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Two Key Donations

The KeyBank Foundation recently awarded the Springfield Boys & Girls Club (SBGC) a $10,000 grant to support the club’s Brain Gain program, an after-school program designed to bolster grade-level reading skills for inner-city, at-risk youth. .

Pictured at top, from left: SBGC board member Aleana Laster; KeyBank Corporate Responsibility Officer Analisha Michanczyk, KeyBank Branch Manager Vanity Bryant, SBGC Director of Development Karen Natsios, KeyBank Area Retail Leader Sarah Germini, and SBGC Executive Director Vinnie Borello with students in the Brain Gain program

KeyBank also recently awarded Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity (GSHFH) a $39,000 charitable grant during the bank’s Volunteer Build Day on Chestnut Street in Holyoke. The donation will assist Habitat’s environmental-stewardship program.

Pictured above, from left: KeyBank employees Janis Deynes, Sharia Coley, Josh Flores, Norbert Grant III, Priya Tater, Tom Morace, Jeff Guyott, Kendle Taylor, and Tito Ramon with Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Aimee Giroux.

Honoring Social Responsibility

UMassFive College Federal Credit Union received the first-place Dora Maxwell Social Responsibility Community Service Award for 2023 in Massachusetts. This annual award is given out by the Cooperative Credit Union Assoc. and the Credit Union National Assoc. to honor a credit union for its social-responsibility projects within the community. UMassFive earned this award in recognition of its participation and fundraising for the UMass Cancer Walk and Run and Will Bike 4 Food.

Pictured, from left: UMassFive’s Ruth Yanka, Craig Boivin, Taylor Robbins, CEO Rich Kump, Cait Murray, Lauren Duffy, Sarissa Markowitz, Jacqui Watrous, and Robert Harrison.

Supporting the Community

Monson Savings Bank recently donated $1,750 to Friends of Wilbraham Recreation as part of the bank’s annual Community Giving Initiative. The community organization received this donation by obtaining enough votes by community members to place in the top 10 vote recipients of the Community Giving Initiative. The donation will support work to improve and maintain the Spec Pond recreational area and the town’s sports programs.

Pictured, from left: Mark Manolakis, Friends of Wilbraham Recreation president; Dan Moriarty, Monson Savings Bank president and CEO; and Bryan Litz, Wilbraham Parks & Recreation director.

Court Dockets

Court Dockets

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

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT

Robert Bauer v. Oakridge Custom Home Builders Inc.

Allegation: Breach of implied warranty of habitability, breach of contract and express warranty, fraudulent misrepresentation, violation of consumer protection law: $150,000

Filed: 9/22/23

Albert Woszczyna and Donna Woszczyna v. Ameriprise Financial Services LLC, American Enterprise Investment Services Inc., and Daryl Devillier

Allegation: Breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, negligence, negligent supervision, negligent/intentional misrepresentations: $700,000

Filed: 9/27/23

Joshua Petit and Dahlia Petit, p/p/a Joshua Petit v. Fun Z Trampoline Park Westfield LLC and Jiamen Chen

Allegation: Negligence causing personal injury: $50,000+

Filed: 9/28/23

Theresa M. Worrell v. Pyramid Management Group LLC, Holyoke Mall LP, UG2 LLC, Gallagher Bassett Services Inc., and Sompo American Insurance Co.

Allegation: Negligence; slip and fall causing personal injury: $17,693.86+

Filed: 9/29/23

Bruce Schulze and Cheryl Schulze v. Jonathan Starkman MD and Pioneer Valley Urology P.C.

Allegation: Medical malpractice: $50,000

Filed: 10/3/23

Alan Best v. S&H Goodies Realty LLC and S&H Goodies Convenience Inc.

Allegation: Negligence; slip and fall causing personal injury: $123,789

Filed: 10/3/23

Southern Connecticut Tackle Co. Inc. v. Christopher Pepe a/k/a Christopher M. Pepe a/k/a Chris Pepe d/b/a Blackbeard’s Bait & Tackle

Allegation: Breach of contract: $312,861.37

Filed: 10/6/23

Jennifer Benoit v. Joanna E. Sampson MD

Allegation: Medical malpractice: $75,000+

Filed: 10/12/23

People on the Move

People on the Move

Tracy Friedenberg

Bacon Wilson announced that Tracy Friedenberg has joined the firm as its new executive director. She comes to Bacon Wilson with more than 25 years of corporate and law-firm experience, including human resources, operations management, and information technology. She will work directly with Managing Shareholder Jeffrey Fialky across all levels of firm management in each of Bacon Wilson’s four offices. Friedenberg previously served as chief of staff for Odin Labs Inc. in New York City. Prior to that, she worked for Day Pitney LLP in Hartford, Conn. for 14 years. Her career path there advanced from project management to senior manager up to director of Technical Services and Project Management in 2020. Day Pitney is an East Coast-based comprehensive law firm with national and international reach, housing more than 300 attorneys and 13 offices throughout the Northeast, as well as in Southeast Florida. Friedenberg holds an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from the UMass College of Arts and Sciences and a bachelor’s degree in apparel marketing from the College of Food and Natural Resources. She serves as president of the board of directors for Dress for Success Western Massachusetts, a nonprofit organization that empowers women to gain economic independence.

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Amanda Sbriscia, vice president of Institutional Advancement at Holyoke Community College (HCC), has been selected for a fellowship for aspiring college presidents by the AGB Institute for Leadership & Governance in Higher Education. Now entering its fifth year, 27 college administrators from institutions around the country began their fellowships with an in-person symposium in Washington, D.C. in September. To date, 18 past participants have become presidents or chancellors of higher-education institutions, and many other participants have successfully progressed on the pathway to the presidency with commendations and new positions. The program consists of two symposia, four online workshops, attendance at the AGB National Conference on Trusteeship, and a shadowing experience with a sitting president. The institute features more than 30 higher-education expert presenters, including current and former presidents, trustees, search consultants, and other sector professionals. Sbriscia holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from Cedar Crest College, a master’s degree in higher education from Drexel University, and a doctorate in education in educational leadership from Gwynedd Mercy University. Before being hired at HCC as vice president of Institutional Advancement in 2017, she served as senior director of Advancement at Bay Path University, following her role there as director of Annual Giving and Alumni Relations. Before Bay Path, she worked in fund development for the Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts and as director of Annual Giving for Anna Maria College in Paxton.

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Rachel Rushing

Holyoke Community College (HCC) welcomed Rachel Rushing as director of the college’s Taber Art Gallery. Originally from Louisiana, Rushing is an interdisciplinary artist with a special interest in photography. She comes to HCC by way of Dallas, where she worked with the Nasher Sculpture Center to develop the Visitor Experiences program and manage special projects, such as the 2022 exhibition of CARNE y ARENA, a virtual-reality exhibition written and directed by Academy Award-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu that integrates viewers into the true accounts of refugees in their journey across the southern U.S. border. Rushing also founded and co-directed Sunset Art Studios, a social-practice art gallery, residency, and studio in Dallas. She becomes only the second director since the gallery opened in 1998, succeeding founding director Amy Johnquest, who retired last spring. Her first show as Taber director was an exhibition of photographs by John Leni Marcy titled “The City on Paper: Representations of HolyoRícan Life,” which was curated and captioned by HCC students enrolled in Latinx Studies classes. The Taber Art Gallery, located off the lobby of the HCC Library on the second floor of the HCC Donahue Building, is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., during regular school sessions.

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American International College (AIC) announced the appointment of Christopher Putnam as director of Institutional Assessment, Research, and Effectiveness. This appointment reflects AIC’s recognition of Putnam’s dedication, expertise, and valuable contributions to the college. In his new role, Putnam will be responsible for overseeing assessment and evaluation processes designed to measure the effectiveness of the institution’s programs and services. Additionally, he will provide leadership in research and analysis, strategic planning, and ensuring compliance with accreditation standards. Prior to assuming his new role, Putnam served as AIC’s student-success data analyst and demonstrated exemplary leadership in several key areas. This included the supervision of AIC’s New England Commission for Higher Education five-year report, a mandated periodic evaluation of the content and relevance of the college’s mission. Before joining AIC, Putnam held positions as a graduation and transfer credit specialist and manager of Student Services at Sierra College in Rocklin, Calif. He began his career in higher education at California State University (CSU) Sacramento, where he worked in admissions and records and academic advising. During his time at CSU, Putnam pursued his master’s degree in higher education leadership. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and subsequently obtained a certificate in web programming from Cosumnes River College.

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Pamela Sandler AIA Architect recently welcomed Norman Anton, senior designer and project manager; and Amy Pulver, office manager, to its fast-growing team. Anton is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and has lived and worked in Europe and Saudi Arabia. He attended Washington University School of Architecture in St. Louis and has worked extensively in the field with carpenters, electricians, and landscape designers. Prior to joining the Sandler AIA team, he was an architectural designer at Clark and Green. He has a wide range of experience, including historic preservation, corporate interiors, retail showrooms, and residential projects. Pulver is at the helm of the firm’s mission to create spaces with joy for new and existing clients. Her duties include event planning, facilities management, project coordination, and budget planning, ensuring that the office runs smoothly so that the design team can continue to deliver unique projects to clients and grow its relationship with the community. She brings years of experience to the Stockbridge-based architecture firm. Prior to working with Sandler, she served for nearly a decade in multiple positions and departments within the town of Great Barrington, including Public Works, Planning, and most recently as executive secretary to the town manager and Select Board.

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Celia Hickson

One year after joining the Square One team as fiscal manager, Celia Hickson has been named the agency’s chief financial officer. Hickson brings 25 years of accounting and finance experience in a variety of industries. She has worked as a controller and financial analyst in the publishing, software, biotech, and nonprofit industries. She began her career at Ernst & Young, where she earned her CPA. She is a graduate of the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. An active volunteer with Horizons for Homeless Children, she has held various leadership roles on several volunteer boards.

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After 25 years at the helm, Anne Teschner will step down as executive director of the Care Center. She will continue in that role to support succession planning with the Care Center’s board of directors to ensure a smooth transition to new leadership. The Care Center helps young mothers and low-income women resume their education wherever they left off, from HiSET preparation to an onsite college. Designed for busy mothers living in poverty, the Care Center offers childcare, transportation, counseling, food, and healthcare so that women can concentrate on their studies. During her tenure, Teschner has been instrumental in steering the Care Center through pivotal changes, establishing the organization as a leader in the realm of women’s education and empowerment. Under her leadership, the Care Center has launched visionary initiatives, such as the Bard Microcollege Holyoke and the Moving Women Forward Endowment campaign. Each year, approximately 200 young mothers and other low-income women benefit from the holistic support provided by the Care Center, based at 247 Cabot St. in Holyoke. The process of identifying the next executive director to build upon this foundation is underway.

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies

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

Alston-Brown, Keisha
18 Aster St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Chapter: 13
Date: 10/02/2023

Arsenault, Kelly A.
84 Eastwood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/30/2023

Athol Memorial Hospital
2033 Main St.
Athol, MA 01331
Chapter: 11
Date: 10/01/2023

Athol Memorial Hospital NMTC Holdings, Inc.
2033 Main St.
Athol, MA 01331
Chapter: 11
Date: 10/01/2023

Boivin, Lynn Ann
240 Arthur St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Chapter: 13
Date: 10/09/2023

Clemonts, Carrie M.
105 Lancaster St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/12/2023

Felton, Eric C.
35 Forest Hill Road
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 13
Date: 10/05/2023

Fletcher, Ian E.
93 Park Ave.
North Adams, MA 01247
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/05/2023

Goodrow, Clayton John
36 West St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Chapter: 13
Date: 10/03/2023

Gordon, Shirleyanna
1518 Dwight St., Apt. L1
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/05/2023

Kaczamarek, Michael W.
51 Crane Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/04/2023

Kunesch, Felicia Mae
73 Wheeler Ave.
Orange, MA 01364
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/10/2023

Larzazs, Keith F.
210 Greenwich Plains Road
Ware, MA 01082
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/30/2023

Laureano, Maria
86 Malden St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 13
Date: 10/10/2023

Line, Kellee A.
108 River Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/09/2023

Montovani, Shirley M.
15 Hanward Hill
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/30/2023

Morrow, Johannes G.
a/k/a Ansgaar, Johannes
PO Box 183
South Lee, MA 01260
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/10/2023

Olander, Diana M.
32 Felicia St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/14/2023

Parsley, David W.
42 Clarkson Ave.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/05/2023

Roca, Rafael A.
14 Katelyn Way
Southampton, MA 01073
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/30/2023

Sawyer, Rebecca L.
33 Elm St.
Warren, MA 01083
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/05/2023

Thomas, Timothy E.
229 Kent Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/13/2023

Visneau, Michael F.
Surprise, Lauren E.
14 Rittenhouse Ter.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/30/2023

Wagner, Tina R.
99 Northridge Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 10/10/2023

Zoschak, Andrea
1 Longview St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/29/2023

Real Estate Transactions

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

119 Elm St.
Buckland, MA 01370
Amount: $680,000
Buyer: Steven C. Parsons
Seller: J. T. McConnell Investment
Date: 10/03/23

40 Mechanic St.
Buckland, MA 01370
Amount: $350,500
Buyer: John MacGibbon
Seller: Sachs Int.
Date: 10/13/23

CONWAY

638 South Deerfield Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $150,700
Buyer: Herlinda Tuesca
Seller: Pioneer Valley Habitat For Humanity
Date: 10/10/23

GILL

4 Set Back Lane
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Paul D. Viens
Seller: Richard Cramm
Date: 10/10/23

GREENFIELD

11 Conway St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $1,000,000
Buyer: Eagle Real Estate Ventures LLC
Seller: Monahan Int.
Date: 10/06/23

110 Cottage St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Dauntless Path LLC
Seller: Lovell, George L., (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

38 Ferrante Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $476,000
Buyer: Ryan Lavoie
Seller: Lawrence P. Interlande
Date: 10/11/23

150 Green River Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $313,000
Buyer: Joshua M. Levin
Seller: Steiner, Mary L., (Estate)
Date: 10/05/23

23-25 Haywood St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Hillary E. Smith
Seller: William Spencer
Date: 10/04/23

75 Laurel St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Kerry Heathwaite
Seller: Yestramski, Francis J., (Estate)
Date: 10/10/23

462 Leyden Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $292,500
Buyer: Zachary Fry
Seller: Richardson, Sally Tam, (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

99 Meadow Lane
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Corissa E. Tripp
Seller: Wong, Yoshiko, (Estate)
Date: 10/02/23

4 Michelman Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Douglas Simon
Seller: John F. Lobik
Date: 10/10/23

36 Robbins Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $281,750
Buyer: Freeland J. Tuden
Seller: Joseph R. Lavallee
Date: 10/13/23

LEVERETT

2 Laurel Hill Dr.
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $778,750
Buyer: Linda A. Bullock
Seller: Peter Longiaru
Date: 10/12/23

LEYDEN

168 Kately Hill Road
Leyden, MA 01301
Amount: $781,000
Buyer: 168 Kately Hill LLC
Seller: Donald R. Adams
Date: 10/05/23

6 Stephen Lane
Leyden, MA 01301
Amount: $319,000
Buyer: 168 Kately Hill LLC
Seller: Donald R. Adams
Date: 10/05/23

MONTAGUE

111 Federal St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $147,250
Buyer: Edward Terault
Seller: Warsawski, Rose A., (Estate)
Date: 10/12/23

110 L St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $1,350,000
Buyer: L St. Corporate Mgmt. LLC
Seller: Pioneer Valley Redevelopers LLC
Date: 10/06/23

132 L St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $1,350,000
Buyer: L St Corporate Mgmt. LLC
Seller: Pioneer Valley Redevelopers LLC
Date: 10/06/23

19 Morris Ave.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Tomas Ovalle
Seller: Vivier, Pearl, (Estate)
Date: 10/11/23

NORTHFIELD

571-E Millers Falls Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Joseph R. Lavallee
Seller: David Gorzocoski
Date: 10/13/23

ORANGE

475 East Main St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: 475 East Main St. RT
Seller: Avila, John B., (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

188 Pleasant St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Wickline
Seller: TCS Home Group LLC
Date: 10/13/23

SHUTESBURY

Summer Mountain Road, Lot 2
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Lugosch Int.
Seller: Joan A. Antonino
Date: 10/12/23

SUNDERLAND

Brown Cross Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $195,500
Buyer: Wiseacre LLC
Seller: Monterey Rose LLC
Date: 10/11/23

River Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $195,500
Buyer: Wiseacre LLC
Seller: Monterey Rose LLC
Date: 10/11/23

WENDELL

95 Lockes Village Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $242,533
Buyer: Donald Kuzmeskus
Seller: Chicorka, Katrina L., (Estate)
Date: 10/04/23

WHATELY

167 Haydenville Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $402,000
Buyer: Allissa T. Jukiro
Seller: Grace G. Dwight RET
Date: 10/04/23

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

28 Center St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Plata O. Plomo Inc.
Seller: Whitehead. Donald R., (Estate)
Date: 10/04/23

52 Edgewater Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Daniel M. Geiger
Seller: Dorothy A. Sliech
Date: 10/10/23

28 Maynard St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Douglas Delaroche
Seller: Thomas E. Schnepp
Date: 10/13/23

832 North West St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $342,500
Buyer: Thomas C. Williams
Seller: Colin O. McLean
Date: 10/06/23

20 Ottawa St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Brian Cote
Seller: Campagnari Construction LLC
Date: 10/12/23

99 Pineview Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Caroline A. Scherpa
Seller: Charles H. Heimann IRC
Date: 10/10/23

79 Poinsetta St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Brian F. Moriarty
Seller: Daniel Geiger
Date: 10/10/23

362 Poplar St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $549,000
Buyer: Stephen J. Wodecki
Seller: Viktor Savonin
Date: 10/05/23

435 River Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $429,000
Buyer: Colin M. Deforge
Seller: Longo, Robert L., (Estate)
Date: 10/03/23

966 Shoemaker Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Mark R. Magistri
Seller: Rising, Daniel Cesan, (Estate)
Date: 10/05/23

277 Silver St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $2,562,500
Buyer: Maya Associates LLC
Seller: 277 Silver LLC
Date: 10/11/23

558 Southwick St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Maven Investment Co. LLC
Seller: Cynthia A. Kozak
Date: 10/04/23

647 Springfield St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Brett Bamford
Seller: Kevin J. Davidson
Date: 10/03/23

784 Springfield St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Tracy
Seller: Tomroc Holdings LLC
Date: 10/02/23

BRIMFIELD

108 Cubles Dr.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $334,000
Buyer: Chad Carter
Seller: Joseph Lace
Date: 10/10/23

26 Hollow Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Jennysa Singvongsa
Seller: Methuselah RT
Date: 10/11/23

85 Hollow Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $218,500
Buyer: Kristen Wood Special Need
Seller: Jockamo H. Baldina
Date: 10/11/23

230 Park Ave.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Paige Hill Properties LLC
Seller: Rcfam LLC
Date: 10/10/23

Sturbridge Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Paige Hill Properties LLC
Seller: Rcfam LLC
Date: 10/10/23

CHESTER

92 Old State Hwy.
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Lisa Estrada
Seller: Terence M. Pease
Date: 10/13/23

CHICOPEE

18 Bemis St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Meg Realty LLC
Seller: Dalton Alexis
Date: 10/10/23

415 East St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: SS Enterprises Inc.
Seller: C&H Investments Inc.
Date: 10/12/23

8 Grace St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Ahmed Al Jashaam
Seller: Brodeur, Gail A., (Estate)
Date: 10/03/23

138 Grattan St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $333,000
Buyer: Jack Watson
Seller: Andrew J. Crane
Date: 10/06/23

131 Hampden St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $226,000
Buyer: Shirley Donkor
Seller: Bozek Realty Inc.
Date: 10/04/23

30 Lafayette St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Priscilla Goldman
Seller: Jonathan W. Moulton
Date: 10/13/23

106 Lawrence Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $344,900
Buyer: Nancy M. Benard
Seller: Kazimiera Bak
Date: 10/11/23

1752 Memorial Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Matthew Yacavone
Seller: Carolyn Z. Vickers
Date: 10/04/23

36 Mercedes St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $246,500
Buyer: Patrick E. Goonan
Seller: Michael J. Goonan
Date: 10/11/23

Pleasantview Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Ahmed Al Jashaam
Seller: Brodeur, Gail A., (Estate)
Date: 10/03/23

123 Springfield St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Adivio V. Gomes
Seller: Revampit LLC
Date: 10/13/23

12 Tenney St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $314,000
Buyer: Donald A. Houle
Seller: Daniel A. Brosseau
Date: 10/04/23

27 Thornwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Phillip Rankin
Seller: McEwan, Joyce M., (Estate)
Date: 10/05/23

115 Tolpa Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Brendan Levesque
Seller: Donald J. Roy
Date: 10/13/23

44 Wallace Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $311,000
Buyer: Barbara Paulo
Seller: Kyle J. Partridge
Date: 10/13/23

EAST LONGMEADOW

Denslow Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Laplante Construction Inc.
Seller: Richard G. Elfman
Date: 10/13/23

41 Holland Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Megan Sullivan
Seller: Hugh K. Martin
Date: 10/10/23

11 Kenneth Lunden Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Brandon Obrien
Seller: David C. Malchow
Date: 10/11/23

39 Lenox Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Sara Margoles TR
Seller: Lynn M. Bolton
Date: 10/02/23

260 Maple St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $281,500
Buyer: Kyle T. Palazzi
Seller: Darlene M. Collins
Date: 10/05/23

136 Meadow Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Brian Gurski
Seller: Walter J. Crawford
Date: 10/11/23

32 Melwood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Nicholas Gero
Seller: Grigely, Anne M., (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

32 Melwood Ave., Lot 12
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Nicholas Gero
Seller: Grigely, Anne M., (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

4 Millbrook Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Amanda Torres-Alvarado
Seller: Quercus Properties LLC
Date: 10/06/23

91 North Main St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Ryan B. McGuire
Seller: Erin Ahart
Date: 10/13/23

Purves St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: 60 Munson Meeting Way LLC
Seller: Laplante Construction
Date: 10/13/23

48 Wellington Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $690,000
Buyer: Jaafar M. Hamadeh
Seller: Thomas C. Williams
Date: 10/06/23

70 Wood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Robert McCarthy
Seller: Michelle McCarthy
Date: 10/12/23

HAMPDEN

50 Baldwin Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $352,000
Buyer: Ryan M. Terbush
Seller: Joseph Hutchison
Date: 10/10/23

102 Baldwin Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $166,200
Buyer: Lumturi RT
Seller: Polley, David M., (Estate)
Date: 10/02/23

522 Main St.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: 522 Main St. Realty LLC
Seller: Hatch Property Mgmt. LLC
Date: 10/03/23

HOLYOKE

30 Ashley Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Megan E. Fanning
Seller: Mark J. Dizek
Date: 10/12/23

44 Congress Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Gabriella Phelan
Seller: Pedro Berrios
Date: 10/11/23

1519 Dwight St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $1,451,412
Buyer: Cadet 23 LLC
Seller: Oliver Auto Body
Date: 10/04/23

26 Florence Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $322,000
Buyer: Jason Laboy
Seller: Sky RET
Date: 10/03/23

278 Hillside Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Maria M. Aquino
Seller: Ameilia M. Czarnik
Date: 10/05/23

50-52 Vernon St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Sarah Jerome
Seller: Hann Realty LLC
Date: 10/12/23

LONGMEADOW

Brookside Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Camille Burger
Seller: Mark E. Salomone
Date: 10/12/23

112 Captain Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Anthony G. Dallessandro
Seller: Luigi Chiarella
Date: 10/06/23

55 Cedar Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: John Stocks
Seller: Reginald D. Smith
Date: 10/03/23

120 Crestview Circle
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: Eileen Castellanos
Seller: Daniel R. Schwarting
Date: 10/11/23

58 Fairfield Ter.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $492,500
Buyer: Jeslyn Carr
Seller: Jonathan A. Bubier
Date: 10/05/23

24 Herbert St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Xuan Tang
Seller: Matthew Gaffney
Date: 10/02/23

389 Inverness Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $640,000
Buyer: Neil Greene
Seller: Jacob B. Webber
Date: 10/11/23

549 Laurel St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Gregory J. Hughes
Seller: David A. Hirsh
Date: 10/04/23

64 Redfern Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: G. B. & Susan R. Gravel RET
Seller: March Thompson
Date: 10/05/23

1112 Williams St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $635,000
Buyer: Matthew Sandler
Seller: Gregory Dumeny
Date: 10/02/23

42 Woodlawn Pl
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Christen Brownlee
Seller: Woodlawn Property LLC
Date: 10/05/23

57 Woolworth St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $267,000
Buyer: Goodman LLC
Seller: Morgan, Marjorie S., (Estate)
Date: 10/13/23

LUDLOW

66 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Antonio G. Norton
Seller: Robert J. Lefebvre
Date: 10/02/23

504 Fuller St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Galina Mashitlova
Seller: Transform Property Group LLC
Date: 10/02/23

415 Holyoke St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Robert F. Bourdeau
Seller: Bourdeau Sr., Robert D., (Estate)
Date: 10/11/23

16 May Road
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $302,000
Buyer: Christopher J. Behnk
Seller: Flowers, Steven A., (Estate)
Date: 10/11/23

455 Miller St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Nathanial Mizula
Seller: Nicholas R. Fales
Date: 10/05/23

13 Salli Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Christopher H. Newman
Seller: Stephanie A. Richard
Date: 10/02/23

15 Victor St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $265,300
Buyer: Darlene L. Kennedy
Seller: Shawn N. Thompson
Date: 10/12/23

MONSON

59 Beebe Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Heather Garvie
Seller: Judith C. Chlebus
Date: 10/05/23

MONTGOMERY

217 Pitcher St.
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $665,000
Buyer: Amy Varner
Seller: David W. Tourville
Date: 10/05/23

PALMER

4001-4003 Hill St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Stan Properties LLC
Seller: Jose Miranda
Date: 10/05/23

1505-A-C North Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Abdul Bashier Sroosh
Seller: Linda S. Pardo
Date: 10/03/23

1644-1646 North Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Steven Mercure
Seller: A To Z Property Mgmt.
Date: 10/12/23

1061 Park St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Ana Hernandez
Seller: Mt Home LLC
Date: 10/11/23

RUSSELL

541 Woodland Way
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Jonathan Fannin Special TR
Seller: Tony L. Lewis
Date: 10/10/23

SPRINGFIELD

86 Anniversary St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $278,000
Buyer: Lismarie S. Negron-Morales
Seller: Mark A. Wikar
Date: 10/11/23

234 Arnold Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $273,000
Buyer: Frederick Collins
Seller: Douglas J. Dichard
Date: 10/12/23

438 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Yulaska G. Aguasvivas
Seller: Shaynah M. Orr
Date: 10/04/23

665 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Thomas Wilson
Seller: Joanne L. Lupi
Date: 10/13/23

726 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $740,000
Buyer: Shariyfah Lupus Fund LLC
Seller: Airbel Real Estate LLC
Date: 10/04/23

788 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $740,000
Buyer: Shariyfah Lupus Fund LLC
Seller: Airbel Real Estate LLC
Date: 10/04/23

818 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Padam Gajmer
Seller: Ravin Sharma
Date: 10/02/23

24-26 Berkshire St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Okeila S. Ledgister
Seller: Franco Henriques IRT
Date: 10/06/23

220 Birchland Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $296,000
Buyer: Jennifer D. King
Seller: Ann Hughes
Date: 10/04/23

333 Boston Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $975,000
Buyer: 1 Root Inc.
Seller: Boston Road RT
Date: 10/03/23

212 Bowles Park
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Andrea Giordano
Seller: Rene Ricardi
Date: 10/04/23

392-394 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $163,500
Buyer: Posiadlosc LLC
Seller: Steven E. Zeimbekakis
Date: 10/10/23

145 Carr St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: Nickolas S. Demetrius
Seller: Robert M. Gleason
Date: 10/02/23

66 Cedar St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $156,800
Buyer: JR & Dee Realty LLC
Seller: Peter E. Sares
Date: 10/02/23

11 Champlain Ave.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: P. & R. Investments LLC
Seller: Stacy L. Jacobs
Date: 10/03/23

43-45 Clayton St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Robinah Kintu
Seller: Kevin Kitchens
Date: 10/02/23

66 Clement St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Kristopher G. Hills
Seller: Robert H. Wilder
Date: 10/05/23

66 Crystal Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Keys Upgrade LLC
Seller: Sullivan Property Preservation
Date: 10/13/23

631-633 Dickinson St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Earl N. Reed
Seller: Khai D. Do
Date: 10/06/23

98-100 Draper St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $754,500
Buyer: Round Two LLC
Seller: Junior Properties LLC
Date: 10/03/23

37 Dubois St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $131,700
Buyer: Malia Homebuyers LLC
Seller: Emily A. Linzi
Date: 10/06/23

116 Edgemere Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Sasha Ramos
Seller: M. & F. Vazquez Home Improvements
Date: 10/06/23

57-59 Eloise St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $754,500
Buyer: Round Two LLC
Seller: Junior Properties LLC
Date: 10/03/23

156 Fair Oak Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Wolfpack Realty Corp.
Seller: Anthony S. Cremonti
Date: 10/06/23

31 Freeman Ter.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Beacon Cornerstone LLC
Seller: Paul L. Keyes
Date: 10/12/23

32-34 Fresno St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Idamaris Vega
Seller: Dimetrius A. Hatcher
Date: 10/11/23

27 Gillette Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Jonathan Schroeder
Seller: Christopher J. Castellano
Date: 10/04/23

63 Gilman St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Anissa L. Nieves
Seller: Royal Hill LLC
Date: 10/11/23

128 Glenmore St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $399,000
Buyer: Alex J. Tsang
Seller: Czeslaw Kierkla
Date: 10/06/23

130 Glenmore St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $399,000
Buyer: Alex J. Tsang
Seller: Czeslaw Kierkla
Date: 10/06/23

71 Grape St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Keron Leslie
Seller: Rosalyn Champlain
Date: 10/10/23

18 Greenacre Square
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Aramis Ruiz
Seller: Plata O. Plomo Inc.
Date: 10/10/23

517-519 Hancock St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Silvia Gonzalez
Seller: Sonia C. Marte
Date: 10/13/23

54 Hood St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Sandra Roman
Seller: Wilson & Family Real Estate LLC
Date: 10/11/23

157 Jamaica St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Daliza M. Burgos-Ramos
Seller: Darryl E. Moss
Date: 10/06/23

56-58 Jefferson Ave.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Bright Day Care LLC
Seller: Jose J. Feliz-Gonzalez
Date: 10/03/23

96 Magnolia Ter.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Emily Sprague
Seller: 96 Magnolia Terrace LLC
Date: 10/13/23

403-405 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $344,000
Buyer: Lassarone Charlemagne
Seller: Lachenauer LLC
Date: 10/11/23

1628-1640 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01103
Amount: $758,000
Buyer: Mago Inc.
Seller: New England Farm Workers Council
Date: 10/06/23

49 Mallowhill Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Shaynah M. Orr
Seller: Carla M. Sylla
Date: 10/05/23

28 Medford St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $121,000
Buyer: Jjj17 LLC
Seller: Gonzalez, Pedro M., (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

255 Oak St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Giovanni Paz
Seller: Relegacy Investments LLC
Date: 10/10/23

151 Packard Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Shanu Shanmugampillai
Seller: Alethea A. Haines
Date: 10/13/23

63 Park Edge Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Kevin P. Coffee
Seller: Skerker FT
Date: 10/06/23

676 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $306,000
Buyer: Andrea M. Bushman
Seller: Betty Deluca
Date: 10/10/23

174 Pineywoods Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $248,500
Buyer: Camilla J. Miller
Seller: Accredited Mtg. Loan TR 200
Date: 10/13/23

85 Pocantico Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Lisa Holland
Seller: Courageous Lion LLC
Date: 10/06/23

12 Prescott St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $367,000
Buyer: Robert Foster
Seller: Patricia A. Maione
Date: 10/13/23

50 Riverview St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Will J. Severe
Seller: Riverview Street RT
Date: 10/11/23

6 Rogers Ave.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $131,000
Buyer: Lee A. Dutil
Seller: Lachenauer LLC
Date: 10/13/23

34-36 Ruskin St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Steven Hayes
Seller: Diane N. Kadzik
Date: 10/02/23

30 Sachem St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $754,500
Buyer: Round Two LLC
Seller: Junior Properties LLC
Date: 10/03/23

239 Saint James Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Eric Chang
Seller: Fnma
Date: 10/13/23

288 Saint James Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $127,260
Buyer: Mortgage Assets Mgmt LLC
Seller: Annie L. Davis
Date: 10/06/23

22 Savoy Place
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: John Lizardi
Seller: Caroline R. Malaquias
Date: 10/06/23

116 Sierra Vista Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Sherilyn K. Small
Seller: Amanda C. Alvarado
Date: 10/06/23

12 Skyridge Lane
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Anthony Quinones
Seller: Casey L. Brown
Date: 10/12/23

34 Sonia St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Jason G. Peskurich
Seller: Anna M. Maliga
Date: 10/06/23

1193 State St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: SRS Partners LLC
Seller: Pogman Realty LLC
Date: 10/02/23

52-54 Stockman St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Nelson Luciano
Seller: JJJ17 LLC
Date: 10/10/23

261 Sunrise Ter.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Emilio J. Bruno-Diaz
Seller: JJJ17 LLC
Date: 10/10/23

19 Taft St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $218,530
Buyer: United Wholesale Mtg. LLC
Seller: Michael Sandberger
Date: 10/04/23

35 Trafton Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Mohamed Bendrao
Seller: Garken Realty LLC
Date: 10/02/23

201 Verge St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: James H. Burrell
Seller: Scott J. Denesha
Date: 10/02/23

80 West Alvord St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $235,500
Buyer: Round Two LLC
Seller: AJN Rentals LLC
Date: 10/03/23

122 West Crystal Brook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Graham & Lumpkin LLC
Seller: Paul R. Hanney
Date: 10/06/23

208 Westford Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Tandeka Hicks
Seller: Td Bank
Date: 10/02/23

111 Winterset Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Magaly M. Vazquez
Seller: Stephen Farr
Date: 10/03/23

50 Winthrop St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Alfred Shattelroe
Seller: Alfred Shattelroe
Date: 10/13/23

45 Yale St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Ebony Badger
Seller: David Givans
Date: 10/06/23

SOUTHWICK

62 Davis Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Elizabeth R. Imelio
Seller: Joseph M. Carnevale
Date: 10/02/23

25 Fernwood Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $339,000
Buyer: Scott Denesha
Seller: Streeter, Leland E., (Estate)
Date: 10/02/23

210 Hillside Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: Connor J. Birchall
Seller: Paula Wells
Date: 10/11/23

105 Lakeview St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $590,000
Buyer: Launa Klimowicz
Seller: Jason K. Lichtenberger
Date: 10/13/23

7 Pineywood Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: James Foley
Seller: Shirley Cross
Date: 10/12/23

TOLLAND

227 Lakeside Dr.
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Gary P. Fredericks
Seller: Susan M. Bullock
Date: 10/02/23

2000 New Boston Road
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Diane C. Christian
Seller: Dina Dumezil
Date: 10/13/23

WALES

77 Mount Hitchcock Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Jeffrey R. Latour
Seller: Sherry Latour
Date: 10/10/23

WEST SPRINGFIELD

2 Elizabeth St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Mass Housing LLC
Seller: McNulty, Thomas O., (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

512 Elm St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Joseph J. Czarnik
Seller: Samuel Sevelo
Date: 10/05/23

69 Hampden St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: URL Properties LLC
Seller: Alan N. Sharpe
Date: 10/05/23

26 Southworth St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Sean M. Fitzpatrick
Seller: Charles T. Disponett
Date: 10/04/23

38 Upper Beverly Hills
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Anthony Pelletier
Seller: Trevor Cupp
Date: 10/03/23

2165 Westfield St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Nathaniel M. Mish
Seller: Andrew J. Gasperini
Date: 10/11/23

48 Worthen St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Stephen A. Alvord
Seller: West Co. Investments LLC
Date: 10/02/23

WESTFIELD

21 Allen Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Christopher Ramos
Seller: Paul R. Troy
Date: 10/13/23

55 Apple Orchard Heights
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Pah Properties LLC
Seller: Theodore R. Alvord
Date: 10/02/23

90 Berkshire Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $281,000
Buyer: Stephen J. Oleksak
Seller: Constance J. Tkaczek
Date: 10/06/23

25 Big Wood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $577,300
Buyer: Jonathan Zuber
Seller: Kelly J. Cieplinski LT
Date: 10/11/23

30 Cardinal Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $530,000
Buyer: Tatyana Sevostyanov
Seller: Gil D. Talamayan
Date: 10/06/23

51 Crescent Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $489,900
Buyer: Charles Marsland
Seller: Thomas M. Bregoli
Date: 10/06/23

108 Elizabeth Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $317,000
Buyer: Dario Duchi
Seller: Aldo Palazzi
Date: 10/13/23

149 Glenwood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $339,000
Buyer: Mary B. Tichacek
Seller: Edward P. Andreski
Date: 10/13/23

7 Harvest Moon Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $800,000
Buyer: Robert M. Levesque
Seller: Chad H. Nelson
Date: 10/06/23

95 Honey Pot Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Andrew R. Loftus
Seller: Robert M. Lafrance
Date: 10/02/23

66 Janis Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Tyler Simmitt
Seller: Kimberly A. Constance
Date: 10/03/23

33 Jessie Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $498,000
Buyer: Stephen Dowd
Seller: William E. O’Neill
Date: 10/06/23

109 Joseph Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $312,000
Buyer: Andrey Nesen
Seller: Jeevan Kafley
Date: 10/10/23

39 Magnolia Ter.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $615,000
Buyer: Shannon N. Anderson
Seller: Sandra L. Fiedler
Date: 10/11/23

67 Mainline Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Morestate LLC
Seller: Three Brothers LLC
Date: 10/06/23

30 Medieros Way
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $950,000
Buyer: NGL Supply Terminal Co. LLC
Seller: Mongeau Realty LLC
Date: 10/03/23

199 Munger Hill Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $670,000
Buyer: Thomas M. Bregoli
Seller: Michael A. Mundorf
Date: 10/06/23

30-32 Park St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $468,000
Buyer: Viktor Pikulskyi
Seller: Jeremy J. Beltrandi
Date: 10/13/23

Pitcher St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $665,000
Buyer: Amy Varner
Seller: David W. Tourville
Date: 10/05/23

7 Westwood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $512,000
Buyer: Richard Howitt
Seller: Randolph R. Calvo
Date: 10/10/23

139 Wyben Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Benjamin Gillespie
Seller: Courtney M. Gagne
Date: 10/03/23

WILBRAHAM

291 3 Rivers Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: William D. John
Seller: William L. Meeker
Date: 10/12/23

103 Burleigh Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $303,333
Buyer: Ashlee M. Tromblay
Seller: David T. Tromblay
Date: 10/10/23

12 Delmor Circle
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Valerie P. Huard
Seller: Christopher J. Behnk
Date: 10/11/23

161 Stony Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Joan A. Devitto
Seller: Elizabeth Damato
Date: 10/11/23

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

18 Bayberry Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $827,500
Buyer: Dominick C. Lacapra
Seller: Jonathan J. Kane
Date: 10/13/23

80 Fearing St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $642,500
Buyer: Enhan Wang
Seller: Kruppres LLC
Date: 10/11/23

85 Hillcrest Place
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $695,000
Buyer: Thomas E. Brennan
Seller: Nicholas J. Dufresne
Date: 10/06/23

29 Justice Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $404,000
Buyer: Rongjuan Liu
Seller: Francis X. O’Connor
Date: 10/10/23

BELCHERTOWN

256 Cold Spring Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Sean P. Garcia
Seller: Theresa A. Przybylowcz
Date: 10/03/23

459 Franklin St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Mary B. Gunther
Seller: Kelly O. Galster
Date: 10/12/23

73-A Hamilton St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $153,647
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Shirley D. Desroches
Date: 10/12/23

73-B Hamilton St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $153,647
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Shirley D. Desroches
Date: 10/12/23

73-C Hamilton St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $153,647
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: Shirley D. Desroches
Date: 10/12/23

18 Ledgewood Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $510,000
Buyer: Monica Fowler
Seller: Michael A. Siniscalchi
Date: 10/06/23

Woodland Lane Lot R
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: JHP Builders LLC
Seller: Bell Property Corp.
Date: 10/03/23

EASTHAMPTON

41-43 Chapman Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $780,000
Buyer: North Harlow LLC
Seller: Arc Investments LLC
Date: 10/04/23

26-28 Federal St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: KMAK LLC
Seller: Christine E. Rucinski
Date: 10/10/23

3-3A Franklin St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Elaine M. Bryan
Seller: James R. Witmer
Date: 10/11/23

26 High St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $780,000
Buyer: North Harlow LLC
Seller: Arc Investments LLC
Date: 10/04/23

1-3 Lincoln St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: David Walter
Seller: Amy E. Linnell
Date: 10/06/23

106 Lovefield St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $456,200
Buyer: Stela J. Conyer
Seller: Brian J. Murphy
Date: 10/02/23

9-11 Lovell St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Jeremy D. O’Ber
Seller: John A. Knybel
Date: 10/04/23

16 Lyman St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Jose Faria
Seller: Canal Real Estate LLC
Date: 10/11/23

65 Phelps St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Kelly R. Lewis
Seller: Pah Properties LLC
Date: 10/13/23

22 Willow Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $640,000
Buyer: Indenture Of T. Eli T. Harr
Seller: Matthew F. Sandler
Date: 10/02/23

GRANBY

21 Center St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Charles J. James
Seller: Cynthia J. Ames
Date: 10/03/23

61 North St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Cherie L. Braun
Seller: Malia Homebuyers LLC
Date: 10/11/23

HADLEY

139 Mount Warner Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Jeffery M. Campbell
Seller: Steven B. Constant
Date: 10/02/23

255 River Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Justin R. Yezierski
Seller: Yeszierski, Claire, (Estate)
Date: 10/10/23

NORTHAMPTON

343 Brookside Circle
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Kaitlynne Hard-Pieczarka
Seller: Kelly R. Lewis
Date: 10/13/23

1041 Burts Pit Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $371,000
Buyer: Justin L. Sheffler
Seller: Mildred Jimenez
Date: 10/10/23

25 Finn St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Allyson M. Garcia
Seller: Carmen M. Santiago
Date: 10/05/23

1095 Florence Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Day Farm LLC
Seller: Duga 3rd, Paula, (Estate)
Date: 10/11/23

5 Highland Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Bradley J. Levay
Seller: Justin T. Serpone
Date: 10/02/23

11 Kensington Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $729,000
Buyer: Amy A. Kassalty
Seller: Baker & Titelman 2012 RT
Date: 10/13/23

1095 Park Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Day Farm LLC
Seller: Duga 3rd, Paula, (Estate)
Date: 10/11/23

57 Pine St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Rachel G. Wolk
Seller: Ann M. Konieczny
Date: 10/04/23

PELHAM

290 Amherst Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Kerri A. Tester
Seller: Doris M. Sherburne IRT
Date: 10/11/23

SOUTH HADLEY

48 Amherst Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Brightwood Properties LLC
Seller: Paul D. Viens
Date: 10/06/23

11 Dale St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Jonathan Jasmin
Seller: Julianne F. Barkman
Date: 10/12/23

70 Lathrop St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $341,250
Buyer: Vantage Home Buyers LLC
Seller: Brian A. Corriveau
Date: 10/03/23

6 Ludlow Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Yahdiel E. Torres
Seller: Donna M. Pellissier
Date: 10/06/23

143 Lyman St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Zachary C. Wright
Seller: Lisa L. Schechterle
Date: 10/05/23

550 New Ludlow Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Moynihan Realty Group LLC
Seller: Morningstar Enterprise LLC
Date: 10/04/23

37 Searle Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Carly A. Robinson
Seller: Benjamin T. Judge
Date: 10/12/23

23 Spring St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Sean Dawkins
Seller: Andrew J. Schnitzer
Date: 10/05/23

SOUTHAMPTON

12 Couture Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $287,000
Buyer: Joshua J. Prystowski
Seller: Simone Prystowski
Date: 10/06/23

5 Pomeroy Meadow Ext.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Fumi Realty Inc
Seller: Moeller, Beverly Dean, (Estate)
Date: 10/06/23

153 Pomeroy Meadow Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Carly A. Phillips
Seller: Benjamin C. Gillespie
Date: 10/03/23

WILLIAMSBURG

67 Depot Road
Williamsburg, MA 01039
Amount: $175,000
B uyer: Gregory Harry
Seller: Kathryn J. Harry
Date: 10/13/23

Building Permits

Creative Economy Special Coverage

Building Permits

The following building permits were issued during the month of October 2023.

CHICOPEE

Acclaim Properties Inc.
2 Dwight St.
$42,600 — Roofing

Acclaim Properties Inc.
78 Front St.
$62,250 — Roofing and siding

Amy Deauseault
25 Grace St.
$18,999 — Roofing

Dino Facente
520 East St.
$22,000 — Roofing

Veronique Leroy
229-231 Grove St.
$6,575 — Demolish and rebuild both chimneys

Albert Mason, Maureen Mason
145 Springfield St.
$8,750 — Roofing

RL New Life LLC
200 Exchange St.
$3,000 — New partitions and doors in sanctuary, new panic bar at rear entry with upgrade to exit signs

UFPT MA LLC
300 Burnett Road
$209,930 — Roofing

EASTHAMPTON

60-62 Main Street LLC
60-62 Main St.
$5,000 — Remove pergola and deck

Massachusetts Audubon Society
127 Coombs Road
$12,000 — Attach accessibility ramp to existing deck structure

HADLEY

Parmar & Sons Inc.
24 Bay Road
N/A — Install air handlers and heat pump condensing unit

Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield
120 Russell St.
N/A — New bell tower

LEE

705 Pleasant Street LLC
705 Pleasant St.
$382,983 — Install rooftop-mounted photovoltaic solar modules and related electrical equipment

Marian Missionaries of Divine Mercy NFP
780 Tyringham Road
$18,500 — Roofing and siding

Alan Wilcox, Lynn Bertelli
29 High St.
$4,000 — Roofing

LENOX

Chucky’s LLC
90 Main St.
$25,000 — Selective demolition

Hillcrest Educational Center
349 Old Stockbridge Road
$408,245 — Replace windows, siding, decking, and shingles

Hillcrest Educational Center
242 West Mountain Road
$318,330 — Replace siding and windows; add new exterior porch, roof, and walkways; re-roof main roof areas; HVAC work to provide ventilation of fresh air

NORTHAMPTON

4-6 Market Street LLC
4 Market St.
$60,000 — Office renovation and add kitchen

14 Conz St. LLC
14 Conz St.
N/A — Deck repairs

1924 LLC
46 Round Hill Road
$2,700,000 — Convert Coolidge Hall building into apartments

Ballybunion Realty LLC
102 Main St., Unit A
$4,340 — Illuminated sign for Smoke Shop

City of Northampton
20 West St.
$7,950 — Chimney liner at Forbes Library

DDM Properties LLC
14 Market St.
$30,000 — Roofing

Florence Congregational Church
130 Pine St.
$35,000 — Fire system upgrade and add-on

Healthy Neighbors Group LLC
321 Bridge St.
$5,000 — Repairs and replacement windows

Scher Mass LLC
10 Michelman Ave.
$10,000 — Two-car garage addition

Smith College
186 Elm St.
$10,000 — Ceiling repairs at Jordan House

Smith College
100 Green St.
$96,740 — Install and relocate growth cambers

Valley Go West LLC
3 North Main St.
$4,300 — Two roof vents and insulation

PITTSFIELD

Cross Development Berkshires LLC
41 Cherry St.
$147,000 — Patch, paint, carpentry, tile, new vanities and cabinets

L&S LP
1035 South St.
$92,000 — Machine demolition of structure, including slab and foundations

OBCC Holdings LLC
74 Downing Parkway
$168, — Roofing

Regan Development
592 North St., Building 2
$2,925,402 — Renovate building

Regan Development
592 North St., Building 3
$4,130,845 — Repair/improve commercial and residential apartments

South Street Associates LLC
153 South St.
$400,000 — Repair existing parapet

SPRINGFIELD

Citywide Associates LP
513 Main St.
$19,873.55 — Insulation and air sealing

Citywide Associates LP
64 Myrtle St.
$30,918.10 — Insulation and air sealing

Holy Name Catholic Assoc.
323 Dickinson St.
$121,964 — Roofing at Holy Name Church

Western New England University
1215 Wilbraham Road
$237,451 — Alter third-floor space in Sleith Hall for six faculty offices

Guyseymore Wilson
708 Main St.
$125,000 — Full remodel and addition to rear of property for new kitchen

Filmmaker Joany Kane Brings Her Next Project to Massachusetts

By Joseph Bednar October 26, 2023

Merry, Scary, and Coming Soon

Producer and director Joany Kane.

Will Barratt, cinematographer for A Merry Scary Christmas Tale.

If you enjoy all those Christmas movies the Hallmark Channel cranks out every holiday season, you can thank Joany Kane for her part in that.

That’s because she wrote the first one, The Christmas Card, which broke cable-TV ratings records when it aired in 2006 and garnered an Emmy nomination for its star, Ed Asner — to date, Hallmark’s only Emmy nod.

It also helped kick-start a holiday-movie craze on Hallmark that Kane, a Western Mass. native, appreciates — not only because she’s written and produced about a dozen of them, but because she loves them.

“There was no Hallmark Channel, no Christmas movies on TV” before she started writing The Christmas Card, Kane noted. “You had to go to a theater to see a Christmas movie, and even those were scarce. I wanted to see more Christmas content.”

So she did something about that, and she still is — in fact, her next effort, A Merry Scary Christmas Tale, will shoot in Western Mass. next spring, with plans for a fall 2024 release. Not only is it Kane’s directorial debut, it’s her first foray into a hybrid holiday flick, with one foot planted in the Christmas tradition, and the other in Halloween.

“On Christmas Eve at a remote Massachusetts B&B, a disenchanted candlemaker must survive an evening of sinister merriment in order to find her missing artist aunt,” the film’s pitch reads. Kane said it will be “atmospheric, mischievous, and eerie,” a gothic fable that melds the spirits of Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro.

“In the fall of 2024, we’d like to do a limited-release run, especially in Massachusetts; we can target local theaters and use the screenings for fundraisers for local nonprofits, so we can help the community as well.”

“It’s got Hallmark moments and Conjuring moments,” she said, the latter a reference to the popular horror-film franchise. She stressed, though, that her movie won’t be too scary. “We’ll have jump scares, but also Christmas carols. It’s great fun.”

But amid the fun comes a lot of work, planning, and raising funds.

“Our goal is to raise some local financing and have some investors come in,” Kane said, explaining that the firm has a high-end budget of $811,000 (which does not reflect 25% tax incentives from the Commonwealth), but could be made for half that if necessary. “If we raise at least $300,000 to $400,000 locally, we can bring in a distribution company from Hollywood who will finance the rest for us. They’ll only do movies over $700,000 on the lower end.”

Joany Kane says her directorial debut will have “jump scares, but also Christmas carols.”

Anyone who invests gets an executive-producer credit, and is also promised their money back plus a 20% return on investment, and also potential profit sharing, not only from the initial run, but in future years.

“It’s a quick turnaround to return their initial investment; then, after that, it’s like getting residuals every time the movie plays somewhere or plays on a streamer or DVD or downloads, depending on how much they’ve invested,” she explained.

Once the movie is filmed in the spring, it will be edited through the summer, with plans to hit the fall convention circuit — Comic Cons and other conventions that cater to genre content, she added.

“We’ll start building a buzz, and then, in the fall of 2024, we’d like to do a limited-release run, especially in Massachusetts; we can target local theaters and use the screenings for fundraisers for local nonprofits, so we can help the community as well.”

That would be followed by a short video-on-demand period in early November and then a premiere on a channel or streamer Thanksgiving weekend, then screening events during December.

All the while, she said, the team would maintain an active social-media presence, airing shorts on TikTok about some of the legends touched on in the script, from Krampus to Pukwudgie, a Native American legend Kane believes will become a popular character due to her movie.

In addition, she’s planning for ‘online happy hours’ building up to the premiere, where she’ll host interviews with cast and crew as well as featuring guests speaking from the holiday or paranormal perspective — or both. She’s also looking to film a ghost-hunting documentary at one or more of the film’s allegedly haunted locations, as well as selling merchandise.

The ongoing actors’ strike could alter some actors’ schedules, but as an independent production, Kane has applied for a waiver that would at least allow the production to proceed — once she gets 50% of the financing in place.

Right now, the confirmed cast included Amanda Wyss and Julie McNiven, along with tentatively planned appearances from Boston-based actor Paul Solet, as well as David Dean Bottrell, Michael Hargrove, Lance Henriksen, Cooper Andrews, and Dee Wallace.

In addition, Jeff Belanger is on board to play himself in the movie, sharing creepy and legends with guests at the film’s Harkness Manor. Belanger is the lead writer on the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures and a celebrity in the paranormal world, Kane noted, and his song “My Christmas Tree Is Haunted” will be included on the soundtrack.

Local Promise

That’s a lot — cast, crew, financing, filming, and marketing — to juggle, especially for someone sitting in the director’s chair for the first time.

Which is an important milestone for Kane, a 1983 graduate of Northampton High School who got her start in filmmaking during the 1990s, working for the documentary production company Florentine Films (co-founded by Ken Burns) and serving as associate producer on several Emmy-winning PBS documentaries.

“I want to make sure we use as many Massachusetts locations, and place as many Massachusetts products, as we can. It’s sort of a love letter to my history and my home neighborhoods.”

Her first completed screenplay was an office comedy, not unlike Horrible Bosses more than two decades later, that drew interest from some Hollywood players, including Bette Midler, who offered Kane “sage advice,” she recalled. To pay her bills around this time, during the late ’90s, she was also working for Lashway Law in Williamsburg.

Kane’s breakthrough success in Hollywood soon followed, as she finished the script for The Christmas Card in 1999 and optioned it to a producer in 2003, who brought it to Hallmark, where it “launched the current Christmas-movie craze we now have,” she told BusinessWest.

Since her success with The Christmas Card, she has optioned or sold more than two dozen screenplays and has had more than a dozen movies made. In 2013, she came up with a streaming service dedicated to turning romance novels into movies and series; she coined the name Passionflix, purchased the domain, and in 2016 formed a partnership to launch the streamer. Passionflix debuted in September 2017.

She’s excited to shoot A Merry Scary Christmas Tale in Western Mass., hoping to get started in early spring, when the exteriors can still be made to look Christmas-y, but the night shoots won’t make the cast and crew freeze.

Movie and TV veteran Amanda Wyss will play one of the leads in A Merry Scary Christmas Tale.

“We’re doing it independently so we have complete control over quality and creation, and I want to make sure we use as many Massachusetts locations, and place as many Massachusetts products, as we can. It’s sort of a love letter to my history and my home neighborhoods.”

Will Barratt, the film’s cinematographer, is best-known for shooting and producing the Hatchet films, including Frozen, Spiral, Chillerama, and Digging Up The Marrow. He won two Emmy awards in 2002 and was nominated for the 2014 BloodGuts UK Horror Award for Digging Up the Marrow.

Co-producer and co-director Mary Fry specializes in producing feature films and series for an international market, Kane said. Fry has worked on more than 60 feature films and 12 series with award-winning actors such as Kate Hudson, Michael Shannon, Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Snoop Dogg, and Danny Glover; collaborated with Russell Carpenter, who won a Best Cinematography Oscar for Titanic; and produced romantic comedies for Passionflix, Nasser Entertainment, and Caliwood Pictures.

She shares Kane’s vision for a scary Christmas movie — an idea that used to be more common than it is now.

“Telling scary stories by the fireside was at one time a cherished Christmas tradition. That’s how the world got A Christmas Carol. Scary stories at Christmas were as treasured as Hallmark Christmas movies are today,” Kane said, noting that Charles Dickens wrote his classic tale for a Victorian audience that liked to be scared at Christmas. “The cinematic holiday content we enjoy today started with a ghost story.”

With A Merry Scary Christmas Tale, Kane is hoping to revive the once-beloved tradition of telling scary stories at Christmastime — and hopes that, like A Christmas Carol, her film becomes a classic that’s rewatched each holiday season, generating profits to pour into more movies.

“Hopefully this will become like Paranormal Activity or the Conjuring series — a little movie that does insanely well. Then we can have a base in Western Mass., a production company to crank out a lot of fun content that honors the area and its communities.”

Looking Ahead

Kane’s affection for Halloween fare is reflected in other ways; she recently launched Coven Cons with the goal of hosting conventions that celebrate the witch in pop culture.

And her love for her home state is even more deeply ingrained.

“Massachusetts is such a magical state — so much beauty, history, and a lot of cool legends. The people are fun to hang out with, and there’s a lot of great ingenuity in Massachusetts.

“So it’s great to bring all that together and make really cool movies,” she went on, adding that she’s interested in drawing on Massachusetts-based writers who have penned scary stories, including greats like Edith Wharton. “We’d love to turn those into movies. My goal is to focus on stories that would be great to premiere any time from September to December.”

Viewers will have that experience as soon as next fall — that is, if the coming year’s efforts prove more merry than scary to Kane and her team. Anyone interested in investing in the project should email [email protected].

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Fore a Good Cause

On Oct. 2, M.L. Schmitt Inc. raised $44,000 at a charity golf tournament at Springfield Country Club in celebration of its 100th anniversary in business. The proceeds were split evenly between the Greater Holyoke YMCA and Baystate Children’s Hospital, which each received a $22,000 donation.

Mia Goreck of Baystate Children’s Hospital (center) with, from left, M.L. Schmitt’s Peter Coppez, Jean Pierre Crevier, Tucker Schmitt, and Elizabeth Coppez

Kathy Viens of the YMCA with Crevier (left) and Peter Coppez.

Mission Accomplished

As the organization celebrates its 40th anniversary, Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island was presented with a donation of $38,000 from Friends on a Mission, which was started by three friends — Bob Perry, Jenn Schimmel, and Walt Tomala Jr. — who wanted to bring together their networks to support good work done in their community.

Pictured, from left, at Friends on a Mission’s Party for a Purpose fundraiser on Oct. 11: George Deveney of Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island; Howard Cheney of Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C., one of the event’s hero sponsors; Tomala, Schimmel, and Perry; Mariama Sano and Amy Carroll of Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island; and Matt Bannister of PeoplesBank, also a hero sponsor of the party.

Cheers for Children

Monson Savings Bank President and CEO Dan Moriarty recently presented a $1,000 donation to Stacey Perlmutter, director of Development for Shriners Children’s New England, in support of the Cheers for Children event. Held on Oct. 20 at MGM Springfield, the event featured food, live entertainment, games, a cash bar, and a silent auction, and directly benefited Shriners Children’s New England, which provides specialty orthopedic, neuromuscular, cleft lip and palate, and urologic care exclusively to children.

Monson Savings Bank President and CEO Dan Moriarty recently presented a $1,000 donation to Stacey Perlmutter

Court Dockets

Court Dockets

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT

Chasity Olivo v. 3455 Main Street Associates LP

Allegation: Negligence causing personal injury: $51,933.45

Filed: 9/12/23

US LBM Holdings LLC v. Saltmarsh Brothers Construction Inc. and Jesse Saltmarsh

Allegation: Breach of contract: $86,730.20+

Filed: 9/12/23

Alan Styckiewicz v. City of Chicopee and Chicopee Public Schools

Allegation: Employment discrimination (age): $70,000

Filed: 9/14/23

Daniel Boynton, personal representative of the estate of Deanna Boynton v. Steven Weinsier, MD; Linda Theriault, PA-C; Zachry Zichittella, MD; and Gina Zichittella, NP

Allegation: Medical malpractice, wrongful death: $50,000+

Filed: 9/14/23

Ashley Garib v. BaytechIT LLC, GPMF Holdings Inc. d/b/a Pixel Health, Jennifer Brown, and Sheridan King

Allegation: Employment discrimination: $100,000

Filed: 9/15/23

Public Access Cable Television of Longmeadow Inc. v. Town of Longmeadow

Allegation: Breach of contract: $328,625.62

Filed: 9/15/23

Michael Schultz and Farrah Schultz v. J&F Investments, James Charles individually, and Felix Bonilla Martinez individually

Allegation: Violation of Consumer Protection Act, breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, misrepresentation/fraud, breach of express/implied warranty: $55,000

Filed: 9/20/23

Allegra Petell v. Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School District, et al

Allegation: Employment discrimination, retailiation: $254,000

Filed: 9/22/23

Agenda

Agenda

Difference Makers Nominations

Through Dec. 8: Do you know someone who is truly making a difference in the Western Mass. region? BusinessWest invites you to nominate an individual or group for its 16th annual Difference Makers program. Nominations for the class of 2024 must be received by 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 8. Difference Makers was launched in 2009 as a way to recognize the contributions of agencies and individuals who are contributing to quality of life in this region. Past honorees have come from dozens of business and nonprofit sectors, proving there’s no limit to the ways people can impact their communities. Let us know who you think deserves to be recognized as a Difference Maker in our upcoming class by visiting businesswest.com/difference-makers-nomination-form to complete the nomination form. Honorees will be profiled in an upcoming issue of BusinessWest and celebrated at a gala in the spring.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

Nov. 1-30: Matthew Sosik, president and CEO of bankESB, is kicking off the bank’s 2023 Neighbors Helping Neighbors fundraising drive to help support local food pantries. This marks the third year of the bank’s annual appeal, which invites bank customers, employees, and community members to donate money between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30 to help fight food insecurity. All donations up to $2,500 per customer will be matched dollar for dollar by bankESB, and the total raised will be divided among participating food pantries across Western Mass. in communities the bank serves. In 2022, through contributions and matching donations, the campaign raised $35,000, and since inception, the bank has donated $74,000. Donations of any amount are encouraged. As an added incentive to give, the bank offers those who donate the opportunity to enter a drawing for a $25 gift card, which will be awarded at each of its 11 locations. Those who wish to participate have until Nov. 30 to make their donations. Checks should be made payable to “bankESB Neighbors” and can be dropped off at any bankESB branch or mailed to Margaret Prendergast, bankESB, 36 Main St., Easthampton, MA 01027. A total of 14 food pantries will be supported this year, including the Best Life Food Ministry, Agawam; BUCC Helping Hands Cupboard Food Pantry, Belchertown; the Chicopee Cupboard; Easthampton Community Center Food Pantry; Easthampton Congregational Church Food Cupboard & Oasis Kitchen; the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Hatfield; the Hadley Food Pantry; Hilltown Food Pantry, Goshen; Margaret’s Pantry, Holyoke; Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc., South Hadley; Northampton Survival Center; Not Bread Alone, Amherst; Southampton Community Cupboard; and Westfield Food Pantry.

The Mighty Oktoberfest

Nov. 3-4: The Student Prince and the Fort Restaurant will celebrate the Mighty Oktoberfest. The two-night event kicks off on Nov. 3 at 5:30 p.m. with the Berkshire Mountain Wanderers on stage and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno on site to tap the ceremonial keg. Oktoberfest food will include bratwurst, knockwurst, and burgers, with a full menu indoors that includes German fare such as sauerbraten, braised lamb, and pork shanks. Other live music includes Trailer Trash at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, followed by Saturday’s lineup of Berkshire Mountain Wanderers at 5 p.m., American Badass (Kid Rock tribute) at 6 p.m., Jagged Little Pam (Alanis Morissette tribute) at 7:15 p.m., and a Foo Fighters tribute at 8:30 p.m. Single-night and two-night passes are available at the gate. Passes include one complimentary ‘haus beer’ from a list for those who are 21 or older.

Whisker Wonderland

Nov. 4: Dakin Humane Society will present Whisker Wonderland from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 171 Union St., Springfield. Admission is free, but donations will be welcomed. The second-annual holiday craft event will include a variety of local artisans offering pet-centric crafts and gifts. Last year’s first-ever Whisker Wonderland event attracted many pet lovers and craft enthusiasts across Western Mass. and Northern Conn., as well as holiday shoppers and people seeking eco-friendly, locally focused gift items. Vendors featured at the event will include Auntie’s Best Creations, Best Dressed Cup, Brodester’s Bandannas, Cindy’s Creations, Chicken Frosty, Diane’s Little Creations, Fine Design Solutions, Fleece4Fun, FroebelArt, Gifted Vine, Grandma Hubbard’s Candy Cupboard, Laura Louise (author), M&M Rustic Designs, Make It Wright Creations, MJ’s Creative Crochet, Noni’s Notions, Paintings by Sandy, Pet Rocks by LF, Sand and Sea, Sew Cozy by Abby, Sew Kreative, Toby’s Treats, and the Tragic Whale. In addition, Dakin’s Home Again thrift shop will be open at that time to provide additional shopping options. There will be a raffle of donated gift items to support animals at Dakin Humane Society, and Dakin’s holiday merchandise will be for sale. The family-friendly event will also feature a bake sale with hot chocolate. Sponsors for Whisker Wonderland include VCA Animal Hospitals and Finck & Perras Insurance Agency Inc.

Trees of Hope

Nov. 4-17: Ronald McDonald House of Springfield announced the third annual Trees of Hope holiday celebration, being held at Gary Rome Hyundai, 150 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke. Trees of Hope is a festive fundraising event that supports the Ronald McDonald House of Springfield’s mission to provide the critical link between specialized medical treatment and the children who desperately need it. The event will feature creative holiday trees, dream gifts, and displays donated by local businesses, individuals, and community organizations. There is no entry fee to view the displays. Each display will be raffled off using an online raffle system that allows people to participate both in person and virtually. On Thursday, Nov. 9, a Halfway to Hope reception will be held for sponsors, display donors, and friends of Ronald McDonald House. Center Square Grill, Jackalope Restaurant, Pete’s Sweets, LoopHole Brewing, and Horizon Beverage will donate the evening’s refreshments. Trees of Hope will also include a Paint & Sip fundraiser on Sunday, Nov. 5 from 1 to 3 p.m., and a craft fair on Sunday, Nov. 12 from 11:00 a.m. to 4 p.m., both hosted at Gary Rome Hyundai. The craft fair is open to the public. The Paint & Sip event is by reservation only. To register, contact Cathy Riley of Gary Rome Hyundai at [email protected] or (413) 536-4328, ext. 1062.

Super 60

Nov. 9: Ashley Kohl, owner of Ohana School of Performing Arts and an entrepreneur with an inspiring story to tell, will be the keynote speaker at the Springfield Regional Chamber’s Super 60 lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the MassMutual Center in downtown Springfield. The Super 60, a program that traces its roots back to the late ’80s, when it was the Fabulous 50 before being expanded, is being revamped for 2023. In addition to the two traditional categories — Total Revenue and Revenue Growth — there will be three new categories recognizing nonprofits, startups, and giving back to the community. There are 12 winners in each category; read about them starting on page 22. Tickets will be available for purchase at the chamber’s website, springfieldregionalchamber.com. For more information on Super 60, call (413) 787-1555.

ignite 2023 Conference

Nov. 15-16: “The Future of Work/Humanification in the Age of AI” will be the topic of the Chamber of Greater Easthampton’s ignite 2023 professional-development conference at Abandoned Building Brewery, 142 Pleasant St., Easthampton. The two-day conference is designed to empower leaders, business owners, professionals, entrepreneurs, employers, and employees with the knowledge and skills required to thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of work. The conference will emphasis the latest trends and best practices in artificial intelligence (AI) and explore the intersection of AI and the human workforce. Over the course of the two days, ignite 2023 attendees will better understand how AI is reshaping industries; discover ways to utilize AI integration to propel sales; learn new approaches to boosting employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention using AI; explore cutting-edge communications tools, techniques, and insights into customer behavior; and identify actionable strategies and tactics for implementation. The ignite 2023 conference will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and will include speakers, interactive workshops, group problem-solving activities, and relationship-building opportunities. Registration for the ignite 2023 conference costs $179 for chamber members and $199 for non-member, and includes all conference materials as well as lunch both days. Pre-registration is required, and the deadline for registration is Wednesday, Nov. 8. For more details about the conference and to register, visit www.easthampton.org.

Women of Impact

Dec. 7: BusinessWest will honor its sixth annual Women of Impact at Sheraton Springfield. Tickets cost $95 per person, and tables of 10 are available. To purchase tickets, visit businesswest.com/womenofimpact. The class of 2023, profiled in the Oct. 16 issue of BusinessWest and at businesswest.com, are: Fredrika Ballard, president, Aero Design Aircraft Services and Fly Lugu Flight Training; Carla Cosenzi, president, TommyCar Auto Group; Arlyana Dalce-Bowie, CEO, Moms in Power; Sandra Doran, president, Bay Path University; Dr. Khama Ennis, founder, Faces of Medicine and Intentional Health, LLC; Dawn Forbes DiStefano, president and CEO, Square One; Amy Jamrog, CEO, the Jamrog Group; Michelle Theroux, CEO, Berkshire Hills Music Academy; and Lisa Zarcone, author, speaker, and child and mental-health advocate. The event is sponsored by Country Bank and TommyCar Auto Group (presenting sponsors) and Comcast Business (partner sponsor).

People on the Move

People on the Move

Rebecca Todd

The Connecticut River Conservancy announced Rebecca Todd as its new executive director. Todd has most recently served as the executive director of New Hampshire’s Stonewall Farm, a nonprofit working farm and education center; however, her experience as an attorney has shaped most of her career. For more than 30 years, she has advised organizations, individuals, and businesses in matters related to environmental, educational, contractual, employment, and nonprofit management. She served as general counsel for Antioch University and as associate attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General in Washington in the Education and Ecology divisions, and litigated cases for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund Inc. (now Earthjustice) and the Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. related to the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and hazardous-waste laws. She also teaches environmental law, legal advocacy, and other subjects nationally and internationally. In addition to these professional accomplishments, Todd grew up in the Connecticut River watershed, has raised a family while stewarding farmland along the river in New Hampshire, and is cultivating a new passion for the sport of rowing. CRC’s previous executive director, Andy Fisk, departed in the fall of 2022 after 10 years with the organization and is now the Northeast Regional Director at American Rivers. During this transitional time, CRC has been led by interim Executive Director and Director of Restoration Programs Ron Rhodes, who has been a member of the CRC staff for more than 12 years.

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Tania Barber

The Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts’ trustees of the Order of William Pynchon announced Tania Barber, president and CEO of Caring Health Center, as this year’s Pynchon Medal recipient. She will receive the award at an event at Springfield Technical Community College on Monday, Nov. 13. Caring Health Center (CHC) is a Springfield-based care provider of affordable and equitable healthcare services. Barber began her career with CHC as a part-time switchboard operator in 1996. Through regular promotions during her 24-year tenure, she rose to become the organization’s leader in 2013. In addition, her belief in empowering women through education led her to establish the Tania M. Barber Learning Institute in 2023. Students of the institute will earn a salary as they receive training for careers in the healthcare field. In addition to providing a talent pipeline for an industry in dire need of trained workers, it will provide students with a pathway to well-paying jobs that also benefit the community. Barber is also the founder and pastor of Living Water Global Ministries, a non-denominational Christian church; EST.HER, a leadership consulting firm; and Daughters of Shared Vision, a faith-based counseling service for women. She has also served on a variety of local and regional boards, including the Springfield Technical Community College science degree program advisory board, Health New England, Florence Bank, and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.

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Maggie MacElhiney

Geri McCarthy

OMG Inc. promoted Maggie MacElhiney to the position of director of Talent for the organization. In her new position, she is responsible for managing human-resource activities including talent acquisition and onboarding, talent development, performance management, compensation, succession planning, and workforce planning. MacElhiney has been with OMG since 2006, most recently as the senior Talent Development manager. She holds a master’s degree in adult education and human resource development from the University of Texas, Austin, and is a member of the Assoc. for Talent Development and the Society for Human Resource Management. OMG also promoted Geri McCarthy to the newly created position of director of Employee Engagement, where she is responsible for managing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; employee wellness and engagement programs; and general HR responsibilities. McCarthy has been with OMG since 2012 in a variety of roles, most recently as director of Operations, where she also headed the company’s DEI council and wellness committee. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business from American International College and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

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Claire Kelly

The Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce (GNCC) announced the hiring of Claire Kelly as senior manager of Investor and Community Relations. She brings broad skills and deep experience in entrepreneurship, educational programming, and event management to the role. She also has a strong appreciation for the local community, having lived in the Pioneer Valley for the past 10 years. Before coming to the chamber, Kelly spent seven years as founder and director of Educational Experiences Abroad, a custom academic service provider that specialized in study-abroad programs, primarily in Cuba. An innovative self-starter, she successfully navigated the fast-changing regulatory environment in the U.S.-Cuba travel industry, and delivered educational experiences and programs for a diverse group of clients. Prior to that, she directed business-development activities and designed custom program at Amherst-based Spanish Studies Abroad. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Gettysburg College and a master’s degree in Spanish linguistics from Middlebury College.

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Dietz & Company Architects announced that Aditya Surendhra, AIA has completed the Architectural Registration Examination and met all of the requirements for architectural licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As a licensed architect, he has been promoted from architectural staff to the position of architect. Surendhra joined Dietz & Company in 2020 and primarily works on multi-family housing projects, with his approach being a focus on building performance and resilience. His work includes existing-conditions laser scanning and modeling for historic projects, as well as projects in the commercial sector. He also takes the lead in managing and developing the firm’s in-house Revit software standards, including libraries and templates. Prior to joining Dietz, he earned his bachelor of architecture degree from Syracuse University. He also interned for firms in India and the U.S., where he worked on housing and historic-preservation projects.

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Ilana Steinhauer

The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission (BRPC) announced Ilana Steinhauer, executive director of Volunteers in Medicine, as the 2023 Charles Kusik Award winner. The Kusik Award recognizes outstanding contributions to Berkshire County. Steinhauer has led Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) since 2014 as executive director and director of Medical Services. Volunteers in Medicine currently serves 1,700 uninsured patients, 90% of whom are immigrants. Their patient population has grown rapidly in recent years, with 400 new patients in 2022 and an expected 500 new patients in 2023. VIM’s patients range from newly arrived asylum seekers who need life-saving care to veterans who need dental work to essential workers who have lived here for decades. VIM manages this patient load with 17 staff members and more than 170 clinical and non-clinical volunteers who donate more than 10,000 hours annually. Steinhauer first moved to the Berkshires in 2006 after graduating from Wesleyan University. She began interning at Volunteers in Medicine and quickly realized she wanted to do patient care with this population. After taking prerequisites at Berkshire Community College, she moved to the Boston area to complete her nurse practitioner degree and began her career as a nurse with the Medical Group/Harvard Vanguard Associates in Beverly. In 2014, she moved with her family back to the Berkshires to become executive director at VIM. Bilingual in Spanish, she continues to provide direct patient care in addition to being the executive director.

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Tapestry announced the appointment of Mavis Nimoh as its incoming executive director. With more than 20 years of experience advocating for social justice and health equity, she brings a wealth of knowledge and leadership to Tapestry. Nimoh joins Tapestry following her role as executive director of the Center for Health and Justice Transformation in Providence, R.I., where she led a team of experts in public health, physical and behavioral health, and the criminal legal system. She brings extensive experience in the public-health sector, including programs that support the uninsured and underinsured, HIV early intervention, testing and counseling, and prevention services focused on addressing systemic health inequalities. Her career also includes her role as associate professor at Brown University School of Public Health and her tenure at the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, along with her leadership as executive director of the Dauphin County Department of Drug and Alcohol Services. Her expertise in harm reduction and health equity aligns with Tapestry’s mission to provide non-judgmental, quality care for all.

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Amelia Holstrom

Attorney Amelia Holstrom of Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C. has been recognized as one of the 2023 Top Women of Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. The Top Women of the Law program celebrates the outstanding achievements of exceptional women in the legal profession. Each year, the publication and accompanying event — scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 1 — honors women who have demonstrated great accomplishments in their field. Holstrom has been with Skoler Abbott since 2012 and was named a partner in 2019. She defends employers in litigation involving claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation, wage-and-hour violations, contract disputes, and other employment issues. She also advises clients with respect to compliance challenges, personnel policies, and day-to-day employment issues, and provides custom training programs and materials on a variety of important topics, including harassment, paid and unpaid leave, and ADA accommodations. Holstrom is an active participant in the Greater Springfield community. She is chair of the Wilbraham Personnel Advisory Board and a member of the Wilbraham Commission on Disability, the boards of Clinical and Support Options Inc. and the East of the River Five Town Chamber of Commerce, the board development committee for Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts, and the personnel committee for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

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New England Public Media announced that six professionals recently joined the staff.

• Vanessa Lima is NEPM’s new senior business manager. She comes to NEPM from the city of Springfield’s Administration and Finance Division, where she was a deputy project director. Prior to that, she worked with the Springfield Police Department, Baystate Health, and Boston Public Schools. She holds a bachelor’s degree from UMass Amherst.

• Cathy Zimmerman joins NEPM as accounts payable clerk. She has been an accountant for more than 20 years, serving nonprofit and for-profit organizations, including the United Way of the Franklin and Hampshire Region, Argotec in Greenfield, and the Sisters of Providence Health in Holyoke. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Elms College.

• Maria Burke is stepping into the role of senior major gifts officer. An experienced fundraising strategist, she served as director of Development at Springfield Symphony Orchestra for several years. She is also the founder of the WillPower Foundation, a regional nonprofit serving individuals living with disabilities in Western Mass.

• Nancy Dieterich is NEPM’s interim director of corporate sponsorship. She has more than 40 years of experience working in public and commercial media, including serving as managing director of Local Corporate Sponsorship at GBH and general manager of Boston’s WCRB. She attended the College of Liberal Arts at Pennsylvania State University at McKeesport.

• Jonthany Rivera and Jill McNally join NEPM as multimedia account executives. Rivera is a recent graduate from Westfield State University with a degree in communications focusing on journalism. McNally joins NEPM after spending 30 years in the broadcast industry in various roles. Most recently, she worked for Saga Communications for WRSI/WHMP, Rock 102, and other radio stations in marketing and sales. Before that, she worked at Connecticut stations WTIC and WTRC as an account executive.

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Chelsea LeBlanc

Market Mentors LLC, a fully integrated marketing, advertising, and public-relations agency, announced the promotion of Chelsea LeBlanc, a Baltimore native who now lives in Windsor, Conn. She was promoted to account director in the Client Services department after joining the agency in February as an account executive. Before joining Market Mentors, LeBlanc served as a channel marketing director at a hospitality and food-services company with a focus on brand activation, process improvement, and project management. In her growing role as account director, she will bring her 15 years of experience and strategic skill set to client planning, agency processes, and more. A graduate of Western New England University with a degree in marketing communications/advertising, LeBlanc is a Smartsheet product certified user, Project Management Institute member, and project management professional candidate.

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Holyoke Community College (HCC) Criminal Justice Professor Nicole Hendricks was honored on Oct. 6 with an Inspiration Award from the African American Female Professor Award Assoc. (AAFPAA). Each year, the association celebrates a handful of Black female professors at its annual awards banquet, which this year was held at the Griswold Theater on the campus of American International College in Springfield. Hendricks, a 17-year faculty member at HCC, was one of four Black female professors recognized. Hendricks has served as chair of the Criminal Justice Department at HCC and teaches a variety of courses in that area, including criminology and women’s studies. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses as part of HCC’s Learning Communities program. For example, in “Reimagining Incarceration,” she and her teaching partner, Economics Professor Mary Orisich, explore mass incarceration through the lens of feminist social-justice theory, gender and sexuality studies, critical race theory, and political economy. Hendricks’ efforts to reimagine incarceration extend well beyond the classroom. Together, she and Orisich founded Western Mass CORE (Community, Opportunity, Resources, Education), a prison-education program based at HCC that seeks to facilitate pathways to college for people impacted by the criminal legal system.

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies

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

Apolinary, Maria
276 Parkerview St.
Springfield, MA 02119
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/29/2023

Arnon, John
1656 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/18/2023

Baker, Aaron M.
188 River St.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/21/2023

Caulfield, Matthew J.
1148 South Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/23/2023

Cordero Vazquez, William
50 Brown Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/20/2023

DeRosier, David E.
36 Sterling Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/21/2023

Farrell, Kenneth D.
307 Main St., Apt. C1
Sturbridge, MA 01566
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/29/2023

Fortin, Chris
138 E Quincy St.
North Adams, MA 01247
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/21/2023

Govoni, Vincent R.
139 Silver St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/20/2023

Gray, Melissa
267 Abbott St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/21/2023

Haskins, James E.
227 Franklin St., Apt. 3B
North Adams, MA 01247
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/18/2023

Lane, Thomas B.
Lane, Jennifer L.
81 Parker St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/29/2023

Lavallee, Rod J.
Lavallee, Kimberly A.
24 Deerfoot Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/21/2023

Lovin, Melinah
Starkweather, Margaret
110 Sand Hill Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/25/2023

Lugo, Kevin
1 Auburn St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/20/2023

Malafronte, Michelle L.
a/k/a Larkins, Michelle L.
2 Pidgeon Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/21/2023

Pedraza-Hernandez, Wilfredo
75 Bloomfield St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/27/2023

Provost, Cassie M.
131 Laconia St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/26/2023

Provost, Robert
952 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/29/2023

Riley, Gregory T.
4 Cove Island Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/28/2023

Ring, Brenda Joyce
89 Beacon Dr.
Palmer, MA 01069
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/18/2023

Robles, Soralis
18 Milton St.
Indian Orchard, MA 01151
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/27/2023

Rodriguez, Luis A.
61 Bircham St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/26/2023

Schafer, Kathleen M.
42 Bowdoin St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/21/2023

Slatcher, Dav Jonathan
127 Memorial Dr.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/28/2023

Swinton, Patricia A.
50 Parkerview St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Chapter: 13
Date: 09/22/2023

White, Mary Joan
117 Paul Revere Dr.
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 7
Date: 09/25/2023

Real Estate Transactions

Real Estate

FRANKLIN COUNTY

ASHFIELD

359 March Road
Ashfield, MA 01370
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Jena R. Duncan
Seller: Wendy L. Mimitz
Date: 09/20/23

198 Steady Lane
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $476,500
Buyer: Brian E. Westrick
Seller: Jay K. Conklin
Date: 09/22/23

BUCKLAND

45-1/2 School St.
Buckland, MA 01370
Amount: $254,900
Buyer: Abdallah Iskandar
Seller: Charles F. King LT
Date: 09/22/23

BERNARDSTON

31 Deane Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $281,000
Buyer: Frederick D. Rowe
Seller: Derrell W. Stratford
Date: 09/22/23

86 Hillcrest Dr.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Shawn Emmett
Seller: Kubilus, Kenneth J., (Estate)
Date: 09/25/23

COLRAIN

254 Bardwells Ferry Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $447,333
Buyer: Shaina Cantino
Seller: James J. Dowd
Date: 09/22/23

142 Calvin Coombs Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Johnnie Chace
Seller: June Ahearn
Date: 09/27/23

194 East Colrain Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Jessica Ridge
Seller: Daniel M. Goldstein
Date: 09/29/23

1 South Catamount Hill Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Bear River NT
Seller: Maloney, Thomas J., (Estate)
Date: 09/18/23

DEERFIELD

35 King Philip Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $570,000
Buyer: John T. McConnell
Seller: Frederick D. Beckta
Date: 09/28/23

26 Pleasant Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Allison Jones
Seller: Jonathan Talbot
Date: 09/22/23

ERVING

19 East Main St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $239,900
Buyer: Erving Properties LLC
Seller: Spence, John M., (Estate)
Date: 09/27/23

219 North St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Hannah O. Johnson
Seller: Christopher B. Fellows
Date: 09/21/23

3 River Road
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Corey Johnson
Seller: Terry J. Johnson
Date: 09/29/23

GILL

92 Barney Hale Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $339,000
Buyer: Francisco A. Mugnani
Seller: Derick R. Adams
Date: 09/21/23

GREENFIELD

32 Abbott St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Sarah Jurkofsky
Seller: Diane A. Clancy TR
Date: 09/29/23

19 Birch St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $427,000
Buyer: Rhys H. Williams
Seller: Grignaffini-Gordon Int.
Date: 09/26/23

88 Davis St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Rogers Re Solution Inc.
Seller: Donald W. Miller
Date: 09/20/23

408 Davis St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Alison McKenna
Seller: Paul-Micheal T. McKenna
Date: 09/19/23

47 Green River Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Mary L. Murphy
Seller: Bompastore, Gelio N., (Estate)
Date: 09/19/23

123 Green River Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $557,000
Buyer: Marek S. Machalski
Seller: Ryan K. Martin
Date: 09/29/23

14 High St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Outliers Collective LLC
Seller: Walker Int.
Date: 09/27/23

1 Mohawk Trail
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Two Fathers LLC
Seller: David W. Brady
Date: 09/19/23

11 North St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $244,000
Buyer: Lisa M. Smith
Seller: Dufraine, Richard P., (Estate)
Date: 09/18/23

37 Phillips St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $318,500
Buyer: Dilruba A. Sofia
Seller: Andrew T. Sirulnik
Date: 09/25/23

124 Wells St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Jacob A. Balter
Seller: Leea R. Snape
Date: 09/28/23

MONTAGUE

12 Country Club Lane
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Elizabeth R. Kiviat LT
Seller: Bay Flow LLC
Date: 09/22/23

10 Randall Wood Dr.
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Hunter W. Ratelle
Seller: David Bernard
Date: 09/29/23

50 Turnpike Road
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Tyler J. Leary
Seller: William D. Ingram
Date: 09/28/23

20 Winthrop St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Alex Hill
Seller: Christopher M. Goshea
Date: 09/28/23

NORTHFIELD

81 Maple St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Thomas Wallerstein
Seller: Holloway Int.
Date: 09/29/23

730 Mount Hermon Station Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: James Simon
Seller: Russell E. Manz
Date: 09/29/23

ORANGE

41 Ball St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Lazaro B. Ramirez
Seller: Michael D. Phillips
Date: 09/25/23

35 Carpenter St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $259,000
Buyer: Jonathan B. Dewitt
Seller: Erin R. Webster
Date: 09/25/23

51 Carpenter St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $282,500
Buyer: Kyle J. Rosewarne
Seller: Edward L. Verheyen
Date: 09/29/23

5 Holmes Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: William J. McBride
Seller: Mark T. Brazell
Date: 09/29/23

262 Main St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $177,500
Buyer: Jennifer Lapierre
Seller: Geoff E. Nelson
Date: 09/21/23

235 Oxbow Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $138,579
Buyer: Devin Parker
Seller: Cynthia Audet
Date: 09/28/23

56 Shays Way
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $362,000
Buyer: Colleen Peloquin
Seller: Erin M. Soucie
Date: 09/29/23

SHUTESBURY

7 Baker Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $895,000
Buyer: Mariah I. Shore
Seller: Jeffrey R. Lacy
Date: 09/25/23

34 Sumner Mountain Road
Shutesbury, MA 01002
Amount: $1,150,000
Buyer: Slater Victoroff
Seller: Joan A. Antonino
Date: 09/25/23

SUNDERLAND

Amherst Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: All States Construction Inc.
Seller: Barbara J. Goodhind
Date: 09/19/23

83 Russell St.
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $727,250
Buyer: Karen M. Cardozo
Seller: Erin M. Cherewatti
Date: 09/29/23

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

30 Belmont Ave.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Tanner Sousa
Seller: Kyle R. Stocks
Date: 09/25/23

14 Briarcliff Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Jeffrey J. Benoit
Seller: Jie Chen
Date: 09/26/23

519 Cooper St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Jonathan Rodriguez
Seller: Terrell Carter
Date: 09/25/23

24 Damato Way
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $705,000
Buyer: Ryan J. Connell
Seller: Bretta Construction LLC
Date: 09/19/23

21 Dwight St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $2,475,000
Buyer: PCR Agawam LLC
Seller: Mark D. Olson
Date: 09/29/23

141 Elizabeth St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $557,000
Buyer: John Federico
Seller: Lori Andruss-Jewel
Date: 09/18/23

12 Federal St. Ext.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Jennifer White
Seller: Stebbins FT
Date: 09/26/23

13 Kathy Ter.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Kyle Stocks
Seller: Lilia Mereshko
Date: 09/25/23

963 Main St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Patrick Moretti
Seller: Heritage Ventures LLC
Date: 09/29/23

210 Meadow St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $251,000
Buyer: RCF 2 Acquisition TR
Seller: Shannon Corbett
Date: 09/25/23

124-130 Riviera Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $720,000
Buyer: Hanna D. Awkal
Seller: Andrew A. Parrelli
Date: 09/29/23

60 Roberta Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $256,000
Buyer: Kyle Keeley
Seller: Clyde L. Simpson FT
Date: 09/28/23

48-50 South Westfield St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Isaiah Pagan
Seller: Golden Gates Realty Assocs.
Date: 09/28/23

263 Suffield St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Autumn T. Bradway
Seller: Luis A. Lizardi
Date: 09/29/23

416 Suffield St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $369,000
Buyer: Kaylish M. Lopez
Seller: Regina A. Chaple
Date: 09/21/23

42 Windermere Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $751,000
Buyer: Fhamida Khan
Seller: Viet Q. Nguyen
Date: 09/28/23

BLANDFORD

9 Cobble Mountain Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Beacon Home Buyers LLC
Seller: Michael L. Goff
Date: 09/29/23

BRIMFIELD

8 Hillside Dr.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $175,500
Buyer: John D. Holdcraft
Seller: Tonya L. Olsen
Date: 09/25/23

129 Old Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Delfino F. Bonanca
Seller: Dale A. Descoteau
Date: 09/29/23

138 Old Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $278,000
Buyer: Tyler R. Bradway
Seller: Walch, Yvonne M., (Estate)
Date: 09/21/23

119 Sturbridge Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: SRV Properties LLC
Seller: Robert Kazan
Date: 09/28/23

CHICOPEE

547 Broadway St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Rolando Saravia
Seller: Harry Melendez
Date: 09/28/23

163 Chapel St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $353,000
Buyer: Karen Lamoureux
Seller: Debra M. Burdeau
Date: 09/29/23

34 Fanwood Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $220,398
Buyer: Jonathan M. Figueroa
Seller: Leonard Raymond Belisle TR
Date: 09/21/23

44 Fanwood Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Megan Noonan
Seller: James Gutierrez
Date: 09/29/23

37 Fisher Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $346,000
Buyer: Odlaire Alexandre
Seller: Garcznski, Robert A., (Estate)
Date: 09/26/23

23 Greenleaf St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Nicholas Alvarez
Seller: James M. Roy
Date: 09/29/23

22 Grove Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: RT Commercials LLC
Seller: Anthony E. Pelletier
Date: 09/22/23

373 Hampden St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $288,041
Buyer: Ffmlt T2006-Ff13
Seller: Michael A. Cady
Date: 09/21/23

39 Haven Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: William M. McCarthy
Seller: Zachary J. Turgeon
Date: 09/22/23

62 Jamrog Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $354,000
Buyer: Lucia M. Barroso
Seller: Devan M. Stamborski
Date: 09/18/23

43 Lorimer St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Debra M. Burdeau
Seller: Ciara Murphy
Date: 09/29/23

194 Montgomery St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $281,000
Buyer: Elizabeth K. Ryan
Seller: Joseph Thibault
Date: 09/29/23

70 Orange St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Kbocker Realty LLC
Seller: Adrienne Realty LLC
Date: 09/28/23

741 Prospect St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $264,900
Buyer: Lisa M. Montero
Seller: Jean C. Santiago-Reyes
Date: 09/20/23

79 Ruskin St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Edward P. Nolan
Seller: Fournier, Joyce May, (Estate)
Date: 09/29/23

54 Sanders St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Natalie A. Figueroa
Seller: Helen G. Smus
Date: 09/22/23

88 Saratoga Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Thomas Gardiner
Seller: Janice Morris
Date: 09/29/23

111 Simonich Circle
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $308,000
Buyer: Adam Haney
Seller: Belanger, Donald V., (Estate)
Date: 09/19/23

120 South St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: Alexandra McNally
Seller: Luis R. Santana
Date: 09/28/23

111 Summit Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: Zachary Turgeon
Seller: Bouchard, Janice R., (Estate)
Date: 09/22/23

11 Wilfred St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Leila E. Garcia
Seller: Ryan C. Smith
Date: 09/20/23

EAST LONGMEADOW

39 Bond Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Wellington Csa Holdings LLC
Seller: T. & K. Realty LLC
Date: 09/19/23

72 Cooley Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: John M. Normoyle
Seller: Marygrace A. Larabee
Date: 09/29/23

42 Hazelhurst Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Carmen Dejesus
Seller: Kelly, Janet Pradella, (Estate)
Date: 09/18/23

5 Heritage Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $599,000
Buyer: Dina Mackenzie
Seller: Debra H. Katz
Date: 09/29/23

105 Industrial Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $1,950,000
Buyer: Rytaygav LLC
Seller: Daugherty Realty LLC
Date: 09/26/23

131 Maple St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $184,000
Buyer: Melro Associates Inc.
Seller: Carmen M. Mercado
Date: 09/27/23

68 North Circle Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Christopher Lockery
Seller: Jeremy Anekstein
Date: 09/20/23

333 North Main St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Michael M. Nsubuga
Seller: Joseph V. Ferrero
Date: 09/22/23

26 Oak Bluff Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: David Larocca
Seller: Vrmtg Asset TR
Date: 09/29/23

60 Pease Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $740,000
Buyer: Jaime H. Cisneros
Seller: Carl C. Zimmerman
Date: 09/29/23

55 White Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Truce Real Estate LLC
Seller: Mary E. Stacy
Date: 09/20/23

39 Wilder Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Andrea Dangelo
Seller: A. J. & B. J. Gay Realty NT
Date: 09/22/23

GRANVILLE

1012 Main Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Emily Olszewski
Seller: Peter B. Crowley
Date: 09/26/23

HAMPDEN

48 Allen Crest St.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Jillian A. Lombardi
Seller: Leona T. Grundstrom
Date: 09/28/23

Bennett Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Paul M. Marion
Seller: Egan Flanagan & Cohen PC
Date: 09/19/23

551 Glendale Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: David B. Dussault
Seller: David Gallant
Date: 09/28/23

Hollow R0ad Lot 1
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Brian Dussault
Seller: David Gallant
Date: 09/28/23

27 Kibbe Lane
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Custom Home Development Group LLC
Seller: William R. Maybury
Date: 09/18/23

163 South Monson Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Salina G. Clink
Seller: Joseph H. Finnegan
Date: 09/18/23

175 Stafford Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $725,000
Buyer: W. M. Hamilton
Seller: Susan A. Jeanroy
Date: 09/29/23

HOLLAND

93 Leno Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Matthew T. Barto
Seller: Christopher C. Smith
Date: 09/18/23

HOLYOKE

191 Appleton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Appleton Redevelopment LP
Seller: Holyoke Redevelopment Authority
Date: 09/29/23

298 Apremont Hwy.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Kevin Gagnon
Seller: Lori A. Young
Date: 09/29/23

Beacon Ave. (rear)
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $991,000
Buyer: Oliver Auto Body
Seller: D. Stankiewicz
Date: 09/28/23

72 Beacon Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Lymaris Alicea
Seller: Pah Properties LLC
Date: 09/20/23

19 Dillon Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Sarah E. Harper
Seller: Frederick G. Destromp
Date: 09/29/23

1509 Dwight St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $991,000
Buyer: Oliver Auto Body
Seller: D. Stankiewicz
Date: 09/28/23

1545 Dwight St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $991,000
Buyer: Oliver Auto Body
Seller: D. Stankiewicz
Date: 09/28/23

20 Forestdale Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Iglesia Creciendo
Seller: Wooil Kim
Date: 09/22/23

39 Gilman St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Kevin O’Connor
Seller: Ann K. Calvanese
Date: 09/20/23

728 Hampden St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $2,400,000
Buyer: 728 Hampden LLC
Seller: Winchester Realty LLC
Date: 09/29/23

2 James St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Sergey Savonin
Seller: J. Mass Properties LLC
Date: 09/21/23

7 Nicholls Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $375,190
Buyer: Crum Ft
Seller: Robert J. Lewandowski
Date: 09/28/23

1789 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $605,000
Buyer: SS Enterprises Inc.
Seller: Five Sticks LLC
Date: 09/18/23

2027-2029 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Melvin B. Fuentes Pena
Seller: Yasmin Thahir
Date: 09/29/23

155 Norwood Ter.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $247,000
Buyer: Katharina Kowalski
Seller: Francis R. McAnulty
Date: 09/29/23

186 Pleasant St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Lawrence S. Fieber
Seller: Paula G. Brunault
Date: 09/25/23

12 Saint James Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $206,616
Buyer: Bank Of America
Seller: Ana M. Nisbitt
Date: 09/19/23

81-85 Sargeant St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $1,300,000
Buyer: Good Branch Holdings LLC
Seller: Republic Clear Thru Acquisition
Date: 09/21/23

12 Scott Hollow Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Madison M. Sullivan
Seller: Kerry M. Mikalchus
Date: 09/29/23

2 Vernon St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Sergey Savonin
Seller: J. Mass Properties LLC
Date: 09/21/23

LONGMEADOW

80 Barclay St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $312,000
Buyer: Barclay Street Holdings LLC
Seller: Nadine Buckley
Date: 09/26/23

130 Edgewood Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $386,000
Buyer: Ritesh J. Mistry
Seller: Brendan Bailey
Date: 09/22/23

198 Edgewood Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Michael Benoit
Seller: Frank T. Rea
Date: 09/20/23

840 Frank Smith Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Cihat Selvitopu
Seller: Davitt Paula J., (Estate)
Date: 09/20/23

93 Green Willow Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $900,000
Buyer: George J. Gikas
Seller: Marc J. Zerbe
Date: 09/29/23

46 Hawthorne St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Scott Graham
Seller: Richard S. Ravosa
Date: 09/20/23

121 Hawthorne St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $369,900
Buyer: Michael Wray
Seller: Elizabeth A. Manitsas
Date: 09/29/23

91 Hazelwood Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Amy Berg
Seller: Kristan Xanders
Date: 09/22/23

43 Hilltop Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $635,000
Buyer: Kristen Hyberg
Seller: Tassel, Anita D. Van, (Estate)
Date: 09/19/23

20 Laurel Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $277,500
Buyer: Elaine Dullea
Seller: Amy Marchacos
Date: 09/22/23

720 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $937,000
Buyer: Charles Beresford
Seller: Saundra B. Reilly
Date: 09/29/23

1562 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: John Phillips
Seller: Jonathon B. Hall
Date: 09/27/23

76 Meadowbrook Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $516,000
Buyer: Kevin Connolly
Seller: Christopher R. Bernd
Date: 09/29/23

186 Meadowlark Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Chibueze Uchendu
Seller: John Federico
Date: 09/18/23

240 Meadowlark Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Gerald M. Fitzgerald
Seller: Alvin Roy
Date: 09/18/23

5 Pinelawn Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Lhea Destromp
Seller: Ross A. Henke
Date: 09/20/23

15 Wheel Meadow Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $660,000
Buyer: Naila Akram
Seller: Jeffrey D. Novak
Date: 09/22/23

41 Wilkin Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Ernest Abramian
Seller: Phyllis J. Gregorski
Date: 09/28/23

LUDLOW

Balsam Hill Road Lot 74
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $154,900
Buyer: David H. Porter
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 09/25/23

44 Briarwood Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $264,900
Buyer: Daniella D. Pike
Seller: Belitza M. Morales
Date: 09/18/23

16 Cady St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Carvalho Properties LLC
Seller: J. & H. Irt
Date: 09/25/23

608 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: P. & E. Properties Inc.
Seller: Michael Georgiadis
Date: 09/28/23

1459 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $462,000
Buyer: Melissa Brennan
Seller: Brian A. McDaniel
Date: 09/28/23

1459 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Brian A. McDaniel
Seller: Diane D. Cousineau
Date: 09/28/23

298 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Jamie Chandonnet
Seller: Marco A. Gomes
Date: 09/22/23

14 Chestnut Place
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $1,648,000
Buyer: Northeastern Investors LLC
Seller: MidAmerica Properties LLC
Date: 09/25/23

28 Harlan St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Kayla Ovelheiro
Seller: Lyn M. Lourenco
Date: 09/18/23

26 Higher Brook Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Jason R. Duke
Seller: Thomas R. Bamber
Date: 09/29/23

12 Merrimac St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $261,000
Buyer: Ann M. Popko
Seller: Antonio P. Machado
Date: 09/22/23

Sewell St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $1,648,000
Buyer: Northeastern Investors LLC
Seller: MidAmerica Properties LLC
Date: 09/25/23

119 Stevens St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Anthony M. Pizzi
Seller: Philip R. Gray
Date: 09/22/23

Turning Leaf Road, Lot 98
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: Nicholas K. Goggin
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 09/28/23

100 West Akard St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Marianne C. Barrett
Seller: Coyne, Joan M., (Estate)
Date: 09/22/23

749 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $611,898
Buyer: 749 West Street LLC
Seller: Daniil Gerasimchuk
Date: 09/22/23

212 Woodland Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $680,000
Buyer: Drew Nalewanski
Seller: Ronald Stephenson
Date: 09/29/23

MONSON

20 Hilltop Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $360,250
Buyer: Christopher Fish
Seller: Teresa O’Connor
Date: 09/26/23

174 Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Frank Hull
Seller: Palmer Road RT
Date: 09/21/23

59 Paradise Lake Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Ronald M. Heesemann
Seller: Jane C. Appleby
Date: 09/18/23

MONTGOMERY

30 Mountain Acres
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: David W. Tourville
Seller: Alfred G. Ames
Date: 09/22/23

11 Pineridge Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $470,500
Buyer: Kimberly Devine
Seller: Dallas S. Deogburn
Date: 09/29/23

PALMER

2028 East St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $256,000
Buyer: Kerri R. Karnbach
Seller: Donna M. Casler
Date: 09/26/23

2175-2177 Main St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Diego Calle
Seller: Stephen R. Holuk
Date: 09/22/23

4188 Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Felix Campos
Seller: Blake Lamothe
Date: 09/29/23

19 Old Farm Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Thomson 2016 Ft
Seller: David J. & Ann F. Allen Lt
Date: 09/26/23

121 River St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Laura M. Kasica
Seller: David L. Hawkins
Date: 09/29/23

39 Shaw St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $311,000
Buyer: Hayden J. Hulsart
Seller: Anthony M. Wilkins
Date: 09/28/23

RUSSELL

146 Blandford Stage Road
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: Kelsey Martin
Seller: Wynter Bachetti
Date: 09/29/23

732 Pine Hill Road
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $735,000
Buyer: James Boggs
Seller: Stewart, Edward G., (Estate)
Date: 09/29/23

SOUTHWICK

526 College Hwy.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Varroa Haven Realty LLC
Seller: Mass. Partnership S. & L. Cook
Date: 09/28/23

234 Feeding Hills Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Volodymyr Kovalchuk
Seller: Stephen Werman
Date: 09/22/23

19 George Loomis Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $251,000
Buyer: Madison Winch
Seller: John W. Henderson
Date: 09/28/23

53 Powder Mill Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Brett Burkholder
Seller: Nancy Detraglia
Date: 09/22/23

273 South Longyard Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Eric B. Shapiro
Seller: Theodore M. Zabawa
Date: 09/18/23

3 South Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: RM Blerman LLC
Seller: John Ryan
Date: 09/25/23

6 South Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Vladimir Vilkhovoy
Seller: Donald C. Furlani RET
Date: 09/29/23

1 Tall Pines Trail
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $494,280
Buyer: Alexis A. Morse
Seller: Dennis Aube
Date: 09/19/23

SPRINGFIELD

19 Agnes St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Timothy W. Gallagher
Seller: Princess Hill
Date: 09/19/23

70-72 Albemarle St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $416,000
Buyer: Olga K. Perozo
Seller: Equity Trust Co.
Date: 09/19/23

20 Alden St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Quwadeesha Parris
Seller: R. M. Blerman LLC
Date: 09/29/23

550 Alden St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: James T. Rizzelli
Seller: Family & Developments LLC
Date: 09/20/23

120 Alderman St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Maribel Marin
Seller: Jose A. Rentas
Date: 09/20/23

19 Algonquin Place
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Erika Vaughn
Seller: Eduardo Diaz
Date: 09/29/23

631 Allen St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Rood L. Etiene
Seller: Alexander J. Wilson
Date: 09/18/23

19 Ambrose St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Sharina D. Bermudez
Seller: Kelnate Realty LLC
Date: 09/29/23

27 Amity Court
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Ashley Brown
Seller: William McMahon
Date: 09/28/23

139 Balboa Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $185,555
Buyer: William T. Raleigh
Seller: Rocket Mortgage LLC
Date: 09/20/23

61 Beauregard St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Holden M. Sjostrom
Seller: Lajuan R. Davis
Date: 09/22/23

138 Bloomfield St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $307,000
Buyer: Bathzaida Cruz
Seller: Casa Trio LLC
Date: 09/18/23

211 Breckwood Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: James Gilbert
Seller: Aaron Stonacek
Date: 09/29/23

47 Brighton St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Joshua Morse
Seller: Jill C. Wray
Date: 09/27/23

64 Burghardt St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Campagnari Construction LLC
Seller: Paul A. Carestia
Date: 09/20/23

28 Bushwick Place
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Danisha M. Phillips
Seller: Jorge Mateo
Date: 09/29/23

94-96 Byers St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Empyre Property Investors LLC
Seller: Szu-Ming Li
Date: 09/27/23

19 Catalina Dr.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $359,900
Buyer: Logan R. Collins
Seller: Luz M. Rivera
Date: 09/29/23

133-135 Commonwealth Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Jaden G. Rivera
Seller: Dang Quach
Date: 09/29/23

76-78 Corona St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Tamara Frater
Seller: Little Eagle LLC
Date: 09/19/23

27 Dayton St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Brenda Torres
Seller: Smails LLC
Date: 09/20/23

77 Dunmoreland St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Estanislao Jimenez
Seller: DLK Holdings LLC
Date: 09/21/23

3 East St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Richard P. Rios
Seller: Bridget T. Burris
Date: 09/27/23

63 Eleanor Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Thu T. Nguyen
Seller: J. J Feliciano-Hernandez
Date: 09/21/23

27 Freeman Ter.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Stephen R. Brooks
Seller: Allen J. Toussaint
Date: 09/18/23

132 Gilbert Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Matthew Milner
Seller: Mary Pennicooke
Date: 09/22/23

148 Gilbert Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Leo M. Grant
Seller: Maria D. Gerena
Date: 09/18/23

108 Grandview St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Natanael Velez
Seller: Militello, Richard, (Estate)
Date: 09/29/23

25 Hazen St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Emanuel Aguilar
Seller: Eric B. Shapiro
Date: 09/18/23

105 Helberg Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Dennis Discawicz
Seller: Jeff L. Webster
Date: 09/22/23

53-55 Hope St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $291,000
Buyer: Alan K. Holota
Seller: Christopher N. Larrivee
Date: 09/27/23

24 Kenilworth St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $269,000
Buyer: Estrellita Encarnacion
Seller: Ernesto Padilla
Date: 09/28/23

23 Kenwood Park
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Ericka G. Carrillo
Seller: Joseph P. Riendeau
Date: 09/27/23

48 Kings Lane
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $158,014
Buyer: Nationstar Mortgage LLC
Seller: Emilio Dones
Date: 09/26/23

21 Kingsley St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $267,500
Buyer: Estuardo Robles
Seller: Stephen A. Otto
Date: 09/28/23

42 Kipling St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Justin Flaugh
Seller: Eileen J. Cole
Date: 09/21/23

66 Lancaster St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Better Builders Construction LLC
Seller: Davs, Joan B., (Estate)
Date: 09/18/23

410 Liberty St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $384,500
Buyer: Omar A. Galva
Seller: Jose R. Ortiz
Date: 09/29/23

36-38 Longfellow Ter.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Carlos Gomez
Seller: Juan M. Cruz
Date: 09/21/23

63 Margerie St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $166,174
Buyer: Mclp Asset Co. Inc.
Seller: Eunice D. King
Date: 09/25/23

58-60 Marlborough St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Nehal Parekh
Seller: JJS Capital Investors LLC
Date: 09/21/23

73 Massachusetts Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $121,000
Buyer: Wicked Deals LLC
Seller: Ernest D. Green
Date: 09/19/23

94 Maybrook Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Joshua Flowers
Seller: Gerald M. Fitzgerald
Date: 09/21/23

65 Merida St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $117,300
Buyer: Fremont Home Loan TR 2005-D
Seller: Robert Marona
Date: 09/18/23

33 Merrill Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $216,000
Buyer: Josue I. Garces
Seller: Claire Grenier
Date: 09/26/23

260 Naismith St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Steven R. Williams
Seller: Mark Iaconis
Date: 09/18/23

7 Nathaniel St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Liz D. Matos
Seller: Angel Suarez
Date: 09/20/23

14 Norman St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $313,000
Buyer: Luis A. Cardona
Seller: Arpin, Raymond J., (Estate)
Date: 09/22/23

180-182 Oak Grove Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Coterie Investors Group LLC
Seller: Ramon Torres
Date: 09/21/23

254 Oakland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Rina Khan
Seller: Mason Capital Ventures LLC
Date: 09/29/23

36 Overlook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Hang Truong
Seller: Lahiff FT
Date: 09/18/23

105-107 Parallel St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $234,900
Buyer: Areid Estate LLC
Seller: Wicked Deals LLC
Date: 09/20/23

123 Patricia Circle
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: MA/NH Home Buyers LLC
Seller: Marisol Mercado
Date: 09/22/23

161 Penrose St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Ashley A. Candelaria
Seller: Michael J. Couture
Date: 09/29/23

18 Pidgeon Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Stephanie Fahey
Seller: Cynthia Wallace
Date: 09/19/23

37-39 Porter St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Y. & E. Legacy LLC
Seller: 263-265 Roy Street RT
Date: 09/27/23

19 Ruskin St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Ksm Home Properties LLC
Seller: James M. Santamaria
Date: 09/26/23

25 Shelby St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Ricardo Rodriguez
Seller: Erlinda Rock
Date: 09/25/23

96 Strong St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $237,500
Buyer: Ana Colon
Seller: Allene J. Curto
Date: 09/29/23

14 Sunbrier Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Carmen Ortiz
Seller: Sidelinker, Delores M., (Estate)
Date: 09/20/23

130-132 Tavistock St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: New Heights Realty LLC
Seller: William R. Wagner
Date: 09/28/23

32 Undine Circle
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $264,900
Buyer: Eriberto Soto
Seller: David P. Ortona
Date: 09/21/23

West Crystal Brook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $565,000
Buyer: Rosa Colas
Seller: Grahams Construction Inc.
Date: 09/29/23

93 White St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Shanique Gonzoles
Seller: Hedge Hog Industries Corp.
Date: 09/25/23

25 Wilbraham Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Dilerby C. Bautista
Seller: Alexander N. Bineault
Date: 09/22/23

2047 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Matthew Hood
Seller: Diane L. Hood
Date: 09/19/23

38 Worthy St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $156,730
Buyer: Pah Properties LLC
Seller: Ronald C. Jackson
Date: 09/22/23

WALES

92 Stafford Holland Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Christian Velazquez
Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
Date: 09/29/23

WEST SPRINGFIELD

38 Buckingham Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $263,000
Buyer: Alexa M. Morganstein
Seller: Sharon A. McCarthy
Date: 09/27/23

189 Circle Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $277,500
Buyer: Michael T. Aberdale
Seller: Marian S. Mirabal
Date: 09/29/23

126 Craiwell Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Jorge D. Cuenca
Seller: Bellanese Barnack-Guzman
Date: 09/29/23

1011 Elm St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Brian J. Kolodziej
Seller: Sandra E. Doucette
Date: 09/29/23

116 Greystone Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $212,200
Buyer: Cornerstone Homebuying LLC
Seller: Walter M. Chlastawa
Date: 09/29/23

19 Heritage Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Eric Tindell
Seller: William D. Berte
Date: 09/28/23

1 High St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Adam Drollett
Seller: Drollett, Margaret A., (Estate)
Date: 09/27/23

334 Park St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Aga Brothers LLC
Seller: 334 Park Street LLC
Date: 09/21/23

105 Pine St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Tania L. Mendez-Gross
Seller: Stephanie Tindell
Date: 09/28/23

9 Plateau Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: West Jam Man LLC
Seller: Gary R. Joyce
Date: 09/18/23

68 Plateau Circle
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Michael Dipon
Seller: Philip J. Tardiff
Date: 09/28/23

354 Rogers Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $351,000
Buyer: Malcolm Pradia
Seller: K. M. Balestri-Veronesi
Date: 09/28/23

21 Russell St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Sabir Mukhammadiyev
Seller: Aga Brothers LLC
Date: 09/28/23

71 Southworth St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $284,500
Buyer: Ayub Gurung
Seller: Maureen S. Hutcheons LT
Date: 09/22/23

1314 Union St. Ext.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Charles J. Reilly III RET
Seller: Mary J. Sullivan
Date: 09/26/23

169 West Autumn Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $414,900
Buyer: Thomas R. Thoma
Seller: William V. Guiel
Date: 09/20/23

17 Warren St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Dennis Henry
Seller: Cynthia A. Thoma
Date: 09/20/23

176 Woodbrook Ter.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Brain Blakesley
Seller: John A. Peterson
Date: 09/21/23

53 Woodmont St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $295,900
Buyer: Melissa A. Mcclain
Seller: James Gryszkiewicz
Date: 09/29/23

WESTFIELD

19 Avery St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Dorothy A. Campbell
Seller: John D. West
Date: 09/27/23

25 Beckwith Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Ryan Weaver
Seller: Linda S. Allen
Date: 09/29/23

22 Chestnut St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Jeremy Rudzik
Seller: Donald C. York
Date: 09/27/23

79 Colony Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Brian Kibbe
Seller: Steven J. Sturm
Date: 09/29/23

312 East Mountain Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Alexandra Whiting
Seller: Nicholas M. Roy
Date: 09/20/23

11 Fowler Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Halil I. Kuzu
Seller: Christine N. Greene
Date: 09/29/23

Fowler Road, Lot A1
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Joseph Jachym
Seller: David A. Kopczynski
Date: 09/27/23

12 Heritage Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $682,000
Buyer: Kevin Schechterle
Seller: Jason M. Worrell
Date: 09/22/23

41 Heritage Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $682,000
Buyer: Kevin Schechterle
Seller: Jason M. Worrell
Date: 09/22/23

100 Hillcrest Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $523,000
Buyer: John Leydon
Seller: Daniel M. Masciadrelli
Date: 09/28/23

31 Leonard Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Juan C. Espinoza Naranjo
Seller: Kieda, William E., (Estate)
Date: 09/26/23

169 Main St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Tiffany M. Sanchez
Seller: Leclair, Mary E., (Estate)
Date: 09/28/23

22 Malone Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $231,000
Buyer: Bradley G. Porter
Seller: Clegg, Michael Thomas, (Estate)
Date: 09/26/23

123 Miller St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $252,000
Buyer: Eric Fontanilles
Seller: Vincent Auduong
Date: 09/29/23

132 Northridge Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Dylan Cate
Seller: Timofey V. Tverdokhlebov
Date: 09/28/23

107 Ridgeview Ter.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Richard S. Brandos
Seller: Brett Tabor
Date: 09/26/23

24 Sherwood Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $339,000
Buyer: Kirill Okhrimenko
Seller: Cynthia P. Ryan
Date: 09/26/23

255 Southampton Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Dl Homes LLC
Seller: Gerald E. Tracy
Date: 09/19/23

32 Sunbriar Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Kathleen C. Barr
Seller: Joseph Mariani
Date: 09/29/23

22 Sunset Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Dale Unsderfer
Seller: Eleanor A. Chistolini
Date: 09/28/23

48 West School St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $293,000
Buyer: Joshua T. Rivard
Seller: LDF Realty LLC
Date: 09/22/23

2 Western Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: James Fifield
Seller: James McGowan
Date: 09/20/23

18 Winding Ridge Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Daniel N. Masciadrelli
Seller: Sean O. Coyne
Date: 09/29/23

91 Wyben Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Patrick W. Schnopp
Seller: Stephen A. Foster
Date: 09/29/23

WILBRAHAM

27 Eastwood Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $603,000
Buyer: Christopher Roos
Seller: David A. Graziano
Date: 09/29/23

8 Echo Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $740,000
Buyer: Danyun Huang
Seller: James E. Graf
Date: 09/22/23

24 Glenn Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: James B. Bisnette
Seller: Richard A. Gernux
Date: 09/25/23

22 Herrick Place
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $819,900
Buyer: Kristen Barron
Seller: Thomas L. Taylor
Date: 09/28/23

24 Joan St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Webber
Seller: Sharon L. Shaw
Date: 09/28/23

5 Magnolia St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Chad Walker
Seller: Christopher J. Connolly
Date: 09/26/23

1 Nicola Way
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $329,900
Buyer: HRD Holdings LLC
Seller: Tina M. Fiore
Date: 09/28/23

9 Nokomis Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Eric Ciborowski
Seller: Kavanagh Furniture Co.
Date: 09/29/23

11 Old Coach Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Michael Rust
Seller: Mark Dore
Date: 09/22/23

16 Stirling Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Matthew Dufresne
Seller: Michael Rust
Date: 09/22/23

6 Wildwood Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Edward Burnham
Seller: James M. Ferris
Date: 09/19/23

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

228 Aubinwood Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $421,323
Buyer: Weizhao Huang
Seller: James I. Chumbley
Date: 09/18/23

650 Main St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $1,092,000
Buyer: Amherst BCRE LLC
Seller: Fred L. Perry
Date: 09/29/23

33 Phillips St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $995,000
Buyer: Celia Huang
Seller: Knight Realty Group LLC
Date: 09/26/23

22 Railroad St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Raymond Pedrick
Seller: Chestnut St. Realty Partners
Date: 09/22/23

54 Snell St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Yves Salomon
Seller: Anne-Liesl H. Swogger
Date: 09/20/23

551 South Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $775,000
Buyer: Christopher Prather
Seller: Margaret E. Collins
Date: 09/29/23

30 South Whitney St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Raymond Pedrick
Seller: Berkshire Ter. Partners LL
Date: 09/22/23

BELCHERTOWN

18 Cordner Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Reid D. Wagstaff
Seller: Eric E. Rouleau
Date: 09/28/23

732 Daniel Shays Hwy.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $389,900
Buyer: Paul R. Duval
Seller: Ross K. Hartman
Date: 09/26/23

369 State St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Cristine Mincheff
Seller: Bradley M. Marszalkowski
Date: 09/18/23

612 Warren Wright Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Tyler A. Miller
Seller: Richard H. Dexter
Date: 09/22/23

EASTHAMPTON

29 Center St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $418,300
Buyer: David Pruskin
Seller: Chris M. Patnode
Date: 09/28/23

1 Groveland St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Frank A. Demarinis
Seller: Samuel Cernak FT
Date: 09/18/23

29 Kingsberry Way
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $762,000
Buyer: Susan Sayre
Seller: Lindsay L. McGrath
Date: 09/29/23

11 Lawson Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $387,000
Buyer: Christopher M. Chenier
Seller: Bennett K. Bishop
Date: 09/28/23

19 Loudville Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $511,000
Buyer: Heidi K. Kuester
Seller: Theresa J. Kinlock
Date: 09/29/23

94 Northampton St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Frank A. Demarinis
Seller: Samuel Cernak FT
Date: 09/18/23

159 Park St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Lindsey M. Rothschild
Seller: David C. Tharaldson
Date: 09/19/23

16 Paul St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Tsering Choenyi
Seller: William R. Krieger
Date: 09/22/23

35 Phelps St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $503,000
Buyer: John Joyce
Seller: Richard Bravman
Date: 09/29/23

24 Summer St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $530,000
Buyer: Nada Kawar
Seller: Arc Investments LLC
Date: 09/29/23

GOSHEN

86 Loomis Road
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $1,200,000
Buyer: Lucid Development Inc.
Seller: Peter F. Lafogg
Date: 09/18/23

GRANBY

274 Batchelor St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Randolph Lisle
Seller: Marguerite C. Johnson
Date: 09/29/23

69 Carver St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $558,000
Buyer: Eduardo Matos
Seller: Kotowicz Custom Homes LLC
Date: 09/28/23

123 Carver St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Cassandra M. Os
Seller: J. L. N. Properties LLC
Date: 09/29/23

81 East St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $366,618
Buyer: Anni Amberg
Seller: Bethany Ferry
Date: 09/19/23

120 Easton St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Rollin J. Dewitt
Seller: Gail A. Bray
Date: 09/21/23

187 Kendall St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $680,000
Buyer: Weifeng Liu
Seller: Guy George
Date: 09/26/23

12 Pinebrook Circle
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $329,900
Buyer: John Campbell
Seller: Steven L. Seaha
Date: 09/26/23

HADLEY

123 Huntington Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Larry V. Kellogg
Seller: Michael T. Barry
Date: 09/19/23

HATFIELD

5 Elm Court
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Jonah Burke Lt
Seller: Doherty, Rita Marie, (Estate)
Date: 09/19/23

97 North Hatfield Road
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $2,150,000
Buyer: Myers Logistics LLC
Seller: Food Bank Of Western Mass. Inc.
Date: 09/29/23

12 Scotland Road
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Jamison A. Bradshaw
Seller: Karen F. Hosley
Date: 09/28/23

HUNTINGTON

9 Basket St.
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $122,000
Buyer: Brian Kopinto
Seller: Richard E. Soto
Date: 09/21/23

4 Crescent St.
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Jenna F. Webb
Seller: JVD Investment Properties LLC
Date: 09/28/23

MIDDLEFIELD

162 Skyline Trail
Middlefield, MA 01243
Amount: $249,900
Buyer: Michael A. Bero
Seller: Susan C. Beaudry
Date: 09/29/23

NORTHAMPTON

54 Audubon Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Alexander Burns
Seller: Jessica R. Grant
Date: 09/22/23

Chesterfield Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Judith Silverman
Seller: James & Christine Ryan FT
Date: 09/21/23

75 Chesterfield Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $615,000
Buyer: Lorena E. Silverman
Seller: James & Christine Ryan FT
Date: 09/21/23

18 Dickinson St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $512,000
Buyer: Molly E. Moses
Seller: Sofia A. Frydman
Date: 09/27/23

209 Earle St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $6,000,000
Buyer: 209 Earle Street LLC
Seller: Alloy LLC
Date: 09/26/23

Glendale Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: C. Andrea Wasserman RET
Seller: Waggin Trails Dog Park LLC
Date: 09/20/23

30 Grandview St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Sara Seligmann
Seller: Ruth A. Turchinetz
Date: 09/29/23

124 Haydenville Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: PRP RT
Seller: Marie T. Malinoski IRT
Date: 09/26/23

49 Henry St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: New Village Inc.
Seller: Carl E. Glowatsky
Date: 09/19/23

14 Lasell Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Michael G. George
Seller: Thomas Strojny
Date: 09/21/23

64 Lyman Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Ryan Flynn-Kasuba
Seller: William E. McCarthy
Date: 09/25/23

63 Park St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $417,000
Buyer: Max C. Hebert
Seller: Severance, Marilyn, (Estate)
Date: 09/29/23

159 Pine St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $431,000
Buyer: Reliance Holdings Corp.
Seller: Durai Rajasekar
Date: 09/27/23

19 Powell St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $399,000
Buyer: Alice Posner
Seller: Marpa Eager
Date: 09/21/23

9 Stoddard St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $412,000
Buyer: Simon Daillie
Seller: Claire P. Allen
Date: 09/21/23

85 Washington Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $950,000
Buyer: Aaron M. Madow
Seller: Suzanne Forman
Date: 09/26/23

9 West Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $199,000
Buyer: Evi A. Spindler
Seller: Linda L. Carrier
Date: 09/20/23

114 Woodland Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $775,000
Buyer: Sydney E. Thomson
Seller: Peter J. Duggan
Date: 09/28/23

PLAINFIELD

305 Main St.
Plainfield, MA 01070
Amount: $230,477
Buyer: Amerihome Mortgage Company LLC
Seller: Zachary Fay
Date: 09/29/23

SOUTH HADLEY

136 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Francis E. Benson
Seller: Joanne M. Mazur
Date: 09/21/23

26 Haig Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $222,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Kelleher
Seller: Margaret E. Bernard
Date: 09/21/23

18 Magnolia Ter.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Kara Callahan
Seller: Martin W. Narey
Date: 09/21/23

2089 Memorial Dr.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $151,622
Buyer: DKL RT
Seller: Choquette, Glenn, (Estate)
Date: 09/25/23

376 Newton St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Leven Realty Group LLC
Seller: Estelle B. Brin
Date: 09/27/23

59 Washington Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Robert A. Watchilla
Seller: Thanh T. Tran
Date: 09/25/23

SOUTHAMPTON

32 Middle Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Darlene Sattler
Seller: W. D. & Alba Q. Breyer IRT
Date: 09/29/23

6 Montgomery Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Jordyn Chartier
Seller: Patrick Schnopp
Date: 09/29/23

202 Pomeroy Meadow Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $443,000
Buyer: Bruce Bowman
Seller: Courtney, Mary E., (Estate)
Date: 09/19/23

WARE

65 Beaver Lake Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Rose Grant
Seller: Timothy J. Czech
Date: 09/19/23

35 Beaver Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Czech
Seller: McGee, 4th David H., (Estate)
Date: 09/22/23

9 Castle St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $234,000
Buyer: Jonah D. Shattuck
Seller: Jeff Lovely
Date: 09/22/23

40 Church St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Ursule Isidore
Seller: Felix Campos
Date: 09/28/23

46 Coffey Hill Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Eric Glazier
Seller: Herbert L. Harris
Date: 09/28/23

22 Greenwich Plains Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Anibal E. Antuna
Seller: James B. Bisnette
Date: 09/25/23

140 Greenwich Plains Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Mhi Properties LLC
Seller: Debra L. Laprade
Date: 09/22/23

3 Indian Hill Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $334,000
Buyer: Andrew Richter
Seller: Elizabeth A. Talbot
Date: 09/29/23

27 Otis Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Park Otis LLC
Seller: Fremont Home Loan TR
Date: 09/29/23

44 South St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $159,000
Buyer: Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC
Seller: Terrah L. Brown
Date: 09/26/23

WESTHAMPTON

80 Easthampton Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $895,000
Buyer: Mandy L. Simon
Seller: Meehan Estates Inc.
Date: 09/20/23

WILLIAMSBURG

50 Nash Hill Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Anastacia D. Torres
Seller: Dorothy S. Harry RET
Date: 09/26/23

Old Goshen Road, Lot 1
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Abram Wehmiller
Seller: Abbott Gray RT
Date: 09/29/23

Building Permits

Building Permits

The following building permits were issued during the month of October 2023.

CHICOPEE

Chicopee Veteran Services
36 Center St.
$32,445 — Insulation

CKT Enterprises LLC
639 Memorial Dr.
$4,500 — Relocate sprinkler heads in dining room to new ceiling height

GMD Realty I LLC
711 James St.
$22,700 — Roofing

LTL LLC
16 Brightwood St.
$8,900 — New deck boards and railings

Sarah Okerstrom
591 Memorial Dr., Suite 19
$114,000 — New paint and wall covering, new flooring, install relocated cash wrap/back wrap, move relocated fixtures into space, replace some ceiling, adjust lighting, and install illuminated exterior sign for temporary Bath & Body Works space

Phoenix Development Inc.
350 East Main St.
$10,000 — Repair flat roof, demolish first-floor ceiling tiles, sheetrock first-floor ceiling, remodel kitchen, bathroom wall

Scott Family Properties
141 Syrek St.
$50,000 — Strip roof, add new plywood piers for front porch, change 28 windows

EASTHAMPTON

City of Easthampton
32 Payson Ave.
$53,500 — Remove and replace exterior air-cooled chiller

KC Tactical LLC
412 Main St.
$170,000 — Insulation and roofing

HADLEY

Hadley Farm Museum Assoc.
149 Russell St.
N/A — Move existing sign

John Kelley III
105 Stockbridge St.
N/A — Repair barn, frost walls, sills, and beams

Valley Building Co.
39 Middle St.
N/A — Open up bathroom wall/floor as needed for plumbing repairs

W/S Hadley Properties II LLC
359 Russell St., Suite 20
N/A — Asbestos abatement and removal of mold-infested surfaces

LENOX

Lenox Common Holdings LLC
55 Pittsfield Road, Suite 4A
$151,120 — Add three exam rooms and a storage room to Berkshire Medical Center dermatology suite

Tucson Lenox LLC
197 Kemble St.
$18,000 — New concrete steps and ramp loading dock at spa building

NORTHAMPTON

193 Locust St. Associates LP
193 Locust St.
$8,500 — Three new windows

ADB-2 Properties LLC
15 Dickinson St.
$6,418 — Vent kitchen hood, remove window, install door

City of Northampton
Haydenville Road
$140,000 — Add new shelter with diesel generator to existing tower

LHIC Inc.
34 North Maple St.
$260,000 — Interior renovation for cannabis cultivation facility

Main St. Leeds LLC
237 Main St.
$43,500 — Roofing, replace skylights

Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc.
36 Hampden St.
$11,230 — Roofing

P&Q LLC
186 Crescent St.
$41,200 — Roofing

Reliance Holdings Corp.
5 Franklin St.
$21,000 — Insulation/weatherization of attic, exterior walls, and crawl space

State Street Northampton Properties LLC
225 State St.
$350,000 — Interior renovations

Sunwood Green LLC
95 Barrett St.
$43,386 — Install roof-mounted solar system

PITTSFIELD

Cavalier Dartmouth Properties LLC
214 First St.
$9,500 — Remove second-floor platform and bring first-floor platform up to code

City of Pittsfield
84 Meadow Lane
$198,136 — Alter space to reconfigure public toilet facilities, including demolition of partitions; lighting, plumbing, and ventilation; and new entry door and windows

JJ Sweeney Properties LLC
77 Park St.
$21,980 — Insulation

Pittsfield Pipers Inc.
73 Fourth St.
$24,000 — Siding

Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield
191 Elm St.
$205,995 — Build accessible entrance ramp

Incorporations

Incorporations

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

CHICOPEE

Falls Pizza Co. Inc., 185 Grove St., Chicopee, MA 01020. Ridvan Turan, same. Pizza restaurant.

FLORENCE

Lift Performance and Rehab Inc., 221 Pine St., Florence, MA 01062. Andrew Weigel, 706 Park Hill Road, Florence, MA 01062. Gym/fitness facility.

HATFIELD

Bagdasarov and Chambers, P.C., 8 Woodridge Circle, Hatfield, MA 01038. Colleen Chambers, same. Dental practice.

PALMER

Village Cuts Inc., 1041 Thorndike St., Palmer, MA 01069. Michael Arroyo, 14 George St., Palmer, MA 01069. Barber shop.

PITTSFIELD

Absolute HVAC MA Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Hung Yau, same. Wholesale and installation of HVAC systems.

Crawford-Hill Insurance Agency Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Shanta Crawford-Hill, same. Independent insurance agency.

Goldcare Doctors MA, P.C., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Jennifer Frangos, 449 Southwest 80th St., Ocala, FL 34476. Medical practice.

SPRINGFIELD

JP Universal Enterprise Inc., 837 State St., Springfield, MA 01109. Bryanna Rivera, same. Management of residential rental properties.

WEST BROOKFIELD

RIV Mold Inc., 11 Pine Trail, West Brookfield, MA 01585. Richard Rivet, same. Plastic injection molds.

WESTFIELD

Pignatare Enterprises Inc., 90 Pineridge Dr., Westfield, MA 01085. Adina Pignatare, same. Hair salon and social-media influencer.

ST Remodeling Inc., 247 Buck Pond Road, Westfield, MA 01085. Semen Kovalyuk, same. General carpentry.

TV Realty and Development Inc., 247 Elm St., Westfield, MA 01085. Michael Ventrice, same. Storage rental facilities.

Doing Business as Certificates

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DBA Certificates

The following business certificates and/or trade names were issued or renewed during the month of October 2023.

PITTSFIELD

Angelina’s West Elm
133 Elm St.
Juice N Java Coffee House

Angelina’s West Elm
97 West Housatonic St.
Juice N Java Coffee House

Auto Glass Now
75 Tyler St.
AGN Glass LLC

Balance
82 Wendell Ave.
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco

Berkshire Solar Solutions
12 South Atlantic St.
Michael Eller

DL Accounting LLC
83 Acorn St.
Drew Armstrong

Ever-Kleen Cleaning Services
40 Merriam St.
Angelo Pizzonia

Filiault Lawn Care & Property Management
56 Weller Ave.
Robert Filiault

Hudpucker’s Pub & Grill
101 Wahconah St.
Hudpucker’s Inc.

Indigenous Deliciousness
15 Dexter St.
Melissa Baehr

JIK 365
29 East Mill St.
Abellie Gilles

Maid in the Shade
139 Newell St.
Pamela Budziak

Ola V. Rose Online Ventures LLC
82 Wendell Ave.
Veisha Mendes-Howell

The Trusted Touch
100 North St.
Diandra Middleton

Wood Bros. Music
37 Cheshire Road
Lennox & Fletcher Inc.

SOUTH HADLEY

Baystate K9
59 Washington Ave.
Leritza Ruiz

Cumberland Farms #6718
507 Newton St.
Cumberland Farms Inc.

Integrity Detailing
63 Bridge St.
Cameron Boucher

Ophir Counseling Services
67 Riverboat Village Road
Shawn King

SOUTHWICK

ACO Masonry, Heating & Air Conditioning
12 Hillside Road
Adam Ouimette

BGJM
43 Will Palmer Road
Glenn Madison

Delreo Home Improvement
131A North Lake Ave.
Gary Delcamp

Elite Tanning
320 College Highway
Jennifer Pasterkiewicz

Mosh Electric
12 Ridgeview Ter.
Viktor Moshkovskiy

Nails Salon
208 College Highway, Suite 9
Alvin Kieu

Nails Studio Spa
208 College Highway, Suite 9
Danny Tran

RJC Bookkeeping
26 Pineywood Road
Jennifer Crockwell

WESTFIELD

AAA Northeast
16 North Elm St.
John Galvan, R. Stephen Manty

Bateyko Construction
990 Russell Road
Fedos Bateyko

Grader Auto Services LLC
22 Franklin St.
Anthony Grader III

Great Awakening Brewing Co. LLC
77 Mill St.
Great Awakening Brewing Co. LLC

Jetsetter Playing Cards
16 Angelica Dr.
Paul Ruccio

Little Dog Sale
91 Alexander Place
Donald Gibson

Schooley Mitchell of Westfield
419 Southwick Road
George DeMambro

Solo Home Improvement
26 Pinehurst St.
Victor Solopa

Solo HVAC Services
26 Pinehurst St.
Nikita Solopa

Spartan Brews Coffee Co. LLC
88B Mainline Dr.
Spartan Brews Coffee Co. LLC

Walgreens #02710
78 Main St.
Walgreen Eastern Co. Inc.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

All-in-one Remodeling Services
80 Windsor St.
All-in-one Remodeling Services

Baystate Family Chiropractic
346 Main St.
Laprise Inc.

Baystate Retailers
59 Butternut Hollow Road
Baystate Retailers

Clover Spa Inc.
68 Westfield St.
Clover Spa Inc.

Hot Table
1119 Riverdale St.
Hot Table MA LLC

Lane Aerial Drone Works
32 Hill St.
Lane Aerial Drone Works

Tiny & Tidy Housecleaning
304 Prospect Ave.
Tiny & Tidy Housecleaning

WestMass Multimedia Solutions
20 Northwood Ave.
WestMass Homes LLC

yWrite
32 Cedar Woods Glen
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Brewing Up Something Positive

By Editorial October 25, 2023

Opinion

Editorial 2

It has become somewhat of a tradition at BusinessWest to make Veterans Day a time to put a hard focus on those who have served, and also how veterans have helped shape our region’s business community. And over the years, there have been some great stories to tell.

But there are few better than the one involving a relatively new venture called Easy Company Brewing (see story on page 4).

It involves two veterans, Jeff St. Jean and John DeVoie (the latter of Hot Table Fame), who have come together on a very unique enterprise that blends history, entrepreneurship, some great beer, and an admirable willingness to do something to help those who have served their country.

Easy Company Brewing was created to celebrate the service, and many accomplishments, of the fabled ‘band of brothers’ from the 101st Airborne Division, as captured in the Stephen Ambrose book and HBO miniseries.

DeVoie and St. Jean, who have both served with the 104th Tactical Fighter Group based at Barnes Airport in Westfield (St. Jean still does), have long been enamored with the story of Easy Company, and came up with an idea to brew beers that would honor those men while also raising money to support nonprofits that provide services to veterans.

Indeed, following the model of Newman’s Own, 100% of profits are donated to several different nonprofits that support veterans, such as the Tunnel to the Towers Foundation, which has several programs to support first responders and veterans, including a program to build mortgage-free smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders, and another to provide mortgage-free homes to surviving spouses with young children.

Meanwhile, and this is the fun part, the beers being developed by the company follow the story of Easy Company, from their training in Georgia to the south of England, where they trained for D-Day; to the Normandy coast in France; and then to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

The company’s efforts are drawing considerable support from individuals and businesses, as well they should. This is a noble mission, and one that deserves the backing of all those who want to recognize and honor our country’s veterans and do their part to help them.

In a way, Easy Company Brewing is making every day Veterans Day, and that’s an attitude worth emulating — by our businesses, our nonprofits, everyone.

We salute their efforts and encourage them to carry on.

Announcing the 2023 Women of Impact

By BusinessWest Staff October 12, 2023

Women of Impact to Be Celebrated on Dec. 7

BusinessWest has long recognized the contributions of women within the business community, and created the Women of Impact program in 2018 to further honor women who have the drive and ability to move the needle in their own business, are respected for accomplishments within their industries, give back to the community, and are sought as respected advisors and mentors within their field of influence.

See the 2023 Women of Impact Digital section HERE

The nine stories below demonstrate that idea many times over. They detail not only what these women do for a living, but what they’ve done with their lives — specifically, how they’ve become innovators in their fields, leaders within the community, advocates for people in need, and, most importantly, inspirations to all those around them. The class of 2023 features:

• Fredrika Ballard, president of Aero Design Aircraft Services and Fly Lugu Flight Training

• Carla Cosenzi, president of TommyCar Auto Group

• Arlyana Dalce-Bowie, CEO of Moms in Power

• Sandra Doran, president of Bay Path University

• Dr. Khama Ennis, founder of Faces of Medicine and Intentional Health, LLC

• Dawn Forbes DiStefano, president and CEO of Square One

• Amy Jamrog, CEO, of the Jamrog Group

• Michelle Theroux, CEO of Berkshire Hills Music Academy

• Lisa Zarcone, author, speaker, and child and mental-health advocate

Photos by Leah Martin Photography

BusinessWest will honor its sixth annual Women of Impact on Thursday, Dec. 7 at Sheraton Springfield. Tickets cost $95 per person, and tables of 10 are available.

Go HERE to purchase tickets.

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Housing Shortage Has Deep Roots — and a Wide Impact

Features Special Coverage

Analysis of a Crisis

Keith Fairey says the housing crisis gripping the region, the state, and many parts of the country didn’t happen overnight.

“We got here over decades of underinvesting in housing production nationally, and not tuning that production to the needs and demographic changes of communities,” Fairey, president and CEO of Springfield-based Way Finders, noted as he summed up the problem succinctly yet effectively, before noting that a resolution to the matter won’t come overnight, either.

But, in many respects, the state — and this region — don’t have a lot of time, said Fairey and all those we spoke with on this matter, because that word ‘crisis’ is not hyperbole.

It’s real, and it’s a crisis — often called ‘the affordable housing crisis’ — that has a broad impact: everything from increases in homelessness to a decline in the overall health and well-being of the region (housing is a key social determinant of health); from a stifling of growth in cities and towns (many of which stand to benefit from a COVID-induced desire among some to leave larger metropolitan areas for a more rural place to work remotely) to a competitive disadvantage for the region and the state when it comes to business and economic development.

Indeed, employers across all sectors are trying to attract and retain talent, and their assignment is made that much more difficult if qualified applicants can’t find affordable housing. Or any housing.

“One of the things we have to do is make sure Massachusetts remains a competitive state for years to come, and one of the main indicators of whether you are competitive is ‘can people afford to live in this state?’” said state Sen. John Velis, a member of the Senate’s Housing Committee who represents the 4th Hampden District, which includes the gateway cities of Westfield and Holyoke and parts of Chicopee, as well as West Springfield, Agawam, Easthampton, and several other communities. “And the real demographic that scares me is the 20- to 35-year-olds, those who are just getting started; to that extent, that we’re having a lot of outmigration.”

Elaborating, Velis, among others, said the housing crisis involves every level of housing and many different constituencies, from renters facing steep hikes in what they have to pay every month — with many now totally priced out — to homeowners and would-be homeowners facing both shortages in every price range and prices that have skyrocketed, due mostly to those shortages of inventory.

And the situation has only been exacerbated by mortgage rates — now approaching 8% — that are prompting homeowners to stay where they are and pay 2% or 3%, rather than trade up or scale down (in the case of retiring Baby Boomers), leaving fewer starter homes and houses in the middle price range.

“We got here over decades of underinvesting in housing production nationally, and not tuning that production to the needs and demographic changes of communities.”

The full extent of the housing crisis in this region is spelled out in the Greater Springfield Housing Study, undertaken in conjunction with the UMass Amherst Donahue Institute, said Fairey, noting that it showed a housing-supply gap of 11,000 units in the Pioneer Valley projected for 2022, expected to grow to 19,000 units by 2025 “if we don’t do something.”

In most respects, the crisis comes down to the simple laws of supply and demand, said those we spoke with. There is more demand than supply, and there has been for some time.

Keith Fairey says the housing crisis has been years in the making and results from several factors, including a lack of investment in new housing.

Creating more supply is challenging on many levels. Developers must be incentivized to build housing across all categories — not just at the very high and lower ends, said Velis, adding that municipalities must adjust their zoning laws to accept more housing, and these cities and towns, and those who live within them, must do more than support more housing anywhere but in their communities (more on that later).

All those we spoke with point to a pending housing bond bill as a huge factor in efforts to stem the crisis and start the pendulum swinging back when it comes to those laws of supply and demand.

The last such bill, passed in 2018, totaled $1.8 billion for what Fairey called a “market basket of programs,” including initiatives to create more workforce housing, supportive housing, public housing, and other types of inventory. This bill needs to be even bigger, he said, adding, “this is a critical moment for the state.”

“We have to make sure that this housing bond bill that we do is large enough, robust enough, expansive enough to really, really start to push back, to really build units, and to deal with all components of the housing crisis.”

Velis agreed. “We have to make sure that this housing bond bill that we do is large enough, robust enough, expansive enough to really, really start to push back, to really build units, and to deal with all components of the housing crisis,” he said, adding that there is not likely to be another housing bond bill for some time. “It has to be all inclusive to all of the challenges.”

For this issue, BusinessWest takes an in-depth look at the housing crisis, how we got here, and what needs to happen now.

The Pressure Is Building

As he talked with BusinessWest, Velis, was preparing for deployment as a National Guardsman in ongoing efforts to assist at shelters and hotels in various communities as the state struggles mightily with an influx of migrants.

Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency during the summer because of the strain on the shelter system, and on Aug. 31, she activated up to 250 members of the National Guard, with Velis, a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserves and the only Guardsman currently serving in the state Legislature, being one of them.

John Velis, seen here with Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll and Gov. Maura Healey, says communities must think outside the box and be more accepting of new housing.

He wasn’t exactly sure where his assignment would take him, but he was sure the influx of migrants represents just another facet of the housing crisis and another grim reminder that solutions are needed — and soon.

“These folks [migrants] are going to hotels, they’re going to colleges and universities,” he said, with discernable exasperation in his voice. “At some point in time, someone is going to ask the question — and it’s going to be me, because I’ve already asked it — ‘when they’re done with their temporary hotels and done with their temporary shelters, where are they going? We don’t have the housing stock. Where are they going to live?’”

The question ‘where are they going to live?’ applies to more than migrants, of course. It applies to a number of constituencies and almost every community in the region, from the larger cities to the smaller towns.

Indeed, as BusinessWest continued its Community Spotlight series this year, talking with business leaders and elected and appointed officials in dozens of municipalities, housing was cited repeatedly as an area of concern — and urgency.

Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia was one of those elected leaders, and he reiterated what he told BusinessWest back in March — that the housing situation in his city, as in many others, is, in a word, dire.

And as he talked about it, he said the crisis extends across the full spectrum of housing. While much of the recent developments have involved affordable housing, there is still a need for more. Meanwhile, there is an urgent need for market-rate housing, such as that which exits at one of the city’s redevelopment success stories, the Cubit building, where there is a lengthy waiting list for the loft apartments, and also transitional housing for an unfortunately growing homeless population.

“It’s underinvestment, poor planning, and, truth be told, a fair amount of resistance to change and development from different towns and communities that are all about preserving character, and not thinking about what future needs will be and how to keep cities and towns vibrant.”

“Right now, Holyoke is number three, per capita, in the whole state when it comes to children enrolled in our school district that are homeless,” Garcia told BusinessWest. “It’s more than Springfield, more than Worcester, more than Boston. We have families that are in shelters looking for transitional housing; we need more of it.”

It also needs much more market-rate housing, he went on, while relating a conversation he and other city officials had with leaders at a relatively new in business in town, Clean Crop Technologies on Dwight Street, while getting a tour of the facilities.

“We asked them what they needed from us,” he recalled. “We’re thinking they’re going to say they want the roads or sidewalks better, or improved lighting, but to our surprise, they said, ‘we need housing options down here.’”

Elaborating, Garcia said that, while many people commute to Holyoke to work, many would like to live and work there, and at present, many are finding that a challenge.

Vince Jackson, executive director of the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce, agreed. He noted that there are many who would like to live and work in Northampton, but for far too many, only the first part of that equation is attainable.

“There’s housing available in Northampton for sale, but are they affordable for the working class and for younger people?” he asked, answering his own question by saying that, in most cases, the answer is ‘no.’

Meanwhile, there have been efforts to build more affordable housing, but many people don’t qualify to live in such units because they earn too much or too little.

Summing up the crisis succinctly, Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia says that “what we need is rapid housing construction.”

“They’re never in that sweet spot,” Jackson noted. “And it takes developers months to sell these units because they go through hundreds of applications, and finding people who qualify on all fronts is a real challenge. So those properties can sit vacant.”

Addressing the Problem

Getting back to how we got here, Fairey said the state, and the nation, were essentially caught flatfooted as the Baby Boom generation continued to age, live longer, and age in place — and not build enough housing, especially affordable housing, for the Millennials and other generations to follow.

“Housing for workforce and for middle-income people hasn’t been produced, and at the same time, the cost of that production has increased very dramatically,” he explained. “So if folks look at it from an economic standpoint, they’re only going to build high-end houses because, in order to recoup your money, you need to sell at a high price. But that puts a gap in our marketplace for starter homes.

“It’s underinvestment, poor planning, and, truth be told, a fair amount of resistance to change and development from different towns and communities that are all about preserving character, and not thinking about what future needs will be and how to keep cities and towns vibrant,” he went on, adding that there are some area communities where some progress is being made — although very little of it has come quickly or easily.

He mentioned Amherst, where Way Finders has completed — after 10 years of resistance — Butternut Farm, an affordable-housing community featuring 27 apartments in farmhouse-style buildings set on four acres. It’s described as “a quiet, rural setting with plenty of open space and easy access to surrounding communities.”

Amherst has also put out an RFP for housing in a surplus school, and it has acquired land for more affordable housing, he said, adding that the community has also created an affordable-housing trust to put more units in the pipeline long-term.

Northampton has taken similar steps, earmarking a surplus school for affordable housing, and several other communities, such as South Hadley, have created what are known as 40R zones, which promote compact residential and mixed-use developments in areas near transit stations, commercial centers, or other suitable locations, while leaving the surrounding land untouched.

“There are towns that are beginning to realize need and create opportunities for investment,” said Fairey, adding that considerably more work will be needed if housing supplies are going to approach demand.

In the meantime, if individuals and families cannot find housing they can afford, or any housing at all, in a given state or region, they will simply go somewhere else. And the outmigration statistics regarding the Bay State bear this out.

The Pioneer Institute reported recently on IRS data showing that net outmigration from Massachusetts is accelerating rapidly. Between 2019 and 2021, the state rose from ninth to fourth among all states in net outmigration of wealth, behind only California, New York, and Illinois. And while the so-called ‘millionaire’s tax’ — and high taxes in general — are cited as perhaps the biggest reason for this outmigration, soaring housing prices are also considered a key factor, especially among younger generations.

“The main demographic that’s leaving Massachusetts, that we know of empirically, is the 20- to 35-year-olds,” Velis said. “I know this is an antiquated notion, but living in that house with the picket fence, being a homeowner, is becoming more and more elusive in Massachusetts. So what we’re seeing is states like Tennessee and North Carolina really eating our lunch in this regard; we have data that they’re going there.”

Fairey agreed, noting that, while the state has many strong selling points when it comes to attracting businesses — and people — housing stock certainly isn’t one of them.

“We can talk about all the great potential we have here in Western Massachusetts — we have wonderful higher-education institutions, we don’t have the traffic and other things that you have in Eastern Mass., we have great access north-south, and we have space for both residential development and commercial development of all types. But what you can’t say to someone you’re trying to bring here is that we have enough housing for them.”

Garcia joined that chorus, saying Holyoke is in a growth mode and wants to add more businesses and more jobs, but is being hindered in that assignment by a lack of housing across the spectrum.

“We’re trying to grow our population and bring in new businesses, but we can’t achieve our economic-development objectives and move to the extent that we know we can if we don’t have more housing for all spectrums,” he explained. “Right now, we’re stuck. What we need is rapid housing construction.”

Homing In on Solutions

To stem this tide, make the state more competitive, and address the many side effects of the housing crisis, including a rise in homelessness, the simple answer is to build more housing. Only, it’s not that simple.

“We need to do everything in our power to encourage more building,” said Velis, adding that, while the state has done an adequate job of incentivizing the building of low-income housing, it has to be better at encouraging creation of more inventory in the other categories.

“The reality is that, if you’re a developer, part of your equation is to make money,” he went on. “If you’re doing a cost-benefit analysis, unfortunately, there just isn’t the money to be made in low-income housing in the same way that there is in market-rate housing and other categories.”

Velis noted that initiatives like HDIP (the Housing Development Incentive Program) — passed as part of a recent tax-reform package to generate more development of market-rate housing in gateway cities — will hopefully encourage more building in that category. Still, more must be done to encourage efforts that will bring about more inventory.

“Developers want to make money, and guess what? They’re not evil for wanting to make money; that’s their job,” he went on. “Because the pressure valve is so intense now, if you can help market-rate housing, you’ll also help low-income housing, and if you help low-income housing, you’re also going to help market-rate housing.”

Overall, HDIP is expected the lift the current cap on market-rate housing incentives from $10 million to $57 million, which Velis believes will clear the backlog of projects currently on the drawing board statewide and generate $4 billion in private investment that will create 12,500 new homes in gateway cities.

This will help, but more must be done on the state level to encourage building, he said. “I would argue that communities, in many respects, have not been given the tools they need to combat this crisis. We haven’t done a good enough job of incentivizing developers to do this kind of work.”

“We’re trying to grow our population and bring in new businesses, but we can’t achieve our economic-development objectives and move to the extent that we know we can if we don’t have more housing for all spectrums. Right now, we’re stuck.”

That said, Velis noted that more communities need to support additional housing within their borders, not anywhere but, which remains a lingering sentiment.

“Many people don’t want to acknowledge this, but NIMBY is a real-world thing,” he said. “And if everyone continues to say, ‘we need to build … just not here,’ then we have a real problem. And I would argue that we’re getting dangerously close, perilously close, to being there. If every community cites reasons why they can’t be the place for us to build new housing units, then we’re going to implode.”

He said Massachusetts needs to start thinking outside the box and perhaps adopting a new approach — or, at least, a new slant on an old one.

Indeed, for some time, the state has employed a carrot-and-stick approach when it comes to incentivizing municipalities to facilitate the building of new housing units, said Velis, adding that, if more do not agree to become part of the solution, then maybe the state needs to focus on the stick more than the carrot.

“The paradigm has changed, and if communities won’t, of their own volition, say, ‘we’re going to build this,’ even with the incentives that we’re offering, at some point in time, you can get to a point where you have two options,” he said. “One is to do nothing, and Massachusetts will become the most difficult place, the most untenable place, to live in the country from a housing standpoint. Or we can say, ‘we’ve tried every carrot imaginable to encourage building, and now, we’re going to switch it up a bit and go down the path of sticks. If you don’t want to build, that’s your prerogative, but we just want you to know that, if you’re not following the law and you’re not building, then these are the state funds that you could find yourself no longer eligible for.’”

Fairey echoed Velis’ thoughts on the pending bond bill, and how it provides real hope for reversing the trends regarding supply and demand — if it’s big enough and bold enough.

“It’s unclear what the number will be — it will be bigger than $1.8 billion,” he said. “But the needs are quite significant.”

North Adams Builds on Growing Momentum

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MCLA President James Birge cuts the ribbon at the official launch of the school’s new nursing program.

Jennifer Macksey grew up North Adams, and she’s seen some profound changes in her 50 years — and from many perspectives.

As a young girl, she remembers Thursday nights downtown, which would be bustling as the thousands of employees at nearby Sprague Electric would be out spending their paychecks in the stores, like the one owned by her parents, and restaurants along Main Street and connecting corridors. She also remembers how the landscape changed dramatically, and the vibrancy downtown all but disappeared overnight, after Sprague closed its doors in 1985.

Later, while serving in several positions in City Hall, including chief financial officer and treasurer and collector, and also at the nearby Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) and Southern Vermont College, and then as assistant superintendent of the Northern Berkshire Regional School District, she saw the city’s economy struggle as it also evolved, from one dominated by manufacturing to one centered on tourism and the arts, a shift exemplified, in dramatic fashion, by the transformation of the former Sprague Electric complex into MASS MoCA, the nation’s largest museum of contemporary art, which opened its doors in 1999.

Today, Macksey is mayor of the city, a post she has long coveted (more on that later), and is thus in a position to not only observe, but also shape the ongoing evolution of this city of nearly 13,000.

She reports progress on several fronts, from new stores downtown to signs of development at the long-vacant former TD Bank building on Main Street; from a cannabis-cultivation facility in the Hardman Industrial Park to a small but quite significant rise in population — part of a countywide phenomenon involving residents of large metro centers leaving for the Berkshires, where many of them are working remotely.

Jennifer Macksey

“We’ve brought a lot of new people into the community, but we’re also focused on getting businesses in here.”

“I’m amazed at the people who are buying property here in North Adams,” Macksey said. “We’re seeing a lot of people who are leaving larger cities and coming here to work remotely, and we’re seeing out-of-town investors buying up property, whether it be for long-term or short-term rental. So our population is starting to go up a bit.”

James Birge, long-time president of MCLA and another native of Berkshire County (he grew up in Lee), has also seen a number of signs of progress, both across the county and in North Adams. In addition to meeting its mission of providing a quality liberal-arts education and enabling students from low-income families to live “an elevated life,” as he calls it, MCLA is helping to fuel a changing Berkshires economy by providing qualified workers and also adding new programs to meet recognized need, such as its new nursing-degree program.

“While 40% of our students come from Berkshire County, 50% of our students who graduate stay in Berkshire County,” he said. “So we’re contributing to the brain gain of Berkshire County.”

The nursing program, initiated this fall, was launched in response to a request from Berkshire Health Systems to help meet an urgent need to put more nurses into the pipeline.

“We thought, ‘here is an opportunity where we can develop an academic program that would be in demand and be responsive to the needs of our community,” Birge said, adding that the program started with 20 students this fall and is expected to ultimately grow to 110-120 students. “This is the fundamental, historic purpose of public higher education — to respond to the needs of the community.”

For this, the latest installment of its Community Spotlight series, BusinessWest takes an in-depth look at North Adams and the many developing stories there.

Taking the Lead

While growing up in North Adams, Macksey said, her parents always stressed the importance of both giving back and getting involved, qualities she has embraced her whole life.

This passion, coupled with a desire to lead change in a community she said was still struggling in many ways, prompted her to run for mayor in 2021 — and to seek re-election this fall.

“I always wanted to be mayor,” she told BusinessWest. “When I left City Hall, I knew that I would come back someday, but I always said I would come back to the corner office, and that’s what I did. I’m very interested in keeping North Adams moving forward.”

Her focus is broad and covers many issues, from education to public safety, but especially economic development, she said, adding that, like all communities in the Berkshires and beyond, the most pressing need is jobs.

“We’ve brought a lot of new people into the community, but we’re also focused on getting businesses in here, and that is really the charge of my next two years in office, to build out some economic-development plans and to sell North Adams more than it has been.

“North Adams is sold on its beauty and its natural resources, but there are a lot of other things to offer,” she went on. “I’m very focused on the buildings that we do have that are empty and our industrial park and exploring opportunities to bring in some light industry.”

The Hardman Industrial Park recently became home to the Temescal Wellness cannabis growing facility, in a facility that formerly housed Crane Stationery. The facility employs between 75 to 100 people and is thus an important source of new jobs and one of many investments that have taken place in North Adams.

Others include ongoing investment in the Porches Inn at MASS MoCA on River Street and also in the Hotel Downstreet on Main Street — facilities that are catering to the steady volumes of visitors to North Adams, which has increasingly become a destination in recent years — as well as redevelopment of the former Johnson School into much-needed housing.

North Adams at a Glance

Year Incorporated: 1878
Population: 12,961
Area: 20.6 square miles
County: Berkshire
Residential Tax Rate: $17.67
Commercial Tax Rate: $37.60
Median Household Income: $35,020
Family Household Income: $57,522
Type of government: Mayor; City Council
Largest Employers: BFAIR Inc.; Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
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In the downtown, most of the storefronts are now occupied, Macksey said, and the former TD Bank facility has been acquired, and redevelopment plans are being blueprinted.

“Our downtown is pretty much full,” she noted. “There were many years when it was empty, and I really applaud the owners of those buildings for hanging in there.”

But there is considerable work to be done, she added. “We’ve got a lot of things going on, but we really need to provide more jobs for our workforce here. And we hope to develop some economic-development plans that will bring some people into the city.”

Creating jobs is a process, she noted, one that involves collaboration and partnerships with business, the education sector, and workforce-development agencies, as well as that notion of more aggressively selling the city and its many types of assets and generating new investments in the community.

“We need to create some jobs that provide some on-the-job training,” she said, citing Temescal Wellness as one example of such an employer. “We also need to be collaborating with places like MassHire and other groups to create opportunities where people can learn a trade as they work.

“And we also need to be aggressive in cultivating a community, even in our high school, of students who want to work here in North Adams, be it in a trade or in an administrative position,” Macksey went on. “But most importantly, we’re looking to work with businesses that are sensitive to hiring people here in North Adams.”

Class Act

Birge told BusinessWest that he thought MCLA might fall a little in the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking on the nation’s public liberal-arts colleges, a category that includes the service academies. But it didn’t.

Instead, it held its place at number 7 — this was the third year in a row it finished in that spot and the ninth year in a row it has cracked the top 10, out of roughly 500 institutions — a measure, he said, of not only the school’s commitment to excellence, but its ability to consistently deliver on its commitment to providing a quality liberal-arts education.

As proud as Birge might be of this ranking — and he is quite proud — he is even more satisfied with the school’s rankings on U.S. News & World Report’s listing of top performers when it comes to social mobility, a category the publication initiated in 2019. This is a measure of how well institutions graduate students who receive federal Pell grants, typically awarded to students whose families earn less than $50,000, though most Pell Grant money goes to families with income below $20,000.

In this category, MCLA ranked first in the state and second in the country.

“I like this ranking a little bit more, because we’re meeting our mission — we have a mission of access,” he explained. “We want students who may not be able to afford to go to other institutions to come here and get an outstanding education and then go off and have a life that they wouldn’t have if they didn’t come to us.

“I think that’s a more important measure; we’re the highest-ranked public institution in Massachusetts and the second-highest in the nation, and we’re really proud of that,” he went on, adding that one-third of the school’s students come from families earning less than $30,000 per year, and roughly 40% of them are first-generation college students.

“The average starting salary for an MCLA alum is $46,000,” he went on. “Hundreds of students are graduating and making an average salary of $46,000, and they’re coming from families that made less than $30,000. We’re breaking the cycle of poverty for hundreds of kids in four years — we think that’s a pretty noble mission for a public higher-education institution.”

Overall, MCLA is seeing a surge in enrollment due to a roughly 15% increase among first-year students (total enrollment is largely flat), and Birge attributes this to the value the school presents at a time when value has become an ever-more-important factor among students and their parents. Indeed, one can graduate from MCLA with a fraction of the debt they may assume if they were to attend a private liberal-arts college, he said.

While on the subject of value, Birge said a liberal-arts education still holds plenty of value in this job market and in general, despite growing rhetoric questioning the relative worth of a liberal-arts degree, and some colleges and universities — Simmons and Lasell are among the latest to do so — cutting liberal-arts majors, including history, modern languages, philosophy, and literature because of low enrollment.

“I think those institutions that are cutting liberal-arts programs are not being very visionary, and I think they’re cutting off their nose to spite their face,” he added “In our world today, even more than ever, we need people educated in the liberal-arts tradition. We need people who can understand different perspectives and look at things through different lenses.”

Especially in a changing Berkshire County, he noted.

“The economy has changed; it used to be an industrial economy, and now it’s more of a creative economy, across the county,” Birge said. “And I think that has breathed life back into a lot of our communities, including North Adams. It’s a vibrant moment in the history of Berkshire County, and we try to be as participatory in that as we can.”

Carla Cosenzi

President, TommyCar Auto Group

She’s a Driving Force in Business and Efforts to Promote Gender Equity

Carla Cosenzi

By now, Carla Cosenzi says, the automobile-sales industry should be … well, more welcoming to women, more accepting of women, more … inviting to women.

But, in most respects, and she would certainly know about this, it isn’t.

Overall, this is still a man’s world, said Cosenzi, who notes that, when attending regional or national conferences or dealer meetings, she is the among the few women in the room, and the expectation is for her not to be the owner. Indeed, many of those who don’t know her believe she is the spokesperson for TommyCar Auto Group, or that she works for her father or her husband.

“I get that all the time … people think my husband is involved,” she told BusinessWest, adding that he isn’t, and never has been. (Her husband, Nick Zayac, owns a construction company.)

“It’s still really a difficult industry for a female, especially in this type of position or role,” she went on, adding that this extends to her own company — although certainly not for long after someone joins the team. “Many still don’t fully understand how involved I am in the business and how much I know and how much I have worked through all the different departments here, and how hands-on I am. And there’s always a different dynamic between a male and female in business, versus a male and a male.”

Cosenzi not only perseveres in this man’s world, she works hard to bring women into the business, mentor them, and inspire and empower them to advance. TommyCar Auto boasts many women in roles traditionally held by men — everything from mechanic to parts manager. Overall, roughly one-third of the company’s 150 employees are women, far exceeding what Cosenzi believes is the industry average.

“It’s still really a difficult industry for a female, especially in this type of position or role.”

“I’m obviously proud to have so many women working under the TommyCar umbrella,” she said, “but what I’m most proud of is that so many of those women are working in non-traditional roles, such as service advisor, service manager, technician, body-shop technician, or general sales manager; we have at least one woman in a manager or leadership role at every one of our dealerships.”

This strong desire to inspire, mentor, and empower women to succeed, in their lives and careers — a recurring theme among this year’s Women of Impact honorees — is just one of the reasons why Cosenzi is a member of the class of 2023.

Carla Cosenzi and her bother, Tom, present a check for more than $150,000 — proceeds from the 2022 Tom Cosenzi Driving for the Cure Golf Tournament — to Dr. Patrick Wen of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Her success in business is another. She has greatly expanded the family enterprise started by her grandfather to now include Nissan, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Genesis, Volvo, a collision center, and a towing business. And she is constantly looking for opportunities to expand the portfolio.

She is also credited with creating and nurturing a culture of giving back, a continuation of a strong family tradition. Indeed, with Cosenzi taking the lead, the company is now involved with organizations and philanthropic programs ranging from Cooley Dickinson Hospital and Junior Achievement to Christina’s House and Safe Passage’s annual Hot Chocolate Run.

Then there’s the Tom Cosenzi Drive for the Cure Charity Golf Tournament. Named for Cosenzi’s father, and mentor, who lost his battle to brain cancer in 2009, the tournament has raised more than $1.4 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

This impressive résumé of business success, community involvement, philanthropy, and efforts to promote gender equity in the workplace — in the auto industry and well beyond — has earned Cosenzi many awards and accolades over the years, including a handful from BusinessWest. Judges have chosen her to be a 40 Under Forty honoree, an Alumni Achievement Award winner (given to the 40 Under Forty winner who has most impressively built upon their record of accomplishment), and a Difference Maker.

And now, she needs to make room for one more plaque — one that reads ‘Woman of Impact.’

To a Higher Gear

As she talked with BusinessWest at the Nissan store on Route 9 in Hadley, Cosenzi referenced upcoming renovations to the dealership, a project that has been several years in the making, with considerable back-and-forth between the company, the town, and the manufacturer, with firm plans now in place.

They call for redoing the façade, the service lounge, the showroom setup, and more, she said, adding that “we’re way overdue — for our employees, our customers, and the brand.”

Orchestrating this renovation project, as well as the building of a new home for Volvo Cars Pioneer Valley in Northampton, an endeavor still in the planning stage, are among the myriad matters Cosenzi is contending with at any given time.

At this particular moment, she was also attending to specific details of the 2023 edition of the golf tournament, HR matters, hiring (she said she’s “constantly interviewing” for high-level positions), the still-challenging used-car market … and making it home in time for dinner with the family.

“I’m obviously proud to have so many women working under the TommyCar umbrella, but what I’m most proud of is that so many of those women are working in non-traditional roles.”

Most of this was not in Cosenzi’s long-term plans when she was focusing on clinical psychology while earning degrees at Northeastern University and Columbia; while she took odd jobs at her father’s dealership growing up, she had no intention of making it her life’s work.

But her career path took what would have to be called some unexpected turns. Indeed, Cosenzi, as most know by now, started working at the family business after college, not thinking this would be anything but temporary. But she fell in love with the business and everything about it. She attended Dealer Academy (where, again, she was one of the few women enrolled), and immersed herself in every aspect of the business.

Christina’s House is one of many area nonprofits
supported by Carla Cosenzi and the growing team at TommyCar Auto Group.

With her father’s illness and subsequent passing, in 2009, leadership of the company transitioned to Cosenzi and her brother, Tom.

In her role as president of the dealer group, Cosenzi is involved with all aspects of the business, as well its philanthropic initiatives and work within the community. And with each, the approach is decidedly hands-on, with a hard focus on “one-on-ones,” as she called them, and giving managers and employees at all levels the tools they need to succeed.

Meanwhile, she’s also focused on long-term strategic planning. The immediate goals are to complete plans to renovate the Nissan store and build a new Volvo dealership — and by that time, the Hyundai store will need renovating, and a separate home will be needed for Genesis — and then focus on adding to the portfolio.

“We’re not desperate to acquire more brands,” she said. “But if the right opportunity came up, we would take it; we’re not just looking to buy to grow our portfolio.”

A Road Less-traveled

Cosenzi joked that, unlike many dealership owners, general managers, and even salespeople, she doesn’t take many of the newer models for weeks or months at a time, as much as she would like to — especially some of the new Genesis offerings.

“I’d love to switch cars, but the problem is … I spend a lot of time in my car, between the dealerships and picking up my kids,” she explained, noting that she’s been driving a Volvo XC90 hybrid SUV for some time now. “If I get in a car that’s a new model, and someone wants to buy it, they have to track me down, get me out of it, and get it ready for the customer. So I try to make sure that if I’m taking a new model, I take it for the short term and don’t move into it.”

What she has moved into are leadership roles — in her own business, within the community, and in the broad fight for gender equality in the workplace. Focusing mostly on her own sector, Cosenzi, as noted earlier, has made it her mission to be a role model and mentor, and also bring more women into the auto sales and service industry and capitalize on opportunities they may have thought were restricted to men.

“If you’re good in business, if you’re a good leader, you’re always trying to better yourself, and you’re always trying to learn, and I’m always trying to learn from other people,” she explained. “So I try to be that same sort of resource that I look for, especially to the women who come into this business.

“I want to be a good mentor to anyone who comes into our company, but especially to women who want to be successful in our industry and just need someone to guide them and give them a path on how to do that,” she went on. “That’s really important to me.”

Equally important is that many of the women now employed at TommyCar are focused on careers in this industry, not jobs, she said, adding that her dealer group is ahead of the curve, if you will, in this realm.

“If you’re good in business, if you’re a good leader, you’re always trying to better yourself, and you’re always trying to learn, and I’m always trying to learn from other people.”

“I believe that, overall, you’re seeing more women getting into the industry, but not to the extent that you see here,” she continued. “We work really hard to attract women here and to support women’s success here; we make it a great place for women to work, and we’re a great support system for all the women working together.”

When asked what makes this or any other business a great place for women to work, Cosenzi said it comes to supporting them, mentoring them, providing opportunities to learn and grow (such as group attendance at Bay Path University’s Women’s Leadership Conference and similar programs), and, perhaps most importantly, recognizing them and their accomplishments.

“We do a lot to support women and to make them feel empowered here,” she said in conclusion. “And I think it’s immediately empowering when you work for a company that has a woman leader; I think it makes a huge difference because immediately, the perception of the company is different.”

The Ride Stuff

Getting back to her thoughts on the auto-sales business and how and why it’s still a man’s world, despite her best efforts, Cosenzi said there has been some progress — just not as much as she would have expected to see in 2023.

“It takes time, it takes conditioning, and it takes more women being involved,” she told BusinessWest. “The more women that we put in powerful roles in an industry, the more conditioned people get to seeing women in those roles.”

Suffice it to say she doing all she can — as an employer, as a role model, as a mentor, and as a leader within the community.

And that’s just one of the reasons why she’s added Woman of Impact to her list of awards and achievements. It’s a designation that drives home all she has done and continues to do — literally and figuratively.

Arlyana Dalce-Bowie

CEO, Moms in Power

She Helps Women Break the Stigma of Postpartum Depression and Find Peace

Arlyana Dalce-Bowie

Like many new moms, Arlyana Dalce-Bowie’s struggle with postpartum depression was twofold.

First, she fought to get to a place where she could be a caring, loving, and present mother. Then she had to rediscover herself.

The latter was, frankly, a lengthy process, but also a powerful one. And by not only working through the dark times, but sharing that experience with the world through an online community called Moms in Power, she’s making a real impact for women who might otherwise suffer in silence, or think something is wrong with them.

“This is something a lot of women go through, which is why I created Moms in Power,” she told BusinessWest. “Although we’re moms, people need to understand that we’re still women too. Not that motherhood is easy, but it was easier to nurture my baby and to love her and to make sure she’s protected — I just couldn’t do all that for myself. And Moms in Power literally speaks to the woman you’re becoming in motherhood.”

She was able to take six months away from her job at the Department of Children and Families, which allowed her to focus on her mental health — and navigate parenthood — while waiting a frustratingly long time during the pandemic to access therapy for her own healing (more on that later).

“That’s really where Moms in Power was birthed. It was me trying to do the work until I was able to get counseling. And then, of course, with the counselor, finding different ways that I can still navigate my postpartum.”

A licensed social worker and nutritional coach who now works for Springfield Public Schools as a City Connects coordinator, she’s in a much better place — largely because she’s grown through her own difficult experience while helping other women manage theirs.

“It is because of her resiliency, drive, and unselfish commitment to community that I strongly believe that Arlyana Dalce-Bowie is a Woman of Impact,” wrote Arlela Bethel, owner of the Movement LAB, who nominated her for the award. “When a woman is able to share her story with others in a meaningful way to begin to impart change, that is recognizable and commendable.”

Bethel added that “Arlyana’s passion for supporting the healing and recovery process of mothers who have or are dealing with postpartum depression diagnosis is a true testament to her ability to show vulnerability within her own personal struggle and, out of that struggle, create resourceful ways to help others. Moms In Power was born out of hardship and pain, but this amazing resource was designed to give other women the opportunity to feel empowered, to heal, restore, and to find purpose and strength within themselves not only as mothers, but as women.”

Rough Year

Dalce-Bowie’s pregnancy began at a difficult time for everyone, near the start of COVID-19; she gave birth in February 2021, when the pandemic was still raging.

“That was hard to navigate in and of itself. We didn’t know what was going on. And because I was a single parent, I couldn’t have my support system go to my prenatal appointments and things like that. Life was still very uncertain,” she recalled. “So I was kind of separated from my support system, and I was coming to terms with the fact that I was a single parent. And, of course, that just took a toll on my mental and emotional health.”

Even during her pregnancy, Dalce-Bowie was experiencing some depression and anxiety, so it was no surprise when she was diagnosed with postpartum depression six weeks after her daughter was born.

“When a woman is able to share her story with others in a meaningful way to begin to impart change, that is recognizable and commendable.”

“I didn’t see a therapist until she was almost 1; that’s how long the waitlist was. It took a really, really long time to get into counseling, to get the support that I actually needed.”

So, during that year, she started journaling because she felt she needed an outlet to process her emotions and experience some kind of release “so I wasn’t just in my head,” she explained, adding that “journaling has been something I’ve been doing since I was a kid, so I kind of reverted back to it.”

The prompts she has used in her own journaling and then with others, through Moms in Power, include “dismantling me,” which deals with the words women place on ourselves.

“When you have PPD or any other diagnosis, you kind of label yourself that way, saying that ‘I have this diagnosis, and that defines me,’” she said. “‘Dismantling me’ is an activity where we literally dismantle things that we feel about ourselves or that society has put on us or that our support systems have put on us.”

Another writing prompt is “a letter to myself,” she added. “I want you to write a letter, knowing what you know now, to your past self, encouraging yourself for the journey ahead. That’s probably my favorite one.

“Those two are probably our biggest prompts,” Dalce-Bowie noted. “They provoke a lot of tears. But it opens us up and gives us a place to come out of ourselves. I think a lot of us have our own guilt and our own shame, and we don’t like to talk about it openly.”

The writing prompts and the words and emotions that flow from them are intended to bring women to a place of understanding themselves — and realizing that what they’re going through isn’t shameful at all.

Arlyana Dalce-Bowie says the Mommy Moment workshops bring healing because women are connecting over a shared struggle they may not have talked about.

“So many people have this idea that, when you have a mental-health diagnosis, it kind of disqualifies you from some things, or you’re not as great of a parent,” Dalce-Bowie said. “And I know, being a Black and Brown woman, we don’t seek therapy and counseling enough. It’s still kind of taboo in our culture.”

Before she started reaching out to others online, she found herself having to explain her needs to her family and others in her support system — in itself a necessary step in breaking the stigma of mental health.

“I said, ‘this is how I need support. I have a serious diagnosis.’ Because postpartum depression looks very different for many women, and for me, it was very severe. So I had to kind of coach them: ‘this is what I need, and how I need it, in order to get me into a better mental space.’”

The journal was a major part of getting to that better place, and so was aromatherapy, which she came upon while looking for other mental-health resources. “There are so many healing properties with candles; it creates a safe space, a calming space, and it just helps me cope in different ways.”

From there, Dalce-Bowie started sharing her story on her personal website — and found a like-minded community.

“There were so many women who were like, ‘we’re going through the same thing’ — especially those of us with pandemic babies, who didn’t have direct access to services right away,” she noted. “A lot of people were on the waitlist, so we just started reaching out to each other and having these group text messages and Facebook groups.”

On her social-media pages, she shared elements of her journey — “the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in between” — and developed a business page for Moms in Power, on which she shares journaling prompts, sells aromatherapy products, and directs women to other resources.

“Journaling has been something I’ve been doing since I was a kid, so I kind of reverted back to it.”

Like the virtual Mommy Moment workshops, which came about because Dalce-Bowie and the moms she was connecting with needed a deeper, more personal outlet.

“We literally come together and have moments as moms. We talk about our postpartum depression; we talk about other diagnoses — because there are a few women that have been here with other diagnoses. We talk about married life and parenting, for those who are married. We talk about the single life and parenting and what that looks like for us.

“And there’s so much healing that comes from it because you’re relating to other women that may not have talked about it out loud, but we’re still going through the same struggle,” she continued. “The outreach part literally came from me sharing my personal journey and women saying, ‘we need more of this.’”

Strong Bonds

Dalce-Bowie said the moms she connects with tend to keep in touch even beyond the workshops, to check in with each other and see how they’re doing; she’ll often help members access therapists when needed.

The connections — and impact — she’s made have been heartening, she said.

“I can’t even put it into words. At the end of every workshop, we’re all so emotionally charged. I know my specific journey, but hearing other women reminds us all we’re not in this alone. So many times in this journey, you feel like you’re alone. So knowing that I’m helping to motivate them — in a way that I felt like I needed to be pushed and motivated at a certain point — is extremely gratifying.

“The fact that we get to come together and we don’t ever have to feel so isolated again is the best part for me,” she went on. “The stories that I hear literally bring me to tears because sometimes the journey feels extremely hopeless, so when you’re in a place where you realize, ‘I helped another woman realize their worth, and I helped another woman understand there is purpose after pain, and I see other women regaining their confidence and finding themselves again and starting their dreams again’ … there really are no words to describe that.”

Tears are not uncommon, she added. “We cry a lot because we’re reaching milestones together. It’s more than fulfilling. It’s really a blessing. It’s awesome to see.”

In a society that seems to demand that women must be great at everything, all the time — at being a mother, but a great woman too — Moms in Power helps redefine who they are as women in motherhood, Dalce-Bowie explained.

“I had to get over my trauma. I had to heal from a lot of things. I had to be present for my daughter. But once I was like, ‘OK, I’ve got the mom thing under control,’ it became, ‘let me start working on myself. Let me start working on my self-esteem again. Let me start working on my own dreams and goals.’ Because they were kind of pushed to the side to take care of my baby girl. So it was important to get back to a place where I’m confident in who I am as a woman.”

For not only succeeding in that journey, but helping other mothers achieve confidence and self-worth during what can be a crushingly lonely time, Dalce-Bowie is truly a Woman of Impact.

Sandra Doran

Sandy Doran, center, seen here with Bay Path students

President, Bay Path University

She Helps Empower Women for the ‘Long and Winding Road’

Sandra Doran

As she talked about the transition in her professional life — from being a lawyer to serving as an administrator in higher education — Sandra Doran summed it up simply and quite effectively by saying, “careers are not a straight line.”

“You don’t enter a profession or a job now and just do it for 50 years; it’s a long and winding road,” she went on, using her own story as just one example, before quickly noting that, for today’s college graduates, the road will be even more winding, and probably longer as well.

“I think that’s what our students are experiencing now — and our alums, frankly,” she went on. “Many of the people who are graduating from college today will have seven careers. So how are we, as educators, preparing them for this, giving them the skill sets, giving them the growth mindset that says, ‘I can do this, I can learn this, I’m prepared for this — I have the skill set to learn?’”

Preparing and empowering individuals, and especially women, to navigate this winding road and have the confidence and competence to take on, and succeed in, seven or more careers might be an effective job description for Doran, the sixth president of Bay Path University.

Or at least part of that job description. There are many elements to that document, obviously, and she has embodied all of them with a lengthy list of accomplishments during her career, and especially since coming to Bay Path.

At the Longmeadow campus, where she arrived just a few months after the pandemic did, she has brought about change and progress on several fronts, from health education, where she spearheaded a transformation of the school’s master’s in public health program, to cybersecurity — the school’s program is now ranked third nationally by Forbes magazine; from the creation of new programs, such as a master of science in nursing degree, to investments in infrastructure, including new science laboratories; from the establishment of a food pantry to combat food insecurity to a firm commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Meanwhile, she has been a strong supporter of, and advocate for, mentorship, forging a collaborative at Bay Path with the Mentor Collective, a platform that structures mentorships and connects students — those in traditional, on-campus programs as well as online students enrolled in the American Women’s College — with a vast network of alums who can serve as mentors.

She has also, over those three years, become heavily involved in the community, serving on the board of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, as chair of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council’s education subcommittee, and as a corporate ambassador at Glenmeadow, where she engages with and supports a life-plan community designed for older adults.

“Dr. Doran’s journey to the helm of Bay Path University is marked by a profound dedication to women’s education,” wrote Crystal Neuhauser, vice president of Institutional Advancement at Bay Path, as she nominated Doran for the Woman of Impact honor. “She is a tireless advocate for empowering women to emerge as catalysts for change.”

This advocacy, and this work to empower women, are among the many reasons why Doran can add another accomplishment to her long track record of success — being named a Woman of Impact for 2023.

Course of Action

When BusinessWest first talked with Doran, it was at a small table with a few chairs arranged around it (six feet apart) on the lawn behind Deepwood Hall, the main administration building on the Bay Path campus.

“Many of the people who are graduating from college today will have seven careers. So how are we, as educators, preparing them for this, giving them the skill sets, giving them the growth mindset that says, ‘I can do this, I can learn this, I’m prepared for this — I have the skill set to learn?’”

This was the only way to do an in-person interview in June 2020, the very height of COVID, and the scene was symbolic of the extreme challenge and duress that marked the start of her tenure at the university. It was symbolic of something else as well — her strong leadership during that time of turmoil.

Indeed, Doran was one of very few people on campus those days, with Zoom being the preferred method to meet and collaborate. And she made sure those she met with online saw her in her office, specifically in front of a painting on loan from the Springfield Museums, created by Rosa Ibarra, chosen to reflect her commitment to diversity.

Sandy Doran, center, seen here with Bay Path students, faculty, and staff, has become a mentor to many young women.

“It was important for me to be in my office so people could see me,” she recalled, adding that she started staging, via Zoom, what she called “Conversations with the President,” so people — in the college community and beyond — would get the opportunity to know her and she could get to know them.

These are conversations she continues to this day, she went on, because they provide invaluable information and input on what those in the community are thinking about, what opportunities exist for the university and all those it serves, and much more — feedback that has directly shaped some of the leadership initiatives undertaken at the school.

It was, indeed, a long and winding road that Doran took to Bay Path, that interview at the table under the tree outside Deepwood Hall, and those online community conversations. It began, as noted earlier, in roles where Doran put to work the juris doctorate she earned at Syracuse University College of Law.

Going back further, she said she was perhaps destined for a career in both the law and education — what she called the “intersection of things I love.” Her great-grandfather founded a one-room schoolhouse in Colorado, her grandfather was the superintendent of a school system, and her mother was a music teacher.

She can find many common threads among the two professions.

“It was a very natural transition from being a lawyer to being an educator because being a lawyer, if you’re a good one, is a lot about educating clients.”

“Being a lawyer is a lot like being an educator,” she told BusinessWest. “Law is about helping clients understand what their options are and educating them about the law. So for me, it was a very natural transition from being a lawyer to being an educator because being a lawyer, if you’re a good one, is a lot about educating clients.”

After serving as vice president, general counsel, and secretary at Shaw’s Supermarkets Inc. and then as senior counsel at Holland & Knight LLP in Boston, then the fifth-largest law firm in the country, Doran’s transition to higher education began at Lesley University in Cambridge, where she served as chief of staff, vice president, and general counsel from 2004 to 2011.

It continued at the American College of Education in Indianapolis and then Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. and, most recently, Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she served as president before arriving at Bay Path to step into the rather large shoes of longtime president — and now fellow Woman of Impact — Carol Leary.

Leading by Example

Getting back to her thoughts on how a career is most definitely not a straight line, Doran said the primary focus of higher education, and one of the “foundational aspects” at Bay Path, is preparing students to learn — in every way possible.

“Whether it’s online, on the ground, from each other, from faculty and staff, from mentors, from alums — that is one of our core aspirations here,” she said, adding that this has been the primary thrust of her leadership efforts at the school.

Sandy Doran, left, with student speaker Diane Almonte Arias at Bay Path’s 2023 commencement ceremonies.

Put another way, she said the school works to “build confidence through competence,” and that both are attained in the classroom, as well as outside it, in all the ways students can learn.

And this brings her back to the broad subject of mentorship, which is a key component of a program at Bay Path called WELL (We Empower Learners and Leaders), as well as the school’s curriculum as a whole, and the heart of Doran’s philosophy about how people (and especially women) learn, lead, and prepare for that long, winding road.

“I have benefited from a tremendous number of mentors — not just family members, who are great mentors, but in every position and every role I’ve been in,” she went on. “I’ve had the benefit of working with great mentors, not just on how to be successful in terms of the work, but in how you build relationships and how you think about that network that’s going to be so important to being successful, because, as we all know, it’s not just what you do, it’s how you do it.

“And the data bears this out,” she continued. “Students who have mentors are more likely to be successful in the workplace, so students who have mentors in college are more likely to be successful in the workforce, particularly first-generation students who might not have that social capital and understand, the way more experienced people do, the real value of that network.”

Elaborating, she said mentorships have become a huge part of the landscape and the operating philosophy at Bay Path, with students enjoying mentoring relationships with alums, employers, faculty, and staff.

Many of these mentoring relationships, not to mention potential career opportunities, take root during internships, Doran noted, adding that these have become another huge point of emphasis at Bay Path.

“A great internship also includes a great mentoring experience,” she said. “And one of the things we know about internships is that, if a student has at least one internship during their undergraduate experience, they are more likely to secure a position, and a higher-paying position, than if they had not had that internship experience. So for us, it’s really fundamental to the education that we offer here.”

And while she still relies on others to mentor her — “there’s always someone who sees things through a different lens or different perspective” — she also mentors many of those around her, whether they are students, staff members, or other members of the community.

And when asked what her best piece of advice is to those who seek her counsel, she said simply, “to ask for advice.”

“That’s because we cannot know all the answers ourselves,” she told BusinessWest. “So getting multiple perpectives, whether it’s on life goals or even weekly goals … that’s important.”

Bottom Line

It’s also important to remember, as her own story makes clear, that careers are not a straight line. There are curves, and many of them.

Handling these curves requires not simply college degrees, although they’re essential in most cases, but the ability to learn, not just in the classroom, but from experiences and from fellow travelers along the journey.

This couldn’t be clearer to both Doran the lawyer and Doran the college president. Helping others understand, and then empowering them to make it happen, is what makes her a Woman of Impact.

Dr. Khama Ennis

Founder, Faces of Medicine and Intentional Health, LLC

She’s Determined to Boost Diversity in Healthcare — and Improve Outcomes

Dr. Khama Ennis

Dr. Khama Ennis loves the ER. She should, having been chief of Emergency Medicine at Cooley Dickinson Hospital for several years.

“I love the puzzle of it, and I love the immediacy of it,” she said. “The typical thing that comes to mind when people think about emergency medicine is adrenaline and chaos, but it’s never been that for me.”

Instead, “what I loved was the immediate connection, creating a safe space for somebody. You have to forge this immediate bond and ask really invasive, personal questions on what’s probably the worst day of their year, if not their life, and get them to share the things that are relevant so you get the information you need to get them the care they need. I really like that.”

But for most of her time there, Ennis was one of only two Black doctors in the hospital.

“There’s plenty of data that reflects the negative impact of inadequate diversity in teams,” she told BusinessWest. And in the latest chapter of her intriguing career, Ennis is doing something about that.

These days, she practices integrative medicine at a private office in Amherst called Intentional Health. But she also co-founded a nonprofit organization called Diversify Medicine in order to provide support for people from underrepresented backgrounds to gain access to careers in medicine.

She also founded Faces of Medicine, a narrative health-equity project centered on the journeys of Black female physicians — centered around a documentary series and a collection of mini-memoirs — with the goal of inspiring more women of color to enter the field of medicine and diversify the healthcare industry, with the idea that diversity in healthcare teams leads to a measurable and meaningful improvement in outcomes.

“Right now, black women are 2.8% of the physicians in the U.S., which is a little more than a third of what we represent in the population as a whole, so it’s clearly inadequate,” she said, noting that Black men, Latinx people, and Indigenous Americans face similar disparities. “Some groups are just underrepresented in these spaces, and outcomes suffer as a result.”

For her ongoing efforts, Ennis was honored this year by the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) with its Woman Physician Leadership Award, recognizing outstanding leadership and contributions to patients and the medical profession by a woman physician.

Ennis, the society noted, is viewed by her colleagues and the community as a leader in addressing structural racism in healthcare and social determinants of health. In addition to her work with Faces of Medicine, she penned several opinion pieces addressing race in medicine for the Washington Post and created a presentation for the Hampshire and Franklin County districts of the MMS that was selected by the Board of Registration in Medicine as one of three that meets the new licensure requirement for implicit bias education.

“I have continued to be impressed not just by how compassionate and professional a physician she is, but she’s also a tremendous role model for women physicians and for women of color,” said Dr. Kate Atkinson, a primary-care physician in Northampton and Amherst, when the award was presented. “Dr. Khama Ennis has been speaking out constructively and gently to educate and empower us all to do better.”

For that work, Ennis is not only a Woman of Impact, but someone whose impact on healthcare promises to bear fruit for decades to come.

Shifting Gears

Ennis was born in Jamaica; her family immigrated to the U.S. when she was a toddler, and she grew up in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

She graduated from Brown University with a focus in medical anthropology and earned her medical degree at NYU School of Medicine and her master of public health degree at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She practiced at Cooley Dickinson Hospital for a decade and a half, starting in 2006, and eventually rose to chief of Emergency Medicine from 2015 to 2020 and medical staff president from 2022 to 2022.

But as early as 2018, she was looking for a change, for a number of reasons.

“Right now, black women are 2.8% of the physicians in the U.S., which is a little more than a third of what we represent in the population as a whole, so it’s clearly inadequate.”

“What I had come to do was done: the department was stabilized, the wait times were down, and we’d had some real achievements,” she recalled. She had also gotten divorced and found the 24/7 on-call nature of an ER schedule to be incompatible with effective co-parenting.

So Ennis switched gears and went into integrative medicine, opening Intentional Health in downtown Amherst earlier in 2023.

“My training is more allopathic, traditional, conventional Western medicine. But I provide and have received acupuncture, therapeutic massage is incredibly important, physical therapy is important, chiropractic is important. There are different ways to bring all of these different players in to optimize people’s health.”

Even elements like nutrition education is critical to her work. “I like being able to suggest … ‘if you eat that instead of that, you’ll still be full, but your blood sugar will come down.’ If people have a bit more understanding, they can have more control over their own health,” she explained.

Dr. Lynnette Watkins, president and CEO of Cooley Dickinson Health Care, is one of the four physicians profiled in the first episode of the Faces of Medicine documentary series.

“I’m not a primary-care doctor, and I think what’s terrible about our overall healthcare system is that it doesn’t allow primary-care doctors to get to a lot of this,” she added. “It’s structural; they’re given 15 minutes to see a person, and it’s really hard to get into depth in 15 minutes with anybody.”

So, in addition to her acupuncture certification, “I have studied lifestyle medicine, which looks at nutrition and activity, sleep, restorative practices, community, all those things that play huge roles in individual and community health.”

At the same time, Ennis has been hard at work over the past two years on Faces of Medicine, a memoir and documentary project that will have its first public screening on Monday, Oct. 16 at Amherst Cinema, with the first episode telling the stories of four Black women who are making an impact on healthcare locally: Dr. Lynnette Watkins, president and CEO of Cooley Dickinson Health Care; Dr. Thea James, associate Chief Medical Officer and executive director of the Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center; Dr. Valerie Stone, director of Health Equity Initiatives in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Dr. Rose Cesar, a gastroenterologist at Baystate Franklin Medical Center.

“We’re also going to be telling the story of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman to ever earn an MD in the U.S.; that happened in 1864,” Ennis noted.

She plans on interviewing at least 30 physicians for the series, and has conducted 16 interviews so far.

“I reached out to different Black female physicians across the country. Some of them I knew; a lot of them were a friend of a friend or some other connection,” she explained. “But the first episode is all Massachusetts stories. They will be telling their own stories, pulled together from the interviews they’ve done over the last year and a half.”

Faces of Medicine will also arrange virtual screenings for two days after the Oct. 16 event for anyone who can’t make the premiere.

Crafting a documentary, for someone whose training is in a much different realm, was a challenge, she said, but a gratifying one. Her team includes Seth Lepore, who handles day-to-day operations; and Executive Producer Jenahye Johnson of Brooklyn-based Homebase Studios, a production studio and crew-sourcing agency that touts “storytelling through community.”

“I needed a company, so I incorporated a company. And then you need fiscal sponsorships, so I got fiscal sponsorships,” Ennis said. “And then I started fundraising at the very end of 2021. Thus far, we’ve raised about $250,000, which is what’s funded all of the work so far.

Dr. Khama Ennis was also honored this year with the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Woman Physician Leadership Award.

“Ideally, this can go in a couple different directions from here. I either continue grassroots fundraising to get the rest of the episodes funded and completed, or an executive producer with means says, ‘I love this project, and I want to help steward it across the finish line.’ That would be amazing. Or PBS or a streaming service says, ‘this is something that we’d really love to engage with.’”

The initial plan is to complete four episodes that span the breadth of the country, numerous specialties in medicine, and myriad stories and paths. The series could be a template for other underrepresented groups, too, from Latinx and Indigenous Americans to LGBTQ individuals, she said. “The whole goal is to have young people see themselves reflected in these stories and see possibilities they can grab onto.”

Worth the Effort

Faces of Medicine dovetails nicely with Ennis’s work on Diversify Medicine.

“The goal that I have there is to create a short-term database. There are lots of organizations doing great work to try to bring people into this space, but if you don’t know exactly what to search for, you’re not going to find a program that could support you.”

The database is intended to help underrepresented populations find resources to help them access medical careers, and she also plans to create a virtual mentorship network to amplify the voices of professionals of color already working in the space.

“We have concrete data that support the importance of diversity on teams for improving health outcomes,” Ennis noted. For example, one study came out that looked at the infant mortality rate in Florida, which was two to three times higher for black infants than for white infants — and that disparity was cut in half when the pediatrician was black.

“The data that I’ve found most specifically speaks to physicians, but I think it’s true of every player in the healthcare team. Doctors are useless without nurses, and nurses are useless without techs. We all need each other in order to do this work, so I truly believe that every level needs to reflect the population we’re serving.”

Meanwhile, Faces of Medicine holds the promise of inspiring young women of color to pursue the dream of a medical career from an early age.

“There are experiences in elementary, middle, and high school where people can either be encouraged or discouraged,” she said. “Somebody can express an interest in medicine, and somebody else can say, ‘oh, that’s really hard, are you sure?’ Or somebody can say, ‘that’s great; let’s figure out what the next step would be.’”

The women being profiled in Faces of Medicine all figured out that next step, and are able to clearly communicate how and why.

“Say you’re a smart kid, but you just don’t think it’s possible because you’ve experienced homelessness. We can show them somebody who had some real struggles in their family growing up, but they got here,” Ennis said. “I’m not Pollyanna; I don’t want to tell anybody that it’s easy. But I do want people to get that it’s worth it.”

Dawn Forbes DiStefano

President and CEO, Square One

Inspired by Others, She Displays the Awesome Power of One Woman

Dawn Forbes DiStefano

Dawn Forbes DiStefano never had to be told about how a single woman could be a life-changing force for someone and an influential role model.

She could see for herself starting at a very young age, with her maternal grandmother, Phyllis Arnold Pilbin, who saw her role change in profound ways when her daughter, Forbes DiStefano’s mother, was killed by a drunk driver when she was just 26 years old and Dawn, her first child, was only 3.

“My grandmother somehow had the resiliency and spirit to lend a hand to a very grieving father; she left her day job to care for my sister and me so that my father could work during the day — while she was still raising four other children,” said Forbes DiStefano, adding that she started working nights selling Stanley Home Products. “She changed her life to care for the two of us. As a woman growing up with a woman who persevered through losing her daughter and had the strength to then change her career so she could raise her two young granddaughters to get through this — that had a profound impact on me.”

But there have been plenty of other examples of the power and influence of a single woman, she said, citing the remarkable individual her father would marry several years after that tragedy, Patty, who would adopt Forbes DiStefano and her sister Heather, who is also on this list of life changers, as well as two sisters who would come later, Kelly and Megan. And her aunts as well.

There would be impactful women at the YWCA, where she first went to work as a receptionist and would stay for nearly three decades.

“I’ve always been sort of an impatient, unsettled learner — I’m always looking for something else to learn, something else to do, a problem to solve. And I’ve always had women who responded with ‘go ahead and try it … we’ve got your back; we’ll pick you up if you fall.’”

Then there’s Joan Kagan-Levine, her predecessor as president and CEO of the Springfield-based early-education provider Square One. Like others, Kagan-Levine encouraged her to reach higher, take on risks, and maybe try to do something she might not have thought she could do.

“I’ve been surrounded by women who encouraged me to try things,” Forbes DiStefano said. “I’ve always been sort of an impatient, unsettled learner — I’m always looking for something else to learn, something else to do, a problem to solve. And I’ve always had women who responded with ‘go ahead and try it … we’ve got your back; we’ll pick you up if you fall.’”

With all those powerful leads to follow, she has, in essence, devoted her life to having the backs of others, especially women — being there to pick them up if they fall and being that single woman who becomes a force in someone’s life.

That’s been the case whether it’s the many women in her own family; the 130 or so women, by her count, now working for Square One; or others in the community.

Indeed, she keeps with her what she calls a “secret notebook,” one in which she jots down notes, mostly on women she’s helping through issues and problems in their lives, be it with buying a house or how to move forward in their career.

Dawn Forbes DiStefano says her grandmother, Phyllis Arnold Pilbin, is one of many who have shown her the “power of a single woman.”

But being a mentor and influence in the lives of others only partially explains why she is part of this Women of Impact class of 2023. She is also a dynamic leader, guiding Square One through an important and challenging time in its history — and, yes, there have been many of those.

Today, she is leading a project to build the agency a new headquarters in Springfield’s South End, its home since 1883, while playing a key role in efforts to secure adequate funding for the agency and erase the discrepancy between what the state pays to childcare facilities in the 617 (and other area codes in and around Boston) and what it pays to those in the 413.

As a manager, Forbes DiStefano said she tries to lead by example and do whatever needs to be done, a philosophy captured in comments by Kris Allard, Square One’s vice president of Development & Communication, who first met Forbes DiStefano while they were serving on the Dress for Success board of directors and nominated her to be a Woman of Impact.

“Dawn does not lead from behind her desk,” Allard wrote. “She can often be found sitting on the floor reading stories with a group of preschoolers, chatting with a young mother enrolling in a family-service program, delivering diapers and groceries to families in need of assistance, and even preparing lunch for hundreds of children when the kitchen staff needs an extra pair of hands.”

All that, and much more, explains why she is certainly a Woman of Impact.

It’s All Relative

Forbes DiStefano said her mother, Patty, who is only 13 years older than she is, has often been able to inspire and motivate her words and actions.

She has many examples, but one that stands out is from the days not long after she graduated from UMass Amherst with a teaching degree and landed in a terrible job market for teachers. She was spending a lot of time at the family’s pool and enjoying her summer until Patty pulled her aside one day on the deck.

“She said, ‘Dawn, you’re the oldest of four girls, you’re a college graduate, and I need your sisters to see a college graduate working — let’s go work,’” she recalled, adding that the YWCA was hiring for an office it was opening in Northampton; she knew people at the agency, so she went to work there as a receptionist.

So began an intriguing, and very much ongoing, story of involvement with nonprofit agencies, service to the community, and being a woman and a leader who would certainly make all the women who have ever had her back quite proud.

As a receptionist at the YWCA, she was soon inspired by one of those women to start writing grants, become the agency’s grants manager, and make this work more than a job.

“I immediately fell head over heels in love with the notion that I could make a career out of helping people, and most especially helping women,” she said.

In 2007, she became the YWCA’s director of Resource Development, and would stay in that role until 2015, when she decided it was time for a change. She had lunch with Kagan-Levine, who convinced her to become Square One’s chief Finance and Grants officer. Forbes DiStefano would become executive vice president in 2019, and would prevail in the nationwide search for a successor to the retiring Kagan-Levine in January 2021.

As she talked about her current work and the challenges facing her and the agency, she was quick to note they are far less in scope than those Square One faced in the preceding decade — the tornado that destroyed its old headquarters building on Main Street, the natural-gas explosion that rendered one of its facilities unusable, and the tortuous first nine months of the pandemic, which … well, no explanation needed.

Dawn Forbes DiStefano is leading Square One through a time of challenge and opportunity, including the building of a new headquarters in Springfield’s South End.

Still, there is plenty on her plate, including the work to build a new facility downtown, a $12 million project now moving through the design and fundraising stages, and ongoing efforts to close the discrepancy between what the state is paying for childcare to facilities on either end of the state.

Indeed, she was a definitive voice in a Boston Globe article earlier this year that drew attention not only to the discrepancy between the reimbursement rates, but the need at agencies like Square One to raise money to cover the difference between what is received for a subsidy and the cost of providing care.

The Compounding Effect

At Square One, more than 90% of employees are women, and Forbes DiStefano has committed herself to having their backs and providing the encouragement and inspiration that others have provided to her — all while also being a mother; a strong supporter of agencies that support adult women, such as Dress for Success; and the CEO of a nonprofit.

While doing so, she drives home not just the power of a single woman, but the even more powerful force that emerges when women work together toward common goals and solving problems.

“Someone smarter than me — I think it was in a Forbes article — talked about the power of women and the compounding effect,” she told BusinessWest. “Women, on an individual basis, have power, but the collective impact that women have when they make the conscious effort to support each other in the most inclusive way — it is an exponential change to the world around us.

“When you invest in an individual woman, because the tentacles from the single woman are so vast, whether she’s serving as a sister, a mother, a grandmother, an aunt … if you support her, the exponential improvement and the compounding value of that investment can’t be compared to anything else,” she went on, adding that she is committed to making such investments, whether it’s with her daughters or with her employees. “Invest in a woman; it’s one of the best investments you can make.”

That’s because, she continued, when women struggle and they can’t access what they need, that same compounding effect occurs, but in a negative way. “Her children suffer, and the people around her suffer.”

Which brings us back to that aforementioned secret notebook.

“It’s filled with all the women in my life, so that I can remember who’s buying a home, who’s struggling to care for their aging parents … I can’t remember it all by heart, so I have to write it all down,” she said. “I try to touch one a day; that is always my goal. I either do a handwritten note or a text or a phone call to another woman to let her know I’m thinking about her. I try to connect with women once a day, and in a personal way.”

Getting back to her grandmother, Forbes DiStefano said simply, “she taught me the power of one woman.”

There have been many others who have provided similarly impactful lessons along the way. Together, these individuals inspired her to make providing similar support and inspiration what she calls the “cornerstone of her life.”

So today, as a mother, daughter, employer, mentor, fellow board member, and nonprofit leader, she is the one displaying the awesome power of one woman.

Not just a woman, but a Woman of Impact.

Michelle Theroux

CEO, Berkshire Hills Music Academy

She Helps Young Adults with Disabilities Build a Lifetime of Ability

Michelle Theroux

Growing up in South Hadley, Michelle Theroux would ride by the old Skinner family residence on Route 116, just north of Mount Holyoke College, and have no clue what it was.

Or what it would become.

“Wistariahurst in Holyoke was the family’s winter home, and this was their summer home,” she told BusinessWest. “And when the last living Skinner passed away, this property went to Mount Holyoke. But it never had an identity within the campus, so around 1998, they were looking to divest several of their properties.”

Among the interested buyers were the founders of Berkshire Hills Music Academy, which will celebrate a quarter-century next year as a unique, college-like program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are looking to expand their social, vocational, and music skills in a decidedly music-infused environment.

Theroux came on board in 2013, providing some needed stability. As in much-needed.

“I was the eighth executive director in our 13-year history when I was hired,” she said. “When I spoke with the recruiter, I said, ‘you have to give me the backstory. Am I walking onto the Titanic? What’s going on here?’”

The answer, she decided, was ‘founder syndrome’; the institution had some strong founding families who had competing visions, so there wasn’t one consistent direction, which burned out each director quickly. In fact, when Theroux reached just 20 months on the job, she became the school’s longest-tenured leader ever.

“I was able to get some traction with staff and make changes, as well as with the board. I said, ‘if we’re going to do what we need to do, here’s how we’re going to do it. And you’ve got to let me do my job. I can’t be second-guessed at every turn. We’re going to have to change.’”

It helped that her music background — she began studying tap, jazz, and ballet dance at age 5; added dance instruction when she was just 16; and later toured nationally in a jazz-based children’s show — gave her some “street cred” with the staff.

“I knew what it’s like to be on a gig; things like that allowed me to be a bit more successful than some of the predecessors.”

That success, a decade into Theroux’s tenure, is measurable. The student body was 32 when she arrived, and is past 75 now. “That’s capacity,” she said. “So for us to grow, we would be taking on a new building, most likely off-site and in the community somewhere.”

Which may happen at some point, because the school’s success extends far beyond numbers. It’s all about the total impact on these young adults’ lives.

Berkshire Hills boasts a day program and a residential program. “If they’re residential, they’re most likely living for the first two years in our dorm, and then they can live in the community after that,” she explained. “Our two-year program really focuses on shoring up their life skills — everything from cooking to money management, which includes going to the bank and then going shopping and making sure you have a list of what you need versus what you want.”

The entire program, in fact, is built around preparing students to live independently and successfully in the community.

“We have a whole course on social skills with friends, social skills in the workplace. We teach what language to use and what’s an appropriate hand gesture when you meet somebody: you shake their hand; you don’t give them a hug. Because a lot of times, it’s the soft skills that individuals who have intellectual and developmental disabilities may struggle with and could lead to potential conflict, say, in the workplace.”

“When I spoke with the recruiter, I said, ‘you have to give me the backstory. Am I walking onto the Titanic? What’s going on here?’”

Speaking of which, students also explore vocational skills and strengths. “We do a lot of volunteer opportunities in the community: at the local food pantries, the Dakin animal shelter, and a few other places, like Share Coffee, to see what their skill sets are, what their interests are. And then, as they go through our program, they match those skills with potential employment later on.”

But what really sets Berkshire Hills Music Academy aside is right there in the name.

“We are known for individuals who have an intellectual or developmental disability, who are highly musical,” Theroux explained. “We’re one of the very few places in the country where they can get lessons and programming, but we also act as their agent, their manager, their accompaniment, their arranger.”

Michelle Theroux says Berkshire Hills Music Academy is at capacity and may need to grow into another building in the community.

In fact, students are provided with opportunities to perform locally, both individually and in a number of different ensembles in different musical genres, and in settings ranging from local schools to Fenway Park, where students have sung the national anthem.

In short, these young adults are living full lives, enjoying and perfecting their music skills, and preparing to live independently after their enrollment at Berkshire Hills. And Theroux’s steady leadership has plenty to do with their success.

The Power of Music

Some gigs can be especially impactful for audiences.

“We have about 15 nursing homes or assisted-living facilities in a rotation that our bands will cycle through each year, and those facilities love having them,” Theroux said. “One reason is our students are super warm and embracing and fun. They’re also very talented.

“And there’s a connection between the aging brain and music,” she added. “For example, somebody with dementia or Alzheimer’s will have lapses in their memory, but they’ll hear a song, and it will bring them right back, and they’ll remember all the words to it. If it’s their wedding song or their prom song, whatever it is, they have a memory that gets triggered by the music. So we are a fan favorite in the local nursing homes.”

The school even has a dance ensemble that’s starting to pick up gigs as well, sometimes accompanied by a Berkshire Hills musician or ensemble, sometimes on their own.

Speaking of gigs, the young musicians earn money for appearances, with just a small percentage deducted to cover the school’s staffing costs, Theroux said. “They know there’s value to their work. Like you and I value our paychecks, so do they. So, yes, these are paid gigs.”

“We’ve really looked at the individual, and instead of just focusing on areas where they need support, because there’s a deficit there, we’ve looked at where their strengths are, where their passions are, where their gifts are, and really build on that.”

And when audiences hear them play, sing, and dance, they understand the value, too.

“When they hear our music, people are like, ‘wait, what? They have a disability?’ Because when you hear the music, you hear good music. You don’t hear a disability.”

That’s why these students have performed at other schools, too, funded by anti-bullying grants, to drive home the message of ability, not disability, Theroux said. “The message is, ‘if I have autism and can sing like this, you might have autism, so guess what? You, too, have skills; you, too, have talent; you, too, have strength.’ Our bands go into some schools, and they’re like rock stars.”

Berkshire Hills students don’t have to be highly musical to enroll, she added. “But if you are, there is a music track for folks where that can be their vocation. We have a secondary tier; we have several bands that gig in the community at a high level.”

These successes — in music and in life — are reflected in words of gratitude from families over the years, Theroux said.

“It’s everything from a parent telling us, ‘I never thought my child would shave his own face’ to becoming highly musical and standing up and performing in front of 200 people, to getting their own apartment,” she noted. “Our goal is to figure out how to make somebody as autonomous and independent as possible. Whatever level of staff support is needed, we will provide, but the goal is really to push the areas where they don’t need support.”

Michelle Theroux says the school’s culture of inclusivity extends to the way the staff treats students, families, and each other.

And when the result is someone who can live on their own, do their own laundry, cook their own meals, hold down a job, handle their banking … and also have outlets to express their musical talent, well, that’s the heart of the Berkshire Hills mission.

“We’ve really looked at the individual, and instead of just focusing on areas where they need support, because there’s a deficit there, we’ve looked at where their strengths are, where their passions are, where their gifts are, and really build on that,” she added. After all, “we all have deficits; we all have things we’re working on and trying to improve.”

Sign Her Up

Away from her day job, Theroux is an example of the mantra that, if you need something done, ask a busy person.

Among the boards she’s sat on and organizations she’s served are Mercy Medical Center and Trinity Health Of New England, the South Hadley/Granby Chamber of Commerce, the town of South Hadley, the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, the Human Service Forum, and MicroTek, a Chicopee-based manufacturer that employs people with disabilities.

And she brought a wealth of nonprofit-management experience to Berkshire Hills when she came on board as executive director in 2013 (she took on the CEO role in 2021); those roles include executive director of Child & Family Service of Pioneer Valley, director of Special Projects at Clinical and Support Options, vice president of Clinical Services at the Center for Human Development, and director of Family Networks at the Key Program.

Even right out of graduate school, she found herself working in human services at the Gándara Center, running a behavioral-treatment residence for adolescent boys who had sexual reactive behaviors or fire-setting behaviors. “That’s an interesting population to cut your teeth on,” she said.

All this prepared her to lead Berkshire Hills, and lead she has; soon after arriving, she stabilized all facets of operations, created an operational budget surplus, doubled the operating budget over a two-year period, expanded contracts with the Department of Developmental Services, and exceeded the $3.3 million goal on a capital campaign. She also oversaw the construction of a new music building fully funded by that campaign.

“I’ve worked in several other human-service organizations, and this place has a very different flavor and feel when I walk in — not only the physical campus that we have, but the culture we try to promote around inclusivity, that’s strength-based and person-centered,” she said. “That extends to how we treat our colleagues and how we treat each other as staff. It’s one thing to be client-forward, but how do we make sure that’s all-encompassing in terms of who we are and what we do?”

For answering that question every day, and changing young lives for the better, Theroux is certainly a Woman of Impact.

Lisa Zarcone

Author, Speaker, and Child and Mental-health Advocate

By Sharing Her Story, She’s Turned Her Tragic Youth into an Impactful Life

Photo by Leah Martin Photography

Lisa Zarcone brought a book to her interview with BusinessWest, called The Unspoken Truth. It’s a memoir she wrote several years ago.

More importantly — and tragically — she also lived it. And it’s a rough read.

“The Unspoken Truth is my story, of the abuse I went through,” she said. “I was silent for years about it and never spoke of it, and it was so damaging to me. But as an adult, I was finally able to break free and share my story.”

“I tell anybody who reads my book, ‘be prepared.’ It’s a very raw, real look at what abuse is like through the eyes of a child,” she added. “When you read stories of other abuse survivors, they take the point of view of the adult looking back. But I took the child’s perspective, right in the moment. I wanted people to understand what the child really goes through.”

But Zarcone’s story since that childhood — in which she was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused for the better part of a decade — has been truly inspiring. It’s a story of coming to terms with a horrific past, of learning to trust others with that story, of surprising depths of empathy.

It’s a story of bravery and vulnerability. It’s the story of a Woman of Impact.

And it starts with her mother. In fact, Zarcone’s current advocacy work around mental health is rooted in her complicated relationship with her mother, who has struggled with mental illness her entire life.

“My mom never got the proper help and support that she needed,” said Zarcone. “And because of that, we both fell through the cracks. Again, the abuse was horrific. And it went on for years. It wasn’t like it just happened in a short period of time, and we were able to move forward from it. This went on for years.”

“I buried my past. I took it all and said, ‘I’m not going to speak of it, I’m not going to think of it.’ And I fought every single day of my life not to bring it up, not to focus on that pain. I was driven by that.”

When Zarcone was 6, her brother died of leukemia, and that’s when her mother’s world — and her own life — fell apart. “My mom never recovered. My dad said the day my brother died was the day she died, and on many levels, that’s the truth, because she couldn’t recover from it. And back then, in the ’70s, mental health was not talked about; it was frowned upon.”

As her mother deteriorated, “the stigma was horrendous. People treated my mother very poorly because she was sick. And nobody wanted to deal with her,” Zarcone recalled. “And because of that, I was left home alone with my mom. My dad buried himself in work and activities, and he was barely around.”

Her father eventually left, and her mother’s abuse, which started verbally, eventually became physical. Meanwhile, she started bringing unsafe people into their home.

“She loved to pick people up off the street, homeless people, hitchhikers — she’d bring them home and wanted it to be like a party at all times; she rode that roller coaster of the highs and lows and the mania.”

When she was only 12, a troubled older boy from the neighborhood claimed Zarcone as his girlfriend, and her mother encouraged the coercive, sexually abusive ‘relationship,’ which lasted a year and a half.

Lisa Zarcone says her book is raw, real, difficult … and a story she needed to tell. Photo by Leah Martin Photography

“Neighbors saw, family saw, the school saw, and nobody stepped in,” she said. “My mother did not hide her mental illness. We never knew what was going to happen next.”

At age 14 — after eight years of this hell — she was able to free herself from the abuse when her grandparents took her in. But there was alcoholism and general chaos in that home, and her mother remained a part of her life. Finally, she rebelled, in a purposeful, even positive sort of way.

“At age 15 or 16, I started thinking a little differently, and I wanted to figure out how to get out. So I engrossed myself in school, and I went from an F student to an A student because I decided I needed to do something to help myself. I worked three jobs while I was in high school. I did anything I could not to be home. And I did whatever I could to get out.”

Eventually, she did. “And I buried my past. I took it all and said, ‘I’m not going to speak of it, I’m not going to think of it.’ And I fought every single day of my life not to bring it up, not to focus on that pain. I was driven by that. I was driven to succeed. And I did.”

Since then, Zarcone has lived a life of purpose. She’s worked with disabled children and adults teaching life skills and writing, and served as a mentor to young women in a locked-down facility teaching journaling, poetry, and art therapy.

She has also done plenty of work advocating for suicide prevention and PTSD awareness, and she’s currently Massachusetts’ national ambassador for the National Assoc. of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse, traveling all over to raise awareness and promote change in a system where too many children still fall through the cracks.

Moment of Truth

But she wouldn’t find full healing from her past, and the ability to help others overcome their own trauma, until she began talking about it — to the surprise of her loving, and completely blindsided, husband.

“Lisa has worked hard to overcome her past abuse and turned her pain into purpose,” John Zarcone said in nominating Lisa as a Woman of Impact. “I admire her immensely for stepping up and saving herself, our marriage, and family. We have raised three children together, and she is an incredible mother. It comes naturally for her, caring for others and making sure everyone is safe, loved, and thriving.”

That’s a remarkable quality, considering her youthful trauma — which she kept hidden away from John for more than a decade of marriage.

“After I had my third child, things changed,” she said. “I started having flashbacks and nightmares, and they were horrific. I was living in two worlds at once every single day, and I couldn’t do it anymore. So I went to therapy, and I finally shared what happened to me. At that point, I didn’t share absolutely everything. I couldn’t. But I was able to break the silence by saying I was sexually abused, and I started to work through those things.”

Then came the harder part — when she finally told her husband, too.

“He knew my mom had mental illness. He knew I went through a lot of things, but he didn’t know the depth of what happened to me, especially the sexual-abuse piece. And I blew his mind,” she said.

“I was able to find healing and forgiveness because I put myself in their shoes to understand the best I could.”

“He always knew that I was scarred. And he knew my mom was severely mentally ill; even as an adult, my mother was very damaging toward me. But when I shared my truth with him, he was blown away. Basically, he looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know who you are.’ That was so hurtful to me … but I got it. I knew why he was saying that.”

But they overcame it — Lisa’s unearthed trauma and John’s shock — and eventually grew stronger as a family.

“John is my biggest fan, and he’s been my biggest supporter through this whole process and writing this book,” she said, noting that it took six years to write, and no publisher wanted to touch a memoir by a first-time author telling this extremely raw story in an unusual way. So Zarcone self-published and learned how to market it on her own.

The transition from writer to speaker came naturally, she said, after an author talk in her hometown of West Haven, Conn. after the book was released. About 60 people showed up, and she was nervous, but afterward, it felt … right.

Through much hard work, her husband says, Lisa Zarcone has “turned her pain into purpose.”
Photo by Leah Martin Photography

“My husband and my daughter were like, ‘well, I guess a public speaker is born.’ And from that point forward, that’s what I decided,” she said. “I really wanted to get the word out there, to talk about these subjects that nobody wants to talk about.”

As part of her work in the mental-health realm, she became an advocate for her mother, who passed away in 2014. This month, she is releasing her second book, which tells her mother’s life story.

“I started looking through my parents’ eyes, looking at their journey, why they acted the way they did, why things happened the way they did,” she said. “I was able to find healing and forgiveness because I put myself in their shoes to understand the best I could.”

Zarcone understands this level of empathy surprises people.

“It took a long time to get there. For years, I hated my mother. And I feel bad when I say that now, because I didn’t truly hate her, but in that timeframe, I hated what she did to me, allowing these bad people to come into my world and hurt me the way they did.

“But as I grew older, I learned what mental illness really was, and I did a lot of studying and talking to people and understanding what mental illness does to somebody. Every time she would get locked up or every time something else would happen, it was painful to watch, because I did have love and empathy for my mother.”

And as she healed, she was able to separate her abuser from the once-loving mother crushed by mental illness.

“I always feel like a sense of loss because I lost my mother to mental illness,” she went on. “And she lost out, too. She lost out on being a wonderful mother, a wonderful wife, a wonderful grandmother. Those are the things she aspired to be. Family was everything to her. But when she was sick, you wouldn’t even know who she was. It was just mind-blowing to watch.”

The Story Continues

“Embrace the journey.”

That’s one of Zarcone’s personal mantras, and it’s a moving one, considering where that journey has taken her.

But across 37 years of marriage, and especially since she finally opened up to her husband — and the world — about her past, she has found healing by finding her voice: as a writer, a speaker, a blogger, a talk-radio host, and a national spokesperson for survivors of child abuse. In 2021, she received an award from the Mass. Commission on the Status of Women, and The Unspoken Truth won the Hope Pyx Global International Book Award in the category of child abuse.

The road has been long, and healing didn’t come all at once. But it began by telling a very difficult story.

“The healing process comes in stages,” Zarcone said. “People will say, ‘once you share your story, it’s better.’ No, no … that’s when the work really begins. You have to take it piece by piece, and when it gets too heavy, you put it down.

“And then you pick it back up.”

Celebrating the Women of Impact

By Editorial October 11, 2023

Opinion

Editorial

In 2018, BusinessWest created a new recognition program, one to recognize the contributions of women. We did this … well, because we needed to.

Indeed, while we have other programs that certainly recognize women — 40 Under Forty, Difference Makers, and Healthcare Heroes — a separate program focused exclusively on women and the many contributions they are making to quality of life in this region was clearly necessary.

The reason is that so many of the stories we’ve told since 2018 might not have been told otherwise, and some women worthy of recognition might not have been duly recognized.

We could have called this program ‘Women in Business’ — other business publications have done just that. But we believed this was too limiting. We wanted to recognize all the many ways women can excel and make an impact. Thus, the name Women of Impact was chosen.

And the program has lived up to that title. This tradition of honoring women from across a wide spectrum of professions, pathways, and methods for making an impact continues with the class of 2023.

This class includes business leaders, nonprofit managers, a healthcare provider, an author and public speaker, and even a flight instructor — who is also a business owner.

The stories are all different, but there are many common threads. These women are leaders, they are inspiring, they are mentors to others, and they give back in many different ways.

And there is something else as well. These women all recognize what one of our honorees, Dawn Forbes DiStefano, called the “power of one woman,” especially when it comes to influencing the lives and careers of other women.

And they demonstrate that power, in myriad ways.

Indeed, our honorees have all made it a priority to help empower women and enable them to rise higher, quite literally when it comes to flight instructor and flight-school owner Rika Ballard; or by helping them get into the still-male-dominated auto industry, in the case of Carla Cosenzi; or help them enter (and then persevere in) the financial-advisor industry, in the case of Amy Jamrog; or help them overcome postpartum depression or the trauma of child abuse, as Arlyana Dalce-Bowie and Lisa Zarcone, respectively, are doing; or, in the case of Michelle Theroux, help young people with disabilities thrive in music and in life.

In many ways, our Women of Impact program has become a vehicle for displaying the awesome power of a single woman. Since 2018, our honorees, including those in the class of 2023, have demonstrated the power to lead, inspire, and generate positive change in the lives of not only women, but all those they impact.

It’s a striking, impressive class, and we’re excited to share their stories with you.

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Open for Business

On Sept. 27, Liberty Bank cut the ribbon to its new loan production office on the 22nd floor of One Monarch Place in downtown Springfield. During the event, the Liberty Bank Foundation granted donations totaling $20,000 to three area nonprofits: the Boys & Girls Club of West Springfield (pictured below), Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts, and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

Pictured, from left: Liberty Bank Market President Tony Liberopoulos and Senior Relationship Manager Jeff Sattler, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, Liberty Bank President and CEO Dave Glidden, and Monarch Enterprises President Paul Picknelly.

Liberty Bank’s Springfield loan-production team.

The Boys & Girls Club of West Springfield check

Foliage and Fairytales

The 67th annual Northern Berkshire Fall Foliage Parade, presented by 1Berkshire and the city of North Adams, took place on Oct. 1. This year’s theme was “Once Upon a Time in North Berkshire,” a celebration of children’s books and fairytales. More than 90 participants took part in this annual event, and the parade was attended by thousands of spectators. Very Good Properties won the Harry S. Orr Award for best overall float for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

The 67th annual Northern Berkshire Fall Foliage Parade

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

North Brookfield Savings Bank is holding a food drive and fundraiser from Oct. 1 through Oct. 31 to help local families in need. For every item collected, the bank will contribute $1, for a total of up to $3,000, to help fund the pantries’ operations. The bank’s goal is to collect at least 3,500 items in total, but it will also contribute monetarily. Community members are encouraged to drop off non-perishable food items, paper goods, toiletries, or monetary donations at any of the bank’s branches in North Brookfield, East Brookfield, West Brookfield, Ware, Belchertown, or Three Rivers.

North Brookfield Savings Bank is holding a food drive and fundraiser from Oct. 1 through Oct. 31

Marketing, Management, and Mascots

On Sep. 20, undergraduate students from the American International College marketing and sport and recreation management programs met Wally, Tessie, and other New England professional sports mascots at the Take the Lead Boston Career Summit held at Fenway Park. The students engaged and networked with leaders from the Patriots, Bruins, Red Sox, Celtics, and Revolution, gaining insight from these industry leaders on fostering equity and inclusivity within the world of sports.

Undergraduate students from the American International College marketing and sport and recreation management programs at the Take the Lead Boston Career Summit held at Fenway Park

Stuff the Bus

Following weeks of sorting donated school supplies and working with volunteers to pack hundreds of colorful backpacks, delivery day finally arrived on Aug. 22 for the United Way of Pioneer Valley’s Stuff the Bus program. With the Peter Pan bus fully packed, United Way staff and volunteers climbed aboard and trekked through 10 school districts to drop off more than 600 backpacks for students experiencing homelessness. School supplies and monetary donations are accepted throughout throughout the year. More information can be found at uwpv.org, and donations can be made at uwpv.org/donate.

With the Peter Pan bus fully packed, United Way staff and volunteers climbed aboard and trekked through 10 school districts to drop off more than 600 backpacks for students experiencing homelessness

Agenda

Agenda

Difference Makers Nominations

Through Dec. 8: Do you know someone who is truly making a difference in the Western Mass. region? BusinessWest invites you to nominate an individual or group for its 16th annual Difference Makers program. Nominations for the class of 2024 must be received by 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 8. Difference Makers was launched in 2009 as a way to recognize the contributions of agencies and individuals who are contributing to quality of life in this region. Past honorees have come from dozens of business and nonprofit sectors, proving there’s no limit to the ways people can impact their communities. Let us know who you think deserves to be recognized as a Difference Maker in our upcoming class by visiting businesswest.com/difference-makers-nomination-form to complete the nomination form. Honorees will be profiled in an upcoming issue of BusinessWest and celebrated at a gala in the spring.

Max on Monday

Oct. 16: Max Tavern at the Basketball Hall of Fame will host the fifth Max on Monday networking event from 4 to 6 p.m., offering attendees the opportunity to connect with other professionals while enjoying complimentary hors d’oeuvres. A cash bar will be available for beverages. At each event, Max on Monday will feature a selection of local businesses. In October, the sponsored businesses will include Borawski Insurance, New Valley Bank, Pascoe Workforce, Meyers Brothers Kalicka, and NRG Real Estate. Representatives from these businesses will be able to network with one another and share information about their organizations. In addition, each event features a local charity. On Oct. 16, the featured organization will be Men Wear Pink of Hartford and Springfield, an American Cancer Society initiative that raises awareness and funds to fight breast cancer. Max on Monday also showcases a local artist. To register to attend, RSVP to AnnMarie Harding at (413) 244-4055 or [email protected].

Western Massachusetts Developers Conference

Oct. 18: The Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council (EDC) and Economic Development Partners (EDP) announced that the 2023 Western Massachusetts Developers Conference will take place at MGM Springfield. This regional conference will bring together an array of industry leaders, developers, real-estate professionals, site selectors, economic-development experts, and public officials hailing from Western Mass. and beyond. The event promises to shine a spotlight on the region’s numerous strengths and development prospects, elucidating why it stands out as an ideal destination for investment, business launches, and growth. The conference agenda is full of informative sessions offering attendees an opportunity to gain valuable insights and foster collaborative connections, including a CEO Panel featuring insights from top CEOs as they discuss how the region actively supports business growth, a Community Lightning Round that showcases the vitality of local communities in Western Mass. and their role in fostering economic development, and the Incentives in Action Workshop, a hands-on session that delves into the tangible benefits of various incentives available to businesses in the region. A key highlight of the conference is the Luncheon Keynote address, featuring Gov. Maura Healey and Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao. To register, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/2023-western-mass-developers-conference-tickets-713868067607.

Healthcare Heroes

Oct. 26: BusinessWest and the Healthcare News will honor nine individuals as 2023 Healthcare Heroes at a celebration dinner at Marriott Springfield Downtown. The Healthcare Heroes class of 2023 was announced and profiled in the Sept. 18 issue of BusinessWest and at businesswest.com. They include Jody O’Brien of the Urology Group of Western New England (Lifetime Achievement), Cindy Senk of Movement for All (Community Health), Ashley LeBlanc of Mercy Medical Center (Emerging Leader), Ellen Ingraham-Shaw of Baystate Medical Center (Emerging Leader), Dr. Mark Kenton of Mercy Medical Center (Healthcare Administration), Kristina Hallett of Bay Path University (Health Education), Gabriel Mokwuah and Joel Brito of Holyoke Medical Center (Innovation in Healthcare), and Julie Lefer Quick of the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System (Healthcare Provider). Tickets cost $90 per person, and reserved tables of 10 are available. Current event sponsors include presenting sponsors Elms College and Baystate Health/Health New England, and partner sponsors Holyoke Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center/Trinity Health, and the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation and the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst. Congratulatory advertisements and additional event sponsorships are available. For more information, call (413) 781-8600 or visit businesswest.com/healthcareheroes.

Super 60

Nov. 9: Ashley Kohl, owner of Ohana School of Performing Arts and an entrepreneur with an inspiring story to tell, will be the keynote speaker at the Springfield Regional Chamber’s Super 60 lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the MassMutual Center in downtown Springfield. The Super 60, a program that traces its roots back to the late ’80s, when it was the Fabulous 50 before being expanded, is being revamped for 2023. In addition to the two traditional categories — Total Revenue and Revenue Growth — there will be three new categories recognizing nonprofits, startups, and giving back to the community. There will be 12 winners in each category. Tickets will be available for purchase at the chamber’s website, springfieldregionalchamber.com. For more information on Super 60, call (413) 787-1555.

Women of Impact

Dec. 7: BusinessWest will honor its sixth annual Women of Impact at Sheraton Springfield. Tickets cost $95 per person, and tables of 10 are available. To purchase tickets, visit businesswest.com/womenofimpact. The class of 2023, profiled this issue of BusinessWest and at businesswest.com, are: Fredrika Ballard, president, Aero Design Aircraft Services and Fly Lugu Flight Training; Carla Cosenzi, president, TommyCar Auto Group; Arlyana Dalce-Bowie, CEO, Moms in Power; Sandra Doran, president, Bay Path University; Dr. Khama Ennis, founder, Faces of Medicine and Intentional Health, LLC; Dawn Forbes DiStefano, president and CEO, Square One; Amy Jamrog, CEO, the Jamrog Group; Michelle Theroux, CEO, Berkshire Hills Music Academy; and Lisa Zarcone, author, speaker, and child and mental-health advocate. The event is sponsored by Country Bank and TommyCar Auto Group (presenting sponsors) and Comcast Business (partner sponsor).

People on the Move

People on the Move

Ryan Gagne

Cicely Hislop

Andrew Fleming

D.A. Sullivan & Sons Inc. (DAS) announced the arrival of Ryan Gagne, Cicely Hislop, and Andrew Fleming into its leadership group, marking a significant milestone in the 125-year-old construction company’s history. Gagne is valued for his innovative approaches and collaborative project management and will assume the role of vice president of Construction. His master’s degree in construction management and years of industry involvement will enrich the project experience offered by DAS. Hislop is currently pursuing her MBA at UMass Amherst. She is set to play a pivotal role in enhancing DAS’s operational efficiency and project execution as chief operating officer. Fleming will undertake the role of vice president of Pre-construction. His ability to foresee potential challenges and devise effective solutions is expected to ensure the smooth execution of projects from the initial stages.

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Christopher Thuot

Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) named Christopher Thuot vice president for Academic Affairs. Following a comprehensive national search, Thuot assumed the role on July 17. As the chief academic officer, he provides leadership for implementation of the college’s academic mission and priorities. He plays a key role in supporting the alignment of academic programs with the region’s employment needs while helping develop and sustain partnerships with transfer institutions, local schools, and government agencies. Thuot comes to STCC from Onondaga Community College (OCC) in Syracuse, N.Y., one of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system. He served as assistant provost, providing academic leadership to eight schools, adult college programs, and the Office of Registration and Records. He helped lead development of all new degree programs, led a comprehensive program revitalization process, and served as OCC’s accreditation liaison officer. He served as project director on a number of grants. Thuot began his career at OCC as a full-time faculty member while serving as the Honors College chair, vice president of the Faculty Senate, and coordinator of General Education. He was first introduced to community colleges as a student at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina Asheville and a Ph.D. in political science at Northern Illinois University.

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Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts (GSCWM) announced that the nonprofit organization’s long-time CEO, Pattie Hallberg, is stepping down at the end of 2023, after 16 years of service. The GSCWM board will oversee the process to choose Hallberg’s successor, and has engaged the search firm Find Good People to assist with the transition. “It has been my honor and a sincere privilege to lead Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts, an organization dedicated to the development of a girl’s personal leadership journey,” said Hallberg, who was named by BusinessWest to its Women of Impact class of 2020. “I am proud of the organization we are today and the impact we’ve made, working with thousands of fabulous girls and adults to further the Girl Scout mission to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.”

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Peter Albero

Peter Albero has been appointed chief financial officer and treasurer of Greenfield Savings Bank. He will be responsible for all aspects of financial operations of the bank, including internal and external financial reporting, investments, and asset and liability management. Albero joins the bank with more than 35 years in the financial industry. Most recently, he served as chief financial officer at Salisbury Bank & Trust. In addition, he has been a risk advisory consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, where he designed and implemented financial and risk data reconciliations for foreign banks. For more than 26 years, he worked at Morgan Stanley in a variety of senior roles in the Financial Controller group. He is also a licensed CPA in New York. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Manhattan College and an MBA in finance and international business from New York University.

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Conor Carey

Bacon Wilson, P.C. announced that attorney Conor Carey has joined the firm as an associate in the Litigation department. Carey earned his juris doctorate, cum laude, from the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis in 2018 and his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Westfield State University in 2015. Prior to joining Bacon Wilson, he spent a year as a judicial law clerk for Associate Justice Sabita Singh of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and also previously served as a research attorney to the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court in Worcester. At Bacon Wilson, he will be assisting clients with their litigation needs in both civil and criminal law. He is a member of both the Hampden and Hampshire county bar associations and will be working primarily out of the firm’s Northampton office. He is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and Minnesota.

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Soniha Nuzrat

Dietz & Company Architects Inc. recently welcomed Soniha Nuzrat to the firm in the role of architectural associate, in which she will assist project teams throughout all phases of design. Nuzrat recently received her master of architecture degree from Miami University in Ohio, where she completed her thesis on evaluating cross-cultural courtyard housing for social well-being in Manhattan. As evidenced by her thesis, she has a particular interest and specializes in community-based design. This past spring, she received the AIA Medal for Academic Excellence, which is awarded annually to the top graduating students in National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) accredited degree programs. Prior to pursuing her master of architecture degree, Nuzrat earned her bachelor of architecture degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology. She also worked on a variety of projects for architecture firms in Bangladesh.

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Country Bank announced that Brunilda Demiri has joined its Auditing Division as first vice president and director of Internal Audit. Before joining Country Bank, she worked as a lead auditor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She has more than 14 years of experience in the industry and is currently a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Certified Fraud Examiners Community. She holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Bentley University and is currently enrolled in Babson’s MBA program. Brunilda is also a certified fraud examiner.

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Timothy Murphy

Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C. announced that one of its partners, Timothy Murphy, has been recognized once again by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America list for 2024. He is listed in three fields: employment law – management, labor law – management, and litigation – labor and employment. Focusing his practice on labor relations, union avoidance, collective bargaining and arbitration, employment litigation, and employment counseling, Murphy has been included in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2013 and was Lawyer of the Year in 2015, 2018, 2020, and 2022. Murphy is very active within the local community, sitting on boards of directors for several area organizations, such as the Human Service Forum and Community Legal Aid. He also is a member of the World Affairs Council.

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Michael Laga

Freedom Credit Union recently welcomed Mortgage Loan Originator Michael Laga to its Loan Production Office at 115 Elm St. in Enfield, Conn. In this role, Laga works with homebuyers to assess their financial status and credit, recommend the best loan products, and guide members through the homebuying process. Laga graduated from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst and played professional baseball for 14 years on teams including the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Francisco Giants. Freedom’s Loan Production Office opened in Enfield in November 2022. It is dedicated exclusively to mortgage and business lending. John Santaniello, assistant vice president of Member Business Lending, also works from this office, helping businesses that are seeking loans, including term, Small Business Administration, commercial real estate, and commercial vehicle loans.

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Girls Inc. of the Valley recently welcomed two new members to its board of directors. Trishna Mudumbi and Isani Castro will join the current board to support strategic planning to map out the future of the organization. Mudumbi is an accomplished engineering leader with nearly 20 years of industry experience. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Drexel University and a master’s degree in management from Stevens Institute of Technology. She is currently the chief engineer for Environmental and Airframe Control Systems products for the Boeing Defense Value Stream at Collins Aerospace. Throughout her career, she has focused on promoting women and underrepresented groups in STEM and beyond. Castro is an associate attorney at Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury & Murphy, P.C. in downtown Springfield, with a focus on business and corporate law. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Manhattan College, graduating with honors. She graduated from Roger Williams University School of Law in May 2022 with her juris doctor. In her role as associate attorney, she drafts various legal documents related to intricate business needs, provides legal counsel, and manages negotiations.

Company Notebook

Company Notebook

Liberty Bank Opens New Loan Production Office

SPRINGFIELD — Liberty Bank, headquartered in Middletown, Conn., cut the ribbon to its new loan production office (LPO) on the 22nd floor of One Monarch Place in downtown Springfield on Sept. 28. Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno joined Liberty Bank President and CEO David Glidden, Western Mass. Market President Tony Liberopoulos, and Liberty Bank teammates, customers, and community stakeholders in officially opening the new office. The Western Mass. banking team originally opened an LPO at 94 Shaker Road in East Longmeadow in 2021. However, they wanted further penetration and exposure in the Western Mass. market, which precipitated the move to downtown Springfield. Among the amenities of the new Springfield LPO includes a reception area that leads to 15 offices, eight workstations, and hoteling workspace. The new office also includes a large conference room with additional team collaboration areas and a complete kitchen. Liberty’s ‘Be Community Kind’ brand and colors are displayed throughout the space. Underscoring its commitment to the Western Mass. community, the Liberty Bank Foundation granted donations totaling $20,000 to three area nonprofits at the ribbon cutting: Boys & Girls Club of West Springfield, Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts, and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. Liberty has also identified a strong demand to establish a branch to support customers’ needs and the bank’s continued growth in Western Mass. Therefore, Liberty will be opening a full-service banking branch at 94 Shaker Road in East Longmeadow later this fall.

Baystate Health Launches $70 Million Campaign

SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Health announced a $70 million comprehensive fundraising effort. “Healthier Tomorrows: The Campaign for Baystate Health” is the largest fundraising goal in Baystate Health’s history and focuses on raising money for three critical areas: capital needs, program support, and endowment development. The $70 million goal aims to fund several initiatives, including a state-of-the-art surgical facility and a Center for Nursing Excellence at Baystate Medical Center, a renovated Family Medicine practice and teaching space at Baystate Franklin Medical Center, and support for the endowment, with the purpose of increasing fiscal resilience for the organization. Baystate Health’s last campaign concluded in 2012. The $23 million raised supported building the shell of the Hospital of the Future wing, including space for a new Emergency Department and the Davis Family Heart & Vascular Center. The new campaign will help complete much of the shell space as intended to accommodate new technology and meet the growing needs of the community.

Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C. Recognized by Accounting Today

HOLYOKE — Each year, Accounting Today conducts a comprehensive assessment of the largest practices in tax and accounting across 10 major geographic regions in the U.S. Leveraging a wide range of benchmarking data, it meticulously evaluates firms’ growth strategies, service offerings, and specialized client niches. Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C. earned distinction as a top-tier firm within the New England region. Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C. is the largest independently owned and operated CPA firm in Western Mass. As a member of CPAmerica, one of the world’s largest networks of independent CPA and consulting firms, it offers a spectrum of services encompassing business strategy expertise, tax services, and accounting services. Its primary focus lies in serving closely held businesses and high-net-worth individuals, with notable concentrations in sectors such as healthcare, employee benefits, real estate, construction, manufacturing, and not-for-profit organizations.

Big E Sets Five Daily Attendance Records

WEST SPRINGFIELD — A total of 1,427,234 fairgoers attended the 2023 Big E in West Springfield, down from 2022’s tally of more than 1.6 million, due largely to several days of rain over the fair’s 17-day run. Still, when the weather did cooperate, five daily attendance records were set during the 2023 Big E: the first Tuesday, Sept. 19, 57,802; the second Friday, Sept. 22, 97,477; the second Wednesday, Sept. 27, 95,689; the second Thursday, Sept. 28, 108,962; and the third Sunday, Oct. 1, 170,471. The 2024 edition of the fair is scheduled for Sept. 13-29.

Elms College Surges Up Best Colleges Rankings

CHICOPEE — Elms College greatly improved its ranking on two listings in the U.S. News & World Report 2024 Best Colleges rankings and was listed as a Best Value School in the North Region for the first time. The college jumped 33 places to 60th on the list of Best Regional Universities (North) and rose 22 slots to 12th in the Top Performers on Social Mobility, Regional Universities (North) category. This list ranks schools for enrolling and graduating large proportions of students who have received federal Pell Grants. New this year, Elms College was ranked 33rd on the Best Value Schools, Regional Universities (North) list. This category examines a school’s academic quality and the cost of its programs. The higher the quality of programs and the lower the cost, the better the value a school provides.

Bay Path University Ranked as Safest Campus in Massachusetts

LONGMEADOW — Bay Path University is the safest college in Massachusetts and the third-safest in America, according to a recent list compiled by niche.com, which reviewed 1,400 schools and ranked the safest campuses in America for 2024. The website’s 2024 Safest College Campuses ranking is based on key statistics and student reviews using U.S. Department of Education data. The site states that these top-ranked colleges offer a safe and healthy environment with little or no campus crime, drugs, or alcohol usage. Specific factors considered include campus crime rate, local crime grade, student surveys on safety, residence-hall date violence rate, residence-hall rape rate, alcohol-related arrests, and drug-related arrests.

U.S. News Ranks MCLA Seventh Among Public Liberal-arts Schools

NORTH ADAMS — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) has earned the #7 spot on the list of Top Public Liberal Arts Schools in the nation for a third year in a row. U.S. News and World Report also ranked MCLA first for Top Performer on Social Mobility in the state, second in the country, and 22nd for National Liberal Arts Colleges. MCLA has appeared on U.S. News’ list of Top Ten Public Colleges for nine consecutive years. The college has also been acknowledged in the publication’s list of National Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Mobility since the organization adopted this ranking in 2019. This list measures how well institutions graduate students who receive federal Pell Grants, typically awarded to students whose families make less than $50,000, though most Pell Grant money goes to families with income below $20,000. More than 42% of MCLA undergraduate students receive Pell Grants, and 51% are the first in their families to go to college. Overall, 93% of students receive some kind of financial aid.

Mayhew Steel Products Wins Manufacturing Leadership Award

TURNERS FALLS — Mayhew Tools in Turners Falls received an award for Outstanding Leadership Skills in the Manufacturing Industry at the eighth annual Manufacturing Awards Ceremony. This ceremony is part of the Massachusetts Manufacturing Mash-Up held in Polar Park in Worcester, hosted by the Massachusetts Legislative Manufacturing Caucus and other partners. State Sen. Jo Comerford and state Rep. Natalie Blais nominated Mayhew for this award. Mayhew Tools, the oldest punch and chisel manufacturer in the country, has expanded over 160-plus years without losing sight of its heritage. This includes keeping its headquarters in Western Mass., home to its corporate office and 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.

Country Bank Recognized for Charitable Giving

WARE — Country Bank announced that the Boston Business Journal has once again named it an honoree in its annual 2023 Corporate Citizenship Awards, recognizing the region’s top corporate charitable contributors. The magazine annually publishes this list to highlight companies that promote and prioritize giving back to their communities. During this year’s celebration on Sept. 7, 100 companies qualified for the distinction by reporting at least $100,000 in cash contributions to Massachusetts-based charities last year, as noted above. This year’s honorees include companies from such industry sectors as financial and professional services, healthcare, technology, retail, and professional sports. Country Bank, ranked 44th, employs 220 staff members within Hampden, Hampshire, and Worcester counties, many of whom volunteer for various nonprofits throughout the year.

Hazen Paper Unveils 11th Cover for Basketball Hall of Fame Yearbook

HOLYOKE — Hazen Paper’s 11th enshrinement yearbook cover for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, created with Hazen HoloJet paper, projects an amplified refractive three-dimensional image of a basketball symbolizing the Hall of Fame dome. For 2023, this includes Fresnel Lens technology and a new holographic element called “Metal-Morphosis,” utilizing a new deep-groove system for sharper images and greater dimensionality. Appearing to move and change with the angle of light, the holographic treatment induces engagement and interaction with the book. Hazen originated the holography completely within its vertically integrated Holyoke facility. The custom holograms were created in Hazen’s holographic laser lab, then micro-embossed and transfer-metallized onto smooth, 12-point WestRock Tango C2S using Hazen’s environmentally friendly Envirofoil and HoloJet process. The holography is created with an optical structure that is imparted on the surface of the paper (underneath the printed graphics) with an ultra-thin polymer layer that is less than 2 microns in thickness. Envirofoil is a non-plastic paper that is as recyclable as paper.

Incorporations

Incorporations

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

BRIMFIELD

Szymura Lawn and Landscape Inc., 148 Warren Road, Brimfield, MA 01010. Jakub Szymura, same. Landscaping business.

EAST LONGMEADOW

Squire Farm Inc., 583 Somers Road, East Longmeadow, MA 01028. Joshua Bailey, same. Christmas-tree farm.

LEE

Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Massachusetts 9 VFW District Inc., 715 Devon Road, Lee, MA 01238. Joseph Zustra, 90 Park St., Adams, MA 01220. Nonprofit organization established for fraternal, historical, charitable, and educational activities.

PITTSFIELD

Arix Bioscience Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Robert Lyne, 82 Nassau St., New York, NY 10038. Venture capitalist that invests money into medical research.

Life Enrichment Trust Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Rick Senft, 163 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, PA 15086. Special-needs trust services.

Tevel Aerobotics USA Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Yaniv Maor, same. Artificial intelligence.

SPRINGFIELD

Peacock Restaurant Inc., 338 Cooley St., Springfield, MA 01128. Mei Feng Pan, same. Restaurant.

Ricky’s Helping Hands for Veterans Inc., 925 South Branch Parkway, Springfield, MA 01118. Ricky Sweeney, same. Provides an avenue for veterans to get the help they are missing.

Rumspringa Books Inc., 39 Cedar St., Springfield, MA 01105. Brett Albert, same. Independent bookstore.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Dynamic Construction Corp., 24 East School St., West Springfield, MA 01089. Aleksey Bardakov, same. Construction services.

Iclean Service Professionals Inc., 92 Bosworth St., West Springfield, MA 01089. Irina Kovrizhnykh, same. Cleaning services.

Real Estate Transactions

Real Estate

FRANKLIN COUNTY

ASHFIELD

62 West Branch Road
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $545,000
Buyer: Travis Niles
Seller: Karl J. Koenigsbauer
Date: 09/14/23

BERNARDSTON

68 Hillcrest Dr.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $323,000
Buyer: Margaret J. Dupre
Seller: William H. Bittner
Date: 09/08/23

32 Pine Grove Dr.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Jacob A. Bover
Seller: William M. Pachalis
Date: 09/05/23

CHARLEMONT

Burnt Hill Road
Charlemont, MA 01339
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Andrew Kurowski
Seller: David S. Gott
Date: 09/08/23
COLRAIN

74 Adamsville Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Amanda Gilbert
Seller: Kevin M. Gilbert
Date: 09/11/23

303 Main Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Anthony J. Archambault
Seller: Kent Int.
Date: 09/08/23

CONWAY

938 Roaring Brook Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $618,500
Buyer: Christiane A. Gannon
Seller: Ellen G. Tinen
Date: 09/08/23

3014 Shelburne Falls Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Colin Bargeron
Seller: Andrea E. Beaudoin
Date: 09/15/23

ERVING

109 North St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Vikram Budhraja
Seller: Lizzie A. Hoff
Date: 09/15/23

48 River Road
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Daniel M. Majewski
Seller: Zewski, John Francis (Estate)
Date: 09/07/23

Route 2
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Frank E. Prondecki Int.
Seller: John A. Prondecki
Date: 09/15/23

GREENFIELD

48 Burnham Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Rachel J. Davis
Seller: Russell C. Bontempi
Date: 09/08/23

3 Cooke St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $351,000
Buyer: Dianne M. Smith RET
Seller: Renfrew, Donald D. (Estate)
Date: 09/14/23

436 Country Club Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Brian J. Zamojski
Seller: Wyman Int.
Date: 09/11/23

3 Greenway Lane
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $286,000
Buyer: Andy Pauker
Seller: Henry Regina Ann Estate
Date: 09/13/23

40 Newell Pond Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Ryan Felton
Seller: Alberta W. Allen LT
Date: 09/13/23

33 Riddell St., Lot 1
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Western Mass. Training Consortium
Seller: Baystate Franklin Medical
Date: 09/07/23

33 Riddell St., Lot 9
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Western Mass. Training Consortium
Seller: Baystate Franklin Medical
Date: 09/07/23

60 Riddell St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $353,500
Buyer: Tessa Menatian
Seller: Braden Chattman
Date: 09/13/23

231 South Shelburne Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Brace K. Rennels
Seller: Nordstrom Swenson Int.
Date: 09/15/23

73 Wisdom Way
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Shannon Schmalenberg
Seller: Craig Ryan
Date: 09/06/23

HEATH

Flagg Hill Road
Heath, MA 01346
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Andrew Kurowski
Seller: David S. Gott
Date: 09/08/23

MONTAGUE

35 East Taylor Hill Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $411,703
Buyer: Rachel Greenberg
Seller: William Kazmier
Date: 09/08/23

31 Grove St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Maureen St. Cyr
Seller: Mary A. Choleva
Date: 09/15/23

482 Turners Falls Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $555,000
Buyer: Shelah S. Bloom
Seller: Christine S. Pellerin
Date: 09/06/23

ORANGE

326 Holtshire Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Thomas R. Dunlap
Seller: Kimberly Scot
Date: 09/14/23

45 Kelton St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Kyle D. Kaczmarczyk
Seller: Shufelt, Brian B. (Estate)
Date: 09/15/23

37 Mechanic St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: White Birch Lore LLC
Seller: Cathleen Everbeck
Date: 09/05/23

524 South Main St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: RCF 2 Acquisition TR
Seller: Mark A. Olson
Date: 09/05/23

56 Tully Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Joshua Roe
Seller: Stuart M. Smith
Date: 09/05/23

SHUTESBURY

18 King Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Jennifer A. Hodgdon
Seller: Lisa Kaplan
Date: 09/15/23

3 Shore Dr.
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Keri Gino
Seller: Katie J. Eagan
Date: 09/07/23

WARWICK

20 Dusty Lane
Warwick, MA 01364
Amount: $292,000
Buyer: Michael Blanchard
Seller: Jane E. Devino
Date: 09/15/23

WENDELL

55 Plain Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Justin Fellows
Seller: Tarbox, Robert Van (Estate)
Date: 09/13/23

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

75 Alhambra Circle, North
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $337,500
Buyer: Angelique P. Arroyo
Seller: Plato O. Plomo Inc.
Date: 09/05/23

716 Cooper St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Colin Mclean
Seller: Lyudmila Serman
Date: 09/07/23

159-165 Elm St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $473,500
Buyer: Alisis Pena
Seller: Eric B. Charest
Date: 09/12/23

84 Forest Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $379,900
Buyer: Gwendolyn Moss
Seller: Alexandra M. Bonavita
Date: 09/05/23

42 Independence Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Prime Partners LLC
Seller: Paul G. Arpin
Date: 09/05/23

976 Main St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Vadzim Hrytskevich
Seller: Ivan Hrytskevich
Date: 09/15/23

13-15 Mark Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $620,000
Buyer: Heesun Kim
Seller: Hedge Hog Industries Corp.
Date: 09/15/23

359 Meadow St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Kevin Saez
Seller: Raymond O. Caplette
Date: 09/05/23

North West St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Aric Johnson
Seller: Gary E. Brown
Date: 09/08/23

414 South Westfield St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Matthew Patterson
Seller: Steven M. Desmond
Date: 09/15/23

387 Southwick St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Jessica L. Mitchell
Seller: Dawn L. Guerriero
Date: 09/14/23

1100 Springfield St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $493,000
Buyer: Joseph J. Davis
Seller: Robert R. Wilcox
Date: 09/06/23

391 Suffield St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Kelsey Robare
Seller: Bruce A. Fields
Date: 09/08/23

BLANDFORD

Brookman Dr.
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $1,950,000
Buyer: Paul Beinstein
Seller: S. E. & Frances Bogaty
Date: 09/08/23

BRIMFIELD

50 Dix Hill Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: TXP Ventures LLC
Seller: Peter McQueen
Date: 09/11/23

290 Little Alum Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Jason F. Czech
Seller: Richer, Susan (Estate)
Date: 09/08/23

138 Old Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Tyler R. Bradway
Seller: Walch, Yvonne M. (Estate)
Date: 09/14/23

CHICOPEE

79 Beaudry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Sewcoomaree P. Tetor
Seller: Mai T. Tran
Date: 09/08/23

237 Chicopee St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Diego P. Cardoso
Seller: Mason Capital Ventures LLC
Date: 09/07/23

168 Cyran St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Steven O. Specht
Seller: Denise A. Faircloth
Date: 09/08/23

109 Edgewood Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $261,000
Buyer: Liam D. Burke
Seller: Hogan FT
Date: 09/15/23

183 Granby Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $273,000
Buyer: Kenneth Tan
Seller: Kobak, Barbara J. (Estate)
Date: 09/15/23

335 Grattan St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $297,500
Buyer: Leon Moultrie
Seller: Czepiel, Robert E. (Estate)
Date: 09/11/23

37 Helen St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Reynaldo Sanabria
Seller: Veteran Stan LLC
Date: 09/06/23

27 Hillman St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Kristy Wong
Seller: Charles F. Rhodes
Date: 09/08/23

7 Kimball St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Pah Properties LLC
Seller: Fernando J. Lucio
Date: 09/15/23

350 Memorial Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $5,750,000
Buyer: Mental Health Assn. Inc.
Seller: Mass. Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Date: 09/15/23

708 Memorial Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $611,000
Buyer: Ag Brothers LLC
Seller: Roy & Shirley Fanti LLC
Date: 09/08/23

244 Montgomery St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $365,500
Buyer: Monica J. Marcil
Seller: Bebo, Paul R. (Estate)
Date: 09/15/23

9 Post Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: William Mantzios
Seller: Lisa Munoz
Date: 09/11/23

111 Reed St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Iesha Ramos
Seller: Felix A. Ramos
Date: 09/13/23

54 Royalton St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Samantha Gonzalez
Seller: Agnieszka I. Fortuna
Date: 09/15/23

141 Syrek St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Scott Family Properties LLC
Seller: Bessie A. Nicodemus
Date: 09/15/23

41 Woodcrest Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Jason R. Riether
Seller: Sisson, Phyllis D. (Estate)
Date: 09/15/23

EAST LONGMEADOW

181 Elm St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Christian Hope Ministries
Seller: St. Pauls Evangelical
Date: 09/15/23

42 Harkness Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $488,000
Buyer: KM Realty LLC
Seller: Harkness Realty LLC
Date: 09/15/23

43 Lee St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Rebecca A. Durand
Seller: Oshaughnessy, P. L. (Estate)
Date: 09/13/23

132 Millbrook Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $720,000
Buyer: Walter M. Caritj
Seller: Michael J. Molinari
Date: 09/15/23

23 Orchard Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $262,500
Buyer: David Chapdelaine
Seller: Edward J. Hoffman
Date: 09/06/23

12 Pleasant Place
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Leslie Messier
Seller: Nathan A. Bisson
Date: 09/07/23

HAMPDEN

4 Stony Hill Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Nathan Bisson
Seller: Donald L. Rovelli
Date: 09/07/23

HOLLAND

24 Collette Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $388,000
Buyer: Robert B. Santone
Seller: Rebecca Lemay
Date: 09/05/23

HOLYOKE

19 Charles St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Talal Mhanna
Seller: Robert Erazo
Date: 09/11/23

55 Dupuis Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Benjamin Beaver
Seller: Pah Properties LLC
Date: 09/05/23

1280 Dwight St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Cataldo Holyoke LLC
Seller: Dwight St. Acquisitions Inc.
Date: 09/06/23

32 Glen St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Nina Cole
Seller: Jennifer S. Robson
Date: 09/08/23

129 Hillside Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $318,500
Buyer: Henry M. Gallegos
Seller: Leo Campbell
Date: 09/13/23

98 Lyman St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Plata O. Plomo Inc.
Seller: Luz Aguilar
Date: 09/14/23

168 Morgan St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: David P. Moynahan
Seller: Sharon K. Heston
Date: 09/08/23

1727 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Community Care Resources Inc.
Seller: Behavioral Health Network
Date: 09/12/23

71 Norwood Ter.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $331,000
Buyer: Jeanne L. Brunner
Seller: O’Brien, Janet K. (Estate)
Date: 09/11/23

151 Pearl St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Gabriel L. Rivera
Seller: Timothy Jefferson
Date: 09/11/23

244 Sargeant St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $229,000
Buyer: Nathaniel Flachs
Seller: Roberto Santiago
Date: 09/06/23

143 Suffolk St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $129,900
Buyer: Woods Services Group Inc.
Seller: Patricia Pelletier
Date: 09/15/23

29 Taylor St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $321,000
Buyer: Julio A. Dominguez
Seller: Darlene Donahue
Date: 09/15/23

16 Westfield Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $303,000
Buyer: Valentina Kalkey
Seller: Laura E. Ramos
Date: 09/15/23

LONGMEADOW

21 Dunsany Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $399,000
Buyer: Kimberly W. Adegoke
Seller: Jeanette Fritz
Date: 09/15/23

40 Franklin Ter.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Paul M. Douala
Seller: Ashley M. Lyman
Date: 09/14/23

21 Homestead Blvd.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Cathleen M. Davitt
Seller: Dorothy TR
Date: 09/14/23

83 Redfern Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $476,000
Buyer: Aaron Zierenberg
Seller: Hoyer FT
Date: 09/08/23

85 Roseland Ter.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $351,000
Buyer: Kathleen M. Trant
Seller: Regina F. Cass
Date: 09/15/23

58 Shady Side Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $585,000
Buyer: Leonard G. Lyons
Seller: James J. Manoussoff
Date: 09/15/23

867 Shaker Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Aziz Ashirov
Seller: James F. Bortnick
Date: 09/13/23

112 Westmoreland Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $383,600
Buyer: Anne L. Walker
Seller: David L. Tivoli
Date: 09/08/23

387 Williams St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Patrick V. Johnstone
Seller: Jason Keck
Date: 09/15/23

LUDLOW

67 Americo St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Raymond J. Leblanc
Seller: James D. Deshaies
Date: 09/15/23

60 Blanchard Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Mint Realty Group LLC
Seller: Healthy Neighborhoods Group LLC
Date: 09/05/23

436 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Plata O. Plomo Inc
Seller: Charlene L. Krawiec
Date: 09/12/23

441 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Maria J. Waller
Seller: Rui R. Serrazina
Date: 09/15/23

530 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: John Habekost
Seller: WMass Residential LLC
Date: 09/12/23

56-58 Maple St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Isaiah Martinez
Seller: Ilidio G. Dias
Date: 09/15/23

73 Marion Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $326,000
Buyer: Ihar Cherykau
Seller: Papuga, Barbara Ann (Estate)
Date: 09/15/23

63 Oak St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Chantal Erhunse
Seller: P&R Investments LLC
Date: 09/08/23

Riverside Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Mills State Street LLC
Seller: Westmass Area Development Corp.
Date: 09/15/23

105 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $2,698,463
Buyer: 6 Obsidian Ml LLC
Seller: Cumberland Farms Inc.
Date: 09/07/23

769 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $510,000
Buyer: Khosro Karamshahi
Seller: Dan Modirca
Date: 09/14/23

MONSON

33 Elm St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Trent A. Santos
Seller: Niqueal L. Brier
Date: 09/06/23

10 Heritage Lane
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $455,300
Buyer: Justin Haggerty
Seller: Samantha V. Fisk
Date: 09/14/23

70 High St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Faidherme Casseus
Seller: Daniel D. Gomez
Date: 09/05/23

73 Paradise Lake Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $622,000
Buyer: Kristyn Burrows
Seller: Claire A. Mawaka
Date: 09/07/23

118 Moulton Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $323,000
Buyer: Jan-Michael Demaio
Seller: Salina G. Clink
Date: 09/13/23

11 Pease Ave.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Christine A. Hill
Seller: Baxter, Frederick J. (Estate)
Date: 09/08/23

81 Wales Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Nathan Barnes
Seller: Klisiewicz Funding TR
Date: 09/15/23

PALMER

1029 Baptist Hill Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $329,900
Buyer: Robert L. Miller
Seller: Valliere, Maureen M. (Estate)
Date: 09/08/23

123 Boston Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $496,000
Buyer: Ryan Mogadam
Seller: Joshua Howe
Date: 09/07/23

115 Burlingame Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $665,000
Buyer: Jason D. Borders
Seller: VDS Properties LLC
Date: 09/13/23

215 Burlingame Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Kyle Ebbeling
Seller: Nicholas J. Cafarelli
Date: 09/05/23

316 Burlingame Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Antonio D. Pereira
Seller: Robert J. Dugay
Date: 09/05/23

29 Charles St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $273,000
Buyer: Leah A. Heyes
Seller: Cole, Michelle L. (Estate)
Date: 09/05/23

11 Desimone Dr.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Colton Murphy
Seller: Richard W. Bigelow
Date: 09/15/23

15 Dublin St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $242,500
Buyer: Elizabeth Yasuna
Seller: Amanda J. Demaio
Date: 09/13/23

1008 Ware St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Sarah L. Karowski
Seller: Charles A. Deyo
Date: 09/08/23

99 Woodland Heights
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Jason Guskey
Seller: Fumi Realty Inc.
Date: 09/05/23

RUSSELL

141 Blandford Stage Road
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $292,900
Buyer: Chelsea Merritt
Seller: Jacqueline L. Decker
Date: 09/14/23

321 Dickinson Hill Road
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $346,000
Buyer: David A. Savary
Seller: Joseph A. Mann
Date: 09/13/23

SPRINGFIELD

43 Arcadia Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $296,000
Buyer: Elias F. Maldonado
Seller: Kelly Baranski
Date: 09/15/23

39 Athol St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Eddie W. Perez
Seller: Beverly Bizon
Date: 09/08/23

131 Avery St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Joejoe Properties LLC
Seller: Angela Gadson
Date: 09/05/23

55 Bridle Path Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Mary E. Alston
Seller: Jemmala Encarnacion
Date: 09/12/23

139 Cardinal St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $333,000
Buyer: Nafees Nadeem
Seller: Source Nine Development LLC
Date: 09/07/23

867-869 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: J&R Homes Corp.
Seller: Miguel Rodriguez
Date: 09/13/23

1640 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $253,000
Buyer: Karla Y. Mendez
Seller: Rosemary B. Rosado
Date: 09/11/23

75 Copeland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Alexandria Jones
Seller: Steven O. Chapman
Date: 09/05/23

14 Detroit St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Kristoffer R. Breault
Seller: William A. Julian
Date: 09/13/23

106-108 Dwight Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Megan Lapierre
Seller: Daniel A. Richton
Date: 09/07/23

939-943 East Columbus Ave.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: A. Reyes Homes LLC
Seller: Wicked Deals LLC
Date: 09/08/23

190 Eddywood St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Quartz And Raffio LLC
Seller: Paul V. Allard
Date: 09/15/23

41-43 Edgemont St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Estela M. Rosado
Seller: Alfredo Garib
Date: 09/05/23

202 Fort Pleasant Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $172,500
Buyer: Visionary Homes LLC
Seller: Eric T. Hillmann
Date: 09/15/23

37-39 Fountain St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Nelly Reyes
Seller: Gary A. Daula
Date: 09/05/23

74 Francis St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: David Montanez
Seller: Diana Nunez
Date: 09/15/23

56 Fullerton St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Keith Mukire
Seller: Dora Agyei
Date: 09/05/23

313 Gilbert Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Babette Nana
Seller: Matthew R. Olschefski
Date: 09/08/23

22 Glencoe St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $257,000
Buyer: Nicole M. Larriu
Seller: Grace Lavalley
Date: 09/13/23

112 Glenoak Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $318,900
Buyer: Sean C. Kamenelis
Seller: Robert C. Richter
Date: 09/08/23

22 Grove St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Betsania A. Garcia
Seller: Luis R. Velazquez
Date: 09/07/23

138 Groveland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Nyles Irving
Seller: Orlando L. Morales
Date: 09/05/23

27 Home St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Dayrisol Morales
Seller: Kyara E. Linares
Date: 09/15/23

11-15 Howes St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $372,500
Buyer: Christopher Sattler
Seller: Alexander Crivelli
Date: 09/12/23

11 King St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Celia M. Robles-Lugo
Seller: Djuan Barklow
Date: 09/11/23

107 Laconia St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Magand Realty LLC
Seller: ESP Holdings LLC
Date: 09/07/23

31 Lavender Lane
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $288,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Land
Seller: Paul G. Couture
Date: 09/15/23

190 Longhill St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $800,000
Buyer: Gabriel Gambill
Seller: Johnnie Asencio
Date: 09/14/23

56 Louis Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Alexandria Plante
Seller: Ryan B. McGuire
Date: 09/15/23

947 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01103
Amount: $747,500
Buyer: Springfield Day Nursery Corp.
Seller: Davenport Square 1 LLC
Date: 09/15/23

22 Massreco St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Kenneth E. Lyon
Seller: Property Advantage Inc.
Date: 09/15/23

3-5 Mohegan Court
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Keishamaris Diaz-Lopez
Seller: Bukowski Construction LLC
Date: 09/05/23

175 Moss Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Marcus Johnson
Seller: Eric Johnson
Date: 09/08/23

77 Napier St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: 401 Liberty Street LLC
Seller: Napier Street Corp. Inc.
Date: 09/08/23

15 North Hood St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Velez
Seller: Lapointe, Maureen S. (Estate)
Date: 09/14/23

14 Norman St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $313,000
Buyer: Luis A. Cardona
Seller: Arpin, Raymond J. (Estate)
Date: 09/14/23

Norman St. (rear)
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $313,000
Buyer: Luis A. Cardona
Seller: Arpin, Raymond J. (Estate)
Date: 09/14/23

101 Phoenix Ter.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $267,000
Buyer: Luz Ramos
Seller: Yellowbrick Property LLC
Date: 09/15/23

75 Pine St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $357,000
Buyer: Mayelin Gonzales
Seller: Springfield Venrtures RT
Date: 09/05/23

90 Pinecrest Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $399,000
Buyer: Myngoc Ho
Seller: Simon Ndayiragije
Date: 09/05/23

20 Rosella St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Tatsiana Volks
Seller: Brad Rosenberg
Date: 09/14/23

180 Roy St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $277,000
Buyer: Carlos J. Perez
Seller: Kathryn L. Fitzgerald
Date: 09/15/23

24 Rupert St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $381,000
Buyer: Samuel Thimot
Seller: Angela M. Couture
Date: 09/12/23

95 Saint James Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Hoang Dang
Seller: Donald J. Carr
Date: 09/15/23

80-82 Silver St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Tania M. Collazo
Seller: ML Saleh Holdings Inc.
Date: 09/14/23

50 Slumber Lane
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Sandra Dipietro
Seller: Alan E. O’Dell
Date: 09/15/23

178 Slumber Lane
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Jeffrey A. Buzzelle
Seller: Victor Bortolussi
Date: 09/15/23

401 Stapleton Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Christopher Carnevale
Seller: Kathleen Bonavita
Date: 09/13/23

1464 State St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Bianca Buildings LLC
Seller: AJN Rentals LLC
Date: 09/05/23

65 Stuart St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $135,500
Buyer: East Coast Contracting LLC
Seller: Leroy G. Donaldson
Date: 09/14/23

Stuart St. (ES), Lot 14
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $135,500
Buyer: East Coast Contracting LLC
Seller: Leroy G. Donaldson
Date: 09/14/23

57-59 Suffolk St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $334,000
Buyer: Karla M. Arroyo
Seller: NRES LLC
Date: 09/05/23

80 Sunrise Ter.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Natalie Alicea
Seller: Gail L. Demers
Date: 09/06/23

72 Switzer Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Arthur Lamour
Seller: Hector M. Rodriguez
Date: 09/11/23

34 Wallace St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Joyce Ortiz
Seller: Aldo Properties LLC
Date: 09/15/23

28 Warrenton St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Yan C. Corporan
Seller: Agnes B. Akoto
Date: 09/15/23

171 Warrenton St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: William Bonavita
Seller: Nicole R. Lewis
Date: 09/06/23

24-26 Wayne St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Carmen L. Demercedes
Seller: Paul A. Williams
Date: 09/11/23

90 Welland Road
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: Thomas R. Farrow
Seller: William N. Shipwash
Date: 09/15/23

186 William St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Springfield Day Nursery Corp.
Seller: Glanee Patel
Date: 09/15/23

190 William St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Springfield Day Nursery Corp.
Seller: Glanee Patel
Date: 09/15/23

35-37 Woodlawn St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $341,500
Buyer: Muhammad Abbasi
Seller: Candace A. Nichols
Date: 09/15/23

SOUTHWICK

181 College Hwy.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $296,500
Buyer: Sandu Rebenciuc
Seller: Residential Credit TR VII-B
Date: 09/07/23

25 Eagle St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Mary E. Goulette
Seller: Crystal Moccio
Date: 09/15/23

5 Gillette Ave.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Thomas J. Maloney
Seller: Danielle B. Sullivan
Date: 09/12/23

194 Granville Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $519,000
Buyer: Christopher Balboni
Seller: Anthony Wheeler Construction LLC
Date: 09/12/23

10 Oak St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Victor Decaro
Seller: Jake Malkoon
Date: 09/06/23

19 South Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Christopher Moccio
Seller: Cowles, Alan G. (Estate)
Date: 09/15/23

3 Tammy Lane
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Frances A. Laveck
Seller: James F. Hall
Date: 09/15/23

31 Woodland Ridge
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $510,000
Buyer: Danielle B. Sullivan
Seller: Susana S. Lemieux
Date: 09/06/23

TOLLAND

806 Colebrook River Road
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Kevin D. Littlefield
Seller: Grondin, Allan R. (Estate)
Date: 09/06/23

147 Thicket Road
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $166,658
Buyer: MCLP Asset Co. Inc.
Seller: Richard J. Whelden
Date: 09/11/23

WESTFIELD

36 Cross St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Alaa Altush
Seller: Michael F. Smith
Date: 09/15/23

20 East Glen Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $215,500
Buyer: Lorraine Beston
Seller: Christopher Dupras
Date: 09/05/23

21 East Bartlett St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $800,000
Buyer: Jojo Investment LLC
Seller: NE Properties LLC
Date: 09/12/23

41 Highland Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $291,000
Buyer: Michael J. Manz
Seller: Talmadge, Elizabeth A. (Estate)
Date: 09/12/23

31 Holyoke Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Nikolas Neto
Seller: David M. Murphy
Date: 09/15/23

261 Honey Pot Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $455,000
Buyer: Jeanette Belashov
Seller: Donald C. Gauthier
Date: 09/05/23

152 Montgomery St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $291,000
Buyer: Nileshkumar Maskare
Seller: Jessica Mitchell
Date: 09/14/23

77 Old Stage Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $297,600
Buyer: Jeffrey W. Saalfrank
Seller: Dorothea A. Saalfrank
Date: 09/12/23

123 Prospect St., Ext.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Spencer J. Murphy
Seller: Ion Mata
Date: 09/08/23

16 Russell Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: NRES LLC
Seller: Allan Ouimet
Date: 09/14/23

1008 Russell Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Jonathan Huertas
Seller: Jeremy A. Black-Manazer
Date: 09/15/23

8 Sherwood Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Artem Omelnytskyi
Seller: Island RT
Date: 09/06/23

555 Southampton Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $750,000
Buyer: Chlastawas LLC
Seller: Lewinski, Alexander (Estate)
Date: 09/14/23

627 Southampton Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $193,164
Buyer: Andrew D. Kurtz
Seller: Margaret A. Kurtz
Date: 09/06/23

15 Sunbriar Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $342,500
Buyer: Roselyn P. Garcia
Seller: Secretary Of Housing USA
Date: 09/08/23

155 Yeoman Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $312,000
Buyer: Andrea L. Leclair
Seller: Damien Roberts
Date: 09/15/23

WILBRAHAM

48 Brainard Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Mark R. Hall
Seller: Paul A. Cacciola
Date: 09/07/23

699 Glendale Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $544,000
Buyer: Ian A. Carter
Seller: Brigid LLC
Date: 09/13/23

77 Manchonis Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: HRD Holdings LLC
Seller: Krishna N. Kumar
Date: 09/08/23

155 Soule Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Arkadiusz Dobronski
Seller: Margaret A. Denby
Date: 09/13/23

301 Springfield St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $605,000
Buyer: David Deforest
Seller: Moltenbrey Builders LLC
Date: 09/14/23

WEST SPRINGFIELD

77 Albert St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Emily Florence
Seller: Matthew Bishop
Date: 09/15/23

38 Ames Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Jeanelle Santiago
Seller: Mihail Orlov
Date: 09/11/23

31 Christopher Ter.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Alex W. Wytas
Seller: Panza, Jeffrey (Estate)
Date: 09/15/23

419 Dewey St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $249,088
Buyer: Zaide Soufane
Seller: Ontour Properties Inc.
Date: 09/15/23

Galaska Dr., Lot 6
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Kenneth L. Maryea
Seller: David W. Maryniski
Date: 09/08/23

130 Greenleaf Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Annaka Paradis-Burnett
Seller: Christopher Savenko
Date: 09/12/23

Hyde Road, Lot 7
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Dans Construction Service Inc.
Seller: John G. Kudlic
Date: 09/15/23

80 Prince Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $317,500
Buyer: Erik Valdes
Seller: Ratna Basnet
Date: 09/08/23

43 Sheridan Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Wendy Z. Diaz
Seller: Donnarenee A. Cook RT
Date: 09/13/23

145 South Blvd.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Lissy L. Medina
Seller: Michael Hennessy
Date: 09/06/23

14 Vernon Place
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $318,000
Buyer: Zachary R. Culver
Seller: Gary M. Gorman
Date: 09/05/23

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

143 Bay Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Brian M. Salem
Seller: Marlene A. Salem
Date: 09/08/23

10 Carriage Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Patricia Dickenson
Seller: East Pleasant St. Partners
Date: 09/08/23

60 Country Corners Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $875,000
Buyer: Kira Kmetz
Seller: Christopher M. Hoch
Date: 09/06/23

26 Hop Brook Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Timothy Shea
Seller: Robin Oakes
Date: 09/15/23

119 Lindenridge Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $1,014,862
Buyer: Joshua D. Sayko
Seller: Bercume Construction LLC
Date: 09/08/23

BELCHERTOWN

16 Brandywine Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Timothy D. Beaulieu
Seller: Goodrow, Eileen T. (Estate)
Date: 09/07/23

16 Clark St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Wesley M. Keene
Seller: Brandon M. Coy
Date: 09/08/23

16 Keith Ave.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: David W. Kann
Seller: David A. Tetreault
Date: 09/12/23

102 Munsell St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $590,000
Buyer: Geoffrey A. Zielenski
Seller: M. & G. Land Development LLC
Date: 09/15/23

13 Sarah Lane
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Pamela Weissman
Seller: Cheryl A. Shaw
Date: 09/06/23

17 Sunny Crest Lane
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Marilyn Champagne
Seller: M&G Property Group LLC
Date: 09/11/23

CHESTERFIELD

818 Main Road
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $418,000
Buyer: Lauren J. Friel
Seller: Karen Militana
Date: 09/14/23

EASTHAMPTON

2 Dartmouth St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $560,000
Buyer: Equity Trust Co. Custodian
Seller: East Mountain Inc.
Date: 09/11/23

330 East St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $397,500
Buyer: Kristen Eklund
Seller: Jennifer MacGregor
Date: 09/15/23

165 Ferry St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Rowan Geistmann
Seller: Steven A. Hughes
Date: 09/08/23

4 Kania St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $449,900
Buyer: Win Zaw
Seller: Ganulin FT
Date: 09/08/23

Kirby St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $397,500
Buyer: Kristen Eklund
Seller: Jennifer MacGregor
Date: 09/15/23

380 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Doris Ducharme
Seller: Gail A. Vishaway
Date: 09/08/23

150 Northampton St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $850,000
Buyer: Michibata LLC
Seller: F. K. & Frances E. Fedor FT
Date: 09/15/23

GOSHEN

46 Westshore Dr.
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Nicole Vankim
Seller: Linda Masek
Date: 09/12/23

GRANBY

156 Burnett St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Jennifer M. Marion
Seller: Stephen F. Marion
Date: 09/06/23

HADLEY

46 Huntington Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Erica Verrillo
Seller: Jeremy Ober
Date: 09/12/23

North Branch Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $139,000
Buyer: Christopher F. Baj
Seller: Mish Potato & Produce
Date: 09/12/23

HUNTINGTON

18 Blandford Hill Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Benjamin E. Vega
Seller: Andrew Seeberg
Date: 09/15/23

NORTHAMPTON

212 Acrebrook Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: S. Hoffmaster-Bachrach
Seller: Patricia A. Duffy
Date: 09/11/23

321 Bridge St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Healthy Neighborhoods Group LLC
Seller: Robert Zuraw
Date: 09/07/23

28 Columbus Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Plata O. Plomo Inc.
Seller: Schroder FT
Date: 09/08/23

21 Franklin St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $1,850,000
Buyer: Dowsett FT
Seller: Harvey Silberstein
Date: 09/06/23

79 King St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $2,600,000
Buyer: 79 King Street LLC
Seller: 79 King Street NT
Date: 09/15/23

115 Moser St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $747,000
Buyer: Alan M. Gates
Seller: Tapan V. Pujara
Date: 09/06/23

63 Olander Dr.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $782,000
Buyer: Donald L. Darnell
Seller: Gary Richardson
Date: 09/15/23

71 Pleasant St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Spring Capital LLC
Seller: Gary R. Champagne LT
Date: 09/08/23

24 Wilson Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $565,000
Buyer: Kathleen Regan
Seller: Elizabeth M. George
Date: 09/06/23

47 Winslow Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $294,000
Buyer: Jonathan Schluenz
Seller: Donna A. Akers
Date: 09/07/23

PLAINFIELD

31 West St.
Plainfield, MA 01070
Amount: $304,500
Buyer: Sarah M. Fournier-Scanlon
Seller: R. T. & Rita D. Hughes IRT
Date: 09/12/23

SOUTH HADLEY

30 Alvord Place
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Ronald J. Pete
Seller: John P. Sullivan
Date: 09/13/23

38 Ridge Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $422,500
Buyer: Maureen Walsh
Seller: Jeffrey Doucette
Date: 09/12/23

39 School St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $246,000
Buyer: Luke D. Parsons
Seller: Lorraine R. Manley
Date: 09/08/23

Smith St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Scott Family Properties LLC
Seller: Bessie A. Nicodemus
Date: 09/15/23

21 Taylor St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Ernest D. Harris
Seller: Segundo E. Huanca-Huanca
Date: 09/15/23

SOUTHAMPTON

Gil Farm Road Lot 3
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Ivan Urgin
Seller: Gil Farm Road Estates Inc.
Date: 09/15/23

8 Gil Farm Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $795,000
Buyer: Reginald E. Greene
Seller: David A. Hardy Contractor
Date: 09/11/23

116 Middle Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $544,000
Buyer: Diane Kaemmer
Seller: Michael S. Cianciola
Date: 09/06/23

182 Pomeroy Meadow Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $332,500
Buyer: Geoffrey M. Parenteau
Seller: J. V. & Celia A. Garstka IRT
Date: 09/15/23

WARE

100 Church St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Miguel E. Ocasio
Seller: Muri, Marjorie A. (Estate)
Date: 09/08/23

30 Greenwich Plains Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $235,500
Buyer: Sawyer M. Blake
Seller: Rachel Heyn
Date: 09/11/23

208 Old Belchertown Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $307,000
Buyer: Roxanne Kasehagen
Seller: Gerald H. Clough
Date: 09/06/23

198 Osborne Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $234,000
Buyer: Paul E. Folta
Seller: Winners O. LLC
Date: 09/14/23

1-5 Vernon St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Ross Shong
Seller: Stephanie Rodriguez
Date: 09/15/23

50 Warebrook Village
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Tanya Cournoyer
Seller: Federal National Mortgage Assn.
Date: 09/14/23

13 Willow St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $248,000
Buyer: Steven J. Oster
Seller: Nu-Way Mobile Home Supplies
Date: 09/13/23

WILLIAMSBURG

2 Deer Haven Dr.
Williamsburg, MA 01039
Amount: $965,000
Buyer: Jennifer Chrisler
Seller: Jacob H. Schauer
Date: 09/07/23

109 Petticoat Hill Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $687,500
Buyer: Pamela K. Hilliard
Seller: Sarah E. Christiansen
Date: 09/15/23

49 South Main St.
Williamsburg, MA 01039
Amount: $552,000
Buyer: Halie M. Rando
Seller: Leatrice T. Archbald
Date: 09/15/23

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