2231 Route 2
Charlemont, MA 01339
Amount: $680,000
Buyer: RAE Properties LLC
Seller: Peter T. Curtis
Date: 08/08/14

COLRAIN

17 Coombs Hill Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Adam W. Phillips
Seller: Jane E. Johnson
Date: 07/31/14

CONWAY

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Seller: Christopher F. Savidge
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96 Hart Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $457,912
Buyer: Luke N. Meyer
Seller: Luke N. Meyer
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880 Roaring Brook Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $190,000
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Seller: Nancy T. Winter RET
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DEERFIELD

330 Greenfield Road
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Buyer: Timothy J. Hilchey
Seller: Frederick B. Macdonald
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22 Old Main St.
Deerfield, MA 01342
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Buyer: Academy Deerfield
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ERVING

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Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Ty A. Bordeaux
Seller: Donald E. Ducharme
Date: 07/28/14

GILL

24 Green Hill Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Laura M. Wiancko
Seller: Mackin, Helen, (Estate)
Date: 08/01/14

19 Riverview Dr.
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $277,500
Buyer: Jenna M. Carme
Seller: Jeffrey Kocsis
Date: 07/31/14

GREENFIELD

10 Beacon St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $900,000
Buyer: Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Seller: Roman Catholic Bishop Of Springfield
Date: 07/31/14

128 Bungalow Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Robert H. Haigh
Seller: Gilmore RT
Date: 07/29/14

42 Chapman St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Thomas D. Murphy
Seller: Margaret Vincent
Date: 08/01/14

748 Country Club Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Edward J. McCarthy
Seller: Robert J. Martin
Date: 07/30/14

29 Davenport Way
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Karen A. Pleasant
Seller: JLM Builders Inc.
Date: 08/01/14

55 Devens St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Christopher L. Jones
Seller: Helen C. Otte
Date: 07/28/14

14 East Wayland Dr.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Rachel Bergstrom
Seller: Jeffery A. Hardy
Date: 07/30/14

36 Fairview St. East
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $157,500
Buyer: Betty L. Sawyer
Seller: Angela S. Hagen
Date: 07/29/14

18 Haywood St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Jacob W. Ford
Seller: Daniel M. Mahoney
Date: 07/31/14

149 Hope St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Amy J. Yankowski
Seller: Matthew L. Schmookler
Date: 07/30/14

30 Lovers Lane
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Silas Cutler
Seller: Donna L. Macnicol
Date: 08/05/14

17 Mary Potter Lane
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $275,900
Buyer: Steve M. Patenaude
Seller: Laura J. Haggerty
Date: 08/08/14

64 North St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $900,000
Buyer: Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Seller: Roman Catholic Bishop Of Springfield
Date: 07/31/14

19 Oak Hill Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $237,400
Buyer: Brian A. Willis
Seller: Mary A. Morris
Date: 07/31/14

60 Orchard St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Steven A. Shumway
Seller: Francis D. Kelly
Date: 08/01/14

17 Park Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Brenda E. Jurach
Seller: Hawkins IRT
Date: 07/31/14

189 Shelburne Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $850,000
Buyer: BRYCAR LLC
Seller: Cosenzi Automotive Realty
Date: 07/29/14

191 Shelburne Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $850,000
Buyer: BRYCAR LLC
Seller: Cosenzi Automotive Realty
Date: 07/29/14

HAWLEY

92 Middle Road
Hawley, MA 01339
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Leslie E. Clark
Seller: Dennis Anderson
Date: 08/08/14

LEVERETT

20 2 Mile Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $257,000
Buyer: Michael J. Pistrich
Seller: Albert L. Shane
Date: 07/30/14

MONTAGUE

11 Chester St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $187,500
Buyer: Jessica H. Pleasant
Seller: Eugene J. Leveille
Date: 08/06/14

13 Coolidge Ave.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Erin M. Herzig
Seller: Jane A. Kane
Date: 07/28/14

112 Montague St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Dennis E. Estabrook
Seller: Brion J. Over
Date: 07/29/14

159 Old Sunderland Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $203,000
Buyer: Jane E. Burkhardt
Seller: Albert R. Wills
Date: 08/08/14

98 West Mineral Road
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Robert H. Rice
Seller: Andrew Carson
Date: 08/05/14

NORTHFIELD

26 Highland Ave.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Deborah H. White
Seller: Christine M. Harris
Date: 08/08/14

12 Main St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Christine M. Harris
Seller: Steven M. Patenaude
Date: 08/08/14

184 Winchester Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Melissa A. Barton
Seller: Ann V. Valentine
Date: 08/01/14

ORANGE

57 Camp Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Sharon T. Paquette
Seller: Shirley A. Demers
Date: 07/29/14

12-14 East Main St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $362,000
Buyer: Chen Lin LLC
Seller: Woods, Linda, (Estate)
Date: 07/31/14

24 Johnson Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $256,000
Buyer: Hometown Bank
Seller: Elaine M. Bessette
Date: 07/30/14

284 North Main St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $286,966
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Fred A. Denne
Date: 08/01/14

36 Robin Lane
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $124,900
Buyer: Eric R. McAllister
Seller: Molly G. Lyman
Date: 08/08/14

159 West River St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $136,785
Buyer: Athol Credit Union
Seller: Lewis P. Beaulier
Date: 08/07/14

30 Whitney St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Wayne Whitmore
Seller: Orange Post 172 American Legion
Date: 08/01/14

SHUTESBURY

14 Great Pines Dr.
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $163,000
Buyer: Catherine J. Oprava
Seller: Elizabeth M. Goodwin
Date: 08/08/14

12 Lake Dr.
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $308,500
Buyer: Donna L. Macnicol
Seller: Hsu Tung Ku
Date: 07/29/14

542 West Pelham Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Aaron J. Kater
Seller: John H. Dawson
Date: 07/29/14

SUNDERLAND

503 Hadley Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $147,500
Buyer: Valley Building Co. Inc.
Seller: Carol F. Ryan
Date: 07/29/14

158 North Main St.
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Martha E. Lorantos
Seller: Edward J. Golden
Date: 08/06/14

162 North Main St.
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $220,400
Buyer: Amy Beth
Seller: Martha E. Lorantos
Date: 08/06/14

254 Plumtree Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Ellen Carroll-McLane
Seller: John F. Hassay
Date: 07/30/14

64 South Silver Lane
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $213,500
Buyer: Dennis G. Bastarche
Seller: Katelynn A. Keir
Date: 08/04/14

WENDELL

215 Lockes Village Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $189,500
Buyer: George Louro
Seller: Adam W. Stubbins
Date: 08/06/14

11 Stone Cut Off Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Jessalyn L. Zaykoski
Seller: Jonathan Janes
Date: 08/06/14

3 Wren Gould Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $172,817
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Linda F. Gillis
Date: 07/30/14

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

23 Albert St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Armand S. Berthiaume
Seller: Richard F. Champagne
Date: 08/01/14

519 Cooper St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Siarhei Siarheyev
Seller: Vadim Kot
Date: 07/28/14

45 Cricket Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Christopher J. Moriarty
Seller: Richard P. Isom
Date: 08/05/14

44 Deering St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Alyssa Soriano
Seller: Igor Tatarchuk
Date: 07/31/14

38 Fairview St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Russell G. Nash
Seller: E. S. Damon
Date: 08/05/14

45 Farmington Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Kathleen Stagnaro TR
Seller: Hillside Development Corp.
Date: 08/08/14

94 Lealand Ave.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Michael F. Sullivan
Seller: Christopher J. Moriarty
Date: 08/05/14

1095 North West St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Albert G. Aldrich
Seller: Samantha M. Link
Date: 07/31/14

336-344 North Westfield St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $841,000
Buyer: Ashakrishna LLC
Seller: K Brothers LLC
Date: 07/31/14

41 Provin Mountain Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Mary C. Champagne
Seller: George C. Leon
Date: 08/01/14

1023 Shoemaker Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $135,500
Buyer: Michael D. Moran
Seller: Randall W. Schott
Date: 07/28/14

144 Shoemaker Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Yekaterina Vilkhovoy
Seller: Sergey Polevoy
Date: 07/30/14

416 Silver St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Michael Roy
Seller: Lisa Milotte
Date: 07/31/14

BRIMFIELD

110 Lyman Barnes Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Jason F. Czech
Seller: Allison Zak
Date: 08/08/14

27 Prospect Hill Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $432,000
Buyer: Rick T. Zak
Seller: Thomas R. Clay
Date: 08/08/14

304 Warren Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $720,000
Buyer: Herbie F. Bohnet
Seller: Paul M. Opalinski
Date: 08/08/14

CHICOPEE

14 Baril Lane
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $249,900
Buyer: Cesar A. Lopez
Seller: Thomas C. Grandfield
Date: 07/30/14

98 Basil Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Mac Crespo
Seller: Jonathan J. Haluch
Date: 08/08/14

38 Bonner St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Namig Mamedov
Seller: Nataliya V. Pugach
Date: 08/08/14

120 Boucher Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $161,000
Buyer: Jeffery A. Lovell
Seller: Hooper, Dorothy M., (Estate)
Date: 08/01/14

152 Center St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Hann Realty LLC
Seller: MJP Realty LLC
Date: 07/31/14

80 Deroy Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Tina L. Malave
Seller: Richard K. Morse
Date: 07/30/14

37 Devlin Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $266,483
Buyer: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC
Seller: Dianne Baribeault
Date: 08/08/14

81 Fairview Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Ronald T. Cierpial
Seller: Roberta C. Smith
Date: 07/31/14

104 Fairway Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $341,000
Buyer: David I. Dossantos
Seller: Neil A. Robb
Date: 08/08/14

45 Fletcher Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Christopher G. Malooly
Seller: James L. Lariviere
Date: 07/31/14

46 Greenwich St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Louis F. Rosario
Seller: Alan B. Czerniak
Date: 07/31/14

65 Marble Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Richard A. Jones
Seller: George R. Innes
Date: 08/08/14

10 Marguerite St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $136,000
Buyer: Jason R. Cienciwa
Seller: Lillian T. Sheehan
Date: 08/08/14

903 McKinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Carlos R. Barbosa
Seller: Deutsche Bank
Date: 07/29/14

94 Mount Royal St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $143,500
Buyer: Trevor D. Czepiel
Seller: Richard W. Rattell
Date: 07/31/14

89 Northwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $163,900
Buyer: Kathleen A. Gagnon
Seller: David Dossantos
Date: 08/08/14

104 Olko Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Yi L. Guo
Seller: Joseph M. Proulx
Date: 08/01/14

120 Poplar St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: Jose F. Monroy
Seller: Jodi M. Craven
Date: 08/05/14

330 Springfield St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: Alanna M. Lunden
Seller: Diane C. Lombardino
Date: 07/29/14

116 Sunflower Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Rachel E. Vadnais
Seller: Steven P. Hebert
Date: 07/31/14

157 Trilby Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $162,400
Buyer: Robert J. King
Seller: Roger P. Helie
Date: 08/05/14

42 Van Horn St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $199,000
Buyer: Sean P. Collins
Seller: Miodonka, Evelyn, (Estate)
Date: 07/30/14

78 Willwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $153,000
Buyer: Anatoliy Sosnin
Seller: Theresa E. Rondeau
Date: 07/28/14

69 Yvette St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Esmilda Camacho
Seller: David C. Labrie
Date: 07/28/14

EAST LONGMEADOW

11 Anne St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $198,000
Buyer: Ann M. Urban
Seller: Juli K. Ireland
Date: 08/04/14

14 Bent Tree Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Kaymar Rahmani-Kia
Seller: Carla L. Hoffman
Date: 08/01/14

195 Braeburn Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $224,900
Buyer: Joseph E. Godard
Seller: Ronald A. Mattson
Date: 07/28/14

5 Crestview Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $498,000
Buyer: Robb
Seller: Louis A. Aveyard
Date: 08/08/14

109 East Circle Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Barry W. Ross
Seller: Peter Zinger
Date: 08/01/14

326 Elm St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $199,000
Buyer: Jameson R. Williams
Seller: Michele Miranda
Date: 07/29/14

386 Elm St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $207,000
Buyer: Felix Feliciano
Seller: Kevin J. Czaplicki
Date: 07/31/14

94 Elm St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Erika L. Martinez
Seller: Beverly J. Wing
Date: 08/01/14

8 Indiana St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Joseph W. Heney
Seller: Robert E. Tirrell
Date: 07/30/14

45 Industrial Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $1,850,000
Buyer: O’Leary Vincunas LLC
Seller: BSSD Realty LLC
Date: 07/30/14

264 Porter Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Keith M. Ireland
Seller: Mieczyslaw J. Stachowicz
Date: 08/05/14

860 Somers Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Melissa K. Turmel
Seller: Kenneth A. Alexander
Date: 08/06/14

3 Sturbridge Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $369,550
Buyer: Jorge M. Morgado
Seller: Robert Thomas Construction LLC
Date: 08/08/14

GRANVILLE

321 Granby Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Nathaniel O. Woodger
Seller: Thomas B. Woodger

692 Main Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Ellen F. Furman
Seller: Baldis & Frank Inc.
Date: 08/07/14

HAMPDEN

19 Circleview Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Emmanuel C. Adames
Seller: Richard P. Ballou
Date: 07/28/14

6 Pinewood Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Fresh Pinewood LLC
Seller: Frederick S. Tuttle
Date: 08/05/14

7 Steiger Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $372,000
Buyer: Barbara A. Dunne
Seller: Rene V. Herbert
Date: 07/30/14

23 Valleyview Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Jonathan P. Kielbania
Seller: Michael J. Vachon
Date: 07/30/14

HOLLAND

168 Stafford Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Joel Wilson
Seller: Ann L. Beane
Date: 07/31/14

HOLYOKE

138 Brown Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $148,000
Buyer: William U. Ramirez
Seller: William Ramirez
Date: 08/01/14

16 Cherry Hill
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $159,000
Buyer: Shane D. Harrington
Seller: Eleanor B. Macdonald
Date: 07/31/14

103 County Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $277,500
Buyer: Nathan B. Aube
Seller: William L. McCreary
Date: 08/01/14

56 Jefferson St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: David W. Scruggs
Seller: Willilam B. McDonough
Date: 07/31/14

77-79 Pearl St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Robert E. Olmstead
Seller: Enola K. Nelson
Date: 08/01/14

16 Sylvia Lane
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Mary A. Carrasquillo
Seller: Catherine M. Fleming
Date: 08/08/14

LONGMEADOW

134 Ashford Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $1,050,000
Buyer: Russell J. Dupere
Seller: Michael Muratore
Date: 07/31/14

119 Belleclaire Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Brian D. Osborne
Seller: James V. Barilaro
Date: 08/01/14

329 Bliss Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $224,900
Buyer: Michele R. Miranda
Seller: Michael C. Calvanese
Date: 07/31/14

14 Brooks Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Patrick P. Dippel
Seller: Bruce Winer
Date: 08/07/14

82 Canterbury Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Craig T. Shapiro
Seller: Robert J. Langone
Date: 07/31/14

53 Dunsany Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $279,500
Buyer: Peter A. Santos
Seller: J. L. Muratore-Pallatino
Date: 07/31/14

105 Edgewood Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: I Buysellhomes LLC
Seller: Ryan M. Hollister
Date: 08/01/14

35 Green Willow Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $576,000
Buyer: Srinivasa B. Gutta
Seller: Kevin P. Asher
Date: 08/01/14

26 Lees Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $342,000
Buyer: Patrick D. Malloy
Seller: George M. Schmeck
Date: 07/30/14

797 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Clifford G. Scott
Seller: Peter A. Santos
Date: 07/31/14

812 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Sequoia Props Realty LLC
Seller: Haddad, Helen M., (Estate)
Date: 08/06/14

6 Meadow Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $122,000
Buyer: John Lanucha
Seller: Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC
Date: 08/06/14

175 Pleasantview Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Robert Aldrich
Seller: Emily A. Osborne
Date: 08/01/14

260 Williams St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $312,500
Buyer: Louise R. Lamountain
Seller: Eric Shapiro
Date: 08/06/14

LUDLOW

1582 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: James D. Coley
Seller: Gary C. Butler
Date: 08/01/14

113 Colonial Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Wieslaw Krol
Seller: Pamela J. Cronin
Date: 08/01/14

85 Coolidge Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Paul J. Sagan
Seller: Michael T. Peritore
Date: 07/29/14

71 Fairview St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $171,000
Buyer: Zelia Mendes
Seller: Mark A. Augusto
Date: 07/31/14

84 Grimard St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Jane E. Costa
Seller: Maryann Scyocurka
Date: 08/05/14

Mountainview St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Kara Ribeiro
Seller: Melanie L. Sagan
Date: 07/29/14

278 Sewall St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Nuno Cadete
Seller: Isidoro P. Fernandes
Date: 07/31/14

72 Stivens Terrace
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Craig Crowther
Seller: Wendy Newlands
Date: 07/28/14

59 Windwood Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $354,500
Buyer: Isidoro P. Fernandes
Seller: Victor Rodrigues
Date: 08/05/14

MONSON

45 Bogan Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Russell A. Hedges
Seller: Roberta A. Bessette
Date: 08/07/14

15 Circle Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Mark R. Hamel
Seller: Nazih Zebian
Date: 07/30/14

30 Country Club Heights
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Christian J. Young
Seller: Donald B. Damario
Date: 07/30/14

35 Crest Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Victor T. Muller
Seller: Christian J. Young
Date: 07/30/14

56 Ely Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Joseph S. Bolduc
Seller: Roland W. Cardin
Date: 08/08/14

118 Moulton Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Robert E. Ledoux
Seller: Patricia A. Muscaro
Date: 08/04/14

207 Moulton Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Benjamin C. Maiorano
Seller: Nancy A. Hurlburt
Date: 08/08/14

50 Thompson St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: John H. Courtney
Seller: Marilyn Z. Duffy
Date: 07/31/14

PALMER

192 Breckenridge St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Jessica C. Carroll
Seller: Daniel P. King
Date: 08/08/14

23 East Palmer Park Dr.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $140,500
Buyer: Frederick Lafortune
Seller: Nahabedian, Dennis P., (Estate)
Date: 08/01/14

92 Longview St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Christian T. Leissner
Seller: Harry E. Murphy
Date: 07/30/14

1064 Park St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Sligo Realty Co. LLC
Seller: SUK RT
Date: 08/01/14

71-73 Summer St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $214,000
Buyer: Alina R. Doble
Seller: Gene C. Majka
Date: 07/31/14

1139 Thorndike St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $543,000
Buyer: Sunshine Apartments Inc.
Seller: Robert V. Rapisarda
Date: 08/01/14

RUSSELL

100 Ridgewood Dr.
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Patrick Lamora
Seller: Joseph W. Boisseau
Date: 07/31/14

SPRINGFIELD

121 Aldrew Terrace
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Robert L. Rand
Seller: Linda Rodrigues
Date: 07/30/14

74-76 Appleton St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $156,000
Buyer: Nanette Figueroa
Seller: Joy Reid
Date: 08/08/14

91 Ardmore St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Sandra E. Martinez
Seller: Dimas Cotto
Date: 08/06/14

46 Atwater Terrace
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Heriberto Flores
Seller: George A. Pelletier
Date: 07/31/14

48 Bevier St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Kevin R. O’Brien
Seller: Bernard Berard
Date: 08/07/14

901 Boston Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $1,386,496
Buyer: GHI Ventures LLC
Seller: GP Springfield MA Landlord
Date: 08/07/14

77 Boylston St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $1,350,000
Buyer: Freedom Credit Union
Seller: Pearsonblue Development Co.
Date: 07/31/14

91 Briggs St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $231,000
Buyer: Erwin O. Greene
Seller: Grahams Construction Inc.
Date: 07/28/14

49 Canterbury Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $119,000
Buyer: Kristin L. Dominique
Seller: Hedge Hog Industries Corp.
Date: 08/01/14

College St.
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $2,260,000
Buyer: BH Kenyon LLC
Seller: Kenyon College Association
Date: 07/31/14

308 Dwight Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $142,000
Buyer: Michael L. Artioli
Seller: Consuelo G. Bylow
Date: 07/28/14

253 El Paso St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $124,000
Buyer: Alfredo Vega
Seller: Elizabeth P. Sullivan
Date: 08/01/14

137 Emerald Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $153,000
Buyer: Sarah C. Smith
Seller: Alex B. Sales
Date: 07/30/14

6 Fayette St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $218,685
Buyer: Crystal L. Reid
Seller: Nu Way Homes Inc.
Date: 08/08/14

166 Garland St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Jasmin Carrasquillo
Seller: Karen S. Lucas
Date: 07/28/14

249 Garnet St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $122,500
Buyer: Bayview Loan Servicing LLC
Seller: Kenneth Fitzgibbon
Date: 08/08/14

302 Gifford St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Carmela Albano
Seller: JV Properties Inc.
Date: 08/06/14

29 Howard St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $1,600,000
Buyer: Blue Tarp Redevelopment LLC
Seller: City Of Springfield
Date: 07/31/14

59 Howard St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $1,600,000
Buyer: Blue Tarp Redevelopment LLC
Seller: City Of Springfield
Date: 07/31/14

29 Ingersoll Grove
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $351,000
Buyer: Wang Z. Hua
Seller: Mark D. Mason
Date: 08/05/14

Kenyon St. (ES)
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $2,260,000
Buyer: BH Kenyon LLC
Seller: Kenyon College Association
Date: 07/31/14

1623 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01103
Amount: $9,000,000
Buyer: 15 Taylor LLC
Seller: US Bank
Date: 07/28/14

80 Mallowhill Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $136,750
Buyer: Crystal D. Magill
Seller: Jessica A. Orcutt
Date: 07/30/14

173 Massachusetts Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $160,979
Buyer: Deutsche Bank
Seller: Ronald Dorleans
Date: 07/31/14

212 Mazarin St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Vadim Gumenyuk
Seller: Grahams Construction Inc.
Date: 07/31/14

90 Mooreland St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $124,400
Buyer: Emely Figueroa
Seller: JD Ents. Property Management
Date: 07/30/14

140 Nagle St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $243,317
Buyer: TD Bank
Seller: Keith A. Harrington
Date: 07/30/14

181 Newhouse St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Chad M. Bassett
Seller: Mike A. Rivera
Date: 07/30/14

230-232 Oakland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Boardwalk Apartments LLC
Seller: J. B. Camerlin RE
Date: 08/01/14

15 Overhill Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: David C. O’Neill
Seller: TJM Properties LLC
Date: 08/08/14

32 Palo Alto Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Shaun H. Carpenter
Seller: Jason M. Boudreau
Date: 07/30/14

343-345 Page Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Old Sudbury Realty LLC
Seller: Daniel Tebaldi
Date: 08/06/14

82 Parkerview St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Weiping Zeng
Seller: Stephen M. Lynch
Date: 08/04/14

126 Pinecrest Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Pedro L. Velazquez
Seller: Robert V. Ackerman
Date: 07/29/14

1570 Plumtree Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Jovanna A. Gomez
Seller: FHLM
Date: 08/08/14

75 Prouty St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Lorenzo M. Hall
Seller: Eric Clark
Date: 08/04/14

18 Rittenhouse Terrace
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $166,500
Buyer: Ellen L. Fotino
Seller: Kathleen L. Baker
Date: 08/01/14

32-34 Shattuck St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $2,260,000
Buyer: BH Kenyon LLC
Seller: Kenyon College Association
Date: 07/31/14

17 Sherwood Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Pamela A. Greaney
Seller: Melissa Loureiro
Date: 07/31/14

83 Warrenton St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $140,666
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Scott B. Kier
Date: 07/31/14

80 Wheeler Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Joshua Ortas
Seller: Jonathan Damours
Date: 07/31/14

SOUTHWICK

20 Babb Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Christopher D. Harris
Seller: Joseph P. Brennan
Date: 07/29/14

62 Berkshire Ave.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $495,000
Buyer: Marshall S. Harris
Seller: Mark D. Anderson
Date: 08/04/14

63 Hastings Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Glennice Flynn
Seller: Jean Lamoureaux
Date: 07/28/14

TOLLAND

154 Brook Lane
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Albert P. Lenge
Seller: William H. Brennan
Date: 08/01/14

28 Otter Pond Trail
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Kimberly A. Galgano
Seller: William N. Ale
Date: 08/08/14

WALES

22 Lynch Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Nicholas A. Parker
Seller: Teresa M. Smart
Date: 07/31/14

17 Main St.
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $221,500
Buyer: Mark P. Gelinas
Seller: Christopher B. Albrecht
Date: 08/01/14

WESTFIELD

9 Brenda Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $212,500
Buyer: Samatha L. Whalen
Seller: Jeremy Ryser
Date: 08/08/14

5 Crane Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $124,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Dansereau
Seller: Christopher R. Carr
Date: 08/06/14

86 Dana St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Timothy L. Voudren
Seller: Lesley A. Phipps
Date: 08/07/14

7 Harrison Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $181,500
Buyer: Christopher Lusignan
Seller: Robert C. Cote
Date: 07/31/14

86 Hillside Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Michael J. Robienczak
Seller: Jennifer S. Crawford
Date: 08/08/14

98 Old Stage Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: William F. Barry
Seller: Nadeau, Jacqueline G., (Estate)
Date: 08/01/14

71 Putnam Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: Melissa A. Bara
Seller: Richard H. Meader
Date: 07/28/14

88 Riverside Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: Steven C. Scibelli
Seller: Donald L. Provo
Date: 08/07/14

158 Roosevelt Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Mariana L. Albert
Seller: Richard J. Gogal
Date: 07/31/14

33 South Maple St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Peter Strniste
Seller: Carlos E. Iglesias
Date: 07/29/14

27 Sterling St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Rachel E. Curry
Seller: Anne E. Norton-Graffum
Date: 07/30/14

88 Woodmont St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $212,839
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Joshua M. Graveline
Date: 07/30/14

WILBRAHAM

10 Bradlind Ave.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $149,290
Buyer: Candis A. Rose
Seller: Auzemda Rodrigues
Date: 07/31/14

18 Briar Cliff Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $488,250
Buyer: Scott J. Vasta
Seller: Leonard Viscito
Date: 08/01/14

5 Brookmont Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $259,000
Buyer: V. L. Collins-English
Seller: Edward C. Hough
Date: 08/01/14

9 Carla Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $387,500
Buyer: Robert J. Shanley
Seller: AC Homebuilding LLC
Date: 08/08/14

18 Linwood Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $208,000
Buyer: Jessica A. Orcutt
Seller: Anne E. Peplinski
Date: 07/30/14

510 Monson Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $354,000
Buyer: Michael A. Daniele
Seller: David R. Streeter
Date: 08/08/14

13 Peak Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Kevin Hinkamper
Seller: Edwin A. Whitman
Date: 08/01/14

3 Poplar Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Nathan E. Dolley
Seller: Wei J. Zheng
Date: 08/01/14

274 Soule Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Jason D. Christofori
Seller: Seper Hedayat-Zadeh
Date: 07/29/14

10-1/2 Springfield St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $404,000
Buyer: Sharmaine Barone
Seller: Michael L. O’Rourke
Date: 08/08/14

4 White St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Partners LLC
Seller: Antonio Patullo
Date: 07/29/14

12 Winterberry Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $431,000
Buyer: David R. Streeter
Seller: Sterling A. Orr
Date: 08/08/14

WEST SPRINGFIELD

51 Althea St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $192,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Beaulieu
Seller: Michael P. Douthwright
Date: 07/31/14

18 Belmont Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $146,200
Buyer: MHFA
Seller: Scott D. Primack
Date: 08/06/14

112 Buckingham Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Jeremy Page
Seller: William R. McCarthy
Date: 08/08/14

64-66 Elmdale St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: DJJ Investments LLC
Seller: John C. Cleveland
Date: 07/31/14

74 Forris St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Anne E. Davidson
Seller: Barbara A. Aldrich
Date: 07/31/14

43 Granger Place
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $149,000
Buyer: Jeanna M. Misischia
Seller: Richard C. Langevin
Date: 07/31/14

253 Lancaster Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Bruce M. Ruth
Seller: Matthew J. Beaulieu
Date: 07/31/14

60 Lower Beverly Hills
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $258,500
Buyer: Heather M. McCarthy
Seller: Brian J. Rachmaciej
Date: 08/08/14

20 Penrose Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Kathleen L. Baker
Seller: Tracy M. Smith
Date: 08/01/14

157 Quarry Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $402,500
Buyer: Paul M. Bonavita
Seller: Carroll Ahearn-King
Date: 08/01/14

42 Salem St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $242,500
Buyer: Jeffrey M. Zaleski
Seller: Frederick Lafortune
Date: 07/31/14

12 South Blvd.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $488,000
Buyer: JNM Realty LLC
Seller: G Cross LLC
Date: 08/01/14

21 Sweetfern Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $329,000
Buyer: Lawrence Walsh
Seller: Lauran Thompson
Date: 08/08/14

36 Valley View Circle
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Jaime L. Flores
Seller: Lawrence J. Walsh
Date: 08/08/14

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

40 Applewood Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Michael D. Ringler
Seller: Curt Tausky
Date: 07/31/14

100 Aubinwood Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Joseph F. Bergan
Seller: Roland J. Chilton
Date: 08/05/14

131 Aubinwood Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Michael J. Beganny
Seller: Gary C. Fisher
Date: 08/05/14

389 Bay Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: John R. Brown
Seller: Br RT
Date: 07/30/14

66 Concord Way
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $655,000
Buyer: Gabriela C. Weaver
Seller: Kohl Construction Inc.
Date: 07/31/14

874 East Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $329,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Rosenberg
Seller: Suzanne R. Coffey
Date: 08/06/14

21 Kendrick Place
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Ian J. Walsh
Seller: George R. Scialoia
Date: 07/31/14

24 Potwine Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $394,000
Buyer: Theresa J. Almeida
Seller: Michael Macdonald
Date: 08/04/14

42 Shumway St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Jesse C. Tzeng
Seller: KH Amherst PE LLC
Date: 07/29/14

226 Shutesbury Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $319,000
Buyer: Karen R. Merrill
Seller: Mary Matthews
Date: 07/30/14

267 Shutesbury Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Peter & Jihee Huh FT
Seller: Steven E. Weisler
Date: 08/08/14

16-18 Sunrise Ave.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Rocky Hill Road Partners
Seller: Philip G. Allen
Date: 07/31/14

104 Tracy Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $242,500
Buyer: Elizabeth Weinman
Seller: Richard M. Gale
Date: 08/01/14

36 Tracy Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $246,000
Buyer: Rojeena Neupane
Seller: Regina M. Kaufmann
Date: 07/31/14

35 Trillium Way
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $515,000
Buyer: Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon
Seller: J. A. Burton
Date: 08/01/14

19 Willow Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $315,700
Buyer: Jingjing Wu
Seller: Madeleine K. Jaeger
Date: 07/30/14

BELCHERTOWN

35 Alden Ave.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $343,500
Buyer: Jonathan J. Haluch
Seller: Connie M. Lecours
Date: 08/08/14

84 Allen Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Michael D. Desmith
Seller: PNC Bank NA
Date: 07/31/14

12 Daniel Square Ext
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $317,500
Buyer: Diana L. Zahradnik
Seller: James E. McDonald
Date: 08/08/14

124 Gold St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Jeremy S. Redmond
Seller: Cynthia J. Hardaker
Date: 07/30/14

464 North Washington St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $221,500
Buyer: Robert C. Cote
Seller: John A. Muscaro
Date: 07/31/14

18 Oakridge Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Andrew J. Walker
Seller: Gabriel A. Faria
Date: 07/28/14

21 Oakwood Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Buyer: Michael T. Carney
Seller: Robert J. Henrichon
Date: 08/06/14

54 Rockrimmon St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Theresa Breguet
Seller: Louise K. Weeks
Date: 08/05/14

164 Sheffield Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: John A. Muscaro
Seller: Kevin P. Morris
Date: 07/31/14

601 State St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $287,000
Buyer: Jennifer A. Nesteby
Seller: Darleyne M. Smith
Date: 08/06/14

8 Tucker Lane
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $217,000
Buyer: Joanne P. Whelan
Seller: James V. Tucker
Date: 08/01/14

9 Tucker Lane
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Craig D. Moore
Seller: Mary C. Cannon
Date: 08/06/14

185 Ware Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Gary A. Czupkiewicz
Seller: Richard A. Markum
Date: 08/07/14

EASTHAMPTON

8 Button Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Tina H. Ryman
Seller: Sharon L. Kimble
Date: 08/01/14

40 Carillon Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $359,500
Buyer: Andrew C. Keller
Seller: Randy K. Bradbury
Date: 08/05/14

24 Chapman Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Denise A. Karuth
Seller: FHLM
Date: 07/30/14

22-24 Dartmouth St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Colby E. Quinn
Seller: Fisher Easthampton IRT
Date: 08/04/14

16 Droy Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Shannon R. Clegg
Seller: Mark R. Whitman
Date: 08/06/14

61-63 Garfield Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Rainbow Properties LLC
Seller: Leslie R. Lewis
Date: 07/31/14

14-1/2 Gaugh St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $184,000
Buyer: Stephanie Kvam
Seller: Robert A. Gutermuth
Date: 07/30/14

303 Loudville Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Mombourquette
Seller: Christina A. Marie
Date: 07/31/14

45-47 Maple St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Bryan J. Emond
Seller: Mae L. McLaughlin
Date: 07/31/14

8 Monska Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Arthur K. Smith
Seller: Kenneth P. Bachand
Date: 07/29/14

32 Oliver St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: David P. Sansouci
Seller: Kimberly B. Graham
Date: 07/30/14

8 Paul St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $206,000
Buyer: Robert J. Boyer
Seller: Doreen M. Boyer
Date: 07/31/14

17 Pinebrook Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $243,900
Buyer: Sharon L. Kimble
Seller: Jessica A. Lucia
Date: 08/01/14

15 Pomeroy St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $121,198
Buyer: Richard W. Venne
Seller: Marhefka, Cheryl A., (Estate)
Date: 07/30/14

9 South Hampshire St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $219,000
Buyer: Leah Krieger
Seller: David P. Sansouci
Date: 07/30/14

2 Truehart Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Gary C. Fisher
Seller: Robert P. Skribiski
Date: 08/05/14

8-10 Water Lane
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Brian M. Jarrett
Seller: Normand R. Houle
Date: 08/01/14

GRANBY

121 Amherst St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $247,000
Buyer: Lena L. Hellstrom
Seller: Peter A. Nelson
Date: 08/07/14

92 Kendall St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $308,000
Buyer: William J. Sullivan
Seller: Jeffrey M. Picard
Date: 08/07/14

5 Lynn Dr.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Mary J. Seid
Seller: Tamara Balis
Date: 07/28/14

105 New Ludlow Road
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Erin Garden
Seller: Carol A. Bogdanovich
Date: 07/30/14

203 Taylor St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Timothy D. Dali
Seller: Earleen M. Kenyon
Date: 08/08/14

HADLEY

5 Indian Pipe Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $755,000
Buyer: Kevin Weinman
Seller: Bercume Construction LLC
Date: 07/30/14

Mount Warner Road (off)
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Roger W. Clapp
Seller: John J. Kershlis
Date: 08/06/14

456 River Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $202,500
Buyer: New City Properties LLC
Seller: Jennifer E. Clark
Date: 08/08/14

25 Shattuck Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: David M. Bull
Seller: Robert H. Rice
Date: 08/04/14

HATFIELD

27 South St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Edward J. Dupre
Seller: Smiarowski Brothers LLC
Date: 08/08/14

HUNTINGTON

10 Lowell Lane
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $369,000
Buyer: Richard V. Hendricks
Seller: Bruce A. Schulze
Date: 07/29/14

NORTHAMPTON

93 Arch St.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $409,000
Buyer: Angela Zimm
Seller: Megan R. O’Brien
Date: 08/01/14

13 Birch Lane
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $515,000
Buyer: Matthieu Haenlin
Seller: Eric M. Spangenthal
Date: 07/31/14

399 Burts Pit Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Shane T. St.
Seller: Geraldine A. Poudrier
Date: 07/31/14

1 Corticelli St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: William Phillips
Seller: Michael Hogan
Date: 08/01/14

250 Crescent St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Robyn L. Nelson
Seller: Jeffrey S. Fulford
Date: 08/01/14

120 Dunphy Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Lisa M. Wall
Seller: Beverley A. Carrigan
Date: 07/30/14

108 Emerson Way
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Caroline Burgess
Seller: Emerson Way LLC
Date: 07/30/14

32 Fort Hill Terrace
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: James B. Stillwaggon
Seller: Daniel S. Bradbury
Date: 07/31/14

66 Fox Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Frances N. McSherry
Seller: Esther M. Kane
Date: 08/01/14

3 Garfield Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $122,871
Buyer: Kimberly Z. Antequera
Seller: Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity
Date: 07/28/14

32 Gregory Lane
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Norah J. Denley
Seller: Jack M. Missry
Date: 07/30/14

163 Grove St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $230,500
Buyer: Gabriel R. Peeples
Seller: Barbara R. Malouin
Date: 07/31/14

52 Hatfield St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $263,000
Buyer: Rachel A. Hale
Seller: William A. Carey
Date: 08/08/14

38 Hubbard Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Emily E. West
Seller: Deirdre Scott
Date: 08/08/14

14 Jackson St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $423,000
Buyer: Kristen M. Kelly
Seller: Nicholas C. Harder
Date: 07/30/14

118 Overlook Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $192,500
Buyer: Abigail M. Dolinger
Seller: Hayes, Charles J., (Estate)
Date: 07/28/14

23 Powell St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Rebecca A. Herskovitz
Seller: Robert G. Young
Date: 07/31/14

685 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $219,000
Buyer: Joseph V. Pesce
Seller: Jaketon H. Hewes
Date: 07/31/14

91 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $240,050
Buyer: Victoria S. McClenahen
Seller: Jason M. Kicza
Date: 08/01/14

98 State St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Jeanne M. Barron
Seller: 98 State Street LLC
Date: 07/30/14

17 Sterling Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $236,250
Buyer: Mary H. Coffey
Seller: Linda C. Rockett
Date: 08/01/14

933 Westhampton Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Stacia W. Potter
Seller: Susan B. Doyle
Date: 07/31/14

85 Winterberry Lane
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $765,000
Buyer: Katherine A. Rowe
Seller: Walter E. Bak
Date: 07/31/14

SOUTH HADLEY

74 Abbey St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Joshua M. Clark
Seller: Stanley J. Czupryna
Date: 07/31/14

6 Birchwood Place
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Daniel J. Whalen
Seller: Evelyn S. Kervian
Date: 07/31/14

48 Charon Terrace
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $196,500
Buyer: Heather L. Putnam
Seller: Susan A. Breen
Date: 08/08/14

250 East St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Garrett Postema
Seller: Kelly A. Wentworth
Date: 07/30/14

41 East St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Joshua E. Raskin
Seller: George K. Chrismer
Date: 07/30/14

461 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Gum C. Kang
Seller: Pilgrim 461 NT
Date: 07/29/14

25 Hollywood St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: Justin Suarez
Seller: Michael J. Thornton
Date: 08/08/14

2097 Memorial Dr.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $172,500
Buyer: Bryan M. Fleury
Seller: James C. Janik
Date: 07/28/14

23 Saybrook Circle
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $197,000
Buyer: Andrew Frawley
Seller: Jeremy S. Redmond
Date: 07/30/14

4 Silverwood Ter
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Emily A. Turner
Seller: Tekla F. McInerney
Date: 08/01/14

11 Sycamore Knolls
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: J. B. Magnuson
Seller: Patricia C. Kraske
Date: 08/05/14

103 Woodbridge St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $293,000
Buyer: Kentston D. Bauman
Seller: Eugenia E. Burn
Date: 07/31/14

31 Woodlawn St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $233,500
Buyer: Eric R. Shea
Seller: Anthony Delucco
Date: 07/30/14

SOUTHAMPTON

28 Cook Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: David A. Hardy Contractor
Seller: Richard P. Gwinner
Date: 08/08/14

47 Coleman Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Brittany D. Gutermuth
Seller: Pauline L. Stoddard
Date: 07/30/14

129 College Highway
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Heather A. Dragon
Seller: Mary S. Kaleta
Date: 07/30/14

144 East St.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Michael P. Rosenburg
Seller: Daniel W. Gaze
Date: 07/31/14

Gilbert Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: David A. Hardy Contractor
Seller: Richard P. Gwinner
Date: 08/08/14

76 Glendale Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Ashlee R. Galanis
Seller: Richard L. Truehart
Date: 07/31/14

41 Montgomery Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Daniel W. Gaze
Seller: Paul E. Wanegar
Date: 07/30/14

165 Pomeroy Meadow Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Lorena V. Valente
Seller: Elaine M. Lyman
Date: 08/08/14

79 Pomeroy Meadow Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $381,000
Buyer: Duane B. Gill
Seller: Lisa F. Hahn
Date: 08/08/14

WARE

135 Main St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $239,000
Buyer: 118 Main Street Ware LLC
Seller: Evelyn Baird
Date: 08/08/14

94 Pleasant St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $136,500
Buyer: Matthew R. Lafleche
Seller: Lcoutier, Yvette, (Estate)
Date: 08/08/14

WESTHAMPTON

39 Hooker Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Arth LLC
Seller: Yolanda M. Rigali
Date: 07/31/14

195 Reservoir Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Lee W. Jodoin
Seller: Michael Trombley
Date: 08/01/14

WILLIAMSBURG

20 Village Hill Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Nicholas C. Harder
Seller: Mustin Williamsburg NT
Date: 07/30/14

Briefcase

Briefcase Departments

State to Purchase Knowledge Corridor Line
GREENFIELD — Gov. Deval Patrick announced an agreement in principle allowing the Commonwealth to purchase the Knowledge Corridor rail line between East Northfield and Springfield from Pan Am Southern, a joint venture of Pan Am and Norfolk Southern. The 49-mile segment of rail is currently undergoing a major restoration that will allow for more efficient passenger service, in response to increased demand, and will allow the Commonwealth to maintain and enhance freight service, which will take trucks off the roads, reducing congestion and greenhouse-gas emissions. “For close to 100 years, the Commonwealth’s rail infrastructure was the lifeblood of economic vitality for communities in Franklin and Berkshire counties, and across Western Mass.,” said Patrick. “Through this agreement, we are realizing the renewed value this infrastructure can have in creating economic opportunities throughout the region.” The agreement in principle to purchase the Knowledge Corridor rail line is an important milestone in the Knowledge Corridor/Restore Vermonter Project. The project will restore the original route of Amtrak’s Vermonter travelling between St. Albans, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. from its current routing via Palmer and Amherst. The work on the project includes upgrades to the 50-mile Pan Am Southern Connecticut River Line running between Springfield and East Northfield, known as the Knowledge Corridor. The ongoing restoration project will lead to the relocation of the Vermonter, Amtrak’s north-south passenger rail service to the Knowledge Corridor, by the end of 2014, potentially reducing trip times by 25 minutes. Starting in East Northfield, the restoration runs south to Springfield and includes the construction of three new station platforms in Greenfield, Northampton, and Holyoke. Passenger service on this line ceased in the 1980s and was rerouted southeast to Palmer, where trains reverse direction and head west to Springfield. “It is clear that the residents of Western Massachusetts are hungry for rail service,” said U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern. “Today’s announcement, coupled with state and federal investments to rehabilitate the Knowledge Corridor line, will make such service a reality.” Added U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, “as an outspoken supporter of increased rail travel throughout New England, I am pleased the Commonwealth has agreed to purchase the rail line that runs along the Knowledge Corridor. The completion of this segment of track will lead to increased passenger and freight service from the Pioneer Valley to the Vermont border. Not only will this project will help improve our transportation infrastructure, it will also grow the local economy. It’s exciting news for Western Massachusetts.” Initiated in August 2012, the restoration work consists of the replacement of approximately 95,000 rail ties, new continuously welded rail, new active warning signals and crossing gates at 23 public-grade crossings, upgrades to six bridges, and the first phase of a new signal installation. The restoration is funded through a $75 million grant awarded by the Federal Railroad Administration and approximately $40 million in state funds. The work is expected to be complete in 2016, after the start of passenger service. These improvements will improve safety, increase operating speeds for existing freight-train traffic and the Vermonter, and enhance capacity on the rail line to accommodate future increased levels of train traffic. “The Knowledge Corridor is a rail asset that will play a key role in the region’s transportation system, both by delivering improved customer service in the form of faster travel times, as well as by being built to a standard that can accommodate more freight,” said MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard Davey. “Purchasing the line will also allow us to preserve the line’s viability for the long term, and will position the Commonwealth to use this line for increased passenger service that could provide commuters in the region a competitive alternative to driving on I-91.” The Knowledge Corridor/Restore Vermonter project is part of the vision for a New England high-speed, intercity rail network that will provide a foundation for economic competitiveness and promote livable communities from major and smaller cities to rural areas. Beyond the Knowledge Corridor, the Commonwealth’s work to increase rail opportunities for commuters and tourists alike continues. MassDOT has been working closely with Pan Am Southern, the city of North Adams, and the town of Adams to have Berkshire Scenic Railway operate the Adams Branch railroad line between the two towns. The operation of a scenic railway between North Adams and Adams would be another draw for the thousands of tourists who flock to the Berkshires each year.

Assistance Center Opens in North Adams for Former Hospital Workers
NORTH ADAMS — State Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Rachel Kaprielian and state Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz recently joined legislators and local workforce-development officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open a worker-assistance center inside North Adams City Hall. The center is the latest effort to marshal state resources in helping 530 area residents who lost their jobs when North Adams Regional Hospital (NARH) and its affiliates closed in March. “The Patrick Administration is committed to making sure no worker or region is left behind as the state’s economy continues to improve and enjoys record job growth,” said Kaprielian. “This center and the skills-training opportunities the state is allocating will help get these residents back to work.” The Mass. Department of Public Health has been instrumental in helping the hospital reopen as a healthcare facility and restore regional healthcare services. Three months ago, Berkshire Health Systems opened an emergency room in the facility and hired approximately 150 former NARH employees. “Massachusetts is committed to ensuring that quality healthcare is accessible in every region across the Commonwealth,” said Polanowicz. “This worker assistance center in North Adams reinforces the administration’s commitment to the region’s healthcare community, and to supporting workers, patients, and families.” Added North Adams Mayor Richard Alcombright, “a huge ‘thank you’ to our state partners at the Executive Office of Labor & Workforce Development, and our local partners at Berkshire County Regional Employment Board and BerkshireWorks, for providing this wonderful opportunity to the residents of our Greater Northern Berkshire region. This center will provide significant resources to the unemployed and underemployed that will help them seek out opportunities and provide training for the skills necessary to attain employment. What is also very exciting is that this center will be located right next to our Veteran’s Services Office, providing an on-the-spot resource for our local veterans seeking employment.”

State, MassChallenge Launch Government Innovation Competition
BOSTON — MassIT, the Commonwealth’s lead state agency for technology across the executive branch, announced a first-of-its-kind MassIT Government Innovation Competition, with a $50,000 prize for the winning project. MassIT will partner with MassChallenge, a start-up accelerator that supports high-impact, early-stage entrepreneurs, on this initiative. The goal of the MassIT Government Innovation Competition is to provide high-quality startups with incentives to develop innovative solutions that can help the state government meet constituent needs more efficiently and at lower cost to taxpayers. For the first time, the Commonwealth will have access to entrepreneurs focused on improving the constituent-government relationship. The Commonwealth plans to implement a pilot of the winning project, with the goal of cost-effectively improving delivery of services to constituents, achieving greater internal efficiencies, or both. “Massachusetts is renowned as a hub for technology and innovation; MassChallenge’s support of high-impact, early-stage entrepreneurs has helped enhance that reputation. By working together, MassIT and MassChallenge can accelerate the Commonwealth’s use of technology solutions and harness the wealth of expertise available to us,” said Bill Oates, the state’s chief information officer. MassChallenge awards more than $1 million in cash prizes each year to winning startups, with zero equity taken. Additional benefits for startups include world-class mentorship and training, free office space, access to funding, legal advice, media exposure, and more than $10 million of in-kind support. MassChallenge is open to early-stage entrepreneurs from any industry, from anywhere in the world. Now in its fifth year, the competition has supported 489 startups, which have created more than 4,000 new jobs and raised more than $550 million in outside funding. This year alone, MassChallenge received approximately 1,650 applications from 50 countries and 40 states. After initial rounds of judging of all applicants, 128 finalists — in honor of Massachusetts’s Route 128 technology corridor — are invited to participate in MassChallenge’s four-month startup accelerator program and related sidecar competitions. The MassIT Government Innovation Competition is open to any qualifying startup that applies by the Aug. 27 deadline. Entrepreneurs whose work can help MassIT leverage innovation to support, enable, and transform the operation of state government and delivery of services to constituents are invited to compete.

State Reaches Solar Milestone
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick announced another major clean-energy milestone, surpassing 15,000 solar installations in the Commonwealth. There are now 15,762 systems installed across Massachusetts, a 20-fold increase from 2008. “This achievement is due in large part to the strength of the Massachusetts solar industry,” Patrick said. “Clean-energy investments are smart for the environment and the economy, as proven by our 24% industry job growth in the last two years.” There were 778 systems installed in Massachusetts on Jan. 1, 2008. As a result of this exponential growth, Massachusetts ranked fourth in the nation for new solar capacity installed in 2013 by the Solar Energy Industries Assoc. It also ranked fourth nationally in total solar jobs in 2013 by the Solar Foundation’s National Solar Jobs Census. There are more than 8,000 people working in the solar industry in the Commonwealth, and nearly 80,000 clean-energy workers at 5,500 companies. “These achievements show that the Patrick administration’s policies and strategic investments are paying off,” said state Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Maeve Vallely Bartlett. “When we are competitive with other states much sunnier than ours, it’s a testament to the commitment of state and local officials, as well as home and business owners across the Commonwealth, to renewable energy.”

People on the Move

Departments People on the Move

Ralph Abbott Jr

John Glenn

Timothy Murphy

Jay Presser

Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C., an employment-law firm serving the Greater Springfield area, announced that four of the firm’s partners — Ralph Abbott Jr., John Glenn, Timothy Murphy, and Jay Presser — were listed in 2015 edition of Best Lawyers in America. In addition, Murphy was named the Best Lawyers 2015 litigation, labor and employment Lawyer of the Year in Springfield. Those honored as Lawyer of the Year have received particularly high ratings in surveys by earning a superior level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey. More than 52,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
• Abbott has been listed in Best Lawyers in the categories of arbitration; employment law, management; labor law, management; and mediation. He has been a partner at the firm since 1975 and is known throughout the legal community for his work representing management in labor relations and employment-related matters, providing employment-related advice to employers, assisting clients in remaining union-free, and representing employers before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Abbott also has numerous credits as an author, editor, and teacher and a record of civic and community involvement. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers every year since 1989.
• Glenn has been listed in Best Lawyers in the categories of arbitration; employment law, management; and labor law, management. He has been a partner of the firm since 1979 and has spent his career representing management in labor relations and employment-related matters. In addition to providing employment-related advice to employers, he assists clients in remaining union-free and represents employers before the NLRB. He has extensive experience negotiating collective-bargaining agreements and representing employers at arbitration hearings and before state and federal agencies. Prior to joining Skoler, Abbott & Presser, Glenn was employed by the NLRB in Cincinnati. He has served as an adjunct professor of Labor Law at Western New England University School of Law and is a member of the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers every year since 1995.
• Murphy has been listed in Best Lawyers in the categories of employment law, management; labor law, management; and litigation, labor and employment. He joined Skoler Abbott after serving as general counsel to an area labor union and as an assistant district attorney for the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office. His practice includes labor relations and employment litigation, as well as employment counseling. A native of the Springfield area, Murphy is a graduate of the Western New England University School of Law. He has also taught courses in employment law at WNEU. He is a frequent contributor to business and human-resource publications and a contributing author to the Massachusetts Employment Law Letter. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers every year since 2013.
• Presser has been listed in Best Lawyers in the categories of employment law, management; labor law, management; and litigation, labor and employment. He has more than 35 years of experience litigating employment cases and has successfully defended employers in civil actions and jury trials and handled cases in all areas of employment law, including discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, wage hour, FMLA, ERISA, and defamation. He has won appeals before the Supreme Judicial Court and the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals, and represented employers in hundreds of arbitration cases arising under collective-bargaining agreements. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers every year since 1991.
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Robert Belitz

Tighe & Bond, a civil and environmental engineering consultant, has appointed Robert Belitz its Chief Financial Officer. In this role, he will direct Tighe & Bond’s financial operations and priorities, as well as contribute to growth strategies consistent with the firm’s continued expansion in the marketplace. Belitz, who will provide financial management from the firm’s Westfield office, is a certified public accountant and executive with more than 25 years of corporate finance and accounting experience in professional services. He previously has served as the chief financial officer, corporate controller, and vice president of Finance for firms such as Malcolm Pirnie, Arcadis U.S., and the Hunter Roberts Construction Group. He also provided senior management for the public accounting firms of Ernst and Young LLP and KPMG LLP in New York. His prior responsibilities have included oversight and management of all financial functions, as well as developing and implementing financial plans and processes to achieve strategic and operational objectives. “Bob’s wealth of experience in our industry, and his proven ability to successfully direct financial operations, is instrumental to Tighe & Bond’s accelerating growth,” said David Pinsky, president and CEO of Tighe & Bond. “We’re thrilled that he has joined us as Tighe & Bond’s first chief financial officer.” Belitz, who earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Muhlenberg College, is a member of the New York State Society of CPAs and the Construction Financial Management Assoc. He also has participated in various finance forums with the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, Ernst and Young, the American Council of Engineering Companies, and the Design Finance Officers Group. Founded in 1911, Tighe & Bond is one of the most experienced engineering firms in New England, with offices in Pocasset, Westfield, and Worcester, Mass.; Middletown and Shelton, Conn.; and Portsmouth, N.H. With a team of more than 250 employees, Tighe & Bond provides engineering and environmental services for clients in government, industry, healthcare, education, real-estate, energy, and water/wastewater markets.
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Radius Financial Group Inc., a leading private mortgage lender in New England, has announced the addition of Kate Crogan as a Loan Officer in its West Springfield branch. Crogan brings three years of experience in mortgage lending. Most recently, she was a customer-service representative before being promoted to financial-services representative at TD Bank in Chicopee, where she was responsible for first and second mortgages, insurance, and annuities. She is currently studying business at Western New England University.
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Keith Minoff

Keith Minoff was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2015 in the fields of commercial litigation and corporate law. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey. More than 52,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Minoff specializes in business litigation and employment law. His law office is located in downtown Springfield.
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Paul Fortin

Northeast IT Systems Inc. announced the addition of Paul Fortin to its team. Fortin will be joining Joel Mollison and Brian Sullivan as a Desktop Support Specialist. In that role, Fortin is able to implement cloud-based backup systems, reduce downtime of equipment, and increase speed of repairs for clients. With this new addition, Northeast IT Systems will be able to continue its pattern of steady growth and provide solutions to a broad range of clients.
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Brattleboro Retreat President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Robert Simpson Jr., has been named by Behavioral Healthcare magazine as a 2014 Behavioral Healthcare Champion along with four other leaders in the field of mental health from across the nation. The 2014 champions were selected from outstanding nominees across the country who, according to the magazine, are making a difference in the development, delivery, and effectiveness of mental healthcare services. “True leaders create lasting impact, and our 2014 Behavioral Healthcare Champions all have an eye on the future,” said Julie Miller, editor in chief of Behavioral Healthcare magazine. “Their drive to find new and more effective ways to serve their clients is reflected not just in their own organizations’ success, but also in the progress they’ve witnessed in their communities.” The 2014 Behavioral Healthcare Champions are profiled in the July/August 2014 issue of Behavioral Healthcare magazine and were recognized at a special ceremony during the National Conference on Addiction Disorders (NCAD) and the co-located Behavioral Healthcare Leadership Summit, which was held in St. Louis on Aug. 22-26. Simpson’s many achievements since becoming the Retreat’s CEO in November 2006 are discussed in-depth in the above-mentioned profile. Among those achievements are a complete revamp of the hospital’s admissions process that replaced a multi-channel system of patient access with a streamlined, single-access point that makes access to the Retreat’s numerous programs easier and more dignified for patients. Under Simpson’s watch, the retreat has successfully launched four specialty clinical services designed to better meet the psychiatric and addiction treatment needs of distinct populations that are typically underserved. They are the Adult Inpatient Program for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender; the Emerging Adult Inpatient Program for young adults ages 18 to 26; the Uniformed Service Program, a partial-hospital program designed to meet the unique needs of law enforcement, firefighters, corrections officers, military personnel, and first responders suffering from PTSD and other duty-related issues including addiction to alcohol and other drugs, major depression, and domestic violence; and the Mind Body Pain Management Clinic, a treatment alternative for people experiencing chronic pain that utilizes biofeedback, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and mindful movement in place of typical treatments such as medication and surgery.
During Simpson’s tenure, the Retreat has experienced tremendous growth, having increased its number of staffed beds from an average of 50 in 2006 to an average of 122 in 2014. During the same time, the Brattleboro Retreat has doubled its number of employees from approximately 400 to more than 800.

Court Dockets

FRANKLIN SUPERIOR COURT
Anne-Therese Stark v. Stop & Shop Supermarket, LLC
Allegation: Slip and fall on foreign subject causing injury: $290,000
Filed: 6/20/14

Kelli J. Fortin v. Baystate Medical Practices and Pioneer Women’s Health
Allegation: Unauthorized disclosure of private information to third party: $25,000+
Filed: 7/31/14

GREENFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Fuelrite, LLC v. Robert N. Tatro d/b/a Tatro Trucking
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $11,481.57
Filed: 8/5/14

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Kilnapp Enterprises Inc d/b/a Real Clean v. Eliezer Claudio d/b/a Star Auto Detailing
Allegation: Defendant breached the non-compete and non-solicit provisions of a business-to-business contract: $45,000
Filed: 7/22/14

Thomas Sullivan v. Jen-Coat Inc.
Allegation: Defendant unjustly terminated plaintiff’s employment after treatment for colon cancer in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act: $25,000+
Filed: 7/23/14

HOLYOKE DISTRICT COURT
Jacqueline Diaz v. Ransome Idealease, LLC and Jonah Pitts
Allegation: Negligent operation of tractor trailer truck: $24,000
Filed: 7/29/14

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Beacon Sales Co. v. Jamie Ludwig and Courtney Ludwig d/b/a Luggy’s Roofing and Construction
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $6,363.17
Filed: 6/30/14

Comcast Spotlight Inc. v. Smithfest Events Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of advertising services rendered: $9,606.17
Filed: 6/30/14

ICC Trucking v. JCL Trucking Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract: $26,500.17
Filed: 8/7/14

Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and LM Insurance Corp. v. HB Roofing Contractor, L.P.
Allegation: Non-payment of workers compensation policies: $12,903.98
Filed: 7/3/14

Rosalinda Rosa, Carlos F. Rivera and Pedro Principe v. Bertera Chrysler Jeep Dodge Inc. and Joseph Deausealt
Allegation: Sale of motor vehicle that did not comply with warranty: $24,999.99
Filed: 7/30/14

Tamara Walker v. 227 Mill Street, LLC, The Mercy Hospital Inc. d/b/a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, and Sisters of Providence Health System Inc.
Allegation: Negligent maintenance of property: $20,000
Filed: 8/11/14

Robert Belitz Joins Tighe & Bond as Chief Financial Officer

By BusinessWest Staff August 29, 2014

WESTFIELD — Tighe & Bond, a civil and environmental engineering consultant, has appointed Robert Belitz its chief financial officer this week. In this role, he will direct Tighe & Bond’s financial operations and priorities, as well as contribute to growth strategies consistent with the firm’s continued expansion in the marketplace.

Belitz, who will provide financial management from the firm’s Westfield office, is a certified public accountant and executive with more than 25 years of corporate finance and accounting experience in professional services. He previously has served as the chief financial officer, corporate controller, and vice president of Finance for firms such as Malcolm Pirnie, Arcadis U.S., and the Hunter Roberts Construction Group. He also provided senior management for the public accounting firms of Ernst and Young LLP and KPMG LLP in New York. His prior responsibilities have included oversight and management of all financial functions, as well as developing and implementing financial plans and processes to achieve strategic and operational objectives.

“Bob’s wealth of experience in our industry, and his proven ability to successfully direct financial operations, is instrumental to Tighe & Bond’s accelerating growth,” said David Pinsky, president and CEO of Tighe & Bond. “We’re thrilled that he has joined us as Tighe & Bond’s first chief financial officer.”

Belitz, who earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Muhlenberg College, is a member of the New York State Society of CPAs and the Construction Financial Management Assoc. He also has participated in various finance forums with the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, Ernst and Young, the American Council of Engineering Companies, and the Design Finance Officers Group.

Founded in 1911, Tighe & Bond is one of the most experienced engineering firms in New England, with offices in Pocasset, Westfield, and Worcester, Mass.; Middletown and Shelton, Conn.; and Portsmouth, N.H. With a team of more than 250 employees, Tighe & Bond provides engineering and environmental services for clients in government, industry, healthcare, education, real-estate, energy, and water/wastewater markets.

Construction Employment Increases in 223 Metro Areas

By BusinessWest Staff August 28, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Construction employment expanded in 223 metro areas, declined in 72, and was stagnant in 44 between July 2013 and July 2014, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released by Associated General Contractors of America.

As employment grows, 25% of firms report that labor shortages are forcing them to turn down work, according to a new survey conducted by SmartBrief, an industry leader in curated business news and custom content, in partnership with the association. “Many construction firms looking to expand their payrolls are finding a surprisingly tight labor market,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “These expanding labor shortages threaten to impact construction schedules as firms struggle to find enough qualified workers.” These labor shortages are also having an impact on construction salaries, with 70% of firms reporting they are paying more for skilled labor than they did last year.

Company Notebook

Company Notebook Departments

Baystate Wins Approval for Three Determination-of-need Requests
BOSTON — The Mass. Public Health Council approved three determination-of-need (DON) requests to support Baystate Health’s efforts to modernize its facilities and improve access to, and quality and value of, healthcare for patients in Western Mass. The approved requests relate to the transfer of ownership of Wing Memorial Hospital and Medical Centers to Baystate Health from UMass Memorial Health Care of Worcester; construction of new operating rooms at Baystate Franklin Medical Center to replace aging facilities; and construction of a new inpatient pharmacy in shell space in the MassMutual Wing at Baystate Medical Center. “We’re very pleased to receive the approval of the Public Health Council for three initiatives that we expect to have a major positive impact on quality, access, and affordability of healthcare in Western Mass., and on our ability to continue to provide outstanding, high-value care for our patients close to where they live,” said Dr. Mark Keroack, president and CEO of Baystate Health. With the council’s approval in place, the transfer of ownership of Wing, announced prospectively in December 2013, is now expected to be complete in September. Wing will become an affiliate of Baystate Health, and its approximately 800 employees will join Baystate. Baystate officials expect that Wing’s proximity to Baystate’s Western Mass. network will mean improved access to doctors, cost savings, better coordination of care, and better alignment with local public-health efforts for patients in the Palmer/Quaboag region. Wing and Baystate Mary Lane Hospital in Ware will operate in close coordination with each other and with other local healthcare providers, and patients’ current options for choosing providers will not be affected. The Surgery Modernization Project at Baystate Franklin Medical Center (BFMC) in Greenfield addresses a need for contemporary facilities to replace the current ORs built in 1974, which will be renovated to relocate endoscopy services. The project, expected to begin this fall, will allow Franklin County and North Quabbin area residents to receive more healthcare services close to home, while also aiding in Baystate’s efforts to recruit additional physicians to the region. Moving the inpatient pharmacy at Baystate Medical Center (BMC) enables pharmacists to meet patients’ growing needs in a state-of-the-art, safe, and secure facility in the newest wing of the Springfield teaching and research hospital. The BFMC and BMC projects come with new community-benefit contributions from Baystate Health. BFMC’s Surgery Modernization Project will generate $228,921 per year for five years for community health-improvement projects in the Franklin County/North Quabbin region. The pharmacy at BMC comes with a community-benefit contribution of $342,146, which brings the total community benefit under the entire determination of need for the expansion of Baystate Medical Center to $13,144,765. Baystate’s Health’s community-benefit work at all of its hospitals is conducted in partnership with a wide array of community stakeholders to achieve the most inclusive process and effective outcomes possible.

Freedom Credit Union Announces $2.2 Million Springfield Expansion
SPRINGFIELD — Freedom Credit Union (FCU) President and CEO Barry Crosby announced a $2.2 million expansion of the company’s Springfield headquarters on Tuesday. Freedom will expand its facilities at 1976 Main St. to a building at 77 Boylston St., directly behind Freedom. Crosby said the company plans to relocate 26 Springfield employees to that location, along with 16 employees from Feeding Hills, and hire an additional 13 employees to staff the new building. FCU has had a presence in downtown Springfield since 1922, when it was known as the Western Massachusetts Telephone Workers Credit Union. Renovations of the Bolyston Street property, most recently home to Hampden County Physician Associates, are expected to be completed next January or February.

United Financial Shareholders Approve Executive Compensation
GLASTONBURY — United Financial Bancorp Inc., the holding company for United Bank, announced that an overwhelming majority of its shareholders voted in favor of key proposals presented at its 2014 annual meeting held on Aug. 5, including the executive compensation plan and the re-election of three key United Financial Board members. The proposal to ratify its executive-compensation plan, or say-on-pay, received 93% of the vote by shareholders. The company’s executive-compensation plan is market-based, tied to performance and aligned with shareholders’ interests. They also voted overwhelmingly (94%) to re-elect three members of the board of directors to four-year terms: William Crawford IV, CEO of United Financial Bancorp Inc. and United Bank; Michael Crowley; and Raymond Lefurge Jr., vice chairman of the board. Since the proposals required only 50% of shares outstanding to vote in favor of the proposals to pass, both vote counts underscored the tremendous support shareholders have in the company, its leadership team, and bank employees. In addition to executive compensation and re-election of board members, a proposal to approve the appointment of Wolf & Co., P.C. as United’s independent auditor received 98% shareholder approval.

Gleason Johndrow Landscaping Makes Top 100 List for Snow Removal
NORTHAMPTON — Gleason Johndrow Landscaping, a Northampton-based snow-removal and landscaping contractor, has landed a spot among the top 100 snow-removal contractors nationwide as determined by SNOW magazine, an industry publication that bestows this honor every summer based on the previous year’s revenues. Mike Zawacki, editor of SNOW, views the list as “a reflection of those contractors’ operational excellence.” “We’re thrilled to be included,” said Tony Gleason, a partner in Gleason Johndrow. “We pride ourselves each and every year on logistical process and customer satisfaction. We’re very honored and grateful to be numbered among the best contractors in the country by our peers.” SNOW has been compiling this list (to be released in an article in September’s issue) for the past 10 years and focuses on revenues and operations for contractors submitting their yearly revenues. “It’s a pleasure to see contractors on this list keep growing. It’s a testament to their continued focus on improving their operation every year,” said Zawacki, adding that “2013 was a good year for snow. It was tougher to get on this list this year because so many contractors had a great year.” Gleason and Dave Johndrow have been providing landscaping and snow-removal services since 2002, with commercial and residential clients throughout Western Mass. and Northern Conn.

Court Dockets

CHICOPEE DISTRICT COURT

Michael Kelleher v. Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers of New York Inc.
Allegation: Negligence in food preparation causing illness and hospitalization: $11,972.83
Filed: 7/17/14

W & I Construction Inc. v. C.L. Diesel Repair Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract for failure to repair work vehicle: $3,000+
Filed: 7/8/14

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT

Sabrosura Supermarket Inc. v. Domingo Jiminez d/b/a Cuba Supermarket, LLC
Allegation: Breach of lease agreement: $300,000
Filed: 7/18/14

The Mack Group, LLC v. Greater Western Steel, LLC and Tower View, LLC
Allegation: Breach of contract under a mechanics lien: $132,000
Filed: 7/9/14

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT

Jennifer Fernandez v. RBS Assoc., N.A. and Citizens Financial Group
Allegation: Employment discrimination: $25,000+
Filed: 5/22/14

Joan Tremblay and Dorothy Dougherty v. Ryder Funeral Home, et al
Allegation: Breach of contract and negligent interference with a dead body: $100,000+
Filed: 6/10/14

NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT COURT

Prospect Woods Homeowner’s Assoc. v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
Allegation: Failure to pay assessments imposed by homeowner’s association: $5,589.69
Filed 6/18/14

PALMER DISTRICT COURT

Adler Tank Rentals, LLC v. GML Construction Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract: $6,817.51
Filed: 6/20/14

Commerce Insurance Co. a/s/o Judy Joaquin and Melinda Alves v. FedEx Ground Package System Inc. and Kenneth Allen Jr.
Allegation: Negligent operation of FedEx vehicle causing injury: $10,608.73
Filed: 5/22/14

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT

Liberty Mutual v. Larovere Design/Build Corp.
Allegation: non-payment of a workers’ compensation policy: $11,272.80
Filed: 6/27/14

Mary Perello v. Northeast Properties d/b/a F & P Realty Trust, 58 Realty Trust, and West Street Realty Trust
Allegation: Breach of implied covenant of habitability: $9,000
Filed: 7/9/14

Michelle Smith v. Swift Transportation
Allegation: Negligence causing injury: $24,999
Filed: 6/20/14

A Time to Reflect

Features Sections Travel and Tourism

Clark Art Institute Reopens After Major Renovation

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown celebrated the grand reopening of its 140-acre campus on July 4. It has been transformed by a $145 million renovation designed to give visitors a more coherent and expanded view of art and nature.

“It’s a whole new Clark; we have recast the public profile of the institution,” said Thomas Loughman, associate director for programs and planning. “We have maintained the beautiful, intimate experience we are known for, but created a better way to experience it so visitors can connect with the great pinnacle of human creation, which is art.”

Reflecting pools greet visitors to the Clark.

The changes, which include new architecture and the newly built Clark Center, the main entryway into the campus, are breathtaking and have attracted rave reviews. The building was designed by Pulitzer Prize-winning architect Tadeo Ando to direct people’s views as they enter through walls of glass and three-tiered reflecting pools outside, where trees and hillsides are mirrored in water that comes right to the edge of the glass. In addition to their aesthetic value, the pools are advanced water-management systems that will reduce the Clark’s potable water use by 1 million gallons a year.

“Ando is truly dedicated to the idea that great architecture needs to be in harmony with the landscape, and the reason the Clark Center has so much glass is because it was meant to bring the outside in,” Loughman said.

“The glass was installed to create a connection, historically and visually, with views to the left and right,” he continued, as he sat in a room backed by glass that looked out onto another pool of water. “The materials used in this building frame one’s view of the landscape, whether it is man-made and orderly or partially wild, with gradations in between.”

New ways to circulate between the buildings have also been created, which include a bridge outside and a hallway between the Clark Center and the museum. It has glass on one side, which changes as people travel along it, redirecting their view from a lily pond on the left to the reflecting pools on the right. Exhibit space has also been increased within the museum building itself, which had been closed for three years before the grand reopening last month.

Sally Majewski, manager of public relations and marketing, said reaction to the transformation has been overwhelmingly positive. “We’ve had an incredible response to what has been done, which has been very gratifying.”

She added that, when the museum building closed for the renovation, 75 French paintings from the Clark’s collection were sent on a three-year international tour in 11 cities. “They returned just in time to be reinstalled before we reopened,” Majewski told BusinessWest, noting that the international tour drew more than 2.6 million visitors.

In addition to the Clark Center and renovated museum building, other changes have been made, and the entire campus has become so inviting that locals can be seen walking their dogs along miles of pathways in the verdant landscape and pausing to sit beside the reflecting pools, while people from all over the world view art, study, and conduct research inside the buildings.

Ambitious Plan

Loughman said the expansion plans were first conceived in the late ’90s, when it became clear that the facilities at the Clark were too limited for their program, but they had ample room to grow.

Thomas Loughman says the design of the Clark and its surroundings help visitors make the connection between the beauty of nature and art.

“The population of the town is only 5,000, but we have a very big impact on the region and on the global mission of portraying the history of art,” he said. “The fellows who do research here come from all over the world, and we have exchange relationships with museums around the world in terms of lending and borrowing. And although we had 140 acres, we were hunkered down in two old buildings. So we commissioned Cooper Robertson and Partners in New York City to create a master plan. They told us we needed to change the circulation of the campus, which included moving the parking to one spot, and responsibly crossing two brooks via a bridge to allow access to the rest of the campus.”

In 2002, an architectural competition was launched, and Ando was chosen to design two new buildings. The first — the 42,600-square-foot Clark Center — includes more than 11,000 square feet of gallery space for special exhibitions, a multi-purpose pavilion for events, a dining area, a museum store, family spaces, and an all-glass museum pavilion that creates a new entrance to the original museum building.

The second new structure is the Lunder Center at Stone Hill, which houses smaller exhibits and contains a new art classroom, a seasonal café on a terrace that offers a sweeping view of the landscape, and the Williamstown Art Conservation Center’s facilities.

Phase 1 was completed in 2008 and included the Lunder Center, a new bridge, and a free shuttle service provided between that building and the main campus. Phase 2 involved the construction of the Clark Center with its reflecting pools, site work to the parking lot, and renovations to the museum building and Manton Research Center.

Consideration was also given to the environment, and the terraced reflecting pools that cover an acre were part of Ando’s master plan. They unite the museum’s campus by providing a peaceful view from inside and outside of Stone Hill Meadow, Christmas Brook, and its wetlands.

But they are functional as well and have helped position the Clark at the forefront of the museum world as a leader in sustainability and energy conservation.

Loughman said all the rainwater from the roofs and terraces is channeled into the pools and used to flush the toilets. “It’s a huge advance to have our stormwater-management system and gray-water system tied together in a sustainable fashion,” he told BusinessWest, as he gazed at the sheet of water, which is about 12 inches deep and has a bottom composed of Berkshire river rock and fieldstone.

Funding for the project came entirely from donations, with the exception of $1 million from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund, and financial vehicles were created to keep it moving forward. “People care deeply about our mission, which is to bridge the distance that separates the general public from what is happening in art history,” Loughman said. “We try to connect our guests with ideas and objects, and our new facilities let us do this better.”

Unification Efforts

Each of the four buildings on the campus has a distinct character. “The museum, which was built in the ’50s, is clad in white marble and looks like a Greek temple or mausoleum, while the Manton Research Center, designed in the ’60s, is clad in purple granite and built in New Brutalist style,” said Loughman, pointing out some of the differences.

But today, thanks to Tadeo Ando Architect and Associates, Selldorf Architects, and Reed Hilderbrand and Gensler, materials used in the Clark Center mirror those used in the museum and Manton Center.
The museum’s interior has also undergone change. The building gained 15% more exhibit space, which equates to about 2,200 square feet. That was made possible by moving the loading docks, mailroom, and other service spaces. “It allows us to put a substantially greater number of works on view, many of which were held in storage,” Loughman said.

New lighting and environmental controls were also installed, and three small galleries were created to showcase silver and porcelain as guests move west to east throughout the building. “In the past, we had very primitive displays, but the new cases give us so much more space,” he continued. “There is also a purpose-built gallery for American paintings in the former mailroom that allows us to show off our great collection of Winslow Homer and George Inness. We originally had two of Inness’ works in our collection, but two years ago, we were given eight more of them. Now, we have a place to display them.”

Other changes made to the museum building included raising and reconfiguring the height of the academic gallery to mirror the Impressionist artwork on display there. In addition, new walls were erected to create small showcases within the larger gallery, and the color in some areas was changed to create a more spacious feel.

A new small room with special lighting allows the museum to showcase pastels, and is one of three areas carved out to spotlight select pieces of art. “Ando and the curators tried to create moments of surprise by creating them so they could highlight a small number of works,” Majewski said.

There has also been a change, which began seven years ago, in the type of work put on display. “We wanted to challenge ourselves to show things beyond what people expect to see at the Clark,” Loughman said.
In the past, that was a collection of great 19th-century French and American paintings. But today, the Clark has exhibitions of 20th- and 21st-century art as well as non-Western art and antiquity.

“What we’ve done on these fronts seems very provocative, but we have created immersive experiences that include contemporary art,” Loughman noted, referring to a number of exhibitions, including “Circles of Influence,” which showcases the work of the abstract expressionist Georgia O’Keefe and the modernist Arthur Dove.

Today, a show called “Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China” is on display in the new Clark Center, while an exhibit titled “Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith” can be seen in the Lunden Center.

The multi-million-dollar, multi-phase project that began 15 years ago is almost complete, and a video presentation near the new entrance to the museum building documents the undertaking. Although it has taken time, the end result is a seamless experience, due to the work of four internationally renowned architects who added more than 13,000 square feet of gallery space, demolished the former physical plant building to make way for the new Clark Center and its three reflecting pools, upgraded major utilities, added a series of new geothermal wells, planted 1,000 new trees, and created new ways to circulate among the four buildings on the campus.

Unified Atmosphere

Other changes include upgrades and expansion of the walking trails, a new entry drive, and parking areas with water-permeable surfaces that lead to the rainwater-collection system.

A renovation of the Manton Research Center will complete the project. “The lobby will be turned into a public reading room. It’s one of the greatest art-history libraries in the world, but it has been behind doors, so it is critical to bring it out,” Loughman said.

Although this is important, he added, what has been already accomplished is extraordinary.

“The transformation allowed us to leap over something very old and non-functional and become something that is a generation ahead of our peers in terms of design and sustainability,” he said. “It was difficult to do everything at once, but our project was driven by unity and the historic connection to the earth, which is really art.”

Filling the Gap