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PictureThis

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2013

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Dirty Money

Six Flags New England recently presented buckets of dirty coins collected from a fountain in the theme park to the YMCA of Greater Springfield, in support of the creation of the new Agawam YMCA Wellness & Program Family Center. The Y team spent the afternoon at United Bank, also a great supporter of the Y, counting and cleaning the money, which amounted to just under $2,000. Left: Lori Stickles, personal banking officer from United Bank, helps Six Flags mascot Daffy Duck weigh coins after cleaning. Right: Agawam Mayor Richard Cohen (third from right) is flanked by Daffy Duck and Betty Grimaldi, Agawam Y committee member, as Stickles (far right) joins Jennifer Mance, director of Sales & Marketing at Six Flags New England (far left), and volunteers and friends of the Y.

New Digs

A ceremonial groundbreaking marked the official start of construction for two relocated auto dealerships, Northampton Volkswagen and Country Hyundai. The location is the former site of the Kollmorgen manufacturing plant on the corner of King Street and Damon Road in Northampton; the site will relocate the Volkswagen dealership from across Damon Road, and the Hyundai dealership from Greenfield. Both dealerships are slated to open in January 2014. Pictured, from left, are Carolyn Misch, senior land use planner, City of Northampton; Suzanne Beck, executive director of the Northampton Chamber of Commerce; and Carla Cosenzi and Tommy Cosenzi, co-presidents of TommyCar Auto.

Building Permits

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2013

Building Permits Departments

The following building permits were issued during the month of July 2013.

AMHERST

Amherst Pelham Regional School District

21 Mattoon St.

$264,000 — Renovation of athletic locker room

Institute for Training and Development Inc.

8 Sunset Ave.

$10,000 — Construct rated firewall

Northland Investment Group

188 East Hadley Road

$40,000 — Interior renovation

ServiceNet Inc.

186 Harkness Road

$70,000 — Interior renovation

CHICOPEE

Atlantic Construction

18 Arlington St.

$30,000 — Reroof and new siding

GREENFIELD

Four Rivers Educational Foundation

248 Colrain Road

$500,000 — Connect two-story addition to north side of high school

Greenfield Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses

290 Shelburne Road

$400,000 — Construct new church building

Greenfield Corporate Center

101 Munson St.

$185,000 — Install elevator plus foundation

PDV Inc.

280 Main St.

$3,500 — Construct a file storage room

Stoneleigh Burnham School

574 Bernardston Road

$20,000 — Install 7,000-square-foot ceiling cover

HADLEY

Central Rock Gym

165 Russell St.

$25,000 — Install accessibility lift

Hollrock Realty, LLC

294 Russell St.

$4,000 — Renovation for office space

Paul Dibenedetto

8 Railroad St.

$31,000 — Create 1,565 square feet of space for new restaurant

LUDLOW

Big Y Supermarket

433 Center St.

$221,000 — Alterations

Gary Guilmette

70 Hubbard St.

$11,000 — Reshingle

Red Barn Motors

473 Holyoke St.

$1,000 — Alterations

Waters Edge Condominium Association

1 Waters Edge Dr.

$191,000 — New siding

NORTHAMPTON

Smith Child Care Center Inc.

557 Easthampton Road

$168,000 — Interior renovation and new roof

Smith College

76 Elm St.

$20,500 — Strip and shingle roof

Smith College

8 Paradise Rd.

$97,000 — Construct accessible entry with ramp and an accessible bathroom

Smith College

8 Paradise Road

$350,000 — Interior renovations at President’s House

PALMER

Palmer Land Holdings

105 North St.

$5,073,795 — Install 8,448 solar modules for ground-mounted solar field

Walnut Street Café

8 Walnut St.

$5,934 — New roof

SOUTH HADLEY

Mount Holyoke College

73 College St.

$47,000 — Interior renovations

South Hadley High School

153 Newton St.

$754,000 — New roof

SPRINGFIELD

Western New England University

1215 Wilbraham Road

$1,300,000 — 8,600-square-foot addition and renovation to existing three-story building

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Stephen Pack

43 Elmdale St.

$70,000 — Re-roof and replace windows

Wine and Cheese Barn

1305 Memorial Dr.

$50,000 — Erect 1,800-square-foot pole barn

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2013

Departments Real Estate

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

396 Buckland Road

Ashfield, MA 01330

Amount: $165,000

Buyer: Nelson Howes

Seller: Roger E. Howes

Date: 07/05/13

234 West Road

Ashfield, MA 01330

Amount: $215,000

Buyer: Carol A. O’Connell

Seller: Yvette Legall

Date: 07/03/13

BERNARDSTON

243 Bald Mountain Road

Bernardston, MA 01337

Amount: $277,000

Buyer: Matthew O. Trombley

Seller: Amy L. Slocum

Date: 07/10/13

DEERFIELD

14 Dickinson St.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $214,500

Buyer: George A. Lapenta

Seller: Ethan M. Wilkins

Date: 07/10/13

218 Greenfield Road

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $467,500

Buyer: Gideon Porth

Seller: Francis G. Sobieski

Date: 07/02/13

16 Jones Road

Deerfield, MA 01342

Amount: $400,000

Buyer: Brian J. Carney

Seller: Eugene A. Rice

Date: 07/01/13

24 Kelleher Dr.

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $252,000

Buyer: Hollianne B. Rappe

Seller: Edward W. Pepyne

Date: 07/03/13

35 Meadow Lane

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $302,500

Buyer: Susan N. Lemeshow

Seller: James C. Pelletier

Date: 07/12/13

GREENFIELD

14 Carol Lane

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $202,000

Buyer: Justin M. Allenby

Seller: William R. Perry

Date: 07/02/13

235 Federal St.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $425,000

Buyer: Florence Saving Bank

Seller: Kyprea LLC

Date: 07/01/13

3 Park St.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $175,750

Buyer: Bank New York Mellon

Seller: Wayne P. Kellogg

Date: 07/01/13

134 Wells St.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $160,000

Buyer: MHFA

Seller: Christen M. Wilcox

Date: 07/05/13

33 Woodleigh Ave.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $188,000

Buyer: Francis J. Twarog

Seller: Armando A. Bresciano

Date: 07/03/13

LEVERETT

32 Laurel Hill Dr.

Leverett, MA 01054

Amount: $500,000

Buyer: Leonard Strauss

Seller: Peter Longiaru

Date: 07/11/13

MONTAGUE

3 H St.

Montague, MA 01376

Amount: $173,000

Buyer: Andrew S. Toomajian

Seller: Christipher J. Pletcher

Date: 07/09/13

39 Oakman St.

Montague, MA 01376

Amount: $143,500

Buyer: Debra Beck

Seller: Mark D. Letourneau

Date: 07/12/13

NEW SALEM

357 Petersham Road

New Salem, MA 01355

Amount: $140,000

Buyer: Edward A. Mallett

Seller: Michael A. Lombard

Date: 07/01/13

NORTHFIELD

68 Pierson Road

Northfield, MA 01360

Amount: $116,667

Buyer: Mark K. Trumbull

Seller: Trumbull, John C., (Estate)

Date: 07/01/13

ORANGE

110 Drew Blvd.

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $115,000

Buyer: Asam Stacey

Seller: South Middlesex Non Prof. Housing

Date: 07/12/13

125 Drew Blvd.

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $127,000

Buyer: Eva Raynolds

Date: 07/12/13

20 Shingle Brook Road

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $130,500

Buyer: Jason S. Rushford

Seller: Lesley J. Henley

Date: 07/01/13

245 Tully Road

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: David F. Bardsley

Seller: Stephen G. Thompson

Date: 07/01/13

98 Warwick Road

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $147,500

Buyer: Aaron J. Stafford

Seller: Joanna L. Fisher

Date: 07/10/13

SUNDERLAND

31 Howard Hepburn Dr.

Sunderland, MA 01375

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Robert E. Sabola

Seller: Frank R. Judice

Date: 07/09/13

122 Old Amherst Road

Sunderland, MA 01375

Amount: $126,900

Buyer: Valley Building Co. Inc.

Seller: Beneficial MA Inc.

Date: 07/12/13

40 Reservation Road

Sunderland, MA 01375

Amount: $270,000

Buyer: Ilana L. Schmitt

Seller: Michael L. Cendrowski

Date: 07/05/13

WENDELL

55 Morse Village Road

Wendell, MA 01379

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: Penny A. Fernet

Seller: Virginia E. Schimmel

Date: 07/08/13

WHATELY

21 State Road

Whately, MA 01093

Amount: $235,000

Buyer: Evelyn Lorenzi-Quinones

Seller: April Realty Investments

Date: 07/02/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

600 Cooper St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $139,500

Buyer: Sergey Bratnichenko

Seller: Samuel J. Misischia

Date: 07/08/13

34 Corey St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $220,000

Buyer: Meaghen J. Serra

Seller: Raymond J. Gobeille

Date: 07/12/13

15 Farmington Circle

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $609,500

Buyer: Stephen B. Pudles

Seller: Hillside Dev. Corp.

Date: 07/12/13

130 Walnut St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $247,800

Buyer: DJJ Investments LLC

Seller: Alexander Sokolson

Date: 07/12/13

232 Walnut St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $155,241

Buyer: US Bank NA

Seller: Lisa Pepper

Date: 07/10/13

60 Willow Brook Dr.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $261,000

Buyer: Rohit Patel

Seller: Roda, Debra Ann, (Estate)

Date: 07/01/13

BRIMFIELD

61 John Haley Road

Brimfield, MA 01010

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Brian E. Bigos

Seller: Marc N. Riel

Date: 07/01/13

351 Sturbridge Road

Brimfield, MA 01010

Amount: $250,299

Buyer: Ralph W. Nichols

Seller: Deutsche Bank National

Date: 07/03/13

CHICOPEE

1 Better Way

Chicopee, MA 01022

Amount: $8,391,700

Buyer: Avery Products Corp.

Seller: Avery Dennison Office

Date: 07/12/13

8 Bonneta Circle

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $142,000

Buyer: Kenneth Schreiber

Seller: Mainville, Bertha, (Estate)

Date: 07/12/13

259 Britton St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $130,000

Buyer: Dale J. Thouin

Seller: Gregoire, Joseph F., (Estate)

Date: 07/08/13

67 Cochran St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $267,000

Buyer: James M. Niedbala

Seller: Gary S. Toth

Date: 07/08/13

34 Como Dr.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $228,500

Buyer: Diana M. Lorenzo

Seller: Steven M. Page

Date: 07/10/13

72 Florence St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $134,100

Buyer: Gary M. Bisiniere

Seller: Marie F. Lonczak

Date: 07/12/13

171 Grattan St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $227,000

Buyer: Nelson Goncalves

Seller: Helder Carvalho

Date: 07/01/13

19 Hillman St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $165,000

Buyer: Audrey Foster

Seller: Gerald R. Slota

Date: 07/12/13

527 McKinstry Ave.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $185,500

Buyer: Christina Turner

Seller: Russell Nubile

Date: 07/09/13

32 Morris St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: MHFA

Seller: Oleg Moskvich

Date: 07/03/13

44 Schley St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $152,000

Buyer: Luis Diaz

Seller: David J. Klofas

Date: 07/09/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

162 Braeburn Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Brianna Perry

Seller: Luis F. Gutierrez

Date: 07/08/13

3 Canterbury Circle

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $373,800

Buyer: Michael D. Deflorio

Seller: Todd Z. Hayden

Date: 07/03/13

119 Dearborn St.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $215,500

Buyer: Tabitha L. Mirsola

Seller: Jodi L. Terrell

Date: 07/01/13

40 Glendale Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Timothy R. Manning

Seller: Paul F. Manship

Date: 07/12/13

181 Hampden Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $131,500

Buyer: Matthew C. Trinceri

Seller: Leone, Joseph R., (Estate)

Date: 07/09/13

406 North Main St.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $861,400

Buyer: Pecousic Mabrook LLC

Seller: Heritage Park

Date: 07/01/13

166 Porter Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $287,500

Buyer: Joseph B. Hutchison

Seller: Edward A. Clark

Date: 07/03/13

95 Ridge Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $314,000

Buyer: William R. Dennis

Seller: Charles H. Gray

Date: 07/08/13

10 Shelby Lane

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $320,000

Buyer: Wendy E. Osbourne

Seller: Winston E. Moore

Date: 07/02/13

29 Thompkins Ave.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $263,000

Buyer: Harold House

Seller: Jessica E. Martin

Date: 07/08/13

118 Thompkins Ave.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $153,900

Buyer: Matthew L. Weiss

Seller: Andrew J. Porcello

Date: 07/02/13

HAMPDEN

152 Allen St.

Hampden, MA 01036

Amount: $126,597

Buyer: Laurels RT

Seller: USA HUD

Date: 07/09/13

112 North Road

Hampden, MA 01036

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Melissa L. McCarthy

Seller: Historical Society Of Hampden

Date: 07/10/13

HOLLAND

2 Bennett Lane

Holland, MA 01521

Amount: $245,000

Buyer: Eric J. Roppolo

Seller: Nicholas C. Kahl

Date: 07/02/13

54 Union Road

Holland, MA 01521

Amount: $145,000

Buyer: John W. Buckley

Seller: Elvis W. Dyer

Date: 07/09/13

HOLYOKE

49 Claremont Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $159,900

Buyer: Sebastian R. Labonte

Seller: Frank B. Munson

Date: 07/01/13

25 Clinton Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $151,000

Buyer: Jorge R. Albelo

Seller: Israel Lebron

Date: 07/02/13

75 Congress Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $162,000

Buyer: Cladi Rodriguez

Seller: Kristina M. Acevedo

Date: 07/02/13

1086 Main St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $121,000

Buyer: Shaylyn Fitzell

Seller: Joyce E. Johnson

Date: 07/03/13

1705 Northampton St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $217,000

Buyer: 1707 RT

Seller: Matthew L. Donohue

Date: 07/09/13

95 Pearl St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Buyer: Anne A. Pinkerton

Seller: Mary J. Curtis

Date: 07/01/13

62 Saint James Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $122,778

Buyer: Midfirst Bank State

Seller: Wendy Ortiz

Date: 07/11/13

LONGMEADOW

281 Converse St.

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $374,000

Buyer: Anne T. Cavallo

Seller: Gregory Merchant

Date: 07/12/13

6 Farmington Ave.

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $430,500

Buyer: Matthew E. Galuska

Seller: Michael J. Greiner

Date: 07/01/13

25 Highland St.

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $325,000

Buyer: Alfonso D. Via

Seller: Daniel M. Bannish

Date: 07/10/13

70 Hopkins Place

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $255,000

Buyer: Vincent J. Martucci

Seller: Cheryl Mustain

Date: 07/01/13

44 Lincoln Park

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $181,500

Buyer: Nicholas J. Criscitelli

Seller: Brian E. Leverock

Date: 07/08/13

111 Meadowbrook Road

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $469,500

Buyer: Gregory M. Merchant

Seller: Adele Miller

Date: 07/12/13

389 Porter Road

Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $205,000

Buyer: Wesley Berrios

Seller: Edward O. Fisk

Date: 07/08/13

12 Primrose Dr.

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $326,500

Buyer: Owen J. Moriarty

Seller: Grace S. Spingler

Date: 07/10/13

LUDLOW

40 Alfred St.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $160,000

Buyer: Patti L. Niedzialek

Seller: Timothy J. Boulrice

Date: 07/12/13

13 Berkshire St.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $157,500

Buyer: Ricardo Varandas

Seller: Christine M. Calheno

Date: 07/02/13

16 Carol St.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $122,000

Buyer: Brandi G. Hing

Seller: Helder D. Santos

Date: 07/03/13

45 Duke St.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $118,000

Buyer: Rachel L. Correia

Seller: Antonio Dias

Date: 07/08/13

58 Duke St.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $115,000

Buyer: Michael J. Kelley

Seller: Dawn M. Fortin

Date: 07/02/13

Olivia Circle

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $130,000

Buyer: Derek Rodrigues

Seller: Rosewood Meadows Inc.

Date: 07/11/13

140 Posner Circle

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $172,000

Buyer: Joshua M. Grandfield

Seller: Kevin J. Pearson

Date: 07/03/13

MONSON

492 Boston Road West

Monson, MA 01069

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: Michael E. Pelland

Seller: Keith E. Bourbonnais

Date: 07/11/13

20 High St.

Monson, MA 01057

Amount: $219,900

Buyer: Pamela M. Wentworth

Seller: Rebecca J. Provost

Date: 07/10/13

14 Maxwell Road

Monson, MA 01057

Amount: $241,000

Buyer: Kellie J. Miller

Seller: Leslie B. Halpern

Date: 07/03/13

PALMER

176 Boston Road

Palmer, MA 01069

Amount: $325,000

Buyer: Michael Laventure

Seller: Douglas L. Turley

Date: 07/01/13

34 Grove St.

Palmer, MA 01069

Amount: $152,222

Buyer: Midfirst Bank State

Seller: Paul D. Clark

Date: 07/03/13

2020 Pine St.

Palmer, MA 01080

Amount: $128,500

Buyer: Laura C. Courchesne

Seller: Mary A. Sainato

Date: 07/01/13

33 Ruggles St.

Palmer, MA 01080

Amount: $147,000

Buyer: 33-35 Ruggles Street RT

Seller: NSP Residential LLC

Date: 07/12/13

123 State St.

Palmer, MA 01069

Amount: $179,000

Buyer: Joshua P. Labarre

Seller: Janice L. Chmura

Date: 07/10/13

RUSSELL

81 River St.

Russell, MA 01071

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Heather Washington

Seller: Robert N. Tingley

Date: 07/01/13

SPRINGFIELD

14 Amanda St.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $142,000

Buyer: Sanh C. Tu

Seller: Nextgen Inv. Group LLC

Date: 07/12/13

62 Bartels St.

Springfield, MA 01128

Amount: $165,000

Buyer: William V. Plourde

Seller: Cassanelli, Frieda S., (Estate)

Date: 07/08/13

18 Bellevue Ave.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $164,000

Buyer: Michel Campbell-Langford

Seller: Claudette C. Smart

Date: 07/09/13

227 Berkshire Ave.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $410,000

Buyer: Stavros Center For Independent Living

Seller: Thibodeau Realty LLC

Date: 07/05/13

118 Catalpa Terrace

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $159,500

Buyer: Maria S. Mendez-Marchese

Seller: Kelly S. Eich

Date: 07/09/13

30 Corona St.

Springfield, MA 01104

Amount: $138,256

Buyer: Beneficial MA Inc.

Seller: Jose A. Medina

Date: 07/02/13

24 Daviston St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $127,800

Buyer: Braeden J. Dion

Seller: Utako Dwyer

Date: 07/12/13

28 East Allen Ridge Road

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $144,500

Buyer: Freddie Ladson

Seller: CDM Props. LLC

Date: 07/08/13

54 Edgewood St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Stacy E. Forrette

Seller: Ali Real Estate Inv. LLC

Date: 07/09/13

177 Ferncliff Ave.

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $175,000

Buyer: Multi Cultural Community Services

Seller: Martin J. Ochtabec

Date: 07/02/13

137 Gillette Ave.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $163,900

Buyer: Anouson Souvannasane

Seller: Michael Jonnes

Date: 07/01/13

87 Fountain St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $143,000

Buyer: Miguel A. Velez

Seller: Regina L. Wong

Date: 07/11/13

63 Garvey Dr.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $168,500

Buyer: Daniel L. Ford

Seller: Wayne R. Everett

Date: 07/08/13

14 Hartwick St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Stephen Gasco

Seller: James B. Mellitt

Date: 07/12/13

56 Kenyon St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $123,500

Buyer: Diane B. Davidson

Seller: Ada E. Torres

Date: 07/03/13

630 Main St.

Springfield, MA 01105

Amount: $850,000

Buyer: F. L. Roberts & Co. Inc.

Seller: 630 Main Street LLP

Date: 07/10/13

17 Old Brook Road

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $128,500

Buyer: Clara Y. Moyet-Gonzalez

Seller: Madeline E. Midghall

Date: 07/09/13

281 Parker St.

Springfield, MA 01151

Amount: $280,000

Buyer: Unifirst Corp.

Seller: City Of Springfield

Date: 07/12/13

134 S. Shore Dr.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $176,000

Buyer: Brian J. Ward

Seller: Diana C. Shatzer

Date: 07/12/13

15 Signal Hill Circle

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: Pasquale Darco RET

Seller: Campagnari Construction LLC

Date: 07/09/13

222 Spikenard Circle

Springfield, MA 01129

Amount: $152,500

Buyer: Jeremiah A. Begley

Seller: Ana I. Gomez

Date: 07/08/13

136 Webber St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $144,900

Buyer: Briana M. O’Malley

Seller: Anthony Carnevale

Date: 07/08/13

1412 Wilbraham Road

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $128,900

Buyer: Marsha M. Ivey

Seller: Courtney E. Boron

Date: 07/11/13

SOUTHWICK

3 Beach Road

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $117,900

Buyer: Edward A. Nitsch

Seller: Loriane Sylvain

Date: 07/09/13

30 Berkshire Ave.

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $127,000

Buyer: Alan J. Selden

Seller: Dorothea E. Neuwirth

Date: 07/10/13

79 Bungalow St.

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $165,000

Buyer: John A. Gentile

Seller: Ronald Vandervliet

Date: 07/10/13

96 South Longyard Road

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $259,900

Buyer: Laura A. White

Seller: Albert L. Deloreto

Date: 07/01/13

WALES

77 Mount Hitchcock Road

Wales, MA 01081

Amount: $317,252

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: Justin K. Roussey

Date: 07/01/13

24 Sizer Dr.

Wales, MA 01081

Amount: $159,900

Buyer: Gary Como

Seller: Terrance J. O’Keefe

Date: 07/02/13

WESTFIELD

66 Ampad Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $3,350,000

Buyer: A. Duie Pyle Inc.

Seller: AMPD GP

Date: 07/01/13

53 Bailey Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $355,000

Buyer: Sruti M. Brahmbhatt

Seller: John T. Highberger

Date: 07/01/13

10 Conner Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $143,900

Buyer: Oleg A. Katykhin

Seller: Peter J. Colo

Date: 07/12/13

440 Falley Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $437,400

Buyer: Jason P. Queenin

Seller: John C. Healey

Date: 07/12/13

41 Flynn Meadow Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $1,145,000

Buyer: RSP Realty LLC

Seller: Cowles & Cowles LLC

Date: 07/12/13

5 Fowler St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $177,500

Buyer: Julie M. Cruz

Seller: Christopher R. Quill

Date: 07/11/13

20 Fowler Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $154,600

Buyer: Jill A. Packard

Seller: Peter A. Ouellette

Date: 07/12/13

95 Franklin St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $199,900

Buyer: Marcus Allen

Seller: Tina D. Avery

Date: 07/11/13

114 Joseph Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $175,000

Buyer: Sarah Bulmer

Seller: Kathleen S. Loomis

Date: 07/12/13

68 King St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $139,900

Buyer: Ru Zhao

Seller: Sabine C. Roskey

Date: 07/03/13

9 Laurel Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $174,350

Buyer: Benjamin L. Standish

Seller: Sylvia J. Huff

Date: 07/12/13

129 Long Pond Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $162,000

Buyer: US Bank NA

Seller: Patricia R. Cavanaugh

Date: 07/05/13

57 Meadow St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: 358 MLC LLC

Seller: Robert Hoernig

Date: 07/08/13

129 Montgomery St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $174,000

Buyer: Eric A. Collea

Seller: Richard P. Rix

Date: 07/12/13

24 Pheasant Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $265,500

Buyer: Thomas S. Roskey

Seller: Carrie E. Gwozdik

Date: 07/03/13

22 Princeton St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $175,000

Buyer: Anthony R. Pedolzky

Seller: Erin E. Pedolzky

Date: 07/11/13

17 Rita Mary Way

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $385,000

Buyer: Brian T. Houser

Seller: Kristen M. Gladu

Date: 07/12/13

18 Toledo Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $287,000

Buyer: Jorge L. Badillo

Seller: Cristina Camerota

Date: 07/03/13

WILBRAHAM

5 Decorie Dr.

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $227,000

Buyer: David R. Irwin

Seller: Willis E. Post

Date: 07/09/13

5 Deerfield Dr.

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $535,000

Buyer: Harry L. Hoar

Seller: Mario A. Grosso

Date: 07/12/13

895 Main St.

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $236,000

Buyer: Beth A. Steil

Seller: Michael R. Harrison

Date: 07/12/13

46 Monson Road

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $165,000

Buyer: Sandalwood Stables LLC

Seller: Harold E. Porter

Date: 07/03/13

22 Pomeroy St.

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: Ramez Y. Matta

Seller: John F. Maynard

Date: 07/10/13

4 Rochford Dr.

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $227,000

Buyer: Douglas L. Turley

Seller: Janice E. Wheeler

Date: 07/01/13

203 Stony Hill Road

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $356,000

Buyer: Elizabeth M. Cherella

Seller: Rakesh Talati

Date: 07/11/13

1084 Stony Hill Road

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $121,100

Buyer: Zachary K. Pueschel

Seller: Lois J. Wright

Date: 07/03/13

7 Victoria Lane

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $445,000

Buyer: N. P. Dodge

Seller: James G. Lane

Date: 07/12/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

217 Ashley Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $147,500

Buyer: Maria Villandry

Seller: Ann M. Clark

Date: 07/01/13

89 Austin Lane

West Springfield, MA 01013

Amount: $450,000

Buyer: Richard F. Spafford

Seller: Seth A. Pagliaro

Date: 07/12/13

32 Chapin St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $122,000

Buyer: Ram K. Sanyasi

Seller: Robin K. Dunn

Date: 07/03/13

27 Chester St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $215,000

Buyer: Bryan M. Bengle

Seller: Santino U. Valentino

Date: 07/12/13

454 Gooseberry Road

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $225,500

Buyer: Andrew J. McCoubrey

Seller: Robert A. Gray

Date: 07/12/13

118 Labelle St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $159,900

Buyer: Peter V. Prewandowski

Seller: Christopher P. Seymour

Date: 07/09/13

105 Meadowbrook Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $219,000

Buyer: Gary D. Hagar

Seller: Ann M. Higgins

Date: 07/08/13

913 Piper Road

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $133,000

Buyer: Aaron K. Jonah

Seller: Laurel E. Jonah

Date: 07/02/13

131 Queen Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $164,000

Buyer: Nathan H. Bench

Seller: Christine Serani

Date: 07/11/13

437 Riverdale St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $705,000

Buyer: Aum Sai Ram LLC

Seller: Siddhi Dhata LLC

Date: 07/11/13

21 Sean Louis Circle

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $417,500

Buyer: Steven M. Page

Seller: Diana P. Willis-Moriarty

Date: 07/10/13

122 Westwood Dr.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $285,000

Buyer: Robert A. Gray

Seller: Peter K. Sacuta

Date: 07/12/13

174 Wolcott Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $188,000

Buyer: Edward C. Sullivan

Seller: Richard Spafford

Date: 07/11/13

176 Woodbrook Terrace

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $246,000

Buyer: Joseph C. Kelley

Seller: Sherrill K. Brooks

Date: 07/05/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

25 Flintlock Lane

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $288,000

Buyer: Kevin A. Resmussen

Seller: Judith McNamara

Date: 07/02/13

145 Heatherstone Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $319,500

Buyer: Jesse S. Lingo

Seller: Anne Brudevold

Date: 07/10/13

54 Larkspur Dr.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $460,000

Buyer: James H. Barnhill

Seller: Paula S. Russel RET

Date: 07/12/13

647 Main St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $151,000

Buyer: Joel M. Greenbaum

Seller: West Coast Realty Services

Date: 07/12/13

480 Middle St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $126,250

Buyer: Sara A. Eddy

Seller: Courtney P. Gordon

Date: 07/12/13

57 Olympia Dr.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $1,200,000

Buyer: 57 Olympia Drive LLC

Seller: SIG EP Housing Of MA

Date: 07/03/13

276 Pelham Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $235,000

Buyer: Mark Hawkowl

Seller: James P. Nolan

Date: 07/11/13

506 Pine St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $305,000

Buyer: Josiah S. Litant

Seller: Katherine A. Tooke

Date: 07/10/13

451 South Pleasant St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $244,000

Buyer: Michael A. Floquet

Seller: Susan M. Mallett

Date: 07/01/13

2 Wintergreen Circle

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $389,900

Buyer: John A. Tesauro

Seller: Farhang Seihoun

Date: 07/12/13

BELCHERTOWN

411 East St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $370,000

Buyer: Joseph D. Bernard

Seller: Pamela M. Wentworth

Date: 07/03/13

38 Jensen St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $167,310

Buyer: Household Finance Corp 2

Seller: Debra P. Legrand

Date: 07/02/13

54 Jensen St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $196,400

Buyer: Matthew P. Valliere

Seller: Ansel Zinter

Date: 07/10/13

169 Munsell St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $352,000

Buyer: Filip Z. Muszynski

Seller: Susan J. Ruiterman

Date: 07/11/13

463 South Gulf Road

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $760,000

Buyer: Donald G. Carden

Seller: William L. Pohl

Date: 07/09/13

141 State St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $240,000

Buyer: Sophias Rental LLC

Seller: Wendy A. Bowers

Date: 07/01/13

399 Stebbins St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $325,000

Buyer: Katie Bodzinski

Seller: Francis M. Garrow

Date: 07/01/13

136 Summit St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $180,278

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: Omar A. Piedra

Date: 07/10/13

EASTHAMPTON

9 Bayberry Dr.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $430,000

Buyer: Haytham M. Omar

Seller: Sam K. Vong

Date: 07/01/13

165 East St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $115,000

Buyer: Jess D. Bemben

Seller: Pursuant, Stanislawa K., (Estate)

Date: 07/12/13

34 Glendale St.

Amount: $224,500

Buyer: Andrea M. Robitallie

Seller: Campbell, Gerard L., (Estate)

Date: 07/10/13

27 Holly Circle

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $387,000

Buyer: David J. Strong

Seller: Diane L. Tsoulas

Date: 07/12/13

38 Pomeroy St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Glenn T. Dahlquist

Seller: Jodi R. Lacoff

Date: 07/11/13

5 Truehart Dr.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $215,000

Buyer: Daniel A. Stern

Seller: Susan M. Pouliot

Date: 07/03/13

GRANBY

384 Batchelor St.

Granby, MA 01033

Amount: $261,900

Buyer: Christopher J. Durbin

Seller: Peggy E. Gay

Date: 07/05/13

179 East St.

Granby, MA 01033

Amount: $183,000

Buyer: Donald J. Duda

Seller: Gloria M. Shute

Date: 07/11/13

HADLEY

46 Rocky Hill Road

Hadley, MA 01035

Amount: $440,000

Buyer: William C. Podolak

Seller: Koloski, John F., (Estate)

Date: 07/10/13

17 West St.

Hadley, MA 01035

Amount: $512,502

Buyer: Benjamin Lenard

Seller: Mitziko Sawada

Date: 07/01/13

HATFIELD

41 Depot Road

Hatfield, MA 01038

Amount: $200,000

Buyer: Nourse Realty LLC

Seller: Belden FT

Date: 07/02/13

115 Elm St.

Hatfield, MA 01038

Amount: $240,000

Buyer: Diane L. Tsoulas

Seller: Hatfield Village LLC

Date: 07/12/13

7 Gore Ave.

Hatfield, MA 01038

Amount: $236,500

Buyer: Kathryn L. Beaupre

Seller: Jones, Jack D., (Estate)

Date: 07/10/13

NORTHAMPTON

57 Autumn Dr.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $210,000

Buyer: Kara M. Sullivan

Seller: Laura W. Cummings

Date: 07/01/13

1195 Burts Pit Road

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $234,000

Buyer: Michael A. Purdy

Seller: Karen A. Milliken

Date: 07/12/13

51 Hatfield St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $215,000

Buyer: Lillian Belmont RET

Seller: Amelia Wright

Date: 07/11/13

8 High Meadow Road

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $380,000

Buyer: Jara M. Sirois

Seller: Jyl L. Felman

Date: 07/01/13

162 Main St.

Northampton, MA 01053

Amount: $395,000

Buyer: Sven Huggins

Seller: Debra L. McNeice

Date: 07/08/13

25 Maple Ave.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $390,000

Buyer: Thomas T. Gu

Seller: Phyllis Zalesky

Date: 07/01/13

4 Market St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $273,400

Buyer: 4-6 Market Street LLC

Seller: 4 Market St. LLC

Date: 07/03/13

66 Maynard Road

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $340,000

Buyer: Mark D. Mantegna

Seller: Crane, Helena J., (Estate)

Date: 07/09/13

250 North Maple St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $200,000

Buyer: Adam C. Holist

Seller: Debra B. Costello

Date: 07/12/13

15 Nonotuck St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $212,500

Buyer: Gregory A. Baker

Seller: Kanus Shallcross NT

Date: 07/09/13

18 Perkins Ave.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $324,000

Buyer: John E. Garber

Seller: Mark Dubeck

Date: 07/01/13

46 Pilgrim Dr.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $400,000

Buyer: Jeanne Comeau

Seller: Clute, Nartha, (Estate)

Date: 07/03/13

24 Pleasant St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Lucy Peterson

Seller: Querencia TR

Date: 07/01/13

47 Revell Ave.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Christopher W. Lucas

Seller: Helene J. Ruskowski

Date: 07/01/13

111 Riverside Dr.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $281,450

Buyer: Benjamin T. Weiss

Seller: Endreweit, Marie E., (Estate)

Date: 07/11/13

91 Round Hill Road

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $1,700,000

Buyer: Edgecliff TR

Seller: Kathiryn M. Carpenter LT

Date: 07/05/13

67 Ryan Road

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $260,000

Buyer: Rachel L. Decker

Seller: Brian A. Bordeaux

Date: 07/01/13

18 Stoddard St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $288,000

Buyer: Deirdre Cabral

Seller: Joseph S. Callahan

Date: 07/01/13

62 Straw Ave.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $356,000

Buyer: Brian Baldi

Seller: Daniel Sirois

Date: 07/01/13

SOUTH HADLEY

2 Birchwood Place

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $202,500

Buyer: Martha L. Vivan

Seller: Michelle H. Genest

Date: 07/02/13

5 Grove St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $179,000

Buyer: Scott D. Andrews

Seller: Daniel Smith

Date: 07/01/13

10 Lakeview Ave.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $192,400

Buyer: Neil L. Desroches

Seller: Richard F. Marjanski

Date: 07/12/13

190 Mosier St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $410,000

Buyer: Daniel P. Smith

Seller: Richard D. Kannenberg

Date: 07/01/13

9 Valley View Dr.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $410,000

Buyer: Jonathan S. Maxwell

Seller: Travis J. Willard

Date: 07/02/13

16 Virginia Dr.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $226,000

Buyer: Joshua A. Pearson

Seller: Patricia H. Mullen

Date: 07/12/13

SOUTHAMPTON

44 Bissonnette Circle

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $409,000

Buyer: Daniel P. Lech

Seller: G&F Custom Built Homes

Date: 07/02/13

74 Glendale Road

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $385,000

Buyer: Donald S. Bozek

Seller: Richard L. Truehart

Date: 07/01/13

27 Manhan Road

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $480,000

Buyer: Colby Brown

Seller: Timothy R. Deshaies

82 Russellville Road

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $197,000

Buyer: Eric S. Shepard

Seller: James S. Reese

Date: 07/01/13

24 Strong Road

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $275,000

Buyer: James S. Reese

Seller: Eric A. Reynolds

Date: 07/08/13

WARE

19 Berkshire Dr.

Ware, MA 01082

Amount: $222,500

Buyer: Jason Massenger

Seller: Steven N. Rineman

Date: 07/12/13

88 Dugan Road

Ware, MA 01082

Amount: $160,000

Buyer: Lynn A. Liquornik

Seller: Michael A. Topor

Date: 07/03/13

217 Greenwich Road

Ware, MA 01082

Amount: $242,910

Buyer: Jeffrey D. Jacobs

Seller: Jimmie Daniels

Date: 07/12/13

16 Meadow Road

Ware, MA 01082

Amount: $130,000

Buyer: Michael E. Guenette

Seller: Wendy Anderson

Date: 07/02/13

278 Osborne Road

Ware, MA 01082

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Joel J. Harder

Seller: Patrick J. Krol

Date: 07/03/13

310 Palmer Road

Amount: $136,500

Buyer: Michael J. O’Connel

Seller: Gura, Stephanie R., (Estate)

Date: 07/03/13

WESTHAMPTON

10 Edwards Road

Westhampton, MA 01027

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: Jeffrey David Morse IRA

Seller: Timothy F. Tobin

Date: 07/02/13

59 Montague Road

Westhampton, MA 01027

Amount: $402,500

Buyer: George H. Hollywood

Seller: Jennifer A. Smith

Date: 07/01/13

213 Northwest Road

Westhampton, MA 01027

Amount: $292,000

Buyer: Deborah A. Rocque

Seller: Suzanne O. Wolf

Date: 07/01/13

WORTHINGTON

227 Scott Road

Worthington, MA 01098

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Conrad Bauer

Seller: Mary E. Maclean

Date: 07/12/13

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2013

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of and July 2013.

AMHERST

Homespun Event Design/Catering, LLC

71 North Pleasant St.

Amanda Robertson

KS Dunn Associates

664 Main St.

Kathryn Dunn

Shoots to Roots Nursery

539 Market Hill Road

Elizabeth Riley

The Humble Baker

460 West St.

Brieta Goodwin

The New Salem Tea & Bread Company

460 West St.

Brieta Goodwin

Themis Vision Systems

16 Summerfield Road

Lin Tang

CHICOPEE

Good Vibrations Disc Jockey

62 Newbury St.

Henry Tessier III

Plaza Liquors

591 Memorial Dr.

Yogesh Patel

HOLYOKE

Almonte Market

549 South Bridge St.

Evaristo Almonte

RLS Construction Solutions

13 Roland St.

Robert Saunders

TWC Auto Body & Repair

56 Jackson St.

Jamil Roman

LUDLOW

Hair by Tami

322 West Ave.

Tamatha Seyler

Trademark Custom Installations

29 Barrett St.

Timothy Moir

NORTHAMPTON

Dalco Custom Works

91 North St.

David Collins

Hess Express

237 King St.

Richard J. Lawlor

Marinello School of Beauty

58 Pleasant St.

Rashed Elyas

Megan’s Treasures

150 Main St.

Nancy Oles

Pizza Amori

18 Green St.

Eyup Atmara

Shop Therapy Northampton

135 Main St.

Adam Hazel

Tapestry Health

16 Center St.

Leslie T. Laurie

The Hair Room

30 North Maple St.

Christina M. O’Dea-Grail

Viva Wonderland Designs

49 Market St.

Ramona S. Ingram-Guerra

PALMER

China House Restaurant

1240 Park St.

Alby Ngan

Kopek’s Auto & Truck Service

1219 Thorndike St.

Christopher Kopec

LaBonte’s at Route 67

19 Breckenridge St.

Raymond LaBonte

The Computer Wiz

1605 North Main St.

Glen Whitney

Wayne’s Truck Services

21 Wilbraham Road

Wayne Chapin

SOUTHWICK

24 Karat Audio

3 Sefton Dr.

Robert Jurach

K.P. Corporation

587 College Highway

Subhash Patel

Myette Trucking

16 Gillette Ave.

Joseph Myette

SPRINGFIELD

Hancock Used Tires

462 Hancock St.

Soraya Nolasco

Heart N’ Soule Miniatures

26 Martel Road

Catherine S. Mein

Hispaniola Express

432 Belmont Ave.

Ramon E. Espinal

J & T Auto Repair

1307 Worcester St.

Justine M. Cote

K & S Restaurant Group, LLC

699 Sumner Ave.

Sabino Joseph

Las Delicias Elias Restaurant

30 Fort Pleasant St.

Alba H. Elias

Luz Lopez Consulting

471 Dickinson St.

Luz Zenaida Lopez

M.R.B. Remodeling

25 Gardens Dr.

Clifton Medeiros

WESTFIELD

Connors Home Improvement

164 Bates Road

Greg H. Connors

Eye 4 Detail

158 Elm St.

Russell A. Pikell

Hess

310 East Main St.

Amerada Hess Corporation

Oleksak Home Services, LLC

31 Schumann Dr.

James Oleksak

Sabrina Dobosz

45 Meadow St.

Sabrina Dobosz

Smoke Detector Solution

265 Elm St.

Curt Gezotis

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Applied Construction

69 Braintree Road

Glenn M. Spadoni

Applied Software Technology

59 Interstate Dr.

Edward R. Garibian

Chinaqtee.com

737 Piper Road

Ricardo Sustache

Incorporations

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2013

Departments Incorporations

The following business incorporations were recorded in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties and are the latest available. They are listed by community.
AGAWAM

Square Liquors Inc., 132 Glendale Road, Agawam, MA 01001. Sheela Patel, 245 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke, MA 01040. Liquor store.

BERNARDSTON

Ruder Small Bioceuticals Inc., 712 Brattleboro Road, Bernardston, MA 01337. Sales of animal, equine, and human products.

CHICOPEE

Westover Building Supply Inc., 37 Telegraph Ave., Chicopee, MA 01020. Marcus Thayer, 24 Rockland St., Springfield, MA 01118. Sales of building materials and construction supplies.

FLORENCE

Pioneer Precision Optics Inc., 296 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA 01062. Thomas McGrath, 470 Park Hill Road, Florence, MA 01062. Machine shop.

The Knighten Guild and Company, 199 Ryan Road, Floreence, MA 01063. David Agro, 89 Clark St., Brattleboro, VT, 05301. Nonprofit organization developed to create and produce events such with the purpose of: creating, strengthening and expanding the opportunities for local performers,

educators, crafters, artisans, and businesses to engage with local audiences.

GRANBY

Professional Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Western Massachusetts Inc., 5 County View Lane, Granby, MA 01033. Michelle Cayo, same. To promote the status of women business owners and professionals. Nonprofit organization established to empower women business owners and career-oriented women through participation in leadership, education and networking opportunities; to strengthen the positive impact for women in the business community in Western Mass.; to deal with all matters of common interest to women who work in mercantile, manufacturing, commercial and professional groups; to solicit, receive, invest and expend monies, dues and gifts, and to have all other powers as may be incidental to or necessary for the carrying out of the foregoing purposes; all to the end result that Western Mass. shall be a more prosperous, healthy and in all respects a more desirable place to work and operate their own business.

LEE

Romano Tree Service Inc., 300 Chestnut St., Lee, MA 01238. Lorenzo William Romano, same. Lumber and tree trimming, cutting and removal.

MONTAGUE

VR Trucking Inc., 194 Turners Falls Road, Montague, MA 01351. Vladimir Romashka, same. Specialty and dedicated services of transporting foods, commercial goods, vehicles, and other commodities via flatbed, container, and heavy-hauling trailers on a for-hire basis.

NORTHAMPTON

Weatherfield, Harris and Hobbs Inc., 29 Main St., Northampton, MA 01060. Nathand Blehar, same. Bar.

PALMER

Touched by an Angel Inc., 1022 Chestnut St., Palmer, MA 01069. Helena Stephens, same. Home care services.

PITTSFIELD

New Elm St. Convenience Inc., 155 Elm St., Pittsfield, MA 01201. Piyush Shah. 1064 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Convenience store.

Whitney Center for the Arts Inc., 42 Wendell Ave., Pittsfield, MA 01201. Lisa Whitney, 312 West 105th St., Apt #1, New York, MA 10025. A facility for established and up-and-coming artists to showcase their talents; give back to the community by promoting and fostering arts and cultural related development in Pittsfield/Berkshires; and preserve the historic Thomas Colt house. Planned activities, music and dramatic performances, art gallery, rental space, corporate events, and other art- and culture- related activities

SPRINGFIELD

Mr. Fix It Home Maintenance & Improvement Inc., 685 Berkshire Ave, Springfield, MA 01109-1008. Santo Feliberty Jr., 22 MAARECO St., Springfield, MA 01109. Home improvement services.

Music Tribute Productions Inc., 52 Maryland St., Springfield, MA 01108. Anthony Manzi, same. Promotions of various entertainment and music.

PCMC Transportation Inc., One Federal St., Building 101, Springfield, MA 01105. Rose-Ann Gaskin-Rice, same. Transportation services.

Real Beef Music Group Inc., 113 Massachusetts Ave., Springfield, MA, 01101. David Hall, same. Music recording studio.

Two-Six for Kicks Inc., 28 Angelica Dr., Springfield, MA 01129. Khari Mitchell, same. Nonprofit organization established to accept donations of new and previously utilized sporting goods and equipment and make donations of this equipment to individuals and organizations within and outside of the United States.

Veterans First: Comprehensive Outreach Center of Western Mass. Inc., 721 State Street, Springfield, MA 01109. Charles Rucks, 101 Mulberry St., #213, Springfield, MA 01102. Nonprofit organization designed to assist veterans and their dependents to access and receive federal, state, local, and veterans benefits for which they are eligible and entitled, to enhance their lives.

Viz Connect Inc., 1350 Main St., Suite 1407, Springfield, MA 01103. Paul Cooleen, same. Mobile and online marketing services.

Web Wizard Inc., 195 Dickinson St., Floor 2, Springfield, MA 01108. Lawerence Shea, same. Broad-spectrum web services to business.

WESTFIELD

R F Transportation Inc., 30 Williams St., Apt. 6, Westfield, MA 01085. Alla Raylyan, same. Transportation services.

Rock Solid Services Inc., 241 Timberswamp Road, Westfield, MA 01085. Sydney Brodeur, same. Residential and small commercial general landscaping services.

Yurko Express, 125 Lapointe Road, Westfield, MA 01085. Yuriy Koval, same. Trucking.

Court Dockets

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2013

Court Dockets Departments

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
The Bell Pump Service Co., d/b/a/ the Bell/Simons Co. v. Jim Doyle Heating and James E. Doyle
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $2,194.24
Filed: 6/12/13

GREENFIELD DISTRICT COURT
J. W. Sandri Inc. v. The Daily Stop Inc. and Amrik Singh
Allegation: Breach of contract and failure to pay: $148,931.88
Filed: 6/4/13

Thomas Maher and Barbera Maher v. Pratik-Sonam Corp.
Allegation: Negligence and failure to exercise due care in property maintenance, causing personal injury: $304,100.72
Filed: 6/7/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Kimberly A. Chartier, as mother and next friend of Tedy Chartier and Ronald M. Chartier, personal representative of the estate of Jeffrey A. Chartier v. New England Patriots, LLC, NPS, Arthur Sherman, and National Football League
Allegation: Wrongful death: $10 million+
Filed: 6/24/13

United Rentals v. New England Commercial Lawn Care Inc. and Francis L. Quinn
Allegation: Non-payment of rental equipment: $43,215.23
Filed: 6/18/13

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT
Ebenisterie Beaubois Ltee v. J & J Construction Architectural Woodworking Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract arising out of subcontract on a public construction project: $600,000
Filed: 6/12/13

HOLYOKE DISTRICT COURT
Scott Littlefield v. Gold and Vanaria, P.C.
Allegation: Violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: $10,000
Filed: 6/17/13

NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT COURT
Adam Plumb v. Red Cedar Solutions Group
Allegation: Breach of contract and non-payment for programming work: $14,075
Filed: 6/18/13

Wes Sicard v. Hartland Express
Allegation: Cab and tractor became unhitched, causing the plaintiff to swerve off the road and damage his vehicle: $5,930.52
Filed: 7/3/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Gene Demski v. Robert Kushner and Kushner Realty Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of balance for construction work rendered: $10,853.15
Filed: 6/25/13

Hillary Dupont v. Wendy’s International Inc.
Allegation: Plaintiff purchased a chicken sandwich and bit into a metal object resembling the tip of a needle: $952
Filed: 5/29/13

Lamar Central Outdoor, LLC v. Rocky Delamaro d/b/a All Commercial Roofing
Allegation: Breach of contract, breach of express and implied warranties, and fraudulent misrepresentation: $14,802
Filed: 5/28/13

Scott Hebert v. Beauty Gems
Allegation: Defendant breached contract to pay plaintiff for legal services and expenses: $11,013.45
Filed: 5/23/13

WESTFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Yellowbook Sales and Distribution Co. Inc. v. Michael Ventrice and Adventure Corp. d/b/a Big Adventures Family Fun Center
Allegation: Money due for suit on a judgment: $8,704
Filed: 6/6/13

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2013

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of and July 2013.

AGAWAM

Air Tatts

68 North Alhambra Circle

Ronald Roux

Blue Reis Pizza Restaurant

365 Walnut St.

Kamran Muradov

New England Stucco

15 Silver Lake Dr.

Eugene Ivanchenko

CHICOPEE

Birch Pond Farm

1709 Center St.

Marcy Reed

Brothers Home Improvement

22 Artisan St.

Steven Blanchett

Ehhas For Trade

660 Broadway St.

Esam Wahhas

Forbes Testing Labs

563 Center St.

Stephen Niec

Honeyland Farms

206 Newbury St.

Aftab A. Abari

Mr. Home

74 Cislak Dr.

Bill Sweeney

Soft Touch Autowash

1469 Granby Road

Joseph Larivee

GREENFIELD

Alliance ATM

13 Cedar St.

John Michelson

Kali B’s Wings & Things

76 French King Highway

Laurie Ellis

HOLYOKE

Dairy Market

1552 Dwight St.

Sagheer Nawaz

DJC Engineering

14 Ross Road

Daniel Cavanaugh

Nutricion Vibrante

343 High St.

Shawn Duncan

PALMER

Antique Junction

1294 South Main St.

Robin Lamothe

Beads of a Lifetime

1087 South Main St.

Chase Pelletier

Blue Bird Inc.

2004 Main St.

Malik Saghir

Kim’s Hair Care

2066 Main St.

Kimberly King

Paramount Pizza 3

1620 North Main St.

Ali Balak

S & S Food Mart

1520 North Main St.

Syed W. Hashmi

Tailgate Tavern

102 Central St.

Tim Burke

SOUTHWICK

Fair Shake

36 South Loomis St.

Matthew Frailey

Spotlight Graphics

9 Whalley Way

Diane Demarco

Valley Remodeling

79 Sam West Road

John Rock Jr.

SPRINGFIELD

Coamo Restaurant

2550 Main St.

Anibal Colon

Com-Wealth, LLC

36 Garland St.

Raymond L. Berry

Deranged Mindz Entertainment

1139 Sumner Ave.

Hector Emilio

Ecott Systems

177 Winton St.

Oliver F. Wallace

FT Pleasant Convenience

102 Fort Pleasant Ave.

Akif A. Khan

Grab Distributor

30 Cortland St.

Richard Lopez

Grit and Guts

146 Powell Ave.

Darby McLaughlin

The Creative Strategy Age

1350 Main St.

Alfonso Santaniello

WESTFIELD

Kings Cleaner

282 Southampton Road

Nham S. Yi

Paul’s Barber Shop

263 Elm St.

James L. Ahearn

Sean & Mari Photography

71 Steiger Dr.

Sean M. Fitzgerald

SI Map

71 Steiger Dr.

Sean M. Fitzgerald

Sweet Reveal

1 Overlook Dr.

Carla Kone

Two Rivers Burrito Company

36 Elm St.

Joseph Wynn

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Applied Software Technology

59 Interstate Dr.

Edward R. Garibian

ARS Restoration Specialists

480 St. James Ave.

Richard Piltch

Auntie Cathie’s Kitchen

217 Elm St.

Catherine A. Albrecht

Good Hands Construction

43 Belle Ave.

Viktor Krashov

RC Cleaning Services

261 Circle Dr.

Christine Corey

Willy Wheels

811 Memorial Ave.

William Bayton

People on the Move

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2013

Departments People on the Move

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation announced the following:

Kate Conn

• Kate Conn has joined the foundation in a newly-created position as Chief Executive Officer. Together with its founder, Harold Grinspoon, Conn will work to further the Foundation’s philanthropic mission to enhance Jewish and community life in North America, Israel, and beyond, and develop innovative strategies as the organization celebrates 20 years of philanthropy. Conn most recently served as founding Executive Director and President of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc., an educational and entrepreneurial nonprofit in Madison, Wisc. Conn grew the organization into one of the region’s leading institutions as she established regional and statewide cooperative networks and strong national partnerships with community, government, and industry leaders. She is credited with the creation of a groundbreaking interactive museum and learning center and award-winning programs. Conn has served in leadership capacities at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and several cultural organizations, philanthropic endeavors, and policy institutions. In addition to her nonprofit and community work, Conn was a special consultant for an American Girl book series and an author for the Wisconsin Historical Press Badger Biography series. Since its inception in 1993, the foundation has given more than $120 million in philanthropic support of Jewish programs. HGF initiatives include PJ Library, Sifriyat Pijama (PJ Library’s sister program in Israel), JCamp180, Voices & Visions, and Life & Legacy; and

Arlene Schiff

• Arlene Schiff will lead the foundation’s new Life & Legacy Program, a legacy partnership effort that incentivizes Jewish agencies, synagogues, and day schools to secure legacy gifts and steward donors. With widespread recognition that a large transfer of generational wealth is taking place — about $41 trillion by 2020, according to a 1999 Boston Foundation study — the Life & Legacy program aims to assist Jewish organizations with proactively securing endowments through legacy gifts. Schiff will lead the program after a successful tenure as executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, where she worked since 2001. At the federation, she increased the donor base and fund-raising substantially and directed many community initiatives. Nationally, she has been active in Jewish community service with the Jewish Federations of North America. Locally, she has served on the Berkshire Housing Development Corp., the Berkshire Immigrant Center Advisory Board, the Lenox School Committee, and others. The Life & Legacy is a partnership program that invites up to seven communities a year to apply to partner with HGF. The foundation commits funds to the selected program for two years. If fund-raising goals are met, the partner receives a matching grant from HGF that covers 50% of the partner agency’s annual budget, up to $150,000, for each year. In this first year, the partners are the Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community, the Jewish Foundation of Memphis, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, the Orange County Jewish Community Foundation, the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, and the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Mercer.

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Three new board members were recently inducted for three-year terms to the Gray House, a Springfield nonprofit that helps neighbors facing hardships to meet immediate and transitional needs by providing food, clothing, and educational services in a safe, positive environment. They are:

Richard Marcil

• Richard Marcil, owner of Golden Ear Studios and the Minister of Music for the Wachogue Congregational Church. He also conducts the annual Holiday Grand Chorus as part of a benefit to raise money for cancer research;

Susan Mastroianni

• Susan Mastroianni, Partner and Director of Media Services at FitzGerald & Mastroianni Advertising in Springfield. She is also a member of the Rotary Club of Springfield and previously served on its Board of Directors; and

Gregory Schmidt

• Gregory Schmidt, an Attorney with Springfield-based Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury & Murphy P.C. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Museum at Holyoke Inc. and the Advisory Board of the Scibelli Enterprise Center at Springfield Technical Community College.

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Rosemary Nevins

Royal LLP, the woman-owned, boutique, management-side labor and employment law firm, announced that Attorney Rosemary Nevins has been selected as one of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s “Top Women of Law.” The program celebrates outstanding achievements by exceptional women. Each year Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly honors women who have made great professional strides and demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in the legal community. Nevins will be honored at an event in Boston in October.

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Kate Campiti

Human Resources Unlimited, a Springfield-area nonprofit corporation that helps more than 1,300 people per year with physical and mental disabilities, recently named Kate Campiti to the Board of Directors. Campiti is the Associate Publisher of BusinessWest and the Healthcare News and has extensive experience in management, leadership, and sales. She is a graduate of UMass Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in Political Science. Prior to her current position, she served as a Sales Executive with OneStar Communications. Campiti joins Timm Marini, Chairman; Patrick Leary, Vice Chairman; Michael Moriarty, Treasurer; Charlene Smolkowicz, Secretary-Clerk; and board members William Marsh, Thomas Bienkowski, Ed Wytrych, Francis Fitzgerald, Curtis Edgin, Amy Royal, Chester Wojcik, and Alfonso Santaniello.

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Christina Tuohey

Christina Tuohey was recently appointed Director of Annual Giving and Alumni relations at Springfield Technical Community College by the STCC Board of Trustees. A graduate of Georgia State University, Tuohey brings several years of experience working in a variety of development and annual-giving positions. She has served as the Annual Giving Associate and Corporate, Foundations, and Government Relations Associate for the Museum of Science in Boston; Membership Development Specialist and Volunteer Development Specialist for the Girl Scouts of Central/Western Massachusetts in East Longmeadow; and most recently as the Fundraising Coordinator for the Muscular Dystrophy Assoc. located in Glastonbury, Conn.

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Westfield-based Tighe & Bond recently announced professional milestones reached by four employees:

Page Czepiga

• Page Czepiga, a Land Use Planner in the Westfield office and member of the American Planning Assoc., recently became a Certified Land Use Planner after passing the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) exam. The AICP designation is the most highly regarded certification in the field of land-use planning, and the designation requires an intensive certification-maintenance and continuing-education program to keep certification valid. Czepiga provides planning and permitting support for a wide variety of the firm’s projects, and she regularly performs environmental and zoning analyses for renewable-energy feasibility and land-use/redevelopment studies. Her experience includes brownfields redevelopment, wetlands, and environmental-resource permitting, and she is currently active in the preliminary planning and permitting of the $800 million Hard Rock International hotel and casino complex proposed in West Springfield. Czepiga earned her BS in Community and International Development from the University of Vermont;

• Elizabette Botelho, an Engineer, recently passed her PE exam to become a licensed engineer. Botelho currently provides engineering services for solid-waste landfill projects and has completed hydrologic and hydraulic analysis to assess the flood hazard of more than 40 high hazard dams in Massachusetts. She works out of the firm’s Westfield office and has been employed at Tighe & Bond since 2006, when she graduated from Northeastern University with a BS in Civil Engineering;

• Engineer Cynthia Castello also passed her PE exam. She has worked on water and wastewater projects, and has provided construction services in Connecticut and design and construction services in West Springfield. She has five years of industry experience, has worked out of the firm’s Middletown office since 2011, and received her BA in Physics from Colgate University and her MS in Environmental Engineering from UMass Amherst; and

• Christina Jones, an engineer at the Westfield office, also passed her PE exam. She has worked on water-system modeling projects for the cities of Chicopee and Portsmouth, N.H., as well as water-system design projects for Amherst and Connecticut’s Metropolitan District Commission and the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority. She is a member of Engineers Without Borders and is on the New England Water Works Assoc. program committee and the New England Water Environment Assoc. student activities committee. Jones began her career at Tighe & Bond in 2009 after receiving her MS in Environmental Engineering from UMass Amherst.

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Maureen Buxton

Richard Collins, President and CEO of United Bank, announced that Maureen Buxton is the 2013 winner of the President’s Award, the highest honor bestowed by the institution. The annual award is presented to an employee who exemplifies professional excellence through teamwork, integrity, a positive attitude, and a strong commitment to United Bank. Buxton, the Personal Banker for United’s Chicopee branch, was instrumental in the training and transition of New England Bank employees in Connecticut following that bank’s merger with United last fall. Earlier in her United career, Buxton received the bank’s quarterly Service Excellence Award in recognition of her exceptional job performance. Buxton joined United Bank in 1998 as a Customer Service Representative at the Holyoke branch and was promoted to become the Personal Banker for United Bank’s first Chicopee branch when it opened in 2009.

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Corey Lomas

Palmer-based Vartanian Custom Cabinets announced the addition of Corey Lomas as the company’s newest Sales Representative. Lomas holds a BA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Painting and Drawing from SUNY New Paltz. He has previous work experience in sales, which, combined with his education in the visual arts, provides an excellent foundation for his new post selling fine kitchen design and custom cabinetry. Lomas is a past winner of the Monson Council of Arts Rising Artist Award, and has exhibited his portfolio of drawings and paintings at the Wilbraham Public Library.

Stitches in Time

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2013

Education Sections

Holyoke Catholic Survives Through Its Close-knit Community

Theresa Kitchell’s quilt, which showcases previous homes for Holyoke Catholic High School, tells only part of the story of this resilient institution.

Theresa Kitchell says she’s been quilting for decades now.

And like other practitioners of this time-consuming pastime, she enjoys it because it provides relaxation, as well as the ability to tell a story through one’s artistic expression.

The piece hanging in her office at Holyoke Catholic High School, which she has served as principal for the past three years, certainly does that. It features images of many of the historic buildings that were part of Holyoke Catholic decades before that name was ever put over a door — and there have now been several doors that have had that honor.

The only landmark missing is the current mailing address, 134 Springfield St. in Chicopee, said Kitchell, noting that she created the piece before the move to that location in 2008. (The quilt was created to be a featured prize at a fundraising auction, was given by the high bidder to his mother, an alum, and was then gifted back the school after she passed away).

But the quilt showcases only physical structures, Kitchell went on, so it tells only part of a remarkable story. The far more important chapters involve the perseverance and vision required for this school to live on through several forced relocations (more on those later), and the dedication of an alumni base and a current generation of parents who value quality and tradition more than a modern gymnasium and state-of-the-art auditorium — although those may also become reality in the not-too-distant future.

“I think ‘resourceful’ is a great adjective for us because we’ve had to make do for so many years,” said Kitchell, referring first to a move to Granby and the former St. Hyacinth Seminary, and later a move to the current address. “We had to start from scratch, in everything, and the faculty has been incredibly willing to do whatever needed to be done, in whatever facility we found ourselves.”

Today, Holyoke Catholic, with annual tuition of $8,000, boasts an enrollment of roughly 300, with students from 30 area communities and several from China. That number has remained steady in recent years despite a deep economic recession and the latest of those aforementioned moves.

Kitchell and Liz Adzima, director of Advacement, attribute this consistency to recognition among parents that, while the school still lacks some amenities, it is synonymous with value and excellence.

These are exemplified in the price tag — well below what is charged at area private schools — but also in the award-winning STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum, multiple partnerships with neighboring Elms College, and strong performing-arts and internship programs, among other initiatives.

“Parents make that decision to send their children here because they know that the sacrifices to be made are well worth it for the quality of education their children will receive here,” said Adzima.

For this issue and its focus on education, BusinessWest turns the spotlight on Holyoke Catholic, which has a rich, intriguing history and — because of that aforementioned resilience and vision — is adding new chapters to the story told by Kitchell’s quilt.

Quite a Yarn

Some of the institutions that came together to form what is now Holyoke Catholic High School can trace their histories back to the late 1800s, said Adizma, noting that Holyoke once had many small parish elementary schools and high schools.

These schools weren’t large enough to field their own sports teams, she went on, adding that, by the middle of the 20th century, several, including Holy Rosary, Sacred Heart, and St. Jerome’s, were bringing their athletes together to compete under the name ‘Holyoke Catholic.’ And as it became increasingly difficult for those smaller schools to exist on their own, discussions intensified about taking the concept of Holyoke Catholic beyond the playing field.

“Through that on-field unity, people started seeing that maybe it was time to come together,” said Adzima, adding that Holyoke Catholic High School was formed in 1963 on the campus of St. Jerome’s, located in the heart of the city’s downtown.

Eventually, however, those facilities became overcrowded and, worse, structurally unsafe — a determination made by Thomas Dupre, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, in 2002.

The search for what all agreed would be temporary quarters eventually focused on the 500-acre St. Hyacinth College & Seminary in nearby Granby, said Kitchell, adding that, while the location was not ideal, especially for families in Holyoke, the school managed to maintain consistent enrollment numbers.

And while there was an initial push to raise funds to build a new Holyoke Catholic, fiscal constraints brought a focus on retrofitting an existing educational facility, Adzima went on, adding that sights were eventually set on a former elementary school on Springfield Street in Chicopee, between the Holy Name and Assumption parishes, and only a few hundred yards from Elms College.

The process of retrofitting the facility was completed in the summer of 2008, and the new Holyoke Catholic opened that fall, said Kitchell, adding that the move brings a number of advantages for the school, ranging from accessibility to the natural connection with the Elms.

“The parents have been most supportive; they wanted their children to go to Holyoke Catholic, and they made the move to Granby, which was really inconvenient, and then they made the move here,” Kitchell told BusinessWest. “The move to Chicopee was certainly the most feasible economically, and there were other real pluses; first, we’d be back in an urban setting, and second, we’d be in close proximity to the Elms.”

Elaborating, she and Adzima said the new location, just minutes off interstates 91 and 391, makes the school not only affordable, but also quite accessible, especially to major population centers such as Chicopee, Springfield, and Holyoke.

As for the Elms, that institution brings facilities and collaborative efforts that greatly enhance the value of a Holyoke Catholic education, she said.

Sewing Seeds

The partnership with the Elms only begins with Sr. Mary Reap, the college’s president, who serves on the Holyoke Catholic board of trustees.

It extends to the institution’s library — which extends full privileges to Holyoke Catholic students, who can now take in a number of exhibits and programs, such as last year’s Holocaust exhibit — and the Veritas Auditorium, which has become home to the high school’s performing-arts programs.

However, and ironically, due to construction at the Elms, those programs are utilizing facilities at the former MacDuffie School in downtown Springfield. (MacDuffie relocated two years ago to the former St. Hyacinth’s Seminary.)

The drive to Springfield is somewhat inconvenient, but such headaches are certainly nothing new for loyal parents and alums, said Adzima, adding that the performing-arts program has enjoyed great success.

She explained that students, including incoming freshmen, work throughout the summer to produce the popular annual fall performance; recent shows (there are three a year) have included Hello, Dolly!, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Godspell, and this year The Wizard of Oz is on the schedule.

While quality and high expectations are the foundation of the Holyoke Catholic curriculum, and, historically, the English department has been very strong, Kitchell is proud of recent recognition from the state for the science department, which recently earned the 2013 Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Energy and Environment Education.

The award is fitting, she added, since 10 faculty members and 10 students were involved last year in a ‘technology frontier experiment,’ during which teachers and students used iPads daily in all departments to deepen their knowledge of that form of technology in a school setting.

“The use of handheld devices, not just pen and paper, is coming; that’s their world, and we just have to figure it out,” said Kitchell. “Students and faculty have been learning, literally, from each other across the board.”

Another perk of the school’s proximity to the Elms is the college’s advanced-placement program, which allows qualified area high-school students to take up to three college credits each semester in their junior and senior years, graduating from high school with a possible 12 college credits. Offered at reduced-credit cost, the late-afternoon and evening courses are a convenient walk across the street for about 30 Holyoke Catholic students per year, said Kitchell.

In addition to that program, Holyoke Catholic requires every senior to undertake a 50-hour internship at an area business or nonprofit. To fulfill that requirement, they must write a paper about their experience and present to members of a faculty panel.

“This year, we had students in the operating room with a surgeon at Baystate Medical Center, in court with attorneys — one student actually dug into the research and helped solve a case — and they really get put to work,” said Adzima. “It lets them see what it’s like in the real world, and the more time and attention that they give to identifying the correct spot for them, the better experience they have.”

Common Threads

Looking ahead, Kitchell said the school is looking at ways to fill in some of the missing pieces from its bricks-and-mortar presence, including a performance-arts facility and a gymnasium.

Two parishes in that section of Chicopee have merged, she noted, and this development may create opportunities for expansion down the road if the fiscal health of the diocese permits.

In the meantime, the school will continue to carry on and make do, something it has become quite proficient at in recent years, displaying vast amounts of imagination and resilience, skills that are among the many it tries to impart to its diverse student population.

Thus, while Kitchell says there are no plans to add new segments to that quilt on her wall, there are certainly new chapters to be written in the history of a school that has found its place — in more ways than one.

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

Building Permits

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2013

Building Permits Departments

The following building permits were issued during the month of July 2013.

AGAWAM

Robert Fagin

700 Silver St.

$174,000 — Install new roofing system

GREENFIELD

Greenfield Corporate Center, LLC

101 Munson St.

$138,000 — Install new roofing system

Donna Pfeffer

223 Main St.

$7,500 — Strip and install new roofing system

Larry Pfeffer

207-209 Main St.

$7,500 — Install new roofing system

Rosenberg Properties, LLC

311 Wells St.

$98,000 — Install new roofing system

Town of Greenfield

125 Federal St.

$14,300 — Construct and install new fire escape stairs

LUDLOW

Town of Ludlow

500 Chapin St.

$4,800 — Commercial alterations

PALMER

AMC Building Construction, LLC

4063 Main St.

$14,000 — New roof, siding, windows, and insulation

Palmer Foundry

22 Mt. Dumplin Road

$14,000 — New roof

SOUTH HADLEY

Mount Holyoke College

50 College St.

$44,000 — Remodel of Reese Hall

SOUTHWICK

Tennessee Gas

248 Feeding Hills Road

$38,000 — Install noise barrier

SPRINGFIELD

FB Development, LLC

1537 Main St.

$372,000 — Renovation to third floor

WEST SPRINGFIELD

KK Reality

632 Westfield St.

$10,000 — New roof

Mitch Salamon

52 B Wayside Dr.

$118,500 — Renovate 20,694 square feet into adult daycare

Quality Inn

1150 Riverdale St.

$102,450 – Interior renovations

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2013

Departments Real Estate

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

1734 Baptist Corner Road

Ashfield, MA 01330

Amount: $385,000

Buyer: Carl Bravmann TR

Seller: Stewart F. Walker

Date: 06/28/13

243 Main St.

Ashfield, MA 01330

Amount: $143,800

Buyer: Thomas J. Miner

Seller: Stockwell, Laura V., (Estate)

Date: 06/24/13

863 Spruce Corner Road

Ashfield, MA 01330

Amount: $145,000

Buyer: Daniel K. Ziegler

Seller: Theodore Bruland IRT

Date: 06/28/13

CONWAY

65 South Hill Road

Conway, MA 01341

Amount: $374,000

Buyer: Michael H. Merritt

Seller: David F. Guild

Date: 06/28/13

DEERFIELD

23 Beaver Dr.

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $265,000

Buyer: Marit F. Harney

Seller: Jacqueline Urban

Date: 06/28/13

4 Braeburn Road

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $124,250

Buyer: Kara R. Jurkoski

Seller: FNMA

Date: 06/17/13

9 Conway St.

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: Laura A. Kuzdeba

Seller: Sharyn A. Paciorek

Date: 06/14/13

45 King Philip Ave.

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $338,000

Buyer: Burnley R. Jaklevic

Seller: Daniel Dewey

Date: 06/17/13

16 Lee Road

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $365,000

Buyer: Cassy A. Cohoon

Seller: Richard W. Burke

Date: 06/21/13

138 North Hillside Road

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $135,000

Buyer: Francis G. Sobieski

Seller: Julia A. Griswold

Date: 06/24/13

19 Stage Road

Deerfield, MA 01373

Amount: $219,500

Buyer: James W. Laughner

Seller: Daniel J. Fuqua

Date: 06/14/13

GILL

386 Main Road

Gill, MA 01354

Amount: $200,000

Buyer: Michael A. Travisano

Seller: Joseph T. Rafferty

Date: 06/21/13

GREENFIELD

441 Adams Road

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $147,000

Buyer: Shane M. Powell

Seller: Carpenter, Dorothy I., (Estate)

Date: 06/14/13

219 Barton Road

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: Whitney Russell

Seller: Stephen A. Garanin

Date: 06/26/13

184 Chapman St.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $162,700

Buyer: Heidi Garfinkel

Seller: Michael J. Winn

Date: 06/21/13

17 Chestnut Hill

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $260,750

Buyer: Jesse R. Duquette

Seller: Norman A. Welch

Date: 06/27/13

68 Crescent St.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $265,000

Buyer: Michael S. Penn-Strah

Seller: John H. Reese & Joni Denn TR

Date: 06/26/13

70 Fort Square

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $149,900

Buyer: Jennifer A. Mielinski

Seller: Sharon L. Mendyk

Date: 06/14/13

34 Grove St.

Greenfield, MA 01376

Amount: $140,000

Buyer: Louis W. Peck

Seller: Wayne P. Chapln

Date: 06/28/13

31 West St.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $139,000

Buyer: Robert C. Catlin

Seller: Charles Chandler

Date: 06/28/13

44 Wildwood Ave.

Greenfield, MA 01301

Amount: $182,050

Buyer: Mark A. Shulenburg

Date: 06/21/13

LEYDEN

37 Alexander Road

Leyden, MA 01337

Amount: $650,000

Buyer: James Schoolenberg

Seller: Greenfield Savings Bank

Date: 06/28/13

MONTAGUE

24 Avenue C

Montague, MA 01376

Amount: $151,000

Buyer: James R. Clapp

Seller: Lisa M. Sakowicz

Date: 06/28/13

8 Avenue C

Montague, MA 01376

Amount: $167,000

Buyer: Janet L. Rendall

Seller: Gail M. Findlay

Date: 06/28/13

67 Crocker Ave.

Montague, MA 01376

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: Charles E. Dodge

Seller: Juraszek, Stanley M., (Estate)

Date: 06/28/13

87 East Taylor Hill Road

Montague, MA 01351

Amount: $255,000

Buyer: Jennifer R. Atlee

Seller: Norma L. Jablonski

Date: 06/27/13

25 H St.

Montague, MA 01376

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Jaime A. Young

Seller: Richard A. Young

Date: 06/14/13

44 Oakman St.

Montague, MA 01376

Amount: $145,900

Buyer: Megan Dery

Seller: Mary L. Blumberg

Date: 06/28/13

48 Taylor Hill Road

Montague, MA 01351

Amount: $206,300

Buyer: Charles Y. Edwards

Seller: Clarkson S. Edwards

Date: 06/13/13

30 Union St.

Montague, MA 01351

Amount: $197,900

Buyer: Holly E. Anderson

Seller: James C. Lawlor

Date: 06/26/13

NEW SALEM

64 North Spec Pond Road

New Salem, MA 01355

Amount: $134,500

Buyer: Rene Arsenault

Seller: Joseph S. Bellantoni

Date: 06/27/13

NORTHFIELD

416 Millers Falls Road

Northfield, MA 01360

Amount: $277,000

Buyer: Bradley K. Woodward

Seller: Lynn M. Bassett

Date: 06/13/13

15 North Lane

Northfield, MA 01360

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: Joseph W. Bedard

Seller: Jane L. Abbott

Date: 06/14/13

750 Pine Meadow Road

Northfield, MA 01360

Amount: $152,000

Buyer: Kyle F. Pelis

Seller: Joseph E. Burt

Date: 06/28/13

804 Pine Meadow Road

Northfield, MA 01360

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: Sean J. Conlon

Seller: MW&MW Realty LLC

Date: 06/19/13

ORANGE

13 Howe St.

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $117,318

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: William K. Whitmore

Date: 06/21/13

138 Main St.

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $220,000

Buyer: Kevin M. McCann

Seller: Stephan E. Thompson

Date: 06/20/13

11 Memorial Dr.

Orange, MA 01364

Amount: $140,450

Buyer: Scott W. Green

Seller: Linda S. Whitesone

Date: 06/21/13

SUNDERLAND

121 N. Main St.

Sunderland, MA 01375

Amount: $655,000

Buyer: North Main 121 RT

Seller: Michael R. Skibiski

Date: 06/27/13

WARWICK

77 Hastings Heights Road

Warwick, MA 01378

Amount: $153,500

Buyer: Shawn M. Gonynor

Seller: Decoste, Stanley J., (Estate)

Date: 06/21/13

525 Old Winchester Road

Warwick, MA 01378

Amount: $134,000

Buyer: Michael Cloukey

Seller: US Bank

Date: 06/17/13

WENDELL

281 Jennison Road

Wendell, MA 01379

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Wayne Rodrigues

Seller: Peter A. Redington

Date: 06/27/13

21 Plain Road

Wendell, MA 01379

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: Patrick R. Taylor

Seller: Todd D. Muller

Date: 06/26/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

335 Adams St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $245,000

Buyer: Donna M. Ferraiolo

Seller: Dennis M. Roberts

Date: 06/27/13

15 Allison Lane

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $293,000

Buyer: Richard J. Zina

Seller: Lance B. Dillard

Date: 06/21/13

105 Autumn St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Ryan J. Wood

Seller: Thomas W. Foley

Date: 06/21/13

47 Barbara Lane

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $284,900

Buyer: Amy L. Bishop

Seller: Shannon L. Page

Date: 06/25/13

60 Campbell Dr.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $179,000

Buyer: Anthony T. Depalo

Seller: Cori A. Verteramo

Date: 06/17/13

55 Forest Ridge Lane

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $317,500

Buyer: Carol R. Lapolice

Seller: Jaclyn Pendergast

Date: 06/28/13

29 Highland Ave.

Agawam, MA 01001

Buyer: David M. Hadley

Seller: John J. Crean

Date: 06/21/13

50 Kanawha Ave.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: Gregory Ruge

Seller: FNMA

Date: 06/26/13

69 Line St.

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $265,000

Buyer: Peter Privedenyuk

Seller: Pavel Kuzmenko

Date: 06/28/13

1084 Main St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $208,000

Buyer: Ryan A. Lottermoser

Seller: Karen Marceau

Date: 06/19/13

46 Main St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $145,000

Buyer: Edward R. Dearborn

Seller: Michael Torcia

Date: 06/17/13

32 Maple Meadows Lane

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $370,000

Buyer: Jeffrey Kowarsky

Seller: FNMA

Date: 06/26/13

16 Morgan St.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $158,000

Buyer: Joseph A. Bshara

Seller: Kelly Wilson

Date: 06/27/13

326 N. West St.

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $177,000

Buyer: Robert P. Ollari

Seller: Vincent L. Palange

Date: 06/18/13

23 Pembroke Lane

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $369,900

Buyer: Van Q. Nguyen

Seller: Alicemae V. Bell

Date: 06/19/13

76 Red Fox Dr.

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $220,000

Buyer: Kristy Ritson

Seller: Christina L. Trolio

Date: 06/27/13

40 Redwood Dr.

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $215,000

Buyer: Emmi Chaban

Seller: Beryl A. Robinson

Date: 06/28/13

71 Ridgeview Dr.

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $260,000

Buyer: Jennifer D. Dillard

Seller: Donald J. Pisano

Date: 06/27/13

353 River Road

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $166,500

Buyer: Seth T. Dihlmann

Seller: Robert Bouley

Date: 06/21/13

38 Roberta Circle

Agawam, MA 01001

Amount: $126,000

Buyer: Kent M. Burgess

Seller: Kent M. Burgess

Date: 06/27/13

521 S. West St.

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $210,000

Buyer: David J. Limero

Seller: Noreen A. Robinson

Date: 06/28/13

712 S. West St.

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $267,412

Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank NA

Seller: Tammy L. Martin

Date: 06/24/13

64 Spear Farm Road

Agawam, MA 01030

Amount: $485,000

Buyer: Stephen S. Page

Seller: Christopher R. Wargo

Date: 06/27/13

BLANDFORD

11 Kaolin Road

Blandford, MA 01008

Amount: $178,700

Buyer: William T. Ragusa

Seller: Douglas G. Jaeger

Date: 06/21/13

CHICOPEE

89 6th Ave.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $165,000

Buyer: Karen E. Archambault

Seller: Doris E. Piquette

Date: 06/25/13

159 Beauregard Terrace

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $169,024

Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank

Seller: Luz M. Cotto

Date: 06/21/13

257 Broadway St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: Cabot Realty LLC

Seller: Thomas G. Langlois

Date: 06/17/13

135 Catherine St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $229,000

Buyer: Ronald R. Belair

Seller: Bonnie Derosia

Date: 06/28/13

33 Chapel St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $181,000

Buyer: Abbas M. Hamdan

Seller: Jeremy V. Kenneson

Date: 06/17/13

109 Chateaugay St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $155,000

Buyer: Jomi V. Reis

Seller: 14 Jardine Street TR

Date: 06/27/13

134 College St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $166,000

Buyer: Jeannette M. Sterniak

Seller: Richard V. Obuchowski

Date: 06/26/13

55 Cortland St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $154,000

Buyer: Michelle A. Williams

Seller: Stephen J. Ritson

Date: 06/27/13

15 Dawn St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $175,000

Buyer: Felix L. Padilla

Seller: Edward T. Winchester

Date: 06/21/13

213 Dayton St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $155,000

Buyer: Bill M. Krasinkiewicz

Seller: Robert Morgan

Date: 06/20/13

271 Fletcher Circle

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $179,900

Buyer: Michael M. Rivera

Seller: Shannon L. Page

Date: 06/27/13

10 Lavalle Ave.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $275,000

Buyer: Lauren G. Creanza

Seller: Waycon Inc.

Date: 06/28/13

164 Lukasik St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $116,000

Buyer: DGL Properties LLC

Seller: Henry C. Lemanski

Date: 06/20/13

31 Macek Dr.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $182,000

Buyer: Janet M. Simard

Seller: Dolores R. Arcott

Date: 06/28/13

15 Marion St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $124,250

Buyer: Stacy A. Aleixo

Seller: Walter H. Pirog

Date: 06/21/13

17 Marion St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $124,250

Buyer: Stacy A. Aleixo

Seller: Walter H. Pirog

Date: 06/21/13

37 Moreau Dr.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $201,500

Buyer: Vicki Garrity

Seller: Mary T. Barrepski

Date: 06/20/13

63 Schley St.

Chicopee, MA 01020

Amount: $235,000

Buyer: Jeffery J. Corder

Seller: Lora B. Reyes

Date: 06/19/13

1 Springfield St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Ames 2 Wing LP

Seller: Ames Privilege Assocs. LP

Date: 06/26/13

62 Stedman St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $115,000

Buyer: Andrew N. Morrisette

Seller: Raymond F. Martel

Date: 06/20/13

29 Warregan St.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $154,650

Buyer: Preston L. Micks

Seller: Maria J. Martins

Date: 06/28/13

17 Whitin Ave.

Chicopee, MA 01013

Amount: $154,000

Buyer: Susanne D. Gagnon

Seller: RCS Props LLC

Date: 06/21/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

25 Anne St.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $185,000

Buyer: Melinda A. Mitton

Seller: Michael Nolan

Date: 06/25/13

4 Auburn St.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $176,000

Buyer: Karen Masi

Seller: John Carney

Date: 06/28/13

17 Betterley Lane

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $413,000

Buyer: Christy L. Gilbert

Seller: Bretta Construction LLC

Date: 06/28/13

47 Deerfoot Dr.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $290,000

Buyer: Edward W. Moran

Seller: Jay C. Seyler

Date: 06/27/13

108 Gerrard Ave.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Dianne C. Lozier

Seller: Stacy L. Passmore

Date: 06/19/13

46 Highlandview Ave.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $185,000

Buyer: John R. Frazier

Seller: Warren, Francis B., (Estate)

Date: 06/28/13

31 James St.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $320,000

Buyer: Christopher M. Fenton

Seller: Mark D. Thomas

Date: 06/25/13

16 Meadowbrook Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $200,000

Buyer: Mark A. Bilton

Seller: Johnson, Frances M., (Estate)

Date: 06/21/13

24 Old Pasture Dr.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $455,000

Buyer: Arne O. Arnesen

Seller: David S. Placzek

Date: 06/21/13

200 Porter Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $265,250

Buyer: Anne M. Nolan

Seller: Matthew Campbell

Date: 06/25/13

16 Ramonas Way

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $355,500

Buyer: Daniel Loftus

Seller: Longo, Theresa M., (Estate)

Date: 06/28/13

27 S. Brook Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $424,500

Buyer: Dylan E. Bond

Seller: Anne M. Dunn

Date: 06/24/13

45 Somers Road

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $232,000

Buyer: Apryl Thomas

Seller: Brian J. Stromwall

Date: 06/26/13

147 Tanglewood Dr.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $337,000

Buyer: Anne M. Dunn

Seller: Penelope Johnson

Date: 06/24/13

90 Waterman Ave.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $320,000

Buyer: Thevenin C. Beauzile

Seller: Peter M. Maruca

Date: 06/25/13

41 White Ave.

East Longmeadow, MA 01028

Amount: $194,900

Buyer: Derick T. Levesque

Seller: Trey M. Cushman

Date: 06/21/13

GRANVILLE

157 Hartland Hollow Road

Granville, MA 01034

Amount: $325,000

Buyer: Richard C. Hasko

Seller: Reine P. McCormick

Date: 06/28/13

HAMPDEN

41 Allen Crest St.

Hampden, MA 01036

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: Anthony M. Giacomoni

Seller: Flora M. Chechile

Date: 06/28/13

332 Bennett Road

Hampden, MA 01036

Amount: $380,000

Buyer: Christopher R. Faust

Seller: Jarrett Thomas

Date: 06/28/13

Chapin Road

Hampden, MA 01036

Amount: $150,000

Buyer: Annette L. Pafumi

Seller: Dorothea K. Radzicki

Date: 06/28/13

21 Colonial Village

Hampden, MA 01036

Amount: $258,000

Buyer: Krystyna S. Sullivan

Seller: Paul Vella

Date: 06/28/13

334 South Road

Hampden, MA 01036

Amount: $215,000

Buyer: Allison B. Thomas

Seller: Andrew G. Clines

Date: 06/28/13

75 Steepleview Dr.

Amount: $657,500

Buyer: Elia R. Sardella

Seller: Donald J. Collins

Date: 06/21/13

HOLLAND

9 Vinton Road

Holland, MA 01521

Amount: $145,000

Buyer: Sean G. Lewis

Seller: Michael McGeary

Date: 06/27/13

HOLYOKE

19 Anderson Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $165,669

Buyer: Beneficial Mass. Inc.

Seller: Daniel J. Corliss

Date: 06/26/13

30 Breton Lane

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $220,000

Buyer: Josue M. Salgado

Seller: Lisa R. Meidlinger

Date: 06/17/13

86 Brook St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: Austin Monett

Seller: Kenneth L. Fitzgibbon

Date: 06/17/13

34 Carol Lane

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $265,000

Buyer: Nicole D. Fountain

Seller: David A. Kalicka

Date: 06/28/13

65 Eastern Promenade St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Andrew S. Lafrennie

Seller: Brian A. Fournier

Date: 06/18/13

4 Lexington Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $270,000

Buyer: Mary B. Annarella

Seller: Kevin A. Burke

Date: 06/21/13

28 Longwood Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $135,000

Buyer: Shane M. Ezyk

Seller: MHFA

191 Lower Westfield Road

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $308,000

Buyer: Douglas A. Clark

Seller: Ronald Canon

Date: 06/20/13

2 Lynn Ann Dr.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Roberta Krause

Seller: Louise T. McCleary

Date: 06/21/13

9 Meadowview Road

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $188,000

Buyer: John A. Finn

Seller: Clement A. Messier

Date: 06/28/13

131 Norwood Terrace

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $199,900

Buyer: Michael T. Dodge

Seller: James M. Moynihan

Date: 06/27/13

24 Old Ferry Road

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $310,000

Buyer: Anthony J. Valentino

Seller: Candice Demers

Date: 06/26/13

12 Princeton St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $345,000

Buyer: Jaimie A. Fallon

Seller: Jeffrey Falcon

Date: 06/17/13

24 Quinn Dr.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Bridgette O. Sullivan

Seller: Michael J. Quinn

Date: 06/26/13

369 South St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: 369 South St. Holdings LLC

Seller: Joseph G. Dafonseca

Date: 06/18/13

7 Thorpe Ave.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $367,500

Buyer: Hilltop Garden Apt. LLC

Seller: Jazab LLC

Date: 06/28/13

30 Vadnais St.

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $237,000

Buyer: Jennifer L. Cooper

Seller: Marie E. Fallon

Date: 06/17/13

25 Vassar Circle

Holyoke, MA 01040

Amount: $187,500

Buyer: Patricia M. Dupont

Seller: Richard M. Pafik

Date: 06/28/13

LONGMEADOW

296 Ardsley Road

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $925,000

Buyer: Eric S. Shapiro

Seller: Todd M. Adelson

Date: 06/28/13

322 Blueberry Hill Road

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $337,000

Buyer: Ausher M. Kofsky

Seller: Brian C. Edgerly

Date: 06/26/13

28 Farmington Ave.

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $388,000

Buyer: Mary C. Carpenter

Seller: Scott Paquette

Date: 06/13/13

299 Frank Smith Road

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $286,000

Buyer: Peter C. Axtmann

Seller: Kathleen B. Crowley

Date: 06/20/13

16 Glenbrook Lane

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $495,000

Buyer: George E. Markoulakis

Seller: Patrick A. Barnett

Date: 06/28/13

679 Laurel St.

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $339,000

Buyer: Jonathan Han

Seller: Kenneth R. Holt

Date: 06/26/13

45 White Oaks Dr.

Longmeadow, MA 01106

Amount: $425,000

Buyer: Annika E. Piper

Seller: Shelly H. Stream

Date: 06/28/13

LUDLOW

73 Gaudreau Ave.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Buyer: Nicholas S. Assarian

Seller: Caleb E. Bresnahan

Date: 06/21/13

58 Georgetown Road

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $190,000

Buyer: Heidi Morace

Seller: Elizabeth J. McGrath

Date: 06/27/13

76 Grimard St.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $155,000

Buyer: Matthew T. Forest

Seller: Kevin A. Hill

Date: 06/28/13

89 Grimard St.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $164,000

Buyer: Nicholas J. Gagne

Seller: Claire Duffy

Date: 06/28/13

45 Irla Dr.

Ludlow, MA 01056

Amount: $278,500

Buyer: Marnie J. Bovee

Seller: Melissa Miller

Date: 06/27/13

MONSON

113 Bogan Road

Monson, MA 01057

Amount: $230,000

Buyer: Paul Sullivan

Seller: Montgomery, Valerie W., (Estate)

Date: 06/25/13

22 Crest Road

Monson, MA 01057

Amount: $210,000

Buyer: Noreen A. Robinson

Seller: Curt M. Szado

Date: 06/28/13

3 Highland Ave.

Monson, MA 01057

Amount: $120,000

Buyer: John S. Fiester

Seller: Coolong, Robert J., (Estate)

Date: 06/27/13

118 Wales Road

Monson, MA 01057

Amount: $235,000

Buyer: Michelle L. Strum

Seller: Yvon J. Laliberte

Date: 06/20/13

144 Woodhill Road

Monson, MA 01057

Amount: $330,000

Buyer: Stephen Gallant

Seller: Kenneth P. Atkins

Date: 06/18/13

PALMER

77 Flynt St.

Palmer, MA 01069

Amount: $210,732

Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank

Seller: Jill M. Brochu-Conselino

Date: 06/28/13

1070 Pine St.

Palmer, MA 01069

Amount: $164,000

Buyer: Pamela T. Johnson

Seller: Karin E. Patenaude

Date: 06/26/13

2062 Pleasant St.

Palmer, MA 01080

Amount: $205,000

Buyer: Kevin P. Burdick

Seller: John J. Larose

Date: 06/27/13

37 Saint John St.

Palmer, MA 01069

Amount: $152,000

Buyer: Samantha J. Jacobs

Seller: FNMA

Date: 06/28/13

RUSSELL

71 Pine Hill Road

Russell, MA 01071

Amount: $175,400

Buyer: Danielle M. Lafond

Seller: Wayne Rodrigues

Date: 06/27/13

SPRINGFIELD

120 Abbott St.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $130,000

Buyer: Twaila L. Meadows

Seller: Kenneth MacDonald

Date: 06/24/13

864 Alden St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $115,000

Buyer: FHLM

Seller: Denice Ranson

Date: 06/19/13

696 Allen St.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $139,900

Buyer: Jose Rivera

Seller: Catherine Buendo

Date: 06/28/13

122 Atwater Terrace

Springfield, MA 01107

Amount: $168,250

Buyer: Maura E. McDonald

Seller: Radner, Stella T., (Estate)

Date: 06/28/13

98 Bacon Road

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $159,000

Buyer: Brian Fox

Seller: Matthew Fuller

Date: 06/28/13

511 Belmont Ave.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Truong Nguyen

Seller: SCS Realty Corp.

Date: 06/26/13

115 Birchland Ave.

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $200,401

Buyer: PHH Mortgage Corp.

Seller: Daniel Soule

Date: 06/24/13

630 Bradley Road

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $115,250

Buyer: JB Squared LLC

Seller: Earl M. Dwyer

Date: 06/20/13

14 Bulat Dr.

Springfield, MA 01129

Amount: $160,500

Buyer: Mona M. Bradley

Seller: Jean E. Baclawski

Date: 06/27/13

27 Carroll St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $132,000

Buyer: Aaron Vo

Seller: Anthony L. Santaniello

Date: 06/28/13

30 Catalina Dr.

Springfield, MA 01128

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Earl F. Hunt

Seller: Michael K. Glickman

Date: 06/25/13

223 Central St.

Springfield, MA 01105

Amount: $145,000

Buyer: Yellowbrick Property LLC

Seller: Marisel Olmeda

Date: 06/27/13

89 Cliftwood St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $280,000

Buyer: Scott Morrissette

Seller: DB Properties LLC

Date: 06/21/13

305 Denver St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $146,000

Buyer: Nilda M. Colon

Seller: Regina B. Tillery-Jenkins

Date: 06/20/13

83 Derryfield Ave.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $165,000

Buyer: Kathryn A. Ellis

Seller: William Raleigh

Date: 06/25/13

12 Duffy Lane

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $135,000

Buyer: Erica T. Belder

Seller: Patricia A. Range

Date: 06/28/13

246 Dutchess St.

Springfield, MA 01129

Amount: $175,067

Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank

Seller: Jessica L. Vincent

Date: 06/28/13

265 Dwight St.

Springfield, MA 01105

Amount: $198,223

Buyer: BSC Realty Inc.

Seller: 265-271 Dwight Street Inc.

Date: 06/21/13

86 East St.

Springfield, MA 01104

Amount: $123,000

Buyer: Efrain P. Matias

Seller: Marie E. Bond

Date: 06/28/13

19 Eddy St.

Springfield, MA 01104

Amount: $158,875

Buyer: Egidio M. Robinson

Seller: Eddie A. Torres

Date: 06/17/13

168 Ellsworth Ave.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $152,500

Buyer: Sean Ross

Seller: Benjamin S. Hemingway

Date: 06/21/13

11 Forbes Circle

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $185,000

Buyer: Ali Reza Vahadji

Seller: Brian L. Weigel

Date: 06/19/13

170 Jeffrey Road

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Enyoe Invst. Props. Inc.

Seller: US Bank NA

Date: 06/28/13

24 Jenness St.

Springfield, MA 01104

Amount: $116,000

Buyer: Jacob A. Saleh

Seller: Karen Rossini

Date: 06/28/13

38 Lester St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $159,900

Buyer: Donicia S. Hall

Seller: Sergey Savonin

Date: 06/27/13

26 Lockwood Ave.

Springfield, MA 01151

Amount: $150,000

Buyer: Edward R. Jalowski

Seller: Vincent D. Martins

Date: 06/17/13

56 Lois St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Deanna J. Silva

Seller: Sergey Savonin

Date: 06/24/13

87 Loretta St.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $184,486

Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank

Seller: Jeffrey M. Goff

Date: 06/20/13

5 Mark St.

Springfield, MA 01129

Amount: $142,500

Buyer: Rodney L. Rodriguez

Seller: Krystyna S. Sullivan

Date: 06/28/13

27 Margerie St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $150,000

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: Josefina Fernandez

Date: 06/13/13

54 Melville St.

Springfield, MA 01104

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Maribel Sanchez

Seller: Denise Silva

Date: 06/28/13

87 Newton Road

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Mark T. Quinn

Seller: Patricia E. Johnson

Date: 06/26/13

113 Pennsylvania Ave.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $147,000

Buyer: Jeffrey J. Bienevenue

Seller: Donna K. Carlson

Date: 06/28/13

50 Princeton St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $128,000

Buyer: Jihad N. Islam

Seller: Michael L. Wiersma

Date: 06/24/13

177 Ramblewood Dr.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $172,000

Buyer: Anthony C. Racco

Seller: Alexander D. Verbun

Date: 06/28/13

40 Ruthven St.

Springfield, MA 01128

Amount: $127,000

Buyer: Scott J. Silkey

Seller: Kasey A. Peters

Date: 06/27/13

22 South Tallyho Dr.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $213,000

Buyer: Anne M. Lesueur

Seller: Jose O. Ramos

Date: 06/24/13

139 Saint James Circle

Springfield, MA 01104

Amount: $124,900

Buyer: Stacee L. Crane

Seller: Deborah A. Burrill

Date: 06/28/13

10 Sara Lynn Dr.

Springfield, MA 01129

Amount: $150,000

Buyer: Milta I. Sostre

Seller: Joseph E. Lemanski

Date: 06/27/13

26 Spencer St.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $124,000

Buyer: Kristen H. Corbett

Seller: Ynosensio Banuelos

Date: 06/26/13

20 Standish St.

Springfield, MA 01108

Amount: $190,000

Buyer: Yulaina M. Valle

Seller: Hole In 1 Investments LLC

Date: 06/27/13

851 State St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $200,000

Buyer: Mason Square Apartments LP

Seller: MHFA

Date: 06/26/13

963 Sumner Ave.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $118,575

Buyer: US Bank

Seller: Daniel Ayala

Date: 06/13/13

88 Tyler St.

Springfield, MA 01109

Amount: $137,371

Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank NA

Seller: Annmarie Martinez

Date: 06/20/13

115 Venture Dr.

Springfield, MA 01119

Amount: $218,900

Buyer: Cambel M. Berk

Seller: Scott D. Hathaway

Date: 06/28/13

147 Whittum Ave.

Springfield, MA 01118

Amount: $217,500

Buyer: Robert J. Bousquet

Seller: Dominic Arillotta

Date: 06/26/13

102 Woodmont St.

Springfield, MA 01104

Amount: $116,000

Buyer: Eliana Febus

Seller: Nancy A. Fonger

Date: 06/18/13

1134 Worcester St.

Springfield, MA 01151

Amount: $144,013

Buyer: Wells Fargo Financial

Seller: Larry F. Mathisen

Date: 06/19/13

SOUTHWICK

6 Chapman St.

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $140,000

Buyer: Joseph M. Doyle

Seller: Ralph T. Liptak

Date: 06/28/13

23 Congamond Road

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $129,349

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: Ryan Steinberg

Date: 06/20/13

16 Fenton Dr.

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $380,000

Buyer: Alicia M. Shelvay

Seller: B&E Aircraft Component

Date: 06/28/13

30 Lakeview St.

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $233,000

Buyer: Debra A. Croteau

Seller: Neighborhood Ent. LLC

Date: 06/28/13

52 Pineywood Road

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $139,000

Buyer: Chelsea B. Goforth

Seller: Doreen D. Maloney

Date: 06/26/13

6 Tree Top Lane

Southwick, MA 01077

Amount: $275,750

Buyer: Ross A. Gazzaniga

Seller: Theresa Marciel-Carr

Date: 06/25/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

116 Almon Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $169,500

Buyer: Uladzimir Loban

Seller: Michael A. Farella

Date: 06/28/13

229 Bear Hole Road

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $320,000

Buyer: Sarah M. Fontana

Seller: Antonietta Santaniello

Date: 06/20/13

24 Birnie Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $212,000

Buyer: Marilyn C. Castillo

Seller: John D. Lynham

Date: 06/28/13

621 Birnie Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $184,000

Buyer: Todd N. Bajor

Seller: Orr, Carol A., (Estate)

Date: 06/21/13

48 Bonair Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $232,000

Buyer: Joshua Gage

Seller: Mark S. Edwards

Date: 06/28/13

71 Bridle Path Road

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $263,000

Buyer: Robert J. Miles

Seller: Keith G. Buoniconti

Date: 06/25/13

52 Chestnut St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $175,000

Buyer: Patrick M. Connors

Seller: Timothy McGovern

Date: 06/21/13

349 Circle Dr.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $188,000

Buyer: Jessica L. Brodeur

Seller: Christy L. Gilbert

Date: 06/28/13

139 City View Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $162,000

Buyer: Fred U. Sisson

Seller: Claire C. Lefebvre

Date: 06/21/13

363 Dewey St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $259,000

Buyer: William M. Hartt

Seller: Vincent R. Rizzo

Date: 06/28/13

481 Dewey St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $201,000

Buyer: Bryan M. Ghedi

Seller: Buddy L. Denison

Date: 06/27/13

1346 Elm St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $355,000

Buyer: Peter A. Samberg

Seller: 1346 Elm Street Properties LLC

Date: 06/20/13

187 Elm St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $240,000

Buyer: Gennaro Moccia

Seller: Stephen C. Lang

Date: 06/19/13

570 Elm St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $151,500

Buyer: Dawn M. Spiegler

Seller: Brad A. Whitaker

Date: 06/28/13

22 Havenhurst Road

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $282,000

Buyer: David M. Craven

Seller: Baatz, Jane B., (Estate)

Date: 06/21/13

7 High Meadow Dr.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $262,000

Buyer: Mark A. Tokarz

Seller: Amarinder Dhillon-Yadav

Date: 06/28/13

21 Hill St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $162,000

Buyer: Samir A. Almoula

Seller: Rosemary F. Galary

Date: 06/24/13

96 Kelly Dr.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $315,000

Buyer: John F. Boisjolie

Seller: Kevin J. Smith

Date: 06/28/13

1312 Memorial Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $160,000

Buyer: 1312 Memorial Avenue LLC

Seller: Kozar Realty LLC

Date: 06/27/13

23 Nelson St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $180,600

Buyer: Matthew Flagg

Seller: Lori Laughran

Date: 06/26/13

1211 Piper Road

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $218,000

Buyer: Jordan L. Marshall

Seller: Robert L. TR IRA

Date: 06/20/13

200 Poplar Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $279,000

Buyer: Diane M. Leitao

Seller: Bruce L. Gendron

Date: 06/21/13

51 Rogers Ave.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $205,000

Buyer: Adam R. Bryant

Seller: Richard A. Guzzo

Date: 06/24/13

40 Smyrna St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $175,000

Buyer: Courtney L. Santaniello

Seller: Sarah M. Fontana

Date: 06/20/13

261 Union St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Bliny Crepes Tea House

Seller: John Huang

Date: 06/28/13

16 Wistaria St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $129,900

Buyer: Aaron J. Fontana

Seller: US Bank NA

Date: 06/21/13

2019 Westfield St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $296,549

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: Christopher C. Olko

Date: 06/13/13

6 Woodmont St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $123,300

Buyer: Brian D. Hurt

Seller: Michael Forrest

Date: 06/19/13

95 Woodmont St.

West Springfield, MA 01089

Amount: $154,013

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: Crystal M. Minniear

Date: 06/24/13

WESTFIELD

20 Big Wood Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $348,000

Buyer: Jason W. Adams

Seller: David B. Smith

Date: 06/21/13

44 Camelot Lane

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $602,500

Buyer: Ryan C. Moltenbrey

Seller: John R. Gaudrault

Date: 06/27/13

13 Dubois St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $160,000

Buyer: Andrew L. Carmel

Seller: Glenn P. Wisniowski

Date: 06/28/13

119 Eastwood Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $282,500

Buyer: Keith G. Buoniconti

Seller: John M. Sinopoli

Date: 06/25/13

451 Falley Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $450,000

Buyer: Yaroslav Burkovskiy

Seller: Eoin B. Stafford

Date: 06/28/13

13 Florence St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $188,500

Buyer: Molly C. St.Peter

Seller: Kimberly A. Bailot

Date: 06/28/13

17 Hickory Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $167,000

Buyer: Vera P. Gavrilyuk

Seller: Jean C. Lynch

Date: 06/27/13

29 Joseph Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $176,000

Buyer: Kristen E. Browning

Seller: Kimberly A. Juden

Date: 06/28/13

19 Linden Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $141,000

Buyer: Bethany L. Fisher

Seller: Sturmer, Jane M., (Estate)

Date: 06/27/13

359 Montgomery Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $190,000

Buyer: Nicholas S. Orluk

Seller: Jo Ann M. Orluk

Date: 06/26/13

49 Montgomery St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $182,550

Buyer: Justin Alward

Seller: Normand P. Leblanc

Date: 06/28/13

71 Paper Mill Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $185,000

Buyer: Edwin Iserman

Seller: Jeffrey W. Porter

Date: 06/20/13

44 Pequot Point Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Carine Laverdiere

Seller: Bruce D. Martin

Date: 06/28/13

83 Pineridge Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $370,000

Buyer: Shahab Rastegar

Seller: John A. Lehman

Date: 06/26/13

61 Pontoosic Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $169,000

Buyer: Dianna M. Bolton

Seller: Ross E. Rogers

Date: 06/25/13

162 Reservoir Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: David E. Gardner

Seller: TC Dev. LLC

Date: 06/26/13

188 Reservoir Ave.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $187,500

Buyer: Deborah Bruce

Seller: Kevin E. Dunbar

Date: 06/28/13

63 Robinson Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $194,000

Buyer: Kelly Diaz

Seller: Kenneth J. Lebel

Date: 06/28/13

302 Russell Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Joseph A. Craven

Seller: Anne L. Treny

Date: 06/21/13

11 Sabrina Brooke Lane

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $324,000

Buyer: Joe Reyes

Seller: Tracy L. Hautanen-Kriel

Date: 06/19/13

9 Sherman St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $129,000

Buyer: Judith A. Lennon

Seller: Gary Drinkwater

Date: 06/28/13

7 Springdale St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $130,100

Buyer: Laura V. Iderstine

Seller: Sharon L. Burt

Date: 06/21/13

16 Violet Circle

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $382,100

Buyer: Heather E. Schnopp

Seller: Scarfo Construction Inc.

Date: 06/28/13

43 Waterford Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $360,000

Buyer: Jocelyn Harrelson

Seller: Karen M. Regan

Date: 06/28/13

152 Whitaker Road

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $335,000

Buyer: Kevin M. Daley

Seller: Michael Werman

Date: 06/28/13

89 White St.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $137,000

Buyer: US Bank

Seller: Thomas Otero

Date: 06/25/13

55 Zephyr Dr.

Westfield, MA 01085

Amount: $195,000

Buyer: Deborah A. Fiorentino

Seller: Roberta M. Keane

Date: 06/28/13

WILBRAHAM

10 Bittersweet Lane

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $391,250

Buyer: Brian J. Stromwall

Seller: Judith A. Knapp

Date: 06/28/13

5 Burleigh Road

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $289,900

Buyer: Scott D. Hathaway

Seller: Kenneth W. Blanchard

Date: 06/28/13

123 Cherry Dr.

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $294,900

Buyer: Theresa C. Fall

Seller: 2301 Boston Road LLC

Date: 06/25/13

934 Glendale Road

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $213,500

Buyer: Benjamin S. Hemingway

Seller: Linda J. Cloutier

Date: 06/24/13

1 Pearl Dr.

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $262,500

Buyer: Margaret Labrode

Seller: Gregory P. Donovan

Date: 06/25/13

29 Stony Hill Road

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $163,000

Buyer: Michael J. Pluta

Seller: Thomas A. Pluta

Date: 06/18/13

5 Sunset Rock Road

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $142,405

Buyer: Matthew Thouin

Seller: Bank Of America FSB

Date: 06/27/13

24 Tinkham Glen

Wilbraham, MA 01095

Amount: $260,000

Buyer: Nicole M. Fusco

Seller: James Kaveney

Date: 06/28/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

78 Aubinwood Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $405,000

Buyer: Luiz A. Amaral

Seller: Jan E. Servaes

Date: 06/21/13

615 Bay Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $500,000

Buyer: Town Of Amherst

Seller: Thomas Ricci

Date: 06/18/13

133 Chestnut St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $265,000

Buyer: Anita A. Fabos

Seller: Hugh S. Clark

Date: 06/27/13

66 Flat Hills Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $285,000

Buyer: Heath R. Hatch

Seller: William J. Gerace

Date: 06/13/13

81 Harlow Dr.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $224,000

Buyer: Jasmine O. Kerrissey

Seller: Lung Nan Lin

Date: 06/21/13

21 Harris St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $295,000

Buyer: Edie Meidav

Seller: Lillian B. Silver

Date: 06/14/13

325 Leverett Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $667,500

Buyer: Kimball A. Prentiss

Seller: Marnie S. Dacko

Date: 06/28/13

9 Newell Court

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $307,000

Buyer: Noah B. Kuhn

Seller: Bette Abrams-Esche

Date: 06/20/13

10 Overlook Dr.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $410,000

Buyer: Peter J. Everett

Seller: Robert M. Dimock

Date: 06/25/13

46 Pomeroy Lane

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $295,000

Buyer: Narayan Sampath

Seller: Ethan J. Nedeau

Date: 06/24/13

156 Pomeroy Lane

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $257,800

Buyer: Matthew D. Dobson

Seller: Andrew F. Thibault

Date: 06/14/13

42 Ridgecrest Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $416,000

Buyer: Michael E. Williamson

Seller: Virginia Kenney

Date: 06/14/13

327 Shays St.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $699,000

Buyer: Emily Marsters

Seller: Burt W. Ewart

Date: 06/18/13

297 Shutesbury Road

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $456,000

Buyer: Bradley R. Brummett

Seller: Charles L. Nunn

Date: 06/26/13

39 Trillium Way

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $570,000

Buyer: David A. James

Seller: John S. Katzenbach

Date: 06/21/13

27 Van Meter Dr.

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $307,720

Buyer: Michael P. Hafferman

Seller: Robert C. Kleindienst

Date: 06/28/13

3 Willow Lane

Amherst, MA 01002

Amount: $220,000

Buyer: Ryan Harb

Seller: Ryan Harb

Date: 06/20/13

BELCHERTOWN

50 Aldrich St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $212,500

Buyer: Paula C. Teixeira

Seller: Deborah M. Levheim

Date: 06/28/13

117 Clark St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: Christopher H. Newman

Seller: James F. Bush

Date: 06/18/13

23 Doe Hollow

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $251,345

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: James M. Sorrell

Date: 06/21/13

172 Federal St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $200,000

Buyer: Jonathan D. Marshall

Seller: Steven D. Lepage

Date: 06/28/13

148 Gold St.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $145,000

Buyer: Roy A. Balthzard

Seller: Roy A. Balthzard

Date: 06/17/13

6 Gulf Road

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $192,000

Buyer: Robert V. Gallant

Seller: George W. Huber

Date: 06/28/13

9 Hemlock Hollow

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $288,000

Buyer: Daniel Mejia-Martinez

Seller: James E. Tisdell

Date: 06/25/13

49 Henry Dr.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $265,000

Buyer: Richard J. Maldanis

Seller: Wesley Greene

Date: 06/25/13

3 Martin Circle

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $265,000

Buyer: Zachariah J. Johnson

Seller: Gerard H. Biron

Date: 06/28/13

160 Old Enfield Road

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $401,000

Buyer: Darrell Probst

Seller: Kathleen L. Scott RET

Date: 06/17/13

29 Pendleton Road

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $325,000

Buyer: Steven J. Crowe

Seller: Gregory K. Johnson

Date: 06/28/13

17 Westview Dr.

Belchertown, MA 01007

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Carolyn M. Tirreno

Seller: Marlaina H. Cataldi

Date: 06/14/13

CUMMINGTON

523 Stage Road

Cummington, MA 01026

Amount: $345,000

Buyer: James O. Wettereau

Seller: Anthony W. Coviello

Date: 06/18/13

EASTHAMPTON

19 Button Road

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $125,000

Buyer: Bonnie G. Bleecher

Seller: EH Homeownership LLC

Date: 06/28/13

12 Fairfield Ave.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $136,000

Buyer: Audra Y. McGee

Seller: Anne D. Bialek

Date: 06/18/13

3 Fox Run

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $412,400

Buyer: Justin M. Daly

Seller: David A. Hardy Construction LLC

Date: 06/24/13

45 Franklin St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $170,491

Buyer: Strong Ave. LLC

Seller: Thomas S. Stuart

Date: 06/14/13

7 Gaugh St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $140,000

Buyer: Michael S. Demarey

Seller: Michael J. Demarey

Date: 06/28/13

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: Sean K. Porth

Seller: Fortier, Michael T., (Estate)

Date: 06/28/13

6 McKinley Ave.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $269,500

Buyer: Elizabeth Lyford

Seller: Stan Samuelson

Date: 06/28/13

27 Northampton St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $164,000

Buyer: Wen P. Zheng

Seller: Ken Hou Lin

Date: 06/28/13

120 Park St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Jennifer R. Lavalley

Seller: Edmund F. Wanat

Date: 06/28/13

18 Park St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $310,000

Buyer: Park Street NT

Seller: Peter M. Crisafulli

Date: 06/17/13

183 Park St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $240,000

Buyer: Eric D. Fiedler

Seller: David P. Spring

Date: 06/28/13

5 Peloquin Dr.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $235,000

Buyer: Michael A. Morrow

Seller: Joseph P. Pouliot

Date: 06/28/13

165 Pleasant St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $225,000

Buyer: George S. Hotz

Seller: Brian J. Campedelli

Date: 06/14/13

9 River Valley Way

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $315,000

Buyer: Carey Morgan

Seller: EH Homeownership LLC

Date: 06/24/13

86 Torrey St.

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $177,000

Buyer: Elodie L. Sammarco

Seller: William H. Chicoine

Date: 06/21/13

25 Westview Terrace

Easthampton, MA 01027

Amount: $270,000

Buyer: Samuel A. Masinter

Seller: Kay Brooke-Willbanks

Date: 06/26/13

GOSHEN

39 South Main St.

Goshen, MA 01032

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: Roger Perrault

Seller: Judith W. Wilson

Date: 06/28/13

GRANBY

153 Batchelor St.

Granby, MA 01033

Amount: $164,560

Buyer: FNMA

Seller: Stephen T. Howes

Date: 06/13/13

163 Kendall St.

Granby, MA 01033

Amount: $242,500

Buyer: Brion V. Over

Seller: Peter B. Blain

Date: 06/28/13

14 Pinebrook Circle

Granby, MA 01033

Amount: $136,000

Buyer: Brian W. Parent

Seller: Knap, Tadeusz, (Estate)

Date: 06/28/13

121 Taylor St.

Granby, MA 01033

Amount: $278,500

Buyer: George H. Regmund

Seller: Gino E. Lucchesi

Date: 06/14/13

HADLEY

168 Bay Road

Hadley, MA 01035

Amount: $285,000

Buyer: Marlaina H. Cataldi

Seller: Deborah M. Mokrezecki

Date: 06/14/13

7 Maplewood Terrace

Hadley, MA 01035

Amount: $299,000

Buyer: Christine E. Eustis

Seller: Hsu Tung Ku

Date: 06/21/13

337 Russell St.

Hadley, MA 01035

Amount: $575,000

Buyer: Florence Savings Bank

Seller: McDonalad Real Estate Co.

Date: 06/26/13

13 Shattuck Road

Hadley, MA 01035

Amount: $447,500

Buyer: Gary A. Vaughan

Seller: Sharon E. Beaulieu

Date: 06/25/13

5 West St.

Hadley, MA 01035

Amount: $535,000

Buyer: Thomas Brennan

Seller: John A. Holbrook

Date: 06/14/13

HATFIELD

43 Depot Road

Hatfield, MA 01038

Amount: $192,000

Buyer: Ross P. Beck

Seller: Alexander L. Goldstein

Date: 06/28/13

8 Gore Ave.

Hatfield, MA 01038

Amount: $410,000

Buyer: Lisa V. Berkman

Seller: Jeffrey C. Morrison

Date: 06/27/13

HUNTINGTON

30 Allen Coit Road

Huntington, MA 01050

Amount: $260,000

Buyer: Chad D. Cortis

Seller: Whitney, Lewis A., (Estate)

Date: 06/17/13

NORTHAMPTON

11 Arlington St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Buyer: Nira H. Elkins

Seller: Glenn Alper

Date: 06/14/13

137 Baker Hill Road

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $440,000

Buyer: Christopher T. Dole

Seller: Frederick H. Leonard RET

Date: 06/17/13

9 Berkshire Terrace

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $278,000

Buyer: Ann C. Sirignano

Seller: Larysa C. Bachinsky

Date: 06/13/13

1244 Burts Pit Road

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $324,900

Buyer: Paul S. Bourgeois

Seller: Steven T. Hoffman

Date: 06/27/13

10 Claire Ave.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $217,000

Buyer: Adriana M. Brown

Seller: Barbara Pepin

Date: 06/14/13

150 Drury Lane

Northampton, MA 01027

Amount: $300,255

Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank

Seller: Stephanie K. Douglass

Date: 06/24/13

58 Fern St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $224,500

Buyer: Erik Valdes

Seller: Christopher R. Amato

Date: 06/20/13

76 Forest Glen Dr.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $219,900

Buyer: Jean M. Martin

Seller: Lawrence A. Schoen

Date: 06/20/13

15 Franklin St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $207,500

Buyer: Benjamin R. Hersey

Seller: Tamara J. Bourgeoius

Date: 06/28/13

38 Franklin St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $675,000

Buyer: Elizabeth A. Roberts

Date: 06/17/13

38 High St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $366,750

Buyer: Michael V. Sola

Seller: Theresa R. Brodeur

Date: 06/14/13

28 Lilly St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $343,500

Buyer: Jessica L. Brady

Seller: Marilee A. Demaras

Date: 06/28/13

15 Mary Jane Lane

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $199,900

Buyer: Christopher M. Hunt

Seller: Jeanne E. Kumor

Date: 06/25/13

21 Mountain St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $242,000

Buyer: Stewart F. Walker

Seller: Ronald S. Adams

Date: 06/28/13

589 North Farms Road

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $367,000

Buyer: Dorian L. Gregory

Seller: Lauren Corbett

Date: 06/17/13

113 Nonotuck St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $261,500

Buyer: Alexander N. Papouchis

Seller: Mark Lane-Davies

Date: 06/26/13

27 Orchard St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Lauren M. Bonn

Seller: Rania Spade

Date: 06/27/13

85 Prospect St.

Northampton, MA 01063

Amount: $545,000

Buyer: Rachel Simmons

Seller: Rae Anne C. Butera

Date: 06/28/13

47 Revell Ave.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Christopher W. Lucas

Seller: Helene J. Ruskoeski

Date: 06/28/13

266 Rocky Hill Road

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $225,500

Buyer: Lesley Schneider

Seller: Mary A. Tourjee

Date: 06/13/13

402 South St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $200,000

Buyer: W&N Summer LLC

Seller: Patrick C. Pucino

Date: 06/28/13

234 State St.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $385,000

Buyer: Debra Orgera

Seller: Black Sheep Dev. LLC

Date: 06/20/13

8 Washington Ave.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $700,000

Buyer: Denise Orenstein

Seller: Eric G. Arcese

Date: 06/14/13

60 Washington Ave.

Northampton, MA 01060

Amount: $370,000

Buyer: David J. Whitehill

Seller: Anne R. Mannarino

Date: 06/27/13

63 Willow St.

Northampton, MA 01062

Amount: $342,000

Buyer: James K. Sweeney

Seller: Gail M. Thomas

Date: 06/27/13

SOUTH HADLEY

45 Applewood Lane

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $355,000

Buyer: Christopher M. Laflamme

Seller: Michelle L. Fitzell

Date: 06/14/13

24 Bolton St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $134,000

Buyer: Anthony G. Schiappa

Seller: Jennifer A. Champagne

Date: 06/28/13

60 Fairview St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $190,000

Buyer: Hoa N. Thai

Seller: Mary R. Newman

Date: 06/14/13

69 Granby Road

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $170,000

Buyer: David Murphy

Seller: Donald Brown

Date: 06/27/13

59 High St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $210,000

Buyer: Deborah A. Noyes

Seller: Robert E. Archambault

Date: 06/25/13

276 Morgan St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Joseph F. Long

Seller: Kathleen M. Kerwin

Date: 06/13/13

135 Mosier St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Sara L. Colglazier

Seller: Deborah A. Silvia

Date: 06/27/13

52 Mountain View St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $249,900

Buyer: Kevin M. Litalien

Seller: Anne L. Zawacki

Date: 06/17/13

16 Normandy Road

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Lauren I. Cochrane

Seller: Robert E. Baur

Date: 06/27/13

3 Paul St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $300,000

Buyer: Edward W. O’Grady

Seller: Vision Inv. Props. LLC

Date: 06/17/13

99 Richview Ave.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $157,900

Buyer: Ezekiel W. Kimball

Seller: Chad A. Lopes

Date: 06/25/13

5 Spring Meadows

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $365,000

Buyer: Paul R. Gallgher

Seller: James E. Sunderland

Date: 06/26/13

16 Sycamore Knolls

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $295,000

Buyer: Sandra M. Annis

Seller: Satyananda J. Gabriel

Date: 06/14/13

9 Tampa St.

South Hadley, MA 01075

Amount: $180,000

Buyer: Stacy A. Italiano

Seller: Anthony J. Fernandes

Date: 06/27/13

SOUTHAMPTON

54 Coleman Road

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $250,000

Buyer: Peter M. Crisafulli

Seller: Joseph A. Brzys

Date: 06/18/13

85 High St.

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $308,000

Buyer: Andrew J. Bogacz

Seller: David Garstka Builders LLC

Date: 06/27/13

16 Jonathan Judd Circle

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $289,000

Buyer: Vincent Servaes

Seller: Gary C. Rehbein

Date: 06/25/13

4 Madison Ave.

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $259,900

Buyer: Normand P. Leblanc

Seller: Jeffrey L. Phaneuf

Date: 06/28/13

21 Middle Road

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $440,000

Buyer: Amy W. Burke

Seller: Cheryl L. Novak

Date: 06/21/13

123 Strong Road

Southampton, MA 01073

Amount: $276,500

Buyer: David L. Neal

Seller: FNMA

Date: 06/14/13

WARE

91 Church St.

Ware, MA 01082

Amount: $163,000

Buyer: Troy M. Poquette

Seller: GFA FCU

Date: 06/28/13

80 Old Belchertown Road

Ware, MA 01082

Amount: $150,000

Buyer: Michael Ferrell

Seller: Michael S. Sakowicz

Date: 06/28/13

WESTHAMPTON

86 Reservoir Road

Westhampton, MA 01027

Amount: $307,000

Buyer: Raymond E. Martin

Seller: Ralph B. Hancewicz

Date: 06/14/13

WILLIAMSBURG

27 Williams St.

Williamsburg, MA 01096

Amount: $196,000

Buyer: Tara M. Harlow

Seller: Eric A. Gougeon

Date: 06/14/13

WORTHINGTON

64 Harvey Road

Worthington, MA 01098

Amount: $193,000

Buyer: Andrew V. Iglesias

Seller: Catherine L. Servaes

Date: 06/25/13

Community Profile: Westfield

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2013

Community Profile Features

Westfield Takes Flight with New Jobs, Development

When BusinessWest sat down this month with Westfield Mayor Daniel Knapik and Kate Phelon, executive director of the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce, it was just one more connection in what has become a strong bond between the city and its chamber.
Take the monthly Mayor’s Coffee Hour the chamber launched to forge a stronger relationship between the city’s leaders and its business community.
“That gives businesses and residents first-hand access to city officials,” Phelon said. “We’re very proud that we have that kind of access to the mayor; not many cities can say they do that on a regular basis.”
The mayor agrees. “We really have opened the door to businesses,” said Knapik, noting that some companies had never before approached the city about their issues.
“Manufacturing companies have different needs than small operators,” Phelon said. “It’s good that we can have this open-door policy and bring these issues in and have dialogue.”

Mayor Daniel Knapik, left, and Jeff Daley say Westfield’s investments in its infrastructure have already begun to spur more development.

Both of them agreed, however, that much of the dialogue in Westfield has been positive lately, from job-creation success stories — from Armbrook Village bringing in 100 jobs with a new assisted-living community to the expansion of Gulfstream, which will add 100 jobs while retaining 130 more — to the dramatic reconstruction of the Whip City’s downtown that has improved traffic flow and generated buzz and business there.
“The best testimony is from folks who haven’t been in Westfield in a while,” Knapik said, “when they come into the downtown and say, ‘wow, what happened?’ And there’s more coming.”

Ready for Takeoff
They might say the same about Barnes Airport on the city’s north side, which has leveraged millions of dollars in public and private investment in the service of infrastructure upgrades and development projects.
“We’ve had multiple funding sources, at the federal, state, and city levels, to get $14 million for a new runway,” said Jeff Daley, the city’s advancement officer. “The current runway is 28 years old, which is eight years past its life expectancy. They’ll be ripping out the entire 9,500 feet of runway and rebuilding it. A large portion of the north and south end of the runway will be concrete, and the middle section will be a specialized tar pavement that will allow the F16s and other planes not to rip it up.”
The 104th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard has been relocated to Westover Air Reserve Base and Otis Air Force Base during the project, which is expected to be completed by Thanksgiving. Daley said the new runway will attract more commercial use of the airport. Meanwhile, Rectrix Aviation, which bought out Airflyte, is working to increase its investment at Barnes to bring a wider range of services to its clients.
Meanwhile, Daley said, “we obtained a grant from the state to redesign and rebuild Airport Industrial Park Road. It was a $2 million grant, and we’re returning $800,000 back to the state; we managed to do it with $1.2 million. We made it safer with a full redesign; the hairpin turn there was dangerous. We paved it, and we’ll have some new signage to alert people to come to the industrial park.”
That’s where the city is developing 80 acres — perhaps 12 to 15 subdivided lots — for light-manufacturing and aviation-supported businesses. “We’ve had serious conversations with four or five companies looking there, waiting for the road to be finished,” Daley said.
“Add to that Gulfstream’s expansion, and we think Barnes is in a position of growth, with the most action we’ve seen there in years,” Knapik said, noting that the airport is on the cusp of generating more revenue than the city is investing in it. “We’re close to breaking even now, and some of the other situations coming to light will add more revenue to the city. It took a long time to bring it to break-even status.”
Speaking of breaking even, the mayor said, one of the best stories in the city recently is the turnaround of Noble Hospital. After seven years running a deficit, it was able to turn a profit last year.
“It’s great what they’ve been able to do, to modernize the hospital and open up space that had been shuttered and really find niche services for our community, from gastroenterology to expanding the breast-cancer unit,” he continued. “When I came into office, it was pretty dire over there, but it’s been astounding. They’ve been able to invest in their physical plant and turn a profit, which is great news. They seem to be in position for a pretty strong future now.”

Bridges to Progress
So does the downtown area, following a $14.5 million reconstruction of Main and Broad streets and the Park Square Green, and the four-year Great River Bridge project that paired the renovation of that span, over the Westfield River, with the construction of a second bridge next to it.
Those successes will be followed by a significant commercial development at Elm and Arnold streets, featuring a 130,000-square-foot mixed-use facility, a 2,000-square-foot transportation center, and a five-story parking garage. Daley pegged completion of the project — which has been discussed in some form or other for decades — for 2015 or 2016.
“There have been lots of iterations to it,” he said, noting that the city would like the mixed-use facility to include retail, restaurants, and office space. As for the parking garage, “we’re fortunate to have parking problems, and we’re developing up to 500 new spaces to make it a more attractive prospect to come downtown and shop and have dinner.”
The mayor is excited by the prospects. “We’ve said for years that, if the city took care of its property and infrastructure, which we’ve been doing, the rest will follow,” Knapik said of the proposal, and the hope that it will continue a downtown revitalization that has already seen a number of new businesses open on that stretch of Routes 10 and 202.
Those include eateries and a copy center, businesses that will cater to a growing number of college students living downtown following the conversion of the Lansdowne building on Thomas Street into a 216-bed dormitory for Westfield State University. In addition, the former WSU training school building on Washington Street is being redeveloped into privately owned market-rate housing, which would add more student life to Westfield’s downtown.
“We’ve already seen the opening of many new downtown businesses that cater to the young folks living downtown,” Knapik said, including three restaurants with outdoor seating.
“With the City Council allowing outside seating, that’s a first for Westfield,” Phelon said. “I don’t think we’ve ever had that before. Now people will see people sitting and eating outside,” creating more energy downtown.
The city is also moving forward with plans for the riverfront area on the south side of town, which may include a mix of uses. “We’re reviewing four concepts now, and we’ll unveil those to the public over the next two months or so,” said Knapik, who would like to see that project connect with the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail. “These are all things that have been kicked around the city for 20 years or so, and they’re all starting to click now, so we’re happy about that.”

Challenges Remain
Knapik said the city’s unemployment rate, hovering between 6.5% and 6.8%, “isn’t bad, but we need it to be better to really knock us out of the economic slowdown we’re in. But we feel like, with the diverse base we have — including military, healthcare, precision machining, and warehousing — we’re seeing excellent growth in some areas.”
Daley noted that, since 2010, the city has attracted more than $120 million in private investment and has another $72 million in the pipeline. “Currently, 7,000 jobs have been retained by those efforts, and 800 new jobs over three years. There’s a pretty good story to tell there. We’re working very hard to keep retention up … and to make Westfield a place where people want to grow and stay.”
Phelon said the city is working to cultivate its creative economy in an organized way, as nearby communities such as Northampton, Easthampton, and Holyoke have done. “We’re in the infant stages of this. We applied for a grant to take inventory of the creative economy in the city. That can drive economic development, and the chamber is happy to be a part of that.”
The idea, Knapik said, is to bring different “puzzle pieces” that make up the city’s economy out of their individual silos and into an organized effort to promote Westfield’s vitality.
The mayor also touted the city’s efforts to keep property taxes lower than in some surrounding cities and towns. “We want to be that business-friendly community.”
It has tried to do so at a time when state aid to cities is low — in Westfield’s case, down about 30% since before the recession. Yet, plenty of investment continues, giving the mayor plenty to talk about at those coffee hours.
“It’s good,” he said of that communication. “A lot of times, policy is made in an echo chamber. This way, we ensure that both sides are heard. We hear them, and they hear us.”

Joseph Bednar can be reached at [email protected]

Opinion

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2013

Opinion

A Critical Vote for Springfield

Almost one year ago, the Springfield Chamber of Commerce began discussing what impact an $800 million gaming resort would have on the city of Springfield and its residents, workforce, and business community. We engaged all the developers, consulted with chambers of commerce throughout the U.S. that had casinos in their cities, and completed extensive analyses.
We wanted to be sure we thoroughly understood the issues and also understood how to capitalize on the positive impact an $800 million investment would have on the city and the region, and minimize any potential drawbacks. In the end, we determined that the benefits presented by this opportunity far outweighed any reservations, and the chamber membership endorsed a Springfield-based casino.
The city of Springfield has now chosen MGM as its preferred applicant for the sole Western Mass. license. The Springfield Chamber stands firmly with the city on its decision and supports a ‘yes’ vote on July 16.
So, why does the Springfield Chamber of Commerce take this stand? There are many reasons, including:
• Jobs. According to the analysis, 2,000 construction jobs will be followed by 3,000 permanent jobs covering a broad spectrum of career and occupational opportunities, from the service sector to manufacturing to professional services. These 3,000 jobs are new jobs for Springfield and the region. With jobs come opportunities — for educational and professional advancement, financial stability and financial independence, home ownership … the list goes on. With those jobs comes increased disposable income. And the business community reaps a benefit as well: dollars will be spent locally with existing businesses, expanding businesses, and fueling our future entrepreneurial opportunities.
• Tax revenues. Significant amounts of tax revenues, including property taxes, meals taxes, and hotel-room taxes, along with several other dedicated funds to be paid by MGM as committed to in the host-community agreement, will flow to the city. These added revenues will aid Springfield in enhancing public safety, supporting our school system, maintaining roads and parks, and much more.
• Business development. The chamber strongly believes that there are many opportunities for existing businesses to become vendors of goods and services to the resort. Written into the signed agreement between the city and MGM is a commitment to provide $50 million per year of procurement opportunities for locally provided goods and services to meet MGM’s needs. As part of the chamber’s due diligence, it solicited feedback from other business organizations where MGM has a gaming facility and found that MGM has been true to its word.
The chamber also wanted to be sure that local businesses, especially those that have been the lifeblood of the city for many years, were not disadvantaged by the resort. Again, MGM’s commitment in the host-community agreement reaffirmed its support for our business community, and the chamber is now very involved in reaching out to its members to determine what the supply of these goods and services is in our area and to assist any and all businesses in qualifying as vendors and increasing their production capacity if need be.
• Community support. MGM has also committed itself to the city and its people. Its commitments in the host-community agreement include numerous recreational amenities, such as an ice-skating rink, a vibrant riverfront, and an enhanced public golf course. Our world-class existing facilities, including the MassMutual Center, Symphony Hall, and CityStage, are all incorporated into the plans, and the commitments will help solidify the future of these great venues.
So, why does the Springfield Chamber of Commerce support a ‘yes’ vote? Jobs, income for individuals and families, property upgrades, discretionary spending kept within the community, enrichment to our existing cultural and recreational treasures, financial assistance to Springfield, and economic opportunities for all. These are the reasons why the Springfield Chamber urges its members and the citizens of Springfield to embrace MGM and vote ‘yes’ for the city’s future on July 16.

Jeffrey Ciuffreda is executive director of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce.

The Wright Stuff

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2013

Construction Sections

Northampton-based Builders Make a Living on the Cutting Edge

Mark Ledwell, left, and Jonathan Wright stand next to the remains of the entrance pillars to the former Northampton State Hospital, where the Village Hill mixed-use complex is taking shape.

It’s called the “home of the future” by its designer, Bruce Coldham of Coldham & Hartman Architests in Amherst, but it’s being lived in today.
This would be the 2,700-square-foot structure in Hadley that was honored by GreenBuilder magazine with one of its ‘Home of the Year’ awards in 2011, the only house in the Northeast to be so recognized. There are many numbers associated with this dwelling — and that prestigious award — but the most significant is 33, or minus 33, to be more precise.
That’s what the house earned for a Home Energy Rating, or HERS, which means that it produced 33% more energy than it consumed for the previous year, said Jonathan Wright, founder and president of Northampton-based Wright Builders, which constructed the home.
“Through an extremely well-designed plan, a very tight building envelope, and PV [photovoltaic] panels, we went way past zero,” said Wright, referring to the term ‘net zero’ — a benchmark used to describe structures that don’t consume more energy than they create — and putting heavy emphasis on the word ‘way.’
The GreenBuilder award judges were suitably impressed, noting that “this home’s building science is well ahead of the curve.”
That term is one increasingly used in association with projects undertaken by Wright, a nearly 40-year-old company that specializes in residential, commercial, and institutional building, and has a hard-earned reputation for being on the cutting edge of new building processes and techniques, especially with regard to energy consumption and conservation.
“Before these certifications were around, we just considered it smart building,” said Mark Ledwell, Wright’s long-time partner and the company’s co-principal, referring to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and other building benchmarks used today. “We’ve tried to keep abreast of the materials and new technologies and stay on the cutting edge; we want to make buildings that last.”
This philosophy has guided the company through every project in a broad portfolio that includes everything from a host of buildings at Smith College (one of the firm’s many clients in the education sector) to several components of the multi-faceted initiative taking shape on the grounds of the former Northampton State Hospital.
For this issue and its focus on construction, BusinessWest talked with Wright and Ledwell about the business they’ve built, the philosophies that shape it, and where they want to take in the future, which, in many respects, as mentioned earlier, is already here.

Framework for Success
Wright was a member of the first graduating class at Hampshire College in 1970. He liked to write and was contemplating careers involving that skill, but a number of summers spent doing carpentry work eventually took him down a much different path.
“It was supposed to be a pause on the way to some other career that never happened,” he told BusinessWest, “because this one [building] got really interesting really quickly.”
Indeed, soon after graduating from Hampshire with a liberal arts degree, he started Wright Builders and, soon thereafter, another, somewhat related venture called Wright Architectural Millwork, also in Northampton, which created custom wood interiors for offices and private residences.
While he operated them both successfully, Wright eventually realized that he needed to focus his time and energy on one or the other, and in 1994 he sold the millwork operation to employees Walt Price and Mike Buell and concentrated solely on Wright Builders.

The award-winning Cave family home in Hadley was designed by Coldham & Hartman Architects of Amherst and built by Wright Builders.

And he was joined in that venture a few years later by Ledwell, who had started his own company, Ledwell Woodworking and Building, in 1985, but 15 years later was ready for a change and a new challenge.
“I was getting a little tired of pushing my own rock up the hill,” said Ledwell, who was looking for high-quality product output in a larger establishment — and found that all that at Wright Builders.
The two have been partners since 2007, and they’ve established the company as an innovator, not only in building techniques, but in operating philosophy and policies for its 28 employees.
For example, Wright was one of the first builders to offer health insurance in 1976, and later added maternity leave for both men and women. Today, employees are allowed a week’s vacation in the summer, a rare perk in an industry that must make the most of this region’s comparatively short building season.
“Part of our job as leaders is to see not only where we’re going, but where we want the business to go and where the people who are crucial to our business are going with their careers,” said Wright.
But that term ‘innovator’ is most often used in reference to the company’s leading-edge work in building strategies and processes, especially with regard to the environment.
And this is hardly a recent phenomenon.

LEED by Design
When Wright started out in the ’70s, he was already working on passive solar homes, and was recognized by then Gov. Michael Dukakis in the area of energy efficiency and high-performance building. While the science and technology of the emerging green-building trend has been a consistent theme for the company, the world has in some ways caught up with Wright Builders, which is nonetheless commited to staying ahead.
“We’re really able to focus on building the best-performing and most environmentally friendly buildings that we possibly can,” said Wright, adding that this mentality crosses into all aspects of the company’s work, from residential to institutional.
Ledwell concurred.
“Water is the enemy in our business, and today our homes are tighter, healthier, and more comfortable, and use a lot less energy,” he said, “which is easier on our customers’ pocketbooks and good for the overall health of the environment.”
Referencing their broad portfolio, Wright and Ledwell said their projects fall into three main categories: personal, institutional, and what they call ‘performance.’
In the personal category, especially with Wright’s and Ledwell’s carpentry background, are projects that allow them to get involved with an individual’s or organization’s creative process.
Wright said that perhaps the most gratifying example of such work was a recent project for New York Times bestseller and Emmy Award-winning children’s-book author Mo Willem, who penned Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and the Knuffle Bunny books. He needed a complete renovation and a writing studio created in his roughly century-old Northampton home, and commissioned Wright to handle the work.
In the institutional realm, the company has carved out an effective niche, handling work for a number of area schools. Wright said the work is rewarding and uniquely challenging because the buildings stand for decades and often become symbols of the institutions in question.
“You’ve got to do a good job there because that building’s going to be in service for the next 30 or 40 years,” said Wright, noting that some on the campus of Smith College joke with Wright and Ledwell, calling the main gate of the college ‘Wright’s Corner,’ because three of the four corners are Wright Builders projects.
Meanwhile, the partners consider the performance category to be the most intriguing in many respects, because it’s based on the technology that is enabling them to build amazingly sustainable buildings.
The aforementioned home in Hadley falls into this group, said Wright, noting that GreenBuilder selected 10 outstanding projects displaying the best and most cutting-edge green residential building.
Wright and Ledwell point proudly to two other sustainable projects, one brand new, the soon-to-be-constructed net-zero Welcome Center at Hampshire College — the school’s first new building in a decade — and the Village Hill project.
Wright and his wife, Meg Kelsey Wright, a professional musician, now call Village Hill home, making them one of many to be drawn to the attractive mix of townhouses and single-family homes that are a key component of the massive, mixed-use endeavor.
“It’s a source of satisfaction for Mark and I,” said Wright, noting that the company has worked with Kuhn Riddle Architects and Berkshire Design Group, both of Amherst; Goggins Real Estate; Florence Savings Bank; MassDevelopment; and the City of Northampton to bring the project to life. “To put together the financing, the vision, and work with the state agencies and bring together all the talent that is needed to pull it off is very rewarding.”

Finishing Touch
Wright, now in his early ’60s, understands that this is the age when many people in business start to think about slowing down.
But he’s having none of that.
“I’m not done,” he laughed, “because there’s just really interesting stuff to do now. It’s different than it was five years ago, and I just wake up every morning, and I can’t wait to work on it all.”
This is the way it’s been from the start for this company, which has always been on the cutting edge, and has no intention of being anywhere else.

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

Bankruptcies

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2013

Bankruptcies Departments

The following bankruptcy petitions were recently filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Readers should confirm all information with the court.

Alves, James
106 Genovevo Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Ayala, Victor A.
32 Pine St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/10/13

Ballard, James
123 Maplewood Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/11/13

Bernard, Dawn M.
102 Celebration Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/03/13

Botto, Vincenzo
133 Braeburn Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/03/13

Burelle, Don Roger
66 1/2 Maple St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/05/13

Chimi, Joseph Anthony
Chimi, Tammy Marie
107L Ferry St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/14/13

Clark, Roberta L.
139 Union St., Unit 22
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/13/13

Coelho, Nancy M.
130 Loopley St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/10/13

Colon, Maritza A.
a/k/a Rivera, Maritza A.
87 Beacon Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/03/13

Colon, Mildred
37 Lynebrook Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/09/13

Constantilos, Adam D.
137 Main St.
Haydenville, MA 01039
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Corby, David A.
107 Hardwick Pond Road
Hardwick, MA 01037
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 06/14/13

Cote, Renee J.
Patterson, Erik W.
7 Water St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Cote, Wayne S.
Cote, Elise A.
64 Maple St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/13/13

Cundiff, Roy E.
17 Crossways Place
Osterville, MA 02655
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Czelusniak, Ronald M.
22 Brooks Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Czerniak, Matthew H.
Czerniak, Jessica A.
44 Markham Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/04/13

Czupryna, Sandra M.
PO Box 48
Monson, MA 01057
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/09/13

Davis, Elizabeth A.
549 Russell Road, Apt. 4C
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/14/13

Dearman, Gary A.
Dearman, Mary A.
28 Sherwood Terrace
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/05/13

Deso, Henry L.
Deso, Anita A.
10 Congress St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Desorcy, Michael P.
190 Daviston St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Dragan, Donna S.
414 Pine St.
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Dubuque, Douglas Raymond
Dubuque, Heather L.
815 Bridge Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/11/13

Engel-Dragon, Dianne Marie
30 King Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Family Transport
Cormier, Ora C.
33 Old New England Path
Russell, MA 01071
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Farina, Kimberly
20 Beechwood Dr.
Rutland, MA 01543
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Ferranti, Michael Andrew
147 Carver St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Flowers, Patricia
52 Holyoke St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/03/13

Flynn, Michael J.
Flynn, Tammy A.
43 Birch St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/12/13

Foerster, Richard A.
141 Applewood Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01022
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/13/13

G&B Construction
Brutskiy, Gennadiy
58 Worcester St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/10/13

Gallant, Tanya
35 Orlando St.
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/07/13

Giordano, Mary E.
151 Old Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/09/13

Gray-Lewis, Jenifer Lynn
113 Market St. Apt. 2
Northampton, MA 01060
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/14/13

Grimaldi, Albert J.
84 Falmouth Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/07/13

Hart, John P.
Hart, Rosemary J.
249 Pearl St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Heller, Jeffrey W.
73 Hall Road, Apt. #2
Sturbridge, MA 01566
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/12/13

Jarrett, Theodore C.
87 School St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 06/10/13

Krause-LLoyd, Sara A.
297 Lathrop St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Kusnick, Eric S.
15 Woronoco Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 06/03/13

Latulippe, Yvan L.
Latulippe, Carrie A.
110 Griffin St.
Bondsville, MA 01009
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Lavalley, Tracy J.
a/k/a Bennett, Tracy Jean
24 Sandra Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Lazzari, Law Office of Jay
Lazzari, Jay Victor
84 Briar Cliff St
Springfield, MA 01128
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/10/13

Lunghi, Elizabeth Ann
a/k/a Romito, Elizabeth
a/k/a Turner, Elizabeth
90 Lovefield St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Makrianis, Sue Ellen
68 Edbert St., Apt. J
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/14/13

Maldonado, Angela
a/k/a Cruz, Angela Maldonado
175 Farnum Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040-2808
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/11/13

Marrero, Carmelo R.
Marrero, Glenda I.
46 Sumner Terrace #2
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/12/13

Menard, Holly A.
34 Wright St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

McCullough, Thomas E.
329 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/07/13

McGee, Laurie J.
182 Morton St
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/03/13

Michaels, George T.
125 Country Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/13/13

Miller, Robert M.
Miller, Deborah A.
a/k/a Miller, Deborah O’Donnell
181 Salisbury Road
Sheffield, MA 01257
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/04/13

Mock, Lawrence I.
53 Meadowlark Lane
Chicopee, MA 01022
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Molleur, Brian B.
101 Lakeview St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/12/13

Mountain’s Brook Hideaway
Twin Brook Farm
Wide Range Inv.
Giard, Paul A.
42 Purington Lane
Colrain, MA 01340
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 06/06/13

Murray, Colleen A.
7 Worthy Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/07/13

Mylonakis, Niki K.
34 Thayer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Nedeoglo, Alla
a/k/a Chepurenko, Alla
500 Westfield Road
Russell, MA 01071
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Ocasio, Andy
P.O. Box 30082
Springfield, MA 01103
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Rees, Rebecca H.
44 Lorenzo St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/09/13

Rivera, Lydia E.
27 Boyer St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/07/13

Riverstone Plumbing and Heating
Szentmiklosy, Shawn
Szentmiklosy, Tonya Beth
P.O. Box 616
Becket, MA 01223
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/13/13

Rivet, Cathy S.
a/k/a Corrales, Cathy S.
32 Szlosek Road
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Roman, Elias
48 Roberto Clemente
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/05/13

Rooney, Michael Francis
95 Sterling St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Ross, Amy E.
a/k/a Jacob, Amy
85 Sturbridge Hills Road
Sturbridge, MA 01566
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/12/13

Ryan, Matthew J.
294 Sumner Ave., Apt. 8
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/10/13

Santiago, Ricardo
316 Dwight Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/11/13

Scherer, Melissa L.
176 West St.
Barre, MA 01005
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/01/13

The Mountain Goat – North
LaFleur, Arthur John
Colwell, Mary Patricia
50 Union St. #5
Northampton, MA 01060
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/10/13

Tinney, Lisa M.
848 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Tranghese, Christopher
113 Thayer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Tucker, Scott Joseph
Tucker, Kathleen Ellyn
67 Royalton St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Uschmann, Aaron Joseph
170 East Hadley Road #10
Amherst, MA 01002
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 06/11/13

West, William James
West, Gail M.
12 Dug Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 05/31/13

Briefcase

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2013

Briefcase Departments

Holyoke Medical Center Taps New Jersey’s Hatiras as New President, CEO
HOLYOKE — The board of directors of Valley Health Systems and Holyoke Medical Center have announced that Spiros Hatiras will become the next president and CEO of Holyoke Medical Center and its affiliates. Hatiras will succeed Hank Porten, who is stepping down after nearly 28 years in that role. “We are absolutely delighted to bring such an accomplished and passionate leader to our hospital and community,” said Priscilla Mandrachia, chairwoman of the board of directors of Valley Health Systems, the parent company of Holyoke Medical Center and its affiliates. “The search committee, after an exhaustive process, was particularly impressed with Mr. Hatiras’ understanding of our culture and love of community healthcare. He has expertise in reform initiatives and a deep commitment to physicians, staff, and quality services. Valley Health Systems and Holyoke Medical Center have been fortunate to have had the leadership of our present CEO, Hank Porten, for 28 years. We expect Mr. Hatiras to build on Mr. Porten’s accomplishments and lead our healthcare system successfully into the future.” Hatiras previously served as president and CEO of Hoboken University Medical Center in New Jersey, a 333-bed facility with nearly 500 physicians and nurses offering a full range of medical services. During his tenure there, Hatiras cut operating losses in half over two consecutive fiscal years without reducing staff, and oversaw the implementation of electronic medical records. “We all know healthcare is going through some very complicated changes, and Mr. Hatiras has demonstrated the knowledge and ability to meet these challenges head on,” said Peter Connor, chairman of the board of directors at Holyoke Medical Center. “He is a proven leader who understands our mission as a community hospital and will help guide us through the complexities of healthcare reform while maintaining a focus on quality care and patient satisfaction.” Currently serving as chief operating officer of NIT Health in New York, specializing in the implementation of electronic medical records for hospitals and health care systems, Hatiras has had a distinguished healthcare career in New Jersey. In addition to his work at Hoboken University Medical Center amid a complicated transition to private ownership, he has also served as vice president of post-acute, ancillary, and support services for Bon Secours Health System and corporate director of rehabilitation services for Franciscan Health System of New Jersey. “I am extremely excited to join Valley Health Systems and Holyoke Medical Center,” Hatiras said. “It’s the best fit for both of us. I’m returning to do what I love the best, working in a community hospital and helping it succeed. And the hospital’s commitment to community health is exactly what healthcare reform should be embracing. I look forward to working with the entire organization to build upon the solid foundation that Hank has left for us. The hospital is positioned well for the future. I’m ready to go.” Hatiras is certified in healthcare management by the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has a master’s degree in health care management from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from the Athens Institute of Technology in Athens, Greece. He currently lives with his wife, Gwen, and two children, Ava and Zach, in New Jersey. “My wife and I are very excited about moving our family to Massachusetts,” Hatiras said. “It’s the perfect location for us.” He will assume leadership of Holyoke Medical Center in early September, at which time he will also move to the area. Hatiras’ wife and children will relocate after his daughter Ava’s graduation from high school next year. Holyoke Medical Center is a 198-bed facility with 1,200 employees, including more than 260 physicians and consulting staff.

Obama Administration Delays Healthcare Law’s Insurance Mandate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier this month, President Obama’s administration announced a one-year delay in his healthcare law’s mandate that larger employers provide coverage for their workers or pay penalties. The decision postpones the effective date beyond next year’s midterm elections into 2015. Employer groups welcomed the news of the concession, while Republicans made it clear that they would not cease to make the law a key campaign issue for the third straight election cycle. While the postponement does not affect other central provisions of the law, including those establishing health-insurance marketplaces in the states, known as exchanges, it throws into disarray the administration’s effort to put those provisions into effect by Jan. 1. Under the law, most Americans will be required to have insurance in January 2014, or they will be subject to tax penalties. The administration’s announcement did not address delaying that requirement or those penalties. Administration officials sought to put the action in a positive light. “We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively,” Mark Mazur, assistant Treasury secretary, wrote on his department’s website. “We recognize that the vast majority of businesses that will need to do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so.” The Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010, originally required employers with more than 50 full-time workers to offer them affordable health insurance starting in 2014 or face fines. Some companies with payrolls just above that threshold said they would cut jobs or switch some full-time workers to part-time employment so that they could avoid providing coverage. Under the provisions to set up state-based marketplaces for coverage for uninsured Americans, subsidies are supposed to be available for lower- and middle-income people who qualify and are not insured through their employers. By delaying the mandate for businesses and its reporting requirements, the government may be unable to confirm before 2015 whether employers are offering insurance to their employees, making it difficult for the exchanges to know who is entitled to subsidies to help pay for policies. Enrollment in the exchanges is to begin Oct. 1, with insurance coverage taking effect Jan. 1. “We are on target to open the health-insurance marketplace on Oct. 1, where small businesses and ordinary Americans will be able to go to one place to learn about their coverage options and make side-by-side comparisons of each plan’s price and benefits before they make their decision,” Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s senior adviser and liaison to the business community, wrote on the White House website.

Economic Growth Remains Sluggish in Massachusetts
BOSTON — Even as the Massachusetts economy shows some genuine signs of strength, contractionary federal government fiscal policy is slowing economic growth in Massachusetts, according to a recent report by regional economists for MassBenchmarks. In the coming months, assuming these policies stay in place, a further retarding of economic growth can be expected. At the same time, the state’s labor market continues to be under considerable stress and faces profound challenges that are not fully reflected in the state’s headline unemployment rate. The strengthening of the state housing market is the most prominent sign of strength in the state economy. Residential house prices, sales, and building permits are all on the rise. As a result, employment in the construction sector is increasing, but it remains well below its pre-recession levels. The unemployment rate, despite a recent uptick, remains one percentage point below the national level. Strong state sales-tax collections reflect the willingness of households to spend, especially for new automobiles. But these signs of life are being undermined by federal tax and budget policies that have been implemented since the first of the year. On the tax side, income-tax rates were increased for upper-income households on Jan. 1. In addition, the temporary payroll tax cut, which had been implemented during the recession, was not extended. This has a more widespread impact, with a disproportionate burden being placed on low-income households. Had these tax increases been offset by increased federal investment, their impact would have been modest, but instead the federal government elected to adopt significant spending cuts. Federal budget sequestration, implemented in March, has an obvious impact on the state’s research-intensive enterprises and government contractors. But its impact also extends to Head Start and other educational programs, career centers, job-training services, and Community Development Block Grant funds, all of which have experienced significant cuts in recent months. The impact of these federal policies can be seen in the state’s recent economic performance. According to the MassBenchmarks Current Economic Index, growth in state gross domestic product slowed to a 1% annualized rate of growth in April and May. Employment growth in the state has virtually stalled, and state withholding tax growth reflects this. And growing international competition and the economic challenges facing the state’s major trading partners, including Canada, the European Union, and Asia, appear to be taking their toll on the Commonwealth’s export activity, which declined by 11.1% between April 2012 and April 2013. While labor conditions in Massachusetts appear to be better than those nationally, there are signs of considerable stress in the state labor market. Underemployment (those working part-time but wanting full-time work) has risen during the first five months of the year, and hidden unemployment (those who are out of work, have not looked for a job in the last four weeks, and would take a job if offered) is also on the rise. The plight of younger and less skilled workers is of particular concern, the report notes, as the extent of their disconnection from the labor market is troublingly high, and the longer it lasts, the more difficult it will be to remedy. For these workers, the improvement in headline unemployment is of little consolation, as their prospects for employment are being limited by a recovery that is being undermined by counterproductive federal policy choices.

Construction Industry Adds 13,000 Jobs in June
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In June, the nation’s construction industry unemployment rate fell to 9.8% for the first time since September 2007 with the addition of 13,000 jobs, according the July 5 report by the Department of Labor. Since June 2012, the industry has added 190,000 jobs, a 3.4% increase. Every major category of construction experienced gains in employment for the month. Non-residential building construction employment increased by 700 jobs for the month and has added 16,400 jobs, or 2.5%, during the last 12 months. Residential building construction employment inched up by 100 jobs in June and is up by 13,100 jobs, or 2.3%, compared to the same time last year. Non-residential specialty trade contractors gained 2,100 jobs for the month and have added 47,100 jobs, or 2.3%, during the last 12 months. Residential specialty trade contractors have added 5,100 jobs since May and gained 77,100 jobs, or 5.2%, since June 2012. Heavy and civil-engineering construction employment increased by 5,600 jobs last month, and the sector has added 36,300 jobs, or 4.2%, from one year ago. Across all industries, the nation added 195,000 jobs as the private sector expanded by 202,000 jobs and the public sector shrunk by 7,000 jobs. However, the nation’s unemployment rate was unchanged from the previous month at 7.6% and remains lower than the 8.2% registered in June 2012. “Today’s employment report is positive news for the nation’s construction industry,” said Associated Builders and Contractors Chief Economist Anirban Basu. “While the economy continues to face a number of headwinds, including most recently in the form of higher interest rates, the wealth effect associated with rising equity markets and home prices dominates the recovery. The result has been steady expansion in consumer spending, which is associated with expanding job creation in closely aligned sectors of the economy. For construction contractors, the implication is that the volume of work associated with lodging and shopping-center construction will continue to march higher.” Basu noted that one-third of the construction jobs added last month were added by specialty trade contractors. “There was also evidence of more people falling into part-time work, and the broadest measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and people working part-time for economic reasons, rose to 14.3% in June. Despite this increase, the construction industry’s diminishing unemployment rate shows that societal income tied to wages and salaries continues to expand slowly, which suggests the economy will only grow at a moderate pace. That should be enough to help drive nonresidential construction spending higher, but progress will remain gradual.”

Horace Smith Fund Awards $276,000 to Area Students
SPRINGFIELD — On June 13, The Horace Smith Fund staged its 114th corporators’ meeting and scholarship awards ceremony at Elms College. Samalid Hogan, chair of the board of trustees, announced 24 scholarship and three fellowship recipients this year. “Providing that students maintain at least a B average in college, each scholarship provides a total of $10,000 over four years, and each fellowship provides $12,000 over three years,” she told the audience comprised of the students, parents, trustees, and corporators. “Therefore, The Horace Smith Fund is happy to be able to grant a total award of $276,000 to area students this year.” The Horace Smith Fund was established in 1899 by a successful and generous philanthropist named Horace Smith, according to James Broderick, chair of the scholarship committee. “He and Daniel Wesson were the founders of Smith & Wesson, located in Springfield. Mr. Smith’s will provided that the residual of his estate, after several bequests to relatives and institutions, was to be used for public purposes at the discretion of his executors. They decided that it should be used to help deserving students finance their education.” The scholarships and fellowships are named for Walter F. Barr, a West Springfield businessman, whose widow left the bulk of the family estate to the Horace Smith Fund in 1950. Recipients must be residents of Hampden County. The keynote speaker at the awards ceremony, attorney Michael Gove, was a past recipient of the Walter S. Barr Scholarship and Fellowship.

Court Dockets

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2013

Court Dockets Departments

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
Trustees of the Yorktown Condominium Trust v. US Bank National Assoc. Trustee RASC 2007 EMX1
Allegation: Claim to enforce a condominium lien for non-payment of common charges and for order of foreclosure of lien for non-payment: $5,000
Filed: 6/11/13

GREENFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Edwin C. Gray and Daniel Gray v. Feed Commodities International Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract and breach of implied warranty pertaining to the sale of bird feed resulting in damaged game birds and eggs, lost profits, and physical and emotional harm: $532,511.55
Filed: 5/31/13

Lane Construction Corp. v. Northern Land Clearing Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of materials and services rendered and breach of contract: $59,573.90
Filed: 5/24/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Donna Berry v. NiSource/Columbia Gas of MA
Allegation: Employment discrimination: $25,000+
Filed: 5/17/13

Joan and Robert Blakeslee v. Main Street America Assurance Co.
Allegation: Insurer has failed to pay for losses under insurance policy: $106,000
Filed: 5/29/13

The Dollfus Mieg Co. Inc. v. The JannLynn Corp.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $27,746.67
Filed: 5/17/13

HOLYOKE DISTRICT COURT
Specialized Bicycle Components Inc. v. Competitive Edge Ski & Bike Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract and non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $14,014.43
Filed: 5/6/13

PALMER DISTRICT COURT
City Electric Supply Co. v. Steven Soby, d/b/a Soby Electric
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $17,645.98
Filed: 4/17/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Adelphia Graphic Systems Inc. v. W.S. Sign Design Corp.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $9,939.56
Filed: 5/8/13

Maria Tirado v. SJA Real Estate Investing, LLC
Allegation: Negligent maintenance of property causing injury: $5,774.32
Filed: 6/10/13

Nurses on Demand, LLC v. The Northeast Health Group Inc. d/b/a Chapin Center, Governors Center, Willimansett Center East, and Willimansett Center West
Allegation: Failure to pay for nursing services provided by plaintiff: $24,419.13
Filed: 6/3/13

WESTFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Martin Topor Oil Co. Inc. d/b/a Central Oil v. W & I Construction Inc.
Allegation: Suit on an unsatisfied judgment: $13,660.03
Filed: 6/5/13

Editorial

By BusinessWest Staff July 2, 2013

Opinion

Why Springfield Should Vote ‘Yes’

There are a number of good reasons why Springfield residents should vote ‘yes’ when they go to the polls on July 16 to consider the host community agreement forged by city officials and administrators with MGM Resorts International — the next step in the process of deciding the winner of the license for a Western Mass. casino.
Maybe the most compelling is an argument made by a number of business leaders and economic development officials over the past year or so. The specific words expressed vary, but it usually sounds something like this: ‘if someone wants to spend $800 million in your city — you let them!’ (And while generally, exclamation points are not used in business writing, in this case, we’ll make an exception.)
OK, it’s not as simple as all that, but it’s actually very close. We’ll amend this argument slightly. ‘If someone wants to spend $800 million in your city, and there is no better (and in this case, no other) viable option for stimulating economic development and creating thousands of new jobs — you let them!’
We understand that there are a number of risks involved with casinos in general and urban casinos in particular — they simply haven’t worked in a number of regions of this country — but we believe that these are risks well worth taking.
That’s because in Springfield, a city that has been struggling for the better part of a half century now, there really is no ‘plan B’ when it comes to spurring new jobs, creating energy, and possibly resurrecting a neighborhood — in this case, the beleaguered, tornado-ravaged South End.
The proposed MGM Springfield complex has the potential to do all that. Yes, it also has the potential to come up considerably short with each of those assignments, but we don’t believe that it will. Its somewhat unique inside-out design will make this proposed facility part of a neighborhood, not a casino-in-a-box that sucks the life out of one.
But let’s look at this another way. Instead of focusing on the possible ramifications of a ‘yes’ vote, let’s consider what a ‘no’ vote means. Essentially it means that the Western Mass. casino — and yes, there will be one — will be located somewhere else, and there are at least two other landing spots.
If that happens, Springfield will not get the complications that come with construction of such a facility, or the traffic, or some of the problems that might come with a casino on the edge of its central business district.
But it also won’t get the chance to put itself back on the map, or reshape its South End neighborhood and achieve the revitalization that has eluded that area for nearly 50 years, or see the direct benefits in the form of contributions to nonprofits, investments in facilities and infrastructure, and donations that will boost public safety initiatives.
A ‘no’ vote will also result in a depressing return to the drawing board in search of another method of providing the economic spark needed to reverse this city’s fortunes. There has been little to come off that drawing board since Springfield’s manufacturing base started to erode just after World War II, and there is little to suggest that much else will come off it in the years to come.
MGM’s proposal for Springfield may not win the contest for the Western Mass. casino license. Indeed, the Mass. Gaming Commission may decide that another plan is more alluring and better for the Commonwealth. But this proposal can’t win unless Springfield voters provide the opportunity for it to get to the next level ‘And thus, we strongly urge them to do so.
We can state the case for this casino in a number of ways, but the argument we mentioned earlier does it best: ‘if someone wants to spend $800 million in your city — you let them!’
There’s that exclamation point again, and it is certainly needed.

PictureThis

By BusinessWest Staff July 2, 2013

Departments Picture This

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Buy the Book

Charlie Epstein, an area financial services expert known as “The 401k Coach,” recently presented the proceeds of the sales for his new book, Paychecks for Life, to the Square One Children’s Center in Springfield. Square One, a Springfield-based nonprofit established in 1883, provides early education and care to children and access to other services that their families may need to be successful. Epstein’s gift will enable the nonprofit to fund programs that help the community’s most vulnerable children to get ready for school, become life-long learners who succeed in school, and grow into self-sufficient adults. Top, Epstein, center, presents the ceremonial check for more than $17,000, to Kimberly Lee, vice president advancement with Square One, and William Sullivan, vice president of PeoplesBank and Square One board chair. Below, he spends some time with some of Square One’s young clients.

Commitment Check

Showing its commitment to the new Chicopee Senior Center on Main Street, the Polish National Credit Union (PNCU) presented a check, the second of two $25,000 donations, to support the construction of the new structure. PNCU wrote the first check in 2012. Pictured, from left, are Richard Kos, co-chairman of the senior center fund-raising committee; Marie Laflamme, a member of the capital campaign; James P. Kelly PNCU president and CEO; and Ernest Laflamme, Jr., co-chairman of the senior center fund-raising committee.

Narration Connection

On Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m., area pre-school children have been treated to an ongoing Summer Reading program at Eastfield Mall through a collaboration between the mall and the nonprofit group Link to Libraries. The program provides trained readers to share stories with area children. Each child receives a new book following the story hour. Here, Link to Libraries reader David Porter has his audience riveted.

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff July 2, 2013

Departments Real Estate

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

546 Old Stage Road
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $238,000
Buyer: Kenneth W. Davis
Seller: Todd D. Senecal
Date: 05/31/13

BERNARDSTON

363 Bald Mountain Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Scott M. Stacy
Seller: Keith M. Wilda
Date: 05/30/13

COLRAIN

12 Thibodeau Dr.
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Dean M. Basara
Seller: Ellen M. Clark
Date: 05/31/13

CONWAY

40 Whately Glen Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: John A. Moore
Seller: Dorothy Osterman
Date: 05/30/13

DEERFIELD

34 Lee Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: David V. Tynan
Seller: Walter D. Pajonk
Date: 05/28/13

56 Mathews Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $263,000
Buyer: Matthew E. Janus
Seller: Michelle Olavegoya
Date: 05/31/13

5 Memorial St.
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Robert Hale
Seller: Stephanie Ingrassia
Date: 05/31/13

10 Mountain Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $384,000
Buyer: Kevin A. Wissmann
Date: 05/31/13

20 Mountain Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Deborah J. Picking
Seller: Kevin A. Wissman
Date: 05/31/13

ERVING

6 Moore St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Nicholis F. Lapan
Seller: Marsha J. Browning
Date: 05/20/13

43 Ridge Road
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $213,000
Buyer: Brian E. Frank
Seller: Mathew E. Janus
Date: 05/31/13

27 River St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $155,900
Buyer: Kathleen S. Hepburn
Seller: Nancy L. Stone
Date: 05/31/13

GREENFIELD

5 Arch St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: MW&MW Realty LLC
Seller: 1 Archi Place Inc.
Date: 05/31/13

99 Burnham Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $197,000
Buyer: Kathleen D. Kelleher
Seller: Dency Dokoozian
Date: 05/31/13

159 Chapman St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Jennifer E. Antonellis
Seller: UMass Five College Credit Union
Date: 05/29/13

23 Cooke St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Nancy M. Richard
Seller: Stacy A. Metzger
Date: 05/31/13

19 Eastern Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: Russell A. Kaubris
Seller: Sanford S. Cotton
Date: 05/29/13

34 Glenbrook Dr.
Amount: $317,000
Buyer: Glenbrook Residence LLC
Seller: Michael P. Boudreau
Date: 05/31/13

44 Graves Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Richard T. Haskins
Seller: Jay V. Mauri
Date: 05/23/13

9 Grinnell St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $332,000
Buyer: Mary M. McManus
Seller: Robert Catlin
Date: 05/30/13

14 Locust St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Annette M. Chamberlin
Seller: Michael McGrath
Date: 05/31/13

24 Park Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $188,000
Buyer: Ashley R. Stokes
Seller: Daniel Smith
Date: 05/31/13

15 Prentice Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $147,600
Buyer: Kelly L. Mignault
Seller: Frank W. Domitrz
Date: 05/21/13

122 Sanderson St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $167,500
Buyer: Jennifer L. Schmidt
Seller: Maureen Walsh
Date: 05/24/13

LEYDEN

Eden Trail Branch
Leyden, MA 01301
Amount: $314,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Emery
Seller: Mitchell R. Damon
Date: 05/24/13

MONTAGUE

151 3rd St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $116,000
Buyer: Cottage Industries LLC
Seller: 151 3rd Street LLC
Date: 05/31/13

163 L St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: William J. Doyle
Seller: Stanley W. Lewandowski
Date: 05/30/13

NORTHFIELD

Mill St.
Northfield, MA 01354
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Walter C. Jaworski
Seller: Northfield Mt. Hermon School
Date: 05/21/13

ORANGE

131 West Main St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $1,250,000
Buyer: John Dunphy
Seller: Orange Inv. LLC
Date: 05/31/13

SUNDERLAND

691 Amherst Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: Joseph F. Ranker
Seller: Todd A. Cromack
Date: 05/28/13

200 North Main St.
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $175,900
Buyer: Paul J. Wanczyk
Seller: Alec E. Cybulski
Date: 05/23/13

WENDELL

210 Lockes Village Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: LGW Holdings LLC
Seller: Robert M. Cabral
Date: 05/31/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

59 Alhambra Circle South
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $131,750
Buyer: Deutsche Bank National
Seller: Stephanie A. Kelly
Date: 05/29/13

19 Brookline Ave.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Scott C. Smith
Seller: Greguoli John J., (Estate)
Date: 05/30/13

27 Depalma St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Pamala J. Taylor
Seller: Joseph F. Amaral
Date: 05/31/13

12 Federal St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $154,500
Buyer: Joshua A. Cicia
Seller: Michael Knight
Date: 05/31/13

41 Fernwood Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Anthony Depalma
Seller: Julie Habib
Date: 05/22/13

7 Lango Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Scott A. Valentino
Seller: PBI Inc.
Date: 05/31/13

1664 Main St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Stuart Amusement Co.
Seller: MV Ent. Inc.
Date: 05/28/13

22 Parkview Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $225,500
Buyer: Edward R. Heim
Seller: Poplar Dev. LLC
Date: 05/28/13

48 Reed St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Christopher G. Manekas
Seller: Barbara A. Skiba
Date: 05/30/13

140 Senator Ave.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Brendan A. Halley
Seller: Louis M. Ramah
Date: 05/30/13

1009 Suffield St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: Richard Chavez
Seller: William H. Cullen
Date: 05/31/13

39 Tanglewood Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Michelle R. Balch
Seller: Edward R. Heim
Date: 05/28/13

BLANDFORD

34 Brookman Dr.
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Peter J. Pappas
Seller: Peter J. Maynard
Date: 05/21/13

BRIMFIELD

243 Brookfield Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Frederick C. Byrne
Seller: Dominic F. Mastroianni
Date: 05/30/13

28 Saint George Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Wendy W. Denning
Seller: Susan G. Woods
Date: 05/24/13

CHESTER

520 Skyline Trail
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $186,811
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Douglas B. Arnold
Date: 05/30/13

CHICOPEE

123 1st Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $2,900,000
Buyer: JMDH Real Estate Of Chicopee
Seller: U.S. Postal Service
Date: 05/31/13

77 Bourbeau St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $147,000
Buyer: Kyle P. Kokosa
Seller: Kenneth H. Backlund
Date: 05/30/13

536 Britton St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $231,500
Buyer: LTL LLC
Seller: Aaron W. Butcher
Date: 05/29/13

597 Broadway St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $129,000
Buyer: Matthew M. Balut
Seller: Dube, Simone A., (Estate)
Date: 05/29/13

70 Fernwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Bryan J. Klein
Seller: John R. Ferraro
Date: 05/23/13

30 Hampshire St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Jeremy P. Foster
Seller: Alfred J. Gosselin
Date: 05/31/13

17 Highview Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Jesse L. Lengieza
Seller: Everett J. Sexton
Date: 05/31/13

81 Julia Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: Kevin R. Juchno
Seller: Sandra J. Grenier
Date: 05/31/13

121 Lafayette St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Nichole A. Morneau
Seller: Babineau Joseph C., (Estate)
Date: 05/30/13

73 McDonald Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: Robert R. Pluta
Seller: Roland G. Provost
Date: 05/21/13

145 Mckinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $204,000
Buyer: Vadim Ruge
Seller: James E. Burns
Date: 05/24/13

463 Memorial Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $3,450,000
Buyer: Mittas Inn LLC
Seller: TPSN LLC
Date: 05/20/13

505 Memorial Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Jayanth Pasupuleti
Seller: Columbus Ave. Realty LLC
Date: 05/22/13

63 Murphy Lane
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $184,000
Buyer: James P. Laclair
Seller: Jay T. Dirico
Date: 05/24/13

69 Olko Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $216,000
Buyer: Caroline A. Tatro
Seller: RLDR LLC
Date: 05/31/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

11 Converse Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Jeffrey D. Dalessio
Seller: David K. Marshall
Date: 05/22/13

112 Dearborn St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $199,900
Buyer: Wayne L. Cox
Seller: D. A. Williams
Date: 05/30/13

32 Greenacre Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $199,500
Buyer: Elizabeth A. Estabrook
Seller: Phyllis M. Rathbun
Date: 05/30/13

227 Kibbe Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Moltenbrey Builders LLC
Seller: Laplante Construction Inc
Date: 05/31/13

20 Lynwood Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $129,500
Buyer: Andre Sample
Seller: Randy W. Sample
Date: 05/24/13

27 Marci Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $418,000
Buyer: Charles H. Gray
Seller: Daniel P. Prestegaard
Date: 05/28/13

Orchard Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Jane K. Furnas
Seller: J. Chapdelaine & Sons Inc.
Date: 05/30/13

226 Parker St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Anthony P. Potito
Seller: Louis G. Lapointe
Date: 05/24/13

25 Savoy Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Kathleen E. Kalmbach
Seller: Timber Dev. LLC
Date: 05/31/13

214 Shaker Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $182,500
Buyer: Garrett E. Goguen
Seller: Ernest Moller
Date: 05/24/13

100 Tanglewood Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $316,000
Buyer: Luis M. Martinez
Seller: William R. Dennis
Date: 05/29/13

25 Thompson St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Anthony Sarno
Seller: Edward M. Bellerose
Date: 05/28/13

18 Yorkshire Place
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $275,900
Buyer: Daniel J. Brookes
Seller: Rhonda Y. Coughlin
Date: 05/30/13

GRANVILLE

462 Main Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Apryl Adelman
Seller: Peter Strniste
Date: 05/24/13

462 Main Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $201,000
Buyer: Barbara Greene
Seller: Peter Strniste
Date: 05/30/13

241 North Lane
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Colin D. Neylon
Seller: Gary C. McLaughlin
Date: 05/31/13

HAMPDEN

52 Echo Valley Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Christine A. Yacovone
Seller: Ann M. Joyce
Date: 05/24/13

246 South Monson Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Buyer: Katelyn R. Marcelina
Seller: Hugh K. Martin
Date: 05/31/13

86 Thresher Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $364,000
Buyer: Gregory J. Clewes
Seller: Robert A. Chaffee
Date: 05/31/13

134 Thresher Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $239,000
Buyer: Jason T. Broom
Seller: Joseph M. Hickson
Date: 05/22/13

HOLLAND

9 Island Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Robert W. Hellinger
Seller: James A. Faust
Date: 05/31/13

10 Julia Ann Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Christian D. Lund
Seller: David N. Goodman
Date: 05/21/13

93 Leno Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: Christopher C. Smith
Seller: Virginia M. Hemingway
Date: 05/30/13

38 Marcey Place
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: James M. MacDonald
Seller: Durgin, Robert R., (Estate)
Date: 05/29/13

HOLYOKE

37 Anderson Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: John A. Ramondetta
Seller: Moynihan William E., (Estate)
Date: 05/31/13

41 Cabot St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Luis R. Cotto
Seller: Rafael Alvarado
Date: 05/22/13

105 Dartmouth St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Patrick W. Lunney
Seller: Paul J. Paoli
Date: 05/29/13

455 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $202,000
Buyer: Shivani Patel
Seller: Jaclyn M. Caceci
Date: 05/24/13

1103 Main St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Felix A. Santiago
Seller: Marcelino Alicea
Date: 05/31/13

48 Meadowview Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $209,000
Buyer: Katie A. Gallagher
Seller: Robert K. Laroche
Date: 05/30/13

53 Mueller Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Zachary R. Vozella
Seller: Cha Kat Realty LLC
Date: 05/30/13

20 Pearson Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: Kerry A. O’Connell
Seller: James D. Hall
Date: 05/23/13

93 Pine St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Templo Pentecostal Inc.
Seller: Asamblea DeIglesias Cristo
Date: 05/30/13

LONGMEADOW

85 Academy Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $309,000
Buyer: John J. Tranghese
Seller: Helen M. Weiner
Date: 05/22/13

56 Bliss Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $230,900
Buyer: Michele M. Callaghan
Seller: Deborah A. Dalton
Date: 05/31/13

143 Brookwood Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Huimin Chen
Seller: John Tranghese
Date: 05/22/13

121 Captain Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $431,000
Buyer: Sean M. Marien
Seller: Elizabeth C. Lovett
Date: 05/30/13

19 Ellington St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Spencer T. Martin
Seller: Suzanne K. Barron
Date: 05/20/13

101 Ely Way
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $690,000
Buyer: Eric M. Polep
Seller: Larry N. Port
Date: 05/24/13

122 Kenmore Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Christopher A. Davis
Seller: Daniel P. Murphy
Date: 05/31/13

174 Meadowlark Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Edward R. Gaudreau
Seller: Theresa A. Gallagher
Date: 05/31/13

46 Plymouth Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Lisa B. Goldberg
Seller: Glenn Keedy
Date: 05/31/13

34 Roseland Ter.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Craig Belgard
Seller: Stanley J. Pisarski
Date: 05/31/13

128 Williams St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Verity A. Goldberg
Seller: Jason T. Whitfield
Date: 05/31/13

568 Williams St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $208,000
Buyer: Christopher A. Casale
Seller: Jerome H. Radding
Date: 05/20/13

LUDLOW

199 Cady St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Gerald E. Dubour
Seller: Melody M. Taylor
Date: 05/31/13

Focosi Ln
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $308,000
Buyer: Kenneth E. Jackson
Seller: Misha Dev. LLC
Date: 05/24/13

52 Hunter Road
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Jose A. Sanches
Seller: Arminda Fernandes
Date: 05/24/13

266 Miller St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $116,750
Buyer: Chi Lysak
Seller: Vantium Reo Capital Mark
Date: 05/21/13

Parker Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $129,900
Buyer: Hemlock Ridge LLC
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 05/31/13

124 Posner Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $189,500
Buyer: Jennifer L. Calkins
Seller: Michael E. Labier
Date: 05/24/13

16 Roy St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Adam G. Vehr
Seller: Manuel R. Marques
Date: 05/28/13

MONSON

29 Circle Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Kevin P. Somers
Seller: Margaret A. Royce
Date: 05/30/13

141 East Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Sheila M. Rivest
Seller: Paul A. Lapenas
Date: 05/24/13

251 Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Mark P. Wurszt
Seller: Kevin J. Biermann
Date: 05/31/13

PALMER

91 South High St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Paulo J. Palatino
Seller: Edward A. Kareta
Date: 05/31/13

SPRINGFIELD

394 Abbott St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Patricia A. Michaelian
Seller: Martyn L. Gallagher
Date: 05/24/13

129 Acrebrook Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Kenneth Norris
Seller: PCL Construction Inc.
Date: 05/24/13

217 Arnold Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $137,000
Buyer: Eunice Jones
Seller: William M. Zoll
Date: 05/23/13

101 Avery St. #135
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $229,900
Buyer: Keena S. Clarke-Guillaume
Seller: Elaine C. Graham
Date: 05/30/13

14 Benz St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $138,856
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Christina H. Houghton
Date: 05/31/13

1245 Bradley Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $121,000
Buyer: Daniel J. Molta
Seller: HSBC Mortgage Services Inc.
Date: 05/30/13

148 Breckwood Circle
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Opus Durum LLC
Seller: Kenneth L. Fitzgibbon
Date: 05/31/13

65 Brewster St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $160,900
Buyer: Allen M. Beverly
Seller: Timothy Ruth
Date: 05/24/13

15 Candice Circle
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Ashley A. Chenier
Seller: Dupont, Helen T., (Estate)
Date: 05/31/13

57 Dayton St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Sandra J. Parker
Seller: Shirley Nichols
Date: 05/31/13

523 Dickinson St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Lisa L. Torres
Seller: Maria H. Hamilakis
Date: 05/24/13

154 Ellsworth Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $148,674
Buyer: Midfirst Bank
Seller: Midfirst Bank
Date: 05/20/13

75 Fairway Dr.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $144,850
Buyer: Brett A. Gelinas
Seller: Seldin FT
Date: 05/31/12

46 Fullerton St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $128,900
Buyer: Edwin Vega
Seller: Danica Lariviere
Date: 05/24/13

78 Garfield St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $138,800
Buyer: Norman F. Bliss
Seller: Melro Assocs. Inc.
Date: 05/24/13

256 Greenaway Dr.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Jessica Medina
Seller: Matthew M. Bailey
Date: 05/31/13

93 Gresham St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $152,950
Buyer: Bayview Loan Servicing
Seller: Felix Feliciano
Date: 05/30/13

130 Hartwick St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Maria Dangelantonio
Seller: Sherry L. Pio
Date: 05/29/13

15 King St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Aaron L. Dunn
Seller: Profit Sharing Plan TR
Date: 05/20/13

950 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01103
Amount: $1,042,236
Buyer: ARC CBSFD MA 1 LLC
Seller: Inland Amer CFG Portfolio
Date: 05/20/13

27 Mountainview St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $129,500
Buyer: Shawn A. Rairigh
Seller: Phoebe A. Siter
Date: 05/31/13

33 Ontario St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $139,000
Buyer: Tracey A. Facchini
Seller: Hugh M. Smith
Date: 05/23/13

125 Paridon St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Camelback LLC
Seller: Camelback LLC
Date: 05/21/13

19 Rhinebeck Ave.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Dianne M. Kepner
Seller: Raymond J. Martin
Date: 05/20/13

75 South Branch Pkwy.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Alyssa S. Dunn
Seller: Adam Garand
Date: 05/29/13

41 Silver St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Wilberto M. Saez
Seller: Bernard R. Butler
Date: 05/30/13

Sunnybrook Road
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Frank R. Marvici
Seller: TJM Properties LLC
Date: 05/28/13

200 Tapley St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $1,060,000
Buyer: Pazmino Realty LLC
Seller: Polman Realty LLC
Date: 05/23/13

69 Teakwood Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $146,500
Buyer: Lauren E. Pauze
Seller: Sandra L. Liquori
Date: 05/29/13

20 Treetop Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Hee W. Yi
Seller: Anthony C. Racco
Date: 05/20/13

712 White St.
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Charles Croney
Seller: Elaine C. Graham
Date: 05/29/13

SOUTHWICK

196 Berkshire Ave.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Ralph H. Ramsdell
Seller: Girard Homes Inc.
Date: 05/30/13

111 Granville Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Peter A. Bennett
Seller: David J. Henry
Date: 05/23/13

10 Maple St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $137,500
Buyer: Joey Jacob
Seller: Jeffrey M. Comee
Date: 05/31/13

4 Sugar Maple Lane
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Holly E. Amanti
Seller: Pinnacle Estates At The Ranch
Date: 05/23/13

WALES

9 Main St.
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $234,000
Buyer: Christopher R. Ryan
Seller: Mary J. McGlynn
Date: 05/21/13

WESTFIELD

3 Bates Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Kenneth Dagenais
Seller: Shawn A. Amell
Date: 05/31/13

5 Butternut Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Jason Desormier
Seller: David H. Darling
Date: 05/24/13

50 Canal Dr.
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Sheila Sponberg
Seller: Pamela Norris
Date: 05/31/13

12 City View Blvd.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $163,000
Buyer: Robert L. Blanch
Seller: Linda M. Vela
Date: 05/31/13

26 Cross St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Cynthia F. Bullard
Seller: Thomas S. Turner
Date: 05/30/13

15 Deepwoods Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: City Of Westfield
Seller: John E. Harris
Date: 05/20/13

78 Granville Road #40
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $400,179
Buyer: William E. Freeman
Seller: Granville Road LLC
Date: 05/24/13

187 Granville Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Alexander D. Fagnand
Seller: Ronald F. Pac
Date: 05/30/13

316 Granville Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $224,900
Buyer: Brian L. Osowski
Seller: William M. Brady
Date: 05/29/13

68 Hagan Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $151,358
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Tina M. Lamore
Date: 05/30/13

7 Jeanne Marie Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $585,000
Buyer: Annie L. Potts
Seller: Jeanne M. Beltrandi
Date: 05/24/13

72 Larchly Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Laura L. Christiansen
Seller: Pressey, Jacqueline J., (Estate)
Date: 05/29/13

77 Moseley Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Craig A. McRobbie
Seller: John J. Wiley
Date: 05/28/13

36 Sunbriar Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $269,900
Buyer: Shawn A. Amell
Seller: Nicholas D. Cremonti
Date: 05/31/13

46 Zephyr Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Richard Leclair
Seller: Barnes Herbert S., (Estate)
Date: 05/31/13

WILBRAHAM

90 Chilson Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Cheryl C. Clapprood
Seller: Deborah A. Nacewicz
Date: 05/31/13

1155 Glendale Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Michael V. Tirabassi
Seller: Robert E. Egerton
Date: 05/31/13

51 Monson Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Mapleshade PT
Seller: David J. Ziter
Date: 05/21/13

212 Springfield St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $772,000
Buyer: Mary B. Valentine
Seller: John E. Stambaugh
Date: 05/24/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

57 Beech Hill Road
West Springfield, MA 01030
Amount: $327,165
Buyer: Joseph J. Damour
Seller: Beech Hill Construction Inc.
Date: 05/28/13

93 Bretton Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Kyle G. Morin
Seller: Joan E. Daley
Date: 05/28/13

60 Druids Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Elizabeth A. Marshall
Seller: Laurie L. Lefebvre
Date: 05/24/13

92 East Gooseberry Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Kody A. Archambault
Seller: Vincent S. Marceno
Date: 05/21/13

76 Greystone Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: Erin E. Lyncosky
Seller: Patricia D. Williford
Date: 05/31/13

51 Lantern Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Brian S. Brady
Seller: Todd A. Thibodeau
Date: 05/30/13

208 Sibley Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $209,000
Buyer: Vincent Depergola
Seller: Aaron Corley
Date: 05/31/13

646 Westfield St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Angelica Props. LLC
Seller: Drew A. Demay

8 William St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $143,000
Buyer: Francis M. Lewis
Seller: Andrey Parchinskiy
Date: 05/31/13

40 Woodbrook Terrace
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Mark M. Salamon
Seller: Peoples United Bank
Date: 05/31/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

72 Concord Way
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $785,000
Buyer: Ambreen Bawa
Seller: Bercume Construction LLC
Date: 05/31/13

346 Lincoln Ave.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $515,000
Buyer: Killian R. O’Connell
Seller: David J. Charron
Date: 05/28/13

580 Market Hill Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Jeffery M. Cook
Seller: Oliver T. Miller
Date: 05/29/13

53 Meadow St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $358,000
Buyer: Killian R. O’Connell
Seller: George R. Scialoia
Date: 05/29/13

63 Red Gate Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Kurt C. Wise
Seller: Irene Nystorm
Date: 05/28/13

820 South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $424,900
Buyer: Lisa Whitmore PT
Seller: Homeworks Construction Co. Inc
Date: 05/30/13

1204 South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Kathleen J. Hartford
Seller: Shumway, Wilbur O., (Estate)
Date: 05/20/13

1459 South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Erik C. Wight
Seller: Paul E. White
Date: 05/24/13

360 South Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $764,000
Buyer: William C. Taubman
Seller: Roy I. Hare
Date: 05/24/13

228 Shays St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $570,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Anderson
Seller: Michael MacDonald
Date: 05/23/13

45 Spaulding St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $363,000
Buyer: Dori E. Ehrlich
Seller: Rebecca D. Guay-Mitchell
Date: 05/24/13

366 Station Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $820,000
Buyer: Ernest D. May
Seller: John E. Quinn
Date: 05/31/13

BELCHERTOWN

99 Aldrich St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Steven J. Glenn
Seller: William H. Fitzpatrick
Date: 05/29/13

5 Forest Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Jeffrey Wesnofske
Seller: Nancy Hooper
Date: 05/21/13

88 Howard St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Todd Hubbard
Seller: Walter Pacheco
Date: 05/24/13

252 North Liberty St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $208,000
Buyer: Nathan R. Morgan
Seller: Joanne M. Leal
Date: 05/31/13

68 Oakridge Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Adam R. Lafleur
Seller: Donald M. Hebert
Date: 05/29/13

152 Old Bay Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Joshua T. Snyder
Seller: James A. Hoag
Date: 05/24/13

61 Old Sawmill Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $382,000
Buyer: Joshua W. Mandeville
Seller: Peter A. Monson
Date: 05/24/13

42 Rockrimmon St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $126,500
Buyer: Cory A. Dupont
Seller: Sharona M. Gazda
Date: 05/31/13

226 State St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $169,500
Buyer: Dallas R. Branch
Seller: Bettie H. Croft
Date: 05/21/13

206 Stebbins St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Daniel B. Desrochers
Seller: Matthew R. Tolpa
Date: 05/23/13

155 Warner St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: David R. Benedetti
Seller: Stanley G. Beretsky
Date: 05/31/13

EASTHAMPTON

56 Bryan Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: Shannon M. Dunham
Seller: Peter T. Curtis
Date: 05/28/13

64 Clark St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Christopher N. Norczak
Seller: Mary E. Rust
Date: 05/31/13

19 Concord Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $259,000
Buyer: Daniel W. Nelson
Seller: Barbara M. Macon
Date: 05/30/13

211 East St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $217,000
Buyer: Julie I. Schwager
Seller: James J. Fitzgibbon
Date: 05/31/13

9 Gross Lane
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Westley Desotle
Seller: Paul B. Coombs
Date: 05/30/13

11 Lawson Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Bennett K. Bishop
Seller: Kevin J. Evelti
Date: 05/30/13

305 Loudville Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $228,486
Buyer: Green Tree Servicing LLC
Seller: Simela Paltoglou
Date: 05/23/13

5 Mckinley Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $277,000
Buyer: Cristina Suarez
Seller: David C. Hill
Date: 05/21/13

6 South St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Triggs Terrace LP
Seller: Sherry, Arthur B., (Estate)
Date: 05/28/13

GRANBY

286 Batchelor St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Benjamin W. Novello
Seller: Bradley C. Lowe
Date: 05/29/13

10 Philip Circle
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Frank P. Boron
Seller: Deborah J. Roy
Date: 05/30/13

HADLEY

20 Grand Oak Farm Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Araksya McInerney
Seller: Lisa A. Cerchia
Date: 05/24/13

124 Rocky Hill Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $369,900
Buyer: Valley Building Co. Inc
Seller: Onesta Properties LLC
Date: 05/31/13

HATFIELD

11 Dwight St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $259,000
Buyer: Roy R. Coulter
Seller: Caroline A. Tatro
Date: 05/31/13

115 Elm St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: John H. Zieminski
Seller: K. Carlson FT
Date: 05/31/13

11 Valley St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $253,000
Buyer: Robert F. Hennessy
Seller: John A. Dodson
Date: 05/31/13

HUNTINGTON

2 Pine St.
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: Morizio Brother Mgmt. LLC
Seller: Carolyn M. Fuller
Date: 05/31/13

110 Rocky Point Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $262,500
Buyer: Ronald J. Silwa
Seller: Ronald J. Sliwa
Date: 05/24/13

1 Stage Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Greg L. Valley
Seller: USA HUD
Date: 05/24/13

NORTHAMPTON

377 Coles Meadow Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Chuong Q. Dinh
Seller: Krisen Day
Date: 05/22/13

557 Easthampton Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Smith Child Care Center
Seller: PUG Realty LLC
Date: 05/30/13

53 Fox Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $429,000
Buyer: Patrick D. Rondeau
Seller: Donald W. Abel
Date: 05/28/13

8 Glendale Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $225,500
Buyer: Christine Toomasi
Seller: Roger W. Salloom
Date: 05/31/13

61 Gothic St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $429,000
Buyer: Grerald A. Boucher
Seller: Nancy E. Murphy
Date: 05/31/13

87 Henry St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $319,000
Buyer: William J. Ewall
Seller: Oona Kingston
Date: 05/29/13

242 Jackson St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $192,000
Buyer: Jennifer Katz-Brandoli
Seller: Justin L. Gianesin
Date: 05/24/13

121 Lake St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Gretchen D. Werle
Seller: Christina M. Hammel

91 Moser St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $369,135
Buyer: Armagan Gezici
Seller: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction Inc.
Date: 05/29/13

112 Moser St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $444,363
Buyer: Robert S. Harris
Seller: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction Inc.
Date: 05/20/13

46 North Maple St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $326,000
Buyer: Stephen T. Preer
Seller: Patrick D. Rondeau
Date: 05/28/13

24 Nutting Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $368,900
Buyer: Casie A. Smith
Seller: Rosemund LLC
Date: 05/22/13

18 Olive St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Thomas T. Gu
Seller: John Dunphy
Date: 05/30/13

247 Park Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $431,500
Buyer: William M. Bither
Seller: Robert S. Harris
Date: 05/20/13

676 Park Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Maya Maclachlan
Seller: Alexandra Mason
Date: 05/22/13

48 River Road
Northampton, MA 01039
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Catherine A. Dollard
Seller: John M. Barrett
Date: 05/23/13

793 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $128,979
Buyer: Household Finance Corp.
Seller: Michael J. Samolewicz
Date: 05/20/13

971 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $192,900
Buyer: Harriet K. Smith
Seller: Cynthia Custeau
Date: 05/22/13

19 Stonewall Dr.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $267,625
Buyer: Susan Kan
Seller: Mary E. Parker
Date: 05/29/13

17 Summer St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $325,500
Buyer: Esther S. White
Seller: Hazen, Nancy G., (Estate)
Date: 05/23/13

910 Westhampton Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $172,500
Buyer: Jeremy J. Morini
Seller: Barbara M. Smart
Date: 05/23/13

52 Willow St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Brett I. Constantine
Seller: Joshua Silver
Date: 05/31/13

PELHAM

43 Gulf Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Jennifer Culbreth
Seller: Michael Hannahan
Date: 05/31/13

64 Harkness Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Scott L. Barton
Seller: Niel R. Carlson
Date: 05/30/13

54 Meetinghouse Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $388,000
Buyer: Oilver T. Miller
Seller: James C. West
Date: 05/29/13

SOUTH HADLEY

11 Amherst Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $455,000
Buyer: Christopher Cloutier
Seller: Michael H. Marten
Date: 05/20/13

9 Brockway Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Adam R. Methot
Seller: Robert A. Carrier
Date: 05/24/13

113 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Buyer: Mattew O. Harrington
Seller: Martha Dunn
Date: 05/30/13

590 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $166,500
Buyer: Brian R. Demers
Seller: Vincent S. Turgeon
Date: 05/24/13

7 Grandview St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: Brian D. Hamel
Seller: Steven J. Glenn
Date: 05/29/13

136 Lyman St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: Warren J. Blumenfeld
Seller: Aaro Stone
Date: 05/24/13

31 Maple St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Thomas Fregeau
Seller: Ryan Grandmont
Date: 05/24/13

52 Michael Dr.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Theresa A. Gallagher
Seller: Short4u RT
Date: 05/31/13

7 Ralph Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $253,137
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Deborah C. Frady
Date: 05/23/13

146 South Main St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Brian K. Charette
Seller: Charette, Irene M., (Estate)
Date: 05/28/13

189 Woodbridge St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Annalese B. Nohelty
Seller: Laurie Mckinnon-Huebner
Date: 05/31/13

SOUTHAMPTON

11 Eastwood Dr.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Suetying Chui
Seller: Theodore F. Pionkos
Date: 05/31/13

1 Glendale Woods Dr.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Thomas M. Flynn
Seller: Karen D. Terenzini
Date: 05/23/13

12 Helen Dr.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Malinda Bresnahan
Seller: Wendy McGannon
Date: 05/30/13

37 Maple St.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: John L. Meunier
Seller: Thomas W. Granelli
Date: 05/28/13

76 Moose Brook Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Nancy A. Ruscio
Seller: Timothy J. Seney
Date: 05/30/13

WARE

9 Dunham Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: New York Community Bank
Seller: Charlene M. Kopec
Date: 05/20/13

26 Pine St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Lisa M. Anair
Seller: Teresa S. Mazik
Date: 05/31/13

7 Sczygiel Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Jesse W. Carter
Seller: Jonathan A. Goff

10 Woodland Hts.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Matthew C. Wood
Seller: Michael L. Wentworth
Date: 05/30/13

WESTHAMPTON

253 Northwest Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Bryan Sansouci
Seller: Mark Robinson
Date: 05/30/12

47 South Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $264,900
Buyer: Christopher W. Norris
Seller: Charles Bobala
Date: 05/21/13

WILLIAMSBURG

67 Ashfield Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Colby W. Canon
Seller: M. J. Fredette
Date: 05/31/13

89 Main St.
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: David Zimicki
Seller: Bryan T. Lashway
Date: 05/29/13

178 Old Post Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Sarah R. Freund
Seller: Andrew C. MacLachlan
Date: 05/22/13

WORTHINGTON

98 Ridge Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Maria P. Beere
Seller: Eileen V. O’Connor
Date: 05/29/13

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff July 2, 2013

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of and June 2013.

AGAWAM

AHP Plumbing
533 South West St.
Kenneth Perry

KMJ Videography
49 Morningside Circle
Frank Disco

Valley Painting
77 Autumn St.
Ken Zeltner

Wicked in Pink Run
53 Fairview St.
Robert Alves

AMHERST

Amherst Coffee
28 Amity St.
Mukunda Feldman

Custom Events
330 Pine St.
Karen Berrio

Dunn, Etal
989 South East St.
David Dunn

Homespun Event Design
71 North Pleasant St.
Amanda Robertson

CHICOPEE

BMG Home Services, LLC
149 Beauchamp Ter.
Marek Gusciora

Jerards Home Improvement and Commercial Services
16 Dale St.
Jorge Raul Rivera

Olus Painting
269 Chicopee St.
Elmira Usmonova

Profiles Hair and Nails
12 Sheridan St.
Lisa Ann Lefebvre

Signature Hair
1189 Memorial Dr.
Hang Bui

The Hair Force
358 Britton St.
Pamela Doyle

HADLEY

Horton Tank Graphics
47 East St.
Arthur Larson

Sobasko Cordwood & Logging
28 Lawrence Plain Road
Anthony Sobasko

The Work Horse Group Inc.
43 West St.
Susan R. Woods

Valley Dentists
138 Russell St.
Connecticut River Valley Dentist

HOLYOKE

C-Mart
1500 Northampton St.
Syed R. Mobeen

Hidden Hollow Floral Designs
244 Rock Valley Road
Marcia Cassidy

Kennedy Fried Chicken
333 High St.
Yasser Hussain

La Copa Inc.
447 Main St.
Aida DeJesus

Providence Behavioral Health Hospital
1233 Main St.
Daniel P. Moen

NORTHAMPTON

Beets and Barley Catering
184 North St.
Leslie L. Lucio

CD Laborers
80 Damon Road
Christopher Ducey

Minute Clinic Diagnostic of MA
366 King St.
Kimberly DeSousa

Northampton Country Club
135 Main St.
James Casagrande

Uptown Paws
123 Hawley St.
Robin Mulligan

PALMER

Eddy’s
21 Wilbraham St.
Ed Francis

Fusions Mods
18 Barker St.
Todd Nulph

TLD Assets
1118 Park St.
Darnel Ali

Wedgewood Motel
1430 Park St.
Stanley R. Lamb

SPRINGFIELD

Lindsay Entertainment
45 Crabtree St.
Maurice Lindsay

Mara’s Hands of Light
11 Eton St.
Mara M. Veronesi

Network Technology Academy
1655 Main St.
Ronald L. Cook

New Divas
1153 Main St.
Ramon DeJesus

Nunez Tax Services
196 Dickinson St.
Sonia N. Torres

Panda House
1673 Main St.
Yong H. Chen

Perez Family Restaurant
57 Taylor St.
Jorge Perez Jr.

Recovery Express
119 Wilbraham Ave.
Calvin V. Wilson

Richard Electric
71 Mayfair Ave.
Richard Lantigua

Rico Peru Latin Flava
176 ½ Main St.
Juliano J. Callirgos

Signature Turf Services
75 Woodlawn St.
David C. McAlary

Six Corner Barber Shop
296 Hancock St.
John Miller

South End Package Store
32 Fort Pleasant Ave.
Faiza Atif

Spring Valley Mart
612 Carew St.
Masood Ghani

Sudsy Bubbles Inc.
555 State St.
Kelly M. Healey

The E-Store
98 William Road
Kencin Junior

The Paintball King, LLC
1655 Boston Road
Baldomero Martinez

UR Discount Tobacco
1207 Parker St.
Fazal U. Rehman

VIP Cuts
445 Main St.
Andres Ortiz

William Home Improvement
71 Greene St.
William Aponte

Woman of Confidence Coach
20 Orlando St.
Dawn Leaks

XXX Security & Protection
446 Franklin St.
Damaris Rodriguez

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Delta Affordable Construction
33 Birnie Ave.
Vladimir Gargun

Eci Biotech Recruiters
569 Elm St.
William Beattie

Exportacion/Importacion
33 Allen St.
Armando Ramirez

Healing Temple Outreach
9 Willow Ave.
Barbara A. Washington

Ladder 8
139 South Blvd.
Alanna Burwell

Minute Clinic Diagnostic
928 Riverdale St.
Kimberly DeSousa

Northern Granite, LLC
380 Union St.
Vyacheslav Katko

Toomey-O’Brien Funeral Home
1043 Westfield St.
Francis X. O’Brien

Wedding Inspirations
31 Field St.
Jessica M. Dziewit

West Side Tire & Auto Services
930 Memorial Ave.
Holyoke Tire & Auto

Briefcase

By BusinessWest Staff July 2, 2013

Briefcase Departments

Eastman Chemical to Convert Indian Orchard Site to Natural Gas
SPRINGFIELD — Eastman Chemical Company intends to convert the coal-fired boiler at its Indian Orchard site, which it acquired as part of its acquisition of Solutia in 2012, to natural gas combustion by January 2016. (Solutia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman.) “Several factors have led to this announcement,” said David Lahr, plant manager for the Indian Orchard site, “including compliance with new regulatiory requirements, Eastman’s commitment to protecting local air quality, as well as the abundance of domestic natural gas at prices increasingly competitive with coal.” The Indian orchard site currently operates three boilers — two natural gas units and a coal fired unit. The conversion to natural gas will allow the Indian Orchard site to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent industrial boiler regulations, said Lahr. Several years before EPA finalized these regulations, Solutia discussed with the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection that the site was strongly considering a switch to natural gas combustion to meet its steam and electricity needs in order to comply with these regulations once they became final. Currently, the deadline by which Eastman must comply with these boiler regulations is Jan. 31, 2016.

STCC, WNE Sign Articulation Agreement for Online Business Program
SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) and Western New England University (WNE) recently signed an articulation agreement to provide a coordinated online business degree completion program. The two colleges have been working together informally over the past few years to provide this opportunity to STCC and WNE students. However, the formal signing of this articulation agreement creates an opportunity for STCC students to transfer to Western New England University as a junior, but also allows these students to take classes online — providing them with more flexibility in how they earn their bachelor’s degree. STCC Dean of the School of Business and Information Technologies Leona Ittleman said she credits both STCC and WNE faculty for the work they have done to make this agreement between the campuses a reality. “Many of our best and brightest students transfer to Western New England University and receive the benefits of both colleges’ experience and dedication to student learning,” said Ittleman. “And having an online program is not only convenient for our students, but it also provides them with unlimited access to the resources of both campuses.”

Mass. BHE OKs Policy Change on Dorms at Community Colleges
BEDFORD — The Mass. Board of Higher Education (BHE) recently approved a policy change to allow consideration of campus proposals to build residence halls at any of the state’s 15 community colleges. The measure was approved on a unanimous vote at the Board’s last scheduled meeting of the year. BHE policy in effect since 1980 precluded consideration of residence halls at community colleges. The vote to change the policy establishes Massachusetts as the 40th state to permit the construction of student housing on community college campuses. Nationwide, 22% of community colleges offer student housing, mostly at medium-sized institutions located in rural areas. The concept is neither new nor novel; other states have more than 20 years’ experience in offering and managing student housing at two-year institutions. The overall percentage of community college students housed in residence halls, however, remains relatively small. “I want to stress that this is not a decision to initiate a program of student housing construction at community colleges,” said Richard M. Freeland, Commissioner of Higher Education. “Rather, this is a vote to be prepared to consider proposals in cases where they may enhance the educational experience of our students.” The department’s research indicates that residential life at community colleges has a positive impact on academic outcomes such as graduation rates. Students who live on campus are more fully integrated into college life, resulting in overall higher levels of academic achievement. A similar, positive association between dorms and academic achievement has long been substantiated at four-year colleges and universities. “Among all community colleges across the nation, we see a statistically significant association between the existence of student housing and increased graduation rates,” said Carlos Santiago, senior deputy commissioner for Academic Affairs at the Department of Higher Education. To date, only one Massachusetts community college has expressed public interest in a student housing proposal. Mount Wachusett Community College, located in Gardner, has indicated that it would investigate the feasibility of establishing a residential life program and facility.

Company Notebook

By BusinessWest Staff July 2, 2013

Company Notebook Departments

VizConnect Opens Headquarters in Springfield
SPRINGFIELD — Mobile marketing technology and communications firm VizConnect Inc. recently announced the opening of its headquarters in Springfield, and the official launch of its North American operations. Recently named one of the five top technology start-ups to watch by the Boston Business Journal (June 4, 2013), VizConnect was founded in 2011 by a team of partners, including 20-year media veteran and Associated Press and Emmy award winning on-air personality Edward Carroll. VizConnect is a video-management service that will allow businesses of all sizes to easily incorporate high-definition video into print advertising and their existing social media. Businesses of all size can use VizConnect’s platform to easily leverage the power of video and a call-to-action screen to market their products and services while also interacting and engaging their target customers. “We’re thrilled to call Springfield our home,” said Carroll of the decision to keep the business in Western Mass. “We could have launched this effort from Cambridge or even Los Angeles, but it’s important to us to be part of building this community that has been so instrumental in our development.” The team of founding partners includes Paul Cooleen, president of VizConnect, a former bond trader with deep ties to Wall Street; Jim Henderson, chief information officer, chief counsel and Boston-based attorney; and Brian Dee, director of Business Development. With subscribers located around the country, VizConnect currently serves a diverse group of businesses in a wide variety of industries, including real estate, restaurants, automobile sales, sports franchises and general contracting vendors. VizConnect also counts several non-profit organizations as customers. VizConnect’s online tools are sold through a network marketing structure, further offering immense opportunities to business people interested in building their own companies. The company offers its distributors — independent business associates — an opportunity to sell and distribute this web-based program as the foundation for their own independent businesses.

Big Y Debuts Solar Array
SPRINGFIELD — Big Y Foods Inc. recently announced the completion of its new solar array at 151 Cottage St. at its Store Support Center in Springfield. This new array spreads across three acres and includes 2,178 solar panels with a 643kw DC array. Annual electrical production yield is expected to be 750,000 kilowatt hours, which will offset the company’s electrical consumption by 15% or 1 ½ months at Big Y’s corporate offices and distribution center. Real Goods Solar Energy, Western Mass Electric Company, and local contractors such as Cotton Tree Service and L&D Construction, installed the panels over the past five months. Employees and visitors can view the array’s electrical generation via a monitor in the company’s café. It is Big Y’s third solar installation in Massachusetts; at the Big Y World Class Markets in Lee and Franklin, rooftop solar arrays have been helping to offset electrical consumption since June 2012. An opening event was staged June 27 at Big Y’s headquarters, at which state and local representatives helped inaugurate the new panels. State Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Richard Sullivan, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, Center for Eco-Technology executive director John Majercak and their Green Business Services director Lorenzo Macaluso shared the podium in recognition of Big Y. The company has long been recognized as a leader in innovative energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. In collaboration with the Center for EcoTechnology (CET), a non-profit environmental organization that helps businesses improve environmental performance, Big Y began diverting food waste from landfills across the state. It began diverting food waste from disposal in the mid 1990s and today, all 61 stores recycle cardboard, paper and film plastics. More than 80% of its Massachusetts markets utilize active composting programs. In 2011, Big Y diverted more than 16,000 tons of materials from landfills. Last year, Big Y was recognized by the state for its significant accomplishments. In addition, it passed the 80% certification rate statewide to earn regulatory relief from the MassDEP Waste Ban Enforcement and earned Supermarket Recycling Program Certification. Big Y is also an inaugural participant in EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge. Other renewable-energy solutions implemented by Big Y include full building- management systems in each store to control lighting, refrigeration, and other HVAC units to insure optimal performance. This system also reduces lighting and temperatures at nighttime when the stores are closed. Other initiatives include the installation of glass doors in all dairy and frozen food cases along with electronically commutated motors to lower energy consumption. Variable speed drives on rooftop air handling units and cooking exhaust hoods, advanced refrigeration systems with reduced refrigerant charges, rooftop dehumidification units, and highly energy efficient case motors all contribute to reducing Big Y’s energy footprint. Additionally, LED lighting with occupancy sensors, pull down covers for open multideck cases and efficient lighting design continue to help the chain save over 800,000 kwh per year in energy consumption. Before the installation of their new solar array, these savings are equivalent to 1283 barrels of oil, 61,844 gallons of gasoline or 108 cars being taken off of the road. Big Y is also one of the first retailers to install electric-car-charging stations, which are currently active at four of their Massachusetts locations — Northampton, Lee, Franklin, and Walpole. Customers can conveniently use the chargers for free while they shop. Since installation, 482 cars have charged more than 461 hours saving more than 1,879 (kg) of greenhouse gases and 223 gallons of gasoline. According to Gary Kuchyt, Big Y’s manager of energy and sustainability, “Saving resources is important to us as a company — not only is it good business, but it’s simply the right thing to do. I am proud to say that Big Y has been committed to conserving energy and reducing waste for over 40 years.”

ESB to Receive ‘Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve’ Award
EASTHAMPTON — Easthampton Savings Bank announced that on July 9, it will receive the ‘Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve” award. The presentation will take place at the bank’s main office at 36 Main St. in Easthampton. The nomination was made by Darci Furr, assistant manager at the bank’s Westfield Office. Furr is a master sergeant in the Mass. Air National Guard, and has been deployed to Saudi Arabia from 2001 to 2002, and to Qatar in 2005 and 2010. Furr, whose current unit of assignment is the Force Support Squadron, 104th Fighter Wing, Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, has served for 15 years. In her nomination Furr called Easthampton Savings Bank a “pillar of the Pioneer Valley business community, that is fully deserving of recognition due to exceptional support of military service members.” She talked about the Veteran’s Day drives that the bank has done for the past six years to collect items from employees to send to a military unit who has a member with a direct relationship to the bank. Furr also talked about her personal experience with the bank’s support of military service members. She commented that during the entire 15 years as an employee of ESB and as a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard her managers have been very accommodating to her military duty needs; including last-minute scheduling changes, extended temporary duty periods, and monthly drill weekends. In addition, the bank voluntarily provides a pay differential for service members whose military salaries are less than that of their bank income. Furr also commented that her direct supervisor also took the time to keep in touch with Furr’s husband, who remained state side. She also added that the bank’s culture is a direct reflection of the leadership and caring guidance of Bill Hogan, the long-time president and CEO of ESB; a former Guardsman himself. Furr concluded her nomination by saying “ESB is a model employer in many ways, not the least of which is its exceptional support of military service members. Selection for the Above and Beyond Award would recognize ESB publicly for something I have known for my 15 years of employment there.”

Polish National Credit Union pledges $50,000 for new Chicopee Senior Center
CHICOPEE — In a check presentation ceremony recently at The Polish National Credit Union’s Main Street, Chicopee headquarters, PNCU pledged the second of two $25,000 donations to support the construction of the new Chicopee Senior Center on Main Street. PNCU previously donated $25,000 in 2012 for the Senior Center. PNCU President and CEO James P. Kelly made the presentation to Richard J. Kos and Ernest N. Laflamme, Jr., co-chairs of the senior center fund raising committee, and Marie Laflamme, a member of the capital campaign. “This is an effort that goes right to the heart of what the Polish National Credit Union is all about,” said Kelly. “These are our members, and this is our community, and we’re proud to be a part of it.”

Nejaime’s Wine Cellar Unveils Renovated Stores in Lenox, Stockbridge
LENOX/ STOCKBRIDGE — Nejaime’s Wine Cellars recently completed extensive expansion-and-remodeling projects at its Lenox and Stockbridge locations. Owner Joe Nejaime said ongoing grand reopenings are an opportunity for patrons to see and taste new selections the stores can now offer. “Our goal in both stores was to create a brighter and more spacious shopping experience,” he said. “The Lenox store has expanded by approximately 1,900 square feet, nearly doubling its size, and the Stockbridge store has been remodeled and rearranged to make better use of the space.” Both stores received new deli cases, freezers, and flooring, and the Lenox location will also benefit from a rehabbed parking lot. Nejaime noted that the stores’ selection of picnic items and accessories — popular among Tanglewood attendees — have been expanded as a result, as have their beer selection, high-end wines, fine whiskey, prepared foods, and specialty groceries including cheese, crackers, gluten-free items, gourmet chocolates, cookies, and other snacks, as well as gifts and accessories.

Court Dockets

By BusinessWest Staff July 2, 2013

Court Dockets Departments

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
Arnold’s & Eddie’s Foods Inc. v. Nora’s Restaurant Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $3,198.32
Filed: 5/2/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Pagonis Live Bait, LTD v. Pioneer Valley Wholesale Corp.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $29,275.35
Filed: 5/9/13

Sebastian Gledocki v. Associated Building Wreckers Inc. and Billy Kane
Allegation: Employment discrimination: $25,000+
Filed: 5/2/13

Stephanie Villineuve v. DeRenzy Document Solutions Inc., Mary DeRenzy and John Daigle
Allegation: Employment discrimination: $25,000+
Filed: 5/2/13

Trialco Inc. v. Diecast Connections Company Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $208,723.39
Filed: 4/29/13

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT
Matthew Boudreau and Shaylene Greenwood v. Affiliated Construction Services, Craig Orn and Ernie Austin
Allegation: Breach of construction contract: $25,000+
Filed: 3/21/13

Raymond A. Garrigle, executor of the estates of Maurice H. Pease and Nancy C. Pease v. Moors & Cabot Inc. and First Clearing, LLC
Allegation: Failure to remit invested funds on account upon request of duly appointed executor: $350,000
Filed: 4/18/13

Raymond Smith Jr. v. John’s Collision Inc. and John Oichiuzzo
Allegation: Breach of written agreement: $225,000
Filed: 5/31/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Adelphia Graphic Systems Inc. v. W.S. Sign Design Corp.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $9,939.56
Filed: 5/8/13

Northern Tree Service Inc. v. Chapman Waterproofing Company
Allegation: Non-payment of tree removal services: $12,000
Filed: 4/25/13

Terracon Consultants Inc. v. Opportunity Development Group Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract: $10,971.22
Filed: 5/8/13

Star Search

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

Cover Story Sales and Marketing Sections

Hiring Top Sales Performers Is Certainly No Accident

By Jim Mumm
Determining the right person to hire isn’t easy, and when it comes to hiring a top-performing sales superstar, it’s even more difficult.
Let’s face it: there is a sea of apparently strong candidates looking for a job. And don’t kid yourself; any sales person worth their salt is going to be able to talk a good game.
But making a poor hiring decision will cost you dearly. Depending on which expert you listen to, the cost of making a poor hiring decision is anywhere between one and two and a half times the candidate’s annual fully loaded salary.
What should strong leaders do to mitigate the risks and maximize the return on investment pertaining to hiring top-performing sales professionals? What can an organization do to not only greatly reduce hiring mistakes, but also build a highly effective sales organization? We need to paint a very clear picture of the perfect fit before we start looking for the candidate. Then, we can objectively determine if the candidate truly fits in our picture. Here’s how.
Managers must follow a systematic, step-by-step recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding process. This system begins with identifying the primary function indicators (PFIs) of the sales role you are attempting to fill. PFIs are the basic tasks that a salesperson must be able to accomplish, such as prospecting, negotiating, and closing. Next, a professional manager must identify and determine the winning attributes of the best-fit candidate. Finally, the manager must ascertain whether or not the candidate is a proper fit for the team by building a team matrix.
To accomplish this, the manager utilizes these three core components (PFIs, winner attributes, and team matrix) to develop a series of questions designed to uncover the information needed to make a good hiring decision. The questions are constructed so that the answers reveal how well the candidate fits the desired job profile. Scores to all answers are summed, and the best-fit candidate is revealed.

Three Steps
Let’s break down each of the three components and reveal how questions are developed from each area and give some sample questions that could be used.
Step one of building a hiring template includes identifying the actual functions the sales professional will be expected to perform. We call these functions primary function indicators because they reveal the actual functions the candidate must be able to accomplish and the behaviors at which the candidates must be proficient to perform these functions. Finally, we must determine the questions we should ask that will help us determine whether or not the candidate can perform these behaviors to the desired level of proficiency.
For example, if you are attempting to hire a sales professional capable of bringing in new business, he would have to effectively prospect. A question might be, “if we hired you to build this new territory to $2 million in one year, how would you do it?” The answer to this question will speak volumes. And you should be able to differentiate a made-up answer from one given by a sales professional who has actually lived it.
To make this step easier, we incorporate the SEARCH model. SEARCH is an acronym that stands for skills, experiences, attitudes, results, cognitive skills, and habits. If we can create questions that reveal the candidate’s relative strengths and weaknesses in these six areas, we are well on our way to determining if they can actually perform the tasks. Once you’ve determined the questions needed to determine a candidate’s PFIs, you are ready to proceed to step two.
Step two is to identify whether or not the candidate has what it takes to be a top performer (winner) in your specific organization. We call these ‘winner attributes.’ To figure out whether or not the candidate has the winner attributes you require, it is helpful to use the BAT method. BAT stands for behavior, attitude, and technique. Behavior is all about what they do, technique concerns how well they do it, and attitude is how they feel about doing it. Let’s take a look at each.
Behavior involves understanding the planning, goals, and actions necessary to be successful in that role in your organization. For example, how well does the candidate set long-term, short-term, and daily goals, and how does this compare to how well your top performers set goals? You might ask, “tell me about your experience building and executing a plan to hit your sales objectives,” followed by “tell me what you did when you found yourself behind your target goals.”
Again, the answers will reveal how the candidate thinks and should give you a good idea of whether or not they have actually successfully built plans. If you ask the same question pertaining to goals to 20 different candidates, you’ll get 20 different answers. It is our job as managers to understand the required behaviors our top salespeople have and to identify the candidates whose behaviors are the closest match.
Next is technique, which consists of personal presence, tactics, and strategy. These are all measures of how well they are able to perform the behaviors that are necessary for success. Finally, attitude involves what’s between your ears. For example, some people don’t mind attending networking events and actually enjoy meeting and talking to new people. However, others dread networking events and would sit in the corner, check their e-mails, and talk only to people they know. The difference is their attitude toward, or how they feel about, networking. You might ask, “what are your favorite and least favorite prospecting activities, and why?”
Some examples of winner attributes for top-performing salespeople are the desire to win, strong internal motivation, superior discipline, and the ability to build and nurture relationships. Again, the key is to develop written questions that will help you determine whether or not the candidate has these desired attributes.
The final step in developing the hiring template is to determine how well the candidate will fit within your team. When filling a position in an existing department, it is important to find a candidate who fits best with your specific team. Often, managers try to hire the best producers, only to end up with a group of ‘fighter pilots,’ when what they really needed was a group of strong team players who can work and play well together for the good of the organization.
The key questions to ask are, do they supply skills needed by our team, or do they have skills that everyone else has? Are they a match for the current team or for the future team that we’re trying to build? For example, if you need to land new business and you have a stable of account managers, you need to ask questions that reveal the candidate’s ability to bring in new business because it complements the skills of your existing sales staff.
Once you develop four or five questions from this area that will help you uncover the facts, add them to your previous questions from PFIs and winner attributes. By now, you should have a good 30 core questions to use for each and every interview. Score each candidate on a scale from one to 10 for each question and determine, before you start interviewing, a lowest acceptable summed score from all questions. Create a list of ‘must haves’ and ‘nice to haves.’ If any candidate doesn’t achieve the minimum score or have all the ‘must haves,’ they are eliminated from the process.

Moving Forward
Once you’ve developed this approach to recruiting and interviewing candidates, you’ll be able to choose the best fit objectively based on relative, objective scores. Once you’ve chosen the best-fit candidate and informed the others that they are no longer in consideration, it is now time to implement your 90-day on-boarding plan.
At this point, you’re probably thinking, who’s got time to do all this? Before you decide this is too much work, ask yourself how much time you spent talking to poor performers last year. Think of how many hours were spent writing up politically and legally correct ‘fix-it-or-hit-the-road’ letters last year. How many hours did you spend trying to coach or motivate poor performers who weren’t hitting their sales objectives? How many hours did you agonize over a weaksales person that you wish you would have never hired in the first place, but now that you have, you are hoping they’ll finally provide an acceptable ROI?
Consider having to fire them and start back at the beginning of the hiring process all over again. Think about the recruiter fees, the advertising costs you spend to place the ad, all the time your real performers wasted trying to bring them up to speed.
Perhaps it’s less expensive to invest time now finding the right salesperson for the role and properly on-boarding them, instead of spending all the time on the back end when you are stuck with a bad hire. We’ve all heard the saying, ‘pay me now, or pay me later.’

Jim Mumm is CEO of Sandler Training, serving Western Mass. He is an award-winning trainer, author, speaker, and successful entrepreneur; (646) 330-5217; [email protected]; www.jimmumm.sandler.com

Using Psychological Science to Hire People Who Can Sell

By Michael A. Klein
“Do you know what you can learn about someone from an interview?” I like to ask potential clients. My answer: “Plenty, and it begins with how well someone performs during an interview.”
Now, some think that in sales, if the candidate sitting across from you can sell themselves to you, then they can sell. But can they really? You know that they can sell you on them. And for some products and services, potential customers need to be sold on the salesperson. But other components loom large: can they sell to others? And will they sell to others? And can they sell what you are hiring them to sell?
Résumés and interviews (behavioral interviews, specifically) can provide valuable information, and, of course, no job offer — even for commission-based positions — should be made without a careful review of prior experiences, reference checks, and probably more than one interview. But that information is still amazingly limited, and tells us little about whether this person can and willsell your product or service to others. This is where small or mid-sized businesses can benefit from the millions of dollars that large companies have spent on selection testing and assessment.
While using psychological testing to predict performance has a controversial, and some would say problematic, history, work being done over the past 15 years has led to a clear conclusion: we can predict work-related behaviors with great accuracy legally, quickly, and easily through the use of reputable assessment tools.
It’s important to note that there are currently no regulations for claiming accuracy in the sale of pre-employment tests. Therefore, unless taken to court, test publishers and distributers roam freely about the commercial countryside, making outlandish claims regarding the ‘science’ and usefulness of their hiring tests.
Fortunately, there is a silver lining here. industrial/organization (I/O) psychologists and other psychometricians have been setting guidelines for the design, construction, validation, and reliability of these tests for more than 25 years. As a result, reputable test publishers adhere to these guidelines and can easily back up their claims with detailed (and frequently updated) technical manuals, validity and reliability studies, and published peer reviews. In the case of selection tests, it can’t be said often enough: let the buyer beware.
If you know where to look, and can assess the assessment, you will save time, effort, and great expense in the hiring process. As much as human beings are complex creatures, no two people are the same, and measuring something as complex as personality can feel insulting to our egos, the selection-testing industry has learned which traits, values, and emotional and social skills are far more likely to lead to those behaviors that result in actual sales. Although seemingly complicated, if there is a magic bullet, it’s this: the more psychometric data you have on someone, the more likely you are to hire the right person and avoid a hiring disaster.
There are an amazing variety of pre-employment assessments available, and they generally fall into one or more of these categories: personality, values and motivators, interests, emotional intelligence (maturity and polish), cognitive ability (intelligence tests), skills, and knowledge.
Even once this data is gathered, there needs to be a clear differentiation between what can be scientifically justified for the specific position and what is simply a personally desirable characteristic. For example, while a hiring manager may believe that successful salespeople have a strong desire to be acknowledged for their achievements (this particular motivator is known as ‘recognition’), that may be true of all salespeople, not just successful ones. One of the most basic mistakes managers make is assuming that a high level of a specific attribute, trait, or skill is responsible for success when, in fact, it has little to no actual impact on performance.
A client of mine told me that he didn’t need to study his salespeople (i.e. determine what traits, motivators, etc. differentiate high performers from low) because he knew that his top people all had two particular behavioral styles (from a test known as the DISC): dominance and influence. I explained to him that almost all of his salespeople probably have those styles regardless of potential because he only hires people with those styles, not to mention the fact that the impact of these two styles on sales has no basis in science whatsoever.
His desire to simplify and find a single score, result, or number is very common and, unfortunately, very misguided.
To answer the question of whether they can do the job, we must look first at personality traits. Based on studies using the most accepted model of personality in business (the five-factor model, or FFM), the following are a few of the traits that predict this ability:
• Self-confidence — demonstrating a belief in oneself;
• Experience seeking — enjoyment of new opportunities and adventures;
• Openness to others — concern for others’ experiences and feelings; and
• Drive — ambition and eagerness to advance and succeed.
However, that only answers the question of whether they can do the job. Whether they will do the job is answered by looking at the key motivators and values of the candidate. From other studies, we know that these values and preferences are key:
• Connection — the desire to build social networks and collaborate; and
• Business — the desire for financial success and wealth.
Unfortunately, a great salesperson can have these traits and motivators, but can still cause major problems internally. For example, ego can get in the way of working with others in the office, impulsivity can result in frequent mistakes, and a lack of common sense can turn into unrealistic expectations of themselves and others. Here is where one’s EQ (emotional intelligence) comes into play.
In short, EQ tells us how well someone understands and manages themselves, others, and the world generally. While EQ increases with age and can also overlap with personality traits, it can also be developed. Therefore, personality is more about hardwiring, while EQ looks at skills. The following are a few EQ scales that are important to sales, but can also be problematic if they are too high:
• Assertiveness – expressing oneself appropriately and not aggressively;
• Optimism — Staying positive despite setbacks, seeing opportunity; and
• Self-regard — Knowing and accepting oneself and one’s strengths and weaknesses
Lastly, many clients ask about the accuracy of self-assessment testing. “What good is this if the job candidate is not answering the questions honestly?” “Can’t they just answer how they think we want them to?” The good news here is that many tests now utilize questions that are difficult to game. For example: “would you like to be a race-car driver?” To a test taker, answering this affirmatively might mean that they interested in exciting experiences, or, alternatively, it could mean they are someone who is an adrenaline junkie or someone who takes too many risks.
The tests are constructed in such a way that we know how successful salespeople answer (or, rather, their patterns of answers) as opposed to focusing on any one question. When good science is involved, it becomes far less obvious to the test taker, as well as the fact that it’s the combination of responses that tell us something.
In addition, psychological self-assessments have developed ways of identifying faked results — again, because of developers doing their homework during test construction. So, for many tests, we receive a report that tells us the likelihood that someone has attempted to present himself or herself less honestly than hoped.
Finally, no test can determine on its own if a person is a good job candidate. Psychological assessments or pre-employment testing must be only one part of a larger selection process that includes many other sources of information, including thorough background checking. To reiterate, if there is a magic bullet in the process of hiring effective salespeople, it is this: the more information we have on someone before they start, the better-positioned we are to make a good decision.

Michael A. Klein is president of Northampton-based MK Insights2. He has more than 16 years of experience as an assessment specialist, consultant, speaker, and facilitator. He focuses on the application of psychological data for the selection and development of individuals in organizations, including executives, leaders, salespeople, and highly trained professionals, with a specialty in family-owned firms. He has worked both internally and externally in human capital, including positions in organizational development and human resources. He has experience in healthcare, financial services, publishing, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, construction, and private equity, and is a full member of the American Psychological Assoc. and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; (413) 320-4664.

Altered States

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

Features

McGovern Adjusts to a Greatly Changed District

Rep. Jim McGovern, left, speaks with some of his new constituents in Amherst.

Congressman Jim McGovern was talking about how to spur economic development and job creation in some of the Hampshire, Franklin, and Worcester County communities that are now part of his territory — a significantly reworked Second District — and he started by going back to a speech he gave before the Worcester Chamber of Commerce roughly a year after he was first elected to the House in 1996.
This was to be a candid talk — one he feared might be a little too candid.
“I thought I’d get booed out of the hall,” he recalled with a laugh, adding that he was essentially telling those assembled that they were wandering aimlessly in their pursuit of progress, and thus underperforming. “I said, ‘economic development here reminds me of my then-3-year-old son’s soccer team; if someone kicks the ball to the left, they all run to the left, and if someone kicks it to the right, they all head to the right — no one knows what their position or assignment is.’
“I said there was no logic behind what we were doing here — we’re simply not connecting the dots,” he went on. “And a number of people came up to me later and said, ‘we agree — there’s no plan here; there’s no thought being given to economic development.’”
Over the next several years, Worcester and its officials put some thought into it, he told BusinessWest, adding that, as a result, progress has been made in several areas, from significant growth of sectors like the biosciences and medical-device manufacturing to reinvigoration of Worcester Airport, which will be a stop for JetBlue starting in the fall (more on all of this later).
It all happened through creation of plans and establishment of partnerships with a host of constituencies, from local colleges and universities to private developers, to make them reality, he said, adding that he will work to take some of the lessons learned in Worcester and other communities he’s served, and apply them in cities and towns he might have needed Mapquest to find before late last year.
Indeed, McGovern was probably the congressman most impacted by last year’s massive statewide redistricting effort, facilitated, in some respects, by the retirement of John Olver, whose old First District was essentially parceled out to McGovern and Richard Neal, who formerly represented a much different Second District and also added a host of new communities to his territory.

2nd Congressional District Map

McGovern’s former district (the Third) included Worcester, his birthplace and political base, near its west boundary, and swept like a giant apostrophe to the south and east, all the way to Fall River. Now, Worcester is near the eastern end of a district that winds through five counties, the Quabbin Reservoir, and 63 cities and towns (he formerly had only 28), including ones that border Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
“It’s quite a change — I have a lot of learning to do,” he said, adding quickly that this is an ongoing process that has really just begun.
His said his assignment going forward is to continue visiting those 63 communities, learning about both common and specific challenges, and then create some plans — as he helped draft in Worcester — to address matters such as bolstering the agriculture and tourism sectors and finding new uses for the millions of square feet of idle old mill space in Athol, Orange, Palmer, Ware, and many other communities.
But perhaps his overriding mission, he went on, is to disprove some comments from an anonymous reader posted at the end of a story in one of the local papers announcing the results of redistricting. McGovern didn’t have the exact wording on that missive, but he could effectively paraphrase.
“‘We got screwed,’ this person wrote,” he told BusinessWest, adding that he or she went to to say, “‘what the hell is a big-city Worcester politician going to care about what goes on here in the Pioneer Valley?’”
To prove this individual wrong, McGovern, consistently ranked among the most liberal congressmen in the country, said he knows he has to be visible and accessible — and he’s already doing that, through numerous visits to the area and the opening of a district office on Pleasant Street in Northampton — but he also has to be active and accountable, and create progress on the most overriding issue facing every city and town in the Commonwealth: jobs.
For this issue, BusinessWest talked at length with McGovern about what he’s learned through several months of discussions with his new Western Mass. constituents, and how he plans to incorporate lessons learned in Worcester, Fall River, and elsewhere to his work in the 413 area code.

Progress Report
It’s called Gateway Park at WPI.
That’s the name put on ambitious project in downtown Worcester that speaks, in general terms, to the progress made after McGovern’s aforementioned speech to the city’s Chamber of Commerce.
Originally developed as a joint venture with the Worcester Business Development Corp., the park is now solely owned by Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Now in stage 2 of development, its flagship complex is the 125,000-square-foot Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, which opened in 2007 and is fully occupied with graduate research laboratories, life-sciences companies, state-of-the-art core facilities, and WPI’s Corporate and Professional Education division. The strategic plan eventually calls for five buildings on this site.
The park is perhaps the most significant of the many positive steps Worcester has taken over the past 15 years, said McGovern, adding that it exemplifies the basic approach he embraces when it comes to economic development and job creation. Summing it up, he said it comes down to putting a firm strategic plan in place — in this case, Worcester’s commitment to building its life-sciences sector — and creating partnerships to make it reality.
The same pattern was followed in Fall River and a property now known as the Narrows Center for the Arts, he said, referencing the 280-seat facility, built on the top floor of an old mill building, that hosts national and local performing and visual artists, musicians, writers, and performers.
“They took an abandoned factory and turned it into a spot where some of the top musicians in the country come to play,” he said. “People from all around the region come to attend these concerts, and when they do, they eat at the local restaurants, sometimes they spend the night, they might go shopping beforehand, they attend the local festivals; it all helps out.”
Successes of this magnitude will be difficult to replicate in rural Hampshire and Franklin counties, but McGovern believes he can take the same basic approach and spur economic development in some of the communities he’s now representing.
Getting to know and understand these communities — while also disproving that anonymous commentary mentioned earlier — is the latest career challenge for McGovern, who described his 1996 victory over Republican incumbent Peter Blute as “surprising.”
It came two years after his first bid for Congress while working as a senior aide to long-time Rep. Joe Moakley, in which he lost a crowded Democratic primary. He’s faced only sporadic opposition since, while cementing himself as one of Washington’s most liberal lawmakers and making a mark in areas ranging from transportation to education to nutrition. He currently serves on the powerful Rules Committee, and also on the House Committee on Agriculture.
Since last fall, McGovern has been spending significant amounts of time getting to know his new district and the people who call it home. “Trying to learn all that I need to learn and know all that I need to know is like drinking water from a fire hose — it’s a lot of stuff, and every community is unique.”
He said it’s been a learning experience on many levels.
“People out here take their politics seriously,” he said, referring specifically to the Hampshire and Franklin County portions of his district, which also includes one precinct in Palmer, which is in Hampden County. “They care passionately about the issues, and I’ve had some of the most candid and interesting conversations ever in this part of the district.”
He said his previous district was created to benefit a Republican (Blute), and was therefore more conservative than this new Second District, which includes, in Amherst and Northampton, some of the most liberal communities in the entire state, but also has many conservative pockets as well.
“There’s a little bit of everything — moderate, liberal, Tea Party,” he said with a laugh. “Between Worcester and Franklin County, there are pockets of everything, which keeps life interesting; every day is a learning experience.”
One thing McGovern said he’s already learned is that this region is, by his estimation, “a hell of a lot more coordinated than Worcester was 10 years ago.” Elaborating, the said the Economic Development Council of Western Mass. the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, and other agencies have identified challenges and opportunities, and have undertaken a number of coordinated initiatives to spark economic development.
“There are good things happening here,” he said. “The challenge for me is to plug into what’s going on and figure out how I can help.”

The Job at Hand
With such a large, spread-out district (compared to everyone but Neal, who represents all of Berkshire County and all but the Palmer precinct in Hampden County), McGovern said he has to maximize his time and carefully plan out his schedule.
He explained that, if he has three days to spend in the district, for example, he’ll spend one in each area: west (Northampton), east (Worcester), and northeast (Leominster).
And while visiting Western Mass. cities and towns, McGovern said he’s learned that the challenges and concerns are pretty much the same as they are across the state. Specifically, the main priority is jobs, and in many communities that were former manufacturing centers, this means reinventing themselves into something else, while also looking at new kinds of manufacturing, different from the paper and textile making that once dominated the scene.
“The one common thread I see and hear in all parts of my district is people worried about their economic security,” he told BusinessWest. “They’re worried about jobs. There’s a good deal of support for reinvigorating our manufacturing base and also support for training programs for displaced workers in the region, because a number of people have lost their jobs in this difficult economy. There’s also a lot of talk about energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects.”
In Worcester, the process of creating that proverbial something else would never be described as easy, and it is very much still ongoing, said McGovern, but it was greatly facilitated by planning and the many colleges and universities that call that city home, including Assumption, Clark, Holy Cross, Worcester State University, WPI, and UMass Medical School, among others. These collaborations have involved from biosciences to renewable energy.
“I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished in Worcester — we’ve established some collaborations that have made a difference,” referencing projects ranging from Gateway Park to a revitalized Union Station and the Canal District surrounding it; from the airport to reinvigoration of depressed neighborhoods. “A friend of mine who hadn’t been to Worcester in seven years visited recently and couldn’t believe how much had changed and how much new construction was going on; we’re building every day.”
The many colleges in the Amherst/Northampton area, and especially UMass Amherst, can play a similar role, said the congressman, adding that one of his goals is to continue to expand the relationship-building efforts between the university and the communities that surround it to stimulate new business opportunities — and jobs.
“In some states, the natural resources are the minerals in the ground,” he said. “Here, the natural resources are the educational institutions, the colleges. We have all these knowledge-based institutions in the Pioneer Valley that complement and coordinate very well with the schools we have in Worcester. There are opportunities for collaboration that would benefit both areas.”
Meanwhile, in the more rural areas of Hampshire and Franklin counties, agriculture remains a key component of the economy, and McGovern said this makes his seat on the Agriculture Committee more relevant and important. And while working to sustain and perhaps grow agriculture-related businesses, he wants to examine new business opportunities in some of these rural communities, including different options in manufacturing, reuse of the old mills still dominating the landscape, and bolstering tourism, much as Fall River has done through efforts to revitalize its waterfront district.
“It all begins with vision and thinking outside the box,” he said, referring specifically to finding new uses for old mills, but also to economic development in general. “There is a need for housing across the state, and maybe some of these old mills can be redeveloped for that purpose, but also for business development, a supermarket, light manufacturing, and more.”
When it comes to tourism, awareness of what this region and others have to offer, or lack thereof, is part of the problem — and the challenge moving forward, he said, adding that most other sections of the country do a much better job of promoting their tourism assets.
In each community, and with each initiative, the key is to have a plan, or specific strategic direction, said McGovern, returning once again to Worcester and Gateway Park.
“With that initiative, we all sat in a room together, had a conversation about what we were going to do, and then took assignments,” he recalled. “It takes a plan, and what Worcester was lacking was a vision; the ingredients were there to make incredible things happen — what was needed was vision and a plan.”

Summing Up
Those same ingredients are needed in many of the Western Mass. communities that McGovern now counts within his district. Helping put them together is one of the primary items on his to-do list, along with taking initiatives already in progress and moving them forward through partnerships.
“Most all of the challenges we’re facing are not going to be solved by the federal government alone, or the state government alone, or the local government alone, or the private sector alone,” he concluded. “It’s going to involve partnerships and collaborations, and I think I’ve been pretty good at those things.”
But perhaps the most pressing matter is to disprove the comments from that anonymous reader concerned about what a Worcester-based Congressman can do in the Pioneer Valley.
If he can succeed with the former, McGovern said, he knows that the latter will essentially take care of itself.

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

Community Profile: Northampton

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

Community Profile Features

Northampton Forges Ahead on Innovative Projects

Mayor David Narkewicz says Northampton is a city on the move, leading the way in arenas that range from its energy-efficiency programs to its effort to increase the number of daily Amtrak shuttles when high-speed passenger rail service begins next year, to $67 million of new projects expected to add $3.1 million to the tax base.
“We’re moving in a positive direction, and my administration is committed to continuing to build on success,” he said. “We have a strong local economy with lots of businesses, and we want to support them, reach out to new companies, and maximize the use of our developable land.”
Terrence Masterson, the city’s economic development director, agrees. He said the city’s appeal results from its mix of industry, retail shops, and cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities.
“Northampton has a lot of assets which include the benefits of a living in a rural town as well as a large, livable city,” he told BusinessWest. “It has a culturally rich downtown, is well-positioned off Interstate 91, and hopefully will soon have passenger rail service. We also have a solid educational system, and our parks and open-network system is without peer. You can live in Florence and ride your bike downtown.”

Mayor David Narkewicz shows off a rendering of the new, upgraded passenger platform planned for the former Union Station on Pleasant Street.

The city has been feted with a wide array of awards, which range from being named among the “Top 25 Art Destinations” by American Style magazine to one of the “Top 100 Best Places to Live” by CNN Money magazine and the “Top 10 Family Friendly Towns” by Parenting magazine. Other honors include the Retailers Assoc. of Mass. Award of Excellence for the best downtown shopping district.
“We have a vibrant and diverse economy with lots of locally owned retail shops and restaurants; it’s one of the things that sets us apart, because it has been hard for cities to hang onto that in other parts of the country,” said the mayor. “People often say that Northampton has big-city charm, but maintains its small-town character.”
The city is also a center for healthcare, as Cooley Dickinson Hospital and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, which is planning to expand its specialty care, serve people across the region.
For this issue, BusinessWest continues its Community Profile series with an in-depth look at Paradise City, which certainly isn’t content to rest on its laurels.

Diverse Initiatives
Narkewicz said Northampton’s leadership is evident in its approach to eco-tourism. “We have one of the most well-developed rail trails in Massachusetts and are on the cutting edge of developing new segments,” he said, referring to the 12.5-mile route that runs through the city. “We have also done a lot of work to promote local agriculture.”
In addition to three farmer’s markets, the city has one of the largest community farms in the state. The endeavor known as Grow Food Northampton came to fruition in February 2011 when the organization purchased 121 acres of permanently protected farmland in Florence. The nonprofit is a collaborative effort, and its community garden was so successful in its first year of operation that it is doubling in size this year. The city provides funding to the Farm Education Collaborative, which presents workshops and programs at Crimson and Clover Farm in Florence to benefit schoolchildren and adults.
The mayor also notes the Connecticut River Greenway in Northampton, one of the Commonwealth’s newest state parks, which connects open spaces, scenic vistas, and archaeological and historic sites along the length of the Connecticut River.
“We’re a green community, and were among the first cities awarded green-community status by the state,” Narkewicz said. “We’re way ahead of everyone else, and our green initiatives add to what makes Northampton unique.”
He and other city officials recognize the importance of energy conservation, and to that end, the energy and sustainability initiative called Northampton Leading the Way was launched about two years ago.
“We worked with Columbia Gas and National Grid to create a business concierge program that allowed commercial property owners to make significant energy improvements to their facilities,” said Narkewicz. “It resulted in savings for them and helped add to the city’s overall sustainability.”
The city reduced its own energy costs by 27%, and the nonprofit Center for Eco-Technology conducted the outreach to businesses. The utility companies have continued to fund the program because it has proven to be a real success. “Utility costs are a major part of the bottom line for businesses, and this is also good for the environment,” Narkewicz said.
The city kicked off a second energy-efficiency initiative last month to help residents reduce utility bills and conserve energy through measures such as high-efficiency hot water and heating systems, added insulation, new thermostats, and other weatherization efforts. They can schedule free home energy assessments, and Narkewicz said the program “is another example of how the city of Northampton is helping people and the environment.”

New Projects

Terrence Masterson says the city’s appeal stems from its mix of industry, retail, and cultural, educational, and recreational opportunities.

Economic development is also on the upswing, and the King Street commercial area is undergoing an unprecedented level of new building and renovation.
Northampton Crossing (the former Hill and Dale Mall), which sat vacant for about 20 years, was purchased two years ago and is being redeveloped into medical offices and retail shops. The mayor said the space will become home to offices connected to Baystate Medical Center, and added that several new banks and other projects, which include a new hotel being constructed on Conz Street, are in progress.
In addition, two new buildings will offer much-needed office space in Northampton. They are located at the gateway to the city, which officials designate as the area off exit 18 from I-91 near the Clarion Hotel. An office building with 30,000 square feet of space completed about a year ago was fully leased within three months, and a second building is under construction. Masterson says the additional 80,000 square feet of office space will be a significant development for the city. “It is hugely exciting,” he told BusinessWest.
Other growth is expected as the Clarion Hotel hopes to replace its existing structure with a new building and restaurant. “Eventually the whole site will undergo a major facelift and expansion,” Narkewicz noted.
Tourism will also get a boost, thanks to a new Fairfield Inn under construction. It will add 108 hotel rooms, bringing the city’s total to 457. “It will provide more revenue and also allow more people to stay in Northampton,” Masterson said.
And work continues on Village Hill, built on the grounds of the former Northampton State Hospital, where space has been in high demand. Kollmorgen Electro-Optical (now L-3 KEO) relocated there from King Street, a boutique hotel is being created in a building that once housed male attendants at the state hospital, and 9,000 square feet in a new, 12,000-square-foot office building under construction have already been rented.
The projects promise to enhance the city as well improve its economy. “We are pleased not only because of the growth in economic activity, but because it will allow us to expand our tax base,” Narkewicz said, explaining that taxpayers will vote on June 25 on whether to allow a $2.5 million Proposition 2 1/2 override because Northampton is facing significant cuts in service due to a $1.4 million budget gap.
Still, progress continues. “All of the projects we have going on fuel each other,” Masterson said. “But it’s critically important for us to keep adding to them, and we think Amtrak will be another way to bring large numbers of people here.”
Narkewicz agrees, and believes the anticipated commuter rail service will have a positive impact on the city. The return of Amtrak service, which will transport passengers along the west side of the Connecticut River, is part of a larger, $73 million federal project, and calls for a shift next year in the Amtrak-Vermonter’s route, which will include new stations in Greenfield, Northampton, and Holyoke.
The mayor is part of a passenger-rail advisory committee made up of stakeholders in the community who want to maximize the railway’s potential. The Knowledge Corridor Feasibility Study, which the current construction project is based on, indicates that expanded rail can generate economic benefits to a number of communities, and Narkewicz believes it could increase the number of trips between the state of Vermont and Springfield. He would also like to see service extend into New York City.
“The rail service will benefit people in terms of transportation, but will also increase the potential for business, whether the passengers are students, tourists, or people who come here for our art and culture,” Narkewicz said.
He has been proactive in promoting an increase in the number of shuttles, and sent a letter to the secretary of the state Department of Transportation last month, citing numbers from Amtrak showing that regional rail ridership has boomed nationally and locally over the past 15 years.
“We believe this new rail service will deliver many positive economic benefits for downtown/urban revitalization, tourism, residential quality of life, and business/job development,” Narkewicz wrote, adding that the letter was also signed by Greenfield Mayor William Martin and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse. “It’s an issue everyone agrees with, and it will be a real thrill for a lot of people to have Amtrak trains here.”
There are also plans to rebuild the old passenger platform at the former Union Station on Pleasant Street. The new, 40-foot platform will include an awning and cover designed to complement the building’s architecture.

Continuing Progress
Narkewicz said collaborations with residents, government agencies, other cities and towns, and a number of organizations, coupled with efforts to attract new business and spur economic growth, have had a positive result.
“We are moving forward,” he concluded. “There is a lot of activity here, and together, we are making a difference.”

Springfield’s Big Bet

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

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How Would a Casino Impact Downtown Real Estate?

John Williamson says a casino, if approved, will start a chain reaction of tenant relocations and other real-estate activity.

John Williamson says “the stage is being set” for a flurry of real-estate activity in downtown Springfield — all related to an $800 million casino development that might never materialize.
“There’s an interesting dynamic taking place in the central business district of Springfield,” said the president of Williamson Commercial Properties. In the event that MGM Resorts International wins its bid to build a gaming resort just a few blocks south of the downtown towers, “they’re in the process of trying to assemble as much of the property as they can in the project area, which involves getting various properties under contract to purchase.”
Robert Greeley, partner at R.J. Greeley Co., has noticed the same dynamic taking shape. “Still, until a decision is made, however long that takes, there are so many uncertainties that it’s very difficult for people to make decisions,” he noted. “A lot of owners and landlords will hold out, thinking there’s a windfall on its way, but until they know whether the casino is coming or not, it just puts a significant unknown into the equation.”

Bob Greeley says casino proponents tend to gloss over the possible negative impacts of major construction and traffic.

The general consensus among real-estate brokers headquartered in downtown Springfield is that the short-term chess moves — building owners contracting with MGM and current tenants of those buildings scrambling to find other homes for their businesses — has begun in earnest, particularly since city leaders chose to back MGM’s project over the other competing proposal, by Penn National Gaming in the North End.
“We’re anticipating the relocation of some businesses in the project area, and those things are all ongoing,” Williamson said. “There are numerous properties that MGM has under contract; if the casino goes through, it will acquire those properties. There are also a few properties they’ve already purchased. If the casino doesn’t go through, they’ll simply turn around and sell the properties they acquired.”
None of this early movement should come as a surprise, said Evan Plotkin, president of NAI Plotkin, considering the scope and cost of the proposal — neither of which Springfield has encountered before.
“That’s going to impact a lot of things that go on downtown. In the short term, in anticipation of a possible casino, a lot of people are jockeying around, trying to relocate. The goal is to try to keep businesses in the downtown and not have them move out. My sense is that many of the businesses want to stay in the downtown.”
And that perception touches on the bigger real-estate question downtown: what will the long-term impact be if the Gaming Commission grants MGM a casino license early next year, when the voting is slated to take place?
“There’s a positive effect on the commercial market already taking place, and also expanding opportunity out there in the form of speculation,” Williamson said. “I know there are properties that, because of the fact that they may be acquired, have magically increased in value, so there’s a lot of jockeying for position going on.
“If the casino comes to Springfield,” he continued, “it’s going to have a dramatic impact on the commercial market, and especially the commercial office market, because there are several office buildings in the project area that will be razed to make room for the casino. Those tenants have to find alternative quarters, and that means the amount of office space in the market will decline, and vacancy will diminish. That increase in occupancy raises the value of all properties, which benefits the tax base. It’s good old supply and demand.”
Some aren’t convinced, however, that a casino will be an attractive business neighbor, particularly in the short team. Greeley, for one, cited potential impacts on traffic, street closures, and general construction-related bustle for several years to come. “I think most people who have not experienced this scale of project will be freaked out by the kind of traffic impacts this thing has.”
For this issue’s focus on commercial real estate, BusinessWest delves into the pros and cons, both short- and long-term, of the proposed MGM Springfield casino, and why it’s generating both excitement and anxiety for area property owners and tenants alike.

Lease of Their Problems
Springfield is competing with two other proposals — Hard Rock International in West Springfield, and Mohegan Sun in Palmer — for the sole gaming license the state will award in Western Mass. If MGM is successful, Williamson said, commercial vacancy downtown will certainly decline.
“Landlords now sitting on a lot of vacancy have potential to fill varying amounts of that space up. It’s good for the market all around,” he told BusinessWest. “Lease rates in Springfield have been flat or slightly declining for years, moreso in the class B and C market — the class A market is pretty stable and really won’t be impacted as significantly as B and C properties at the present time.”
From a broker’s perspective, he said, the project will generate demand for space, at least within a six- or seven-block radius of the casino. “This has been called the largest economic-development project in the history of Springfield, taking place smack dab in the heart of the central business district. It will really strengthen the class B and C commercial properties downtown.”
One downside, he said, is tenants finding they have to pay more rent than they are currently paying, “but in some cases, the landlord is going to have to buy them out of their leases, if they have long-term leases, because they need the building to be sold free and clear of all tenants. That may offset any increase in rent they’ll have to pay.”
The possibility of a casino has placed many businesses in a tough place, Greeley said — both those interested in moving into the casino zone, and those who might be forced out. “No one wants to sign a long-term lease not knowing what the future is going to be. It’s a problem.”
And if the casino doesn’t come, he added, after all the preliminary scurrying among property owners near the MGM proposal, “a lot of people will be left with stars in their eyes, and it’ll take them awhile to come back down to earth and be realistic about what the market is without a casino.”
As an analogy, he cited a CVS or Walgreens that overpays — say, $1.5 million — for a corner lot. “Now, the owners of the other three corners, who paid $400,000, think they can get a million and a half, but that’s not going to happen just because CVS was willing to pay it. That purchase really distorts the market.”
In the same way, he continued, if the casino era closes in Springfield several months from now, as abruptly as it began, site owners who were hoping for a casino buyout might be left with an inflated sense of how much South End property is actually worth.
But if MGM does win the Western Mass. bid, “you’ll see opportunities for businesses,” Williamson said. “Some stand-alone businesses may be able to replicate what they do inside the casino. It’s really to MGM’s credit that they’re looking at local companies to have a major presence in the casino. Some of the mom-and-pops may find themselves smack dab right in the middle of the most expensive economic-development project to take place in this city.”
Plotkin agreed, citing MGM’s promotion of its ‘inside-out’ casino concept, one that incorporates surrounding businesses in the project.
“The development plan is very outward-focused, and it’s going to incorporate a lot of the other businesses and entertainment venues downtown,” he said. “And I would hope the cultural and entertainment aspects will not only be an attraction regionally for people to come and visit Springfield, but perhaps to live in Springfield.”
Plotkin likes to paint a picture of downtown Springfield as a sort of an “urban theme park,” he explained. “How do you create that? What do you need to incorporate in a downtown to make it welcoming for people to live and work? If you have a catalyst like MGM, a development of that size and scope, it’s natural you’re going to have spinoff businesses, and hopefully that will lead to more development of market-rate housing and subsequent retail — not just retail associated with the casino, but other retail that you would need to provide goods and services to people moving downtown. I think there’s potential for tremendous spinoff.”

In Demand
Of course, that kind of commercial spinoff will require an influx of talented workers, in a variety of fields, Plotkin noted.
“Businesses are looking for a trained workforce, and a lot of us on the sidelines are wondering if there is enough of a trained workforce in the region to satisfy what MGM needs,” he said, adding that Greater Springfield companies will also have to deal with competition from a casino that needs some 2,000 employees and will certainly lure many away from their current jobs. “I think it’s important that businesses see an increased flow of human capital to the area; that’s a critical point for our success as a city.”
Greeley — who was involved in a third Springfield casino proposal, pitched by Ameristar Casinos on Page Boulevard, until that project was withdrawn late last year — remains unconvinced that a South End casino will be the economic-development catalyst many hope it will be.
“If the casino comes, you have all the impacts over three years, at least, for all the construction and disruption that accompanies such a project,” he said. “This will be the largest construction project in the history of Springfield, and if it’s coming, it’s going to take years for the property owners not directly involved with the casino to come to terms with whether or not they’re going to be positively affected.
“I don’t want to be the rain-on-the-parade guy,” Greeley continued, “but I am very skeptical how much positive effect there will be outside the casino-owned facilities. For example, I don’t think the Fort restaurant will benefit. People aren’t going to eat at the Fort, then come to the casino. That’s not the mentality anywhere.”
Plotkin disagrees. “In all my discussions with MGM, we believe they’re an organization that has a great understanding of what the urban landscape should look like. They’re not looking at a casino in a vacuum; they’re looking at the big picture. Frankly, nobody wants to visit a city just to drop into the city casino, and then leave.
“This is an opportunity,” he told BusinessWest, “to make the entire city more welcoming, to shine a light on some other offerings we have as a downtown, which are many, but have been underappreciated by a lot of people.”
Greeley sees it differently. “A lot of people are drinking the Kool-Aid about how impactful this is going to be on development outside the casino footprint,” he said, “but nothing suggests to me that adding a whole bunch of traffic to the South End will be helpful to other businesses than those directly involved in the casino.
“I think this is being sold as a panacea,” he concluded. “That’s how it’s being marketed. But I haven’t seen a building yet where the renderings didn’t look wonderful.”

Joseph Bednar can be reached at [email protected]

Building Permits

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

Building Permits Departments

The following building permits were issued during the month of June 2013.

AGAWAM

Louis Egnatowich
525 Springfield St.
$18,000 — New roof

AMHERST

Amherst College
Campus Center
$285,000 — Cosmetic improvements

Johnson & Gata Realty, LLC
24 Webster Ct.
$5,000 — Replacement windows

United Church
121 North Pleasant St.
$1,040,000 — Expansion and renovation of Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst Meeting House

CHICOPEE

Atlantic Construction
18 Arlington St.
$30,000 — Re-roof and re-side

Chicopee Housing Authority
Benoit Circle
$245,000 — Window replacement

Pioneer Cold
149 Plainfield St.
$70,000 — Install shipping doors and dock ramp pads

NORTHAMPTON

Chakalos Investments Inc.
345 Haydenville Road
$6,900,000 — Construct a three story 76,000-square-foot senior living retirement center

Cooley Dickinson Hospital
30 Locust St.
$115,000 — Renovate OB unit

Coolidge Center, LLC
47 Pleasant St.
$47,000 — Renovate second floor

Dimension Real Estate, LLC
59 Service Center Road
$13,000 — Replace roof, fascia, and soffit

Gleason Brothers, Inc.
1 Gleason Plaza
$15,000 — Interior renovation

Hampshire Property Group
25 Main St.
$47,000 — Construct interior partitions and staircase between 4th floor and mezzanine

Stop & Shop
238 King St.
$195,000 — Divide former video space into two spaces

The Coca Cola Company
48 Industrial Dr.
$120,000 — 2,300-square-foot addition foundation

Thorne’s Marketplace, LLC
150 Main St.
$30,000 — Frame new dressing rooms

SOUTH HADLEY

Mount Holyoke College
50 College St.
$6,000 — New roof

SPRINGFIELD

1350 Main Street, LLC
1350 Main St.
$61,000 — Alterations to existing space for a fitness center on the ninth floor

1600 Main Street Inc.
1600 Main St.
$255,000 — 3,000-square-foot interior build out

Bernie Medical, LLC
300 Bernie Ave.
$42,500 — Renovation to existing space

Bethany Rd. Properties, LLC
121 Memorial Dr.
$260,000 — Create office space in existing building

C & W Real Estate Company, LLC
1200 Main St.
$75,000 — Alterations to create a television studio and offices

Colrest/State Street, LLC
600 State St.
$106,500 — Remodel of CVS

Main Sheldon, LLC
2684-2708 Main St.
$3,500 — Renovation to stairway

NE Enterprises
1200 West Columbus Ave.
$685,000 — Convert existing welcome center into restaurant and bar

Springfield College
250 Wilbraham Ave.
$780,000 — Addition of new stair tower to existing Locklin Hall

WEST SPRINGFIELD

1275 LLC
1275 Elm St.
$48,000 — New roof

La-Z-Boy Furniture
1299 Riverdale St.
$12,000 — Roof repair

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

Departments Real Estate

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

BUCKLAND

165 Bray Road
Buckland, MA 01370
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Meredith A. Raftopoulos
Seller: Clinton Davis
Date: 05/15/13

CONWAY

1076 Pine Hill Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Tracy R. Blaylock
Seller: Gary W. Kuck
Date: 05/15/13
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DEERFIELD

31 Eastern Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $225,200
Buyer: Scott W. Lewis
Seller: Zaijac, Zislaw W., (Estate)
Date: 05/10/13

315 Upper Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Susan J. Howard
Seller: Richard J. Calisewski
Date: 05/10/13

GREENFIELD

13 Cleveland St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: TO Karlson Props. LLC
Seller: Mohammed Basal
Date: 05/16/13

7 Congress St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $569,000
Buyer: 325 Canton Street LLC
Seller: William F. Martin
Date: 05/17/13

51 East Cleveland St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: Agnes T. Atkinson
Seller: Michael Labombard
Date: 05/15/13

44 Verde Dr.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Alexander M. Bourassa
Seller: Greenfield Coop Bank
Date: 05/09/13

20 Woodleigh Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $209,000
Buyer: Thomas K. Blankenship
Seller: Jonathan R. Leiws
Date: 05/17/13

LEVERETT

364 North Leverett Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Sawmill River TR
Seller: Susan C. Powers
Date: 05/08/13

206 Pratt Corner Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Kimberly A. Nedeau
Seller: Denise M. Govoni
Date: 05/15/13

216 Pratt Corner Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Kimberly A. Nedeau
Seller: Denise M. Govoni
Date: 05/15/13

MONTAGUE

49 Court Square
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Andrew W. Kostecki
Seller: Wendy E. Kostecki
Date: 05/15/13

197 Turnpike Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Marsha J. Bonnett
Seller: Eric C. Emond
Date: 05/08/13

NORTHFIELD

868 Old Wendell Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Joel A. Nelson
Seller: Paul H. Robie
Date: 05/16/13

SHELBURNE

45 Water St.
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Peter J. Moser
Seller: Gail A. Bissell TR
Date: 05/08/13

110 Zerah Fiske Road
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $377,000
Buyer: Michael P. Labombard
Seller: Daniel E. Flint
Date: 05/15/13

WARWICK

460 Richmond Road
Warwick, MA 01378
Amount: $198,000
Buyer: Stephen P. Stewart
Seller: John W. Chandler
Date: 05/10/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

157 Cambridge St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $152,500
Buyer: Joseph M. Santaniello
Seller: Henrietta M. Shea
Date: 05/06/13

44 Campbell Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $131,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Roberts
Seller: Wells Fargo Bank
Date: 05/15/13

136 Clover Hill Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $239,000
Buyer: Rexhep Nuhiu
Seller: Lyubov Shevchenko
Date: 05/08/13

170 Coyote Circle
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Shawn L. Hammerschmidt
Seller: Dominic J. Candido
Date: 05/17/13

115 Edgewater Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Audrey Dwane
Seller: William E. Freeman
Date: 05/15/13

58 Elbert Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Jonathan L. Watson
Seller: Paul A. Tatro
Date: 05/17/13

89 Norris St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Keith M. Barlow
Seller: Martin M. Radewick
Date: 05/17/13

411 Southwick St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $332,000
Buyer: Christopher D. Rochon
Seller: Roger H. Blood
Date: 05/15/13

52 Warren St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Sady
Seller: Howard J. Murphy
Date: 05/17/13

63 Zacks Way
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Lukasz Wilk
Seller: T. Russo Construction Corp.
Date: 05/08/13

BRIMFIELD

1164 Dunhamtown Brimfield Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $236,500
Buyer: Michael J. Wood
Seller: Michael E. Kszaszcz
Date: 05/14/13

CHICOPEE

96 Arnold St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $117,000
Buyer: Russell B. Jopson
Seller: Chad L. Crocker
Date: 05/10/13

500 Britton St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Phaneuf Realty LLC
Seller: Ernest A. Larocque
Date: 05/10/13

607 Burnett Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Mark D. Vega
Seller: FNMA
Date: 05/13/13

18 Driscoll St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Jean Foley
Seller: Paul R. Gallagher
Date: 05/17/13

467 East St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $137,500
Buyer: Ahmedsaadis A. Bracero
Seller: Jeanne Clow
Date: 05/14/13

190 James St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Brian F. Gregersen
Seller: Deutsche Bank
Date: 05/09/13

90 Maryland Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $172,500
Buyer: Stephanie V. Barton
Seller: Lukasz A. Tabor
Date: 05/17/13

285 Montgomery St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Cindy S. Kwajewski
Seller: Michelle L. Robbins
Date: 05/10/13

123 Polaski Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Adam J. Lajoie
Seller: Tracey A. Devitt
Date: 05/17/13

50 Riverpark Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Martino A. Santaniello
Seller: Delfina R. Madeira
Date: 05/17/13

100 Rolf Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $133,000
Buyer: David J. Duplessis
Seller: Dungruethai Yomdit
Date: 05/17/13

86 Sesame Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $283,000
Buyer: Jason P. Mastorakis
Seller: Aspen Props. Group LLC
Date: 05/07/13

31 Thomas St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Jorge A. Burgos
Seller: Arclair Dev. LLC
Date: 05/10/13

56 Ward St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $134,025
Buyer: Antonina M. Fox
Seller: Jason P. Mastorakis
Date: 05/06/13

91 Watson St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Jean Dersienska
Seller: Rene A. Laplante
Date: 05/13/13

28 Willow St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $244,900
Buyer: James J. Niss
Seller: Carol Turgeon
Date: 05/17/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

36 Athens St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01108
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Grigoriy Shulga
Seller: Josue Diaz
Date: 05/16/13

169 Braeburn Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $282,500
Buyer: Alexander Grisaru
Seller: Roosevelt Hill LLC
Date: 05/14/13

478 Chestnut St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Annemarie Tucker
Seller: Suzanne S. White
Date: 05/09/13

62 Deer Run Terrace
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Christopher M. Eddy
Seller: Kenneth F. Bernier
Date: 05/15/13

69 Hanward Hill
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: John Sawyer
Seller: Scott M. McGuire
Date: 05/10/13

10 Jennifer Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $209,900
Buyer: Aaron W. Granahan
Seller: Joseph F. Giordano
Date: 05/10/13

2 Kelsey St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Gilson Vila
Seller: Walter M. McSweeney
Date: 05/17/13

167 Pease Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Randall I. Feher
Seller: Pamela K. McCarthy
Date: 05/14/13

37 Pease Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: John T. Haynes
Seller: Patricia Carroll
Date: 05/15/13

451 Porter Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Joanne M. Bernier
Seller: Richard J. Matuszczak
Date: 05/15/13

HAMPDEN

38 Carmody Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Jeffrey P. Zilch
Seller: Stephen L. Haskins
Date: 05/13/13

46 Genevieve Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Andrew P. Netherwood
Seller: John W. Leger
Date: 05/17/13

140 Rock A. Dundee Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Michelle W. Daley
Seller: Scott A. Kertenis
Date: 05/06/13

39 Stony Hill Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: SW & Wood Construction Inc.
Seller: Diane K. Miklasiewicz
Date: 05/06/13

76 Valleyview Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Claudia Muradian-Brubach
Seller: Joseph Belardo
Date: 05/17/13

24 Walnut Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Maureen K. Chesky
Seller: Craig Campbell
Date: 05/16/13

HOLLAND

79 Sandy Beach Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $317,500
Buyer: Christopher Renson
Seller: Douglas Say
Date: 05/06/13

HOLYOKE

142 Beech St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $119,500
Buyer: Edna Pagan
Seller: Marta Santiago
Date: 05/10/13

129 Hillside Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $160,500
Buyer: Leo Campbell
Seller: Michael T. Bellingham
Date: 05/10/13

357 Jarvis Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $203,000
Buyer: James D. Fay
Seller: Kevin A. Jourdain
Date: 05/06/13

37 Knollwood Circle
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $204,495
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Matthew A. Hamel
Date: 05/16/13

135 Lincoln St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $196,500
Buyer: Mary B. Agostino
Seller: Daniel E. Wilga
Date: 05/10/13

301 Linden St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: William S. Cassidy
Seller: Kristen A. Beam
Date: 05/10/13

68 Nonotuck St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $174,000

Buyer: Kristen A. Beam
Seller: Baldwin, Elizabeth A., (Estate)
Date: 05/10/13

222 Pine St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Arnaldo R. Lopez
Seller: Carmelo Lorenzi
Date: 05/10/13

208 Race St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $347,000
Buyer: SPS Investments LLC
Seller: Holyoke Supply Co.
Date: 05/13/13

233 Walnut St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Jacob Santos
Seller: Jessica Ojeda
Date: 05/08/13

257 West Franklin St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $122,800
Buyer: Richard A. Ochs
Seller: Maureen M. Dearborn
Date: 05/14/13

LONGMEADOW

56 Brooks Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Azad A. Jabiev
Seller: John Roden
Date: 05/16/13

22 East Primrose Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Jiansong Xu
Seller: Geoffrey Weigand
Date: 05/15/13

19 Eton Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $405,500
Buyer: David T. Florian
Seller: Colony Realty LLC
Date: 05/15/13

148 Greenacre Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Adam L. Deutsch
Seller: Gregory S. Schneider
Date: 05/16/13

1630 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: Travis D. Page
Seller: Nicholas F. Azar
Date: 05/13/13

18 Maple Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $224,900
Buyer: Quynh L. Nguyen
Seller: David L. Mesecher
Date: 05/09/13

90 Meadow Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $192,000
Buyer: Brian J. Bagnall
Seller: Kristen Nolfi
Date: 05/08/13

96 Salem Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Craig M. Outhouse
Seller: Michael G. Mason
Date: 05/16/13

5 Summit Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $267,500
Buyer: Thomas J. Kucab
Seller: Vincenzo Amore
Date: 05/16/13

1231 Williams St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Michael E. Chagnon
Seller: Michael E. Chagnon
Date: 05/06/13

LUDLOW

52 Dowd Court
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Richard L. Frigon
Seller: Jacqueline Rosa
Date: 05/08/13

580 Fuller St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: AHB FT
Seller: Stephen M. Breslin
Date: 05/08/13

43 Overlook Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $238,500
Buyer: Charlotte N. Descognets
Seller: Richard L. Frigon
Date: 05/08/13

109 Parker Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $322,000
Buyer: Lang Lin
Seller: Richard L. Askew
Date: 05/17/13

127 Parker Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $434,000
Buyer: David C. Costa
Seller: Hemlock Ridge LLC
Date: 05/15/13

109 Pine Knoll Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $241,000
Buyer: Kelly S. Mateus
Seller: Horacio J. Sousa
Date: 05/10/13

5 Wood Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Jose M. Alves
Seller: Donald V. McCabe
Date: 05/13/13

MONSON

158 East Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Timothy M. Nale
Seller: David Goraj
Date: 05/10/13

20 Thayer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Eric R. Meffen
Seller: Diane L. Meffen
Date: 05/15/13

135 Upper Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Shawn A. Gouger
Seller: Leah M. Ray
Date: 05/07/13

PALMER

77 Squier St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: John W. Morrison
Seller: Coulter, Constance E., (Estate)
Date: 05/17/13

37 Ware St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Jason W. Bessette
Seller: Rivers, Janina, (Estate)
Date: 05/16/13

RUSSELL

135 Timberidge Dr.
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $176,310
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Christopher G. Miltimore
Date: 05/08/13

SPRINGFIELD

84 Andrew St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $128,276
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Hommy Ortiz
Date: 05/07/13

126 Arcadia Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Norma M. O’Brien
Seller: Carol A. Moreau
Date: 05/17/13

53 Bissell St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $258,702
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Rose Ndiritu
Date: 05/13/13

127 Bowles Park
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: HSBC Bank USA
Seller: Robert G. O’Leary
Date: 05/14/13

459 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Jose R. Vasquez
Seller: Thomas A. Hanifan
Date: 05/07/13

115 Corey Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $148,000
Buyer: Michelle A. Mejias
Seller: Robert F. Midghall
Date: 05/13/13

210 Dayton St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $137,000
Buyer: Michael Ashe
Seller: FHLM
Date: 05/16/13

21 Draper St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $120,530
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Juana M. Santiago
Date: 05/08/13

23 Emerson St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Felix C. Torres
Seller: Episcopal Diocese Of Western Mass.
Date: 05/14/13

35 Hood St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $124,900
Buyer: Madalyn Rolon
Seller: Yelena Ivanova
Date: 05/10/13

108 Jerilis Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $145,100
Buyer: Marie Fernandez
Seller: Rafael Bones
Date: 05/08/13

116 Johnson St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $204,790
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Judy Alberto
Date: 05/17/13

87 Lloyd Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Deutsche Bank National
Seller: Shirley F. Ross
Date: 05/17/13

211 Merrimac Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $124,000
Buyer: Donna L. Williams
Seller: Frank C. Tripoli
Date: 05/14/13

1230 Page Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $122,500
Buyer: Francisco A. Pacheco
Seller: Gordon R. Fettes
Date: 05/06/13

1 Palmyra St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Jared D. Smith
Seller: Judy R. Brew
Date: 05/16/13

194 Parkerview St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $204,000
Buyer: Keith Worthy
Seller: Albert N. Garnier
Date: 05/17/13

280 Plumtree Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $154,900
Buyer: Leroy L. McFarlane
Seller: Oriana B. Jones
Date: 05/17/13

42 Redstone Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $187,500
Buyer: Jacob P. Goodin
Seller: Christopher M. Eddy
Date: 05/15/13

149 Regal St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $133,000
Buyer: Sharon C. Ritchie
Seller: Jeffrey P. Zilch
Date: 05/13/13

126 Rochford Circle
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Kenneth R. Yarkey
Seller: Kearns, Audrey B., (Estate)
Date: 05/17/13

56 Rochford Circle
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $148,500
Buyer: Rebecca J. Larace
Seller: Judith M. Fleury
Date: 05/17/13

18 South Shore Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: Judith Brown
Seller: Stephanie E. Gonzalez
Date: 05/17/13

33 Slumber Lane
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Nathaniel D. Raymond
Seller: Stephanie Pierzchala
Date: 05/14/13

27 Wellington St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $122,500
Buyer: Neish M. Cordova
Seller: PEC Properties 1 LLC
Date: 05/17/13

59 White Oak Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $153,500
Buyer: Grahams Construction Inc.
Seller: Melissa A. Keegan
Date: 05/17/13

49 Wing St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Jessica Lopez
Seller: Mary Montemagni
Date: 05/08/13

40 Woodcrest Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: Raymond Gonzalez
Seller: Lisa M. Clewes
Date: 05/17/13

SOUTHWICK

130 South Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Jeremy R. Burns
Seller: Peter A. Bennett
Date: 05/16/13

26 South Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $204,000
Buyer: Randall Bourque
Seller: Stephen A. Roulier
Date: 05/13/13

WALES

42 Lake George Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: Scott A. Taylor
Seller: Roberta T. Bennett
Date: 05/06/13

WESTFIELD

11 Airport Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Frank A. Demarinis
Seller: Mark J. Staruk
Date: 05/14/13

37 Coolidge Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Alexander E. Schultz
Seller: Adam Casineau
Date: 05/17/13

69 Crane Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: John S. Haftmann
Seller: Mark R. Gilman
Date: 05/17/13

Flynn Meadow Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: RSP Realty LLC
Seller: Cowles & Cowles LLC
Date: 05/08/13

149 Granville Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $214,000
Buyer: Kathleen A. Harrington
Seller: Melissa A. Glynn
Date: 05/13/13

67 Highland Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: William Johnston
Seller: Jean T. Rainey
Date: 05/10/13

2 Laurel Terrace
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $188,000
Buyer: Scott T. Gregory
Seller: Thomas M. Bacis
Date: 05/14/13

457 Loomis St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Ryan W. Taylor
Seller: Henry W. Skerry
Date: 05/15/13

168 Meadow St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Jacob Girard
Seller: USA HUD
Date: 05/17/13

170 Meadow St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Jacob Girard
Seller: USA HUD
Date: 05/17/13

11 Shadow Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $248,000
Buyer: Melanie J. Casineau
Seller: Roy J. Federer
Date: 05/17/13

14 Taylor Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $208,233
Buyer: Bayview Loan Servicing
Seller: William R. Gambill
Date: 05/09/13

WILBRAHAM

7 Acton St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $173,900
Buyer: Sherica C. Rowe-Singleton
Seller: Adelia Pedro
Date: 05/08/13

12 Circle Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Ana Carvalho
Seller: Joseph Pedula
Date: 05/15/13

9 Linwood Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $214,000
Buyer: Barbara Robert
Seller: Suzanne Laba
Date: 05/15/13

68 Stony Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Ana M. Beleza
Seller: Gail P. Doty
Date: 05/06/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

48 Alexander Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $650,360
Buyer: Thomas J. Berozsky
Seller: West Meadow Homes Inc.
Date: 05/15/13

55 Bliss St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $218,000
Buyer: Pavlo Nikulin
Seller: Roman Zayats
Date: 05/10/13

758 Main St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Xiuyu Ma
Seller: Virginia M. Taillefer
Date: 05/17/13

297 Morgan Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $120,299
Buyer: Robert Holmes
Seller: Wells Fargo Bank
Date: 05/16/13

250 Sawmill Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $318,000
Buyer: Stephen I. Alois
Seller: Thomas J. Berozsky
Date: 05/17/13

16 Wistaria St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $157,500
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Jamie Frisbie
Date: 05/13/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

148 Columbia Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Deepankar Basu
Seller: Yung Y. Chen
Date: 05/08/13

120 Red Gate Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Joseh D. Duffey
Seller: Boulder Hill Construction LLC
Date: 05/10/13

44 South Mount Holyoke Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Tien Pham
Seller: Wenjun Xing
Date: 05/15/13

6 Wildflower Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Jesse Ferris
Seller: Ralph J. Murphy
Date: 05/06/13

BELCHERTOWN

100 Barton Ave.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Karen R. Henning
Seller: Bernard E. Wilkess
Date: 05/06/13

18 Canal Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $208,000
Buyer: Arnold Niedbala
Seller: Mount Tom Properties LLC
Date: 05/10/13

17 Plaza Ave.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $304,000
Buyer: Constance G. Brown RET
Seller: Nicholas Marciano
Date: 05/13/13

EASTHAMPTON

176 Everett St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $251,000
Buyer: Ronak Patel
Seller: Surckha Patel
Date: 05/13/13

1 Industrial Pkwy.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Middle Franklin Dev. Group
Seller: Jenoptik Optical Systems
Date: 05/10/13

94 Pomeroy St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Garry D. Youmell
Seller: Kyle D. Kinlock
Date: 05/10/13

76 Strong St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Carol M. Twiss
Seller: Garry D. Youmell
Date: 05/10/13

GRANBY

9 Mary Lyon Dr.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $202,000
Buyer: Amy K. Baker
Seller: Jason F. Randall
Date: 05/14/13

34 New Ludlow Road
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Ivonette Ortiz-Rodriguez
Seller: Bruce L. Tetrault
Date: 05/14/13

HADLEY

5 Meadow St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $129,000
Buyer: Valley Building Co. Inc.
Seller: Mill Cottage LLC
Date: 05/17/13

58 Russell St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Donna Burhoe
Seller: Kristen B. Walser
Date: 05/16/13

HATFIELD

359 West St.
Hatfield, MA 01066
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: 359 LAP LLC
Seller: Robert D. Herfurth
Date: 05/06/13

HUNTINGTON

87 County Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Justin W. Green
Seller: Lorraine Layman
Date: 05/08/13

NORTHAMPTON

212 Acrebrook Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $125,299
Buyer: Patricia Duffy
Seller: Bank Of America
Date: 05/08/13

26 Burts Pit Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Jeffrey A. Dan
Seller: Jennifer M. Johnson
Date: 05/16/13

26 Dickinson St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Colee Asia
Seller: Mary B. Agostino
Date: 05/10/13

87 Dunphy Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $213,000
Buyer: Lesley J. Eckert
Seller: Hecotr L. Santos
Date: 05/17/13

696 Florence Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Kathryn S. Crouss
Seller: Haytham M. Omar
Date: 05/15/13

18 Hillside Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $547,000
Buyer: Henry A. Brown
Seller: Boyd T. Hehn
Date: 05/10/13

91 Moser St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $489,734
Buyer: Timothy M. Levy
Seller: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction Inc.
Date: 05/08/13

14 Orchard St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Brenda J. Church
Seller: Jo Anne P. Howlett
Date: 05/10/13

11 Ormond Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Jonathan K. Fogelson
Seller: Ruth Yeh
Date: 05/15/13

164 Overlook Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Santoyo Pacheco
Seller: Hardev Singh
Date: 05/09/13

110 Turkey Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $172,500
Buyer: Marya J. Avedon
Seller: K. E. Avedon-Tresselt
Date: 05/16/13

15 West Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Humayun LLC
Seller: West Farms Realty LLC
Date: 05/16/13

1095 Westhampton Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $327,476
Buyer: Easthampton Savings Bank
Seller: Monkey Man LLC
Date: 05/13/13

SOUTH HADLEY

12 Atwood Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $185,500
Buyer: Stray Horse Props. LLC
Seller: William J. Rokowski
Date: 05/16/13

60 Bridge St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Diamond Property Svcs. LLC
Seller: Cheryl A. Bonavita
Date: 05/09/13

70 College View Hts.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Peter B. Blain
Seller: Warren M. Bock
Date: 05/08/13

68 Columbia St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $129,551
Buyer: USA VA
Seller: Christopher D. Mackenzie
Date: 05/08/13

6 Oak Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Andrew T. Barrett
Seller: Christine E. Schoenborn
Date: 05/15/13

SOUTHAMPTON

165 Brickyard Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $214,900
Buyer: Joycelyn H. Kinlock
Seller: Zachariah F. Chornyak
Date: 05/15/13

238 County Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Joann Bennett
Seller: Edmond P. Laprade
Date: 05/15/13

35 Fomer Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $292,000
Buyer: Sven Kielhorn
Seller: Patrick J. Pompei
Date: 05/14/13

WARE

63 Babcock Tavern Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Michael J. Riordan
Seller: Gregory Czech
Date: 05/08/13

23 Beach Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Philip E. Ethier
Seller: James A. Gately
Date: 05/10/13

50 Crescent St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Michael J. Barry
Seller: Mark R. Pauette
Date: 05/10/13

111 East St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $185,788
Buyer: JP Morgan Chase Bank
Seller: Stephen S. Hagberg
Date: 05/10/13

84 Fisherdick Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Christopher M. Rasys
Seller: Daniel P. Talbot
Date: 05/17/13

21 Highland St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Kristien Hennessey
Seller: Joseph C. Cassaro
Date: 05/17/13

17 Otis Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Justin E. Matys
Seller: Robert Kopka
Date: 05/07/13

82 West Main St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Maxwell C. Labier
Seller: 82 West Main Street RT
Date: 05/08/13

WESTHAMPTON

61 Hathaway Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Scott R. Tirrell
Seller: Thomas C. McCarthy
Date: 05/14/13

7 Northwest Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $254,000
Buyer: Kyle D. Kinlock
Seller: Matthew T. Lowney
Date: 05/10/13

WILLIAMSBURG

5 Edwards St.
Williamsburg, MA 01039
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Charles G. O’Connell
Seller: Heath, Raymond F. Jr., (Estate)
Date: 05/17/13

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of and June 2013.

AGAWAM

413 Auto Repair
71 Garden St.
Michael McCann

North East Aircraft Solutions
28 Meadow St.
Anthony Ruccio

Rushmore Rental Services
14 Granger Dr.
Justin L. David

Sebastian & Sons Metal Works
71 Garden St.
Sebastian Glebocki

T.J. Mechanical Services
59 Sunnyslope Ave.
Thomas A. Jacob

AMHERST

EccoTech Management
413 West St.
Haim Gunner

Minute Clinic Diagnostic of MA
165 University Dr.
Kimberly DeSousa

New Life Horizons Counseling
441 West St.
Naimah Muhammad

Panda East
103 North Pleasant St.
Yi-Ching Chiang

CHICOPEE

Cely’s Health Spot
232 Exchange St.
Cely Rodriguez-Ramos

Collins & Company
340 McKinstry Ave.
Builder Services Group Inc.

Friendly Liquors
65 Main St.
Jan Sudol

KP Visual Communications
214 McCarthy St.
Kelly Ann Partridge

Priya
460 Memorial Dr.
Kamaraj Pandurangan

Quick Pick Convenience
452 Chicopee St.
Amir Paracha

HADLEY

AT & T Mobility
359 Russell St.
AT & T

NEAT Freaks
11 Aloha Dr.
Valorie Leonard

Pioneer Valley/New England Growers Co-Op
112 East St.
Glenroy Buchanan

Vrandolph Books
128 Mount Warner Road
Virginia Michie

Waterdog Technologies
84 Russell St.
Ashley Stempel

HOLYOKE

Classic Custom Muffler
54 Commercial St.
Anatoliy Purshaga

Hart Installations
8 Arbor Way
Evan Hart

Journeys Kidz
50 Holyoke St.
Matthew N. Johnson

Shi By Journeys
50 Holyoke St.
Matthew N. Johnson

NORTHAMPTON

Captain Candy
150 Main St.
Nolan Anaya

Hair Designers
2 Conz St.
Margaret Mientka

Mizlabeled
73 Barrett St.
Julia Mattes

Movement Mortgage, LLC
300 Pleasant St.
John B. Third

With These Hands Worldwide, LLC
56 Lincoln Ave.
Sarah R. McDowell

PALMER

Drolet Tactical Training & Consultants
2094 Main St.
Michael Drolet

Minute Clinic Diagnostics of MA, LLC
1001 Thorndike St.
Kimberly DeSousa

Rainbow of Colors
25 Breton St.
Tamara Roy

Your Dream Cleaner
4063 Main St.
Carla Smith

SPRINGFIELD

Advanced IT Solutions
61 Clough St.
Timothy Vincent

All Stars Barber Shop
438 Boston Road
Alexis Aponte

Almost Edible Gourmet
36 Oak St.
William P. Therrien

Altranais Home Care, LLC
780 Chestnut St.
Shakira Lubega

B & J Mechanical
91 Mobile Home Way
Bruce A. Campbell

Baye’s Gourmet
327 Maple St.
Raymond L. Baye

Brown’s Auto Body
247 Hancock St.
Fitzroy Brown

Chestnut Market
586 Chestnut St.
Abid Ali

Chuck E. Cheese’s
1716 Boston Road
Deborah Shannon

Dollar X
447 Sumner Ave.
Mohammad Bashir

Double Eagle Home Improvement
21 Brentwood St.
Peter D. Smidy

El Morro Bakery & Restaurant
607 Page Blvd.
Neidy Cruz

Hashtag
24 Taylor St.
Kamisha Bryant

Her Imperial Highness
44 Mattoon St.
Jolyn M. Paris

HRD Innovative
1348 Page Blvd.
Heman Rijos-Delgado

Huracane Logistic
142 Bay St.
Julio Vasquez

I’m Just Saying
32 Byers St.
Hassan A. Reid

Incredible Toys
1655 Boston Road
Mahmut Alkan

J. Norman Landscaping
17 Empress Court
Joseph V. Norman

JBS One and Done Painting
407 Sumner Ave.
Jason M. Blair

Jolly Juniors Childcare
50 Massachusetts Ave.
Jacklyn Charlton

Leannie’s Variety
2291 Main St.
Maria Bonilla

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Davis Chiropractic
900 Elm St.
Marjorie Davis

Gilligan Landscaping
15 Bluebird Lane
Brandon Gilbert

Goffer Construction Inc.
16 Healy St.
Aleksandr Salagornik

Gold Chopsticks
12 Chestnut St.
Xin Dong

Hess
341 Memorial Ave.
Richard J. Lawlor

Main Auto Sales
842 Main St.
William L. Matte

Omega Cleaners of West Springfield
1238 Riverdale St.
Joo B. Lee

Subway
1329 Riverdale St.
Steven Petow

TK Designs
92 Upper Beverly Hills
Tamara L. Kennett

Briefcase

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

Briefcase Departments

Mohegan Sun Increases Projected Project Cost
PALMER — Mohegan Sun has upped the projected cost of its Palmer gambling resort to nearly $1 billion with the addition of an indoor-outdoor water park and a second hotel, making the rural project the largest in the competition for the sole Western Mass. casino license. The project will probably include indoor surfing, a lazy river feature, and an extensive series of outdoor zip lines. The new $130 million to $150 million resort component, inspired by the Pump House water park at the Jay Peak resort in Vermont, will be developed by Boston-based Finard Properties, which has also joined with Mohegan Sun to build a retail complex at the development. Plans call for the second hotel to be connected to the water park and detached from the main casino hotel. The second hotel would have about 250 rooms. Mohegan Sun is one of three prominent gambling companies in the hunt for casino development rights in Western Mass. Mohegan is competing with MGM Resorts, which has proposed a casino and entertainment complex in downtown Springfield, and Hard Rock International, which has planned a casino and hotel resort on the Big E fairgrounds in West Springfield. The state Gambling Commission is expected to choose the winning project in early 2014.

Springfield Symphony Orchestra Hires New Executive Director
SPRINGFIELD — The board of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (SSO) announced that it has hired Audrey Szychukski as the new executive director of the SSO. Audrey Szychulski will join the SSO on Aug. 1 upon leaving her current position as executive director of the Erie Philharmonic in Erie, Pa. Szychulski fills the vacancy created in January when long-time SSO Executive Director Michael Jonnes retired. SSO President Kristina Drzal Houghton noted that, “from our first round of résumé screening, and through every subsequent step of interviewing, reference gathering, and especially after spending time with her, Audrey has consistently stood out as our most promising candidate for this critical position. The executive board and I feel that we have found the right person to help us lead the SSO through our next period of success.” SSO Musical Director Kevin Rhodes was equally positive, commenting that “I could not be more excited to be welcoming Audrey to the SSO family. She will bring an energetic blend of skill, enthusiasm, and musical knowledge to the SSO. Trained as both an arts administrator and as a musician, I am really looking forward to the synergy that Audrey and I will develop as the Springfield Symphony begins its 70th-anniversary season and we guide the orchestra into its eighth decade.” The symphony will make a further announcement and formal introduction closer to Szychulski’s official start date. Peter Salerno, acting executive director of the SSO, will continue in that capacity until Aug. 1.

REB Head Bill Ward to Step Down This Fall
SPRINGFIELD — J. William “Bill” Ward, a longtime leader in the region’s workforce-development arena and president and CEO of the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County (REB), will step down from his position at the end of this year or early 2014. Ward has served in his position with the REB for 32 years and was the driving force behind the organization’s leadership and innovation in a number of workforce initiatives, including the development of one-stop career centers FutureWorks in Springfield and CareerPoint in Holyoke, which serve 20,000 job seekers annually. In a career that has been primarily focused on creating access to employment and self-sufficiency for the region’s low-income citizens, it was under Ward’s leadership that the REB established the Minority Employment Program in the 1980s. This initiative found employment for approximately 500 people a year during the program’s existence. The REB opened the first competitively bid one-stop career centers in 1992, which were recognized by the National Alliance of Business as the “One-Stop Centers of the Year.” Ward launched the Center for Youth Internships and Employment to prepare disadvantaged youth for employment, and formed the Women’s Mentoring Partnership designed to help women transition from welfare to work, matching low-income women with professional women in the business world for mentorship and support. In 1992 he founded the Literacy Volunteer Network, which trained more than 400 volunteers to tutor adult learners in English-literacy skills. The LiteracyWorks initiative formed during his tenure has coordinated various literacy initiatives in the region. Under his leadership, an early-literacy initiative, Talk/Read/Succeed, achieved local and national funding while aiming to raise the literacy skills of young children living in Springfield Public Housing centers, a requirement for future economic success. The REB under his direction started a precision-manufacturing initiative designed to replace retiring workers in the industry with the next generation of machinists by strengthening training and outreach at vocational schools in the region. Ward has been recognized for taking a leadership role in promoting community justice and in 2010 received the Human Relations Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice. In 2009 BusinessWest magazine honored him as a Difference Maker for his contributions to quality of life in the Pioneer Valley. His community service and engagement include service as board president of the Assoc. of Community Living, Abilities Unlimited/Kamp for Kids, and Partners for a Healthier Community. He also serves on the board of Friends of the Homeless of Greater Springfield. The REB board of directors has established a search committee to identify the organization’s next leader, and a successor will be selected by late this year. Information on the position can be found online at www.rebhc.org.

Construction Unemployment Falls to 10.8% in May
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the summer building season underway, the nation’s construction industry added 7,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate dipped to 10.8%, which is down from 13.2% in April and the lowest rate since October 2008, according to U.S. Labor Department. Since May 2012, the industry added 189,000 jobs, or 3.4%. Despite gains in every other construction sector, the non-residential building sector lost 2,600 jobs for the month. Year-over-year, the sector added 15,300 jobs, or 2.3%. Non-residential specialty trade contractors added 1,200 jobs in May and netted 51,600 workers, or 2.5%, since the same time last year. Heavy and civil-engineering employment rose by 3,100 jobs in May and increased by 28,600 jobs, or 3.3%, from May 2012. In contrast, the residential sector added 900 jobs for the month and 18,100 jobs, or 3.2%, during the last year. Residential specialty trade contractors added 4,600 workers for the month and 76,300 workers, or 5.2%, on a year-over-year basis. Overall, the nation added 175,000 jobs as the private sector expanded by 178,000 jobs and the public sector shrunk by 3,000 jobs.

Court Dockets

By BusinessWest Staff June 18, 2013

Court Dockets Departments

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
Liberty Industries Inc. v. Diecast Connections Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract: $16,690.15
Filed: 5/8/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Goodless Brothers Electric Co. Inc. v. Kronenberger & Sons Restoration Inc. and Safeco Insurance Co. of America
Allegation: Claim by subcontractor against the general contractor and its bonding company: $9,681.50
Filed: 5/14/13

Lawrence K. Richmond v. The Janlynn Corp.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $27,746.67
Filed: 5/17/13

Susan M. Kinsella v. Lifetyme Exteriors, LLC
Allegation: Breach of contract: $53,500
Filed: 5/16/13

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT
Colee Asia v. Rescare Inc. and Alutiiq Education & Training, LLC
Allegation: Employment discrimination: $57,000+
Filed: 5/28/13

Forty Pire, LLC v. Country Bank for Savings
Allegation: Disputed accrued interest on commercial note and prepayment penalties: $30,000
Filed: 5/10/13

James Malandrinos and PPC Contractors Inc. v. Saucier Construction, LLC
Allegation: Seeking damages for improper imposition of a mechanics lien: $25,000
Filed: 4/1/13

John G. Edwards v. Valley Industries, Inc. d/b/a Armstrong Nautical Products
Allegation: Product liability: $44,321
Filed: 4/13/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
BDM + Furniture Inc. v. Boston Barstool & Contract Seating, LLC f/d/b/a/ The Chair Gallery, LLC and Sarah Jean Quiroga
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $16,808.95
Filed: 5/8/13

Michael J. Stuart and Nicole R. Stuart v. Spartan Bobcat & Concrete Services d/b/a Spartan Services
Allegation: Breach of contract by installing exterior walkways and stairs in violation of code and failure to complete work: $21,400
Filed: 4/23/13

Security Engineering Inc. v. Veritech Corp.
Allegation: Non-payment of labor, materials, and services provided to maintain a security system: $6,617.67
Filed: 4/25/13

WESTFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Cosmo Films Inc. v. Ultimate Finishing, LLC
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $14,315.84
Filed: 4/30/13

Opinion

By BusinessWest Staff June 4, 2013

Opinion

Drivers Should Pay for the Roads They Use

Gov. Patrick is displeased with our legislators. Instead of his 10-year, $13 billion transportation plan, supported by an increase in income tax, the Legislature has put forward a more modest approach, making fewer promises for big projects and asking travelers to pay more of the costs of their transportation. However disappointing to Patrick, this more limited approach comes closer to how we ought to be raising money for transportation.
Legislators are dead right to expect commuters — not general taxpayers, who would pay the income tax hike Patrick proposed — to cover the costs of transportation infrastructure.
A key feature of the Legislature’s plan is a modest hike in the state gasoline tax. This approach, Patrick maintains, “taxes the middle class every time they pump a gallon of gas.” But drivers should pay for the cost of their roads. Taxpayers who rarely drive shouldn’t have to subsidize sprawl and long commutes. People will drive too much if they don’t pay for the social costs of driving, including the congestion, pollution, and highway deterioration.
Instead, American taxpayers have long subsidized the automobile. Gas taxes were supposed to fill a federal trust fund used for highway construction. When gas-tax collections fell short, President Obama signed a measure that added more than $16.6 billion in other revenue to the fund. Yet, the effect of building more highways isn’t to reduce congestion, but to encourage more driving. The only way we can make our roads less congested is to charge people to drive, ideally with electronic tolls, but also with gas taxes.
The House proposal to bring tolls back to the westernmost part of the Massachusetts Turnpike is a step forward, not backward. These roads may not be crowded, but they cost money to maintain. My rough estimate, based on state data, suggests that $1.50 per trip is needed to cover those expenses.
For years, transportation planners have taken a rise in the number of long-range commuters as an inevitable fact of life. Indeed, a 2009 study used such an anticipated increase as an argument for the long-proposed South Coast commuter rail line to Fall River and New Bedford. Yet, that assumption need not be true. Most people would live close to work if they paid the full costs of driving — especially if some far-sighted Legislature also limited the local regulations that make it hard to build nearer to Boston.
There are two obvious exceptions to the idea of making transportation users, rather than general taxpayers, pay for infrastructure. One is when a system has large fixed costs of construction and low costs of usage. The other is when a system serves a particularly disadvantaged population, such as the disabled, whom we want to make more mobile. The MBTA’s paratransit program exemplifies this second case for subsidy; the Legislature should ease the MBTA’s budget woes by separately funding that program. The MBTA as a whole meets both criteria for subsidy; it serves the poor and carless, and it has high fixed costs — which helps explain why only 32% of the MBTA’s budget comes from its users.
But the non-Bostonians who complain that outsiders pay too much of the system’s costs also have a point. The fairest way to embrace the ‘user-pay’ principle, while keeping fares low enough to reduce traffic, is to increase the portion of the MBTA’s budget that comes from local property assessments — and reduce the share that comes from statewide sales taxes. To the extent that statewide taxes are involved, they should be targeted toward the costs of poorer passengers, both in Boston and elsewhere. Addressing non-Bostonians’ concerns about subsidizing a system they don’t use will help get a fair transportation bill passed.
More local funding of the MBTA would also move us to a better dialogue about further rail extensions. If New Bedford and Fall River had to pay the full $1.8 billion cost of the proposed South Coast line, they would be far less enthusiastic about it.
In any case, the Legislature is right to reject a vast transportation program funded by income taxes. Patrick proposed a significant gas-tax hike in the past. And if the governor wants to spend billions on transportation infrastructure now, he should once again be open to a plan where drivers pay for the roads they use.

Edward L. Glaeser, a Harvard economist, is director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

PictureThis

By BusinessWest Staff June 4, 2013

Departments Picture This

Send photos with a caption and contact information to: ‘Picture This’ c/o BusinessWest Magazine, 1441 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103 or to [email protected]

Drive Time

An official ribbon cutting marked the opening of the new, 27,000-square-foot Balise Ford of Wilbraham on the corner of Boston Road and Stony Hill Road, pictured below. After an eight-month construction effort, the dealership moved from its temporary setting a quarter-mile east. The new facility will offer a state-of-the-art sales and service department. Top, Jeb Balise (fourth from the left), president and CEO of Balise Motor Sales, officially cuts the ribbon, flanked on the left by Eric Fuller, member of Wilbraham Planning Board; Phil Podgorny, regional manager of New England for Ford; and Bob Russell, Wilbraham selectman; and on the right by Jason Perez, general manager of Balise Ford of Wilbraham; and Dick Butler, member of the Wilbraham Planning Board. Bottom, the Balise marketing team poses on the back of a 2013 Ford F-150. From left are Kristin Garini, digital marketing manager; Megan Boshuyzen, graphic designer; Dale MacDonald, media manager; and Crystal Childs, social media specialist.

Who Done It?

Nine area ‘celebrities’ recently volunteered their time and talent to portray various suspects in a second annual murder mystery dinner titled Quicker Than The Eye. The interactive evening benefited the Gray House Inc., a nonprofit that provides food, clothing, and educational services to nearly 8,000 Springfield-area residents each year. Featured players included (from left) Chris Buendo, co-publisher, Reminder Publications; Ellen Freyman, attorney, Shatz, Schwartz and Fentin, P.C.; Korri Piper, development and communications director, Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity; Karen Boyd, the Zito & Karen Morning Show, Mix 93.1; Anthony Cignoli, president of A.L. Cignoli Co.; Jill Monson, owner, Inspired Marketing; Brady Chianciola, assistant vice president and regional manager, PeoplesBank; Elizabeth Taras, staff writer, BusinessWest and the Healthcare News; and Kimberly Robinson William, diversity consultant, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion at Baystate Health.

Airing His Opinions

Denis Gagnon, president of Excel Dryer in East Longmeadow, and inventor of the XLERATOR hand dryer, spoke to members of the Young Professional Society of Greater Springfield for the May CEO Luncheon. After a tour of the manufacturing facility, Gagnon and son Bill, vice president of Marketing and Key Accounts, explained how the family’s investments in new products, especially the XLERATOR, which is now the industry standard, has enabled the company to grow exponentially since it was purchased in 1997. Pictured in the Excel plant, bottom, with Denis Gagnon (third from left), are YPS board members (from left) Jeremy Casey, assistant vice president and commercial service officer, Westfield Bank; Jack Toner, sales, Sumner & Toner Insurance Agency; Nick Gelfand, owner, NRG Real Estate Inc.; Sharon Czarnecki, assistant vice president and commercial loan officer/Small Business Development, Westfield Bank; and Bill Gagnon.

Dave and Dinosaurs

David Ratner, CEO of Dave’s Soda and Pet City of Agawam and Hadley, recently read to students at the James Clark School in Agawam as part of the Link to Libraries Business Book Link program. Ratner shared a story about dinosaurs with the first-grade class of teacher Kathy Planzo, at right.

Building Permits

By BusinessWest Staff June 4, 2013

Building Permits Departments

The following building permits were issued during the month of May 2013.

AGAWAM

Joseph Walz, DMD
302 Suffield St.
$3,000 — Siding repair on south side of building

RHM Realty
207 Bowles Road
$10,000 — Install dock leveler in existing loading dock bay

CHICOPEE

Carlo Sarno
621 Center St.
$6,000 — Renovations at Mulligan’s

Chicopee Solar, LLC
467 Pendleton Ave.
$8,000,000 — Solar field project

Eugeniusz Wargulewski
43 Springfield St.
$20,000 — Convert three storefronts to one bar

Rushing Waters Assembly
465 Granby Road
$22,000 — Interior renovations to First Spiritualistic Church

Sweeney Brothers Inc.
2073 Westover Road
$134,000 — Strip and re-roof

GREENFIELD

Baystate Franklin Medical Center
164 High St.
$34,000 — Install fire sprinklers

Comfort Mechanical, Inc.
340 Chapman St.
$53,700 — Renovate and repair existing system

Greenfield Co-Operative Bank
277 Federal St.
$6,000 — Replace front door

Greenfield Corporate Center
101 Munson St.
$18,000 — Remove non-structural walls to allow construction of new courthouse location

Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield
133 Main St.
$2,400 — Install kitchen hood suppression system

LUDLOW

Steve McDaniel, DDS
343 Winsor St.
$31,000 — Renovations

Subway
34 East St.
$49,000 — Alterations

PALMER

Raymond Recore
1219 Thorndike St.
$25,000 — Expand and remodel Enterprise Rent-a-Car

Sue A. Draper
69 Boston Road
$3,018,150 — Solar field

SOUTH HADLEY

Fontaine Brothers
2 Canal St.
$7,618,500 — Construction of a new library

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff June 4, 2013

Departments Real Estate

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

BUCKLAND

87 State St.
Buckland, MA 01370
Amount: $265,206
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Steve E. Patnode
Date: 04/22/13

41 Heath Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Phillip M. Baunsgard
Seller: Russell A. Barnes
Date: 05/03/13

DEERFIELD

731 Greenfield Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Analise F. Nimeskern
Seller: Nika Oakes
Date: 04/26/13

31 Sawmill Plain Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Charles W. Laliberty
Seller: Ann M. Dionne
Date: 04/24/13

4 Sugarloaf St.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: DKRE Sugarloaf LLC
Seller: Rotkiewicz NT
Date: 04/30/13

ERVING

19 Central St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $152,500
Buyer: Christopher B. Sadler
Seller: Francis A. Pollard
Date: 04/26/13

GREENFIELD

1001 Bernardston Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $206,400
Buyer: Reed A. Baldwin
Seller: John W. Cavender
Date: 04/26/13

1200 Bernardston Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $180,075
Buyer: Michael T. Mangnuson
Seller: Walter L. Williams
Date: 04/30/13

805 Bernardston Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Greenfield Russian Evangelical
Seller: Jehovahs Witnesses Inc.
Date: 04/29/13

4 Cherry St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: Adam M. Bouchard
Seller: Joseph A. George
Date: 04/26/13

97 Columbus Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Shawn S. Wrisley
Seller: Thomas P. Morse
Date: 04/24/13

246 Davis St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Roger Matthews
Seller: James M. Bennett
Date: 05/03/13

49 Hastings St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $156,500
Buyer: Jeffrey E. Lapointe
Seller: Amy A. Gray
Date: 04/26/13

16 Jefferson Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $197,400
Buyer: Linda A. Morey
Seller: Gary T. Magnan
Date: 04/24/13

17 Revere Circle
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Matthew P. Garris
Seller: Carole A. Jarivs
Date: 04/29/13

50 Smith St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Ovidiu Nichita
Seller: Ralph F. Jelley
Date: 04/30/13

22 Warner St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Warren W. Gray
Seller: Elena F. Sandri TR
Date: 04/22/13

133 Wisdom Way
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $158,500
Buyer: Chang-Hoyk Yu
Seller: Matthew R. Lovett
Date: 04/23/13

LEVERETT

Richardson Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: W. D. Cowls Inc.
Seller: Allyn W. Coombs
Date: 05/01/13

MONTAGUE

25 L St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $169,900
Buyer: Kimberly Cusack
Seller: Constance A. Galvis
Date: 04/26/13

NEW SALEM

2 Old County Road
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $201,500
Buyer: Amanda K. Piper
Seller: Scott L. McCarthy
Date: 05/01/13

NORTHFIELD

19 Hamilton Dr.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $159,900
Buyer: Shelby M. Holton
Seller: Mark K. Trumbull
Date: 05/01/13

175 Main St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $272,500
Buyer: Barbara L. Jacque
Seller: Sydney C. Navarro
Date: 04/30/13

ORANGE

185 Holtshire Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $172,400
Buyer: Pauline C. Bixby
Seller: Aprilee K. Howe
Date: 05/03/13

ROWE

306 Zoar Road
Rowe, MA 01367
Amount: $216,129
Buyer: Citimortgage Inc.
Seller: Philip E. Black
Date: 05/01/13

SHELBURNE

5 Mechanic St.
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Franklin Landtrust Inc.
Seller: Michael Cohen
Date: 05/02/13

SUNDERLAND

2 Ledgewood Dr.
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Stacy B. Dennie
Seller: Tyler G. Boone
Date: 04/30/13

68 South Plain Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Kathleen M. Keroack RET
Seller: Creek RT
Date: 04/25/13

WARWICK

95 Shepardson Road
Warwick, MA 01378
Amount: $127,521
Buyer: McLaine L. Schillemat
Seller: FNMA
Date: 04/26/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

11 Albert St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Callie A. Rapa
Seller: Anne M. Iellamo
Date: 05/03/13

45 Allison Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $327,500
Buyer: Miriam L. Andrews
Seller: Daniel A. Tully
Date: 05/01/13

26 Anthony St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Ian C. Mulanouskus
Seller: Amy L. Bishop
Date: 04/30/13

102 Coronet Circle
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $138,200
Buyer: Michael Osowski
Seller: Gerard R. Boucher
Date: 04/22/13

79 Cosgrove Ave.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Travis L. Trout
Seller: Miriam L. Andrews
Date: 05/01/13

204 Lancaster Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Daniel R. Torres
Seller: Christopher D. Rooney
Date: 04/29/13

475 Meadow St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $313,000
Buyer: Matthew S. Hubbard
Seller: Rudolph J. Gay
Date: 04/29/13

22 Ralph St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Frank J. Bond
Seller: Roy F. Cavallon
Date: 04/30/13

427 Southwick St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Thomas E. Cascio
Seller: David R. Tackley
Date: 05/02/13

91 Sylvan Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Ronald P. Daignault
Seller: Mary L. Daignault
Date: 04/24/13

BRIMFIELD

37 6th St.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Earl K. Wonderlie
Seller: Stuart, Raymond E., (Estate)
Date: 05/03/13

CHESTER

36 Lyon Hill Road
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $243,900
Buyer: Nicole A. Peters
Seller: Pamela M. Sanborn
Date: 04/30/13

CHICOPEE

87 Acrebrook Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Lisa H. Robbins
Seller: Joseph M. McNerney
Date: 04/29/13

84 Austin St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Doreen E. Nelson
Seller: Kevin T. Burke
Date: 04/29/13

122 Beauregard Terrace
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $144,329
Buyer: Alejandro A. Olavarria
Seller: Joseph A. Braica
Date: 04/23/13

41 Belvidere St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Peter Braun
Seller: Richard Kraus
Date: 05/03/13

9 Bill St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $143,000
Buyer: William J. Bell
Seller: Stephen P. Pettengill
Date: 04/26/13

79 Casey Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $218,000
Buyer: Brenda L. Kroeber
Seller: Janet L. Morgan
Date: 04/30/13

170 Clarendon Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $115,450
Buyer: USA VA
Seller: David T. Marchacos
Date: 04/22/13

237 Dale St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Brian M. Pouliot
Seller: Ivan N. Trombley
Date: 04/23/13

615 Front St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: 615 Front Street RT
Seller: 615 STP LLC
Date: 04/30/13

230 Grattan St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: FKC RT
Seller: Paul A. Smith
Date: 04/30/13

62 Jamrog Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $121,500
Buyer: Daniel Stamborski
Seller: Lester J. Zawada
Date: 04/29/13

70 Labelle Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Verber L. Ealum
Seller: Kusek, Joseph J., (Estate)
Date: 05/02/13

34 Langevin St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Jared C. Robert
Seller: Robert S. Miller
Date: 05/03/13

13 Louise Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $133,000
Buyer: Joseph B. Lavato
Seller: Barbara E. Gregory
Date: 04/22/13

128 Manning St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $147,350
Buyer: Allen S. Lesik
Seller: Maurice J. Cotton
Date: 04/30/13

40 Maplewood Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $119,900
Buyer: Christopher G. Morin
Seller: Jon Goudreault
Date: 04/26/13

620 McKinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Ngoeun Chhoun
Seller: D&D Chicopee Realty 3 LLC
Date: 05/02/13

117 Melvin St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $117,000
Buyer: Luis E. Encarnacion-Lopez
Seller: Cindy A. Fiorillo
Date: 04/25/13

163 Monroe St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $237,400
Buyer: Daniel R. Ernst
Seller: Joseph A. Perez
Date: 05/02/13

34 Nonotuck Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Andrea Ronghi
Seller: Thomas F. Benson
Date: 04/26/13

34 Oxford St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Dermerica LLC
Seller: Gale H. French
Date: 04/30/13

14 Parkwood Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: James L. Arnold
Seller: Walter J. Mika
Date: 04/26/13

45 Plainfield St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $1,050,000
Buyer: SDI LLC
Seller: RHD Realty LLC
Date: 04/26/13

61 South Winthrop St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: Joshua T. McKenna
Seller: Joyce B. Hogan
Date: 04/24/13

435 Springfield St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: JGAR LLC
Seller: Harvey J. Lafleche
Date: 04/29/13

54 Victoria Park
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Hector M. Morales
Seller: Adam M. Carmody
Date: 04/26/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

311 Kibbe Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: PHV RT
Seller: Charles D. Lipp
Date: 05/01/13

15 Murray Court
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $142,000
Buyer: Michael Robert
Seller: Mary J. Couchon
Date: 05/02/13

60 Old Farm Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $580,000
Buyer: Francis J. Pokigo
Seller: Kermit M. Stuart
Date: 04/26/13

178 Patterson Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $157,500
Buyer: Laurie Kimball
Seller: John Arel
Date: 04/30/13

284 Pease Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Michael E. Johnson
Seller: Sean P. Duffy
Date: 04/26/13

47 Windsor Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $454,558
Buyer: Ralph L. Santaniello
Seller: Dan Roulier & Assocs. Inc.
Date: 05/02/13

HAMPDEN

4 Andrew Circle
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Sean P. Duffy
Seller: Cheryl A. McCarthy
Date: 04/26/13

59 Baldwin Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $159,900
Buyer: Allen E. Warren
Seller: Mikaelian, Edward A., (Estate)
Date: 05/03/13

290 Bennett Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Christopher R. Przybyl
Seller: UB Propertiess LLC
Date: 04/29/13

18 Cedar Oak Lane
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $156,000
Buyer: Rebecca L. Hildreth
Seller: Diane L. Hildreth
Date: 04/26/13

HOLLAND

47 Kimball Hill Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $218,500
Buyer: Sara V. Vankeuren
Seller: Paquette Builders LLC
Date: 04/26/13

39 Shore Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: P. S. Roman
Seller: Clarissa M. Allanach
Date: 04/29/13

HOLYOKE

367 Apremont Hwy.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $144,300
Buyer: Gary D. Loomis
Seller: Eileen M. Gilhooley
Date: 04/26/13

35 Franks Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $159,900
Buyer: Reina I. Lorenzi
Seller: Angel M. Perez
Date: 04/30/13

5 Greenwood Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: Margaret E. Dugal
Seller: Lucy A. Dunham
Date: 04/30/13

341 Hillside Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Cynthia C. Schroeder
Seller: Helen Weiner
Date: 04/26/13

152 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Robert A. Hoeppner
Seller: Goodchild, Margaret A., (Estate)
Date: 05/01/13

810 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: John T. O’Donnell
Date: 05/03/13

183 Madison Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Amy C. McDonough
Seller: Dolores D. Dean
Date: 05/01/13

33 Old Jarvis Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $223,900
Buyer: Cheryl A. McCarthy
Seller: Daniel E. Fried
Date: 04/26/13

17 Vadnais St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: UMass Five College FCU
Seller: Frederick P. Barrett
Date: 04/30/13

LONGMEADOW

108 Edgewood Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $259,900
Buyer: Michael T. Jordan
Seller: Eric E. Tracy
Date: 04/29/13

623 Frank Smith Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Dennis C. Rogan
Seller: Robert Stirton NT
Date: 04/26/13

100 Normandy Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $734,600
Buyer: Daniel P. Murphy
Seller: Katharine P. Costello
Date: 04/26/13

102 Pinewood Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Katharine A. Pacella
Seller: Victor J. Steele
Date: 04/26/13

LUDLOW

67 Americo St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: James D. Deshaies
Seller: Robert A. Tardiff
Date: 04/30/13

31 Cady St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $143,750
Buyer: Timothy J. Fitzgerald
Seller: Carvalho, Henrique J., (Estate)
Date: 05/01/13

178 Howard St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $124,000
Buyer: David W. Rogers
Seller: John P. Vautrain
Date: 05/03/13

24 Lazarz St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $147,500
Buyer: Joseph W. Comi
Seller: Julie A. Felton
Date: 04/30/13

14 North Arthur St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Joaquim L. Santos
Seller: TD Bank NA

55 Power Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Mary E. McGuinness
Seller: Otis J. Roberts
Date: 04/25/13

MONSON

Boston Road West
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Antonio Fernandes
Seller: Tyler F. Washburn
Date: 04/26/13

7 Fountain St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $199,644
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank NA
Seller: Jessy D. Shea
Date: 05/01/13

4 Hilltop Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Stephen G. Farr
Seller: Hazel V. Kline
Date: 04/26/13

13 Pinnacle Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Laura K. Clark
Seller: Greater Springfield Credit Union
Date: 05/03/13

PALMER

2027 Calkins Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $178,200
Buyer: Jarid R. Provost
Seller: Anthony J. Kempesty
Date: 04/23/13

9 Kelley St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: James Baldyga
Seller: William D. Bacyk
Date: 04/25/13

72 Laurel Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: William R. Mueller
Seller: James D. Malloy
Date: 05/01/13

17 Robinson Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Christopher A. Wystepek
Seller: Sandra L. Olson
Date: 04/26/13

Thorndike St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $199,000
Buyer: Richard E. Laviolette
Seller: M Jackson Construction
Date: 04/30/13

SPRINGFIELD

200 Abbott St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Kimberly Phillips
Seller: Jason M. Ferrero
Date: 05/03/13

235 Berkshire Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Cantalini Holdings Inc.
Seller: Thibodeau Realty LLC
Date: 05/03/13

28 Biltmore St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $163,000
Buyer: Leesann A. Weekes
Seller: Jessica M. Rivera
Date: 05/02/13

791 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $178,026
Buyer: US Bank NA
Seller: Joel Fernandez
Date: 05/01/13

104 Catalpa Terrace
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: William Flores
Seller: Clancy, Karen A., (Estate)
Date: 04/30/13

18 Claremont St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $124,392
Buyer: GMAC Mortgage LLC
Seller: Rafael Rivera
Date: 05/03/13

273 Dorset St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Anthony M. Martone
Seller: Robert A. Soderstrom
Date: 05/01/13

111 Elijah St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Rose M. Soto
Seller: Anatoliy Stuzhuk
Date: 04/29/13

121 Elijah St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Victor A. Sanchez
Seller: K&N Properties LLC
Date: 04/30/13

351 Forest Hills Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: Ashley L. Brogan
Seller: Michael E. Johnson
Date: 04/26/13

384 Forest Hills Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Molly L. Dill
Seller: Geri L. Cramer
Date: 04/30/13

36 Fountain St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Jose A. Andrade
Seller: NSP Residential LLC
Date: 04/30/13

172 Gardens Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $147,500
Buyer: Omari H. Murray
Seller: Julie Walko
Date: 04/30/13

230 Keddy St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: LAG Capital LLC
Seller: William T. Raleigh
Date: 04/29/13

36 Kenway Dr.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Rebecca D. Stout
Seller: Ralph F. Esempio
Date: 04/23/13

180 Lake Dr.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Norma L. Ramos-Rivera
Seller: Jason L. Lovett
Date: 04/26/13

468 Liberty St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Dionne Real Estate LLC
Seller: 468 Liberty RT
Date: 05/03/13

36 Lloyd Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Hector O. Marrero
Seller: Samuel Diaz
Date: 04/30/13

12 Longview St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $144,900
Buyer: Vidal Cardona
Seller: James B. Morrissey
Date: 04/24/13

191 Mazarin St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $187,800
Buyer: Sandra Munier
Seller: Lisa G. Urban
Date: 05/01/13

45 Mountainview St.
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Steven Jiminez
Seller: James W. Rocca
Date: 04/26/13

107 Naismith St. #83
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Neidy Cruz
Seller: Courtside Of Springfield
Date: 04/25/13

213 Morton St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $177,423
Buyer: Everbank
Seller: Rena Brown
Date: 05/03/13

1917 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $144,000
Buyer: Kirstyn N. Anair
Seller: Theresa A. Lindsey
Date: 04/25/13

28 Pasco Road
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Bernardo Merced
Seller: Laura J. Mallett
Date: 04/30/13

62 Pear St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: James C. Lee
Seller: Daniel P. Stamborski
Date: 04/30/13

13 Quincy St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Monica L. Frater
Seller: Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity
Date: 04/26/13

167 Redlands St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $139,900
Buyer: Yamaira Rivera
Seller: Donna Schoolcraft
Date: 04/26/13

115 Saint James Circle
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $1,770,000
Buyer: Jacob I. Martinez
Seller: Allison M. Torres
Date: 04/29/13

1566 State St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: New HB Acquisition
Seller: IBC Sales Corp.
Date: 04/23/13

168 Sunrise Terrace
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $147,500
Buyer: Sarah L. Stein
Seller: Douglas Senecal
Date: 04/26/13

21 Texel Dr.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $167,500
Buyer: Vonn Tanabe
Seller: Burnham Realty LLC
Date: 04/26/13

2020 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $163,000
Buyer: Richard C. Lovely
Seller: Cardinal Home Investors
Date: 04/23/13

SOUTHWICK

29 Berkshire Ave.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $189,900
Buyer: David W. Smith
Seller: Shannon L. Stone
Date: 04/23/13

48 Fernwood Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $173,500
Buyer: Joan M. McLaughlin
Seller: Maria P. Scott-Smith
Date: 05/01/13

29 Lauren Lane
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Aube Homes LLC
Seller: Pine Knoll Inc.
Date: 05/03/13

134 Mort Vining Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $377,000
Buyer: Mitchell G. Cain
Seller: B&B Construction
Date: 05/01/13

385 North Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $229,189
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Donald R. Elton
Date: 04/24/13

107 Point Grove Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Paul E. Lewis
Seller: Michael Diotalevi
Date: 05/01/13

76 Sunnyside Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Kudlic Brothers Inc.
Seller: Lawrence Bannish
Date: 04/26/13

TOLLAND

64 Woodchuck Hollow
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Craig Serin
Seller: Margaret Dayharsh
Date: 05/03/13

WALES

199 Stafford Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $1,312,500
Buyer: Wales Village LLC
Seller: Wales Brookside Village
Date: 04/22/13

41 Stafford Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Serge P. Arel
Seller: Edmund H. Beaulieu
Date: 04/24/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

48 Abigaile Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $394,900
Buyer: Richard S. Sullivan
Seller: Cardinal Homes Inc.
Date: 04/23/13

83 Armstrong St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $137,206
Buyer: MetLife Home Loans
Seller: Earl F. Camp
Date: 05/02/13

158 Bosworth St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: Brianna L. McLaughlin
Seller: Jeffrey Sutter
Date: 05/01/13

119 Boulevard Place
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $194,000
Buyer: Franky M. Sanchez
Seller: Michael J. Trudeau
Date: 04/25/13

15 Butternut Hollow Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Robert J. Napoli
Seller: Shirley F. Soule
Date: 04/25/13

80 Forris St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Dalia Rivera-Lafreniere
Seller: Western Mass. Electric Co.
Date: 05/01/13

410 Dewey St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $144,300
Buyer: Matthew B. Gray
Seller: Anna Caron
Date: 04/26/13

113 Havenhurst Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $242,000
Buyer: Jeffrey M. Bouyea
Seller: Olga F. McCarthy
Date: 04/26/13

36 Houston Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Catherine A. Moretti
Seller: Katherine A. Caron
Date: 04/30/13

60 Labelle St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $138,586
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Rogelio Marquez
Date: 05/03/13

349 Massachusetts Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Scott Ackley
Seller: Gerald J. Carney
Date: 04/30/13

489 Morgan Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Anthony C. Rousseau
Seller: Stephen R. Friese
Date: 04/24/13

258 Ohio Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Michael J. Trudeau
Seller: Paul R. Breveleri
Date: 04/25/13

54 Pebble Path Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $184,000
Buyer: James E. Reay
Seller: Dolores M. Hickson
Date: 04/26/13

WESTFIELD

12 Deepwoods Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $242,000
Buyer: Crystal J. Childs
Seller: Natalie C. Avery
Date: 04/23/13

360 Elm St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Westfield Museum Inc.
Seller: 360 Elm Street Realty LLC
Date: 05/01/13

53 Fairview St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $227,500
Buyer: Donald E. Griffin
Seller: George W. Cordes
Date: 04/25/13

110 Foch Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Christopher L. Belair
Seller: Steven J. Brozoska
Date: 04/30/13

129 Glenwood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Thomas W. Scott-Smith
Seller: Seth J. Eaton
Date: 05/01/13

58 Knollwood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Tracy M. Larose
Seller: Richard E. Osienski
Date: 04/29/13

153 Main St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Steven E. Rovithis
Seller: Cindy L. Campbell
Date: 04/30/13

257 Montgomery Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $321,400
Buyer: Joshua J. Bennett
Seller: Bent Tree Dev. LLC
Date: 04/25/13

82 Pontoosic Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Buyer: J&C Property Services Inc.
Seller: Antoni Lech
Date: 04/29/13

21 Princeton St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $189,957
Buyer: Provident Funding Assocs.
Seller: FHLM
Date: 04/29/13

276 Shaker Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $175,000
Seller: Pamela S. Pettengill
Date: 04/26/13

70 Vadnais St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Timothy P. Ayers
Seller: Paula York
Date: 05/03/13

50 Valley View Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $148,000
Buyer: Donald M. Wurster
Seller: H. D. Wurster
Date: 04/24/13

259 Valley View Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Joanne Cerveny
Date: 04/24/13

33 Violet Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $408,000
Buyer: Kenneth L. Ridley
Seller: Kopatz Construction Inc.
Date: 04/30/13

8 Walker Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: John E. Bak
Seller: Donald E. Dumas
Date: 04/29/13

128 Westwood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $254,000
Buyer: Richard L. Sanborn
Seller: Watson, Helen A., (Estate)
Date: 04/30/13

41 Wildflower Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Joseph D. Albano
Seller: Robert J. Parenteau
Date: 04/24/13

WILBRAHAM

20 Decorie Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Alexander Hernan
Seller: Kristin M. Miller
Date: 04/26/13

44 Decorie Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $257,500
Buyer: Huanyu Wei
Seller: FNMA
Date: 04/25/13

84 Monson Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Garrett S. Lacasse
Seller: James Trimble
Date: 04/24/13

54 Mountain Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $120,750
Buyer: Kevin Czaplicki
Seller: US Bank NA
Date: 04/22/13

6 Pease St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $277,000
Buyer: Douglas M. Senecal
Seller: Scott A. Lynch
Date: 04/26/13

1 Weston St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $177,750
Buyer: James Charles
Seller: SDMCMD LLC
Date: 04/26/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

140 Middle St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Eugene A. Goffredo
Seller: Charles E. Lehane
Date: 05/01/13

1641 S. East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $790,000
Buyer: Rogert Booth
Seller: John F. Nigriny
Date: 04/30/13

379 Strong St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Frank A. Hein
Seller: Dragan Curcija
Date: 04/30/13

West St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Peter R. Heronemus
Seller: Dorothy Lashway
Date: 05/02/13

BELCHERTOWN

383 Bardwell St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Jesse A. Ritter
Seller: William J. Lebrun RET
Date: 04/26/13

10 Fox Run Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $292,000
Buyer: Peter Sfediuk
Seller: Darren M. Gainer
Date: 05/01/13

581 George Hannum Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $271,900
Seller: Brian S. Bell
Date: 04/30/13

24 Holyoke St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Lisa M. Gove
Seller: Arthur L. Dostal
Date: 04/26/13

19 Oakwood Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Vincent Cardona
Seller: Steven R. Schneider
Date: 05/03/13

59 Springfield Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Benjamin A. Graham
Seller: Timothy M. Nale
Date: 05/02/13

20 Underwood Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $157,600
Buyer: US Bank NA
Seller: Hubert Hyman
Date: 04/22/13

EASTHAMPTON

526 East St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: James B. Finn
Seller: Cynthia J. Duby
Date: 05/03/13

15 Groveland St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Ryan N. Huxley
Seller: Daniel B. Campbell
Date: 04/29/13

175 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $168,500
Buyer: Autumn Properties LLC
Seller: New Berlin Group Corp.
Date: 05/01/13

233 Park St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $190,500
Buyer: Emily Gaylord
Seller: Andrew R. Marquis
Date: 04/30/13

GRANBY

55 Barton St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Ralph H. Squires
Seller: Pamela A. Green
Date: 04/29/13

413 East State St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: John F. Guimond
Seller: David R. Benedetti
Date: 04/22/13

114 South St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $224,000
Buyer: Todd M. Chamberlin
Seller: Paul, George, (Estate)
Date: 04/30/13

HADLEY

3 Algonquin Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Donna R. Falcetti
Seller: Philip M. Marrama
Date: 04/25/13

HATFIELD

115 Main St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Andrew D. Endris
Seller: Eugene F. Proulx
Date: 05/01/13

HUNTINGTON

161 Worthington Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $142,000
Buyer: Rayman M. Koivisto
Seller: Lori A. Cesan
Date: 04/30/13

NORTHAMPTON

21 Bliss St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Ian D. Premo
Seller: Thomas F. Kelly
Date: 05/01/13

20 Bridge Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $511,493
Buyer: Marilyn Ludolph
Seller: Bridge Road LLC
Date: 04/30/13

414 Chesterfield Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $305,900
Buyer: Robert W. Carter
Seller: Nancy Y. McNulty
Date: 05/01/13

154 Cooke Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Sandra Ciach
Seller: Keith A. Smith
Date: 04/25/13

384 Florence Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $610,000
Buyer: Paramjit Kaur
Seller: Jim R. Boyle
Date: 04/30/13

17 Hawthorne Terrace
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Mark W. Jankowkse
Seller: Julie Rosten
Date: 04/26/13

311 Haydenville Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Zoe Senior Retirement Community
Date: 04/26/13

14 Hubbard Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $155,200
Buyer: Karen A. Normand
Seller: Mark D. Normand
Date: 04/24/13

623 Kennedy Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $368,000
Buyer: Elizabeth A. Fogle
Seller: Kathleen B. Bowers FT
Date: 04/26/13

101 Milton St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $237,500
Buyer: James W. Stokes-Buckles
Seller: Birch Hill LLC
Date: 04/29/13

679 Park Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Alex Altamirano
Seller: Cynthia J. Haskell
Date: 04/30/13

49 Pine Brook Curve
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Christine Grimaldi
Seller: Denise J. Isernhagen
Date: 05/01/13

47 Round Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $4,800,000
Buyer: Historic Round Hill Summit
Seller: Clarke School
Date: 04/26/13

SOUTH HADLEY

512 Amherst Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Luke D. Showalter
Seller: Adam Quenneville
Date: 05/01/13

46 Carew St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Sara Macon
Seller: Michael Murdza
Date: 05/03/13

10 North St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Jennifer Saltis
Seller: Vitaly Dzhenzherukha
Date: 05/03/13

775 New Ludlow Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $4,300,000
Buyer: Store Master Funding 3
Seller: Depetrillo Mass Realty LLC
Date: 04/23/13

244 Pearl St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Robert G. Gray
Seller: Champagne, William M., (Estate)
Date: 04/24/13

5 Ralph Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $118,900
Buyer: Adam M. Paradysz
Seller: Annette L. Menard
Date: 05/03/13

23 Ranger St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Thomas Griffin
Seller: Kathleen M. Hamel
Date: 04/26/13

14 Saybrook Circle
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $143,500
Buyer: Christopher Roy
Seller: Shirley H. Wilhelmi
Date: 04/26/13

28 Saybrook Circle
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Stacy E. Desforges
Seller: Rene W. Langlosi IRT
Date: 04/26/13

SOUTHAMPTON

32 Bissonnette Circle
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: G&F Custom Built Homes
Seller: JS Sampson Dev. LLC
Date: 04/24/13

18 Camp Jahn Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $223,500
Buyer: Matthew P. Giguere
Seller: John F. Guimond
Date: 04/22/13

4 Hillside Meadows Dr.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Thomas K. Hanrahan
Seller: Robert T. Clayton
Date: 04/30/13

WARE

126 Eagle St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Sarah L. Bouthellier
Seller: Ruby Ann M. Nugent
Date: 04/30/13

184 Greenwich Plains Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $222,000
Buyer: Michelle N. Normand
Seller: Pioneer Valley Redevelopment
Date: 04/26/13

62 Old Gilbertville Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Marie A. Rathermacher-Reo
Seller: Sharon C. Matthews
Date: 04/30/13

159 Osborne Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $192,889
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Kenneth J. Walrath
Date: 04/22/13

WILLIAMSBURG

6 Chesterfield Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $214,300
Buyer: Dennis R. Bothamley
Seller: Richard L. Ames
Date: 04/30/13

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff June 4, 2013

DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of and May 2013.

CHICOPEE

1 Person Courier Service
12 Coolidge Road
JoAnne Gilbert

Beyond Builders
117 Sunny Meade Ave.
Gene Borowski Jr.

Quality Inn
463 Memorial Dr.
Jaimin Melaviyn

GREENFIELD

A Custom Touch
29 Mill St.
Anthony Tucker

Community Substance Abuse Center
177 Shelburne Road
Matthew Davis

Hess
245 Federal St.
Richard J. Lawlor

Martin Craft
91 Norwood St.
Joshua A. Martin

Taylor Skin Care
42 Revere Circle
Jenelle Taylor

The Home Depot
264 Mohawk Trail
The Home Depot USA Inc.

HOLYOKE

Borinquen Mini Market
31 Essex St.
Marisol Millayes

Nick’s Nest
1597 Northampton St.
Jennifer E. Chateauneuf

King Mart
494 Westfield Road
Sanjay Patel

Ron’s Auto Care
150 Suffolk St.
Ronald Poirier

Victoria’s Unisex Salon
330 High St.
Gaddiel M. Paneu

Where House
109 Lyman St.
Jame A. Curran

LUDLOW

Bill’s Yogurt
116 East St.
William Dias

Chameleon Painting
58 Chapin Circle
Brian Foster

Holiday Inn Express
321 Center St.
Kishore Parmar

Ludlow Excavating Service
368 Lyon St.
Donald Roberts

M.A. Café
343 Winsor St.
Steve McDaniel

Taco Bell
343 Center St.
George Fellows

PALMER

Burgundy Brook Café
3090 Palmer Road
Keith Gordon

Crane Exterior Design
70 Bourne St.
Dale Crane

House Mouse Cleaning
23 Temple St.
Whitney Valle

HXC Floor Covering
15 Charles St.
Shane Hestad

The Tangled Grapevine
119 Boston Road
Stacy Mimoso

SPRINGFIELD

A.R.M. Carpentry Company
137 Webber St.
Richard P. Ottani

Aileen’s Daycare
87 Wilbraham Ave.
Ana Rivas

AN2KH Trucking & Delivery
31 Clarendon St.
Andre O. Alleyne

Annie Mae and Cecilia
799 Sumner Ave.
Jacqieline Simmons

Bay St. Beauty Supply
19 St. James Ave.
Musa Dakuray

Before & After
686 Belmont Ave.
Rebeca Ruiz

Christina’s Paw Spaw
1211 Parker St.
Christina Janet

Coastline Automotive, LLC
501 St. James Ave.
Beris F. Gouldbourne

Crossfit Journey
576 St. James Ave.
Stefan C. Ralph

Cutting Edge Pizza, LLC
1962 Boston Road
James L. Banister

Dennie’s Daughters
134 Catherine St.
Jimmie R. James

Edwin Ortiz – Hammerhead
65 Gilbert Ave.
Edwin Ortiz

Elite Nails
886 Sumner Ave.
Nguyet T. Nguyen

Family Mini Store
11 Dorset St.
Nathilda Ramirez

Freedom of Life Society
114 Carver St.
Jaunita Maldalena

Friendly Ridge Transportation
44 Upton St.
Rene A. Romero

Gabriel’s Property Maintenance
139 Patricia Circle
Michael Rodriguez

Game Hunters
511 Belmont Ave.
Vien Nguyen

Goodchild Renovations
16 Churchill St.
Matthew Kent

Heavens Best Cleaning Services
155 Breckwood Blvd.
Amanda Marcella

HTMD Inc.
494 Central St.
Luat Pham

Imperio Musical
2460 Main St.
Maria Rijo

Innovative Web Design
27 Highland St.
Sa Nguyen

J & G Enterprises
48 Clarendon St.
Geraldine L. Gardiner

J.N.I. Signs
904 Carew St.
Daniel Lugo Jr.

Jim’s Auto Trim Specials
1576 State St.

JMS Candyman Wholesale
88 Cleveland St.
Julia I. Correa

The Green Team
198 East Allen Ridge Road
James A. Bazinet

The Law Offices of Michael T. Kogut
75 Market Place
Michael T. Kogut

The Northernaires
370 Abbott St.
Charles E. Fryar

Video Game Giants
85 Oakland St.
Luis A. Lopez

Vintage Fresh
27 Lyman St.
Clarence B. Finch III

Wayne Poyser
49 Albermarle St.
Wayne Poyser

WESTFIELD

EJ Ventures
52 Scenic Road
Esther Hermele

Linda Z. Gallo
45 Meadow St.
Linda Zomek-Gallo

Kings Cleaner
282 Southampton Road
Nham S. Yi

SI-MAP
71 Steiger Dr.
Sean M. Fitzgerald

Stanton Contracting
147 Tannery Road
Richard H. Stanton III

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Ben’s & Viktor’s Tile
44 Riverdale St.
Ben Shokov

Choice Consultants, LLC
4 Shady Brook
Karen Sikora-Bernard

Corner Pantry
723 Main St.
Iqbal Murtaza

Fishtik Plumbing
191 North Blvd.
Grigoriy Fishtik

Heinovbeatz.com
51 Van Deene Ave.
Charles Melvin

L.A. Nails
634 Kings Highway
Ninh Lu

Needham Electric Supply Company
91 B & C Union St.
John A. O’Connell

Rise Construction Company
99 Pine St.
Timothy Atamansky

Shows4You Productions, LLC
32 Gregory Lane
Steven Midura

Briefcase

By BusinessWest Staff June 4, 2013

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Tighe & Bond Publishes 2012 Water, Sewer Rates
WESTFIELD — Tighe & Bond recently published the results of its 2012 water and sewer rate surveys for communities in Massachusetts. The results from these latest surveys indicate that residential users in Massachusetts pay approximately $498 and $646 annually for water and sewer, respectively. This represents increases of 6% and 8.2% above the 2010 averages. For more than a decade, Tighe & Bond has gathered and reported data on water and sewer rates service in Massachusetts. Using rate information that survey participants provide, we have calculated the annual average homeowner’s cost for water and sewer service based on the consumption of 90,000 gallons or 120 hundred cubic feet of water. The survey, which includes typical annual homeowner water costs for each community in Massachusetts, also provides information regarding rate structures and billing cycles. Tighe & Bond’s water and sewer rate surveys offer municipalities and private suppliers a benchmarking tool for comparing their rates against other suppliers in the state. This can be particularly useful information when suppliers are considering adjustments to their current rates or rate structures. The survey results are available to the public online at rates.tighebond.com. Founded in 1911, Tighe & Bond provides engineering and environmental services for clients in the government, industry, healthcare, education, real-estate, energy, and water/wastewater markets.

Massachusetts Economy Expected to Keep Growing
BOSTON — The Massachusetts economy is expected to grow slowly before accelerating in early 2014, benefiting from a boost in manufacturing, according to an economic forecast issued by a group of regional economists. According to the Boston Globe, although Massachusetts is in the midst of a slowdown in hiring, the five-year forecast by the New England Economic Partnership shows the state’s economy adding jobs at a significant pace beginning next year. Employers are expected to add about 30,000 jobs this year, and more than double that number in 2015. The state’s unemployment rate, 6.4% in April, is expected to decline to 5.2% by the end of 2017, the report said. Consumer confidence is getting a boost from improvements in the job market, stock market, and housing market. On the latter front, Massachusetts home prices were up by 5.3% in February from a year earlier, while residential building permits increased 24%. The forecast predicted continued improvement in housing and more jobs in construction. Manufacturing, which has experienced large job losses in recent decades, is expected to expand over the next few years because of global demand for advanced products made regionally, including medical devices, specialized materials, and semiconductors. Meanwhile, the report by the New England Economic Partnership raised questions about whether there will be enough skilled workers in the state to meet employers’ demands as Baby Boomers retire and leave the workforce. As many as 100,000 job vacancies in the manufacturing sector across New England will be created by retirements, the report said, but there may not be enough student interest in vocational education to fill those jobs or enough capacity in the educational system to train so many workers.

Unemployment Persists in Springfield, Regionwide
SPRINGFIELD — The city’s unemployment rate was 10.7% in April, the same as it was in March but higher than the 9.8% unemployment rate recorded a year ago. As a region, Greater Springfield had an unemployment rate of 7.5% in April, down from 8% in March, but again higher than the 7.2% rate recorded in April 2012, according to statistics from the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development and the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to state employment numbers figured by using a survey of businesses, Greater Springfield added 5,200 jobs in from March to April. But the region is still down 2,200 jobs, or about 0.8%, on the year. Statewide, jobs are up 48,100 on the year for a 1.5% increase. The state added 45,200 jobs in April, an increase of about 1.4%. Statewide unemployment was 6.3 percent, unadjusted for seasonal changes in the state economy. Adjusted for seasonal changes, Massachusetts’ total unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.4%, lower than the national average of 7.5%. However, when people who have stopped looking for work and those working part-time who would rather be working full-time are added to the calculation, Massachusetts’ unemployment rate rises to an average of 12.8% over the last six months, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Company Notebook

By BusinessWest Staff June 4, 2013

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Country Bank Donation Upgrades Radiography at Baystate Mary Lane
WARE — Country Bank recently pledged $100,000 to Baystate Mary Lane Hospital (BMLH) to help upgrade the general radiography unit located in the radiology department. The current unit is being replaced with a Phillips Easy Diagnost Elva, which provides vastly superior images, stores them electronically, and allows for easy electronic file sharing. The new technology will also reduce the use of actual film and related disposal costs. “This technology is designed to increase staff interaction with the patient at the point of care and make it easier for the patient during their procedure,” said BMLH President Chuck Gijanto. “It will also ensure easy access of the critical diagnostic images for any consulting provider, at BMLH or elsewhere. In addition to the purchase of the Phillips Easy Diagnost Evela, the current Radiology Department is undergoing other renovations, said Gijanto, adding that they are expected to be completed next month.

Noble Earns ‘A’ Rating in Hospital Safety Score from Leapfrog Group
WESTFIELD — Noble Hospital was recognized with an ‘A’ Hospital Safety Score by the Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The score was compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety. The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety (April 2013), the Hospital Safety Score is designed to give the public information they can use to protect themselves and their families. “Noble Hospital is very proud of our patient-safety record. It reflects a commitment to care that is shared by everyone,” said Allison Gearing-Kalill, vice president of Marketing. “This represents our dedication to the community and to providing the best patient care possible.”

PET/CT Imaging Services to Begin at Berkshire Medical Center
PITTSFIELD — Berkshire Health Systems has announced that it is partnering with Baystate MRI and Imaging and Shields Health Care Group in launching PET/CT (positron-emission tomography/computed tomography) imaging services at Berkshire Medical Center. This sophisticated, state-of-the-art imaging service will be provided as part of the new BMC Cancer Program. PET/CT Imaging at BMC combines a PET scanner and a CT scanner into one system. The mobile unit will be at BMC once a week, on Fridays, and will initially be located at the main hospital. It will move to the Hillcrest Campus of BMC in 2014 after additional construction work is completed at that location. The PET/CT service at BMC began operations on May 3. PET/CT had been provided for the past several years at Berkshire Hematology/Oncology at its offices on Conte Drive with a mobile unit, which is being replaced by this service at BMC. PET/CT is one of the most advanced medical imaging techniques available today. It combines PET’s ability to detect increases in cell activity with the fine structural detail that CT scans provide. This revolutionary technology enables physicians to detect the presence of disease earlier and pinpoint its location with much greater accuracy than PET or CT scans alone. The PET/CT information will also feed into the treatment planning technology for radiation oncology to aid in the identification of appropriate field sizes. PET/CT scans are used primarily for the diagnosis and staging of cancer. The technology can also be used for differentiating Alzheimer’s disease from other forms of dementia.

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