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Westfield Finds Ways to Raise Its Profile

By Joseph Bednar August 14, 2025

Community Spotlight Special Coverage

Community Spotlight

Mayor Michael McCabe says it’s important to expand the tax rolls with both new businesses and housing growth.

Westfield Mayor Michael McCabe is a believer in business growth — specifically, bringing new businesses to the city to boost the tax base and general vibrancy. But for every opportunity, there’s a challenge.

For example, “how do we balance the environment with new growth? Our north side pretty much all sits above an aquifer system, which has caused us some angst because most of the land that we have for economic development and growth is on the north side.

“So if you’re trying to be respectful of your aquifer and at the same time trying to figure out how you get new growth, it’s an interesting scenario,” he went on. “As you know, new growth is one of the things that actually funds the city. It’s where you get new tax revenue from, so you don’t have to tax your residents more.”

“Elm Street Plaza has really worked out beyond our expectations.”

That said, while this city — the region’s fourth-most populous and one of the largest geographically in the state — has seen new businesses lay down roots, from several new restaurants downtown to industrial businesses on the north side, what’s been happening at the municipal level has made the biggest news lately, including:

• The completion of the five-year Cowles Bridge replacement project on Routes 10 and 202, which should be finished by Sept. 25;

• A planned reimagining and redesign of Mass Pike exit 41 — funded by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation — that aims create a more motorist- and resident-friendly traffic pattern involving three roundabouts;

• A coming new Police Department headquarters on Union Street, expected to be open by the end of 2027; and

• Elm Street Plaza, a gathering and performance space that has not only drawn both city residents and visitors to Westfield’s downtown for events, but opened up much-needed parking for retail shop and restaurant owners;

“Elm Street Plaza has really worked out beyond our expectations,” McCabe said, “with the amount of events and the amount of use it gets, and the amount of free parking it has, so merchants can have customers in and out who don’t have to worry about trying to find parking.”

That development has coincided with a number of new restaurants downtown, offering culinary diversity to the central district, he added.

“If you’re looking for something to eat and you don’t want traditional America cuisine, you have Spanish, you have Italian, you have Turkish, you have Ukrainian, you have Slavic, you have Polish, you have Vietnamese … I mean, you have a pretty eclectic mix, all within a tenth of a mile.”

Amanda Waterfield says events in Westfield, from Friday night concerts to Starfires games, have a multiplier effect when visitors stay in the city to eat and drink.

The downtown will also play host to a welcome-back party for Westfield State University students, one way the city is trying to connect the school to its downtown, McCabe added. “I think there’s a realization that vibrancy begins with people walking around downtown.”

Amanda Waterfield, who has been executive director of the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce for just over two years, echoed the mayor’s focus on hospitality businesses, noting that the chamber is planning a Restaurant Week this Nov. 4-9, featuring menu specials, unique promos, and other activities aimed at raising the profile of participating eateries just before the start of the holiday retail season.

Noting about 70 restaurants, coffee shops, breweries, and other culinary businesses in Westfield and Southwick, Waterfield said she’d like to see at least a third of them participate, and then grow the event from there in subsequent years.

“And I really would like to reach out beyond Westfield,” she added. “I’d like everybody in the Valley to think of Westfield as a destination.”

On the Right Track

Westfield Gas & Electric (WG&E) adopts the same philosophy on the importance of growth, which partly explains its launch, a decade ago, of Whip City Fiber, which has now completed wiring the entire city for high-speed internet, and also serves 23 other communities, including the region’s hilltowns as well as East Longmeadow and, most recently, West Springfield, where it has begun to build out infrastructure.

That has brought in significant revenue, and the WG&E is using some of it — $15 million over 15 years, in fact — to pay the city’s bond (with interest) for an $11 million athletic complex at Westfield High School, which broke ground last month.

“My overall goal is to see downtown thrive. Restaurants are a wonderful draw, but we need more than just restaurants. We need more things for people to do when they come into town. I’d love there to be a little more retail to draw folks in and keep their dollars local.”

“It’s a stadium with a full collegiate track, lights, and turf fields,” said Tom Flaherty, general manager of WG&E, noting that the field will be used for football, men’s and women’s soccer and lacrosse, field hockey, and more, while a second multi-purpose field, without lights, is being developed behind the school for overflow events; the softball field is being turfed as well.

“We’re really planning for the future with something all of Westfield can use — people of all ages, including senior citizens, who can walk on the track at night safely,” he noted. “I see that all the time in Southwick; a great deal of people use the track they put in about 10 years ago.”

In addition, Flaherty noted, “the fields are for everyone, from youth soccer and youth football all the way to potentially having a revenue stream for the school athletic department by leasing it out to private club teams.”

Westfield Gas & Electric hosted a groundbreaking last month for an $11 million athletic complex at Westfield High School.

McCabe agreed that the benefits of the project are many, and would include the potential of hosting regional tournaments on both the high school and collegiate levels, possibly working with Westfield State University — all of which would bring more visitors to the city, in the same way the Westfield Starfires, now winding down their seventh season of play in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, or the city’s 14 municipal pickleball courts, have done.

“The greater the exposure to Westfield, the greater commerce there is in the city,” the mayor added. “And it’s not all Westfield residents. People will stop by one of the cafés downtown, or have a drink with their friends afterward, and all of those things are very good, obviously, for the city. So that’s what we’re trying to embrace.”

Waterfield added that Elm Street Plaza has enhanced Westfield’s visibility as a cultural focal point; in fact, the city received a Massachusetts Cultural Council designation last fall.

That’s important, she said, because it brings in marketing dollars to organizations working collectively to raise the city’s profile. For example, an organization called Artworks Westfield puts on eight Friday nights concerts at the plaza during the summer, all free to the public.

Westfield at a Glance

Year Incorporated: 1669
Population: 40,834
Area: 47.4 square miles
County: Hampden
Residential Tax Rate: $15.18
Commercial Tax Rate: $29.17
Median Household Income: $45,240
Median Family Income: $55,327
Type of Government: Mayor, City Council
Largest Employers: Westfield State University, Baystate Noble Hospital, Mestek Inc., Savage Arms Inc., Advance Manufacturing Co.
* Latest information available

“Those seem to be drawing folks in,” she said. “It’s just a good time on a Friday night — bring your lawn chair, there’s food trucks, there’s beer trucks. It’s very family-friendly. I see people with their dogs.”

The prevailing theme with many of these efforts is to get people to notice Westfield — and come back.

“I think if you’re from Westfield, you know what we have to offer here. There’s a lot here,” Waterfield said. “But people might think, ‘I’m from Longmeadow; am I going to make the trek to Westfield?’ Well, yes, actually, you should. You know, come on Thursday to the farmers market and then stay for dinner. Come on Friday and have dinner beforehand and then go to a concert. Go see a baseball game.”

What visitors find, she added, is that Westfield has numerous important elements that contribute to a robust community, from Westfield State University to Baystate Noble Hospital to Barnes Municipal Airport (and the Air National Guard’s 104th Tactical Fighter Group, which recently procured new F-35 fighter jets) to a river and a rail trail.

In addition, “I’m encouraged by the lack of crime downtown, which is wonderful,” she said. “And I give the big businesses downtown credit for being here. The banks, the Gas & Electric, they don’t have to be downtown, but they choose to support the community by having a really visible, meaningful presence here.”

McCabe also praised the Police Department’s work, not only in crime prevention, but being visible to residents, just one more factor in why Westfield has a strong housing market.

“People want to live here,” the mayor said, but, like virtually every town in Western Mass., Westfield needs more housing stock. “We’ve looked at two spaces on the north side for multi-use housing, and we’re hopeful that we were going to see some help from the state in terms of grant funding from the Massachusetts Housing and Livable Communities office.”

Local Focus

Waterfield said she’s made progress in her goal to engage more businesses with the chamber; membership was under 200 when she came on board, but is at 258 now, and her goal is 275 by year’s end.

“That’s partly what I hope Restaurant Week will do, give community members an idea that the chamber is here to support the businesses and ultimately improve the state of living in the city.”

She and her team also updated the chamber’s strategic plan last year, and moving the chamber offices to a downtown storefront has been a plus as well.

“My overall goal is to see downtown thrive. Restaurants are a wonderful draw, but we need more than just restaurants. We need more things for people to do when they come into town. I’d love there to be a little more retail to draw folks in and keep their dollars local,” she told BusinessWest.

The mayor was quick to run down why people might want to move to Westfield, from the ones already mentioned — the university, the community hospital — to recreation opportunities.

“We have Stanley Park, which is 225 acres of preserve. And there are plenty of venues to go to now where the kids can play. The parks have been brought back up to speed to where they’re supposed to be. Our municipal parks have pickleball and tennis courts and baseball fields and softball fields.

“And we have good service organizations — the YMCA and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Westfield do phenomenal work,” he added. “So I think we’re doing pretty well.”

Picture This

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

Picture This

Supporting Communities

The Enterprise Mobility Foundation recently donated $22,000 to Square One. The gift will support Square One’s commitment to high-quality early education and care programming in Greater Springfield. The foundation’s mission is to strengthen the communities where its team members live and work by supporting a range of charitable causes, such as the environment, health and human services, education, the military, and disaster relief.

Pictured, from left: Shawn Fleming and Megan Nolan of Enterprise and Dawn DiStefano and Kris Allard of Square One.

Empowering Girls

The YWCA of Western Massachusetts recently received $10,000 from Liberty Bank, to be used to help fund the YWCA’s Girls Count financial empowerment program. The grant will help girls and young adults learn to budget their money and create conditions of success for a more financially secure future.

Pictured, from left: Timothy Pereira of Liberty Bank; Elizabeth Dineen, CEO of the YWCA of Western Massachusetts; Dawn Creighton, Robert Kain Sr., and Susan Fearn of Liberty Bank; and Tiera Wright of the YWCA.

Get with the Guidelines

Mercy Medical Center has received the Get with the Guidelines – Stroke Silver quality achievement award from the American Heart Assoc. for its commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, leading to more lives saved and reduced disability. Stroke is the fifth-leading cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the U.S. In addition to following treatment guidelines, Get with the Guidelines participants also educate patients to help them manage their health and recovery at home.

Mercy Medical Center has received the Get with the Guidelines – Stroke Silver quality achievement award from the American Heart Assoc.

Agenda

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

Agenda

A+ Award Nominations

Through Aug. 29: Nominations for the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 A+ Awards are now open. Each year, the chamber bestows A+ Awards to individuals and organizations that enrich the life of the community through their work in education, business, and civic engagement across the area the chamber serves (Amherst, Belchertown, Hadley, Leverett, Pelham, Shutesbury, and Sunderland) and the Pioneer Valley as a whole. Nominations are welcome in six award categories: Legacy Award, Leader in Innovation Award, Leader in Sustainability Award, Young Professional Award, Community Service Award, and Chamber MVP. Nominations can be submitted online through the chamber’s nomination form at amherstarea.com/awards. The deadline is Friday, Aug. 29 at 5 p.m. Chamber membership is not necessary to nominate or be nominated for an A+ Award. There is no limit to the number of nominations a person can submit. Everyone who submits a nomination will be entered into a raffle to win one free ticket to the A+ Awards Dinner held on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at the UMass Student Union Ballroom, presented by PeoplesBank. Anyone interested in learning more about the event or joining as a sponsor can visit www.amherstarea.com/awards or email Robinson at [email protected] for more details and sponsorship information.

Women of Impact Nominations

Through Sept. 4: BusinessWest is now accepting nominations for the eighth annual Women of Impact awards. Nominations for the Women of Impact class of 2025 are due by Thursday, Sept. 4. They can be submitted at businesswest.com/women-of-impact-nominations. In 2018, BusinessWest created the Women of Impact program as a way to honor women in the region who are making an impact and creating positive change. There are many different ways to do this. While nominees can hail from the world of business, they can also emerge from other realms, such as the nonprofit community, public service, law enforcement, education, social work, the mentorship community, a combination of these — in short, the program recognizes inspirational women on any level. For more information, call Natasha Mercado-Santana, Marketing and Events Manager, at (413) 781-8600, ext. 100, or email [email protected].

Discounted Big E Tickets

Through Sept. 10: Rocky’s Ace Hardware, one of the country’s largest family-owned Ace Hardware dealers with 50 locations in nine states, announced the return of its Big E ticket presale. Now through Sept. 10, customers can purchase one-day tickets to the Big E at discounted prices at select Rocky’s locations: $16 for adults and $10 for children. Beginning Sept. 11, tickets will still be available at participating stores, but at regular pricing. Participating locations include Agawam, East Longmeadow, Holden, Ludlow, Northborough, Palmer, South Hadley, Springfield, Westfield, and Worcester, as well as Stamford and Vernon, Conn.

Food Truck Friday

Aug. 8, 15, 22, 29: The town of West Springfield announced the launch of its inaugural Food Truck Friday series, inviting the entire community to the town common for food, local crafts, and family fun throughout August. This event series aims to bring residents together and support local businesses. Food Truck Friday will take place on the West Springfield town common on Park Street from 4 to 8 p.m. The series is sponsored by Titan Fence. Attendees can expect a diverse lineup of food and craft vendors. Parking will be available at the West Springfield Council on Aging. Confirmed participating trucks include Aqui Me Quedo, Macken’s Sliders, and Holyoke Ice Cream on Aug. 8; West Side Creamy Cones, the Saucy Mama, and Holyoke Ice Cream on Aug. 15; Macho Taco, Macken’s Sliders, and Holyoke Ice Cream on Aug. 22; and Macken’s Sliders, Lattitude 850 Degrees Artisan Wood Fired Pizza Truck, and Holyoke Ice Cream on Aug. 29. In addition to the vendors, various town departments will be present, including representatives from the Police Department, Fire Department, Veteran Services, Whip City Fiber, and more, offering an opportunity for community outreach and engagement. A handful of local craft vendors will also be featured on each date.

People on the Move

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

People on the Move

Gregg Levante

Pittsfield Cooperative Bank announced the appointment of Gregg Levante as its new president. A lifelong resident of Berkshire County, Levante brings not only a wealth of banking experience, but an understanding of the community’s needs, values, and aspirations. Levante has more than 15 years of experience in the banking industry, previously holding leadership roles in commercial lending at Berkshire Bank and NBT Bank and known for championing employee development and economic growth. He will now lead Pittsfield Cooperative Bank’s strategic initiatives focused on advancing financial prosperity, strengthening local small businesses, and investing in the future of banking. Under Levante’s leadership, the bank will continue to invest in community-first programs, continue the advancement of its digital banking capabilities, and empower team members to lead with purpose.

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Paul Duquette

Monson Savings Bank announced that Paul Duquette, a financial advisor with Osaic Institutions Inc., has joined the bank as a vice president. With more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Duquette brings a wealth of knowledge and a client-first philosophy to his new role. Duquette is based out of the bank’s East Longmeadow location at 61 North Main St. He is dedicated to helping individuals and businesses achieve their financial goals through thoughtful, personalized strategies. With a strong belief in acting solely in the best interests of his clients, he is not tied to any mutual fund or insurance provider, allowing him to offer truly objective advice. Duquette holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and maintains multiple securities licenses, including Series 6, 7, 26, 63, and 65, as well as a Connecticut life and health insurance producer license. His career includes leadership and advisory roles at institutions such as Wells Fargo, Citizens Securities, Santander Bank, and others, where he consistently demonstrated excellence in client relationship management and financial planning.

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Thomas Donnelly

Polish National Credit Union (PNCU) recently welcomed Thomas Donnelly as assistant vice president, commercial loan officer. With a background in financial services, strategic business development, and client relationship management, Donnelly brings a dynamic and personal approach to business banking, rooted in strong client relationships and a deep understanding of commercial lending. He holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University and a master’s degree in education from Springfield College. He has also completed the Massachusetts Bankers Credit Training Program and the 2025 Lender Training Program. He is based out of PNCU’s Westfield Loan Center and looks forward to contributing to the credit union’s continued commercial lending growth.

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bankESB recently announced the promotions of two longtime employees, Katherine Sordillo and Susanne deVillier, to vice president, regional branch manager. In this newly created position, deVillier and Sordillo will provide leadership and support to regions of bankESB’s retail banking network, working closely with retail branch staff in several communities to deliver exceptional customer service, drive performance, and uphold the bank’s commitment to community banking. They will also play a key role in supporting strategic initiatives focused on growth, operational excellence, and employee development. deVillier has more than 30 years of banking experience and has played a vital role in bankESB’s growth and success, particularly in Agawam, where she’s led the retail banking team at the Main Street, Agawam office since it opened in 2011. She joined bankESB in 2010 as a branch officer and over the years has been promoted to senior branch officer; assistant vice president, branch officer; and vice president, branch officer. As VP, she also served as retail sales coordinator, lending her leadership experience to other branch managers. In her new role, deVillier will oversee the bank’s Agawam, Amherst, Hadley, Northampton, Southampton, and Westfield branches, while maintaining a presence in the Agawam community, where she actively volunteers. Sordillo brings three decades of leadership experience in retail banking and customer relationship management to her new role. She joined bankESB in 2001 as branch officer of the Granby Road, South Hadley office and over her tenure has been promoted to senior branch manager; assistant vice president, branch manager; and vice president, branch officer and retail sales coordinator. She is a passionate community leader and has served as president of the South Hadley/Granby Chamber of Commerce and chairperson for Loomis Communities. In her new role, Sordillo will oversee the bank’s Belchertown, Holyoke, South Hadley, and two Easthampton branches, as well as the retail branch float team, while maintaining a presence in South Hadley.

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Lori Stickles

New Valley Bank & Trust announced the addition of Lori Stickles as vice president, Business Development and branch manager at the West Springfield office. She brings more than 30 years of banking experience, with a proven track record in retail banking, business development, and marketing leadership. Throughout her career, Stickles has led high-performing teams at several regional institutions, including United Bank, PeoplesBank, and Westfield Bank. She is widely recognized for her exceptional customer service, dedication to mentorship, and deep commitment to building lasting client relationships. She is also an active and engaged member of the community. Her current and past civic roles include trustee for the Eastern States Exposition, commissioner and chair of the Agawam Housing Authority, member of the Agawam Community Preservation Committee, and past commander of the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary.

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Dani Garber-Letitia

Dietz & Company Architects Inc. announced that Senior Architect Dani Garber-Letitia has earned the credential of certified passive house consultant (CPHC) through Phius (Passive House Institute U.S.), a nonprofit organization dedicated to decarbonization and passive building. The Phius passive building certification standard is a rigorous energy standard that produces buildings that use 40% to 60% percent less energy than conventional structures. In order to achieve CPHC certification, Garber-Letitia completed a comprehensive training course and a rigorous multi-part exam to prove her knowledge. She joined Dietz & Company Architects in 2021 and has more than 15 years of experience as an architect and owner’s project manager for firms in Massachusetts. As a senior architect in the firm’s Cambridge office, she manages medium to large-size construction projects specializing in renovation and modernization for multi-family housing clients and work for public school districts. In addition to managing the Cambridge office, she also serves as a mentor for junior staff and has taken the lead on organizing in-house educational and training opportunities.

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The Irish Cultural Center of Western New England (ICCWNE) announced several recent appointments to its board of directors to help to expand its programming and outreach in the community. The new board members are Lynn McCarthy, Rose Boyle, Sean Fitzgerald, and John McMahon. Established in 1999 to foster an appreciation of Irish culture in Western New England, ICCWNE aims to cultivate a connection with Ireland through the arts, culture, history, language, and heritage. McCarthy, Boyle, Fitzgerald, and McMahon are all committed to helping ICCWNE grow as a center of Irish culture and community in Western New England, including the completion of its new Community Performance Center.

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Kayla Sheridan

Kayla Sheridan, Marketing director of TommyCar Auto Group, was named one of Automotive News’ 40 Under 40. This annual program honors 40 high achievers at new car dealerships who are under 40 years old. Automotive News received nominations from across the U.S. and identified outstanding performers in a large field of high-quality talent at dealerships. This year’s honorees are a diverse group with a broad range of titles and backgrounds. They were profiled in the July 14 issue of Automotive News, the leading news source for the global automotive industry. As Marketing director at TommyCar Auto Group, Sheridan has played a pivotal role in shaping the brand’s voice, driving strategic campaigns, and deepening engagement with customers across Western Mass. and beyond.

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After nearly a decade of leadership, Jane Ralph will step down as executive director of Construct effective Aug. 29. “This was not an easy decision,” she said. “My partner and I have called Berkshire County home for years now, and I am so proud of our work at Construct. However, the past year has been a time of reflection for us. After facing some family health challenges, and looking at where things stand in the world, we have decided that being close to relatives should be our main priority, so we are relocating to Madison, Wisconsin.” Since assuming the role in 2016, Ralph has led significant growth in Construct’s services, including support to help people remain in their homes, temporary housing for families, the development of new affordable housing at Forest Springs in Great Barrington, and the county’s first co-living workforce housing at the Windflower in Egremont. Under her leadership, Construct has also expanded its housing navigation services for individuals and families facing housing insecurity. Ralph will work closely with the executive committee in the coming weeks to ensure a smooth transition of leadership and to ease the staff and board into the next phase. The board of directors has formed a search committee for a new leader and will soon post the position for potential candidates to apply.

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Christian LaPlante

Earlier this year, the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, Franklin County Community Development Corp., and Franklin Regional Council of Governments secured funding to lead the Rural Downtown Revitalization Pilot Project, a one-year initiative through the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development. The pilot is designed to strengthen economic and cultural vitality and is grounded in the findings of a 2023-24 study by the BSC Group, which identified a critical need for enhanced coordination and administrative capacity for the downtown areas of Northfield, Turners Falls, and Shelburne Falls. The hiring committee, representing the participating downtowns, has selected Christian LaPlante to serve as the inaugural downtown district coordinator. He brings deep Franklin County roots and a strong background in economic and community development, most recently through his work with the city of Greenfield. In previous roles, he has managed grant programs, led placemaking and signage projects, built downtown marketing campaigns, and worked extensively with small businesses, town boards, and local creatives. Over the next year, LaPlante will work weekly in all three downtowns, engaging with stakeholders and working alongside newly formed downtown working groups comprised of local business owners, town officials, nonprofit leaders, artists, and residents. Together, they’ll identify and implement two or three stakeholder-prioritized projects in each community, while tackling ‘quick wins’ and shaping a long-term vision for shared regional success.

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Keshia Maxwell

Noella Moshi

Tech Foundry announced the hiring of two new staff members, Keshia Maxwell and Noella Moshi. Maxwell is serving as director of Tech Foundry’s new Tech Bridge program. She will develop and implement all facets of the project, including management of staff, daily operations, program design, and activities. Tech Bridge is a scholarship-based program that focuses on tech training, professional development, work experience, college exploration, and team-building, to bridge the gap between high school and future pathways. Maxwell brings nearly 10 years of experience as an educator, including several years as an elementary school math teacher. She is passionate about education and finds joy in helping students realize their true potential. She also brings 14 years of military service, including international humanitarian program management in Dakar, Senegal, where she served as a U.S. Army Bilateral Affairs officer. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Japanese language/literature and English from UMass Amherst, and a master’s degree in education from Springfield College. Moshi was hired as Tech Foundry’s new director of Engagement. She will spearhead new donor development in addition to amplifying donor, funder, and partner engagement. She has a professional background in strategy and program design. Born in Tanzania and having lived in eight countries, she brings a global perspective to her career in workforce development, including roles as an executive director and head of programs across multiple countries. Moshi holds a master’s degree in clinical science and immunology from the University of Cape Town and has completed a course in exponential fundraising at the Harvard Kennedy School. She speaks English and Swahili and serves on several boards she cares deeply about, including West Africa Vocational Education and the Livelihood Impact Fund.

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Brendan Theroux

KeyBank announced Brendan Theroux has been named relationship manager, Commercial Banking. He is responsible for providing tailored financial solutions to middle market clients and prospects across Connecticut and Massachusetts. He is based in KeyBank’s Hartford office, located at 225 Asylum St. Prior to joining KeyBank, Theroux served as first vice president, Commercial Lending, at PeoplesBank in West Hartford, Conn. He has also held leadership roles at M&T Bank, including vice president and assistant vice president of Commercial Relationship Management. He has more than 10 years of experience in commercial banking, with a strong background in relationship management, credit underwriting, and strategic business development. Theroux holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and has earned certifications from the Connecticut School of Finance and Management and M&T Bank’s Leadership Accelerator program. An active member of the community, he serves on the board of directors and finance committee for the 4-H Center at Auerfarm Inc. in Bloomfield, Conn.

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Bay Path University announced the appointment of Megan Trinkle-Knotts as the new program director of the master of science in genetic counseling program, effective immediately. Trinkle-Knotts brings nearly 20 years of experience in clinical genetics and genetic counseling education to the role. She began her career at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, where she worked in both prenatal and pediatric practice for nearly a decade. During her tenure, she helped develop a statewide Perinatal Loss Evaluation Program, which provided customized evaluation services for families experiencing stillbirth, and she co-led a Cord Blood Collection/Genetics Consultation Initiative aimed at avoiding missed diagnostic opportunities in newborns with anomalies or life-threatening conditions. In 2015, she joined the Center for Genomic Advocacy at Indiana State University, where she played a foundational role in launching a new master’s in genetic counseling program and a Genetic Counseling Clinic focused on oncology and psychiatric genetics. In 2021, she joined Bay Path as assistant director and fieldwork coordinator, where she oversaw the development of clinical and fieldwork experiences for students nationwide. Trinkle-Knotts is an active contributor to the field through research, publications, and national leadership. She is involved with several professional organizations, including the Indiana Network of Genetic Counselors, the Genetic Counselor Educators Assoc., the National Society of Genetic Counselors, and the Indiana Maternal Mortality Review Committee. She earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Indiana University and her master’s degree in genetic counseling from the Indiana School of Medicine.

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Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts (JAWM) announced the appointment of new officers and several new members to its board of directors. Comprising leaders from across the region’s business, education, and nonprofit sectors, the new board brings fresh energy and strategic insight to advance JAWM’s mission of inspiring and preparing young people to succeed in a global economy. Returning board members include Terrell Joyner (chair), financial advisor at Charter Oak and founder of the Consulting Web; Lena Buteau (vice chair), vice president and Retail Administration officer at Monson Savings Bank; and Anthony Lorenzano (vice president), store manager at TD Bank. New board members include Angelo Fiore, financial advisor with St. Germain Investment Management; Robert Jones, senior vice president, Nonprofit Practice at USI; Maria LaPriore, real estate advisor at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Realty Professionals; Gregg Levante, president of Pittsfield Cooperative Bank; Stefan Sjoberg, attorney with Egan, Flanagan & Cohen; and Devan Summers, vice president, Member Services and Community Development with Luso Federal Credit Union. The board will support the organization’s mission and provide guidance in key initiatives, including financial literacy, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship programming.

Company Notebook

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

Company Notebook

Citizens Bank Opens New Holyoke Branch

HOLYOKE — Citizens Bank celebrated the grand opening of its new branch at 1575 Northampton St. in Holyoke with a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house on July 24. The branch, which has relocated from a previous in-store location at Stop & Shop, now resides in a standalone facility designed to enhance the customer experience. The new location features a larger footprint with multiple teller stations, three private offices, and a comfortable waiting area. One of its key highlights is the interactive teller machine (ITM), providing customers with real-time access to virtual banking assistants. The ITM is available in the drive-up area, ensuring accessibility for all. This new branch is expected to play a significant role in the local economy by providing streamlined access to mortgage, business banking, and financial management services. It also consolidates several in-store branches to offer a centralized hub of expertise, enhancing convenience for customers and fostering community growth.

Keiter Donates $25,000 for Fifth Year of Keiter Card

WEST SPRINGFIELD — For the fifth consecutive year, Keiter is supporting the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce with a $25,000 donation to fund the annual Keiter Card promotion. The initiative has generated $250,000 in direct economic impact on the Northampton community since its inception in 2021. The Keiter Card allows consumers to receive $50 in local spending power for $25, effectively doubling the impact on participating small businesses. The Northampton Chamber will contribute $5,000 to the campaign this year as well, increasing the benefit to the local economy to $60,000. The 2025 Keiter Card promotion launched on Aug. 4. Cards can be purchased exclusively at the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce, 99 Pleasant St., Northampton, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Supplies are limited, and customers must request the Keiter Card at the time of purchase. The promotion applies only to $25 Northampton Gift Card purchases and is limited to one per customer, per transaction. The Northampton Gift Card is accepted at more than 131 local businesses, including restaurants, shops, services, and spas.

Florence Bank Breaks Ground on New Branch in Holyoke

FLORENCE — Florence Bank is taking the next step in its expansion into Hampden County this month, breaking ground on a 2,500-square-foot office at 1504 Northampton St. in Holyoke. The full-service Holyoke branch is expected to open in the spring of 2026 and will be the bank’s fourth in Hampden County. In August 2017, Florence Bank opened its first branch in the county in West Springfield, followed by a branch opening in Springfield early in 2019 and in Chicopee in the spring of 2021. An invitation-only ceremonial groundbreaking event is planned for Friday, August 22 at 10 a.m. at the site of the new branch. Garrity will address an audience that is expected to include bank employees, board members, Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia, and other community leaders and elected officials. The new branch, designed by HAI Architecture in Northampton, will provide a spacious lobby, traditional teller stations, five offices, a drive-up teller window, and a drive-up ATM. Six employees will staff the branch, where customers can be assisted by tellers, meet with a customer service representative, or apply for a mortgage or commercial loan. The bank’s Spanish-speaking mortgage originator will also be based in the new branch.

Ludlow Coffee Company Hosts Grand Opening

LUDLOW — The East of the River Five Town Chamber of Commerce hosted the grand opening of Ludlow Coffee Company at 135 East St., Ludlow on July 22. Ludlow Coffee Company is the brainchild of a young couple who grew up in Ludlow, pursued their education and careers in Boston, and have now returned to their roots to establish a business. “This event is not only a celebration of a new business, but also an opportunity to highlight the importance of community involvement and support for local entrepreneurs,” the chamber stated. “The Ludlow Coffee Company embodies the spirit of community with its inviting ambience, reminiscent of the classic coffee shops we love. It’s a place for friends to gather, share stories, and enjoy quality coffee sourced from George Howell. The couple’s vision is to create a space that fosters connections, creativity, and collaboration among community members.”

Pittsfield-based Synagex Acquires Professional Computer Associates

PITTSFIELD — Synagex, an IT and cybersecurity services company based in Pittsfield, announced the acquisition of Professional Computer Associates (PCA), an established IT services firm out of Red Hook, N.Y. This move marks an important milestone in Synagex’s ongoing effort to “grow smart, stay personal, and expand our ability to serve organizations throughout the Northeast,” ompany President John Sinopoli said. Founded in 1999, PCA has spent nearly three decades supporting businesses, local governments, and nonprofits across the Hudson Valley and Capital Region of New York. Synagex, launched in 2017, provides IT as a service. Combining strategy, automation, and connection, the company aims to helps clients simplify IT, stay secure, and stay focused on what they do best. For PCA clients, the transition will feel familiar because most things are staying the way they are. The same local team will continue to provide support, now backed by Synagex’s expanded cybersecurity capabilities, compliance expertise, and modern IT delivery model.

Elms College Ranked Highly by Niche.com in Several Categories

CHICOPEE — Elms College received significant recognition across multiple categories in Niche.com’s latest rankings. It has been named among the top colleges nationwide for its exceptional nursing program, strong Catholic identity, and value. In 21st place, Elms College is among the 25 best colleges in Massachusetts (MIT and Harvard rank first and second, respectively). Furthermore, Elms is ranked among the top 10 Colleges in Massachusetts in three categories: fourth best nursing school, third best Catholic college, and eighth for best value. Elms leads all other Western Mass. institutions in those three categories. The college’s strong showing as the fifth-best college in Western Mass. (behind Williams, Amherst, Smith, and Mount Holyoke) exemplifies how the institution lives up to its mission, rooted in the values of the Sisters of St. Joseph. The college fosters a supportive and inclusive community where students are encouraged to grow intellectually, spiritually, and personally. Elms also ranks 49th of the 159 Catholic colleges in the U.S.

MicroTek Inc. Unveils New Brand Identity, Website

CHICOPEE — MicroTek Inc., a leader in innovative technology solutions, announced the launch of its refreshed brand identity and new website. This milestone marks a significant step in the company’s evolution, aligning its digital presence with its forward-thinking mission and ever-expanding capabilities. MicroTek has introduced a revitalized brand identity, including a new logo, updated color palette, and refined messaging that better reflects the company’s commitment to innovation, reliability, and customer-centric solutions. The rebranding initiative is part of MicroTek’s broader strategy to enhance its digital footprint, improve client engagement, and support its growing portfolio of services across industries. Alongside the refreshed branding, MicroTek recently launched a new corporate website that features streamlined navigation and enhanced functionality, offering visitors a more intuitive and engaging experience.

Summerlin Floors Announces New Charitable Arm

AMHERST — Summerlin Floors, a woman- and family-owned flooring business based in Amherst, has launched Summerlin Supports, a dedicated branch of its business focusing on giving back through charitable initiatives, volunteer efforts, and monetary donations. Throughout the years, Summerlin Floors has supported a variety of local organizations and initiatives, making contributions in a variety of ways, from radiothons and fundraisers to scholarship donations and community events. These contributions laid the foundation for Summerlin Supports, which formalizes the company’s ongoing commitment to making a positive impact and uplifting the local community. Among the organizations and events Summerlin Floors — and now, Summerlin Supports — has supported and sponsored include Amherst Community Theater, Amherst Global Village Festival, Amherst Survival Center, Amherst WinterFest, Baystate Children’s Hospital, Empty Arms Bereavement, New England Public Media, Safe Passage, Granby Junior Senior High School, and Greenfield Community College (GCC).

Ventfort Hall Reclaims Historic Gardener’s Cottage

LENOX — Ventfort Hall Gilded Age Mansion and Museum announced the acquisition of the original Gardener’s Cottage, known as the Huss House, once the residence of Gilded Age landscape architect John Huss. For the first time since the 1950s, the property is returning to the Ventfort Hall estate, restoring a vital piece of its original legacy. In June, Ventfort Hall was granted the right of first refusal for the off-market sale of the cottage, located on Walker Street just a short walk from the main mansion. The board of directors and staff acted swiftly to secure the property, with the official signing taking place on July 29. Ventfort Hall has developed a multi-phase plan for the restoration, maintenance, and reintegration of the Huss House into its operations. The vision includes transforming the property into a short-term vacation rental, allowing it to generate revenue for its own preservation while offering visitors an immersive, historically resonant experience.

Big Y Express Fresh Market Reopens in Tower Square

SPRINGFIELD — Big Y Foods announced the reopening of its Big Y Express Fresh Market location at Tower Square in downtown Springfield, following a brief closure of just over two weeks. The temporary closure allowed for a strategic refresh designed to better meet the evolving needs of busy customers. This update was driven directly by customer feedback, with shoppers expressing a desire for more grab-and-go and convenience-focused options. In response, the store has been reconfigured to feature an expanded selection of quick meal solutions, snacks, beverages, and everyday essentials. Shoppers will also find lottery tickets, greeting cards, balloons, gift cards, and more, all curated to support a fast, efficient shopping experience. The updated store hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Liberty Bank Foundation Supports Revitalize CDC

SPRINGFIELD — Revitalize Community Development Corp. (CDC) announced a $10,000 grant from the Liberty Bank Foundation to support its annual #GreenNFit Neighborhood Rebuild program. This investment underscores Liberty Bank’s ongoing commitment to building stronger, healthier communities throughout Western Mass. and Connecticut. The #GreenNFit program brings together volunteers, corporate partners, and community organizations to repair and rehabilitate homes for low-income families, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities, all in a single neighborhood over the course of one day. In addition to this financial contribution, Liberty Bank employees also roll up their sleeves and volunteer at #GreenNFit events, making a direct and lasting impact on the lives of local residents. In addition to Liberty’s support of Revitalize CDC, Dawn Creighton, Community Outreach officer at the bank, serves on Revitalize CDC’s board of directors.

Incorporations

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

Incorporations

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

AMHERST

Bob’s Big Ideas Inc., 105 Pondview Dr., Amherst, MA 01002. Robert Gustafson, same. Entertainment production and consulting.

BELCHERTOWN

The Kitchen Squad Inc., 641 Daniel Shays Highway, Belchertown, MA 01007. Anna Drost, 102 Oak Ridge Dr., Belchertown, MA 01007. Cabinet and countertop sales.

CHICOPEE

KDJ Trucking Inc., 45 Grant St., Apt. 3, Chicopee, MA 01013. Khalid Kareem, same. To transfer, carry, and transport goods, merchandise, and personal property from or to anywhere in the U.S.

EAST LONGMEADOW

D&W Asian Cuisine Inc., 31 Harkness Ave., East Longmeadow, MA 01028. Min Dong, 143 Lakeview Ave., Ludlow, MA 01056.

EAST OTIS

Hilltown Consulting Inc., 724 Tolland Road, East Otis, MA 01029. Brian Palazzi, P.O. Box 311, East Otis, MA 01029. Consulting services for agriculture.

FEEDING HILLS

New England Electron Beam Inc., 37 Juniper Ridge Dr., Feeding Hills, MA 01030. Danny McDonnell, same. Diagnosing, servicing, and repairing all types of welding machines.

GREENFIELD

Eriksen Industries Inc., 161 Smead Hill Road, Greenfield, MA 01301. Lucas Eriksen, same. Real estate.

LANESBOROUGH

R&R Wirtes Grain Inc., 705 North Main St., Lanesborough, MA 01237. Rebecca Belmont, same. Farming, specifically grain mill, hay producer, and agriculture feed store.

LONGMEADOW

Gambee Anesthesia Services Inc., 24 Meadowbrook Road, Longmeadow, MA 01106. Sarah Mounsey, same. Nursing anesthesia services.

Venn Collaborative Inc., 15 Belleclaire Ave., Longmeadow, MA 01106. James Woodell, same. Educational consulting.

NORTHAMPTON

New England Autonomy Movement Inc., 21 Brisson Dr., Northampton, MA 01062. Ethan Glass, 30 South Washington St., North Attleborough, MA 02760. To enhance the economic, social, and political prosperity of New England by fostering greater regional cooperation and autonomy.

PITTSFIELD

Anvil Solutions Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Naga Pasupuleti, same. IT personnel recruiting and consulting.

Deftx Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. James Akiba, 454 Hancock St., Unit 243, Quincy, MA 02171. Operates as a holding company for multiple brands, including but not limited to the design, manufacture, and sale of consumer products, including grills, pizza ovens, and automotive after-market parts.

Premier Drywall Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., #100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Kevin Perron, 497 Hooksett Road, #358, Manchester, NH 03104. Drywall installation and repairs.

Sibaritas Restaurant Inc., 27 Mckay St., Pittsfield, MA 01201. Megan Gomez, 11 McAllister St., Pittsfield, MA 01201. Full-service restaurant with liquor license.

SOUTH HADLEY

Spec Collective Ltd., 5 Hadley St., Apt. B5, South Hadley, MA 01075. Jennifer Thornquest, same. Performance arts and educational circus organization.

SPRINGFIELD

A Plus B Food Mart Inc., 1390 Allen St., Springfield, MA 01118. Nemyaka Aftab, 28 Catherine Dr., Rocky Hill, CT 06067. Gas station and convenience store.

New Leaf Inc., 152 Druid Hill Road, Springfield, MA 01129. Katherine Daoust, same. Nurse practitioner.

Stratum Dermatology Management Inc., 504 Cottage St., Springfield, MA 01104. David Fontaine, same. Small business management services.

Vim Global Bible Institute, 37 Lexington St., Springfield, MA 01107. Charles Humphrey Niapah Carboo, same. To train, educate and equip pastors and Christians to become effective in their Christian calling.

WEST HATFIELD

Therrien Premier Painting Inc., 58 Linseed Road, West Hatfield, MA 01088. Izabela Wasylik, same. Residential and commercial painting services, including interior and exterior painting.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Luo & Li Co., 12 Chestnut St., West Springfield, MA 01089. Qing Hua Luo, 50 Norman Terrace, Feeding Hills, MA 01030. Restaurant.

WILBRAHAM

Pietras Group Inc., 2703 Boston Road, Wilbraham, MA 01095. Michael Pietras, same. Real estate holdings and development.

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

DBA Certificates

The following business certificates and/or trade names were issued or renewed during the month of July 2025.

AMHERST

Braxton Quant
345 Lincoln Ave.
Levi Lang Pierce

Compassion Speech-Language Pathology
440 Southpoint Dr.
Melanie Bitely

Comprehensive Conservation Services
90 Justice Dr.
Andrew Vecchio

Cushman Market & Café
491 Pine St.
Peter Sylvan

The Drake
35 South Pleasant St.
Elizabeth Larson

Jessica Kittredge Photography
114 Fairview Way
Jessica Kittredge

Miss Leticia Music School
41 Blue Hills Road
Leticia Davies

Pioneer Valley Massage and Acupuncture Center
409 Main St., Room 212
Haiying Conover

Revolution Billing
494 Market Hill Road
Jillian Brevik

GREAT BARRINGTON

Berkshire Beauty Co.
22 Elm Court, Apt. 1
Michelle Carey

Buer Landscaping
75 Alford Road
Carson Buer

Coco’s Candy
288 Main St.
Elise Contarsy

Goodwill Industries of the Berkshires
396 Stockbridge Road, Unit 2
Mary Killeen

Honey Sharp Garden Design
296 Division St.
Honey Sharp Lippman

J. Tab Consulting
1084 Main St.
J. Tab Consulting

Juquilita Mini Market LLC
177 Main St.
Rolando Juarez Francisco

Movement Matters LLC
420 Stockbridge Road, Suite 5
Annabelle Coote

Optimal Holdings LLC
5 Railroad St.
Matthew Scott

Peak Cannabis Co.
325 Stockbridge Road
Christopher Lynch

Rob’s Records & Audio
70 Railroad St., #2
Robert Brannock

SERVPRO of Berkshire, Pittsfield
700 Main St., Suite 1
Robert Citranglo

Unci’s Natural Edge
20 Bentley Ave., #307B
Jonathan Trotta

Wingate Furniture Co. Ltd.
420 Stockbridge Road, Suite 1
Valerie Winig

HADLEY

Athleta
339 Russell St.
Kayla Collins

Cheesy Street Grill
367 Russell St.
John Oligino

College Surprise
22 Newton Lane
Shannon Burke

Creative Space/Shower
226R Russell St.
Timothy Markowski

Fasm Design & Builds
43A Hockanum Road
Fasm Homes LLC

Hadleaf
25 Russell St.
HIE Holding Group LLC

J.Crew Factory
327 Russell St.
HFD No. 55 Inc.

Julio Landscaping
87 Russell St.
Julio Castillo Canas

Riverside Fencing Club
162 Russell St.
Taro Yamashita

Simmons Masonry LLC
7 Norwottuck Dr.
Gregory Simmons

HOLYOKE

Calvary Social Media
16 Labrie Lane
John Neves

Fruity Bubble
50 Holyoke St.
Kelvin Zheng

Gene’s Ford & Chevrolet Service
103 North Bridge St.
Christopher Menzel

Gilbert Towing Co.
950 Main St.
Gilbert Negron

Key Food Marketplace
13 Cabot St.
Anthony Diaz

King Mart
494 Westfield Road
Vishnubhai Patel, Piyusha Patel

Lin’s Relax Station
50 Holyoke St.
Yeng Yang

Lolli Spa and Body Contouring
1312 Dwight St.
Migdalia Thomas

Mrs. Fields
50 Holyoke St.
Thompson Enterprise of MA LLC

Spradley Deluxe Coffee
8 Ross Road
Willie Spradley, Patricia Spradley

Star Dancers’ Unity
172 High St.
Alexcelin Saldana

NORTHAMPTON

Aviva Psychology Services
78 Main St., Suite 301
Alessandra Urbano

The Center for Healing Journeys
94 King St.
Peter Corbett

Constant Growth Marketing and Consulting
35 Pilgrim Dr.
Dee Dice

D’Angelo
388 King St.
Jim Poirier

EMBR by Phat Panda
144 King St.
Brian Horrigan

GNG Auto Consulting
150 Main St., Suite 28
Gregory Goff

The Gold Standard
342 Pleasant St.
Mark Kendall Jr.

Immigration Offices of New England
79 Masonic St.
Megan Kludt

Lilac Spoons
16 Forbes Ave.
Emily Gilbert

Nirvana
17 New South St., Suites 100, 104, 107
Kelsie Dwight

Pioneer Valley Photography
160 South St.
Kiah Crowley

Progression Brewing Co.
9 Pearl St.
Joshia Skowyra

Sam’s Food Store
198 Pine St.
Syed Tasneem

Serenity Walks and Pet Service
73 Bridge St., #7
Sarah Girouard

Solis Coaching
53 Warburton Way
Ivam Queiroz

Spaces for Rent
94 Industrial Dr.
Todd Marchefka

Spaces Life Sciences
94 Industrial Dr.
Todd Marchefka

United Way of the Franklin and Hampshire Region
71 King St.
Geoffrey Naunheim

Western Mass Educational Advocacy Services
85 Vernon St.
Alison Newitt Greene

Western Mass Periodontics & Implant Specialists
269 Locust St., Unit F1
Craig Saltzman

Yoga & Reiki Bliss
15 Nutting Ave.
Beth Tascione

SOUTHWICK

Family HVAC
119 Berkshire Ave.
Jeffrey Audet

Insurance Inspections
143 South Longyard Road
Hollie Hamelin

Rideout Builders
17 Powder Mill Road
Larry Rideout

Salon Amici
515 College Highway, Suite F
Susan D’Amours Allen

Tortoriello Repair and Service
66 South Loomis St.
Alan Tortoriello

WESTFIELD

Beautiful Beginnings Daycare
13 Cleveland Ave.
Kayla Neveu

Bomb Eclectic
77 Mill St., #011
Karen Pighetti

Civil 1 Inc.
43 Sherman Hill Road
Civil 1 Inc.

Diversify Junk Removal
205 Elm St., #3F
Omar Cox

Eden Riggs Therapy
5 Noble Ave.
Eden Riggs

For the Win 365
342 Southwick Road, #83
Amy Williams

G&G General Contracting LLC
18 Grandview Dr.
Geraldine Hui

Gigi’s Pizza
358 Southwick Road
L&J Food Corp.

Her Design by Jaideliz
32 Summer St.
Jaideliz Andorno

Jupe’s Vintage Things
77 Mill St., #011
Jeffrey Beattie

Massachusetts Medical Detox & Rehabilition
66 Broad St.
Samuel Rogatinsky

Mich Jamaican Jerk
19 Princeton St.
Michelle Johnson

NCLW Affordable Property Maintenance
20 Margerie St.
Corina Williams

Persistence Investigations
11 Lozier Ave.
Peggy Meyer-Ducheney

Pioneer Valuation
149 Yeoman Ave.
Christopher Keefe

Posh Petsby Perry
63 Bigwood Dr.
Lynn Perry

Ruby Lending
109 Apremont Way
Metro Apartments LLC

Smitty’s Switches, Splitters, and Stuff
1 Cortez St.
Charles Smith

Westfield Pet & Garden LLC
81 Springfield Road
Nabil Hannoush

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Basic Packaging Supply
136 Wayside Ave.
Carter-McLeod Paper and Packaging Co. Inc.

Forfa Home Repair
716 Union St.
Forfa Home Repair

Integrative Health and Wellness Center
1111 Elm St., Suite 17A
Integrative Health and Wellness Center

Nippon Grill & Seafood Buffet
935 Riverdale St., Unit F105-107
Nippon Grill & Seafood Buffet

One Stop Mart
636 Kings Highway
Mehar Awan Inc.

Salamon Realty LLC
103 Myron St.
Salamon Realty LLC

Sevan Juices
120 Westfield St.
Sevan Juices

Stevens Jewelers Inc.
1501 Elm St.
Stevens Jewelers Inc.

WRB Auto Sales
194 Baldwin St.
WRB Auto Sales

Bankruptcies

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

Bankruptcies

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

Alger, Kristin Michelle
a/k/a LaForest, Kristen M.
66 Starrett Ave.
Athol, MA 01331
Chapter: 13
Date: 07/02/2025

Betterson, Ann Maria
a/k/a Lavender, Ann Maria
114 Lucerne Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Chapter: 13
Date: 07/01/2025

Boivin, Giovanni L.
PO Box 342
West Stockbridge, MA 01266-0342
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/11/2025

Bryden, Laurie Ann
56 Clover Hill Dr.
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/11/2025

Carey, April L.
a/k/a Samkin, April L.
6 Waid Road
Monson, MA 01057
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Comfort Jr., William Thomas
155 Pleasant St., #403
Northampton, MA 01060
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/11/2025

Cotto, Angel T.
a/k/a Cotto Rivera, Angel T.
101 Malden St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/14/2025

Dave Soares Landscaping
Soares, David
74 Davis Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Duval, Henry P.
Duval, Annette M.
81 Cherry St.
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/15/2025

Furman, Globus
20 Crestwood Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/15/2025

Gagne, Jason A.
32 Allen Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Holyoke Parkview Apartments LLC
183 High St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 11
Date: 07/08/2025

Hunt, Shaneika M.
38 Wells Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 13
Date: 07/07/2025

Huseynov, Orkhan
131 Ashley Ave., A3
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

JAK Professional Service
Joseph, Tricia A.
11 Yale St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Date: 07/11/2025

James, Katera Shauntel
11 Hastings St., Apt. 1
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/01/2025

Kasperowski, Todd J.
228 Bridge St.
Warren, MA 01083
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/03/2025

Lee, Kenneth R.
Lee, Cathleen M.
a/k/a Meyer, Cathleen M.
238 Hillside Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Lussier, John Raymond
87 Montgomery St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/11/2025

MacDonald, Christine D.
46 New Boston Road
Sturbridge, MA 01566
Chapter: 13
Date: 07/03/2025

McGrath, Ashley
234 Old Lyman Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/07/2025

Nurse, Asia Amani
74 West Main St.
North Adams, MA 01247
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/07/2025

Richards-Gonzalez, Erin
a/k/a Richards, Erin
a/k/a Sparrow-Richards, Erin
a/k/a Richards-Gonzalez, Delilah
a/k/a Gonzalez, Delilah
1607 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01103
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Roberts, Ian C.
183 Woodcrest Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/15/2025
Rojas, Joel
a/k/a Rojas Rosa, Joel
57 Hollywood St., Apt 2
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/30/2025

Tarantino, Arianna L.
439 East Main St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/03/2025

Tulloch, Matthew A.
3039 Pleasant St.
Bondsville, MA 01009
Chapter: 13
Date: 07/09/2025

Turk, Mutlu
18 Munsing Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/02/2025

Wheelden, John Edward
115 Union St., #1
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 07/02/2025

White Violet Property, LLC
358 Sewall St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 11
Date: 07/14/2025

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

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

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BERNARDSTON

704 Brattleboro Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Peter J. Klimoski
Seller: Mundie, Barbara H., (Estate)
Date: 07/14/25

65 Hillcrest Dr.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $349,000
Buyer: Zachary Swenson
Seller: Andrew Easton
Date: 07/15/25

BUCKLAND

6 Charlemont Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Jacob D. Looman
Seller: Buckland Center Partners LLC
Date: 07/15/25

118 East Buckland Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Marshall K. Luther TR
Seller: Donald D. Cote
Date: 07/15/25

56 Upper St.
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Ursula Humphrey
Seller: Richard D. Wolff
Date: 07/16/25

COLRAIN

6 Dunnell Dr.
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Maria Stenzel
Seller: Ditullio INT
Date: 07/08/25

7 Dunnell Dr.
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Jan Sturmann
Seller: Spiegelman INT
Date: 07/15/25

CONWAY

39 Boyden Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $655,000
Buyer: Blair Ruscitti
Seller: Elizabeth S. Lawton
Date: 07/18/25

378 Cricket Hill Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Benson W. Hyde Special INT
Seller: William M. Chester Jr. TR
Date: 07/14/25

ERVING

16 Mountain Road
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $342,000
Buyer: Marissa Marques
Seller: Nathan A. May
Date: 07/07/25

28 River St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $329,900
Buyer: Mark Bix
Seller: Virginia Newton
Date: 07/11/25

GILL

81 North Cross Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: David Tricolici
Seller: Michael J. Sprague
Date: 07/08/25

GREENFIELD

38 Ferrante Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Nathan R. Altomare
Seller: Ryan Lavoie
Date: 07/17/25

18 Freeman Dr.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Sarah Holt
Seller: Gail E. Therrien
Date: 07/09/25

29 Highland Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $940,000
Buyer: Sophia Pastore
Seller: Alexa Beach
Date: 07/15/25

231 Hope St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $341,000
Buyer: Darren S. Schmidt
Seller: Congamond Management LLC
Date: 07/11/25

362 Log Plain Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $460,600
Buyer: Claude C. Curtis
Seller: Claire S. Walsh
Date: 07/11/25

73 Maple St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: John Johanson
Seller: Kurt W. Schellenberg
Date: 07/09/25

10 Walnut St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $326,000
Buyer: Abigail R. Drury
Seller: Joseph M. Mirkin
Date: 07/15/25

LEVERETT

80 Amherst Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $712,690
Buyer: Jennifer Renehan
Seller: David Roach
Date: 07/11/25

MONTAGUE

104 3rd St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: William R. Crosby
Seller: Peter Quintana
Date: 07/17/25

84 East Taylor Hill Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $685,000
Buyer: Colin Adamo
Seller: Hynes Raymond RET
Date: 07/09/25

Federal St.
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Christina L. Williams
Seller: Edward G. Stone
Date: 07/17/25

18 Franklin St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: Henry J. Burek
Seller: Cassaundra R. Lopez
Date: 07/15/25

NEW SALEM

16 Lovers Lane
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: George E. Colby
Seller: 37 South Main TR
Date: 07/16/25

51 South Main St.
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: 51 South Main RT
Seller: George E. Colby
Date: 07/16/25

NORTHFIELD

283 West Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Charles McGrevy
Seller: Susan A. Murray
Date: 07/15/25

ORANGE

133 Drew Blvd.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Anthony Saladini
Seller: D. J. Degara
Date: 07/16/25

SHELBURNE

16 North South Road
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $850,000
Buyer: Kurt H. Wilkins
Seller: Susan T. Flaccus
Date: 07/15/25

28 North South Road
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $850,000
Buyer: Kurt H. Wilkins
Seller: Susan T. Flaccus
Date: 07/15/25

SHUTESBURY

January Hills Road, Lot 4
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Charles D. Dana
Seller: Dolores M. Conway
Date: 07/09/25

SUNDERLAND

8 Valley View Lane
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Rachel S. Shipman
Seller: Cullen Shipman
Date: 07/11/25

WHATELY

1 Chestnut Plain Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Joseph F. Zaffarano
Seller: Christine P. Leamon
Date: 07/08/25

346 Haydenville Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Wendolowski FT
Seller: Gitsit Real Properties Bbplc1 LLC
Date: 07/11/25

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

15 Barbara Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: James R. Typrowicz
Seller: Clark Maynard
Date: 07/10/25

75 Candlewood Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $825,000
Buyer: Jacquelyn J. Day
Seller: Candlewood LLC
Date: 07/09/25

18 Deer Run Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $281,000
Buyer: Martin Murphy
Seller: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
Date: 07/15/25

12 Federal St. Ext.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $478,000
Buyer: Nicholas Menzel
Seller: Jennifer White
Date: 07/11/25

14 Granger Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Skyspec LLC
Seller: Brian L. David
Date: 07/11/25

71 Harvey Johnson Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Garret Schenck
Seller: Laurie J. Wright
Date: 07/15/25

36 Memorial Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Vincent Fortini
Seller: David A. Chase
Date: 07/07/25

216 Pineview Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Zully Guvenc
Seller: Nicole Garabedian
Date: 07/15/25

167 Poplar St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $635,000
Buyer: Clifton Medeiros
Seller: Jason Mann
Date: 07/11/25

1 River Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $785,000
Buyer: Umiya Group Realty LLC
Seller: Agawam Car Care Inc.
Date: 07/11/25

124 Robin Ridge Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Slawomir P. Madro
Seller: Christopher J. Harper
Date: 07/10/25

61 Warren St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Deepika Sundararaj
Seller: Vincent Serignese
Date: 07/11/25

BLANDFORD

Chester Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $1,565,000
Buyer: Nature Conservancy
Seller: Terry, Judith A., (Estate)
Date: 07/07/25

BRIMFIELD

37 7th St.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Donna L. Benoit
Seller: Diane Lorraine Fraind LT
Date: 07/16/25

105 Allen Hill Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $699,000
Buyer: Darius M. Taylor
Seller: Deborah C. Corriveau
Date: 07/09/25

54 Little Alum Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $126,321
Buyer: Arpc LLC
Seller: Gail A. Davis
Date: 07/15/25

65 Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $392,500
Buyer: Mountain Brook Traders LLC
Seller: Grand Trunk Holdings LLC
Date: 07/09/25

Shaw Road (rear)
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Andrew Comerford
Seller: David Cheney RET
Date: 07/07/25

CHESTER

300 Middlefield Road
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: James E. Zabik
Seller: Nathan E. Thies
Date: 07/18/25

CHICOPEE

14 America St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $2,800,000
Buyer: H. P. Rum LLC
Seller: Maplewood RT
Date: 07/07/25

34 Boileau Ter.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Amanda Rossi
Seller: Barbara Wrzesinski
Date: 07/16/25

108 Boulay Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $401,000
Buyer: Amanda Bailey
Seller: Slawomir Jakubowski
Date: 07/18/25

48 Clairmont Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Jenna Richards
Seller: Michael Rohrbacher
Date: 07/17/25

162 Clarendon Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Robert Murphy
Seller: Edwin E. Diaz
Date: 07/11/25

38 Front St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $1,600,000
Buyer: 38 Front Street LLC
Seller: Pah Properties LLC
Date: 07/14/25

798 Front St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Laila Issa
Seller: Abilio C. Albuquerque
Date: 07/14/25

215 Frontenac St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Patrick T. Ginley
Seller: Patrick Styckiewicz
Date: 07/10/25

112 Grape St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Richton & Wynne LLC
Seller: Tarka FT
Date: 07/09/25

57 Hafey St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Tyler E. Corliss
Seller: Regina R. Creeron
Date: 07/10/25

27 Janine St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Samantha De Souza
Seller: Pah Properties LLC
Date: 07/16/25

69 Lafayette St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Marcos Rodriguez
Seller: Andrew E. Rollings
Date: 07/11/25

79 Lauzier Ter.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Andrew P. Lajoie
Seller: Jose E. Martinez
Date: 07/09/25

35 Lawndale St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $441,537
Buyer: Danny Hernandez
Seller: Diane T. Kowalski
Date: 07/18/25

1492 Memorial Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Membos LLC
Seller: DW Com Prop LLC
Date: 07/16/25

88 Newell St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $220,500
Buyer: Jacob Saleh
Seller: Flagstar Bank
Date: 07/10/25

57 Parenteau Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Hayley King
Seller: Ashley Nesby
Date: 07/15/25

20 Rosemont St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Gabrielle L. Ruggiero
Seller: Lynda M. St.Jean
Date: 07/10/25

46 Saint James Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Tihwdi LLC
Seller: Emma L. Jopson
Date: 07/15/25

34 Sheridan St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $770,000
Buyer: 346 Britton Street LLC
Seller: 34-38 Sheridan St LLC
Date: 07/10/25

25 Spring St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Christopher F. Steiner
Seller: Nres LLC
Date: 07/16/25

95 Thaddeus St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $342,500
Buyer: Jgar LLC
Seller: Thomas E. Duffy
Date: 07/11/25

EAST LONGMEADOW

199 Allen St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Christopher Jones
Seller: Matadormus LLC
Date: 07/18/25

2 Anna Marie Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $825,000
Buyer: Harpreet S. Wasan
Seller: Moltenbrey Builders LLC
Date: 07/14/25

36 Devonshire Ter.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $830,000
Buyer: Sidoryuk TR
Seller: Vaughn J. Wildfong
Date: 07/09/25

45 Donamor Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: William Kimball
Seller: Fancy, Phyllis A., (Estate)
Date: 07/10/25

32 Fairview St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Heather L. Doe
Seller: James M. Chapdelaine
Date: 07/07/25

77 Indian Spring Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Jared Kustra
Seller: Nicholas A. Stafford
Date: 07/18/25

47 Mayfair St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Jaime I. Thayer-Awoniyi
Seller: Ross Colette J., (Estate)
Date: 07/18/25

525 Parker St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Jeffrey J. Brennan
Seller: Michael Giuggio
Date: 07/07/25

33 Prospect St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: E&s Ventures LLC
Seller: Center Square RT
Date: 07/09/25

232 Prospect St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Gabriel Levine
Seller: Kimberly A. Kehoe
Date: 07/17/25

GRANVILLE

73 Barnard Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $680,000
Buyer: Shaun P. Terra
Seller: John F. Donatini
Date: 07/14/25

48 Dickinson Dr.
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: Samuel J. Houston
Seller: Joy C. Bryda
Date: 07/17/25

HOLLAND

12 Brandon St.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Kevin McCleary
Seller: Nicole C. Holguin
Date: 07/18/25

11 Leisure Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $660,000
Buyer: Tyler Reilly
Seller: Mark E. Lund
Date: 07/11/25

47 Leno Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Amanda Lane
Seller: Peter C. Perez
Date: 07/11/25

59 Wales Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $620,000
Buyer: Theresa Quinn
Seller: Nancy E. Lucier
Date: 07/16/25

HOLYOKE

107 Cross Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Koral Arzate
Seller: Kerry Kraft
Date: 07/16/25

453 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $378,500
Buyer: Benjamin Pion
Seller: Nancy L. Post
Date: 07/10/25

705 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $371,000
Buyer: Javier A. Rivera
Seller: David J. Duran
Date: 07/08/25

1083 Homestead Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Narciso J. Vazquez
Seller: Duval, Marianne, (Estate)
Date: 07/17/25

38 Knollwood Circle
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Tanya M. Ramsey
Seller: James G. Cartwright IRT
Date: 07/08/25

86 Knollwood Circle
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Alyssa N. Sweeney
Seller: Andrey V. Okhrimenko
Date: 07/16/25

1066 Main St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $328,000
Buyer: Romer Sullivan
Seller: Michael T. Yelle
Date: 07/14/25

1164 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $555,400
Buyer: Richard Wiley
Seller: Cameron Wiley
Date: 07/16/25

67 Park Slope
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $545,000
Buyer: Alexandra Adams
Seller: Whiting Betsy M., (Estate)
Date: 07/18/25

2-4 Rene Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Dwayne Fisher
Seller: Nelson R. Amalbert
Date: 07/08/25

258 Rock Valley Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $192,000
Buyer: Onyx Investments LLC
Seller: Nina C. Cassidy
Date: 07/10/25

542 Rock Valley Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Tina Moson
Seller: Michael Shepard
Date: 07/11/25

141 Saint Jerome Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Saje Home Services LLC
Seller: Carolyn D. Roberts
Date: 07/11/25

89 Sun Valley Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Ashley Haskell
Seller: Talisa S. Bratt
Date: 07/11/25

66 Taylor St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Reneeza Ramdeen
Seller: Lsrmf MH Master Participation Trust II
Date: 07/11/25

41 Vassar Circle
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $271,750
Buyer: Lisa M. Echevarria
Seller: Flanagan, Gail C., (Estate)
Date: 07/18/25

272 Walnut St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Chenevert Properties LLC
Seller: Della Ripa Real Estate LLC
Date: 07/18/25

272 Walnut St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Ihi Wave LLC
Seller: Chenevert Properties LLC
Date: 07/18/25

299-301 Walnut St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Katherine Colon
Seller: One Holyoke Community Development Corp.
Date: 07/18/25

LONGMEADOW

291 Bliss Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: John R. Lapierre
Seller: Kathleen M. McManus
Date: 07/11/25

20 Brittany Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $855,000
Buyer: Steven W. Hayes
Seller: Joanna Beachy
Date: 07/07/25

183 Concord Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $1,065,000
Buyer: Joseph Volk
Seller: Sojung K. Haag
Date: 07/15/25

98 Coventry Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: Bengt T. Hyberg
Seller: Robert A. Walker RET
Date: 07/18/25

887 Maple Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Nicholas Bednaz
Seller: Frederick J. Steinman
Date: 07/18/25

230 Meadowlark Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Abiy A. Teshome
Seller: Kenneth J. Shusterman
Date: 07/08/25

166 Primrose Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $620,000
Buyer: Ericka Olson
Seller: Yana Stein
Date: 07/07/25

88 Redfern Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $565,000
Buyer: Andrea Triantafillou
Seller: Eric W. Pohlman
Date: 07/08/25

60 Roseland Ter.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Caitlyn M. Davis
Seller: Rose A. Atwood
Date: 07/18/25

28 South Park Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $608,000
Buyer: William Carrick
Seller: Aurea L. Wenzel
Date: 07/15/25

51 Warwick St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Aniello J. Russo
Seller: Ina J. Herman
Date: 07/14/25

109 Wild Grove Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $935,000
Buyer: Indu B. Yadav
Seller: David Lipke
Date: 07/11/25

66 Woolworth St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Alexander L. Lonczak
Seller: Robert S. Richardson
Date: 07/17/25

LUDLOW

33 Briarwood Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Hasan Capkin
Seller: Carlos Fernandes
Date: 07/18/25

17 Brimfield St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $168,855
Buyer: David A. Carpenter
Seller: Michael T. Narey
Date: 07/10/25

32 Bristol St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $274,000
Buyer: Rebecca L. Clark
Seller: Nydia I. Ruiz
Date: 07/18/25

1150 East St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $552,500
Buyer: Douglas Blair
Seller: Andrzej Pielecha
Date: 07/08/25

Equinox Pass, Lot 91
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $177,900
Buyer: Hemlock Ridge LLC
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 07/11/25

132 James St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Shannon Leese
Seller: Christina R. Ridolfi
Date: 07/18/25

74 Knollwood Road
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $775,000
Buyer: Debra M. Goeschel
Seller: 2014 Boney-Lasiter RET
Date: 07/09/25

Lyon St., Lot 5
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Michael G. Page
Seller: JLN Properties LLC
Date: 07/09/25

43 Pleasantview St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Yocasta Lara
Seller: Dowd, Kathleen A., (Estate)
Date: 07/18/25

469 Poole St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Joseph M. Iwasinski
Seller: Caryn L. Kostek
Date: 07/18/25

270 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $2,000,000
Buyer: Msam Real Estate LLC
Seller: 270 West Street Ludlow RT
Date: 07/11/25

675 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $440,500
Buyer: Jeremiah P. Gombos
Seller: Laura N. Stevens
Date: 07/07/25

MONSON

84 Bethany Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Residential Asset Securitization Trust 2006-E
Seller: Thomas K. Tighe
Date: 07/10/25

East Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Opacum Land Trust Inc.
Seller: Wayne A. Evans
Date: 07/18/25

1028 Maple St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $296,500
Buyer: Efrain Diaz
Seller: John J. Swistak
Date: 07/11/25

42 Margaret St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Lucas J. Czarniecki
Seller: Shelley Hughes RET
Date: 07/18/25

111 May Hill Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $466,500
Buyer: Jeffrey D. Sterner
Seller: Darius M. Taylor
Date: 07/09/25

241 Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $226,000
Buyer: Mike Krasnov
Seller: Kathleen E. Martinek
Date: 07/16/25

98 Town Farm Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $647,500
Buyer: Mackenzie A. Tozier
Seller: Frank Perez
Date: 07/10/25

142 Upper Hampden Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Jason Pascucci
Seller: 142 Upper Hampden Road NT
Date: 07/18/25

MONTGOMERY

56 North Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Emily Kassis
Seller: Anna K. Echtner
Date: 07/16/25

1631 Russell Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Roman Tikhonchuk
Seller: Jessica R. Grabowski
Date: 07/18/25

PALMER

55-69 Belanger St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Remlap Rentals LLC
Seller: C. K. Scott LLC
Date: 07/18/25

4415 High St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: WMass Residential LLC
Seller: Mileskie, Margaret A., (Estate)
Date: 07/16/25

114 Longview St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $479,500
Buyer: Morgan Hann
Seller: Kristine L. Somers
Date: 07/14/25

1341 Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Adam J. Wawrzyk
Seller: Nelson B. Pease
Date: 07/17/25

1724 North Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $336,000
Buyer: Robert Fornaciari
Seller: Nicholas Lloyd
Date: 07/07/25

177 State St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Nathan Letner
Seller: Russell R. Letner
Date: 07/17/25

137 Thompson St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $598,000
Buyer: Tammy Barberio-Powell
Seller: Stoney Rt
Date: 07/14/25

SPRINGFIELD

32 Albert St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Matthew-David C. Gordon
Seller: Cynthia J. Ortell
Date: 07/08/25

842-844 Alden St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $393,000
Buyer: Dahiana J. De Crisotomo
Seller: Brooke E. Coughlin
Date: 07/08/25

3 Balboa Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Eduardo J. Monarca
Seller: Kirsyann Segarra
Date: 07/18/25

485-487 Bay St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Carrasquillo Management LLC
Seller: Teddy Guy
Date: 07/10/25

824-826 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Homeland Real Estate Investment Group LLC
Seller: Gladysh Capital LLC
Date: 07/18/25

896 Berkshire Ave.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Scott Allison
Seller: Adam Amaral
Date: 07/10/25

28 Bog Hollow Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $297,500
Buyer: Lianexis D. Burgos
Seller: Lachenauer LLC
Date: 07/18/25

235 Boston Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Hossein M. Zadeh
Seller: Cig4 LLC
Date: 07/08/25

83 Buckingham St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $371,000
Buyer: Juan A. Rodriguez Baez
Seller: Naples Home Buyers TR
Date: 07/15/25

21 Chester St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Nelida R. Negron
Seller: Belton Sr., Percy R., (Estate)
Date: 07/17/25

33-35 Claremont St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Chelsea Wilson
Seller: Posiadlosc LLC
Date: 07/18/25

11 Copeland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $207,000
Buyer: Naples Home Buyers TR
Seller: Dominic Riggio
Date: 07/15/25

24 Davis St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $358,000
Buyer: RG Main & Oak LLC
Seller: Chrissy L. Ivas
Date: 07/16/25

459 Dwight St.
Springfield, MA 01103
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Bar Belmont LLC
Seller: Lumpkin & Markarian Holdings
Date: 07/10/25

143 East Allen Ridge Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Thomas F. Kissel
Seller: Angela C. Nannen
Date: 07/16/25

37 Eagle St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Rafael L. Polanco
Seller: Luis A. Villanueva
Date: 07/16/25

15 Entrybrook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: Elvin Vargas
Seller: Rose C. Majane
Date: 07/18/25

40 Fenimore Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $354,900
Buyer: Brigett Torres
Seller: Tracey Troung
Date: 07/15/25

103 Flint St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Ricky Santiago
Seller: Lisandra Zeno
Date: 07/11/25

181 Freeman Ter.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $180,500
Buyer: Salim Abdoo
Seller: Gitsit Real Property Bbplc1 LLC
Date: 07/14/25

25 Gardens Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $395,500
Buyer: Briana Torres-Ferrer
Seller: Clifton Medeiros
Date: 07/11/25

45 Greaney St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Alba H. Elias
Seller: Adrian M. Villalobos
Date: 07/09/25

145 Homestead Ave.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $376,500
Buyer: Bobby Corona
Seller: Marilyn A. Larramee
Date: 07/16/25

124 Hudson St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Anthony N. Stack
Seller: Veteran Stan LLC
Date: 07/18/25

195 Jasper St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Olmsted Realty LLC
Seller: Mack NA Servicing TR
Date: 07/11/25

12-14 Kendall St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Shalimar Mejia
Seller: Cedar Investment Group LLC
Date: 07/18/25

855 Liberty St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $735,000
Buyer: Ije Properties LLC
Seller: 855 Liberty Springfield LLC
Date: 07/11/25

43 Longfellow Ter.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Sean Kavanagh
Seller: Emtay Inc.
Date: 07/15/25

111 Malibu Dr.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $154,350
Buyer: Lumtri RT
Seller: Bryan G. McCarthy
Date: 07/15/25

42 North Brook Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Rashad M. Evans
Seller: Gabrielle Ruggiero
Date: 07/10/25

128-130 Oak Grove Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Jean B. Jean
Seller: Casa Trio LLC
Date: 07/10/25

362 Page Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Patrick A. Ajunwa
Seller: Antonio G. Daniele
Date: 07/18/25

38 Palmer Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Allan E. Agueda-Martinez
Seller: Phyllis & Marc Jret
Date: 07/17/25

24 Pearl Lane
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $426,000
Buyer: Laura McCarthy
Seller: Marshall G. Conklin
Date: 07/16/25

37 Revere St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $274,500
Buyer: Katerina Valentine
Seller: Jessica S. Dillard-Wright
Date: 07/09/25

5 Rogers Ave.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $437,537
Buyer: Chad J. O’Brien
Seller: Brvs LLC
Date: 07/10/25

6-8 Rosemont St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Myrna Colon
Seller: Catherine W. MacGovern
Date: 07/18/25

205 Saint James Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $123,500
Buyer: Chamber Investment Group LLC
Seller: Adister Pineda
Date: 07/18/25

229-231 Saint James Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Murtadha Noori
Seller: Bogdanow RT
Date: 07/10/25

125-127 Santa Barbara St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Moriah E. Coleman
Seller: Martany Cortes
Date: 07/16/25

165 Seymour Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Angilene S. Brown
Seller: Javier A. Rivera
Date: 07/08/25

56 Silas St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $203,000
Buyer: Yasser Mahdy
Seller: Oyola, Lisa Ann, (Estate)
Date: 07/15/25

102 Starling Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Rose Tran
Seller: Dipikaben R. Patel
Date: 07/11/25

68 Sunrise Ter.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Aldo Properties LLC
Seller: Nora A. Rooke RT
Date: 07/10/25

50 Switzer Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Jaime Harris
Seller: Bho Realty LLC
Date: 07/18/25

140 Temby St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $342,000
Buyer: Virgilio Santos
Seller: Robin Scott
Date: 07/17/25

47 Van Buren Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Larinso Saunders
Seller: Heriberto Rivera
Date: 07/15/25

365-367 Water St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Ray Peralta
Seller: Eddie Dairs
Date: 07/16/25

612-614 White St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $453,000
Buyer: Merinor Simelus
Seller: Jjj17 LLC
Date: 07/14/25

174 Wellington St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Bruce Cononico
Seller: Bobby Hall
Date: 07/11/25

2393 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Darrell Griffin
Seller: Michael A. Powers
Date: 07/11/25

342 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $423,000
Buyer: Ramona I. Acevedo
Seller: House Hack Helpers LLC
Date: 07/10/25

19 Woodrow St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Roxanne Buckle
Seller: Alexander Perez
Date: 07/18/25

56 Yale St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Home Savers Group LLC
Seller: Brandon McCloud
Date: 07/14/25

48 Zephyr Lane
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Patricia Del Buono
Seller: John R. Lapierre
Date: 07/11/25

SOUTHWICK

269 College Hwy.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Fitzgerald Home Solutions LLC
Seller: Albert Plancon FT
Date: 07/16/25

5 Crescent Circle
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Wes Properties LLC
Seller: Burhan Holdings One LLC
Date: 07/15/25

5 Honeybird Run
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $946,000
Buyer: Pamela A. Molennor TR
Seller: Denise Faircloth
Date: 07/09/25

8 Noble Steed Xing
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Vincent Serignese
Seller: Lyudmila A. Maksyuk
Date: 07/11/25

66 Powder Mill Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Dennis Weaver
Seller: Jack E. Lamoureaux
Date: 07/15/25

WALES

12 Haynes Hill Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Michael Moran
Seller: Porfirio N. Espinosa
Date: 07/16/25

53 Hollow Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Russell J. Wigen
Seller: Steven Valle
Date: 07/18/25

WEST SPRINGFIELD

6 Albert St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Amanda Kamel
Seller: Gitsit Real Property LLC
Date: 07/11/25

70 Almon Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $263,000
Buyer: Molly Holt
Seller: Tamara Tsyganenko
Date: 07/10/25

36 Apple Ridge Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $590,000
Buyer: Nicholas Kraver
Seller: Ronald E. Johnson
Date: 07/17/25

136 Butternut Hollow Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Tae H. Kim
Seller: Joan S. Lewandowski
Date: 07/15/25

85 Elm St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $1,200,000
Buyer: H&D Venture LLC
Seller: J. R. Real Estate LLC
Date: 07/15/25

63 Hale St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $416,000
Buyer: Sarah J. Liquorman
Seller: Julie E. Dowd
Date: 07/16/25

134 Hampden St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $339,900
Buyer: Travaughn Josey
Seller: McKenzie Brothers Realty LLC
Date: 07/14/25

29 Healy St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Micaelle Martin
Seller: Malia Homebuyers LLC
Date: 07/15/25

78 Hillcrest Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Imv Motor LLC
Seller: Germani, Louis R., (Estate)
Date: 07/15/25

121 Kings Hwy.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Duane J. Paul
Seller: Mark J. Walachy
Date: 07/08/25

333 Massachusetts Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Bryanna Montalvo
Seller: Cornerstone Homebuying LLC
Date: 07/08/25

1146 Memorial Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $495,000
Buyer: 1146 Memorial Drive LLC
Seller: SS Fund LLC
Date: 07/11/25

100 Nelson St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $327,000
Buyer: Andre Fillion
Seller: Holly Hitchcock
Date: 07/09/25

71 Park Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $800,000
Buyer: Park 71 LLC
Seller: 71 Park Ave. LLC
Date: 07/16/25

622 Westfield St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $268,000
Buyer: Lake Rentals LLC
Seller: Seajay Group LLC
Date: 07/17/25

33 Wilder Ter.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $248,000
Buyer: Werley T. Deoliveira
Seller: William J. Weckerly
Date: 07/18/25

168 Windsor St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Meredith Noyes
Seller: David F. Piangerelli
Date: 07/18/25

168 Wolcott Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $369,000
Buyer: Yam K. Ghalley
Seller: Gary E. Bailleul
Date: 07/18/25

WESTFIELD

131 Bates Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $705,000
Buyer: Ramage FT
Seller: Jarzabek LT
Date: 07/10/25

3 Bayberry Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Henry M. Bisbee
Seller: Roman Drobny
Date: 07/18/25

207 Belanger Road
Westfield, MA 01073
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Sylvia A. Ciborowski
Seller: Lindsey Litwak
Date: 07/15/25

20 Bennett Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Krystina L. Trout
Seller: Camilla J. Bucko
Date: 07/16/25

41 Claremont St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $362,000
Buyer: Viktor Stepanchuk
Seller: WS & Sons Realty LLC
Date: 07/18/25

7 Day Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Fitzgerald Home Solutions LLC
Seller: David N. Fisk
Date: 07/10/25

East Mountain Road, Lot 5
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Vladimir Koshmar
Seller: Michael P. Dupuis
Date: 07/18/25

171 Munger Hill Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $630,000
Buyer: Jonathan R. Bracci
Seller: Christin L. Wilson
Date: 07/07/25

71 Hagan Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Joshua C. Towse
Seller: Richard A. Sanders
Date: 07/18/25

400 Loomis St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Meagan Ray-Novak
Seller: Danylo Shmyglya
Date: 07/18/25

89 Montgomery St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $216,000
Buyer: Timofey P. Banar
Seller: Justin C. Wild
Date: 07/14/25

291 Russellville Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Rose Majane
Seller: Leroy R. Clink
Date: 07/18/25

299 Shaker Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Joselito Reyes
Seller: Mary L. Zanolli
Date: 07/15/25

13 Smith Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Thomas M. Wolak
Seller: Vitaliy P. Baranyuk
Date: 07/09/25

244 Union St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: NZ Property LLC
Seller: Brian McDonald
Date: 07/09/25

3 Vernon St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Matthew R. Wilcox
Seller: Our Legacy LLC
Date: 07/11/25

120 West Silver St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Philip Stranathan
Seller: Maria C. Letasz
Date: 07/15/25

West Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Oleksandr O. Moshkivsky
Seller: Dana A. Lecrenski
Date: 07/14/25

12 Woodmont St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $352,000
Buyer: Richard Rodriguez
Seller: Jared M. Materas
Date: 07/18/25

45 Yankee Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Amanda Drees
Seller: Francis E. Blanchard RET
Date: 07/17/25

WILBRAHAM

2 Cedar Oak Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Andrew Flye
Seller: Mark A. Cloutier
Date: 07/14/25

5 Evergreen Circle
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $584,000
Buyer: Janie L. Lizak
Seller: Kirby J. Howard
Date: 07/17/25

8 Evangeline Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Giavanna M. Colaccino
Seller: Zahi N. Haddad
Date: 07/09/25

4 Oakridge Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Steven J. Sasur
Seller: Kara L. Rice
Date: 07/18/25

20 Mountainbrook Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Kevin Grant
Seller: Robert L. Bustamante
Date: 07/08/25

56 Springfield St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $349,000
Buyer: Giovanni Solivan-Lebron
Seller: Agerton, Marjorie N., (Estate)
Date: 07/16/25

35 Sunnyside Ter.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Ryan Spring
Seller: Kimberly A. Crevier
Date: 07/15/25

1032 Tinkham Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $344,500
Buyer: Suzanne Hangasky
Seller: Kenyon J. Porter
Date: 07/18/25

14 Wellfleet Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $805,000
Buyer: Joseph M. Pecoraro
Seller: Bretta Construction LLC
Date: 07/11/25

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

78 Aubinwood Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $714,900
Buyer: Stayabrota Das
Seller: Flavia T. Cunha
Date: 07/14/25

161 Farmington Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Troy P. Wixson
Seller: Tiesa M. Graf
Date: 07/16/25

41 Gray St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $775,000
Buyer: James L. Beadle
Seller: East Pleasant St. Partners
Date: 07/09/25

88 High Point Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Vanessa Bergmann
Seller: Tammy L. Wilson
Date: 07/18/25

124 Lindenridge Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $990,000
Buyer: Allana N. Jackson
Seller: Jeong, Jeeyon, (Estate)
Date: 07/15/25

734 Main St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $1,050,000
Buyer: Newgen 1 LLC
Seller: John T. Wroblewski LT
Date: 07/16/25

89 Pondview Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Chelsea D. Lovley
Seller: Derek Lovley
Date: 07/18/25

24 Potwine Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Aimee Bida
Seller: Shing F. Shiao
Date: 07/10/25

17 Sacco Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $800,000
Buyer: Brent H. Freedland
Seller: Debora D. Ferreira
Date: 07/17/25

66 Stony Hill Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Carol Y. Bailey
Seller: Hubbard M. Smith RET
Date: 07/09/25

275 Strong St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $496,000
Buyer: Hamed Zamani
Seller: Deborah Sampson
Date: 07/11/25

BELCHERTOWN

237 Bay Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Daniel T. Morse
Seller: Steven J. Roy
Date: 07/18/25

101 Chauncey Walker St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Jacob Snizek
Seller: Michele Snizek
Date: 07/09/25

105 Daniel Shays Hwy.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: David Fredenburgh
Seller: G&H Development LLC
Date: 07/09/25

65 Daniel Square
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $247,000
Buyer: Pacheco Properties Holdings LLC
Seller: Finance Of America Structured Securities
Date: 07/10/25

EASTHAMPTON

21 1st Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Betsy Hopkins
Seller: Linda M. Hopkins
Date: 07/11/25

9 Camelot Lane
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $640,000
Buyer: Carla Drew-Moyer
Seller: Alan C. Borowski
Date: 07/18/25

242 Hendrick St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $261,000
Buyer: Sean Quinn
Seller: David F. Tyburski
Date: 07/18/25

116 Holyoke St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $501,000
Buyer: Joanne McTiernan
Seller: Robert E. Dragon
Date: 07/10/25

95 Holyoke St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Aleksandar Vasic
Seller: Iam M. Carrier
Date: 07/11/25

19 Keddy St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Robert G. Nicholson
Seller: Adam Jaber
Date: 07/10/25

64 Strong St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Ian M. Carrier
Seller: Nader Saborough
Date: 07/11/25

GOSHEN

558 East St.
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Francis J. Burnett
Seller: Betsy L. Burnett
Date: 07/17/25

GRANBY

92 Aldrich St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $362,500
Buyer: Paul Piquette
Seller: Debra L. Lauder
Date: 07/18/25

52 Burnett St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $454,000
Buyer: Jeffrey Curtis
Seller: Brault Irt
Date: 07/17/25

9 North St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Anneka Lamb
Seller: Braierd, Mary F., (Estate)
Date: 07/08/25

2 Weszt State St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $1,850,000
Buyer: Dash Realty Holdings LLC
Seller: Win Properties LLC
Date: 07/08/25

4 Wes State St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $1,850,000
Buyer: Dash Realty Holdings LLC
Seller: Win Properties LLC
Date: 07/08/25

6 West State St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $1,850,000
Buyer: Dash Realty Holdings LLC
Seller: Win Properties LLC
Date: 07/08/25

HADLEY

65 Hockanum Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Michelle A. Dean
Seller: Daneau, Suzanne B., (Estate)
Date: 07/18/25

13 Laurana Lane
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $559,000
Buyer: Agnes Ting
Seller: Matthew Olszewski
Date: 07/17/25

8 Meadowbrook Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: William Hohreiter
Seller: Joseph J. Bye
Date: 07/14/25

HUNTINGTON

140 Pond Brook Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $455,000
Buyer: Jacob K. Ross
Seller: Travis Trout
Date: 07/16/25

NORTHAMPTON

47 Avis Circle
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $800,000
Buyer: Travis S. Watson
Seller: Gary W. Keefe
Date: 07/07/25

14 Easthampton Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $1,000,000
Buyer: 14 Easthampton Road LLC
Seller: James E. Bacon
Date: 07/09/25

228 Florence Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Mo Xu
Seller: Joseph Brooks
Date: 07/10/25

183 Main St.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $1,400,000
Buyer: Mass. Land Conservation Trust Inc.
Seller: Equinox Partners LLC
Date: 07/16/25

23 Prospect Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $1,055,000
Buyer: Rodney North
Seller: Fatima Kabba
Date: 07/08/25

22 Sherman Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Harry A. George
Seller: Robin T. Barry-King
Date: 07/17/25

54 Water St.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $866,000
Buyer: Edward T. Kennedy
Seller: Annae Morehouse
Date: 07/09/25

140 Woodland Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Mohammad I. Shirzad
Seller: Pioneer Valley Habitat For Humanity
Date: 07/09/25

SOUTH HADLEY

151 Abbey St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Luiz A. Amaral
Seller: Ryan P. Sweeney
Date: 07/15/25

4 Alvord St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $660,000
Buyer: Anniemac Private Equity
Seller: Tiffany Brunelle
Date: 07/15/25

27 Ashfield Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $685,000
Buyer: Michael A. Case
Seller: Allana N. Jackson
Date: 07/14/25

5 Bach Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Stephen Opalenik
Seller: Town Of South Hadley
Date: 07/07/25

59 Bridge St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Nrb Roof Professionals LLC
Seller: Robert J. Whelihan
Date: 07/16/25

13 Canal St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Chenevert Properties LLC
Seller: No Limit Assets LLC
Date: 07/18/25

11 Fairlawn St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Kimberly H. Cervantes
Seller: John A. Neveu
Date: 07/15/25

190 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Catherine Dube
Seller: Ryan P. Spring
Date: 07/15/25

405 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Joseph H. Ely
Seller: Roy Brindamour
Date: 07/14/25

10 Graves St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $336,000
Buyer: Samuel K. Kim
Seller: Naples Home Buyers TR
Date: 07/16/25

15 Lexington Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Jillian Euvrard
Seller: Kirsti A. Morse
Date: 07/17/25

41 Red Bridge Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $810,000
Buyer: Padmini Das
Seller: Daniel R. Sharp
Date: 07/16/25

25 Saybrook Circle
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $346,000
Buyer: Kathryn Barsevich
Seller: Cheryl A. Pringle
Date: 07/09/25

SOUTHAMPTON

42 Coleman Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $555,000
Buyer: Sarah Sypek
Seller: Jason S. Labrie
Date: 07/07/25

102 Gunn Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $850,000
Buyer: Alan Borowksi
Seller: Kevin B. O’Donnell
Date: 07/10/25

6 Pine Meadow Dr.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $765,000
Buyer: Jason Labrie
Seller: Bernard S. Borowski
Date: 07/07/25

5 Pomeroy Meadow Ext.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Alexander Smith
Seller: Fumi Realty Inc.
Date: 07/10/25

WARE

5 1st Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Kyle J. Champoux
Seller: Curylo Jr., John J., (Estate)
Date: 07/16/25

7 2nd Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Melissa Asikainen
Seller: Dorcas RT
Date: 07/15/25

53 Babcock Tavern Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $474,000
Buyer: Nicholas Lioyd
Seller: Matthew J. Graves
Date: 07/07/25

76 Beaver Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Sean P. Astle
Seller: 76 Beaver Road RT
Date: 07/18/25

250 Belchertown Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Richard W. Brown
Seller: Joseph M. Mitko
Date: 07/15/25

84 Coffey Hill Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $599,000
Buyer: Gabriela Vieyra
Seller: Guy P. Beaulieu
Date: 07/11/25

32-34 East Court
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Ney Q. Orozo
Seller: Eree LLC
Date: 07/17/25

130 Greenwich Plains Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $510,000
Buyer: Brian Errante
Seller: Edward R. Lynchwala
Date: 07/10/25

4 School St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Wicked Deals LLC
Seller: Mandolyn M. Piscioneri
Date: 07/11/25

WILLIAMSBURG

183 Main St.
Williamsburg, MA 01039
Amount: $1,400,000
Buyer: Mass. Land Conservation Trust Inc.
Seller: Equinox Partners LLC
Date: 07/16/25

96 Mountain St.
Williamsburg, MA 01062
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Douglas J. Warner
Seller: Kestrel Land Trust Inc.
Date: 07/11/25

21 Unquomonk Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $805,000
Buyer: Gunther J. Rohrer
Seller: Maclachlan, Patricia M., (Estate)
Date: 07/17/25

WESTHAMPTON

223 Main Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Courtney M. Ross
Seller: Rachel T. Goodman
Date: 07/09/25

356 Northwest Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Michael Broussard
Seller: Simone Prystowski
Date: 07/15/25

105 Reservoir Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Eds Enterprises LLC
Seller: Creek FT
Date: 07/16/25

WORTHINGTON

370 Buffington Hill Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Tyler Mattson
Seller: Jedadiah O. Henry
Date: 07/15/25

398 Old Post Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $888,100
Buyer: Ann M. Perrone
Seller: Mendelsohn, James W., (Estate)
Date: 07/18/25

Building Permits

By BusinessWest Staff August 13, 2025

Building Permits

The following building permits were issued during the month of July 2025.

CHICOPEE

Elms College
291 Springfield St.
$65,215 — Convert existing computer center in Mary Dooley Center lobby into student lounge, including removal of existing curved glass wall and door and installation of new flooring, finishes, and lighting

Jones Ferry Development LLC
326 Chicopee St.
$7,500 — Machine demolition of radio tower

EASTHAMPTON

Atomic Real Estate LLC
195 Northampton St.
$25,000 — Siding

MAPAM-1 LLC
179 Northampton St.
$43,745 — Air sealing, ventilation, and weather stripping

One Northampton Street Enterprises Inc.
1 Northampton St.
$24,845 — Install new fire alarm system and devices

LEE

Paul Face, Dawn Face
45 School St.
$12,500 — Remove damaged siding, framing, and sheetrock; replace storm door and exterior door; new framing and insulation; repair ceiling; repair sill; new trim to match existing

St. Mary’s Church Society
115 Orchard St.
$200,000 — Replace windows

LENOX

Church Street Holdings LLC
500 Pittsfield Road
$574,601 — Selective demolition, floors, walls, ceilings, new lighting

MHH Lenox 70 Operating LLC
25 Mollie Way
$5,000 — Swap out bathtub and shower in two separate units

NORTHAMPTON

69 Bridge Street LLC
69 Bridge St.
$30,729 — Replace front and rear entry doors

Ald Noho LLC
271 Main St.
$4,000 — Illuminated sign for Mala Pot & Grill

Big Y
138 North King St.
$9,650 — Six sign permits

City of Northampton
20 Florence St.
$262,335 — Install heat pumps in Leeds Elementary School

Lathrop Community Inc.
680 Bridge St.
$80,000 — Renovation, including new bathroom, mechanical room, storage, and office

Smith College
8 College Lane
$151,500 — Install sprinkler system

Smith College
2 Seelye Dr.
$886,600 — Roof repairs to Seelye Hall

Smith College
20 Elm St.
$44,471 — Alterations to entry reception at museum offices to create new office, alterations to Room T126

PITTSFIELD

Ollie’s Bargain Outlet
455 Dalton Ave.
$650,000 — Improvement of existing building for new mercantile tenant

Phoenix Merrill Road LLC
676 Merrill Road
$32,650 — Interior remodel including new store fixtures and finishes

Gary Roller
115 Elm St.
$52,400 — Repair storefront, new suspended ceiling, new laminate flooring

Leadership, Commitment Mark Holyoke Schools’ Emergence from Receivership

By George O'Brien July 31, 2025

Cover Story

Taking Back Control

Anthony Soto, interim school superintendent and former receiver in Holyoke.

As he talked about the Holyoke Public Schools’ emergence from a decade of receivership last month, Anthony Soto said that accomplishment results from several factors, but the overriding dynamic has been leadership.

That applies to the receiver’s office, the commissioner of Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), Holyoke’s School Committee, the mayor’s office, and within the ranks of the city’s teachers, principals, and other administrators, said Soto, who has been the receiver for the past five years and is now interim superintendent in Holyoke, adding quickly that leadership will ultimately determine how this district performs moving forward.

And on that front, there are some question marks, he said, noting everything from the upcoming election this fall, at which every seat on the School Committee will be contested, to the superintendent’s office (a nationwide search will soon commence, and Soto declined comment on whether he will be a candidate) to the ongoing challenge of retaining teachers and principals everywhere, but especially in Holyoke.

Indeed, when asked if he was worried about backsliding from the systemic changes and resulting progress that enabled Holyoke to emerge from receivership, Soto said, “not with the leaders we have in place.”

He added, “I would worry if we suddenly had seven principals leave and three or four district leaders leave — then I would be very concerned. I’m confident with the School Committee that we have, but the unknown is what worries me.”

While there are questions about the future and what will happen with this school district, Soto and Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia certainly wanted to take a moment and reflect on Holyoke’s ability to emerge from receivership — something the two other districts placed in that same state (Lawrence and Southbridge) have yet to do.

“This had never been done before; there was no blueprint for this, and I believe that Holyoke has perhaps created a blueprint,” said Garcia, who made emergence from receivership a campaign pledge when he first ran for the office more than three years ago. “This is a big win for Holyoke; we’ve proven to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that we’re capable of self-managing our public schools.”

Soto agreed and said this return to local control is an accomplishment marked by dramatic improvement in the graduation rate — 52% to 77% — and progress on other fronts ranging from early literacy to reduced suspension rates; from restructuring of the schools in a middle-school model to the building of a new middle school, the city’s first new school construction in nearly 40 years.

Mayor Joshua Garcia

“There’s a commitment from the district to continue our turn-around plan so that we don’t untangle any of the work over the past 10 years and go backward.”

That project was achieved despite the extreme challenge of a global pandemic that arrived as progress was building, isolating students and setting the district back several years, in Soto’s estimate, as it went about the work of transforming its schools, while also exacerbating a laundry list of stern societal challenges that have historically taxed students, families, teachers, and administrators alike.

“In a community like Holyoke, the pandemic just hits much harder,” he explained. “This community is already plagued with a high percentage of families living in transition or that are housing-displaced. We have a community living in poverty and with a high level of drug addiction … the things that our students have to go through in the community definitely have an impact when they walk through our doors. It’s hard; this isn’t a walk in the park.”

Garcia agreed, noting that, beyond the accomplishments in the classroom — where there is certainly still room for considerable improvement — Holyoke emerged from receivership by showing it has the commitment and leadership to manage its own schools and not slide back to the conditions that resulted in the state taking control.

“There’s a commitment from the district to continue our turn-around plan so that we don’t untangle any of the work over the past 10 years and go backward, and there’s a commitment from our committee to make sure we stay the course on that turnaround plan and continue the strategies that have achieved the progress we’ve seen,” he said, adding that these factors have enabled the city to earn the state’s trust when it comes to managing its schools.

“The Commonwealth can say, ‘the changes were made, they’re on a good path, they’re showing notable gain, there’s some strong leadership in their form of government,’” he went on. “Those buckets are what allowed the Commonwealth to say, ‘it’s time to transition to local control.’”

“When I first got here, there were 150 kids at Dean, and it was a dumping ground and at risk of closing. We have since invested in Dean and completely brought it to life; we now have over 400 kids attending, with more than 100 on the waitlist.”

For this issue and its focus on education, BusinessWest takes an in-depth look at how the Holyoke school system fell into receivership, how it emerged, and what happens next.

School of Thought

Soto was certainly familiar with Holyoke’s schools when he became the third receiver to oversee the system.

Indeed, he grew up in the city and graduated from Dean Tech High School. After working in Springfield Public Schools for several years, he became the chief of Finance and Operations for the Holyoke schools in 2016, soon after the system went into receivership.

When the first receiver left after more than five years in that role to take a position closer to home in the eastern part of the state, Soto was asked to take on that role, but declined, saying he didn’t think he was ready. But when the second receiver lasted only seven months, he was again asked to step in, and this time accepted the challenge.

And a stern challenge it was. Indeed, Holyoke met the basic criteria for entering receivership — chronic underperformance and not showing any improvement over time — and had the lowest graduation rate in the state and one of the highest drop-out rates.

“The state conducted reviews and determined that there needed to be some serious intervention to fix the systems and make sure there’s a foundation for high-quality instruction and to give our kids a shot,” said Soto, adding that he was working in Springfield when the Holyoke schools went into receivership, but was well aware of the factors that led to that decision.

With receivership, the receiver essentially takes on the duties of both the superintendent and school board, said Soto, which eliminates bureaucracy and politics, but places an enormous amount of power in the hands of one person, which may or may not work out depending on how committed that individual is and how much leadership that office provides.

How Holyoke emerged from receivership a decade later is an intriguing story, one that involves what both Garcia and Soto called a true partnership with the state, and especially with Russell Johnston, the former interim commissioner of ESE, to create a blueprint where none had existed before — and, even more importantly, to follow that blueprint.

“He came to every meeting of the local control subcommittee of the school board to map out a plan, and once we mapped out a plan with clear benchmarks, we executed,” Garcia explained, adding that this execution prompted the state to remove a provisional transition to local control this spring and make it permanent. “We hit our benchmarks, and we did what we said we were going to do.”

That sentiment applies to everything from progress in the classrooms to a capacity-building plan that would assure a smooth transition to local control and enable the city to hit the ground running on July 1, to a commitment to strong, local governance that would hopefully prevent a return to the conditions that put Holyoke in receivership.

As he talked about those improvements registered in the classroom, Soto said there have been many, including curriculum changes, a sharp reduction in drop-out rates, and improvement in graduation rates, attributable to creative efforts to keep students from falling through the cracks.

“Overall, we have shifted our mindset as a district that we are not giving up on our kids and doing everything we can to re-engage them when they are at risk of dropping out,” he said, citing initiatives such as the Opportunity Academy. This is designed for students who are “over-aged and under-credited,” said Soto, adding that, in the past, these students would just drop out, but now they can re-engage through a more personalized path that enables them to attain credits and graduate.

There has also been what he called a revival at his alma mater, Dean Tech. “When I first got here, there were 150 kids at Dean, and it was a dumping ground and at risk of closing,” he told BusinessWest. “We have since invested in Dean and completely brought it to life; we now have over 400 kids attending, with more than 100 on the waitlist.”

Another dramatic change was the restructuring of the city’s schools (accompanied by rezoning), moving away from the long-entrenched K-8 model to a middle-school model, punctuated by the building of the new William R. Peck Middle School, which will serve 550 students across grades 6-8.

Grade Expectations

As he offered BusinessWest a tour of the new facility, where construction crews were working on the finishing touches, Soto said there were certainly some growing pains with the restructuring and rezoning, but those changes are starting to pay dividends.

Garcia agreed, and said the building of Peck, as well as other investments made in city schools, represent a change of tone within Holyoke and provide more evidence that the city is ready, willing, and able to manage its schools.

“The fact that we got unanimous support from the City Council for that project … that never happened before,” he said. “I was on the school board when I was 23, 24 years old. The amount of investment we’re doing in our public school buildings, including building the new middle school, was never done before; it was always ‘let’s kick the can down the road.’ It wasn’t prioritized.”

There are many new priorities, said Soto, citing, among them, professional development and other measures to attract and retain teachers and principals and maintain the strong levels of leadership that helped enable the city’s schools to emerge from receivership.

“One of my theories of action is that, if you have a strong principal and you give them the tools and resources, they need to improve the quality of instruction, which will have an impact on student achievement,” he explained. “We’ve invested heavily in developing our leaders.”

These investments, as well as curriculum changes and other steps, have helped create the “Holyoke way of doing things,” as Soto put it.

“This is how we’re going to get out instruction, these are the teaching strategies we want teachers to use, and when we walk through classrooms, this is what we expect to see,” he explained. “Our leaders have been doing a very good job implementing those practices.”

“One of my theories of action is that, if you have a strong principal and you give them the tools and resources, they need to improve the quality of instruction, which will have an impact on student achievement.”

Looking ahead, Soto and Garcia said the plan is to … well, keep following the blueprint, stay on the path that led to the return of local control, build on what’s been accomplished, and address areas where progress has been elusive, such as MCAS scores.

“We’re starting to hit our stride now,” Soto said. “With students, we have a strong focus on early literacy, our graduation rate is up to 77%, we have strong strategies in place … we’ve invested well over $130 million in our schools. We’ve been working on all those things over the past three years, and we’re finally starting to see some promising data.”

Garcia agreed. “Are we where we want to be right now as far as performance? No, but have we shown incremental gain and progress? Yes,” said the mayor, adding that the right systems and leadership are in place for continued improvement.

Meanwhile, Holyoke’s progress over the past several years, and its eventual emergence from receivership, has caught the attention of the other two school systems still under state control, Garcia said, adding that the School Committee continued to meet every month for 10 years, despite the presence of a receiver, and it also met regularly with the various receivers.

This commitment and level of collaboration does not exist in Lawrence and Southbridge to his knowledge, the mayor noted, adding that this page is one of many that those communities could, and should, take from Holyoke’s playbook.

Or its blueprint. As he said, there wasn’t one for a community emerging from receivership. But now, Holyoke has created one.

Walt Tomala Helps Students Discover Passion for Construction

By Joseph Bednar July 31, 2025

Construction Special Coverage

Spark of Youth

Walt Tomala (center) with apprentices Ben Harrington (left) and Matt Ganhao.

While he was already interested in the construction field, Matt Ganhao had never actually been on a job site before starting a co-op with TNT General Contracting in Westfield, which he procured through the Lower Pioneer Valley Career Technical Education Center, or CTEC.

“I was really excited — it was a new experience for me,” he told BusinessWest. “Once I finally got to work out in the field and actually get to see what goes into building a deck or building stairs, doing a roof, whatever, it really sparked something in my mind that maybe this is something that I want to do. And then, as I kept working my co-op apprenticeship, I decided I want to go full-time.”

That’s music to the ears of Walt Tomala, president of TNT, who has brought a number of teenagers onto job sites for lengthy co-op experiences in order to introduce them to a career path that, both locally and nationally, is in desperate need of young talent, as retirements continue to outpace new workers.

Tomala understands a youthful passion for this work; he started his company right out of high school and has done everything from changing screen doors to large remodels, additions, new homes, and even two Extreme Makeover builds.

“We’ve tried different strategies and different business models,” he explained. “And one that I just kept coming back to is working with our youth. Someone put some time and energy into me and helped me along the way, and if I didn’t have that, I don’t know that I’d be here and still loving the industry the way I do, or as passionate about it.”

“Once I finally got to work out in the field and actually get to see what goes into building a deck or building stairs, doing a roof, whatever, it really sparked something in my mind that maybe this is something that I want to do.”

Ben Harrington will be entering his junior year at Westfield Technical Academy this fall and already has real-world construction experience outside the shop environment at school.

“I just like being out here, working on different things, learning new skills — and I feel like being in this trade is very good for me,” he said, adding that it’s beneficial to learn from both teachers in school and construction professionals on job sites. “It’s good to know multiple people’s ways. If I ask Walt questions, he’ll give me different answers than somebody else, but if I listen to both answers, it helps me a lot. And it feels good knowing I’m doing something right for Walt.”

And that’s one thing Tomala emphasizes with his apprentices — the gratification of a job well done and understanding the why as much as the how.

“We do certain things all day, every day, and it can feel like the same thing over and over. But we take the time and make it our mission to make sure everybody understands why we’re doing this and why it’s so important,” he explained.

“They have to understand the passion that we have,” he went on. “No employee is ever going to be as passionate as you are about your business, but they can be as passionate about the industry. And it may mean they move on and start their own company or become a subcontractor. Or it may mean they just really embrace our beliefs and passions and then stay with us for as long as they choose to. There’s plenty of room for growth.”

Ganhao, who graduated from both West Springfield-based CTEC and Ludlow High School this past spring, is already convinced.

“I don’t really want to go to school and learn a different trade; I did decide that I want to go full-time,” he said. “It’s a new experience, and it’s something that not everyone’s going to like. But if you’re interested in the industry, this is something you should try out.”

Walt Tomala gives some instruction to Ben Harrington on a job site in Westfield.

When he was 16, Tomala said, he didn’t know if this was the industry for him; he needed exposure and experience.

“These young people should have an opportunity to really learn, and not just be kind of barked orders at. They’re full employees, on payroll, and we also teach them the whole finance component — how to open up checking accounts, getting direct deposits. So we’re preparing them for the real world, no matter what they choose to do. And hopefully, it’s construction.”

Desire to Inspire

Tomala has served in leadership with local, state, and national trade organizations, with the overall goal of “just kind of making sure that we’re all doing things the right way, the proper way.”

And building things to code is only the bare minimum, he added. “It’s like graduating with a D. You still pass, but did you do a great job? Our focus is showing everybody that it doesn’t have to be difficult — that it really can be an easy transition to just doing things better. It’s about collaborating with the right manufacturers and the right products and finding the systems that really work for you.”

That philosophy carries over to the way he mentors young people in the field. “I think my message to other builders out there is, take the time; put the energy in. Don’t show them just how to dig a hole, but why we dig that hole and, better yet, the importance of doing it right before we have to dig a hole. Make sure the foundation’s sealed correctly; make sure the roof is put on with all the right underlayments; make sure the windows are taped and sealed.

“Someone put some time and energy into me and helped me along the way, and if I didn’t have that, I don’t know that I’d be here and still loving the industry the way I do, or as passionate about it.”

“I’ve found, throughout my years, that a lot of times, we get some older people in the industry who just wanted to do a job. They didn’t want to learn how. So I sit on the board for three trade schools [Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy in Springfield is the third] because I want these young folks while they’re fresh, while they’re still excited. And the program we implement is, ‘hey, come on board. Come on for the summer; see if you like it. You’re in a trade school right now, but you might not know if this is the industry for you.’”

The backdrop to all these efforts, of course, is a persistent shortage of construction talent, which is why Tomala values apprenticeship.

“It’s not just important; it’s critical. I think we’ve been talking about this as an industry for 15 years,” he said, noting that Fine Homebuilding magazine has a program called Keep the Craft Alive, through which contractors donate funds to help support trade schools and improve their offerings.

“We’re now at a point where most of my subcontractors are going to age out and retire, and we just don’t have enough of the youth understanding how important this industry is, how rewarding it is, and how you can make an extremely good living here,” he said.

Matt Ganhao checks out a residential basement crack.

“It’s not like, ‘oh, you’re a roofer, so you’re only going to get paid so much,’” he went on. “No, there’s a really, really good paycheck at the end of the day, especially when you know what you’re doing and you deliver on the expectations. And that’s why it’s so important to know what the client wants and to be able to deliver on that. I’m not saying it’s the right fit for everybody, but I want to remind the world that the are companies out here taking the reins and giving these young folks an opportunity.”

World of Experience

Tomala said his influence on local young people interested in construction started with visits to the trade schools.

“They wanted someone to come in and talk, to just inspire students overall. And that worked out pretty nicely. I’d spend two hours with the students, and I enjoyed it,” he recalled. “But it wasn’t until after COVID that I was like, you know what? I get to see these kids for a day, but there should be more of a connection, and there should be more of an avenue for them to get to us.

“So I sat down with a lot of the teachers and said, ‘this is what I want to do, this is what I want my business model to be, and is there an opportunity for us to collaborate and to bring students on?’” I also said, ‘I don’t want to stop them from going to other places as well, but I’d like them to have an opportunity to interview with me, to just sit down to see if we’re a good fit or not.’”

“There’s a really, really good paycheck at the end of the day, especially when you know what you’re doing and you deliver on the expectations. And that’s why it’s so important to know what the client wants and to be able to deliver on that.”

He had nothing but praise for the teachers and programs in those schools. “Students are coming out with real knowledge. They’ve got some really great, committed teachers who are getting that curriculum going and inspiring the youth coming through that program.”

Ganhao said his classmates in Ludlow have been curious about his real-world experience.

“I’ve been asked questions like, ‘is that something you’re going to do for the rest of your life? Are you just doing it just for the heck of it? What’s up with that?’ And I feel like kids are missing out on the opportunities,” he said. “I feel like it should be more publicized because a lot of kids do want to try out a trade.”

Tomala it’s easy to become passionate about construction on actual job sites, finishing real projects. He was working with Ganhao and Harrington on a home in Westfield the day they spoke with BusinessWest, repairing a basement leak and replacing windows and shutters; a third apprentice, also from Westfield Technical Academy, wasn’t on the job that day.

“I think it’s rewarding for them to be able to start something and finish it and see that completed project because, often in the school system, they don’t get to complete a project in full,” Tomala noted. “And they’re learning how to work with each other in different skill sets and different personalities. They’re all having such a good time doing it, and it’s just such a good experience overall.

“I want them to form relationships and friendships and to just understand that the client is a human being — everything we do, whether it’s a deck or a whole house, is for somebody else,” he added. “It might be a small project to us, but it’s their entire world at one point in time. So they get that feeling of satisfaction and camaraderie, understanding how important it is to the client.”

And, hopefully, they find a passion they can turn into a career, in a field where young talent remains elusive.

“Just being able to see the customer at the end, satisfied with our work,” Ganhao added, “it’s something else.”

Easthampton Grapples with Growing Pains

By George O'Brien July 31, 2025

Community Spotlight Special Coverage

Community Spotlight

Burns Maxey in the balcony of the second-floor performance space.

An architect’s rendering of the new entrance and elevator at Old Town Hall, home to CitySpace.

Salem Derby says he certainly didn’t see this coming.

Easthampton’s City Council President was at a meeting with Mayor Nicole LaChapelle, executive assistant Lindsi Sekula, and City Solicitor Mark Tanner, expecting conversation about municipal matters, when LaChapelle informed him that she would leaving to become the state’s Conservation and Recreation commissioner. And he would be serving as interim mayor.

“It was a complete surprise, and it was really quick — she said she’d be leaving in six days,” said Derby, an elementary school teacher, adding that he plans to be in City Hall something approaching full time this summer, but will maneuver around his classroom schedule once school starts, working afternoons, weekends, and in the morning if needed.

He’ll only be in the corner office until the November election (he won’t be a candidate for the job), and over the next four and a half months, he plans to provide stability, keep things running “as drama-free and interference-free as possible,” and, well, keep the ball rolling, if you will.

Indeed, Easthampton is a community in demand, and it has been this way for a while now, a pattern that brings with it some opportunities, but also stern challenges, as Derby, who has been on the council for more than 20 years, well knows.

“Housing is huge — the ability for people to find affordable housing is something I’ve been focused on the entire time I’ve been on the council,” he said, adding that the challenge extends across the housing spectrum, from potential homebuyers facing spiraling prices and limited inventory to renters in some of the bigger complexes — many of which have been sold to larger corporations — encountering increases that are pretty significant.

“There was a large group of renters and tenants outside of City Hall yesterday; they had a meeting and a little bit of a rally,” he explained. “There’s a push for the council to help the Legislature push for rent control.”

This housing crunch, and LaChapelle’s exit for the State House, are just two of the many converging story lines in Easthampton. Others include:

• Several projects in various stages of development to bring more housing on the market. These include, as we’ll see, everything from conversion of three closed elementary schools to the reimagining of more former mills;

• The start of redevelopment of the Tasty Top site on Route 10, a highly anticipated and somewhat controversial project that begins with a new Greenfield Savings Bank branch and also includes a gymnastics center, a daycare facility, retail, and a large residential component;

• The start of the second phase of redevelopment of the old Town Hall into CitySpace, what its leaders call a “thriving arts ecosystem.” This phase includes a new entranceway and elevator that will open the door, quite literally, to phase 3, renovations to the second-floor auditorium for concerts and other performances and events;

• New leadership at the Greater Easthampton Chamber of Commerce. Jon Kostek took the helm almost two months ago, and has established goals to continue growing membership; bring more users to WorkHub on Union, a co-working space at the chamber offices that opened roughly a year ago; and make more and better use of digital platforms to promote the chamber and its services, and, hopefully, engage more young business owners;

• Zoning changes to accommodate short-term rentals, a move that brings the community in line with what most other cities and towns have done and helps meet recognized need; and

• Plans for a new music performance venue at the site of a former massage school, an undertaking being spearheaded by the Heavy Culture Cooperative, a project that will, with the nearby CitySpace, create more vibrancy in the downtown area and serve to connect the downtown with the neighboring mills and the cultural activities taking place there.

For this latest installment of its Community Spotlight series, BusinessWest takes an in-depth look at Easthampton and how it continues to be in demand and cope with its growing pains.

Supply and Demand

Allyson Manuel was drawn to Easthampton by its many selling points — a vibrant arts community, an increasingly eclectic downtown area, a small-city feel, recreation, and more.

Formerly town planner in West Springfield, she and her husband settled here five years ago after considering several potential landing spots, and she became the city’s director of Planning and Community Development last December.

She can attest to spiraling home prices and a shortage of inventory, and how this surge is creating challenges.

“There’s a lot of demand. A lot of people want to be here, which is wonderful; it’s clearly indicative of a good quality of life and quality of place,” she told BusinessWest. “But it does come with challenges. Affordability is an issue for anyone looking to buy a house anywhere right now, but especially in Easthampton and Hampshire County.

“So, we’re reckoning with that and also with making sure we’re not pricing out residents that have been here for many, many years,” she went on. “And for the rental market, there’s been quite a pinch.”

“There’s a lot of demand. A lot of people want to be here, which is wonderful; it’s clearly indicative of a good quality of life and quality of place. But it does come with challenges. Affordability is an issue for anyone looking to buy a house anywhere right now, but especially in Easthampton and Hampshire County.”

Indeed, the housing market in the community is exceedingly tight across the board, and both Manuel and Derby hope and expect that the many projects promising to bring a mix of housing will serve to loosen things up a little.

Projects in various stages of development include Growing Green, a rural project just off Main Street, an initiative slowed by an appeal filed by neighbors but still progressing, with the number of planned units reduced from 87 to the mid-60s, said Manuel, adding that another project involves development of more property within the massive Ferry Street complex, specifically Building 11, where 96 units of housing are planned.

An architect’s rendering of the residential component slated to be built on the site of the former Tasty Top on Route 10.

Another initiative involves redevelopment of the former Notre Dame Church and surrounding properties on Pleasant Street into approximately 42 ‘townhouse’ units, said Manuel, adding that several of these units will be in the church itself.

“I think those will be really cool units when they’re done,” she said, adding that other structures on the property will be razed to make way for new construction.

At the 34-acre Tasty Top site, housing (more than 200 planned apartments, a mix of market rate and affordable) is one of many components to a project being undertaken by developer Frank DeMarinis, said Derby, adding that more than 100 units are expected to be created through redevelopment of the three shuttered elementary schools.

These projects and other smaller initiatives are expected to make a real dent in overall need, he went on, and relieve pressure on existing inventory.

“Once all these are completed, I think the amount of housing in Easthampton will increase so significantly that I’m hoping it will make a real impact on affordability and access to quality housing,” the interim mayor said. “I’m hoping this can potentially be a catalyst for people who need affordable housing and maybe take a little pressure of some of the other units in Easthampton.”

Manuel agreed. “We have some challenges ahead of us, absolutely, but we also have a strong foundation that not all communities have to work from,” she said. “We have a lot of social capital — people that live in the city are very involved, they care about their neighbors, they care about the well-being of the city at large. And that goes a long way toward solving these types of problems. I don’t think it will happen overnight, but the fact that people care enough is a really valuable tool to have in the toolbox.”

Art and Soul

As she walked with BusinessWest up to the balcony of the auditorium in the old Town Hall, Burns Maxey gestured with her hand to the space below.

“You can imagine the possibilities,” she said of this space, which has sat idle for the better part of a decade and a half now.

The key to unlocking its full potential as a resource for the community is accessibility, said Maxey, who was honored by BusinessWest with its Difference Makers award in 2023 for her efforts to transform the landmark, opened in 1869, into CitySpace, adding that such access is at the heart of phase 2 of the ongoing project.

Designed by Amherst-based Kuhn Riddle Architects and construction work being handled by West Springfield-based Keiter, the $3.9 million project to build a new entrance and elevator is expected to take about 18 months, said Maxey, adding that, as this initiative is undertaken, a capital campaign continues to raise funds for the third phase.

Jon Kostek says one of his goals for the Greater Easthampton Chamber is growth of its WorkHub on Union.

Backing up a little, she said phase 1 included infrastructure work and conversion of the ground floor into an arts hub, with performance space (an area called the Blue Room) and several tenants, including Big Red Frame, a gallery, and Easthampton City Arts, the arts organization within the city’s Planning Department.

Phase 2 has been in the planning stages for several years and was delayed somewhat by bids for construction that came in higher than originally anticipated. With additional support in the form of an underutilized properties grant from MassDevelopment, the agency went out to bid again, with Keiter prevailing.

Easthampton at a Glance

Year Incorporated: 1785
Population: 16,211
Area: 13.6 square miles
County: Hampshire
Residential Tax Rate: $13.67
Commercial Tax Rate: $13.67
Median Household Income: $45,185
Median Family Income: $54,312
Type of Government: Mayor, City Council
Largest Employers: Berry Plastics Corp., INSA, Williston Northampton School, National Nonwovens Co.

The new entranceway and elevator have been designed to provide access, but also preserve the architectural and historic integrity of the building, said Maxey, including the staircases at the front of the structure, which is similar in many ways to Chicopee’s City Hall and designed by the same architect, Charles Parker.

As for phase 3, the projected cost is expected to approach $7 million, said Maxey, adding that work covers a wide spectrum, including the ceiling, lighting, sound baffling, asbestos remediation, sprinkler and fire suppression systems, bathroom renovations, creation of a green room and offices, and more.

Fundraising continues, and the stated goal is certainly a challenge, but Maxey is confident that the community will continue to support the initiative.

“We have a ways to go — we’re about halfway there,” she conceded, adding that the overall price tag for the project has soared from roughly $6 million to more than $11 million, mostly due to inflation and rising construction costs.

Once funding is secured, she believes phase 3 can be completed in perhaps 18 months, ushering in the next chapter in the story of CitySpace.

Making Connections

As for next chapters, the Easthampton chamber is writing itself, with Kostek taking the helm after long-time executive director Moe Belliveau stepped down earlier this year.

Kostek said he was looking for a new challenge after his position with the United States Tennis Assoc. New England was eliminated.

He said his work at the USTA, much of it focused program development for young people, is similar to his new role at the chamber in that they both involve relationship building.

“One of the things I liked most about my work with USTA was meeting people and developing relationships, and I think a lot of these same things apply here, at the chamber … meeting with members and discussing with them what the chamber offers and what we can do moving forward.”

Kostek said he’s spent much of the time since his arrival getting to know the community, meeting with his members, and gauging what they like, dislike, and want more of.

In that last category are face-to-face networking opportunities, he said, adding that he plans to add such events, including After-5s and more Coffee and Connections events at the WorkHub, to the calendar.

Also on his to-do list is growing overall membership and especially membership for WorkHub on Union. The facility has attracted only a few regular users to date, he said, adding that he plans to more aggressively market it across multiple platforms to get the word out.

“It’s a great space, and I think there is a real need for facilities like this,” he said, noting that there are several workstations, as well as a shared conference room, kitchen, and other facilities. “And it’s open 24/7.”

Senior Resources

By Contributor July 31, 2025

Senior Planning

These Nonprofits Can Help Families with Care Planning

These regional and statewide nonprofits can help families make decisions and access resources related to elder care planning.

AARP Massachusetts
1 Beacon St., #2301, Boston, MA 02108
(866) 448-3621;
states.aarp.org/region/massachusetts
Administrator: Mike Festa
Services: AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, social-welfare organization with a membership of nearly 38 million that advocates for the issues that matter to families, such as healthcare, employment and income security, and protection from financial abuse

Access Care Partners
4 Valley Mill Road, Holyoke, MA 01040
(413) 538-9020; www.accesscarepartners.org
Administrator: Roseann Martoccia
Services: Provides an array of in-home and community services to support independent living; interdisciplinary team approach to person-centered care; information, referrals, and options counseling as well as volunteer opportunities available; primary service area includes Holyoke, Chicopee, Granby, South Hadley, Belchertown, Ludlow, and Ware, as well as other surrounding communities

The Conversation Project and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
53 State St., 19th Floor, Boston, MA 02109
(617) 301-4800; www.theconversationproject.org
Administrator: Kate DeBartolo
Services: The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care; its team includes five seasoned law, journalism, and media professionals who are working pro bono alongside professional staff from the Instititute for Healthcare Improvement

Elder Services of Berkshire County Inc.
877 South St., Suite 4E, Pittsfield, MA 01201
(413) 499-0524; www.esbci.org
Administrator: Christopher McLaughlin
Services: Identifies and addresses priority needs of Berkshire County seniors; services include information and referral, care management, respite care, homemaker and home health assistance, healthy-aging programs, and MassHealth nursing home pre-screening; agency also offers housing options, adult family care, group adult foster care, long-term-care ombudsman, and money management, and oversees the Senior Community Service Aide Employment Program

Estate Planning Council of Hampden County
www.estateplan-hc.org
Administrator: Christopher McLaughlin
Services: Provides a forum for current, accurate, and authoritative information with regard to estate and financial planning; council members are life-insurance professionals, bankers, fiduciaries, lawyers, accountants, planned-giving professionals, and other financial-service providers engaged in the planning, settlement, and management of estates

Greater Springfield Senior Services Inc.
66 Industry Ave., Suite 9,
Springfield, MA 01104
(413) 781-8800; www.gsssi.org
Administrator: Jill Keough
Services: Private, nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining quality of life for older adults, caregivers, and people with disabilities, through programs and services that foster independence, dignity, safety, and peace of mind; services include case management, home care, home-delivered meals, senior community dining, money management, congregate housing, and adult day care

Highland Valley Elder Services
320 Riverside Dr.,
Florence, MA 01062
(413) 586-2000;
www.highlandvalley.org
Administrator: Allan Ouimet
Services: Services include care management, information/referral services, family caregiver program, personal emergency-response service, protective Services, home-health services, chore Services, nursing-home ombudsman Services, adult day programs, elder-care advice, bill-payer services, options counseling, respite Services, representative payee services, local dining centers, personal-care and homemaker Services, and home-delivered meals

LifePath
101 Munson St., Suite 201, Greenfield, MA 01301
(413) 773-5555; www.lifepathma.org
Administrator: Gary Yuhas
Services: LifePath, formerly Franklin County Home Care Corp., an area agency on aging, is a private, nonprofit corporation that develops, provides, and coordinates a range of services to support the independent living of elders and people with disabilities with a goal of independence; it also supports caregivers, including grandparents raising grandchildren

Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs
1 Ashburton Place, Unit 517,
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 727-7750;
www.mass.gov/elders
Administrator: Robin Lipson
Services: Connects seniors and families with a range of services, including senior centers, councils on aging, nutrition programs such as Meals on Wheels, exercise, health coaching, and more; supports older adults who may be somewhat frail through programs in nursing homes, such as the ombudsman program, volunteers who visit residents, and quality-improvement initiatives in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities; caregiver programs offer support to people with mild Alzheimer’s disease or those caring for someone with more advanced Alzheimer’s

MassOptions
(844) 422-6277;
www.massoptions.org
Administrator: Dr. Kiame Mahaniah
Services: A service of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, MassOptions connects elders, individuals with disabilities, and their caregivers with agencies and organizations that can best meet their needs; staff can also assist with determining eligibility for and applying to MassHealth

VA Central and Western Massachusetts Healthcare System
421 North Main St., Leeds, MA 01053
(413) 584-4040;
www.centralwesternmass.va.gov
Administrator: Jonathan Kerr
Services: Provides primary, specialty, and mental-health care, including psychiatric, substance-abuse, and PTSD Services, to a veteran population in Central and Western Massachusetts of more than 120,000 men and women

Picture This

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

Picture This

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Community Support

Michael Rouette (pictured at right), executive vice president and chief operating officer of Monson Savings Bank, recently presented a $2,000 donation to Robin (center) and Kerry Plourde, co-founders of Whip City Animal Sanctuary, on behalf of the bank. Whip City Animal Sanctuary was selected as a recipient of a donation from Monson Savings Bank after securing a spot in the top 10 of the bank’s 2025 Community Giving Initiative. The Westfield-based nonprofit was established in 2020 to provide long-term care for surrendered, neglected, and abused farm animals.

Michael Rouette (pictured at right), executive vice president and chief operating officer of Monson Savings Bank, recently presented a $2,000 donation to Robin (center) and Kerry Plourde, co-founders of Whip City Animal Sanctuary, on behalf of the bank.

‘Echoes of Heritage’

Rocky’s Ace Hardware recently helped bring to life a vibrant new mural supporting cultural pride in downtown Springfield. “Echoes of Heritage,” a celebration of Latino culture and community, was created on June 28 on the side of Downtown Supermarket at 121 Spring St. Led by Dominican artist Pedro Veras and organized by the 7 Arts Latino Foundation, the mural was a one-day collaboration involving local students, families, and community sponsors.

Pictured, from left: Veras; Cheyenne Protz of Rocky’s Ace Hardware; Jorge Martínez, president and executive director of the 7 Arts Latino Foundation; and Luis Pedro of Rocky’s Ace Hardware.

Driving Food Security

Representatives from Hyundai Motor America recently visited Holyoke Community College (HCC) to deliver a $5,000 check to benefit the college’s food pantry. This is the fifth consecutive year Hyundai Motor America has donated to the HCC food pantry, bringing its total donations to $32,150. This is in addition to donations made by Gary Rome, owner of Gary Rome Hyundai and a member of the HCC Foundation board of directors, who brought the college’s Thrive Center and its food pantry to the attention of the Hyundai corporate offices in California.

Representatives from Hyundai Motor America recently visited Holyoke Community College (HCC) to deliver a $5,000 check to benefit the college’s food pantry.

People on the Move

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

People on the Move

Alissa Fuller

Florence Bank announced it recently presented its 2025 Community Support Award to Alissa Fuller, a Compliance and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) officer since 2022. The Community Support Award was established by the bank in 1997 as a means of formally recognizing team members who are active in the community and give their personal and professional time to local nonprofit organizations. Each year, the award recipient selects an organization of his or her choice, and the bank donates $500 to that organization on the recipient’s behalf. Fuller chose to support the Care Center in Holyoke because she applauds its mission. She supports many other nonprofits in the region with her time, serving on the advisory council for the Ronald McDonald House of Springfield and as a volunteer for the Amherst Survival Center, the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, and Community Action Pioneer Valley, where she assists with tax preparation. Fuller has 25 years of banking experience and has served in other roles, including Loan Operations manager. She oversees Florence Bank’s overall compliance program and ensures adherence to federal and state regulations as well as the CRA regulation, which requires the bank to meet the credit needs within the communities it serves, particularly in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. She has an associate degree in business administration from New England College of Business and Finance. In 2022, she obtained fair lending expert certification from Tuscan Club University.

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Julie Quink

Forbes has produced its inaugural America’s Best-in-State CPAs list, a compilation of the finest CPAs active in public practice. Those nominated were rated on a range of weighted criteria, including expertise, innovation, thought leadership, experience, and service to the community and to their profession. In the inaugural edition, there were 18 CPAs chosen in Massachusetts, with Julie Quink as one of those identified in the Western Mass. region. Quink is the managing principal of Burkhart Pizzanelli. She joined the firm in 2011 and has more than 34 years of experience in public accounting and three years of private corporate accounting experience. She is involved in the accounting and consulting aspects of the practice and manages engagements of various sizes and complexities. She also performs services related to forensic and fraud-related engagements. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Assoc. of Certified Fraud Examiners. She is licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a certified fraud examiner. She earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Elms College. Quink serves as a member of the Baystate Health board of trustees, treasurer of the Quaboag Hills Chamber of Commerce, treasurer of Square One, chairperson of the school committee of Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School, a member of the finance committee of the East Quabbin Land Trust, chairperson of the board of directors for Greater Springfield Senior Services Inc., treasurer of Hardwick Rescue & Emergency Squad Inc., and treasurer of the Estate Planning Council of Hampden County. She is an adjunct faculty member in the MBA accounting program at Elms College and also serves as a trustee of Monson Savings Bank.

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After five years of service, Roberta Wilmore has resigned from her role as executive director of Make-It Springfield. Wilmore joined Make-It as its first executive director in the spring of 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She led the organization through an uncertain and challenging time and played a key role in overseeing the expansion to a new home on Bridge Street. To support the organization during this period of transition, the board has engaged Julien Abramson, an experienced organizational consultant, to provide interim support and assist Make-It in preparing for its next phase of leadership. Make-It Springfield is a community-focused art and creative center and collaborative maker space located at 286 Bridge St. in downtown Springfield. It is dedicated to providing a supportive environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and hands-on community collaboration.

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Katherine von Haefen

The Berkshire United Way (BUW) board of directors has appointed Katherine von Haefen, the organization’s director of Community Impact, as interim president and CEO. Von Haefen, who assumes this position following the departure of Tom Bernard, will retain her current responsibilities. The appointment is effective immediately and will continue to be interim while the board assesses the ongoing needs of the organization. von Haefen joined BUW as director of Community Impact in October 2021. In this role, she develops and leads region-wide convenings on topics including early childcare and early childhood education, food security, and more. She also leads BUW’s $1 million annual investment strategy for Berkshire nonprofits and played an integral role in developing the organization’s current strategic plan. She serves on the city of Pittsfield’s Preschool Partnership Leadership Committee, the Massachusetts Early Childhood Funder Collaborative steering committee, and the Berkshire Area Health Education Center board. von Haefen brings a wealth of relevant experience to the job and provides important continuity to the organization’s current efforts. She came to BUW following a 20-plus-year career at United Way of Greater Houston (UWGH), where she served as mission and strategy manager. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College and a master’s in social work from the University of Houston.

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Judy Taylor

bankESB recently promoted Judy Taylor to commercial credit analyst officer, based at its 241 Northampton St., Easthampton office. Taylor has 14 years of banking experience. She joined bankESB in 2021 as a commercial credit analyst II and was promoted to commercial credit analyst III in 2024. Before joining the bank, she was a KPMG auditor, worked at State Street Bank as an accounting officer, and worked at Bank of America (formerly Fleet Bank) as a manager in the Financial Analysis and Reporting department. She was also employed for 20 years in various roles by the Holyoke Public Schools, with her most recent title being the district’s Communications director. In her new role, she will be underwriting bankESB’s most complex commercial loan requests, mentoring other analysts, and ensuring overall safety and soundness of the commercial portfolio. Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in business management with a focus in accounting from Westfield State University and a master’s degree from Lesley University. She also holds a CPA license and attended the Massachusetts Bankers School of Commercial Lending, earning a certificate in credit analysis. She is a longtime volunteer for the Our Lady of the Valley weekend meals program and a member of the Southampton Cultural Council.

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Xiomara Albán DeLobato

Xiomara Albán DeLobato has been elected to the board of directors of New England Public Media (NEPM). As vice president and chief of staff for the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council, Albán DeLobato is instrumental in facilitating the growth and development of the region’s economy, focusing on the industry sector and workforce development. She has held leadership roles at UMass Amherst, Elms College, Springfield College, and the University of New Hampshire, and has worked with the offices of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno and U.S. Rep. Richard Neal. In addition to her work with NEPM, Albán DeLobato will continue to serve on various boards and committees throughout Western Mass., including the UMass Amherst campus council, Girls Inc. of the Valley, Veritas Prep Charter School in Springfield, Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District’s diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, and the Wilbraham Finance Committee. She is also a governor-appointed board member of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and board member of the Supplier Diversity Office. She holds a bachelor’s degree in international affairs and Spanish from the University of New Hampshire and a MBA from Elms College.

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Dr. Scott Lichtenberger

Baystate Health announced the appointment of Dr. Scott Lichtenberger as its new chief operating officer. He started in that role on July 14. As COO, Lichtenberger is responsible for overseeing health system operations across Baystate Health, with direct accountability for hospital operations, nursing leadership, quality, patient safety, and systemwide operational performance. He will partner closely with senior leaders to guide operational discipline, promote a strong culture of engagement, and ensure high-quality, financially sustainable care across the organization. Lichtenberger joins Baystate Health with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare leadership. Most recently, he served as a principal in EY-Parthenon’s healthcare practice, where he led enterprise-level integration and redesign initiatives for academic medical centers and large regional health systems. His work focused on developing scalable and sustainable operational models that improved care delivery, enhanced efficiency, and drove organizational growth. Previously, Lichtenberger held senior leadership roles at Centura Health, including chief transformation officer and president of the Physician Enterprise. He has also served as partner at McKinsey & Company and chief strategy officer at University of Colorado Health. He earned his doctor of medicine degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in gastroenterology at Yale University. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Northwestern University.

Company Notebook

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

Company Notebook

Arrha Credit Union to Merge with BrightBridge Credit Union

SPRINGFIELD — Arrha Credit Union and BrightBridge Credit Union announced their intent to merge. BrightBridge will be the continuing credit union following the merger. This strategic partnership is based on a mutual commitment to people-first values, competitive financial offerings, and community engagement, credit unions stated. With this merger, BrightBridge will expand its field of membership to include Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties in Massachusetts, and Hartford and Tolland counties in Connecticut. Pending regulatory and member approvals, the combined credit union will operate 23 branches across Southern New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Eastern Connecticut, and provide access to shared branching nationwide. Together, they will serve approximately 125,000 members and manage nearly $2.4 billion in assets.

Eastern States Exposition Reports Economic Impact

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Eastern States Exposition (ESE) attracts about 3 million people to its grounds in West Springfield annually, across its bustling calendar of more than 120 year-round events. This count includes the 1.6 million fairgoers that attend the Big E, the fourth-largest fair in North America. ESE is a not-for-profit organization committed to providing patrons with quality entertainment and preserving the agriculture and culture of the region. A study conducted by Regional Economic Models Inc. (REMI) of Amherst found that ESE’s economic impact on Hampden County was $235 million in gross regional product (GRP), and its larger footprint across New England and New York equaled a record-breaking $1.167 billion in 2024. The study revealed that ESE creates 8,085 jobs across New England and New York; 60.8% of all jobs created went to individuals without a college degree, 5,646 jobs were filled by individuals in the bottom 20% of income earners, and 1,310 jobs created across the region supported Hispanic employment. Employment growth was observed across all races, income levels, and education groups. Since 1995, when the Big E first expanded from 12 to 17 days, ESE has donated 1% of its annual gross revenue to the town of West Springfield each year to build and bolster the Eastern States Exposition-West Springfield Trust. Local organizations are welcome to apply for grants through the trust for community betterment and enrichment efforts. In 2024, 26 groups benefited from the trust, including sports teams, food rescues, and cultural centers. ESE’s overall contributions, including a sizable donation of $370,970 made on June 12 of this year, now total $5,425,220. ESE receives no state or federal tax revenue to support its operations and relies upon the support of its visitors.

Country Bank Opens New Branch in Longmeadow

LONGMEADOW — Country Bank opened its newest banking center, located at 919 Shaker Road in Longmeadow, on July 28, with grand opening festivities planned for the week of Sept. 8. Melissa Stefanowich, assistant vice president and Retail Banking officer, will oversee the new branch. To kick off the opening of the bank’s 15th location, customers and community members visiting the Longmeadow banking center between July 28 and Aug. 15 can enter a drawing to win four field box tickets to the Red Sox game on Saturday, Aug. 30 at Fenway Park. The ribbon cutting ceremony will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 11 a.m.

T-Birds Recognized with Award for Digital Media

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Thunderbirds received more recognition during the American Hockey League’s 2025 Awards Gala on Jul. 10 in Hilton Head Island, S.C. After previously capturing league honors for the Marketing Department of the Year and Most Unique Social Media Content, the Thunderbirds’ digital media team was recognized as the Eastern Conference Award of Excellence recipient for Digital Media. The department has excelled with a fully in-house strategy blending creativity, consistency, and a strong brand identity. Each of the team’s 36 home games features a unique campaign built around a cohesive, season-long look, incorporating bold visuals and local imagery, with efforts spanning digital, print, radio, billboards, and social media. The team also unveiled a new-look website and mobile app to their fans during the 2024-25 season. The Thunderbirds’ Social Media department also earned leaguewide recognition during the 2024-25 season, most noticeably by winning the award for Most Unique Social Media Content. The honor stemmed from the team’s inventive response to a shipping mishap that sent their Teddy Bear Toss jerseys to Germany by mistake. Turning an unfortunate situation into an opportunity, the social media team showcased that agility and creativity are sometimes the most powerful tools in a successful strategy.

AIC Designated Early College Program with Duggan, SEZP

SPRINGFIELD — American International College (AIC), in partnership with the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP), has been designated as a Massachusetts Early College Program by the state’s joint Early College Committee. The AIC-SEZP partnership is one of 18 new Early College programs announced by the Healey-Driscoll administration. AIC is the only private college west of Worcester to receive this designation. Beginning this fall, the program will launch in partnership with Duggan Academy in Springfield with a wall-to-wall model in which every student participates. Students will have the opportunity to earn up to 60 college credits at no cost before graduating from high school. Courses will include MassTransfer-eligible credits and focus on high-growth, high-wage fields such as health sciences, education, and criminal justice. Early College programs are a central element of the administration’s Reimagining High School initiative to prepare students for college or careers and expand access for those historically underrepresented in higher education. The new AIC-Duggan Academy program builds on a long-standing partnership between the two institutions. Through earlier collaborations, Duggan students have already earned AIC college credits with strong pass rates, and college matriculation among participants has continued to grow. The new program is designed to build on that success and help even more students access college by removing common barriers. Key program features include personalized support, including small cohorts, academic coaching, and dedicated advisors for multi-lingual and exceptional learners; advising to promote executive functioning and college readiness; culturally responsive teaching and staffing to reflect and support the student population; and universal access, with 100% of Duggan students participating regardless of prior academic performance.

WNE Awarded Grant to Help

Families Reduce Energy Costs

SPRINGFIELD — West Springfield families will benefit from a new partnership between Western New England University (WNE) College of Engineering and Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity (GSHFH) that uses drone and AI technology to identify heat loss and implement energy-saving home retrofits — at no cost to qualifying residents. This partnership is possible thanks to a $149,700 EmPower Massachusetts grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Through this initiative, the team will conduct thermographic assessments to detect heat loss in the homes of low-income families in West Springfield. Principal investigator (PI) Yu Hou and co-PI Steven Li will lead efforts using drones equipped with thermal cameras to create thermographic models. They will apply artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to analyze and quantify heat loss, simulate building energy consumption, and generate automated retrofitting plans. WNE will work with GSHFH to implement these plans for selected families. Students can use local homes as case studies, integrating building energy simulation and tools like building information modeling into their coursework.

Bulkley Richardson

Named a Legacy Law Firm

SPRINGFIELD — Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly released its inaugural list of Legacy Law Firms, spotlighting firms that have not merely survived but thrived for 25 years or more years. According to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, “Firms range in size from three lawyers to hundreds of attorneys, but all have weathered economic shifts, technological transformations, and an evolving legal landscape while maintaining a core commitment to client service.” Bulkley Richardson’s profile, as prepared by a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly staff writer, noted the firm’s size (39 attorneys) and commitment to talent acquisition, workplace culture, and commitment to the local community. The publication also praised the firm’s longevity and strategic positioning, delivering service quality comparable to major national practices, but also the personalized attention and long-term relationships characteristic of boutique practices.

HCC Awarded $423,190 for

TRIO Student Support Program

HOLYOKE — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Holyoke Community College (HCC) a TRIO Student Support Services grant of $423,190 to improve college retention and graduation rates among low-income, first-generation students, and students with disabilities. This award, which runs through June 2026, marks the continuation of more than 30 years of TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) services at HCC. Since 1993, the program has served thousands of HCC students, helping them stay in school, earn degrees, and build meaningful careers. SSS is one of eight federal TRIO programs funded under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to remove social, academic, and cultural barriers to higher education. Since its inception in 1968, TRIO SSS has helped millions of low-income, first-generation students graduate from college and contribute to their communities and the economy. Through individualized services including academic tutoring, financial aid, scholarship guidance, career exploration, personal and academic counseling, and mentoring, TRIO SSS empowers students to overcome barriers to success. These comprehensive supports make it significantly more likely that students will complete their degrees or successfully transfer with the lowest possible debt. Nationally, the TRIO SSS program has a proven track record. According to a 2019 evaluation by the U.S. Department of Education, students in TRIO SSS at two-year institutions were 48% more likely to earn an associate degree or transfer to a four-year school, and students at four-year institutions were 18% more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree compared to similar peers not in the program.

Yonder Community Toy Shop

Opens in Easthampton

EASTHAMPTON — For Danielle Curry’s vision of a child-centered, sensory-inspired, and creative art studio comes alive at Yonder Community Toy Shop and Rec Room, where she offers enriching toys, puzzles, and treasures to purchase and test in a drop-in play studio. The studio can be booked for celebrations, creative workshops, play therapy, homeschool groups, and more. Curry, who brought her idea of a toy store and drop-in play studio to the Greater Easthampton Chamber of Commerce’s Co.Starters entrepreneur program in 2024, spent nine weeks honing her business model among like-minded peers. The program, brought to the city by Mayor Nicole LaChapelle and the Chamber of Commerce, takes individuals interested in starting their own businesses from idea generation to ready-to-market skills. The program is supported by local professionals, lending institutions, and program graduates. Yonder Toy Shop Play & Party Studio, located at 186 Northampton St., Unit E, is open for drop-in play and reservations. Call (413) 203-1168 or visit www.yondertoyshop.com for more information.

DPI ‘Hey Neighbor!’ Campaign

Announces 10 Awardees

PITTSFIELD — Downtown Pittsfield Inc. (DPI), with funding from MassDevelopment’s Transformative Development Initiative (TDI), has launched a “Hey Neighbor!” marketing campaign to spotlight and support downtown storefront businesses through social media and coordinated cinema and radio marketing campaigns. This grant-funded program awarded marketing grants to 10 for-profit businesses in downtown Pittsfield. There were four awards for businesses with one to three employees, three awards for businesses with four to nine employees, and three awards for businesses with 10 or more employees. The businesses awarded marketing grants are Brazzucas Market, Berkshire Nautilus, Espetinho Carioca, Hot Plate Brewing Co., Marie’s North Street Eatery and Gallery, Methuselah Bar and Lounge, McNinch Restaurant Group, Otto’s Kitchen & Comfort, Thistle ’n Thorn Floral, and WANDER Berkshires. These grantees will receive custom video ads displayed before films at the Beacon Cinema and radio advertisements aired on WUPE/WBEC FM. The “Hey Neighbor!” marketing campaign aims to drive foot traffic, build community awareness, and showcase the diverse stories of Pittsfield’s small business community.

Hometown Mortgage Secures

Nearly $1.5 Million in Grants

EASTHAMPTON — Hometown Mortgage recently announced it had helped more than 50 low- and moderate-income families across Massachusetts and neighboring states buy homes through securing nearly $1.5 million in grants from homeownership programs in 2025. Hometown Mortgage helped borrowers secure more than $1 million in grants from three programs funded by FHLBank Boston. The Equity Builder, Housing Our Workforce, and Lift Up Homeownership programs provided grants of $25,000 to $50,000 to qualifying borrowers to help with down payments, closing costs, or home improvements once purchased. In addition, Hometown Mortgage set aside $200,000 for its own Special Purpose Credit grant program, providing grants of up to $10,000 to income-eligible borrowers purchasing homes in select areas of Springfield, Holyoke, and Worcester.

Holyoke Art Joins Art Pharmacy

to Provide Mental Health Support

HOLYOKE — Holyoke Art has officially joined Art Pharmacy, a groundbreaking arts and healthcare initiative designed to improve mental health and emotional well-being through non-clinical, creative experiences. As a new regional provider in this statewide network, Holyoke Art will offer referred patients joyful, expressive sessions like paint flinging in the Splatery and guided art classes, all at no cost to participants. Art Pharmacy, launched in Georgia in 2022 and now expanded to Massachusetts through a partnership with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Mass General Brigham, allows healthcare professionals to prescribe up to 12 creative experiences per year to patients experiencing anxiety, depression, loneliness, or chronic stress. Participants are supported by a trained care navigator who helps tailor their experiences and tracks progress using tools like the PHQ-9 and WHO Well-being Index. At Holyoke Art, that prescription may look like an unstructured session of color chaos in the Splatery, a space where participants throw paint at canvases, walls, and each other, or a welcoming art class designed to foster connection, confidence, and play. Patients are referred by a healthcare provider, social worker, or mental health counselor. A care navigator follows up to ensure consistency, accessibility, and trackable outcomes. There’s no cost to the participant. Holyoke Art will begin hosting referred sessions this summer. Interested providers or organizations can contact Art Pharmacy at [email protected] to learn how to participate.

Incorporations

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

Incorporations

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

AGAWAM

UKW Consulting Inc., 267 Rowley St., Agawam, MA 01001. Uhia Willis, same. Business consulting to individuals and businesses.

BELCHERTOWN

Advanced Mechanical Services Inc., 388 Rockrimmon St., Belchertown, MA 01007. Sergio Laneiro, 388 Rockrimmon St., Belchertown, MA 01007. Heating, air conditioning, general contracting, and related services.

CHICOPEE

Everything Window Tint Inc., 450B New Ludlow Road, Chicopee, MA 01020. Victor Delgado, same. Automotive, commercial, and residential window tint and vinyl wrap.

Tony’s Ice Cream Inc., 456 Front St., Chicopee, MA 01013. Youssef Abdelhalim, 36 Chestnut Court, Amherst, MA 01002. Ice cream shop.

EAST BROOKFIELD

Ram Associates Corp., 103 Lakeview Ave., East Brookfield, MA 01515. Roland Messier III, same. Business of insurance loss estimating, consulting, and adjusting.

EASTHAMPTON

Unreconciled Project Inc., 14 Garfield Ave., Easthampton, MA 01027. Jay Sefton, same. Facilitates storytelling workshops, peer support groups, and public forums with leading experts on the issue of childhood sexual abuse.

EAST LONGMEADOW

The Proper Stagg Environmental Group, 75 North Main St., East Longmeadow, MA 01028. Joseph Croteau, 94 Meadowbrook Road, East Longmeadow, MA 01028. Utilizes special decomposition technology in furtherance of decarbonization, including waste reduction, and implements environmentally friendly fertilization processes to produce clean, renewable energy, while working with rehabilitative incarceration and other programs to provide job opportunities.

GREAT BARRINGTON

Pryjma Petals Inc., 301 Monument Valley Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Britta Schellenberg, same. Functions as a flower farm and offers gardening services to private clients and corporations.

HOLYOKE

Racing Mart TJ Inc., 181 West Franklin St., Holyoke, MA 01040. Tejas Patel, 77 Grover St., Springfield, MA 01104. Gas station and convenience store.

LONGMEADOW

C4 Thrive Real Estate Advisory Corp., 24 Greenwich Road, Longmeadow, MA 01106. Jessica Cullinan, 817 Williams St., Longmeadow, MA 01106. Provides property management services and expert consulting to landlords and groups of landlords who lack the resources to hire professional management, and offers guidance for individuals seeking to purchase or manage real estate.

Valley River Anesthesia Inc., 91 Knollwood Circle, Longmeadow, MA 01106. Ashley Weiss, same. Nursing and anesthesia services.

NORTHAMPTON

George Gyro Corp., 80 Main St., Northampton, MA 01060. Aycan Guzel, same. Restaurant and food service.

PITTSFIELD

Chelten Benefits Group Agency Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. John Kelly, same. Insurance sales.

Joseph’s Paintworks Inc., 79 Maplewood Ave., Apt. 2, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Joseph Buffoni, same. Provides services and materials as a painting contractor for residential and commercial projects.

Linate Coffee Enterprises Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Nathaniel Cox, 130 Mill Lane, York, ME 03909. Retail coffee shop specializing in the preparation and sale of coffee, tea, specialty beverages, baked goods, and light food items.

Plum Identity Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Jon Coss, same. Software as a service.

Searle & Co. Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Robert Searle, same. Investment advisory services.

Waltham Pride Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Nicholas Hammond, 210 Lake St., Waltham, MA 02451. Organizes and hosts LGBTQ+ pride events in Waltham.

SOUTHWICK

The Episcopal Community Church in Southwick, 488 College Highway, Southwick, MA 01077. Susan Porter, 9 Falmouth Road, Southwick, MA 01077. Public place of worship.

SPRINGFIELD

Natalie Express Inc., 23 Powell Ave., Springfield, MA 01118. Ruslan Yuzik, same. Trucking services.

Spark Trading LB Inc., 235 Chestnut St., Unit 15, Springfield, MA 01103. Abdillahi Hussein, same. Auto parts sales.

Tienda Guatemala el Quetzal Inc., 2625B Main St., Springfield, MA 01107. Elvia Morales, same. Convenience store.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Homehaven Renovation Inc., 15 Oleander St., West Springfield, MA 01089. Oleksandr Pasichnyi, same. Residential renovations.

WILBRAHAM

Falcon Exterior Cleaning Inc., 50 Decorie Dr., Wilbraham, MA 01095. Robert McDonald, same. Power washing of homes and businesses.

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

DBA Certificates

The following business certificates and/or trade names were issued or renewed during the month of July 2025.

BELCHERTOWN

Arbour Home Solutions
121 Stebbins St.
David Arbour

Avis Realty
31 Pondview Circle
Elizabeth Davis

Kelly Kreative Designs
175 Warner St.
Deborah Kelly

NORTHAMPTON

All About You a Salon
72 Dunphy Dr.
Ann Michon

Baer-Leighton
123 Meadow St.
Jacqueline Leighton

Be Free Acupuncture
17 New South St., Suite 108
Raili Raud

Care Grieve Heal
50 Laurel Park
Kathryn Nebel Murri

Classic Colonial Homes Inc.
123 Meadow St.
Jacqueline Leighton

Cochrane Dental Associates LLC
264 Elm St., Suite 11
Dr. Rebecca Cochrane

CopyCat
241 King St.
Amanda Shafii

Custom Metal Fabrication
40 Audubon Road
Mark Day

English on the Mind
11 Munroe St., Apt. B
Christina Lorimer

Firestone Complete Auto Care
327 King St.
Mark Loftis

Fresh Paint Co.
56 Crestview Dr.
Stephen Drenen

Gentle Bee Veterinary Acupuncture
34 Rustlewood Ridge
Christina White

Inti Spaces
62 Middle St.
Stefan Fabry

Jersey Mike’s #16058
303 King St., Suite A
Christina Troche

Jewish Online Counseling
10 Bancroft Road
Shmuel Kravitsky

Jonathan Dubinsky Handyman Services
496 Elm St.
Jonathan Dubinsky

Mochi Noho
96 Main St.
Xinwen Chen

One, Two, Tug!
266 Grove St., Apt. 22
Eli upcich

Pangaea Sushi
330 North King St.
Su Su Min Aung

Piccolo Stitchworks
82 Maple St.
Nicole Newell

The Pudgy Blue Pig
221 Pine St., Studio 461
Dorin Rufer, Antonia Rufer

Reed Sparrow
35 Clark St.
Angela Arahood

Scrappy Do Excavating
284 Sylvester Road
Michael Samson

Bankruptcies

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

Bankruptcies

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

Bayar, Michael Y.
51 Craig Dr., Apt. V-1
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/24/2025

Beth, Gassnola Marie
a/k/a Gassnola, Beth M.
15 Ashmont St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/30/2025

Bibeau, Scott R.
PO Box 124
Gilbertville, MA 01031
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/20/2025

Cruz, Maria J.
64 Cleveland St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Davis, Javone Markis
60 Cedar St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/20/2025

Davis, Leyasia T.
94 Chicopee St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/26/2025

Delgado, Carmen I.
19 Beacon Circle
Springfield, MA 01119
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/16/2025

Di Liddo, Darin Kent
327 South St.
Barre, MA 01005
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/25/2025

Dickinson, Vera Elaine
141 Meeting House Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/25/2025

Esteves, Jessica A.
193 East Road
Orange, MA 01364
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/26/2025

Estrella-Vega, Luis
141 Shawmut St.
Springfield, MA 01108-2964
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/17/2025

Gonzalez Aponte, Sonia E.
175 Laurelton St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Gonzalez, Jadeline
30 Lowell St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/25/2025

Hill, Wilda-Gene
17 Morin Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/17/2025

Howe, Tiffani M.
33 Kimberly Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/18/2025

J & M All Season Work
Mikalunas, John Richard
31 Maine Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/25/2025

Marcinczyk, David Peter
P.O. Box 4
Barre, MA 01005
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/23/2025

Mason, Warren W.
Mason, Lacie L.
379A White Oaks Road
Williamstown, MA 01267
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/16/2025

Molinary, Ricardo E.
51 Van Deene Ave., Apt D4
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Moriarty, Alessandra E.
64 Hillside Village
Ware, MA 01082
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

O’Brien, Michael R.
77 Loomis Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/16/2025

Perri, Dominic J.
Perri, Brandi L.
a/k/a Wagner, Brandi L.
142 Michigan Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/30/2025

Pueschel, Joshua Richard
30 Clark St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/17/2025

Rice, Kathleen M.
13 Crestview Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/27/2025

Rivera, Damon Jonathan
a/k/a Damon J. Rivera
58 Woodcrest Court
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Ryan, Lester A.
77 West Bay Path Ter.
Springfield, MA 01109
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/25/2025

Scirocco, Alessandro
140 Union St., Apt. 37
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/27/2025

Segarra, Harry L.
a/k/a Segarra Suarez, Harry L.
Lezama Gomez, Norma
27 North East St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/30/2025

Smith, Randy J.
Smith, Judith
139 Connecticut Ave.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/20/2025

Steppic, Jon P.
4 Old Mashapaug Road
Sturbridge, MA 01566
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/26/2025

Swan, Fred A.
137 Bellevue Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/17/2025

Tejeda, Victor Raul
32 Pear St.
Springfield, MA 01109-1341
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/26/2025

Torres, Meghan Ann
a/k/a Chiusano, Meghan Ann
70 John St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/26/2025

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

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

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BERNARDSTON

186 Bald Mountain Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Arthur L. Morgan
Seller: Zain Naveed
Date: 06/30/25

BUCKLAND

92 Clesson Brook Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Andrew Calhoun
Seller: Barry J. Scott
Date: 06/27/25

CHARLEMONT

Avery Brook Road
Charlemont, MA 01339
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Piti Theatre Co. Inc.
Seller: Jacob W. Rheinheimer
Date: 06/24/25

COLRAIN

41 Coombs Hill Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $472,000
Buyer: Caroline Bruno
Seller: Stephen C. Wheeler
Date: 06/27/25

9 Dunnell Dr.
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: William Jackson
Seller: Rudel LT
Date: 06/30/25

543 Williamsburg Road
Conway, MA 01330
Amount: $585,000
Buyer: Linda K. Strom
Seller: Aaron R. Grinstein
Date: 06/25/25

DEERFIELD

30 Lee Road
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Peris Line Inc.
Seller: David E. Breuer
Date: 06/26/25

74 North Main St.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Jean Callahan
Seller: Melissa H. Perot LT
Date: 06/23/25

GILL

35 Riverview Dr.
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $389,000
Buyer: Denise Delsignore
Seller: Salim Adboo
Date: 06/27/25

GREENFIELD

1 Barber Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $214,000
Buyer: Eds Enterprises LLC
Seller: Patricia A. Hertzfeld
Date: 06/25/25

300 Davis St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Robby A. Avery
Seller: Thomas W. Conway
Date: 07/01/25

29-31 Phillips St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Pioneer Valley Redevelopment LLC
Seller: Jems RT
Date: 06/24/25

311 Plain Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $620,000
Buyer: Samantha C. Clay
Seller: Lindsay V. Gardner
Date: 06/27/25

15 Pond St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Eds Enterprises LLC
Seller: Timothy R. Bernard
Date: 06/24/25

21 Raingley Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $392,000
Buyer: Corinne A. Fitzgerald
Seller: Heather M. Terry
Date: 06/27/25

133 School St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $377,000
Buyer: Tiana Jones-Pendergrass
Seller: Donna V. Manuel
Date: 06/27/25

107 Shelburne Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $367,500
Buyer: Sandy Altucher
Seller: Derek D. Payton
Date: 06/30/25

16 Vermont St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Nathan A. Tomlinson
Seller: James A. Turner
Date: 06/27/25

95 Washington St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Andrew Hernandez
Seller: Timothy Tierney
Date: 07/02/25

151 Wells St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Todd Sullivan
Seller: Karen Calderon
Date: 07/01/25

LEVERETT

32 Cave Hill Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $925,000
Buyer: Seth Amsden
Seller: Daniel Emery
Date: 06/30/25

11 Shutesbury Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Donald M. Towse
Seller: Seth W. Donahue
Date: 06/24/25

LEYDEN

25 Stephen Lane
Leyden, MA 01301
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Jane F. Alexander
Seller: Elizabeth A. Walz
Date: 06/23/25

MONTAGUE

48 Broadway
Montague, MA 01347
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Louise K. Emond
Seller: Maireen B. Mooney
Date: 07/02/25

5 Highland St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Brian M. Chyz
Seller: Brick Jr., Stephen E., (Estate)
Date: 06/26/25

134 Montague City Road
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Miriam Cady
Seller: Kelsey A. Naughton
Date: 06/26/25

9 Norman Circle
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Bianca Martha
Seller: Patricia A. Kostanski
Date: 07/02/25

137 Old Sunderland Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $463,000
Buyer: Carolyn L. Harris
Seller: Hansen INT
Date: 07/01/25

32 Randall Wood Dr.
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $412,000
Buyer: Debera L. Lewis
Seller: Robert H. Fisher
Date: 07/02/25

10 Station St.
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: William C. Quale
Seller: Gregory J. Precourt
Date: 06/27/25

NEW SALEM

134 Fay Road
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $597,000
Buyer: Brian K. Vaidulas
Seller: Leclerc NT
Date: 06/30/25

48 North Main St.
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: George M. Davis
Seller: Arpc LLC
Date: 06/24/25

NORTHFIELD

619 Millers Falls Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $309,000
Buyer: Carlton M. Brown
Seller: Carlton M. Brown
Date: 06/24/25

ORANGE

23 East Myrtle St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Ahmed Autmessaoud
Seller: Jesse Beauchesne
Date: 07/03/25

22 Fountain St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $347,500
Buyer: Jennifer Larkin
Seller: Matthew D. Tarlin
Date: 06/30/25

146 Horton Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: John B. Gemborys
Seller: Amy J. Rae
Date: 06/30/25

141 Mechanic St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $259,900
Buyer: Peder N. Gentry
Seller: Kevin Price
Date: 06/30/25

SHELBURNE

65 Main St.
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $356,300
Buyer: Antonio Velez
Seller: Nancy M. Hazen
Date: 07/02/25

SHUTESBURY

18 Lake Dr.
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $800,000
Buyer: Simmons Rental Properties LLC
Seller: Denis B. Poirier RET
Date: 06/25/25

288 Leverett Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: MF Properties LLC
Seller: Elizabeth S. Dichter
Date: 07/01/25

Montague Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Kestrel Land Trust Inc.
Seller: Forest Rothchild
Date: 06/27/25

SUNDERLAND

105 Falls Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $730,000
Buyer: Stephen J. Grader
Seller: Bonnie M. Weiss
Date: 07/01/25

WENDELL

30 Lockes Village Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Zachary Greninger
Seller: Blc Real Estate Holdings LLC
Date: 06/25/25

197 Wendell Depot Road
Wendell, MA 01380
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Jonathan M. Levin
Seller: Debera L. Lewis
Date: 07/02/25

WHATELY

47 Claverack Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $332,000
Buyer: Nicole Kapise-Perkins
Seller: Pamela Berube
Date: 06/30/25

Haydenville Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Flora J. Chamlin
Seller: Indenture Of Trust
Date: 07/02/25

346 Haydenville Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $219,900
Buyer: Gitsit Real Property LLC
Seller: Virginia C. Allis
Date: 07/02/25

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

116 Anthony St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Nicholas W. Hatton
Seller: Steven D. Costa
Date: 07/02/25

35 Farmington Circle
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Joseph F. Dempsey
Seller: Kantor, Simon W., (Estate)
Date: 06/27/25

152 Glendale Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Jonathan J. Nardi
Seller: Robert A. Pereira
Date: 06/27/25

7 Marla Place
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $481,250
Buyer: Ryan P. Brown
Seller: Ashley D. Hartt
Date: 06/27/25

107 Parker St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Jeremy Dunn
Seller: William B. Leonard 1996 TR
Date: 06/27/25

55 Porter Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Nancy C. Fields
Seller: Bruce K. Cobleigh
Date: 06/30/25

465 River Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $437,000
Buyer: Fatoumata Samura
Seller: Koral Arzate
Date: 06/26/25

41 Ruth Ave.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Donald Tilley
Seller: Brian D. Hill
Date: 06/30/25

10 Silver Lake Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $526,000
Buyer: Frederick J. Steinman
Seller: John F. Palazzi
Date: 06/30/25

130 South Westfield St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Giuseppe Tirone
Seller: Stephen M. Nacewicz
Date: 06/30/25

72 Vassar Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: David M. Sheehan
Seller: Nancy M. Robinson
Date: 06/25/25

BRIMFIELD

44 1st St.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Ingrid K. Flory
Seller: James O. Lacey
Date: 06/27/25

81 5 Bridge Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $740,000
Buyer: David Harris
Seller: Charles Sayer
Date: 06/26/25

9 5th St.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $874,500
Buyer: James Lacey
Seller: Denise J. Thompson
Date: 06/30/25

17 Little Alum Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $388,000
Buyer: Denise J. Thompson
Seller: Tyler Reilly
Date: 06/30/25

50 Little Alum Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Charles Sayer
Seller: Justin Liberman
Date: 06/27/25

97 Monson Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $685,000
Buyer: Michael G. Sciaraffa
Seller: Hadank RET TR 2016
Date: 06/26/25

31 Sturbridge Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Michael Siemaszko
Seller: JP Morgan Chase Bank
Date: 06/30/25

CHESTER

1 Crane Road
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $511,195
Buyer: Rcf 2 Acquisition TR
Seller: Witman Properties Inc.
Date: 06/30/25

266 Goss Hill Road, Lot 1
Chester, MA 01050
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Tyler Pease
Seller: Hewes 2022 Irt
Date: 06/27/25

266 Goss Hill Road, Lot 2
Chester, MA 01050
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Tyler Pease
Seller: Hewes 2022 IRT
Date: 06/27/25

CHICOPEE

19 Arnold St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $352,000
Buyer: Carly Goldenberg
Seller: Chelsea D. Lovley
Date: 06/27/25

429 Broadway St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $528,000
Buyer: Flavia F. Marques
Seller: Fab Holdings LLC
Date: 06/27/25

Burnett Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $1,000,000
Buyer: SalMar Realty LLC
Seller: Rlb Management LLC
Date: 06/25/25

1774 Carew St.
Chicopee, MA 01104
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Nhat X. Do
Seller: Machowski RET
Date: 06/24/25

445 Chicopee St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Shayne Fleming-Pancione
Seller: Chicopee Property Management LLC
Date: 06/30/25

153 Clarendon Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Israel Reyes
Seller: Lavalley, Paula M., (Estate)
Date: 06/30/25

203 Crestwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $309,900
Buyer: Deon Goines
Seller: Janice M. Wheeler
Date: 06/24/25

12 Edward St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $407,500
Buyer: Ronaldo E. Ramos-Garcia
Seller: Victoria A. Engel
Date: 06/27/25

80 Empire St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $319,000
Buyer: Victoria A. Johnston
Seller: David S. Kida
Date: 06/23/25

315 Front St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $411,000
Buyer: Darwin Deavens
Seller: Pah DE1 LLC
Date: 07/02/25

460 James St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Liam Paulhus
Seller: Carl F. Rickis
Date: 06/26/25

183 Langevin St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Marcus Morales
Seller: Lotus & Hawk Properties LLC
Date: 06/27/25

14 Lawrence Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $261,000
Buyer: Lisa A. Merkel
Seller: Cartier, Teresa, (Estate)
Date: 07/03/25

16 Lincoln St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $333,000
Buyer: Snatch Block Properties LLC
Seller: Jacob E. Tompkins
Date: 07/01/25

83 Mayflower Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Nayza M. Figueroa
Seller: Lukasik FT
Date: 06/27/25

135 Meeting House Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Ashly M. Figueroa-Rosado
Seller: Doris D. Ruiz
Date: 06/30/25

331 Montgomery St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $515,000
Buyer: Andy Ho
Seller: Radoslaw Bralski
Date: 06/23/25

78 Providence St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Carmen Acevedo
Seller: Daniel J. Donoghue
Date: 06/27/25

54 Stewart St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Maribel Camacho
Seller: Annette A. Robinson
Date: 06/30/25

98 Trilby Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Dennis M. Benoit
Seller: Randy J. Hevey
Date: 06/25/25

50 Van Horn St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $289,973
Buyer: Pennymac Loan Services LLC
Seller: Lyle C. Clark
Date: 06/23/25

78 Wheatland Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Bruno Bator
Seller: Stefan Kowal
Date: 06/27/25

EAST LONGMEADOW

22 Bettswood Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: William E. Britton
Seller: Christopher R. Monette
Date: 06/30/25

169 Braeburn Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Rosa B. Difiore
Seller: Yagul Ganendran
Date: 07/02/25

10 Callender Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Zhanaya M. Auston
Seller: Juliana M. Evans
Date: 06/26/25

12 Edwill Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Pah Properties LLC
Seller: M. & Patricia Anderson RET
Date: 06/27/25

97 Lee St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $919,000
Buyer: Angela K. O’Brien
Seller: Chaffee, Nancy J., (Estate)
Date: 06/24/25

47 Nottingham Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $785,000
Buyer: Suneel Veerwani
Seller: Christopher Macinnis
Date: 07/02/25

90 Pilgrim Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $362,500
Buyer: Robert B. Hawley
Seller: R. & Catherine Stevens FT
Date: 06/26/25

23 Rogers Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Diep Huynh
Seller: Jeffrey Brennan
Date: 06/26/25

84 Rogers Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Gioio Scibelli
Seller: Noreen, Mary T., (Estate)
Date: 06/30/25

48 Schuyler Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $359,000
Buyer: Jennifer Talbert
Seller: Monica D. Schroeder
Date: 06/25/25

94 Tanglewood Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $640,000
Buyer: Mary B. Tsutsumi
Seller: Robert R. Martin
Date: 06/30/25

37 White Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $353,000
Buyer: Maria M. Boucher
Seller: Stanley P. Garstka
Date: 06/30/25

151 Windham Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $653,900
Buyer: Nicholas Stafford
Seller: Vito Gramarossa
Date: 06/30/25

12 Winding Brook Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: Jeffrey M. Becker
Seller: Thomas E. Brown
Date: 06/27/25

GRANVILLE

53 Granby Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Pietro Abruzzo
Seller: Jennifer Kinsman
Date: 06/30/25

HAMPDEN

48 Ames Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Michael London
Seller: Eric C. Jacobson
Date: 06/23/25

9 Andrew Circle
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $750,000
Buyer: Sarah Miller
Seller: Anna U. Pham
Date: 07/02/25

272 Bennett Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Kent E. Slabotsky
Seller: Eric Shimits
Date: 06/23/25

90 Colony Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Joshua Bailey
Seller: Daniel K. Armstrong
Date: 06/23/25

58 Oak Knoll Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Zachary Handzel
Seller: George M. Sanford
Date: 06/30/25

45 River Park Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Sean M. Callahan
Seller: Joseph Sullivan
Date: 06/26/25

198 Stafford Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $588,500
Buyer: Kyle Bergmann
Seller: Rhonda Black
Date: 06/23/25

HOLLAND

8 Julia Ann Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Johnny East LLC
Seller: Keith R. Bazinet RET
Date: 06/23/25

64 South Cottage Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Alexander Tuohy
Seller: Veteran Stan LLC
Date: 07/02/25

172 Stafford Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Dennis E. Curboy
Seller: Horton, Karen E., (Estate)
Date: 06/30/25

143 Vinton Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: John Kennedy
Seller: Maple Ledge Assocs. Inc.
Date: 06/30/25

HOLYOKE

32 Arden St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $361,000
Buyer: Eleanor D. Barr
Seller: Naples Home Buyers TR
Date: 07/03/25

1014 Hampden St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Kelly Raila
Seller: Marisol Rodriguez
Date: 07/03/25

275 High St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: 275 High St. Holyoke LLC
Seller: Chelten Avenue Assocs. LLC
Date: 06/25/25

14 Ladd St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Cassandra Gonzalez
Seller: Richard F. Lukas
Date: 07/01/25

48 Lexington Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Kathleen R. Sabourin
Seller: Kane Jr., Robert F., (Estate)
Date: 06/27/25

58 Longfellow Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Ann Rasmussen
Seller: Kelly Raila
Date: 07/03/25

1-3 Monroe St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Melissa B. Caraballo-Roman
Seller: Jjj17 LLC
Date: 06/27/25

70-72 North East St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Kimberly S. Rivera
Seller: Jorge L. Sanabria
Date: 06/25/25

461 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $266,000
Buyer: R. & R. Home Improvement
Seller: Federal National Mortgage Assn.
Date: 07/01/25

16 Old Ferry Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $115,655
Buyer: Frank A. Demarinis
Seller: Carl E. Longley
Date: 07/02/25

8 Quirk Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Ruthann P. Persaud
Seller: Dan J. Pan
Date: 06/27/25

86 Sycamore St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $266,000
Buyer: Matthew A. O’Brien
Seller: Robert J. Schroeter
Date: 06/26/25

2 Sylvia Lane
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Miriam S. Lexie
Seller: Elizabeth M. Persch
Date: 06/23/25

279 Whitney Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Arnold H. Brigham
Seller: Alfred J. Albano
Date: 06/27/25

14 Woodbridge St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $505,000
Buyer: Stephen W. Oparowski
Seller: Stein, Bonnie M., (Estate)
Date: 06/30/25

LONGMEADOW

63 Bel Air Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Albano
Seller: Adam J. Moses
Date: 06/23/25

249 Concord Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $730,000
Buyer: Brian J. McGann
Seller: Robert Reggiannini
Date: 06/26/25

26 Edgewood Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Mary Sheridan
Seller: Simone R. Enright
Date: 06/27/25

109 Hillcrest Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Jeffrey I. Fialky
Seller: Michael W. Smith
Date: 06/24/25

242 Kenmore Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $551,000
Buyer: Kenneth Shusterman
Seller: Elaine B. Horowitz
Date: 06/23/25

99 Knollwood Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $545,000
Buyer: Paul Madaj
Seller: Charlotte H. Beers
Date: 07/02/25

68 Normandy Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $900,000
Buyer: Andrew Malloy
Seller: Sharon F. Dickerman
Date: 06/30/25

210 Park Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $1,110,000
Buyer: Joseph Harasymiak
Seller: Joseph H. Sklar
Date: 06/27/25

20 Pleasantview Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Sunit Jain
Seller: Keith R. Belloff
Date: 06/27/25

24 Vanguard Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Brendan S. Hartt
Seller: Mario Rodrigues
Date: 06/27/25

LUDLOW

599 Alden St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $342,000
Buyer: Jacob R. Breton
Seller: Austin Berneche
Date: 06/23/25

762 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $389,900
Buyer: Aszia Perrin
Seller: Louis Bonavita
Date: 06/25/25

601 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $275,500
Buyer: Paola N. Ramos
Seller: George Maksymiw
Date: 06/30/25

12 Duke St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $266,000
Buyer: Marissa Fabbo
Seller: Antonio M. Alves
Date: 07/01/25

81 Erin Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $530,000
Buyer: Christian Beseinere
Seller: Michael R. White
Date: 06/27/25

Fuller St., Lot 0
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Zero Fuller Street LLC
Seller: Banas Properties LLC
Date: 06/27/25

168 Lockland Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $628,000
Buyer: Qianzhu Li
Seller: John A. Portelada
Date: 07/02/25

512 Miller St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Ashley Hendricks
Seller: Donald W. Wojcik
Date: 06/27/25

185 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Katharine J. Laflamme
Seller: Partyka Partners LP
Date: 06/27/25

749 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $580,000
Buyer: Lynn M. Gray
Seller: 749 West Street LLC
Date: 07/03/25

MONSON

28 Ayers Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Jared J. Menard
Seller: Christopher Fontaine
Date: 07/02/25

26 Cushman St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Kim K. Pascale
Seller: Pamela N. Williams
Date: 06/30/25

91 Fenton Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $595,000
Buyer: Jack Paine
Seller: William Griggs
Date: 06/24/25

136 Munn Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $527,000
Buyer: Jeffrey B. Quigley
Seller: Stephen A. Gasco
Date: 06/27/25

224 Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Janet R. Everett
Seller: Mary L. Lamb
Date: 07/02/25

321 Stafford Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Emery Damours
Seller: Real Estate Homes LLC
Date: 07/03/25

PALMER

4345 High St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $297,500
Buyer: Pamela A. Quirk
Seller: Thomas W. Scharrett
Date: 06/24/25

5-7 Maple Ter.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Carole D. Komguep
Seller: A To Z Property Management
Date: 06/23/25

91 Robinson Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Ismael Vicente
Seller: David A. Partridge
Date: 06/30/25

1240 South Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $301,500
Buyer: Cheata An
Seller: Shannon Brown
Date: 06/27/25

65-67 Summer St.
Palmer, MA 01079
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Dalton L. Siegel
Seller: Michael D. Opielowski
Date: 06/26/25

20 Vicardav Ave.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $364,900
Buyer: Jonathan Clarke
Seller: James E. Farris
Date: 06/26/25

SPRINGFIELD

60-62 Acushnet Ave.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $417,950
Buyer: Bezviner Real Estate Inc.
Seller: 60-62 Acushnet LLC
Date: 07/03/25

93 Alderman St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $496,000
Buyer: Maria M. Hernandez
Seller: Bella L. Cevallos
Date: 06/24/25

1101 Allen St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Darlene Kirby
Seller: 1101 Allen 2 TR
Date: 06/30/25

16 Atwater Ter.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $449,500
Buyer: Gilberto Jimenez
Seller: Marguerite Jones
Date: 06/30/25

69 Bassing St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Lauren L. Whalen
Seller: Rhl Properties LLC
Date: 06/24/25

891 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Arismendy F. Salazar
Seller: Nexius LLC
Date: 07/03/25

31 Bryant St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Ortega LLC
Seller: David E. Williams
Date: 07/03/25

27 Bushwick Place
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Roseline Messadouo
Seller: Doraliz Ubeda
Date: 06/30/25

1022 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Hector D. Santos
Seller: Juan A. Rivera
Date: 06/27/25

96 Clearbrook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $416,000
Buyer: Lynn M. Gasco
Seller: Kevin M. Noonan
Date: 06/27/25

230 Connecticut Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $432,000
Buyer: Pedro J. Reyes
Seller: Viktor Savonin
Date: 06/25/25

46-48 Dearborn St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: LP Stewart LLC
Seller: Farfan-Forbes, Carol L., (Estate)
Date: 06/23/25

100 Derryfield Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: William T. Raleigh
Seller: Pennymac Loan Services LLC
Date: 06/23/25

235 Dorset St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Marcelo Costa
Seller: Haagsma, Rudolf W., (Estate)
Date: 06/23/25

31 Duggan Circle
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $156,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Torres
Seller: Juan L. Gonzalez
Date: 07/01/25

69 Eddy St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Karen Redmond
Seller: Deliz Lopez
Date: 06/24/25

50 Feltham Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Angel Candelaria
Seller: Christine M. Ford
Date: 06/25/25

84-86 Forest Park Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Alexander M. Cohen
Seller: Shirley R. Wilson
Date: 07/03/25

158 Fountain St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Nakeisha Roberts
Seller: Melanie Jefferies
Date: 06/24/25

15-17 Francis St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Odalis Feliciano
Seller: Megan A. Russis
Date: 06/23/25

181 Freeman Ter.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $164,900
Buyer: Gitsit Real Property
Seller: Raymond M. Cipriani
Date: 06/30/25

14 Garford St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Emtay Inc.
Seller: Frank R. Caruso
Date: 06/24/25

33 Gillette Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Vicki M. Giuggio
Seller: Samantha Haefner
Date: 06/23/25

58 Gilman St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Orange Park Mgmt. LLC
Seller: Michelle B. Segall-Rainey
Date: 06/23/25

26 Grandview St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $198,000
Buyer: Thomas Malek
Seller: Morgan Stanley Abs Capital
Date: 06/30/25

115 Hampden St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Andrzej Lipior
Seller: Naples Home Buyers TR
Date: 06/26/25

3 Hampden St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Handyflippers Inc.
Seller: Maria I. Matos
Date: 07/01/25

51 Hardy St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Fernando C. Vega
Seller: Calvanese, Dennis Lee, (Estate)
Date: 07/03/25

24 Hiawatha St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $474,500
Buyer: Redinson G. Baez
Seller: Colondres & Co. LLC
Date: 06/30/25

49 Hillside Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Elizabeth R. Imelio
Seller: Ethan Goldman
Date: 06/26/25

95 Holly St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Handyflippers Inc.
Seller: Maria I. Matos
Date: 07/01/25

24 Homestead Ave.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $489,000
Buyer: Shanique S. Campbell
Seller: Mamba Capital LLC
Date: 06/30/25

68 Ingersoll Grove
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $392,000
Buyer: Jessica Dillard-Wright
Seller: Stephen Moore
Date: 06/25/25

154 Kimberly Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Diego Mejia
Seller: Mpr Properties LLC
Date: 07/03/25

21 Lawndale St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Troy Dang
Seller: Licenia Cruz
Date: 06/30/25

194 Lexington St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Alexi Velazquez
Seller: Bernardino Fuentes
Date: 06/27/25

24 Lorimer St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $338,000
Buyer: Natasha M. Clarke
Seller: Wicked Deals LLC
Date: 07/02/25

Main St. (rear)
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: North End Housing Initiative
Seller: New England Farm Workers Council
Date: 06/25/25

Main St. (WS)
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: North End Housing Initiative
Seller: New England Farm Workers Council
Date: 06/25/25

79 Marshall St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Alexandra Pascual
Seller: Maria F. Del Rio
Date: 07/01/25

157-159 Massachusetts Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Ach Holdings LLC
Seller: Deon L. Goines
Date: 06/25/25

23 McBride St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Jose M. Rivas
Seller: Daniel Torres
Date: 06/26/25

84 North Brook Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $227,500
Buyer: Naples Home Buyers TR
Seller: Anthony Santos
Date: 06/23/25

Nelson Ave. (ES)
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $534,000
Buyer: Victor Medina
Seller: Brice Contracting Services LLC
Date: 06/24/25

84-86 Oak Grove Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Polina Polkovnikova
Seller: VC Real Estate Inc.
Date: 06/27/25

175 Oak Hollow Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Christopher W. Murphy
Seller: Judi Scavotto
Date: 06/27/25

105-107 Oakwood Ter.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $337,000
Buyer: Kaleighia Green
Seller: 101-111 Oakwood TR
Date: 06/26/25

416 Orange St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Isaura Quezada
Seller: Rosa L. Rivera
Date: 06/24/25

48 Oregon St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Brianna M. Ottomaniello
Seller: Warren R. Tanguay
Date: 06/25/25

64 Overlea Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Edgar J. Rivera
Seller: Steven C. Charette
Date: 07/01/25

41 Parallel St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Maria L. Pena
Seller: Natalia B. Rivera
Date: 07/03/25

1037 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Devin J. Markiewicz
Seller: Anzalotti, Carolina, (Estate)
Date: 06/24/25

511 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Tynisa Eddington
Seller: Tok Chang
Date: 07/02/25

716 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: West Jam Man LLC
Seller: Brian J. Bush
Date: 06/27/25

1652 Parker St.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Kayla I. Luciano
Seller: Kathleen A. Salvador RET
Date: 06/30/25

248 Pheland St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $307,500
Buyer: Alexandria Leske
Seller: Onota Rental LLC
Date: 06/25/25

32 Pine Hill Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: Douglas Dichard
Seller: Diane M. Frenier
Date: 06/25/25

590 Plumtree Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Maribel Antigua
Seller: Robert L. Reid
Date: 07/01/25

6-8 Pomona St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Brigida A. Quinonez
Seller: Kevin J. Merlos
Date: 06/24/25

15 Prescott St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Todd W. Downie
Seller: Joanmar Realty LLC
Date: 07/03/25

91 Price St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Farrova Forren Inc.
Seller: John M. Friedson
Date: 06/25/25

243-245 Quincy St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Keyla Diaz
Seller: Northern Flooring & Remodelling
Date: 07/03/25

38 Ramah St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Darryl Best
Seller: 38 Ramah LLC
Date: 06/30/25

78 Randolph St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $501,000
Buyer: Mendez T
Seller: Deidre T. Shea-Tougias
Date: 06/30/25

42 Rosedale Ave.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Janice Desarden
Seller: Barry O. Browning
Date: 06/27/25

246 Rosewell St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $297,000
Buyer: Christopher J. Tousignant
Seller: Jose G. Rivera-Campusano
Date: 06/24/25

53 Ruthven St.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Sarah Reilly
Seller: Andrew T. Reilly
Date: 06/26/25

15 Rutledge Ave.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Randy Ampratwum
Seller: Cig4 LLC
Date: 06/27/25

60 Saint Lawrence Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $329,000
Buyer: Robinson Betances
Seller: Brightwood Properties LLC
Date: 06/27/25

4 Seneca St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Jose M. Reyes
Seller: Jjj17 LLC
Date: 06/26/25

Sheldon St. (NS)
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: North End Housing Initiative
Seller: New England Farm Workers Council
Date: 06/25/25

118 Signal Hill Circle
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $560,000
Buyer: Warren R. Tanguay
Seller: Alexis C. Perez
Date: 06/25/25

Slater Ave.
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Cory J. Mattoon
Seller: Lydia Rivera
Date: 06/27/25

3 Sorrento St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Brinier Zapata
Seller: Zeicha N. Colon
Date: 07/01/25

15 Southern Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Fumi Realty Inc.
Seller: Byrd, Veronica, (Estate)
Date: 06/27/25

151 Springfield St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Affluent Circle LLC
Seller: Gilberto Jimenez
Date: 06/30/25

138 Stapleton Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $349,900
Buyer: Colleen Moynihan
Seller: Malissa Naylor Realty
Date: 06/27/25

264 Sumner Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Julian Cornejo
Seller: Alan J. Lerman
Date: 06/23/25

43 Sunridge Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Joseph Sullivan
Seller: George S. Parsons
Date: 07/01/25

27 Vail St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $153,000
Buyer: Amanda Parrott
Seller: Gregory C. Parrott
Date: 06/27/25

15 Viola St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Nathan M. Dejesus
Seller: Angel L. Centeno
Date: 06/27/25

76-78 Virginia St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Rafael L. Polanco
Seller: Cig4 LLC
Date: 06/30/25

302 West Allen Ridge Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Franklin Rose
Seller: Debra T. Gralia
Date: 06/30/25

15 Warriner Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $359,300
Buyer: Redinson G. Baez
Seller: Visionary Homes LLC
Date: 06/30/25

24 Westbanks Court
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $341,000
Buyer: Ceaiel Parris
Seller: Wendy M. Deboise
Date: 06/27/25

169 Whittum Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Rosanna R. Ruiz
Seller: Alex D. Garcia
Date: 07/01/25

126 Windemere St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $231,400
Buyer: Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC
Seller: Donna J. Moore
Date: 06/26/25

SOUTHWICK

183 Feeding Hills Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Cole Lozinski
Seller: Real Estate Investors Northeast LLC
Date: 06/30/25

71 Powder Mill Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Robert S. Bombard
Seller: Robert S. Bombard
Date: 06/30/25

10 Sawgrass Lane
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $532,000
Buyer: Douglas Dichard
Seller: Charles Lippert
Date: 07/02/25

TOLLAND

15 Thicket Road
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Robert Capaldi
Seller: Jonathan W. Roberts
Date: 06/24/25

WALES

24 Sizer Dr.
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Nancy Yulfo
Seller: Gary Como
Date: 06/30/25

40 Stafford Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $214,000
Buyer: Heather Flannery
Seller: Olon Flannery
Date: 06/30/25

WEST SPRINGFIELD

181 Adrian Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Ryan T. McCarthy
Seller: Daniel Wroth
Date: 06/25/25

726 Amostown Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Tina Wildhagen
Seller: Dzuyrzynski 2016 Irt
Date: 06/30/25

161 Bear Hole Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $558,000
Buyer: Kulwinder Kaur
Seller: David R. Lapointe
Date: 07/03/25

34 Hale St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Purna B. Bhujel
Seller: Krishna Kharel
Date: 07/03/25

69 Lancaster Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Lane Contracting Co. LLC
Seller: Lancaster TR
Date: 06/23/25

56 Northwood Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $406,000
Buyer: William Marx
Seller: Scully, Mary C., (Estate)
Date: 07/03/25

27 Oakland St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Andrew Eaton
Seller: Bianca Lambert
Date: 07/01/25

224 Ohio Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $402,000
Buyer: Ashley Puls
Seller: Michael S. Smith
Date: 06/30/25

16 Pine St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $323,000
Buyer: Evan Cabaniol
Seller: Jacqueline R. White
Date: 07/01/25

353 Piper Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Craig C. Nielsen
Seller: Barry J. Hubbard
Date: 06/25/25

112 Southworth St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $237,500
Buyer: Cheryl L. Shippee-Porter
Seller: Cam M. Alamed
Date: 06/30/25

36 Thomas Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Kemal Cirak
Seller: Cornelius P. Sullivan
Date: 06/25/25

57 Tiara Lane
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $780,000
Buyer: Ilyaz Agayev
Seller: Ryan J. Bradley
Date: 06/23/25

33 Westfield St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $827,000
Buyer: Cdg Westfield Holding LLC
Seller: 33 Westfield LLC
Date: 06/30/25

44 Woodward Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $357,000
Buyer: Charles Newman
Seller: Rita A. Petersen Income On
Date: 07/02/25

WESTFIELD

16 Avery St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $367,340
Buyer: Dacota Durkee
Seller: Avery Street Property LLC
Date: 06/25/25

36 Bennett Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Christine Lupacchino
Seller: Lisa A. Merkel
Date: 07/02/25

8-1/2 Bush St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Tricia Barnard
Seller: Danielle H. Solitario
Date: 07/02/25

34 Caitlin Way
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $620,000
Buyer: Jason Schrecke
Seller: Vijay Patel
Date: 07/03/25

9 Day Lily Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $780,000
Buyer: Philip J. Johnson
Seller: Brendan M. McMahon
Date: 06/30/25

35 East Glen Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $615,000
Buyer: Ilmer Canales
Seller: Keith D. Saltmarsh
Date: 06/27/25

60 East Silver St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $6,250,000
Buyer: Vantage Westfield Realty LLC
Seller: Ohima LLC
Date: 07/01/25

42 Gary Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $790,000
Buyer: Ram Matsa
Seller: Curtis S. Gezotis
Date: 06/30/25

13 Hampden St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $236,000
Buyer: Diedenshausen TR
Seller: Pierangelo P. Proietti
Date: 06/26/25

39 Harold Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Tymofiy Malova
Seller: Jean L. Dudas
Date: 06/27/25

132 Holyoke Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: First Central Bible Church
Seller: Dmitriy Mayboroda
Date: 06/27/25

11 Joseph Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $396,000
Buyer: Louise Scanlon
Seller: Kevin McKenna
Date: 06/25/25

152 Lockhouse Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Zakory Christian
Seller: Kimberly M. Hall
Date: 06/26/25

150 Miller St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Oksana I. Kostoviat
Seller: Kyle J. Killinger
Date: 07/02/25

17 Montgomery St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Nathan Solitario
Seller: Fumi Realty Inc.
Date: 07/02/25

181 Notre Dame St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Prestige Worldwide
Seller: Zap Realty LLC
Date: 07/02/25

60 Pineridge Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Floyd J. Alwon
Seller: Brian O. Richards
Date: 06/24/25

1012 Russell Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $418,000
Buyer: Katie M. Maslak
Seller: Gregory P. Burke
Date: 06/27/25

134 Russellville Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: 134 Russellville RT
Seller: Zack & Sons LLC
Date: 06/25/25

37 Salvator Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $627,000
Buyer: Scot Brzoska
Seller: Robert E. Smith
Date: 07/02/25

97 Sandy Hill Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Michael A. Bombard
Seller: Jose L. Quinones
Date: 06/27/25

164 Susan Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $850,000
Buyer: Justin R. Morini
Seller: Richard J. Morini LT
Date: 06/30/25

86 White St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Anthony M. Noto
Seller: Rnegron Home Improvement LLC
Date: 06/25/25

WILBRAHAM

2417 Boston Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $1,250,000
Buyer: PMP Realty LLC
Seller: 2417 Boston Road LLC
Date: 06/27/25

10 Brookmont Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $455,000
Buyer: Anthony Carnevale
Seller: Wanda K. Cronin
Date: 06/23/25

32 Decorie Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Serna Panzetti
Seller: David L. Hannon
Date: 06/30/25

15 Deerfield Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $739,000
Buyer: Brendan M. McMahon
Seller: Custom Home Development Group LLC
Date: 06/27/25

5 Gary Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Richard Tomchik
Seller: Adam M. Herder
Date: 06/27/25

7 Joan St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Kim K. Davis
Seller: Aviva N. Berezin
Date: 06/27/25

4 Mark Twain Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $622,000
Buyer: Katelyn Manley
Seller: Nicholas S. Munn
Date: 06/27/25

337 Maynard Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $580,000
Buyer: Anthony Bruso
Seller: Szf Properties LLC
Date: 06/26/25

6 Meeting House Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Carolyn McNulty
Seller: Philip Moraitis
Date: 06/24/25

258 Mountain Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Leslie G. Lindsey
Seller: Matthew N. Karp
Date: 06/26/25

109 Silver St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $835,000
Buyer: Andrew Collins
Seller: Lisa A. Massie
Date: 06/25/25

106 Stony Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Jose L. Velazquez
Seller: Paulo Villegas
Date: 06/30/25

14 Sunnyside Ter.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $403,000
Buyer: Mark W. Ryan
Seller: Besko, Mary T., (Estate)
Date: 06/23/25

7 Woodsley Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $655,000
Buyer: Brandon Lafrennie
Seller: Alicia Maher
Date: 06/25/25

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

66 Curtis Place
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Kilerine Properties LLC
Seller: Ryan Bearer
Date: 06/27/25

24 Dennis Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $530,000
Buyer: Taylore A. Wilson
Seller: Matthew B. Dalton
Date: 06/27/25

33 Echo Hill Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $643,000
Buyer: Sarah M. Plazza
Seller: Barbara W. Freed RET
Date: 07/02/25

19 Indian Pipe Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $1,021,000
Buyer: Jeffrey Robert
Seller: G. C. Blauvelt
Date: 06/23/25

242 Lincoln Ave.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $1,150,000
Buyer: Seth Shulman
Seller: Charles M. Thompson
Date: 06/26/25

87 Meadow St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $376,000
Buyer: Mac Squared LLC
Seller: Christina Brady
Date: 06/27/25

91 Meadow St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $376,000
Buyer: Mac Squared LLC
Seller: Christina Brady
Date: 06/27/25

321 Middle St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $565,000
Buyer: Katherine E. Moore
Seller: Kristina Engstrom
Date: 07/01/25

394 Middle St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $750,000
Buyer: Priscilla A. Whitte
Seller: T. Stuart Bicknell RET
Date: 06/30/25

1136 North Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $750,000
Buyer: Stay In Motion LLC
Seller: Watroba, Chester E., (Estate)
Date: 06/27/25

1427 South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $490,750
Buyer: William Mair
Seller: David Merck
Date: 06/30/25

14 Smith St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $645,000
Buyer: George Thomas
Seller: Meredith E. Lind
Date: 07/01/25

BELCHERTOWN

47 Allen Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $505,000
Buyer: Jeremy Rubock
Seller: Gregory R. Seligman
Date: 06/27/25

50 Boardman St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Grant M. Stebbins
Seller: Kenneth L. Stebbins
Date: 07/01/25

24 Brandywine Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $516,300
Buyer: Lisa States
Seller: Bing Chi
Date: 06/26/25

47 Daniel Square
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: MK TR
Seller: Thomas L. Beaver
Date: 07/03/25

122 Metacomet St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $387,000
Buyer: Phillippe J. Michaud
Seller: Gelineau Filos RET
Date: 06/27/25

50 North Main St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Belchertown North Main LLC
Seller: Sarah Martin
Date: 07/03/25

47 North St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Christopher Wall
Seller: Joseph M. Santaniello
Date: 06/26/25

47 Overlook Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $612,000
Buyer: Michael Rohrbacher
Seller: Francis D. Charron
Date: 06/25/25

68 Pomeroy St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $939,495
Buyer: Rebecca A. Splain
Seller: David A. Hardy Contractor
Date: 06/25/25

42 Sheffield Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Matthew S. Hosen
Seller: Joseph Worthley
Date: 06/30/25

EASTHAMPTON

44 Carillon Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $695,000
Buyer: Michael C. Cooper
Seller: Ann Rasmussen
Date: 07/03/25

13 Everett St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $461,000
Buyer: Mark Leichthammer
Seller: Robin Haueter
Date: 07/01/25

46 Garfield Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Cody Potasky
Seller: Amy Jacobson RET
Date: 07/01/25

6 Hannum Brook Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Padraic Kelly
Seller: Karen A. Volpe
Date: 06/27/25

143 West St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Scott M. Coen
Seller: Caroline E. Foley
Date: 07/01/25

GOSHEN

32 Birch Road
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Christina Sekaer
Seller: Charles S. Hanson
Date: 06/24/25

12 Cherry Road
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $234,500
Buyer: Sarah E. Fresco
Seller: Louise Morse
Date: 06/26/25

23 Hyde Hill Road
Goshen, MA 01032
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Timothy D. Williams
Seller: Lebeau Int.
Date: 06/26/25

GRANBY

116 Aldrich St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $427,500
Buyer: Gina Sousa
Seller: Douglas N. Sousa
Date: 06/26/25

HADLEY

62 Breckenridge Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $503,500
Buyer: Maria Korochenko
Seller: Colin McIntire
Date: 07/02/25

379 River Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: G&B Realty Partners LLC
Seller: Martin, Lillian R., (Estate)
Date: 06/30/25

111 Rocky Hill Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $537,000
Buyer: Urshula K. Wood
Seller: Thomas Quinlan
Date: 07/01/25

120 Rocky Hill Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $603,000
Buyer: Yunrui Sang
Seller: Jason P. Bohonowicz
Date: 07/02/25

299 Russell St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $3,500,000
Buyer: Bar Hadley LLC
Seller: 299 Russell Street LLC
Date: 06/25/25

401 Russell St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $5,000,000
Buyer: Lewray LLC
Seller: Amherst Development Assocs. LLC
Date: 06/24/25

16 Shattuck Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $734,000
Buyer: Hadley Jp LLC
Seller: Steven C. Konieczny
Date: 06/27/25

HATFIELD

97 Elm St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Stephanie E. Slysz
Seller: Amy V. Meo
Date: 06/30/25

19 Straits Road
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $495,000
Buyer: Rebekah F. Kaplan
Seller: Stephanie E. Slysz
Date: 06/30/25

320 West St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $151,500
Buyer: Federal National Mortgage Assn.
Seller: George W. Emeny
Date: 07/01/25

HUNTINGTON

47 Old Chester Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Larry Rich
Seller: Elizabeth Stansky
Date: 06/30/25

NORTHAMPTON

83 Bancroft Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $1,589,000
Buyer: Christopher Lozo
Seller: Frank G. Allen
Date: 06/25/25

102 Bridge Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Julia N. Giguere
Seller: Jason Allen
Date: 06/30/25

247 Coles Meadow Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Kimberly Jones
Seller: Barker FT
Date: 07/01/25

110 Cooke Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $362,000
Buyer: Gerald N. Baker
Seller: Tharen RET
Date: 06/30/25

17 Harlow Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $693,000
Buyer: Daniel F. Emery
Seller: United Holding TR
Date: 06/30/25

339 Haydenville Road
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $318,000
Buyer: Andrew Placzek
Seller: Margaret M. Ryan
Date: 06/23/25

99 Lake St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $600,001
Buyer: Claudia E. Forrester
Seller: Eugene B. Ferrari
Date: 07/02/25

191 Main St.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $671,000
Buyer: Natalie Burtzos
Seller: Cynthia A. Roberts
Date: 06/26/25

188 North Maple St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $400,700
Buyer: Catherine Shankweiler
Seller: Azmitia Jr., Harry N., (Estate)
Date: 06/24/25

37 Nutting Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Anna Bergmann
Seller: Matthew Devine
Date: 06/25/25

39 O’Donnell Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $321,000
Buyer: Celeste Wyrosdic
Seller: William R. Gibb
Date: 07/01/25

6 Orchard St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $734,000
Buyer: Gillian A. Callahan
Seller: Donald P. Coffey
Date: 06/30/25

245 South St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Martin Fleming
Seller: Daniel Cavanaugh
Date: 07/01/25

248 Spring Grove Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $493,000
Buyer: Lorin Willett
Seller: Julie Spencer-Robison
Date: 06/30/25

PELHAM

49 Enfield Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Raphael Elison
Seller: Olit 2024-HB2 Alternative Holdings
Date: 06/23/25

SOUTH HADLEY

8 Birch Hill Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Harold W. Noble
Seller: S.A. & K.L. Schlachter
Date: 06/26/25

3 Camden St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Verena Carvalho
Seller: Joan F. Graney
Date: 06/24/25

52 Charon Ter.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Dominika M. Pindus
Seller: Grant M. Stebbins
Date: 06/30/25

12 Hadley St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Center Redevelopment Corp.
Seller: Ann M. Morin
Date: 07/01/25

132 Lathrop St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Jacob Tetrault
Seller: Kmak LLC
Date: 07/01/25

55 North Main St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $505,000
Buyer: Nicholas Collins
Seller: Stherlie Petit-Frere
Date: 07/01/25

404 Newton St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $427,500
Buyer: Carlos D. Ozuna
Seller: Tina Wildhagen
Date: 06/26/25

49 Pearl St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Rose Farrell
Seller: Brenda Parrella
Date: 06/30/25

2 Saybrook Circle
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $484,900
Buyer: Mary B. White
Seller: Michael D. Douville
Date: 06/25/25

4 Skinnerwood Way
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Donna M. Wishart
Seller: Alan P. Wishart
Date: 07/02/25

SOUTHAMPTON

127 College Hwy.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $687,000
Buyer: Strawberry Place LLC
Seller: Robert J. Hyjek
Date: 06/25/25

28 Cook Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Thomas M. Bacis
Seller: 28 Cook Road LLC
Date: 07/01/25

8 Fitch Farm Way
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $1,160,000
Buyer: Thomas J. Contos RET
Seller: Brenda D. Fuller
Date: 07/03/25

5 Golden Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $875,000
Buyer: Andrew Knapp
Seller: Peter F. Hanson
Date: 06/25/25

WARE

29 Aspen St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $388,000
Buyer: Ashlyn C. Drost
Seller: Haley Remodeling LLC
Date: 06/24/25

29 Canal St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Rodwilene Abilhomme
Seller: Sean Barry
Date: 07/01/25

64 Eagle St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Zakary A. Delaura
Seller: Niki J. Vaughan
Date: 06/30/25

21 Old Belchertown Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Mark D. Champigny
Seller: All Surface Technology Inc.
Date: 07/03/25

7 Webb Court
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Azusa Realty TR
Seller: Diana A. Peterson
Date: 06/30/25

WILLIAMSBURG

45 Briar Hill Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $710,000
Buyer: Douglas Wright
Seller: Angelina M. Altobellis
Date: 06/26/25

WESTHAMPTON

87 Montague Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: David Lively
Seller: Henry Wheaton
Date: 07/01/25

WORTHINGTON

418 Old North Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: James Foley
Seller: John S. Cote
Date: 06/26/25

Building Permits

By BusinessWest Staff July 30, 2025

Building Permits

The following building permits were issued during the month of July 2025.

CHICOPEE

City of Chicopee
1290 Burnett Road
$28,250 — Roofing at golf course clubhouse at Chicopee Country Club

GMS Realty LLP
33 Haynes Circle
$13,000 — Selective interior demolition work

EASTHAMPTON

CitySpace
43 Main St.
$2,202,904 — Phase two of three-phase project, including construction of elevator addition providing accessible access to all floor levels

ST Properties LLC
44 Pleasant St.
$100,000 — Enlarge and update existing bathroom to conform to ADA requirements, repair floor joists, repair drywall, replace rotted exterior wood trim

Western Massachusetts Electric Co.
Phelps Street
$39,840 — Insulation

LEE

360 East Street LLC
360 East St.
$15,000 — Remove existing window and rotted trim, reframe opening, provide new window

LENOX

Electric Power Research Inc.
115 East New Lenox Road
$686,438 — Install new metal building

NORTHAMPTON

The College Church Inc.
58 Pomeroy Ter.
$45,900 — Roofing

Goodmarket Properties LLC
1 Market St.
$4,000 — Non-illuminated projecting sign for Lichter & Levin Delicatessen

Hopkington LNG Corp.
West St.
$14,500 — Demolish one-story utility building, leaving slab in place

Nonotuck Community School Inc.
221 Riverside Dr.
$2,931 — Two replacement windows

P-Tush 2 LLC
30 Williams St.
$43,400 — Convert art studio into two one-bedroom residential units

Smith College
186 Elm St.
$52,104 — Replace two entry doors

Smith College
20 Elm St.
$130,000 — Interior renovation to Brown Fine Arts Center

Trident Realty Corp.
6 Crafts Ave.
$4,000 — Illuminated wall sign for One Day in July

PITTSFIELD

AMC Properties LLC
236 South St.
$5,442 — Attic insulation

Berkshire Medical Center
725 North St.
$15,539 — Extend sprinkler system to protect renovated areas

OBCC Holdings LLC
74 Downing Parkway
$102,800 — Install new automatic sprinkler system in existing building

OBCC Holdings LLC
74 Downing Parkway
$42,855 — Install new fire alarm system

Gas Transmission Co.
1488 East St.
$17,000 — Roofing

Think Large for Economic Development

By Contributor July 30, 2025

Opinion

By Peter Abair and Jeff Daley

Massachusetts needs large acreage sites for employment-generating opportunities. This growing need presents an opportunity for Western Mass.

Released earlier this year, “Large Site Demand and Capacity in Massachusetts,” a report published by MassEcon, yielded several significant findings. While several highly desirable industry sectors, such as clean energy, data and AI, and advanced manufacturing, are driving demand for large acreage availabilities around the nation, Massachusetts has a limited number of 100-plus-acre sites available. Many of the large sites in the marketplace here lack sufficient energy, water, and sewer infrastructure. This lack of viable large acreage sites places Massachusetts at a competitive disadvantage in landing significant business prospects.

In a survey of real estate professionals in Massachusetts featured in the report, 80% indicated awareness of large facility requirements that failed to find suitable sites in the Commonwealth. Despite validated demand for such spaces in Massachusetts, the issue of lack of development acreage is under-considered by most municipal and regional planners. This is also troubling, as assembling land and delivering required infrastructure for large acreage sites requires rigorous planning at all levels of government, as well as consensus among host community members for such development.

In total, the report identifies just 12 large sites available in Massachusetts. Of these, the two in Western Mass. are smaller in size, at 70 and 40 acres each. The report identifies two potentially developable sites in the Pioneer Valley, also less than 100 acres in size. Neither site is currently in the commercial real estate marketplace.

So, what is the opportunity for Western Mass.?

• The region is well-located between two major economic powerhouses, Greater Boston and Metropolitan New York.

• It has robust infrastructure, served by two major interstates and rail, and includes several municipal power providers.

• It possesses strong research and educational institutions.

• It has a considerable workforce.

• Its quality of life and relative affordability are notable.

• It also has land.

The MassEcon report identified contiguous land parcels around the state that, theoretically, could be assembled for commercial development, amounting to 1,700 acres. Half of this acreage is found in Western Mass.

If such sites are prepared, will opportunities come to the region? We say the answer is an emphatic yes.

In a global economy in which industries are constantly evolving, often in new directions, at a rapid pace, Massachusetts is involved in a global site location competition. With all the state’s competitive advantages, it is a target for significant investments by employers. To win the competition for the best projects, it will need to have large acreage sites prepared and ready for these opportunities. This requires considerable planning and investment.

While Western Mass. has not always shared in the growth of the state’s most robust industries, there is no reason it can’t become a leader in assembling large sites for new economic development opportunities. For emerging large site requirements, developable acreage and ample infrastructure are the most important facility location determinants.

Massachusetts has a strong history of success in planning economic development in significant spaces. Kendall Square in Cambridge was once a tired landscape of former soap factories. It now reigns supreme in life sciences with more than12 million square feet of lab space. At the time of its base reduction/closure, Devens seemed an isolated site with little economic upside. Today, it stands as one of the greatest military base conversions ever, with more than 6,000 now employed across a spectrum of cutting-edge industries.

The Pioneer Valley is well-suited to host significant-sized new employers. The opportunities are at the region’s doorstep. They need only the space to grow.

Peter Abair is executive director of MassEcon, and Jeff Daley is president and CEO of Westmass Area Development Corp.

Valet Park of America Marks 35 Years of Steady Growth

By Joseph Bednar July 18, 2025

Features

Lots to Celebrate

Angela and Ted Chagnon (front, second and third from left) and the leadership team at Valet Park of America

When Ted Chagnon started his own business in 1990, he had big goals, but there were times, early on, when operating in seven states — from New England to Florida — and employing more than 1,250 people may have seemed like a dream too far.

But that’s precisely the growth trajectory Valet Park of America celebrated when it marked 35 years in business last month.

“It was kind of slow growth at first,” Chagnon said, recalling that his first two valet clients were Yankee Pedlar restaurant in Holyoke and Hotel Northampton, and other small businesses followed. It took two years before the company landed its first major client, Baystate Medical Center, and over the next several years, other large clients followed, particularly in the medical realm, from UMass Medical Center to MetroWest Medical Center in Natick and Framingham.

“Around 2005, we started adding ski resorts, locations in Albany, some locations in Connecticut, and we started to build some momentum. It was tough because we didn’t have any resources in the beginning.”

Initially focused on valet parking only, the business later expanded into parking management, operating lots and garages, and then other transportation services.

“That was simply because a lot of our clients, whether it’s a medical facility, a college, a casino, or a ski resort, sometimes need more than just valet; they need parking management services or transportation for guests, patients, or even transporting employees off site,” Chagnon explained. “Sometimes you’re moving the employees to off-site parking garages and parking lots when you run out of space.”

The company operates in a wide geographic footprint, from Buffalo, N.Y. to Boston, as well as in Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Florida. “We’re in Virginia as of last year, and we’ve been in Florida for five years now, and we’ve really grown tremendously there.”

Many employees have been with Valet Park of America for decades, some more than 30 years. Some of those are family, and Chagnon called this a family business; his wife, Angela, is senior vice president, with responsibilities in client relations, human resources, payroll, auditing, and marketing, and other relatives work in leadership positions as well.

“It’s so important to remember what those frontline people are doing out there, with the weather, and the circumstances, and the vehicles, and the hectic days. It can be stressful at times, and to have somebody in here who understands that and appreciates that is huge.”

“My sister was one of the founders. My niece runs our payroll department. My brother runs our fleet management and quality control department. So we are very much a family-run and owned and operated business,” he said.

But he also attributes this employee loyalty to a culture of opportunity, where someone can start by parking cars and eventually move up as other opportunities arise.

“As we grow, we have to hire more people, more regional managers, and it’s nice that we can promote from within. Many worked for us during college and came on board full-time right after college. I don’t think many of them thought they were going to have a career in parking, but then they stayed with the company. In fact, some of their kids are in college now and working for us.”

Getting Behind the Wheel

The Chagnons initially operated the company from home, then moved into an office at 191 Chestnut St. in Springfield, where Valet Park of America is still headquartered today.

“Then we kind of grew,” he said, but it was very gradual growth until about 20 years in, when both the roster of clients and the company’s geographic reach started to create more noticeable momentum. “Then you start becoming a bigger company, with different challenges. But one of the biggest, I think, has been keeping the mentality of a family-run and owned business and maintaining that culture.”

Angela agreed. “I think that just came naturally to Ted and me. I love seeing somebody that starts off as an entry-level valet attendant, and now they’re in the payroll department, or they’re helping me in the accounting department. It’s very rewarding to know that we can do that for them. Anytime we have an opening in the office, we post internally. I love to bring somebody up who knows us, who knows the business, who knows our culture, who appreciates what those frontline employees do.

“That’s the biggest factor for me,” she added. “I’m more internal; we’re more support staff on the back end, and it’s so important to remember what those frontline people are doing out there, with the weather, and the circumstances, and the vehicles, and the hectic days. It can be stressful at times, and to have somebody in here who understands that and appreciates that is huge. It makes a difference, I think, to the frontline employees when they see that. I’ve parked cars. I know what’s happening.”

With the company’s growth, Ted said he’s competing with a number of national firms, and dealing with the sorts of economic shifts that any industry faces — and, like many of them, he relies on a diverse client mix to weather those trends.

Angela and Ted Chagnon launched their enterprise 35 years ago last month

“During COVID, which was unusual, colleges got shut down; they’re doing well now, but they’re finding some fiscal restraints. Hospitals right now are finding some fiscal restraints as well; there have been some cuts there. And restaurants, in some cases, with inflation, have had to cut back, and valet services might be something that’s cut,” he explained.

“But we’ve expanded to ski resorts and casinos and still have medical facilities, colleges, and independent parking lots. So we have a wide range of industries that we service,” he added. “So we do well; one industry might be seeing some cuts or finding some fiscal restraints, and something else might be flourishing. And some states might be doing better than others. It’s never completely smooth sailing.”

The pandemic, as Chagnon noted, was indeed unusual, and particularly challenging, as colleges, casinos, and ski resorts shut down and hospitals cut way back on visitor traffic.

“We had to evolve and adapt, and we had to lay a lot of people off, but here’s what we did: we went back to our hospital clients especially and said, ‘is there anything you need us to do? You don’t need us to transport anyone. You don’t need any parking services, but what can we do for you?’

“And as things progressed, we ended up staffing a lot of COVID testing sites. We were greeting people, lining up the parking, queuing them up, checking them in. That rolled into screener services at a lot of facilities where you would come in and we’d check your temperature, and we’d ask you an array of questions pertaining to travel and things like that before you could enter the hospital. We’d register you. Because the hospitals were short-staffed, and we had a lot of people that had been working with us for a long time, and we wanted to retain them.”

Two scenes from last month’s 35th anniversary celebration, a family-friendly event that drew about 500 people.

It was a time of pivoting and resilience for most businesses, he noted.

“Everyone just said, ‘what do we need to do to keep the lights on?’ Because we still had bills to pay, mortgages and insurance and leases on vehicles. You still had to charge through that and make it happen. So we were fortunate that we had a decent number of people that were willing to do that,” he continued. “I was here at work every day just fighting through those challenges. It was a difficult time.”

Shifting into the Next Gear

With the pandemic well in the rear view — literally and figuratively — Valet Park of America continues to grow its services and footprint while maintaining that culture the Chagnons value. Last month, the company marked 35 years with a family-oriented celebration in its expansive parking lot, featuring inflatables, rock climbing, cornhole, face painting, and other activities.

“That brought about 500 people here — about 200 employees and all their kids and their spouses — and it was a very much a family environment for everyone to celebrate,” Ted said.

The event also individually recognized employees who had been with the company for 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 years. “We wanted to start with the fifth year, but we had over 150 employees that were here more than five years and a large number of employees over 10 years, and would have been here for two days celebrating each one of them individually,” he said.

“We take pride in our employees’ tenure and the environment that we provide for them,” he added. “It’s a company that can’t run on its own. You can’t have just one person or two people running it. You need a large, supportive team behind you.”

The company also invests in plenty of training for its employees, he told BusinessWest. “We do a lot of training year-round for all our staff because we feel it’s important to make sure that they’re educated, that they know the business, and it gives them opportunity to advance.

“And it helps maintain our culture, too, because we’re in the people business, any way you look at it. We might be in the parking business, we might be in transportation, but it takes people to provide those services, and our employees are really our greatest asset.”

That culture extends to community involvement in many ways as well, supporting organizations like the USO, Jenna’s Blessing Bags, and the various foundations of the company’s medical clients — not to mention encouraging employee volunteerism with nonprofits and charitable events, like the annual UMass Cancer Walk. And those efforts are multiplied across the company’s seven states.

Looking ahead, Chagnon said Valet Park of America will continue to grow smartly and innovate in a number of ways — like its adoption some years ago of automation in the parking process at many sites.

“It’s a company that can’t run on its own. You can’t have just one person or two people running it. You need a large, supportive team behind you.”

“We distribute magnetic parking gates and started building our own entrance and exit payment kiosks for parking garages and parking lots. We kind of branched off into that a little bit to try to be a multi-faceted service provider for our clients.

“We try to control costs for them, provide a very good service, evolve, and adapt to their needs as a vendor or partner. And I think we do that well,” he continued. “Every year we see growth, and it’s primarily because of the services that we provide and the quality that we provide and a lot of good referrals.”

Angela agreed. “Our culture is so important to us, and it always has been. It’s something we focus on every year when we talk about our goals. We make sure to maintain, as best we can, communication and relationships with all the employees as we continue to grow,” she told BusinessWest. “And we have seen that nice, steady growth … obviously minus the COVID years.”

“We’re just looking forward to the next number of years,” Ted added. “Hopefully we have quite a few ahead of us.”

Springfield BID Gets Creative in Efforts to Promote Downtown

By George O'Brien July 17, 2025

Commercial Real Estate Special Coverage

Pushing the Envelope

Michelle Grout at the ‘Odyssey’ installation at Tower Square Park, one of the BID’s attempts to “push the envelope” in efforts to promote Springfield and bring people to the city.

Michelle Grout says she’s still getting emails and texts and seeing posts on social media platforms regarding the head-turning art installation in Tower Square Park known as “Odyssey,” featuring three seven-foot-tall pigeons and a Campbell’s soup can.

Not as many as when it first appeared a month or so ago, but they’re still coming in, with most of them positive in nature and candid about how nice it is to have something new and different downtown.

Her favorite missive is from a family not living in Springfield — they didn’t say where they were from — that jumped on a new reason to come to the city.

“The very first day, we had a post on social media … a family said, ‘we hadn’t been downtown in three years, but when we saw this, we know we had to come downtown for lunch,’” said Grout, president of the Springfield Business Improvement District (BID), which brought “Odyssey” to the park with support from several member sponsors. “They went to Hot Table and sat under the pigeons and had lunch.

“It’s doing its job — it’s got people talking, and it’s bringing people downtown,” she said of the installation, adding that, for the BID, the project is perhaps the most visible manifestation of ongoing efforts to do things differently when it comes to promoting the downtown and bringing people there, which is, in a nutshell, the agency’s mission.

“If you want the same results, keep doing the same things,” she said. “We don’t want the same results; we really want to try to push the envelope and get people to start thinking about Springfield as a destination again. We want to give people a reason to come.”

“Odyssey” will be on display until Labor Day, she added, and there will be other efforts to spur talk and visits — everything from a planned new mural project to a grilled cheese and tomato soup day at “Odyssey.”

These efforts coincide with new developments downtown, a rise in the number of people living there, and optimism about what’s to come, said Grout, who grew up in the city and remembers taking the bus downtown as a kid and going to the Steiger’s that sat near where those pigeons now do.

“It’s a balance of live, work, and play — it can’t be all people who live here, it can’t be all people who work here, and you can’t solely rely on people who visit here.”

The project at 31 Elm St., conversion of the former hotel into 70 units of market-rate and workforce housing, has been a catalyst for more development, with new initiatives, such as replacement of the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse — she contends that the new facility needs to be downtown — creating speculation and anticipation.

Meanwhile, the tenants at 31 Elm are making an economic impact, which generates more anticipation about other residential initiatives in the planning stages.

“There are people from that building that we see all the time in their new routines,” she explained. “They go to the farmers market, they get their coffee at Palazzo, they go to Nosh … they’re investing in their new home,” she explained. “That’s one thing that attracts someone to live in a downtown — they have these amenities; we just need to come up with the amenities. It’s a balance of live, work, and play — it can’t be all people who live here, it can’t be all people who work here, and you can’t solely rely on people who visit here.”

There are certainly challenges in the BID district, Grout said, adding that many office buildings have not fully recovered from the aftereffects of COVID on where people work. And some of these properties may now be better suited for housing, although retrofitting them will be expensive. Meanwhile, some properties require extensive investments to host any kind of tenant, given modern standards and changing needs, and the costs are, in many instances, prohibitive.

String lighting, as seen here on Worthington Street, is one of many BID initiatives to beautify downtown Springfield.

But overall, there is energy, optimism, and movement to create that needed balance, she said, adding that it’s a different downtown than the one she grew up with, but one with many strong assets and great potential.

For this issue and its focus on commercial real estate, we talked with Grout about how the BID is getting more creative as it carries out its mission, and ever more diligent in its efforts to put the city’s best foot forward, whether it’s with flowers, string lights, or art in the park.

Optimistic View

The large windows in Grout’s office at 1319 Main St. face south and provide direct views of the MassMutual Center and its marquee.

“I can’t miss what’s going on; I have no excuse to say I didn’t know what’s happening,” she joked, adding that she doesn’t need this view to know what’s going on across Bruce Landon Way — or at any of the other downtown venues downtown.

In fact, it’s her job to know — or at least one small part of her job, one that she arrived at after spending several years in residential real estate and a decade at the BID. She started there as administrative assistant to Director Chris Russell, then Operations director, then interim director when Russell stepped down three years now, and now director.

She’s seen and been through quite a bit over her 12 years with the agency, including what she called the “ebb and flow” of the downtown, a global pandemic and its many impacts, and now, what she describes as a resurgence in development over the past several years.

That resurgence has taken many forms, is both public and private in nature, and has involved several different properties, including 31 Elm St.; ongoing efforts to redevelop the Clocktower Building and adjacent Colonial Block into more housing and ground-floor retail; ambitious work to revitalize several long-vacant or mostly vacant properties on Worthington Street in the city’s entertainment district; the new Convention Center Carpark and the adjoining space, which is being activated for events; renovation of Court Square; the new Hope for Youth & Families Arts Center; and more.

“These investments are very inspirational and, I’m sure all would agree, necessary,” said Grout, adding that these initiatives and others will bring more people and vibrancy to a downtown the BID serves in many different ways — specifically, 221 parcels across an area stretching from West Columbus Avenue to Chestnut Street (but also Mattoon Street and the Quadrangle), and from just south of State Street to the Arch.

These include what Grout called supplemental services beyond what the city provides to keep the downtown clean and safe — from beautification efforts and lighting to broad economic development initiatives.

Indeed, the BID was awarded a $100,000 grant from the state Executive Office of Economic Development to subsidize new businesses and fill vacant storefronts in the district, she explained, adding that 13 ventures took advantage of the program, earning grants ranging from $7,500 to $15,000.

The farmers’ market in Tower Square Park is another BID initiative to activate downtown spaces and bring people to the city.

The BID is also charged with marketing the downtown, an assignment that takes on many forms, from robust programming to a website that that includes a calendar of upcoming events, snapshots of downtown restaurants with links to their websites, and listings of hotels and attractions, including MGM Springfield, Riverfront Park, the Springfield Museums, and the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Meanwhile, with programming, the BID has moved away from outdoor concerts, she explained, and much more toward promoting venues that offer live music, from MGM Springfield to Theodores’ to the Student Prince.

“We’ve pivoted to more destination placement, complimentary support to what’s already happening to grow a broader audience for that,” she said, adding that the “Odyssey” installation falls squarely into the category of marketing and promotion, although it is certainly non-traditional in nature.

As she talked about how it arrived in Springfield, Grout said the Downtown Boston Alliance had worked with a Quebec-based company called EXMURO on its Winteractive, a winter arts exhibition, and introductions were made.

“We saw the success they had in bringing people back to their district for a unique and unexpected experience, and the impact it had,” she explained. “And we thought that, on a Springfield scale, we could find the right piece to do the same thing, and after a few months of consulting, we landed on this piece.”

“Odyssey” has been in display in several cities — it was in Quebec City last fall, for example — but this is its first appearance in the U.S. And, as Grout noted, it has garnered attention and generated talk, which was the goal.

“People would ask, ‘what’s it for, what’s it about?’” she told BusinessWest. “My answer is getting people talking — it’s given people another reason to come down, another block to walk, another sight to see.”

Art and Soul

And there will be more efforts like it — although certainly not exactly like it — to keep creating a buzz, said Grout, noting there will be other art installations in other locations.

Meanwhile, another of her primary goals is to build on existing collaborations with community partners and “work smarter, not harder,” as she put it.

“We want to build efficiencies within everyone’s initiatives,” she explained. “You see a lot of people working at the same thing; if they all work together, it would be more efficient.”

As an example, she cited the relationship between the BID and the MassMutual Center and its marketing team. The two entities started working more closely together two years ago, and since that commitment, both have seen dramatic increases in engagement and followers on social media platforms, with the BID’s rising 18% and the MassMutual Center’s 65%. This surge has coincided with an increase in acts and a schedule that attracts people of all ages, she noted.

Another collaborative effort involves the Springfield Cultural Council, said Grout, adding that the agencies are working on several different initiatives, including a new mural project now in the planning stages and dependent on grant funding, as well as Art on Market Street, a free drop-in art program for young people slated for Saturdays this summer.

The downtown farmers market, meanwhile, has become a Friday tradition in the city. Presented by Country Bank, it runs from June until the end of September and features several local vendors, live music, and family-friendly activities.

Then, there are ongoing efforts to make the downtown clean and safe, which play a huge role in its overall success.

“If it looks good, people feel good, and that makes them want to come back and not be afraid to walk another block, go to another place, and see another site,” she explained, adding that these efforts go well beyond watering plants and picking up trash. “It takes a village.”

Indeed, it does. And in the village of downtown Springfield, there is progress, anticipation, and, yes, talk. And not just about the three pigeons and a Campbell’s soup can.

Picture This

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

Picture This

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Driving Toward Literacy

Balise Toyota recently made a $5,000 donation to Link to Libraries for the Stephen Kaplan and Susan Jaye-Kaplan Community Legacy Fund, which has been matched by Toyota Motor Sales through the Toyota Dealer Match Program, resulting in a $10,000 total donation. Link to Libraries distributes books to local schools and children in need, and the legacy fund supports special requests of books beyond what the organization’s programs typically provide.

Pictured, from left: Ken Maffia, general manager of Balise Toyota; Laurie Flynn, president and CEO of Link to Libraries; and Ben Sullivan, COO of Balise Auto Group.

Community Giving

Monson Savings Bank President and CEO Dan Moriarty (left) and Executive Vice President and COO Michael Rouette (right), who also serves as board chair and chief volunteer officer of the YMCA of Greater Springfield, recently presented a $3,000 donation to the Scantic Valley YMCA branch. They met with YMCA of Greater Springfield President and CEO Dexter Johnson (second from left) and branch Executive Director Debbie Kelder (third from left) to deliver the gift in person. The Scantic Valley YMCA earned this donation by being one of the top 10 vote recipients in Monson Savings Bank’s 2025 Community Giving Initiative.

YMCA of Greater Springfield President and CEO Dexter Johnson (second from left) and branch Executive Director Debbie Kelder (third from left)

Bikes Fight Cancer

The Bikes Fight Cancer Charity Ride, powered by Valley Solar, took place on June 14, starting and finishing at Tree House Brewing Co. in Deerfield. Hundreds of participants rode distances from 25 to 50 miles in honor of those impacted by cancer, supported by volunteers along the way. This year’s ride raised a record $250,000 in rider donations, 100% of it supporting critical research initiatives, local cancer care programs, and patient services at organizations like the Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, CHD’s Cancer House of Hope, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Cancer Connection. (Photo by Simple Truth Imaging)

The Bikes Fight Cancer Charity Ride, powered by Valley Solar, took place on June 14, starting and finishing at Tree House Brewing Co. in Deerfield (Photo by Simple Truth Imaging)

Open for Outpatient Care

To mark the completion of construction of the S. Prestley and Helen Blake Ambulatory Care Center at Johnson Memorial Hospital’s outpatient campus in Enfield, a blessing and ribbon-cutting ceremony were held on June 26. The 42,000-square-foot center features outpatient surgical services with four operating rooms, two procedure rooms, and 20 pre- and post-operative bays, as well as diagnostic imaging services including CT scans, X-rays, mammography, bone density scans, and ultrasounds. The Blakes, longtime supporters of Johnson Memorial Hospital, donated $10 million toward the ambulatory care center named in their honor.

To mark the completion of construction of the S. Prestley and Helen Blake Ambulatory Care Center at Johnson Memorial Hospital’s outpatient campus in Enfield, a blessing and ribbon-cutting ceremony were held on June 26

Janis Santos Scholarship

Holyoke Chicopee Springfield (HCS) Head Start recently awarded its 2025 Janis Santos Scholarship to Barbara Torres Marzan (right). She has been with HCS Head Start for close to four years and is currently an infant/toddler teacher. She was presented with the $2,000 scholarship to continue her studies at Springfield Technical Community College. Three years ago, the organization launched this annual recognition, created by Santos (left), former CEO of HCS Head Start, to support current HCS staff, parents, and Head Start alumni who are pursuing a degree in early education and care but may be encountering financial hardship.

Holyoke Chicopee Springfield (HCS) Head Start recently awarded its 2025 Janis Santos Scholarship to Barbara Torres Marzan (right); Janis Santos (left)

New & Notable Business Expo

On June 5, the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual New & Notable Business Expo at the Inn on Boltwood, showcasing more than 25 of the chamber’s newest members and their products and services. Presented by Integrity Development & Construction, this summer event brought together more than 100 community members to network, explore, and celebrate the latest additions to the Greater Amherst business landscape.

On June 5, the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual New & Notable Business Expo at the Inn on Boltwood. (Photo by Alexia Cota Photography)

Agenda

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

Agenda

Healthcare Heroes Nominations

Through July 25: In the spring of 2017, BusinessWest and its sister publication, the Healthcare News, created a new recognition program called Healthcare Heroes. It was launched with the theory that there are heroes working across this region’s wide, deep, and all-important healthcare sector, and that there was no shortage of fascinating stories to tell and individuals and groups to honor. The nomination deadline for the class of 2025 has been extended to Friday, July 25. Potential honorees may be nominated in eight categories: Patient/Resident/Client Care Provider; Health/Wellness Administrator; Emerging Leader; Community Health; Health Educator; Innovation in Health/Wellness; Collaboration in Health/Wellness; and Lifetime Achievement. Nominations can be submitted at businesswest.com/healthcareheroes/nominations. Elms College is the presenting sponsor of Healthcare Heroes, and Holyoke Medical Center is a partner sponsor.

‘Why Feedback Fails’ Webinar

July 22: Everything DiSC, a Wiley brand known for advancing workplace effectiveness through personality-based insights, will host a live webinar titled “Why Feedback Fails: Guiding Managers Through Constructive Communication” at 11 a.m. This free, 60-minute session is designed to equip managers with tools and strategies to deliver feedback that is strong, actionable, and motivating, ultimately improving team engagement and performance. Led by Mark Scullard, senior director of Product Innovation at Everything DiSC, the webinar will explore the importance of delivering feedback effectively, why giving and receiving feedback is often challenging, feedback superpowers and limiters unique to each DiSC style, how to tailor feedback based on an employee’s DiSC profile, and actionable strategies for immediate workplace application. With communication and team dynamics continuing to be top priorities for organizations, this session will offer timely insights to help managers unlock their team’s full potential through personalized, emotionally intelligent leadership. Registration is open at jkirleycollective.com/why-feedback-fails.

Clarinet Quintet Concert

July 27: The Springfield Chamber Players Clarinet Quintet will perform at the Sevenars Summer Concerts at 4 p.m. The Clarinet Quintet features clarinetist Christopher Cullen, violinists Masako Yanagita and Miho Matsuno, violist Yuko Naito-Gotay, and cellist Melissa Westgate. This performance will be dedicated to Mark Auerbach, who was the director of Public Relations and Marketing for the Springfield Chamber Players since the organization’s founding. The Clarinet Quintet’s program for Sevenars encompasses programmatic music and popular music by contemporary composers. It will feature a work by Oscar winner Bernard Herrmann, who wrote music for Alfred Hitchcock’s films.

Brew at the Zoo

Aug. 2: The Zoo in Forest Park’s seventh annual Brew at the Zoo, presented by PeoplesBank, will take place from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Brew at the Zoo is the zoo’s largest fundraiser of the year, raising money in support of its mission to inspire the community to respect and value the natural world through education, conservation, and rehabilitation. This event includes beer samples from more than 20 breweries, food trucks, live music, a raffle, and a chance to visit with the zoo’s more than 200 animals. A limited number of VIP tickets are available, which include extra time to sample the beer, as well as interactive animal encounters and keeper talks with members of the zoo’s animal care and education teams. The VIP timeslot runs from noon to 1:30 p.m., and tickets are limited. The zoo will be closed to the public for this ticketed event on Aug. 2. Advance tickets are required, and all IDs will be checked at the door. No one under 21 will be admitted. For a list of participating breweries and to purchase tickets, visit www.forestparkzoo.org/brew.

People on the Move

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

People on the Move

James Barbier

Zonglin Li

Timothy Wang

Dietz & Company Architects Inc. announced that James Barbier, Zonglin Li, and Timothy Wang have all joined the firm in the role of architectural associate. Barbier recently earned his bachelor of architecture degree from the Syracuse University School of Architecture, where he completed his thesis exploring kinematic systems and how they can be used to create interactive facades that respond to environmental phenomena. He is also currently exploring the potential of using topological joinery to create wooden structures that satisfy design for disassembly and adaptive reuse strategies. Barbier’s experience includes internships in which he worked on log cabin homes, multi-family housing, and medical buildings. He also participated in research investigating how architecture can be used to design opportunities in low-income communities. Li interned at Dietz & Company last summer and worked at the firm during breaks throughout his final year of school. He recently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with his bachelor of architecture degree, where his thesis focused on reimagining Penn Station through the perspective of interior urbanism and structured improvisation. He investigated how interior public spaces can operate as urban systems, merging the boundaries between circulation, commerce, and public life, and suggested areas that redefined urban movement and fostered new layers of interaction between the old and new city systems. Li also participated in the construction of Rise, Repeat, a pavilion structure exploring modular repetition and material economy through standard construction components, featured at the BuildFest 2024 Woodstock Pavilions. Wang recently earned his master of architecture degree from the University of Hartford, where his thesis focused on transforming an underutilized park in San Francisco’s Chinatown into a culture and arts center. His concept reinterpreted traditional Chinese architectural elements to match the contemporary style of the building while still making subtle gestures at the history. While completing his degree, Wang interned with architectural firms in Connecticut, where he worked on high-end residential, master planning, and K-12 educational projects.

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The Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts’ trustees of the Order of William Pynchon announced their selection of two local residents as this year’s Pynchon Medal recipients, Paul Lambert and Anthony Russo. Lambert has served as president and CEO of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra since 2022, having initially joined as interim director. He guided the organization through a period of significant challenges, resolving contractual disputes and restoring its operational stability. In so doing, he ensured that live classical music remains a part of the region’s cultural landscape. Under his leadership, the symphony has embraced cultural diversity in its programming to attract broader audiences throughout the region. Prior to joining the symphony, Lambert spent two decades at Springfield’s Basketball Hall of Fame, where he developed community engagement initiatives that connected the city’s residents, especially young people, with the organization’s programs. He continues his community involvement through the Springfield Rotary Club, where he has helped establish programs for those in need, including a monthly meal service for the region’s unhoused population. As vice president of the Agawam City Council, Russo has distinguished himself through responsive leadership and an approach to public service that extends well beyond traditional council duties. He has shown exceptional commitment to the community’s most vulnerable residents through hands-on charitable work and personal sacrifice. He donates his entire council salary to local charitable organizations and families in need, with a special focus during the holidays on ensuring no child goes without. For several years, he has made annual visits to local Toys for Tots drives, arriving with a trunk full of toys purchased with his council earnings to benefit children in need. In service to Agawam’s elderly population, Russo organized the Sand for Seniors program, personally ensuring that more than 60 residents receive sand for safe home access during treacherous winter months, while also volunteering regularly at the Agawam Senior Center for meal service and social activities. The presentation of the Pynchon Medal and celebration will take place this fall, with a date and time to be announced.

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Alexarey Overbaugh

Pittsfield Cooperative Bank announced the appointment of Alexarey Overbaugh to assistant branch manager of its Williams Street, Pittsfield location. Since joining the team in November 2021, Overbaugh has consistently brought dedication and excellence to every role. Starting as a teller at the bank’s South Street branch, she quickly became known for exceptional customer service and a strong work ethic. In March 2024, she was promoted to head teller at the newly opened Williams Street branch, where she helped establish smooth operations from day one. Now, she continues to grow professionally as the assistant branch manager, bringing leadership, experience, and a deep commitment to both team success and community service. With nearly a decade of experience in customer service and sales, Overbaugh has built a reputation for reliability, leadership, and strong client relationships. She began her career in 2015 in retail, gaining valuable frontline experience and a solid foundation in customer care.

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Natalia Castagno

Heather Haskins

Holyoke Community College (HCC) recently added two members to its Institutional Advancement team: Natalia Castagno as assistant director of Alumni Relations, and Heather Haskins as assistant director of Annual Giving. Prior to HCC, Castagno worked at Springfield College as senior assistant director of Undergraduate Admissions and coordinator of Diversity Recruitment. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brigham Young University and is pursuing a master’s degree in education from Springfield College. Haskins, a 2020 graduate of HCC, returns to the college after serving as Advancement Operations associate at the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. She began her HCC education at the age of 15 as a dual enrollment student from Westfield Technical Academy. After receiving her associate degree in business administration, she transferred to Bay Path University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in nonprofit management and marketing.

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Alera Group, a national, independent financial and insurance services firm, announced it has appointed Adam Trivilino regional director for Commercial Lines in New England. In this role, he will lead the Commercial Lines service strategy for upper mid-market and large accounts with complex insurance needs. His focus includes standardizing operations, implementing growth initiatives, and fostering stronger collaboration among Alera Group offices to enhance client service across the region. Trivilino brings a risk management mindset and broad experience in both sales and client service, having worked with the Baldwin Group, RogersGray, and other financial institutions. His appointment is one of several recent personnel moves supporting Alera Group’s broader regional integration strategy. Outside of work, he is committed to community service and has volunteered with youth organizations including Kiwanis Clubs and the Railroad Street Youth Project. Alera Group also announced that Jessica Morin has been named director of Personal Lines, New England. In this role, she is leading efforts to unify regional offices, standardize operations, and improve client segmentation, ensuring products and services are better aligned with client needs. She is also exploring new ways to enhance service delivery and drive deeper client engagement. With 15 years of industry experience, Morin brings particular expertise in managing high-net-worth portfolios. She holds several professional designations, including certified insurance service representative elite and small business coverage specialist, and is currently pursuing her certified personal risk manager certification. She is involved in her local community, having volunteered and coached for youth softball leagues.

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Al Bedini Jr.

NBT Bank announced it has named Al Bedini Jr. branch manager of the bank’s office located at 331 State Road in North Adams. He has 37 years of banking experience. Most recently, he served as assistant branch manager with Greylock Federal Credit Union. Prior to that, he held roles with TD Bank and MountainOne Bank. Bedini received his education from Berkshire Community College and the University of Massachusetts. He also participated in the New England Leadership Development Program at Babson College. In addition, he holds certificates from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Active in the community, he has served on the Northern Berkshire United Way allocations committee for the past two years.

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Polish National Credit Union (PNCU) announced the promotion of Joe Pereira to vice president of Information Technology. In his new role, he will continue to lead all aspects of the credit union’s IT strategy, infrastructure, and cybersecurity initiatives. Pereira brings more than two decades of technology experience across higher education, enterprise consulting, and financial services. Since joining PNCU, he has played a critical role in advancing the credit union’s digital operations, ensuring system reliability and data security, and positioning the organization for long-term growth in a fast-changing technology landscape. Prior to joining PNCU, Pereira served as senior systems administrator at Western New England University, where he oversaw more than 120 physical and virtual servers, deployed large-scale virtualization environments, and managed systems critical to security, communication, and academic services. He also previously worked as a network engineer and technical consultant, specializing in virtual infrastructure, SQL administration, and multi-site network connectivity. He earned his bachelor’s degree in network engineering from the New England Institute of Technology in Warwick, R.I.

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Brennan LaFlamme

Bill Olejarz

Katherine Ravenelle

Florence Bank recently presented its 2025 President’s Award to three staff members for exceptional service. Established in 1995, the President’s Award recognizes outstanding performance, customer service, and overall contribution to Florence Bank. Honorees are nominated by their colleagues at the bank. This year’s award recognizes Brennan LaFlamme, an IRA specialist in the bank’s main office in Florence; Bill Olejarz, an information security risk analyst, also in the main office; and Katherine Ravenelle, teller operations manager in West Springfield. LaFlamme has six years of industry experience and has served as a teller supervisor and customer service specialist. Responsible for maintaining all IRA accounts and keeping up to date on regulations, he provides IRA trainings for customers and staff. Currently working toward a degree in cybersecurity at UMass Amherst, LaFlamme is active in the community, serving as a board member for the Therapeutic Equestrian Center in Holyoke. With four years in the industry, Olejarz assesses cybersecurity risk to help protect sensitive data and systems, reviews vendor security, and works with departments to support compliance and ensure security controls are in place to reduce threats. He is skilled at third-party risk management, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity and risk reporting, security awareness training, and cross-department collaboration. Olejarz holds a master’s degree in cybersecurity management from Bay Path University, a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Western New England University, and an associate degree in computer information systems from Springfield Technical Community College. Ravenelle has 13 years of banking experience. She manages teller line operations to ensure quality service is provided while adhering to policies, procedures, and security. She handles customer transactions, account openings, and account servicing, and is skilled at customer service as well as adapting to different markets and customer needs, branch operations, and fraud prevention and detection.

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The Foundation for TJO Animals announced that Janna Brown has been named its new executive director. After a year of serving as interim director and five years as a board member, Brown is bringing her lifelong passion for animal welfare and her signature energy to the organization full-time. Before stepping into nonprofit leadership, Brown spent two decades as a meteorologist, most recently spending nine years at Western Mass News, where she became a household name. Her heart, however, has long belonged to the animals at the Thomas J. O’Connor Animal Control and Adoption Center on Cottage Street, where she volunteered weekly. During her time in the spotlight, Brown helped bring visibility to TJO’s mission, with the foundation being named Western Mass News’ charity of choice, a reflection of her personal commitment to the cause.

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Country Bank announced the promotions of Katelin Sherman, David Micka, and Jason McClure to the role of credit officer. These promotions reflect each individual’s leadership, expertise, and significant contributions to the bank’s ongoing success. Sherman brings 13 years of industry experience and a strategic mindset to her role. She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance with minors in Spanish and sociology from Bryant University, as well as an MBA in entrepreneurial thinking and innovative practices from Bay Path University. Her diverse academic background and forward-thinking approach play a key role in strengthening Country Bank’s commercial credit and lending capabilities. She also co-leads the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee at Country Bank. Micka, with 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, is recognized for his analytical strengths and commitment to exceptional service. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business studies through the University Without Walls (UWW) program at UMass Amherst. He is passionate about community banking and values Country Bank’s strong commitment to the communities it serves. McClure offers over 25 years of banking experience with deep expertise in commercial and industrial underwriting. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an associate degree in accounting and finance from the New England College of Business and Finance, as well as certification from Omega Financial Training. His technical skills and industry knowledge significantly enhance the bank’s credit evaluation processes. Together, these team members play a pivotal role in assessing credit risk and guiding sound lending decisions. Country Bank also congratulates two of its team members, Jodie Gerulaitis, first vice president of Community Relations, and Jennifer Bujnevicie, vice president of Retail Banking and regional manager, on their recent graduation from the American Bankers Assoc. (ABA) Stonier Graduate School of Banking. The ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking is the industry’s leading graduate banking program. Graduates receive both a Stonier diploma and a Wharton leadership certificate.

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Stanley Walczyk

Greylock Federal Credit Union’s board of directors voted unanimously to appoint Stanley Walczyk as director emeritus in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the credit union. In April, the board of directors voted to confer the director emeritus designation on Walczyk. Individuals who are appointed directors emeriti function as an advisory committee to the board of directors. Walczyk’s designation reflects a two-year term. Walczyk was board chairman from 2018 to 2023 and served on a variety of committees during his tenure. He was the president of O’Laughlin’s Home Care Pharmacy, which was acquired by and now operates as Market 32 Price Chopper Pharmacy. He was also president of the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy and the Massachusetts Pharmacist Assoc. and a member of the National Assoc. of Retail Druggists. Walczyk was appointed as a trustee of Berkshire Community College by the governor, serving two five-year terms, and was also appointed by the governor to the Massachusetts Drug Formulary Commission. Additionally, he is a past president of the Dalton Rotary Club.

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Holyoke Chicopee Springfield (HCS) Head Start recently announced the 2025 recipient of its Janis Santos Scholarship. Three years ago, the organization launched this annual recognition, created by Santos, former CEO of HCS Head Start, to help address the shortage of early childhood teachers. Knowing the importance of supporting this profession, Santos established this scholarship to support current HCS staff, parents, and all Head Start alumni who are pursuing a degree in early education and care but may be encountering financial hardship. Santos, along with Nicole Blais, HCS Head Start’s current CEO, awarded the 2025 honor to Barbara Torres Marzan. She has been with HCS Head Start for close to four years and is currently an infant/toddler teacher. She was presented with the $2,000 scholarship to continue her studies at Springfield Technical Community College. Previous honorees include Mayra Felix, who recently completed her bachelor’s degree at Springfield College, and Notavious Andino-Galarza-Perez, who is currently studying at Columbia University.

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Olessa Stepanova

Longtime Boston-area TV news anchor and reporter Olessa Stepanova has joined Eversource as External Communications manager. In that role, she will help lead media engagement and storytelling across Massachusetts. With nearly two decades of newsroom experience and recent years in executive communications, Stepanova brings a relationship-first approach, journalistic instincts, and strategic perspectives to the energy industry. In her new role, she’ll serve as a media spokesperson and work closely with reporters, community partners, and public officials to communicate Eversource’s efforts to affordably advance the Commonwealth’s energy transition while ensuring safe, reliable service for customers and supporting its communities.

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Glenmeadow Inc., a provider of senior retirement lifestyle options, has selected Adetayo Olatinwo as vice president for Human Resources. She will lead the HR function, overseeing talent management, compensation, benefits, training, employee relations, and engagement, while ensuring compliance with employment law and contributing to the organization’s strategic goals and mission. She will also shape Glenmeadow’s relationships with the local secondary and post-secondary education partners to encourage senior living as a career path of choice. Olatinwo most recently served Trinity Health Of New England as Colleague and Labor Relations business partner and previously served Global Medical Response and the Mental Health Assoc. in human resources roles. She is a graduate of Western New England University and Springfield College.

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Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts (GSCWM) recently welcomed eight new and re-elected members to its board of directors, swearing them in during its annual meeting and volunteer recognition event. GSCWM’s board of directors now stands at 21 board members total, 19 adults and two girl members. The eight include Erika Dulmaine, Neliana Ferraro de Mitchell, Sara Flynn, Jennifer Hubert, Abigail Abena Mensah (Orleans Thompson), Jennifer Merton, Katie Rozenas-Hanson, and Prisha Konduru (girl member). A diverse group of community leaders and professionals, GSCWM’s board members are chosen to oversee the organization’s strategic planning, fund development, appointment of the CEO, finances, and interaction with a community that includes 6,000 girls across 186 cities and towns in Western and Central Massachusetts.

Company Notebook

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

Company Notebook

UMass Amherst Again Named to List of Best Value Colleges

AMHERST — UMass Amherst has once again been named to the Princeton Review’s guide of the nation’s Best Value Colleges, placing in the top 50 ranking for public schools for the fifth straight year in the 2025 edition of the guide. UMass Amherst slots in at 41 in this year’s public schools ranking, up nine positions from last year and the only New England public institution to make the top 50 for 2025 in the category. All 209 public and private schools listed in the guide scored exceptionally in areas of academics, affordable cost of attendance and/or financial aid, and strong career prospects for its graduates. The 68 public and 141 private institutions were chosen based on a return-on-investment (ROI) rating analysis of more than 40 data points, primarily collected from surveys of administrators at 650 colleges between the fall of 2024 and spring of 2025, as well as data from surveys of enrolled students and payscale.com’s surveys of alumni about their starting and mid-career salaries and job satisfaction. UMass Amherst also placed in the Top 20 Best Schools for Financial Aid (Public Schools) rankings at 12, one of only two New England institutions to make the list. The public schools in this category received the highest financial aid rating, which is based on school-reported data on the percentage of students who were determined to have need and received aid, the percentage of need met for those students, and the percentage of students whose need was fully met. In the past year, the flagship university of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was also named to the Princeton Review’s list of Top 50 Green Colleges for the ninth straight year, landing at 25th on the 2025 edition of the list, and UMass Dining earned the top spot on its list of Best Campus Food for an unprecedented eighth consecutive year.

Belt Technologies Certified by Great Place to Work

AGAWAM — Belt Technologies, manufacturer of PureSteel custom metal belt conveyor solutions, has been Great Place to Work certified for the second year in a row. Great Place to Work is a global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue and increased innovation. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Belt. Great Place to Work certification recognizes employers that create outstanding employee experiences. Becoming certified is a two-step process that includes surveying employees and completing a questionnaire about the company’s workforce dynamics, policies, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. In order to gain certification, a business needs to score a minimum of 65% on its evaluation. The average score for a company evaluation is 57%. Belt achieved a score of 93%.

bankESB Included in List of America’s Best-In-State Banks

EASTHAMPTON — bankESB has been recognized on the Forbes 2025 list of America’s Best-In-State Banks. This award is presented in collaboration with Statista, the statistics portal and industry ranking provider. Financial institutions serve as the foundation of the financial world, playing a critical role in maintaining the stability of global systems. America’s Best-In-State Banks 2025 aims to showcase the institutions most valued by residents in each state and to recognize the banks that have excelled in meeting the unique needs and expectations of their local communities. The ranking is based on an independent survey of over 26,000 customers in the U.S. Participants evaluated banks on several criteria, including trust, financial advice, customer services, digital services, branch services, and terms and conditions. They also rated the importance of these criteria. A sentiment analysis was conducted using the publicly available reviews and a score.

Bay Path Launches New Associate Degree in Nursing

LONGMEADOW — Bay Path University is launching a new associate of science in nursing (ASN) program to help address the national nursing shortage and create new entry points into the profession. The ASN program offers a flexible pathway for students to gain the knowledge, clinical experience, and credentials needed to take the NCLEX-RN exam and enter the workforce, typically within two years. For those with a non-nursing bachelor’s degree, the ASN can lead into Bay Path’s RN to BSN program, and ultimately into a master of science in nursing (MSN) or a doctorate-level nurse practitioner role. Courses follow a flexible, supportive model. Students without prior college coursework begin with two terms of online academics, followed by four terms of in-person clinical labs and practicums paired with online coursework. No prerequisites are required; all competencies are built into the curriculum. Bay Path is also launching a direct-entry MSN program for students with non-nursing bachelor’s degrees. This pathway enables graduates to earn RN licensure and an MSN, preparing them for leadership and teaching roles in healthcare. Applications for both programs are open now, with classes starting in September.

NEPM Wins Three Awards from Public Media Journalists Assoc.

SPRINGFIELD — The New England Public Media (NEPM) newsroom has received three 2025 Public Media Journalists Assoc. (PMJA) awards. Stations competed against others with similar-sized newsrooms. Former NEPM reporter Nancy Eve Cohen’s piece, “‘Another Level of Coverup’: How a Mass. Law Prevents Clergy Abuse Survivors from Getting Justice,” secured first place in the News Feature category. Cohen has done extensive reporting on criminal justice for survivors of child sexual abuse. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen teamed up with Republican reporter and editor Greta Jochem on a three-part series about asset forfeiture. Their piece, “Robin Hood or Legalized Theft? Why It’s Easy for Massachusetts Police to Seize Property,” won second place in the category of Collaborative Effort. Christensen also reports and edits for the Shoestring, and Jochem has served as an investigative editor at the Republican since 2023. Reporter Ben James secured a first place PMJA award, also in the category of Collaborative Effort, for his five-part series “Life on the Connecticut.” This was a collaboration with New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public, and the New England News Collaborative. James is a national, award-winning print and audio journalist whose work has also appeared on NPR, the BBC, and more.

Bulkley Richardson Prepares YMCA Camp for Opening

SPRINGFIELD — Bulkley Richardson recently returned to the YMCA’s Stony Brook Acres Day Camp in Wilbraham for its second annual day dedicated to preparing the grounds for campers to arrive. Thirty attorneys and staff turned out to paint, clean, and do yardwork on the 20-acre property. “We chose the YMCA as a firmwide community project to honor the legacy of our partner, Jeff Poindexter, who passed away in 2024,” said Dan Finnegan, Bulkley Richardson’s managing partner. “Jeff knew summer camp was a privilege not all kids had access to and was an advocate of advancing equity in our local neighborhoods. This is our way of honoring Jeff’s longtime commitment to the YMCA and giving back to the community.”

River Valley Counseling Center Becomes Member of ServiceNet

NORTHAMPTON — Two of the Pioneer Valley’s leading nonprofit community mental healthcare providers are coming together on July 1, as River Valley Counseling Center (RVCC) becomes a member organization of ServiceNet. Since 1986, RVCC has operated under the umbrella of Valley Health Systems (VHS), which includes Holyoke Medical Center, Holyoke Medical Group, and Holyoke VNA Hospice Life Care. River Valley Counseling Center, established in 1953, employs approximately 350 staff who provide mental health treatment in Hampden and Hampshire counties. These include outpatient clinics in Holyoke, Chicopee, Easthampton, Springfield, and Westfield; services for students in dozens of schools and universities throughout the region; and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides in-person support to many local municipalities and businesses. ServiceNet, which had its start in 1965 when mental healthcare began shifting away from the Northampton State Hospital, now employs more than 2,500 staff in a variety of residential support and clinical programs, including outpatient clinics in Northampton, Greenfield, Holyoke, Amherst, and Pittsfield, and the PREP program in Holyoke for young people who have experienced psychosis. With ServiceNet becoming the new umbrella agency for River Valley, it will provide administrative support for RVCC and identify opportunities to further collaborate.

Incorporations

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

Incorporations

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

AGAWAM

Southbridge Liquors Inc., 1 South Bridge . Agawam, MA 01001. Jay Patel, same. Liquor store.

BECKET

Viridissima Ltd., 167 Leonhardt Road, Becket, MA 01223. Jenna O’Brien, same. Horticulture and design services.

CHICOPEE

Alcance Health Services Inc., 88 Sunflower Ave., Chicopee, MA 01013. Laura Melendez Diaz, same. Utilizing behavioral and mental health tools to assist individuals and families through individual and group services, based on biblical principles.

Selena C Corp., 22 Madison St., Chicopee, MA 01020. Sulaiman Aldulaimi, same. Purchasing truckloads of merchandise, including essential goods such as clothing, food, hygiene products, and household items, and giving these goods to individuals and families in need, with a focus on underserved and low-income populations.

EASTHAMPTON

The Color Collaborative Inc., 116 Pleasant St., Suite 228, Easthampton, MA 01027. Caroline Pocock, 38½ Grant St., Burlington, VT 05401.

EAST LONGMEADOW

Katame Elegance Barber Shop Inc., 671 North Main St., East Longmeadow, MA 01028. Jose Velasquez, same. Barber shop.

GREAT BARRINGTON

Laurel Lake Dam Inc., 55 Hurlburt Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230. Jeffrey Cohen, same. To own and maintain Laurel Lake Dam and control the water quality and elevation of Laurel Lake for the benefit of the inhabitants of the town of Stockbridge and for the public good.

HOLYOKE

FCHHC Holdco Inc., 187A High St., Holyoke, MA 01040. Marc Raynald Beaulieu, same. Holding company.

LONGMEADOW

Burton Anesthesia, P.C., 53 Inverness Lane, Longmeadow, MA 01106. Heather Burton, same. Nurse anesthetist.

Sobo Solutions Inc., 94 Churchill Dr., Longmeadow, MA 01106. Kathleen Sobo, same. Nurse anesthesiology and other nursing health services.

NORTH ADAMS

Gaffey Builders Inc., 35 Whitman St., North Adams, MA 01247. Patrick Gaffey, same. Residential and commercial building renovation and construction.

PITTSFIELD

Cape Verdean Aviators Assoc. Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Edilson Vaz Pires Gomes, same. Raises funds to provide grants, scholarships, and charity flights to underprivileged Cape Verdeans in U.S.; offers education on aviation topics; donates aviation school supplies; provides a career jumpstart to underprivileged youth by sponsoring their initial basic flight training; and provides a pathway for mentorship, networking, and learning opportunities.

Infectus Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Melike Ozturk, same. The purpose of this organization includes but is not limited to molecular tests for agricultural diseases.

Rising Team Inc., 82 Wendell Ave., Suite 100, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Jennifer Dulski, same. Custom software development and related services.

Wahconah Street Greenhouses Corp., 100 Wahconah St., Pittsfield, MA 01201. Thomas Dobert, same. Greenhouse nursery.

SOUTHWICK

Southwick Chimney Sweeps and Masonry Inc., 610 College Highway, Southwick, MA 01085. Kimberly Faria, 66 Janis Road, Westfield, MA 01085. Cleaning, repair, and maintenance of chimneys and related masonry services and materials.

SPRINGFIELD

Bathworks Group Inc., 169 Williams St., Springfield, MA 01151. Joel Coelho, 33 Grattan St., Chicopee, MA 01020. Remodeling and refinishing services.

Graceful Journeys Inc., 23 Dawes St., Springfield, MA 01109. Tanisha Daniels, same. Nonprofit committed to establishing a new, safe, supportive, and spiritually enriching environment for women in recovery, and empowering women to rebuild their lives through comprehensive healing, personal growth, and support.

RGL Transport Inc., 247 Merrimac Ave., Springfield, MA 01104. Raul Gomez Lugo, same. Transportation services.

The Victory Group Inc., 35 Willow St., Unit 201, Springfield, MA 01103. Stephen Roche, same. Consulting services on FOIA, public records, legislative services, and body-worn cameras, and other lawful business activities.

WALES

Mark Machine Inc., 97 Monson Road, Wales, MA 01081. Eamon McMahon, same. Machine shop.

WESTFIELD

Precision Kitchen & Bath Inc., 467 Loomis St., Westfield, MA 01085. Siarhei Sharbatsevich, same. Remodeling residential kitchens and bathrooms.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

ANI Construction and Management Inc., 117 Sikes Ave., West Springfield, MA 01089. Andrey Katykhin, same. Real estate investment.

Doing Business as Certificates

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

DBA Certificates

The following business certificates and/or trade names were issued or renewed during the month of June 2025.

BELCHERTOWN

Adventure Waits Travel LLC
12 Sylvan Circle
Jessica Stagnaro

Cold Spring Crafts
28 Doe Hollow
Andrew French

Cornerstone Health Advocates
15 Lamson Ave.
Stephan Corbin

Devon Lane Power Equipment
10 Ware Road
Thomas Shattuck, Judith Shattuck

JND Amusements
1 Barton Ave.
Jeff Edelman

Lucky Nails
39 Federal St., #4
Bac Son

Michele’s Country Accents
54 Orchard St.
Michele Santos

Nate Packaging LLC
39 Federal St., #4
Raymond Lewis

Oma’s Witch Crafts
326 Stebbins St.
Ernamary Dunne

Sherlock Test Prep
240 Warren Wright St.
David Holmes

PITTSFIELD

AT&T Authorized Retailer
800 Dalton Ave.
Prime Communications Retails LLC

Beautiful Berkshires
101 Oliver Ave.
Jean Hamilton

Berkshire Cannoli Co.
62 Saratoga Dr.
Marie Mele

Blue Rose Media
233 East New Lenox Road
Blue Rose Media LLC

CO Watercraft Inc.
123 Onota St.
Alberto Coronel Gonzalez

DiCarlo Home Improvement
77 New Hampshire Ave.
DiCarlo Home Improvement Inc.

Exclusive Training & Transportation
226 Onota St.
Mensah Francis

Hair by Jennifer
137 North St.
Jennifer DeLorge

Hf3 Fireproofing
82 Wendell Ave.
Herbert Fletcher

Holiday Inn Express
1055 South St.
Somnath LLC

Indie Readery and Records
314 North St.
Emma Lenski, Laurie Lenski

J&M Lawn Care
48 Winter St.
Michael Clemons

J.W.M. Sharpening Service
1652 West Housatonic St.
Jeremy Manzolini

Latinas413, CreaHub & Makerspace
123 North St.
Liliana Atanacio Garcia

Lavender
82 Wendell Ave.
Dilek Soysal

Manning Construction
24 Hollister St.
Scott Manning

NAPA Auto Parts Pittsfield
440 Merrill Road
James Johnson

Newell Street Transmission Repair
269 Newell St.
Robert Gaylord

Northeast Cutting Tools & Supplies
159 Brighton Ave.
Paul Procopio Sr.

Perseverance Cleaning Systems
11 Pleasure St.
Diogo Torres

Pretty Spooky Tours Salem
82 Wendell Ave.
Stephanie Ferris

Star Flair Events
963 North St.
Stella Asamoah

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Abby Care
59 Interstate Dr.
First Choice Home Health Care Services Inc.

Ashley Arms Apartments
131 Ashley Ave.
Ashley Arms Apartments

CARSTAR Fathers & Sons Collision Center
12 Sumner St.
Fathers & Sons Inc.

Christian Siller Home Improvement Specialist
293 Elm St.
Siller Home Improvement Specialist

Connecting Cultures Interpreters & Translators
19 Hill St.
Connecting Cultures Interpreters & Translators

Rettura Realty
210 Windsor St.
Vincenzo Rettura

Tailoring Boutique
20 Labelle St.
Tailoring Boutique

Tropical Smoothie Café
367 Memorial Ave.
Tropical Smoothie Café

Bankruptcies

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

Bankruptcies

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

Akiva, Wyatt-Ephraim
131 Vermont St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/05/2025

Amidon, Kimberly M.
1522 West St.
Barre, MA 01005
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/12/2025

Apodaca, Benjamin S.
Apodaca, Anna
a/k/a Kopiec, Anna
34 Pequot Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Chapter: 7
Date: 05/31/2025

Asher, Jeffrey
48 Taylor St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/12/2025

Benigno, Rasha D.
Benigno, Debra R.
135 North Plain Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Chapter: 7
Date: 05/31/2025

Cardaropoli, Alfonso
128 Eagle St.
Ware, MA 01082
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/06/2025

Chase, Robert J.
Chase, Sumi
11 Whispering Wind Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 05/31/2025

Collins, Michael Anthony
283 Wildermere St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/02/2025

Ford, Barbara Lynn
89 Thayer Road, Unit 3
Monson, MA 01057
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/05/2025

Fredette, Darryl L.
361 Hampden St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/13/2025

Johnson, Christine M.
34 Leatherleaf Circle
Springfield, MA 01109
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/12/2025

Kras, Jennifer R.
a/k/a Bendiksen, Jennifer R.
31 Conrad St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/13/2025

McInerney, Jean Marie
528 Crescent St.
Athol, MA 01331
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/11/2025

Melendez, Miguel A.
70 Highland Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/06/2025

Mohsin, Frances
a/k/a Nazario, Frances
51 Everett St.
Springfield, MA 01104-3425
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/11/2025

Pelkey, Keith A.
24 Western Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 05/31/2025

Reljic, Vojislav
a/k/a Relijic, Vojislav
20 Parker Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Date: 05/31/2025

Rosario, Yessica
18 East Hooker St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/13/2025

Rzasa, Anna Maria
30 Carlton St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/06/2025

Schools, Eric J.
Pholsook, Samroeng
929 Liberty St., 3rd. Fl.
Springfield, MA 01104
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/05/2025

Stewart, Denise
197 Denver St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/02/2025

Tardif, Stephanie
128 Eagle St.
Ware, MA 01082
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/06/2025

Vera Cruz, Brunilda
238 Maple St., Apt. F2
Agawam, MA 01001
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/05/2025

Wilson, Anthony
269 Stoney Hill Road, Apt. G5-202
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Chapter: 7
Date: 06/06/2025

Wright, Brian
372 Hillside Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 13
Date: 06/03/2025

Real Estate Transactions

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

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

155 East Buckland Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Christine Beggan
Seller: Phillip Sherwood-Berndt
Date: 06/09/25

CHARLEMONT

198 Main St.
Charlemont, MA 01339
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Shire Basecamp 413 LLC
Seller: Thomas C. Campbell
Date: 06/17/25

COLRAIN

2 Herzig Lane
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $659,000
Buyer: Frank J. Mooney
Seller: David E. Karbon INT
Date: 06/17/25

CONWAY

197 Shelburne Falls Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Anne Bigwood
Seller: Jerrold F. Axelson
Date: 06/09/25

194 Upper Baptist Hill Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Lianna Hart
Seller: David A. Barten
Date: 06/20/25

DEERFIELD

Pine Nook Road (off)
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $303,000
Buyer: Allen-Chase Foundation
Seller: Valeski INT
Date: 06/16/25

ERVING

32 High St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Warren Shaw
Seller: Morgan P. Hill
Date: 06/13/25

19 Pratt St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Curtis M. Chapin
Seller: Tracy E. Miner
Date: 06/16/25

GILL

61 Riverview Dr.
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $387,500
Buyer: Kole Kovacs
Seller: Kurt D. Kwader
Date: 06/20/2

GREENFIELD

34 Brookside Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $211,250
Buyer: Targaryen RT
Seller: Lucielle M. Hawks
Date: 06/18/25

309 Chapman St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Julia B. Fay
Seller: Steve Ozcelik
Date: 06/11/25

85 Columbus Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $339,000
Buyer: Crispin D. Youngberg
Seller: Jennifer E. Scelsi
Date: 06/20/25

320 Conway St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Nicole G. Miner
Seller: Julia T. Shaw
Date: 06/13/25

38 Cypress St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Russell A. Johnson
Seller: Philip G. Decato
Date: 06/16/25

166 Federal St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $367,500
Buyer: David A. Peters
Seller: Marc P. Houlihan
Date: 06/20/25

146 Leyden Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Timothy Brady
Seller: Robert M. Demers
Date: 06/20/25

184 Petty Plain Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Donovan Lee
Seller: Pioner Valley Habitat For Humanity
Date: 06/16/25

18 Silver Place
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Naples Home Buyers TR
Seller: Courchesne, Donna G., (Estate)
Date: 06/18/25

HEATH

134 Sumner Stetson Road
Heath, MA 01340
Amount: $439,000
Buyer: William E. Collins
Seller: Edith A. Crochiere
Date: 06/20/25

LEVERETT

108 Old Mountain Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $633,000
Buyer: James Dunne
Seller: Andrew P. Parker-Renga
Date: 06/17/25

MONTAGUE

26 Bulkley St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $282,100
Buyer: Diane J. Leonard
Seller: Jeanne E. Lapierre
Date: 06/09/25

392 Greenfield Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Suzanne Webber
Seller: Mark D. Fronckus
Date: 06/12/25

34 Highland St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $117,500
Buyer: Stephen E. Smith
Seller: Miner, Kenneth J., (Estate)
Date: 06/10/25

7 Oakman St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $329,900
Buyer: Kyle A. Dodge
Seller: Rodney E. Bergiel
Date: 06/18/25

486 Turners Falls Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Thomas R. Martin
Seller: Betsy Burnham
Date: 06/20/25

NORTHFIELD

217-I Adams Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $399,900
Buyer: Jason M. Bohannon
Seller: Ronald F. Ducharme
Date: 06/10/25

ORANGE

52 Kelton St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Jose R. Rivera
Seller: Claudia Correa
Date: 06/17/25

79 Marjorie St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $351,000
Buyer: Frank Price
Seller: Lisa Fernandez
Date: 06/16/25

16 Sandrah Dr.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $199,900
Buyer: Patrick Capparrille
Seller: Kelley, Robert J., (Estate)
Date: 06/18/25

326 West River St.
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Mason St Pierre
Seller: Paul W. Penerian
Date: 06/11/25

SUNDERLAND

50 Claybrook Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Matthew Hnatio
Seller: John G. Hansbury
Date: 06/12/25

8 Valley View Lane
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Cullen Shipman
Seller: Janet L. Ewing
Date: 06/16/25

WENDELL

Old Farley Road
Wendell, MA 01379
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Commonwealth Of Mass.
Seller: TS Mann Lumber Co. Inc.
Date: 06/16/25

WHATELY

45 State Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Megan C. West
Seller: Justin J. Wentzel
Date: 06/12/25

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

238 Colemore St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Beth A. Regnier
Seller: Carol A. Gawron
Date: 06/12/25

265 Colemore St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Janna Mayerski
Seller: Gary Lambert
Date: 06/20/25

297 Cooper St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Robert Rash
Seller: Kathleen Comeau
Date: 06/13/25

41 Denise Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Thomas Rule
Seller: Curran, Sandra J., (Estate)
Date: 06/16/25

11 Fox Farm Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $725,000
Buyer: Ratush FT
Seller: Global Home Properties LLC
Date: 06/13/25

46 Giffin Place
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $377,000
Buyer: Rusian Nepliuiev
Seller: Gary J. Fortier
Date: 06/16/25

24 Homer St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $241,250
Buyer: Jospeh T. Ceccarini
Seller: C. & Hazel M. Phillips RET
Date: 06/11/25

907 Main St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Thanwah H. Yoshaa
Seller: Beck FT
Date: 06/20/25

241 Meadow St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $338,000
Buyer: Emily Nalewanski
Seller: Laura R. Butman
Date: 06/11/25

55 Muriel Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Timothy C. Demars
Seller: Francis M. Disanti
Date: 06/20/25

94 Norris St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Mehmet Citlak
Seller: Veighey Sr., Richard D., (Estate)
Date: 06/20/25

43-45 Orlando St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $416,500
Buyer: Joyce A. Stevens
Seller: 716 Spring Valley LLC
Date: 06/18/25

131 Ridgeway Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $975,000
Buyer: Armando Roman
Seller: Valiantsin Zhmaidziak
Date: 06/20/25

74 South Park Ter.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Tyler Peich
Seller: Joseph E. Cardin
Date: 06/13/25

53 William St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $259,000
Buyer: Luigi Calabrese
Seller: Ivette Nunez
Date: 06/13/25

86 Willow Brook Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: FH Vision Inc.
Seller: Deborah Krawiec
Date: 06/13/25

BLANDFORD

39 Gibbs Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $740,000
Buyer: Michael J. Zapp
Seller: Suyan Huang
Date: 06/16/25

14 Russell Stage Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Nicole C. Carriveau
Seller: Ronnie Armany
Date: 06/12/25

BRIMFIELD

73 Champeaux Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $728,500
Buyer: Sean Mazelli
Seller: David H. Peters
Date: 06/13/25

1 Warren Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $535,000
Buyer: Michael Cordi
Seller: Mahogany Ridge LLC
Date: 06/09/25

CHICOPEE

109 9th Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Hector Rosado
Seller: Roberto R. Negron
Date: 06/18/25

39 Algonquin St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Ferik Romanferrer
Seller: Jahjan LLC
Date: 06/18/25

95 Baskin Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $329,900
Buyer: Christian P. Hernandez
Seller: Colleen R. Stickeler
Date: 06/20/25

259 Beauchamp Ter.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: Lisa A. Byers-Clark
Seller: Rhonda S. Butler
Date: 06/17/25

85 Charles St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Katherine A. Robertson
Seller: M&G Renovations LLC
Date: 06/13/25

160 Crestwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Eric Graziano
Seller: Keem LLC
Date: 06/16/25

33 Dallaire Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Kyle Laplante
Seller: Mary T. Hill
Date: 06/09/25

35 Dorothy Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Lindsay J. Barker
Seller: Emerald Peist
Date: 06/18/25

101 Fairview Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $254,900
Buyer: Emily J. Gardner
Seller: Colleen Bates
Date: 06/16/25

315 Front St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Darwin Deavens
Seller: Pah DE1 LLC
Date: 06/18/25

15 Gilmore St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Harrison Valerio
Seller: Eric B. Lachapelle
Date: 06/13/25

162 Lafayette St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Lawrence Phillips
Seller: Sheryl E. Bacon
Date: 06/20/25

25 Lafond Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $367,400
Buyer: Stephen Hinnebusch
Seller: Michael J. Catanzaro
Date: 06/10/25

819 McKinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $298,650
Buyer: Lee S. Zayas
Seller: Mary C. Mudachi
Date: 06/12/25

93 Melvin St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Richard Kowalski
Seller: Ogorzalek, Ann E., (Estate)
Date: 06/09/25

104 Mount Vernon Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: James C. Pula
Seller: Ronald F. Hartling
Date: 06/20/25

200 Narragansett Blvd.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $372,500
Buyer: William T. Reguero
Seller: Savier Masionet-Pagan
Date: 06/18/25

583 New Ludlow Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Alyssa J. Croteau
Seller: John M. Lucas
Date: 06/20/25

593 New Ludlow Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $398,000
Buyer: John M. Lucas
Seller: Bryndis Curtin
Date: 06/20/25

81 Northwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Joel Pumarejo
Seller: Isander Robles
Date: 06/16/25

62 Polaski Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Maria Pastore
Seller: Richard A. Parker
Date: 06/13/25

Shepherd St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Nikita D. Salagornik
Seller: Frederick Golba
Date: 06/13/25

91 Telegraph Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $328,000
Buyer: Yun Liu
Seller: Tracy L. Allen
Date: 06/09/25

123 Watson St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Kevin T. Craven
Seller: Lynn A. Sorel
Date: 06/13/25

EAST LONGMEADOW

46 Autumn Ridge
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $765,000
Buyer: Ronald E. Johnson
Seller: Laura D. Donovan
Date: 06/17/25

15 Baldwin St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Cjb Realty LLC
Seller: Kck Holding LLC
Date: 06/17/25

6 Clover Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $1,141,000
Buyer: Nancy W. Sklar RET
Seller: D. R. Chestnut LLC
Date: 06/17/25

88 Harwich Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Kimberly Meneo
Seller: Jonathan Browne
Date: 06/17/25

24 Heritage Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $626,000
Buyer: Jonathan Stone
Seller: Susan B. Moynihan
Date: 06/20/25

9 Knollwood Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $376,000
Buyer: Kellee Omelia
Seller: Daniel M. Daggett
Date: 06/13/25

12 Melody Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Michael A. Vatrano
Seller: On The Mark LLC
Date: 06/18/25

101 Melwood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Erin Beaulac
Seller: Lumturi RT
Date: 06/12/25

31 Oak Bluff Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Elisana Rubiera
Seller: Harriet J. Parzivand
Date: 06/13/25

45 Parker St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Silent Enterprises LLC
Seller: Catherine M. Dodge
Date: 06/09/25

611 Parker St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: 611 Parker Street LLC
Seller: Norman J. Corigliano
Date: 06/16/25

260 Porter Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: David Chapdelaine
Seller: Evan C. Layne
Date: 06/10/25

569 Somers Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $569,900
Buyer: Rachel B. Vieu
Seller: Jesse D. Garrison
Date: 06/20/25

208 Westwood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: William Mcmahon
Seller: Dennis J. Spillane
Date: 06/16/25

HAMPDEN

237 Allen St.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $540,000
Buyer: Steven Hearn
Seller: Jill Norton
Date: 06/20/25

159 Chapin Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Nicole E. Gray
Seller: Conery Morse
Date: 06/16/25

14 Echo Valley Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Salvatore Paolucci
Seller: Michela L. Paolucci
Date: 06/18/25

East Longmeadow Road, Lot 1
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $950,000
Buyer: Ram Krishna LLC
Seller: Hampden Farms LLC
Date: 06/09/25

210 East Longmeadow Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Jem Homebuyers LLC
Seller: Schoolcraft, Evelyn A., (Estate)
Date: 06/13/25

HOLLAND

335 Mashapaug Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $309,000
Buyer: Adam A. Hussey
Seller: Marianne E. Guskey
Date: 06/12/25

33 Pine Tree Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $610,000
Buyer: Thomas P. Flaherty
Seller: David M. Costa
Date: 06/13/25

HOLYOKE

268-272 Appleton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: 378 High St. Holyoke LLC
Seller: Keybank
Date: 06/16/25

33 Dillon Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Jackson Findlay
Seller: Andrew P. Cole
Date: 06/13/25

42 Evergreen Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Cynthia Asal
Seller: Scott Lacombe
Date: 06/10/25

69 Gates St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Ibis Holdings AT
Seller: Alycar Investments LLC
Date: 06/20/25

378-380 High St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: 378 High St. Holyoke LLC
Seller: Keybank
Date: 06/16/25

314 Mackenzie Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Jacob P. Peloquin
Seller: Mark W. Ripa
Date: 06/11/25

28 Portland St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $244,000
Buyer: Berris Morris
Seller: William P. McHugh
Date: 06/16/25

137 Whiting Farms Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $267,857
Buyer: Juan V. Aguila
Seller: Doyle, Penelope, (Estate)
Date: 06/13/25

LONGMEADOW

26 Andover Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $468,000
Buyer: Richard Appleton
Seller: Joel Wun
Date: 06/13/25

25 Deerfield Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $735,000
Buyer: Zhiyu Liu
Seller: Sally Ann Resnic RET
Date: 06/16/25

15 Falmouth Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Kevin Labrecque
Seller: Kevin C. Peabody
Date: 06/13/25

341 Farmington Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Melissa Coughlin
Seller: Caroline M. St.Clair
Date: 06/18/25

97 Forest Glen Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $1,050,000
Buyer: Bachir J. Sakr
Seller: Michael P. Williams
Date: 06/11/25

638 Laurel St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $515,000
Buyer: Laila L. Atta
Seller: Mazin Shaikhoun
Date: 06/17/25

31 Lincoln Park
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $416,088
Buyer: Michael P. Donovan
Seller: Misoon Kim
Date: 06/17/25

557 Maple Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Prabhjot Kaur
Seller: Aphrodite M. Barbalias
Date: 06/18/25

189 Rugby Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $930,000
Buyer: Michael D. Bajakian
Seller: Kimberly D. Henley
Date: 06/18/25

LUDLOW

42 Adams St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $362,500
Buyer: Shannon R. Worley
Seller: Irene M. Pereira
Date: 06/09/25

Balsam Hill Road, Lot 70
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $177,900
Buyer: Carolina Elite Bldrs LLC
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 06/09/25

Balsam Hill Road, Lot 75
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $177,900
Buyer: Carolina Elite Bldrs LLC
Seller: Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date: 06/09/25

37 Balsam Hill Road
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Stephanie Nascimento
Seller: Nathan D. Quiterio
Date: 06/11/25

138-140 East St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Ricardo Rebecca
Seller: Saklaa RT
Date: 06/20/25

33 Hampshire St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $313,000
Buyer: John O’Brien
Seller: Maria J. Dias
Date: 06/13/25

157 Highland Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Jasmin Martinez
Seller: William D. Henry
Date: 06/18/25

64 Oak Knoll Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Mitchel Wells
Seller: Shauna Looze
Date: 06/12/25

132 Prospect St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: 132 Prospect Street RET
Seller: David M. Tassinari
Date: 06/18/25

153 Ray St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $214,000
Buyer: Katelyn S. White
Seller: Dryjowicz, John, (Estate)
Date: 06/13/25

54 Reynolds St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Oguzhan Karaaslan
Seller: Marti-Ann Martins
Date: 06/13/25

1 Rosewood Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $655,000
Buyer: Myles Dacunha
Seller: Kenneth R. Hamel
Date: 06/20/25

State St., Lot 1
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $372,000
Buyer: Nrb Realty LLC
Seller: Westmass Area Dev Corp.
Date: 06/11/25

State St., Lot 2
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $457,200
Buyer: Pamet LLC
Seller: Westmass Area Dev Corp.
Date: 06/20/25

12 Stebbins St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Naf Cash LLC
Seller: John A. Luszcz
Date: 06/09/25

MONSON

195 Lower Hampden Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $699,900
Buyer: Paula Aversa
Seller: Anthony Patalano
Date: 06/13/25

MONTGOMERY

83 Main Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Taylor V. Smith
Seller: Thomas M. Thornton
Date: 06/20/25

PALMER

3020 Foster St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $560,000
Buyer: John M. Mancini
Seller: Pah Properties LLC
Date: 06/13/25

1057 High St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $347,500
Buyer: Brian Pulikowski
Seller: Sherman, Irene C., (Estate)
Date: 06/10/25

1376-1378 Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: 1376 Main LLC
Seller: P. E. L. Realty TLLC
Date: 06/09/25

1780 North Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Glendale RT
Seller: Christopher, Robin, (Estate)
Date: 06/13/25

165 Peterson Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Wayne M. Perry
Seller: Ryan Dominik
Date: 06/16/25

1127 South Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $3,811,462
Buyer: Eleven27 South Main LLC
Seller: Quaboag East LLC
Date: 06/18/25

230 Sykes St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $379,900
Buyer: Justin C. Mustafa
Seller: Sandra L. Trubounis
Date: 06/20/25

1010 Thorndike St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $910,000
Buyer: Demon Deacon Realty LLC
Seller: Fsg Realty LLC
Date: 06/18/25

1016 Thorndike St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $910,000
Buyer: Demon Deacon Realty LLC
Seller: Fsg Realty LLC
Date: 06/18/25

RUSSELL

108 Highland Ave.
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Aramis Weimann
Seller: William K. Riley
Date: 06/10/25

SOUTHWICK

4 Evergreen Ter.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Jordan D. Bushey
Seller: Kenneth B. Howe
Date: 06/09/25

33 Granville Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Stellar Homes Inc.
Seller: Twining, David, (Estate)
Date: 06/09/25

15 Overlook Lane
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $1,350,000
Buyer: Dominic Santaniello
Seller: Valeriy Burkovskiy
Date: 06/10/25

3 Pine Knoll
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $580,000
Buyer: Ashley M. Paier
Seller: Jeremy Dunn
Date: 06/16/25

10 Silvergrass Lane
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Yong Jo
Seller: Hamelin Framing Inc.
Date: 06/11/25

19 Silvergrass Lane
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Richard Gallerani
Seller: Hamelin Framing Inc.
Date: 06/20/25

SPRINGFIELD

32 Acushnet Ave.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: 30 Forest Park Properties LLC
Seller: Rafael Perez
Date: 06/12/25

1114 Allen St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Veronica Vargas
Seller: Cynthia M. Gaudreau
Date: 06/10/25

156 Ashbrook St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Stacey Podmore
Seller: Barbara Vanvalkenburg
Date: 06/11/25

112 Bay St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Jonathan Vera
Seller: Round Two LLC
Date: 06/20/25

1554 Bay St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Mirna J. Rivera-Lima
Seller: Jyovani Joubert
Date: 06/20/25

429 Belmont Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $2,725,000
Buyer: Rbt Enterprise LLC
Seller: 39 Kenwood NT
Date: 06/12/25

26 Belvidere St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Erin Foley
Seller: James F. Whalen
Date: 06/10/25

15 Berard Circle
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $341,000
Buyer: Laura Discawicz
Seller: Kevin Estrada
Date: 06/20/25

180 Berkshire Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Ethan Clayton
Seller: James, Pansy L., (Estate)
Date: 06/10/25

143 Berkshire St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $316,326
Buyer: Santo M. Castillo
Seller: Rebecca Ocasio
Date: 06/09/25

Birnie Ave. (rear) Lot A
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $682,500
Buyer: Wason Ave. Properties LLC
Seller: Andler Ltd LP
Date: 06/13/25

12 Brickett St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: R. & R. Home Improvement
Seller: Hector M. Serrano
Date: 06/18/25

89 Bristol St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: James Fiore
Seller: Kamai Norman
Date: 06/10/25

31 Burton St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Ibrahim M. Aljashaam
Seller: Irving R. Newcomb
Date: 06/18/25

44-46 Calhoun St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $267,000
Buyer: Amenadiel RT
Seller: Kiara L. Pina
Date: 06/10/25

739-741 Carew St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Felix M. Nova
Seller: Jjs Capital Investment LLC
Date: 06/11/25

89 Carol Ann St.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Chandrashekhar H. Joshi
Seller: Israel D. Moreno
Date: 06/11/25

127 Catalpa Ter.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Ryan Thomas
Seller: William J. Laporte
Date: 06/13/25

59 Chalmers St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Bryanne Gonzalez
Seller: John P. Brennan
Date: 06/16/25

89 Cherokee Dr.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: McKenzie Bro Realty LLC
Seller: Faith I. Garcia
Date: 06/10/25

140-142 Cherry St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Phantom Holdings LLC
Seller: Jose R. Dejesus
Date: 06/18/25

127 Cheyenne Road
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $318,350
Buyer: Susan M. Glatki
Seller: Paulo J. Faria
Date: 06/18/25

24 Davis St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $358,000
Buyer: RG Main & Oak LLC
Seller: Chrissy L. Ivas
Date: 06/09/25

70 Delmore St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Hosea S. Arnold
Seller: Andrews, Joseph W., (Estate)
Date: 06/20/25

33 Derryfield Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $342,000
Buyer: Santiago Rodriguez
Seller: B. Dream Inc.
Date: 06/20/25

171 Dorset St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $256,000
Buyer: Anna L. Coombs
Seller: William N. Rosario
Date: 06/18/25

104-106 Dubois St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $242,000
Buyer: Renovagent LLC
Seller: Andrew J. Tenczar
Date: 06/20/25

26 Dwight Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Adam Jezewski
Seller: Anthony M. Santaniello
Date: 06/18/25

1688 Dwight St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Driss Errahali
Seller: Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity
Date: 06/20/25

90 Eddy St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Timothy Riley
Seller: Sareen Properties LLC
Date: 06/17/25

59-61 Farnsworth St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $530,000
Buyer: Michele V. Ngapmen
Seller: Ambrose I. Mwea
Date: 06/13/25

53 Gail St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Donald E. Taggart
Seller: Jenna M. Molinari
Date: 06/17/25

143 Gardens Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Emilie Fernandez
Seller: Hibsher, Joy, (Estate)
Date: 06/11/25

44 Gatewood Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Jonathan Jamison
Seller: Sidney Borges
Date: 06/13/25

253 Gillette Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Coreen Murphy
Seller: Melanie S. Avdoulos
Date: 06/20/25

47-49 Governor St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $376,000
Buyer: Briyant R. Arias
Seller: Emtay Inc.
Date: 06/20/25

105 Hamilton St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $327,500
Buyer: Megan Thompson
Seller: Timothy C. Demars
Date: 06/20/25

115 Hampden St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Naples Home Buyers TR
Seller: Diana L. Mieltowski
Date: 06/09/25

68 Harmon Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Bennett R. Kelly
Seller: Mercedes Niziankowicz
Date: 06/12/25

325 Hartwick St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Round Two LLC
Seller: Michael A. Yandow
Date: 06/11/25

19-21 Hayden Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Carolina S. Henriquez
Seller: Urban Neighborhood Homes LLC
Date: 06/12/25

76 Hazen St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Shawn A. Lee-Jacobs
Seller: Janna Mayersky
Date: 06/20/25

90 Kensington Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $665,000
Buyer: Venus Real Estate LLC
Seller: Squire Investment LLC
Date: 06/13/25

118-120 Kensington Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Djonatan P. Oliveira
Seller: Seajay Group LLC
Date: 06/17/25

65 Kenway Dr.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Edwin O. Garcia
Seller: Mariela V. Camacho
Date: 06/12/25

9 Ladd St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Bianca P. Perez
Seller: Redwood RT
Date: 06/12/25

14 Lafayette St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Riverstone Property Holdings LLC
Seller: Emtay Inc.
Date: 06/18/25

95 Leavitt St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: David Anthony
Seller: Stephen L. Edwards
Date: 06/13/25

58-60 Lester St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Carla Simon-Henriquez
Seller: De Q. Wu
Date: 06/17/25

45 Lexington Circle
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $740,000
Buyer: Fadi Chalhoub
Seller: Daniel Searles
Date: 06/10/25

78 Maple St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $474,109
Buyer: 78 Maple St. TR
Seller: Samuel B. Sharpe
Date: 06/20/25

346 Maple St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Lyudmyla Ligouri RET
Seller: Dontell J. Lofton
Date: 06/13/25

88 Massachusetts Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: Eric Frimpong
Seller: Nunez, Agripina, (Estate)
Date: 06/13/25

99 Massreco St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Veteran Stan LLC
Seller: Norman J. McCannon
Date: 06/10/25

142-144 Miller St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Leonardo H. Delacruz
Seller: Abdul G. Mourad
Date: 06/11/25

26 Miner St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: R. & R. Home Improvement
Seller: Laura L. Discawicz
Date: 06/20/25

27 Newhall St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Surabhi S. Felix
Seller: Jealyn M. Rivera
Date: 06/20/25

179 Oak St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $180,169
Buyer: Cwabs Inc.
Seller: Rebecca Rivera
Date: 06/17/25

283 Oakland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Deen Orange 190 LLC
Seller: Emtay Inc.
Date: 06/13/25

291 Oakland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Deen Orange 190 LLC
Seller: Emtay Inc.
Date: 06/13/25

299 Oakland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Deen Orange 190 LLC
Seller: Emtay Inc.
Date: 06/13/25

154 Packard Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Margarita Rivera-Walker
Seller: Daniel Chalue
Date: 06/09/25

25 Pheland St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Manuel Rivera
Seller: Naples Home Buyers TR
Date: 06/17/25

127-129 Pineywoods Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Frances K. Harrell
Seller: Darcy Lambert
Date: 06/13/25

95 Quincy St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Emmanuel Pinywah
Seller: Springfield Ventures RT
Date: 06/20/25

29-31 Rush St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Dream Living Solutions LLC
Seller: Isanthes LLC
Date: 06/16/25

137 Shawmut St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: Cornerstone Hmbuying LLC
Seller: Jordan, Toni L., (Estate)
Date: 06/10/25

60 Skyridge Dr.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Jordan A. Torres
Seller: AJ Capital Inc.
Date: 06/10/25

30-32 Sterling St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Aurelina Placencio
Seller: Panidis Philip
Date: 06/20/25

35-37 Suffolk St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Yarimar Castro
Seller: Marco Z. Martinez
Date: 06/10/25

31 Thornton St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $304,000
Buyer: Daniel A. Poveda
Seller: Jamie A. Shepard
Date: 06/16/25

28-30 Tracy St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Alexander Pineda
Seller: Irma Rodriguez
Date: 06/20/25

101 Victoria St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $283,500
Buyer: Angel L. Rivera
Seller: LB-Igloo Properties IV LLC
Date: 06/18/25

53 Warrenton St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Bho Realty LLC
Seller: Armando M. Fernandez
Date: 06/10/25

149 Wason Ave.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $682,500
Buyer: Wason Ave. Properties LLC
Seller: Andler Ltd LP
Date: 06/13/25

105 Wilber St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: 105 Wilber Street NT
Seller: Ana L. Borges
Date: 06/18/25

46-48 Windsor St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Fanny P. Polanco
Seller: Clearedge Lending LLC
Date: 06/20/25

845 Worthington St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Alberto F. Robles
Seller: Cig4 LLC
Date: 06/20/25

WALES

73 Main St.
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $432,000
Buyer: Matthew Smart
Seller: Jurisdised Agencies LLC
Date: 06/09/25

90 Union Road
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Matthew Carpenter
Seller: Vandall, Eugene C., (Estate)
Date: 06/11/25

WEST SPRINGFIELD

270 Ely Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $379,000
Buyer: William N. Rosario
Seller: Kimberly L. Linares
Date: 06/18/25

50 Hathorne Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Carly Camossi-Lapalme
Seller: Andrew M. Paier
Date: 06/16/25

367 Hillcrest Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $407,500
Buyer: Christopher A. Allen
Seller: Zachary D. Breton
Date: 06/09/25

118 Janet St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Candace Holman
Seller: Richard C. Galarneau
Date: 06/20/25

77 Jensen Circle
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Kimberly Dunleavy
Seller: Susan L. Lucia
Date: 06/12/25

250 Poplar Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $349,900
Buyer: Susan L. Lucia
Seller: Shannon Cavanaugh
Date: 06/12/25

136 Queen Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Rui Ferreira
Seller: ML Saleh Holdings Inc.
Date: 06/18/25

76 Squire Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $451,000
Buyer: Isa Turan
Seller: Konstantin P. Khodunov
Date: 06/13/25

WESTFIELD

87 Birch Bluffs Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Kristin Halls
Seller: Jenelle L. Masotti
Date: 06/12/25

5 Blueberry Ridge
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $595,000
Buyer: Jonas Black
Seller: Michael T. Rockwal
Date: 06/17/25

26 Day Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $600,700
Buyer: Shelley Oconnell
Seller: Gerard Mattia
Date: 06/16/25

1368 Granville Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $221,000
Buyer: Citizens Bank Na
Seller: Valerie L. Williams
Date: 06/13/25

43 Kittredge Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: David Tompkins
Seller: Kelli Wood
Date: 06/12/25

27 Laurel Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Debra Ramistella
Seller: Ramistella, James B., (Estate)
Date: 06/12/25

16 Locust St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $274,900
Buyer: Flipping Best LLC
Seller: Dreampath Homebuyers LLC
Date: 06/18/25

24 Maple St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Robert Boyer
Seller: Mac Squared LLC
Date: 06/10/25

40 Mechanic St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $600,000
Buyer: Monolith Holdings LLC
Seller: Cam Property Mgmt. LLC
Date: 06/11/25

65 Michael Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $510,000
Buyer: Robert L. Warren-Dunning
Seller: Karen M. Schuster
Date: 06/20/25

42 Mockingbird Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $665,000
Buyer: Edward C. Bell
Seller: Mary Ellen Ploran TR
Date: 06/17/25

410 Montgomery Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $705,000
Buyer: Courtney Paquette
Seller: Mary M. Burke
Date: 06/20/25

64 Northridge Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Shawn D. Medeiros
Seller: Cindy A. Nikiforakis
Date: 06/13/25

30 Patterson St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Patrick Greaney
Seller: Michael D. Getto
Date: 06/13/25

100 Ridgecrest Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Nicholas C. Bonavita
Seller: Carl Hanselman
Date: 06/18/25

182 Russell Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Kristi L. Gonzales
Seller: Gonzales, Michael P., (Estate)
Date: 06/09/25

87 West Silver St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Luke E. Callender
Seller: Houser, Janet R., (Estate)
Date: 06/09/25

769 Western Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: William Rivera
Seller: Smith, Laurel J., (Estate)
Date: 06/20/25

77 Westfield Industrial Park
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $1,600,000
Buyer: Jdz 2 LLC
Seller: Aml LLC
Date: 06/11/25

WILBRAHAM

17 Briar Cliff Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $890,000
Buyer: Dingbin Chen
Seller: Chetana H. Sanghvi
Date: 06/10/25

16 Maple St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Wicked Deals LLC
Seller: Kenneth A. Fish
Date: 06/18/25

2 South Colonial Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Joseph S. Fusco
Seller: Karen T. Ouricelli-O’Brien
Date: 06/11/25

4 Willow Brook Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $701,000
Buyer: Jeffrey R. Colapietro
Seller: Myungseob Kim
Date: 06/18/25

2 Woodside Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $535,000
Buyer: Ethan Lanciaux
Seller: Peter M. Woodbury
Date: 06/12/25

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

101 Cherry Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $750,000
Buyer: Jessica W. Reyes
Seller: Shelley Young Barnett RET
Date: 06/18/25

360 College St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $1,000,000
Buyer: J&J Lee 360 LLC
Seller: L. H. B. Amherst LLC
Date: 06/18/25

34 Dickinson St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $1,100,000
Buyer: Amherst College
Seller: Matthew Cornell
Date: 06/10/25

874 East Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $672,000
Buyer: Jbk Partners LLC
Seller: Elizabeth Rosenberg
Date: 06/17/25

22 Eames Ave.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $645,000
Buyer: Blake A. Minchoff
Seller: Wharton C. Clay
Date: 06/17/25

199 Glendale Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $565,000
Buyer: Kristin M. Small
Seller: Marion A. Waskiewicz RET
Date: 06/13/25

237 Grantwood Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Tiffany Quan
Seller: Ronald P. Marino
Date: 06/16/25

30 Hills Road
Amherst, MA 01004
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Greta Birkby
Seller: Paul H. Motts
Date: 06/11/25

267 Shutesbury Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $825,000
Buyer: Kyle Nitzsche FT
Seller: Brittany M. Hutson
Date: 06/20/25

10 Taylor St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $550,000
Buyer: Cats In Baby Dresses LLC
Seller: Kimberly G. Keegan
Date: 06/11/25

BELCHERTOWN

230 Allen St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $730,000
Buyer: Kyke A. Maslak
Seller: Laliberte Home Builders Inc.
Date: 06/11/25

54 Edelcy Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Amanda L. Marley
Seller: Amanda L. Marley
Date: 06/18/25

63 Oakridge Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $570,000
Buyer: Jerri Ross
Seller: Samuel Clark
Date: 06/13/25

312 South St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Shauna A. Looze
Seller: Gerald R. Maloney
Date: 06/12/25

CHESTERFIELD

574 Main Road
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $449,900
Buyer: Richard A. Provencher
Seller: Cody Rida
Date: 06/09/25

EASTHAMPTON

27 Bryan Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $380,500
Buyer: Ewa T. Nowicki
Seller: Romney Biddulph
Date: 06/13/25

21 Davis St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Matthew Grant
Seller: Stephen A. Wilby
Date: 06/18/25

6 Grove St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Thoms W. Brown
Seller: Andrew Greto
Date: 06/20/25

3 Gula Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $364,000
Buyer: Emily Ivashenko
Seller: Peter Marks
Date: 06/18/25

20 Holly Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Maureen Pine
Seller: J. J. & Dawn M. Jarmen RET
Date: 06/09/25

36 Holly Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $1,250,000
Buyer: Alexander J. Castergini
Seller: Steven P. Winkel
Date: 06/12/25

52-54 Holyoke St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Jeremy D. Ober
Seller: Thomas W. Brown
Date: 06/16/25

278 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $835,000
Buyer: Robert F. Staley
Seller: Ctna Costruction LLC
Date: 06/20/25

26 Mount Tom Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $246,000
Buyer: Congamond Management LLC
Seller: Daniel Ortmeyer
Date: 06/16/25

1 Northampton St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $696,000
Buyer: One Noho LLC
Seller: One Northampton St. Enterprises
Date: 06/17/25

1 Park Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $570,000
Buyer: Simpson Ferguson FT
Seller: John A. Soler
Date: 06/16/25

44 Pleasant St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: St Properties LLC
Seller: Lawrence L. Pontbriant
Date: 06/09/25

GOSHEN

123 West St.
Goshen, MA 01026
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Cathy D. Evans
Seller: Emerson Int.
Date: 06/18/25

HADLEY

135 East St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $543,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Rosenberg
Seller: Jonathan K. Child
Date: 06/18/25

9 High Meadow Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $644,000
Buyer: Chenghui Zheng
Seller: Glenn Stowell
Date: 06/10/25

16 Highland Circle
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $498,900
Buyer: Joanne G. Katz
Seller: Alice L. Holmes
Date: 06/11/25

21 Shattuck Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $720,210
Buyer: Kyle Zeng
Seller: Steven F. Johnson
Date: 06/13/25

HATFIELD

62 Dwight St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Selina Fournier
Seller: Bryan M. Schwartz
Date: 06/20/25

7 Linseed Hill Road
Hatfield, MA 01088
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Cody Shane
Seller: Thomas M. Luce
Date: 06/20/25

HUNTINGTON

147 Worthington Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $369,000
Buyer: John B. Aldrich
Seller: Azure L. Layton
Date: 06/09/25

NORTHAMPTON

90 Brierwood Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Michelle Pratt
Seller: Gary B. Rackliffe
Date: 06/18/25

183 Brookside Circle
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Tedesco FT
Seller: Judy A. Peret
Date: 06/10/25

955 Burts Pit Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Sangmin Yun
Seller: William E. Clayton
Date: 06/09/25

48 Chapel St., Lot N
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Jane Christensen FT
Seller: Anne M. Lapointe
Date: 06/18/25

492 Elm St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: John C. Owens
Seller: Grenat TR
Date: 06/09/25

27 Fairview Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: David Pruskin
Seller: O’Brien, Claudia M., (Estate)
Date: 06/12/25

90 Fox Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $680,000
Buyer: Haley E. Marek
Seller: Buy Or Sell Realty LLC
Date: 06/20/25

42 Grove Ave.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $680,000
Buyer: Annie Salsich
Seller: Candy Henry, (Estate)
Date: 06/18/25

22 Hockanum Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $234,000
Buyer: Jeremy Durrin
Seller: Andiron LLC
Date: 06/12/25

326 King St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $775,000
Buyer: Zig Northampton LLC
Seller: Greco Properties LLP
Date: 06/12/25

54 Main St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Rgb Properties Florence LLC
Seller: Sbc Realty LLC
Date: 06/12/25

597 North Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $1,306,000
Buyer: D. H. & Jamie L. Pierce Jret
Seller: Thomas E. Quinn
Date: 06/12/25

497 Riverside Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $560,000
Buyer: Alicia Simoni
Seller: Freda L. Driscoll Sbar
Date: 06/17/25

5 Stowell St.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Kyle H. Hughes
Seller: Brown, Stephen A., (Estate)
Date: 06/12/25

PELHAM

202 Amherst Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Keith M. Polasko
Seller: Andrew T. Bagge
Date: 06/16/25

90 Amherst Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Joseph E. Durham
Seller: Michael J. Beaupre
Date: 06/18/25

88 Buffam Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $700,018
Buyer: David Rubin-Baker
Seller: Bradfor White LT
Date: 06/20/25

SOUTH HADLEY

294 Brainerd St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: CIL Realty Of Mass. Inc.
Seller: Caroline B. Dziel RET
Date: 06/16/25

35 Brigham Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $323,000
Buyer: Thomas R. Herbert
Seller: Barbara E. Kedzior
Date: 06/13/25

78 Hadley St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $445,000
Buyer: Morgan Hussey
Seller: Smith, George F., (Estate)
Date: 06/20/25

107 Lathrop St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $421,000
Buyer: Laura M. Tompkins
Seller: Doris C. Hastings
Date: 06/13/25

95 Pearl St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Jackson R. Hosking
Seller: Constance C. Grise
Date: 06/09/25

21 Silver St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $569,000
Buyer: Margaret Gallagher
Seller: I-TFor Katharine M. Beda
Date: 06/13/25

45 Spring St., Ext.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $367,000
Buyer: Melanie Bitely
Seller: Patrick M. Greaney
Date: 06/13/25

7 Susan Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $367,000
Buyer: Gary A. Leroux
Seller: Melissa Callahan
Date: 06/12/25

17 Upper River Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $658,100
Buyer: Kyle Callahan
Seller: Rory M. Pommerening
Date: 06/12/25

SOUTHAMPTON

34 Bluemer Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Christopher Hampson
Seller: Prime Flips LLC
Date: 06/11/25

70 Crooked Ledge Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Pamela H. Smith
Seller: Patrick J. Brennan
Date: 06/18/25

7 Old County Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $602,000
Buyer: Kyle Rondeau
Seller: Joel P. Kupeyan
Date: 06/17/25

5 Quigley Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Alicia E. Ziegler
Seller: Wiliam H. Ziegler
Date: 06/10/25

100 White Loaf Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $424,900
Buyer: Joseph Cardin
Seller: Arthur Vanhorne
Date: 06/13/25

WARE

80 Anderson Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Bryan M. Schwartz
Seller: Lisa J. Terry Jakshtis
Date: 06/20/25

26 Aspen St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Shellie Fountain-Hinckley
Seller: Joseph E. Pinsonnault
Date: 06/11/25

23 Beach Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Stacey J. Lowe
Seller: Philip E. Ethier
Date: 06/20/25

246 Belchertown Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Thomas J. Wood
Seller: Michael Hackett
Date: 06/12/25

4 Chester Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Jacob Perron
Seller: Alan R. Clough
Date: 06/17/25

4 Gareau Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Kimberly Boutwell
Seller: Tenzer Int.
Date: 06/12/25

105 Gilbertville Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Corey Grigas
Seller: Ross E. Kendrick
Date: 06/17/25

242 Monson Turnpike Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Kelly Parker
Seller: Victor Kolenda
Date: 06/13/25

25 Pinecrest Circle
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $460,000
Buyer: Joshua Evans
Seller: Philip J. Lagrant
Date: 06/16/25

WESTHAMPTON

315 Southampton Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $490,000
Buyer: Richard A. Finnegan
Seller: Gavin C. Cook
Date: 06/17/25

41 Pine Island Lk
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $605,000
Buyer: Joyce Nolan
Seller: Tessa K. Young
Date: 06/09/25

WILLIAMSBURG

103 Petticoat Hill Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Jeremy D. Jackman
Seller: Christopher G. Smith RET
Date: 06/13/25

WORTHINGTON

44 Goss Hill Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $610,000
Buyer: Michael Sanzo
Seller: Michael Moloff
Date: 06/12/25

24 Old Main Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Brett M. Mollison
Seller: Tyler Pease
Date: 06/11/25

24 Old Post Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Jeanne D. Regauld
Seller: Mikaela Spence
Date: 06/17/25

Building Permits

By BusinessWest Staff July 16, 2025

Building Permits

The following building permits were issued during the month of June 2025.

EASTHAMPTON

Easthampton Animal Hospital LLC
410 Main St.
$33,639 — Install roof-mounted solar array

HADLEY

Easthampton Savings Bank
100 East St.
N/A — Reface existing monument sign

Philip Goulet
331 Russell St.
N/A — New interior wall tile and wall paint at Dunkin’

Philip Goulet
331 Russell St.
N/A — Install signs at Dunkin’

W/S Hadley Properties II LLC
351 Russell St., Suite 20
N/A — Minor remodel of existing Panera Bread

LEE

Onyx Specialty Papers Inc.
40 Willow St.
$121,995 — Roofing

LENOX

Town of Lenox
239 Crystal St.
$43,159,000 — Two new buildings

NORTHAMPTON

City of Northampton
210 Main St.
$16,369 — Install three automatic door openers at City Hall

City of Northampton
212 Main St.
$7,272 — Install two automatic door openers at municipal building

City of Northampton
240 Main St.
$14,545 — Install two door openers at Northampton Memorial Hall

Lake Rentals LLC
312 King St.
$10,000 — Illuminated wall sign for Sherwin-Williams

Smith College
7 College Lane
$5,640,712 — Building conversion to low-temperature hot water

PITTSFIELD

Berkshire Center for Families
480 West St.
$68,300 — Insulation

Boys & Girls Club of the Berkshires
26 Melville St.
$123,000 — Demolish three-story commercial structure, including slab and foundations

Clinical & Support Options Inc.
39 Maplewood Ave.
$60,000 — Renovation for use as long-term congregate care facility: convert existing half bathroom to accessible full bathroom; alter existing room to be office space and bedroom; new openings connecting former residential units on first, second, and third floors; install sprinkler system and low-voltage fire alarm system; replace front and side porch flooring

Herald Properties LLC
60 Linden St.
$4,000 — Install fire alarm system

ServiceNet Inc.
717 Crane Ave.
$845,000 — New building for use as community-based day program by Prospect Meadow Farm

Somnath LLC
1055 South St.
$270,000 — Solar panel on roof

South Street Property LLC
101 South St.
$26,250 — Roofing

Sport Sod LLC
100 Dan Fox Dr.
$82,500 — Roofing

Kayley Stasiewski
161 Seymour St.
$200,000 — New partitions; selected structural reinforcement; alter plumbing, electrical, and mechanical systems; selected demolition; new roofing; masonry repairs

Steel Realty
703 West Housatonic St.
$749,990 — Roofing

Investing in the Future of Western Mass.

By Contributor July 16, 2025

Opinion

By Emily Haber

When it comes to serving the needs of Western Massachusetts, our state government has a mixed record. It often directs its finite attention and resources inside 495.

However, one wildly successful program enables business leaders to deliver state funds directly to communities throughout the region. The Community Investment Tax Credit provides a 50% tax rebate on donations to nonprofit organizations known as community development corporations, or CDCs.

These organizations, 12 of which are in Western Massachusetts, provide people with safe and affordable places to live. They provide transportation in areas that lack buses or trains, equip workers with the skills that local companies need, and make other vital investments in local economies.

Launched just over a decade ago under Gov. Deval Patrick, the Community Investment Tax Credit has gained momentum under Govs. Charlie Baker and, now, Maura Healey. In its first 10 years, the program delivered $134 million to community development projects throughout Massachusetts.

In the past three years alone, CDCs in Western Massachusetts assisted nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs, educated more than 3,000 homebuyers, provided more than $29 million in grants and loans to small businesses, and built more than 200 homes.

Recognizing the undeniable success of the program, the governor and lawmakers recently expanded it as part of the Affordable Homes Act, increasing the allotment of tax credits to $15 million per year in 2025. Earlier this month, the state issued $2 million in new credits for Western Mass.

Signs of CDCs’ impact are everywhere. In Great Barrington, CDC of South Berkshire recently converted an inn into 16 month-to-month rooms with a common kitchen to house new employees of Berkshire Health Systems — Berkshire County’s largest employer. Franklin County CDC, which works in all four Western Mass. counties, assisted 365 entrepreneurs and lent $3.4 million to businesses.

In Northampton, Valley CDC is converting a long-vacant nursing home into 60 affordable apartments and installing geothermal heating and cooling systems. In Springfield, Way Finders is redeveloping distressed properties and making them available to first-time homebuyers.

Meanwhile, Quaboag Valley and Hilltown CDC are running rural vans that are a lifeline to seniors and other residents. The Community Investment Tax Credit supports countless other programs that help make Western Mass. more vibrant.

In a diverse region with more than 100 cities and towns, the program gives organizations leeway to meet the unique needs of local employers and communities. The state holds CDCs accountable so donors can feel confident that their investments will truly enhance the local economy.

Taking advantage of the program is simple: individuals, companies, or foundations that donate $1,000 or more to a qualifying CDC are eligible for a tax rebate of 50% — in effect, a matching donation that doubles the impact of a gift. The program is open to all. Those who do not pay Massachusetts taxes or owe less than the amount of the rebate receive a direct payment from the state.

From food to advanced manufacturing to biotechnology to tourism, Western Mass. possesses tremendous economic potential and is poised for growth. Yet, to fully take advantage of the opportunities ahead, the region needs to address shortfalls in housing, transportation, and support for small businesses, among other challenges. At a time of national and global uncertainty, the Community Investment Tax Credit offers the opportunity to invest close to home so that Western Mass. can thrive for generations to come.

A list of qualifying CDCs in Western Massachusetts is available at macdc.org/western-mass-cdcs.

Emily Haber is president and CEO of the Massachusetts Assoc. of Community Development Corporations.

Westover Auto Salvage Continues to Evolve Its Recycling Efforts

By Joseph Bednar July 3, 2025

Cover Story

Shifting into a Different Gear

CEO Brian Bachand

As he walked with BusinessWest in the large lot behind Westover Auto Salvage in Belchertown, CEO Brian Bachand was quick to explain that he doesn’t care for the word ‘junkyard.’

That’s because handling these vehicles — and there may be between 1,500 and 2,000 here at any given time — involves layers of purposeful processing to extract — and, hopefully, sell — as many useful parts as possible before they’re crushed or otherwise disposed of, and doing it in an environmentally sound manner.

“We pride ourselves in selling used parts, but we’re actually selling relationships and experience, going the extra mile to take care of the customers,” he explained. “We try to do everything in a clean, eco-friendly way. Everything you see back here, there’s an outlet and opportunity for it. All the fluids that we drain from the vehicles are reused or repurposed. We filter the gasoline to use in our delivery trucks, and we use the oil to heat our buildings. It’s about sustainability and promoting the circular economy model.”

That’s especially true with Westover’s recent adoption of the SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative, a global enterprise that helping consumers and companies recycle end-of-life vehicles with environmentally responsible protocols.

SHiFT was founded to address the environmental concerns associated with end-of-life vehicles and their impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The program partners with automotive recycling facilities across the U.S. to process and dismantle vehicles in accordance with strict environmental safeguards while also ensuring reusable components are made available for sale to consumers — all while ensuring these cars don’t end up back on the roads or shipped to landfills in third-world countries.

“The ShiFT initiative is an eco-friendly alternative to just recycling or junking your car, so to speak,” Bachand said, explaining that participants in the program must be certified by the national Automotive Recyclers Assoc.

“It was really intriguing to me to figure out what we do with vehicles when they’re truly at the end of life and how we turn that into environmental value and not just treating them like refuse.”

“It’s a rigorous program, and you have to be vetted. A third party comes in and audits our whole operation to make sure we’re following best management practices — what our layout looks like, stormwater permitting, where all our fluids are going, how our processes are vetted out back,” he explained.

“We’re one of only four certified auto recyclers in the state of Massachusetts, but one of only two high-voltage certified recyclers in the state. That was, again, done by a third-party auditor that made sure we have the proper tools, proper training, and only trained techs are allowed to touch high-voltage vehicles.”

Chapin Griffith, who heads up SHiFT, was formerly Amazon’s senior product manager of delivery fleet remarketing, developing its nationwide vehicle retirement service and end-of-life-cycle strategies and helping scale that practice area into a $100 million business, enabling the retirement of more than 20,000 end-of-life vehicles annually.

“The SHiFT program was actually in its infantile stages before I joined,” Griffith told BusinessWest. “It was really intriguing to me to figure out what we do with vehicles when they’re truly at the end of life and how we turn that into environmental value and not just treating them like refuse.

An end-of-life vehicle is prepped for recycling under the SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative.

“If end-of-life vehicles are not tracked, they can end up in a landfill or in a yard — like in someone’s backyard or side yard — and kind of just rot. And the fluids and leakage and battery can have negative impacts from just sitting and leaching into groundwater,” he explained. “And then, it’s estimated that up to 30% of vehicles are exported to other countries when they reach end of life in the U.S.”

Griffith’s vision for SHiFT is to reduce the export and outflow of vehicles and engines that end up outside the control of U.S. emissions policy.

“SHIFT is unique in that it’s the only program in the U.S. that guarantees the engine will be fully retired,” he added. “So you can count on that carbon reduction, that carbon negation, because that engine will stop producing whatever its carbon output is at that point.”

A Greener Solution

In partnership with the Automotive Recyclers’ Assoc., SHiFT connects a network of more than 1,000 recyclers across the country that are committed to recycling SHiFT vehicles in a way that achieves the best environmental outcome. To date, almost 36,000 cars have been retired, resulting in more than 477,000 tons of carbon reduced, the program claims.

To participate in SHiFT, recyclers — who receive these cars at a lower cost than they typically would — sign affidavits and agree to retire and recycle the carbon-emitting internal combustion engines. This means the engine cannot be sold whole to be put into another car, but recyclers can still profit off of the recycled engine components.

Chapin Griffith

“It was really intriguing to me to figure out what we do with vehicles when they’re truly at the end of life and how we turn that into environmental value and not just treating them like refuse.”

Participating SHiFT partners pick up the vehicle, manage the hazardous material, harvest and recondition recyclable parts, and prepare the vehicle hulk for further recycling. The engine, though retired as a whole unit, can be disassembled for parts harvesting in order to get the most use out of already manufactured products.

Both Griffith and Bachand emphasized that the program is totally voluntary and doesn’t involve a mandated destruction timeframe like the 2009 government program called the Car Allowance Rebate System. Cash for Clunkers, as it was known colloquially, was controversial for several reasons, including doubts about environmental benefit in that many of the cars weren’t at end of life, and were immediately replaced with new purchases, which also spiked used car prices.

“The government’s not involved, we are not mandated to crush the car within 60 days like Cash for Clunkers, and we’re not destroying any of the parts,” Bachand said. “We cannot sell the motor out of the vehicle because the whole point of the program is reducing carbon footprint and lowering emissions.

“By taking these vehicles in, we’re still promoting the circular economy because, even though it’s a SHiFT car and I can’t sell that motor as a running, driving motor, I can still sell parts of that vehicle, so I can still keep people up and running. There’s still other drive train elements that I can sell off — whereas, with Cash for Clunkers, you were mandated to crush it. They destroyed the motors before we even got them, and that really crippled the auto recycling industry; there were fewer parts available.”

Griffith noted that vehicles can be 90% recyclable when recycled properly. Meanwhile, hybrids in particular are full of rare earth materials, which is a booming industry right now. But in the end, the most significant benefit of SHiFT is its environmental impact.

“We can count the carbon negation from those engines coming off the road. One of the value propositions that we have for fleets is that we can help them meet their internal or sanctioned carbon-counting goals by committing these engines to be retired and doing that accounting for them.”

Recycling businesses benefit as well. “We can increase their increase their net volume just by capturing more vehicles, especially the ones that would be leaving the country and going overseas anyhow,” Griffith added. “The auto recyclers get competitive pricing on these scrap vehicles and can make a fair margin for themselves. But then two good environmental things happen: the vehicle is recycled to a very high degree of sustainability, and the engine is retired.”

Living the Dream

Bachand said his father, Paul, grew up wanting to own a salvage yard, so Westover Auto Salvage, which he opened in Belchertown in 1994, was the culmination of a dream. And even though he earned an accounting degree at Western New England University, joining — and eventually leading — the company has been Brian’s dream as well, if only in that he gets to work every day with his father.

“This was just an open field with 50 cars,” he told BusinessWest as he pointed out the large lot where many of hundreds of cars now sit, at various stages of recycling and parts resale. “We take between six to nine months to see what the car has yielded in terms of profit. If it’s worth saving because of the type of vehicle or the parts still left on it, maybe it’ll sit longer on the lot.

“Once it comes to the end-of-life stage, we pull it out of storage from out back and put it in our holding lot for crushed cars, and that’s when we do the penny pinching,” he went on. “Every piece of wire comes out of it, and we separate those metals accordingly; copper goes in one bin, aluminum in the other, whatever we can sell. We pull the dash out to just try to get that last bit of money off of the car.”

Brian Bachand with his father, Paul Bachand, who started the business 31 years ago.

The market for reselling parts ranges from people repairing fender benders to young people buying their first used car and wanting to save a buck, as well as repair shops, the collision industry, and even yard-to-yard sales. “There’s other recyclers like us that do the same thing. So if they don’t have a part, they’ll buy it from us. And we do the same thing to connect our customers with the proper part.”

Both Bachand and his father serve on the board of directors of Automotive Recyclers of Massachusetts, which advocates for a more sustainable, eco-friendly industry. And the business stays connected to the local community in different ways; for instance, it will host a training exercise for local firefighters this fall by lighting an electric vehicle on fire.

Meanwhile, Westover’s sustainability efforts extend to a planned solar canopy that will one day cover the vast parking area, generating power for a low-income housing project in the planning stages in town.

Westover employs around 25 people, Bachand said, and perhaps his son will one day be among them. “He’s here in the summer. He’s 10 years old, but he wants to pull cars apart, so I’m taking time to train him.

“We’re a small, family-owned business, and that’s what we remind ourselves,” he added. “As big as we want to grow, we still want to take care of each individual person. You’re buying into our experience. We’re here to take care of you.”

Local Nurses Share Their Passions, Challenges, and Why They Do It

By BusinessWest Staff July 3, 2025

Healthcare News Special Coverage

On the Front Lines of Care

Nurses, in many ways, are the backbone of the healthcare system, caring for patients in dozens of different types of settings, often during the most distressing moments of those patients’ lives. It’s challenging work for sure — but also gratifying work, as the six individuals profiled on the following pages can attest. For our annual salute to nurses, BusinessWest sat down with three veteran nurses and three just entering the field about why they got into nursing, what motivates them, especially during hard days, and what the impact of their work means to them.

Click on the names below to read their stories:

Joseph and Vincent Bartolucci

Identical Twins Double Down on the Passion They Bring to Nursing

Yirancis Rivera

She Serves as an Inspiration — in Any Language

Kim Larrier

Fascinated by the Mind, She Forged a Path in Psych Nursing

Dave DesLauriers

This Veteran Nurse Seeks a ‘Bridge’ into Emergency Management

Kara Lombardi

As Assistant Nurse Manager, Her Role Is to Be a Support Person

HardTech Holyoke Draws on Innovative Momentum in Paper City

By Joseph Bednar July 3, 2025

Environment and Engineering Special Coverage

Meeting of the Minds

Cofab Design Partner Mike Stone

When Mike Stone looks around Holyoke — and some of the innovative companies that have set up shop there — he sees a city with several unique advantages.

“First of all, the cost of energy is low, which is great for companies with electrical-heavy processes. Then there’s the amount of available space,” said Stone, CEO of Cofab Design, a Holyoke-based studio that develops hardtech products (more on that term in a moment) and the strategies to produce them.

In addition, he noted, “there are about 60,000 students in the Pioneer Valley, plus an industrial workforce that’s been here for more than 150 years. That’s not to say it’s the same as it was 100 years ago or 150 years ago, but there are still a lot of precision manufacturers, and there is a manufacturing workforce base here.

“So you have folks that know how to scale processes and do manufacturing, and you have the sort of innovation coming from the Five Colleges, plus the Boston-New York corridor, and I just think we’re uniquely positioned here to be able to kind of leverage that and offer second-stage space.”

“It makes much more sense to grow a base here and have a little bit more room to stretch out and grow. So that’s the vision, and hopefully more companies will take note.”

HardTech Holyoke, the second event of its kind (the first took place in 2023), highlights some of the innovative companies that are growing in Holyoke. The gathering, held on June 18 at Open Square, brought attendees face to face with the minds behind growing companies like Clean Crop Technologies, which is developing new ways to remove contamination from seeds and foods; Sublime Systems, which is developing an innovative cement manufacturing process; Xenocs, which uses X-ray technology to analyze nanoscale materials; and florrent, a maker of supercapacitors for energy storage, to name a few.

As opposed to software, Stone said, hardtech refers to more physical technology. “It’s a wide net — it covers advanced manufacturing, clean tech and green tech, even things in the defense space, energy, food and ag tech. It’s sort of an amorphous term, but the throughline here is folks that are building physical things, which takes a different form of investment and attitude than building software or building other types of businesses.”

Dan White says Holyoke has been attractive to many innovative companies, for reasons ranging from competitive utility rates to a supportive city government.

And Holyoke, located not far from major innovation centers but offering a lower cost of doing business with a host of amenities, is the ideal spot to grow a hardtech hub, he added.

“It’s hard to compete on innovation. There are people innovating here, but you can’t compete with Boston or New York in terms of density of schools, and we know the attraction the cities have,” Stone explained. “But for a Clean Crop, when you’re spending money in Cambridge or Somerville for a bigger space, it starts to be disadvantageous, and it makes much more sense to grow a base here and have a little bit more room to stretch out and grow. So that’s the vision, and hopefully more companies will take note.”

Selling a City

HardTech Holyoke was conceived in 2023 when FORGE, a nonproft that helps innovators with physical projects navigate the journey from prototype through to commercialization, teamed up with Cofab, Clean Crop, and the city of Holyoke on a gathering to celebrate the startups, engineers, researchers, manufacturers, and others building new physical products in and around the city.

“So we put an event together, and we expected 50 people to show up, but 100 people came, and there was a good buzz,” Stone recalled. “There was a good sense after the event that people found it a good place to connect and network with this community. So we’ve been trying to do it annually ever since.”

It actually took about a year and a half to get the second HardTech launched, but attendance topped the first, drawing about 150, as did the number of participating companies. “It’s a bigger format, and we have a bigger space here, and we’re really appreciative of the folks at Open Square who donated space for this,” he noted at the start of the June 18 event. “I’m kind of leaning into the exhibit theme — I like to think of this as an art gallery opening night for manufacturing companies.”

“I think we have a chance to re-industrialize in a grassroots way and build cool stuff while also building robust manufacturing jobs, which left Holyoke 40, 50 years ago.”

Inside that ‘gallery,’ along with the participating companies’ exhibit tables, were displays explaining what Holyoke brings to the table in several categories, including:

• Energy and water, including the lowest regional energy costs, a high percentage of renewable sources, access to power infrastructure through Holyoke Gas & Electric, and high water supply and wastewater treatment capacity for water-intensive processes;

• Space and location, including 1.5 million square feet of industrial space available in the city, local development resources, turnkey hardtech startup spaces, pre-zoned industrial parcels, access to I-90 and I-91 connecting to major cities, airport access, and regional rail and bus lines;

• Talent and workforce, including an existing manufacturing base, a rich higher-education ecosystem, technical training programs, and workforce supports like MassHire; and

• A number of other factors, from a strong local industrial supply chain to available pools of both public and private grant funding.

Alex Nichols says he and his two co-founders of florrent took advantage of some specialized equipment at UMass Amherst for early prototyping, then decided to stay in the region.

“We want to pitch why we’re here, why some of these other companies are here, and just try to get that into a communicable message where other people can say, ‘oh, there’s something going on in Holyoke,’” Stone said. “We want to show why it’s a good place, specifically for hardtech companies that are past their startup stage and into their scale-up stage.”

Companies like Clean Crop.

“Right now, we’re focused on seed treatment and finding ways to reduce overall pesticide use, so we can displace a lot of existing tools and give growers the same yields or better,” co-founder Dan White said. “We found a really strong initial market in leafy greens. So we’ve got quite a lot of demand that we’re just growing into right now, but we’re on track to expand our facility here to full utilization by the end of this year. And then the next step will be establishing our first facility in California sometime next year.”

White said it’s gratifying to see HardTech Holyoke grow since its first inception.

“When I look across at these other companies, the same reasons that we came here are why I think a lot of other folks are coming as well. We have really competitive utility rates, particularly electricity. But also, the city government has been incredibly helpful, and the ecosystem partners like Cofab are a huge part of the story too.”

Alex Nichols is one of three founders of florrent, a Sunderland-based startup that took part in HardTech Holyoke. The company is developing a material innovation that enables performance improvement in supercapacitor technologies.

The founders, Nichols explained, are UMass Amherst alumni who wound up using specialized lab space on that campus after they graduated. “They have some very specific equipment that allowed us to do early prototyping. That really brought us to the region. We stayed, we hired a team out here, and we’re here to stay.”

One Company at a Time

Stone said growth toward making Holyoke a hardtech hub may be gradual, but every step is meaningful.

“It’s a small city, so one company moving to the city a year could be meaningful for workforce development, which I think is a big part of this,” he told BusinessWest. “I think we have a chance to re-industrialize in a grassroots way and build cool stuff while also building robust manufacturing jobs, which left Holyoke 40, 50 years ago.

“So I think it’s a unique opportunity to do social impact work and create good jobs and create workforce training programs, and have some fun building some really novel, groundbreaking technology and utilize the infrastructure that was started 150-plus years ago in Holyoke; we can have a little bit of a repurposing for some of these tech companies.”

A wave of cannabis companies started moving to Holyoke over the past five years, he noted, and for some of the same reasons.

“I think that crest has peaked. But I think, over the next five, 10, 20 years, there will be a lot of this hardtech stuff. I have my ear to the ground because of Cofab, and there’s been a sea change over the past three or four years where a lot of people are trying to build stuff like this. And we’re able to take advantage of that.”

Pittsfield Builds Awareness of All It Has to Offer

By George O'Brien July 3, 2025

Community Spotlight Special Coverage

Community Spotlight

Laurie Tierney, seen in front of Hotel on North, describes Pittsfield as the “Brooklyn of the Berkshires,” which is meant as a compliment.

Laurie Tierney likes to refer to Pittsfield as the “Brooklyn of the Berkshires.”

By that, Tierney — co-owner, with her husband, David, of Hotel on North (as in North Street, downtown’s main drag) — implies there’s some grit when it comes to that region’s largest community. “We’re gritty, not necessarily pretty,” she said with a laugh.

But if one were to look closer and beyond the grit, they would see much more — in this case, culture, restaurants, some retail, and outdoor recreation, for starters, she told BusinessWest.

“I think Pittsfield is doing a great job of reinventing itself,” she said of the ongoing transformation from the days when its economy and overall vibrancy were dominated by one large employer, GE. “Barrington Stage and the Colonial Theatre have been a big part of that; we have a great arts community … we just need more people to get to know us.”

Rebecca Brien, managing director of Downtown Pittsfield Inc. (DPI), agreed, adding that a multi-faceted marketing campaign is being launched in an effort to prompt more people — especially locals, but also those from other area codes — to give Pittsfield a closer look.

It includes Hey Neighbor, a program awarding marketing grants to 10 businesses in downtown Pittsfield, with grantees receiving custom video ads before films at the Beacon Cinema and radio advertisements on WUPE/WEBC during that same time period.

In addition, the city’s two major theaters, Barrington Stage Company and the Colonial Theatre, have received what she calls “dinner-and-a-show” radio spots on NPR.

“This initiative aims to drive foot traffic, build community awareness, and showcase the diverse stories of Pittsfield’s small business community,” Brien said of Hey Neighbor, adding that the theater spots are designed to remind neighbors that the city offers world-class theater and attractive dinner options just a short drive away (more on this later).

“If it isn’t daily workforce that’s occupying the restaurants and coffee shops and visiting the businesses, then it needs to be residents that are doing it in the morning and the evening after work, or while working remotely.”

These promotional initiatives and broader efforts to bring people to the city comprise just one of many developing stories in this community of roughly 44,000 people. Others include:

• Ongoing efforts to create more housing of all kinds, but especially market-rate and affordable units. Several projects in various stages of progress will add more than 100 units, but 200 to 300 will be needed, Mayor Pete Marchetti said;

• The demolition and rebuild of historic Wahconah Park, with the goal of bringing collegiate league baseball back to Pittsfield;

• Early-stage work to gauge interest in forming a business improvement district in the downtown;

• Late feasibility-stage work to build a new elementary school, one that would merge two existing schools into one; and

• Several infrastructure projects, including work on North Street.

Housing remains a critical issue in the community, said those we spoke with — both to meet an urgent need for more options among workers, the elderly, and other constituencies, and to bring more vibrancy to a downtown still suffering from the side effects of COVID, especially the transition to remote work and hybrid schedules, which has reduced the level of business activity in the neighborhood.

Jonathan Butler, president and CEO of the regional economic development agency 1Berkshire, said there is no turning back the clock in this regard, leaving housing as the best option for commercial space in the downtown — and for providing the critical mass of people needed to support the wide range of hospitality-related businesses.

The Hey Neighbor campaign is part of a broad effort to bring more attention to Pittsfield, its cultural attractions, and its eclectic mix of small businesses.

“If it isn’t daily workforce that’s occupying the restaurants and coffee shops and visiting the businesses, then it needs to be residents that are doing it in the morning and the evening after work, or while working remotely,” he explained. “They’re replacing those people who were formerly working in commercial spaces and buying their morning coffee and lunch.”

“In the spirit of post-pandemic urban planning, downtown Pittsfield, like a lot of other urban centers, has seen a shift away of commercial activity — we’re seeing employers shifting to more work-life balance models with remote working and hybrid office models,” he explained. “So we’re seeing some investments in housing, to meet the city’s needs and a much larger regional need.”

For this latest installment of its Community Spotlight series, BusinessWest turns its lens on the Brooklyn of the Berkshires and the many ongoing efforts to inspire people to look beyond the grit.

Staying Power

Hotel on North is marking its 10th anniversary this year, Tierney said, and there is much to commemorate.

Indeed, the boutique 45-room hotel — created out of buildings more than a century old that were once home to the menswear and sporting goods emporium Besse-Clarke — has become a cornerstone of an ongoing transformation of downtown Pittsfield, from the retail-heavy and business-focused days when GE’s transformer division was employing more than 10,000 people, into a more hospitality- and arts-dominated district where more people live than in decades past.

The hotel and the guests it draws from across the Northeast and beyond have inspired several new businesses, she said, listing Methuselah Bar & Lounge and an expansion of Steven Valenti’s men’s clothing store among them.

As for the hotel itself … well, Tierney said it shares its personality with the Berkshires (and Pittsfield itself), meaning an intriguing blend of the past and present, heritage and innovation.

She and David have traveled all around the world, and they’ve incorporated their experiences into Hotel on North, such as its revolving door, a concept borrowed from a hotel in Nashville.

Over the past decade, the hotel has become a big part of the changing scene in Pittsfield, a tight-knit community of hospitality, arts-related, and service businesses that support one another and, together, have become more of a destination in recent years rather than a place to drive through on the way to somewhere else.

Mayor Pete Marchetti says that, while new housing units are coming online, there is more work to do to meet enormous need in the city.

But in many ways, it is still an unknown, or at least underappreciated, commodity, said Tierney, adding that there is a need for the city to understand and appreciate all that it has become — “it’s been the ugly stepsister for the surrounding towns for so long that I think that sometimes it doesn’t see itself as the engine that can and will” — and do more to put its best foot forward.

Brien said this need to promote all Pittsfield has to offer is at the heart of DPI’s Hey Neighbor campaign, funded through MassDevelopment’s Transformative Development Initiative, as well as the spots promoting not only the shows at Barrington Stage and the Colonial Theatre, but nearby restaurants in Pittsfield.

With the latter, the goal, through the spots on NPR, is to introduce (or reintroduce) Pittsfield to a broad audience across Western Mass.

“We have great tourism that obviously goes on in the Berkshires, but Pittsfield is kind of that forgotten space,” she explained, adding that, while most area residents will go Northampton for dinner and a show, most don’t fully appreciate that they can do the same in Pittsfield.

“Why aren’t those same individuals coming here?” she asked rhetorically, adding that the answer may well be a simple lack of awareness.

Meanwhile, Hey Neighbor will spotlight 10 downtown businesses through those aforementioned cinema and radio spots, said Brien, adding that the eclectic mix includes Hot Plate Brewing Co., Thistle ’n Thorn Floral, WANDER Berkshires, Otto’s Kitchen & Comfort, Methuselah, and Berkshire Nautilus.

“Together, they say, ‘come back downtown and see what’s new,’” she told BusinessWest, adding that a third piece to the broad marketing campaign involves $1,000 grants to three summer event series to promote their offerings:

• The Pitt, a Friday summer music series being spearheaded by Hot Plate Brewing Co.;

• Rhythmscape, which offers weekly dance lessons on Sundays. (like the Pitt, these take place in Dunham Mall, a public pedestrian walkway that has seen several aesthetic improvements over this past year); and

• Depot After Dark, which pairs Tito’s Mexican Bar & Grill and WANDER Berkshires, a new gathering space, adding late-night dance parties to the alleyway just outside their businesses.

Developing Stories

Such efforts are expected to bring more momentum to a downtown that has seen healthy doses of that commodity in recent years, even as it continues to build back from the many types of disruption resulting from the pandemic.

Perhaps the biggest of these is the change in how and where work is done, said Butler, adding that, like all downtowns in the region, Pittsfield’s suffers from having fewer people going to work there everyday.

This trend, coupled with critical need, is fueling investments in housing downtown, he went on, adding that several projects are in various stages of development.

Pittsfield at a Glance

Year Incorporated: 1761
Population: 43,927
Area: 42.5 square miles
County: Berkshire
Residential Tax Rate: $17.94
Commercial Tax Rate: $37.96
Median Household Income: $35,655
Median family Income: $46,228
Type of Government: Mayor, City Council
Largest Employers: Berkshire Health Systems; General Dynamics; Petricca Industries Inc.; SABIC Innovative Plastics; Berkshire Bank
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These include renovation of the Wright Building, just a few doors down from Hotel on North, which represents an example of the shift from commercial to residential uses for downtown real estate. Butler said there are maybe a few hundred more people living downtown than a decade or more ago, and this growing population has helped support existing businesses and inspire new ones.

Meanwhile, this new housing is helping to meet soaring need across the city and the region, said Marchetti, a former Pittsfield Cooperative Bank executive and city councilor, who was elected mayor in November 2023.

He said the city is ready to cut the ribbon on some projects, including Terrace 592, redevelopment of the Wright Terrace apartments, which will bring online 41 units, most of them affordable, while others are in earlier stages.

Overall, there are perhaps another 150 to 200 units in early stage or predevelopment, Marchetti said, including redevelopment of the former Hibbard Elementary School, while Mill Town Capital has several projects in different locations across the city. These initiatives will make a dent in overall need, but more will be needed, he added.

“There’s a lot more work that we need to do, mostly because ours is an aging population,” he noted, adding that affordable options are needed if empty nesters want to continue living in the city.

Beyond housing, there are other issues facing the city, he went on, including the demolition and rebuilding of Wahconah Park, the city-owned landmark built in 1919, with work slated to begin next year.

The wooden grandstand, one of the few remaining in the U.S., was deemed unsafe, Marchetti said, and the park, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been closed for two years. Plans call for replacement of that grandstand but retention of other elements of the park, as well as creation of a historic walkway that will highlight the history of the park, which had a diamond oriented due west (it was constructed well before the advent of field lighting permitted night games), which resulted in brief suspensions of play at sunset so that the setting sun would not interfere with the batters’ view of the pitch.

The Pittsfield Suns, part of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, played at the park before it was deemed unsafe, Marchetti noted, adding that the team could possibly return to Pittsfield — which would be yet another development blending past and future in this city in flux.

Kara Lombardi

By George O'Brien July 3, 2025

Healthcare News

As Assistant Nurse Manager, Her Role Is to Be a Support Person

Kara Lombardi

Kara Lombardi traces her interest in healthcare, and the nursing profession, to her father’s bladder cancer diagnosis and subsequent visits to the hospital.

“It was a pretty late stage, so he was going back and forth to Boston with my mom,” she recalled, noting that she was just 15 at the time. “Obviously, it was a hard time for everyone, especially him, and when I would go visit, I would notice that, whenever the nurses came in, he was able to smile and joke with them; they brightened up his day.

“He always talked about how great and wonderful the nurses were, how they lifted his spirits when he was in the hospital,” she went on. “So they made me realize that’s what I wanted to do for people — I wanted to help them through the toughest days that they were going through.”

Today, several years after graduating from the Elms College nursing program, working in a few different settings, earning a master’s degree in nursing education through an online program, and rising in the ranks to assistant nurse manager of the med-surg unit at Mercy Medical Center, Lombardi gets to do some of that.

“I like teaching — that’s why I got my degree in that as well — and I like having the opportunity to teach nurses to be the best they can be, give them confidence, and show them what they can achieve in their career.”

But mostly, she’s managing and training others as they enter the profession, gain experience, and help patients through their toughest days.

It’s a job, one she’s been in for six years now, that comes with many rewards and opportunities for her to continue learning and growing as a manager and educator; in fact, she teaches the med-surg clinical for Westfield State University.

Lombardi talked about her role at length with BusinessWest, touching on the many aspects of this work that she enjoys.

“We round on the patients and make sure they’re having good experiences,” she said while giving a quick job description. “And we’re always available to help the nurses on the floor with whatever they need. And with the new grads, we’ll help answer questions they might have. We’re their support person, and we’re always available for them.

“I like that I can not only help the nurses, but have interaction with the patients, make sure they’re having a good experience, and do anything I can to make their stay better,” she went on. “I like teaching — that’s why I got my degree in that as well — and I like having the opportunity to teach nurses to be the best they can be, give them confidence, and show them what they can achieve in their career.”

What those coming out of nursing school need most is support, she added, and she’s committed to providing it, in whatever form it takes.

“They need to know that they’re not alone, that they can always ask for help — I think that’s very important,” she explained. “They need to know their resources and understand that they’re not going to know everything when they come out of school. A lot of nursing is gaining experience on the job, so as long as they know when to ask for help and whom to ask for help, they’ll be all set.”

Lombardi quickly acknowledged that this ability to ask for help is certainly an acquired skill, something she helps young grads with as much as anything she might teach at the bedside.

“Some don’t want to ask for help, and we discourage that,” she told BusinessWest. “We always encourage people to ask for help, and that’s one of the things I always do; I always make sure, especially with the new grads, to round on them multiple times a shift, asking them if they need help, what I can do for them, and picking their brains a little bit.”

Lombardi said the role of the nurse manager takes on even more importance at a time when many veteran nurses are retiring, others are moving on to less stressful work — a byproduct, in many respects, of the COVID years — and fewer people are getting into the profession.

“A lot of people don’t want to work at the bedside anymore — they want those remote jobs, office jobs, or even the aesthetics industry, with Botox and all that … many new nurses want to get into that field,” she said. “So it’s harder to find good bedside nurses.”

As for her own career, she said would like to eventually move into education, rather than a management role at a facility like Mercy.

“That’s one of my favorite jobs — I like giving students good habits and teach them the way things should be,” she explained. “And I don’t hide what real life is like because I feel that nursing school, sometimes, doesn’t really give the full picture of what it’s really like at the bedside. So I make sure that they see real-life situations.

“Everything isn’t going to be sunshine and rainbows,” Lombardi went on. “Things are going to go wrong, and you’re going to make mistakes, and it’s important that, if you do make a mistake, you own up to it so that something really bad doesn’t happen. And you need to learn from your mistakes; you have to get through it and learn from your experiences.”

That’s just one lesson she tries to impart on young people as they move forward in the same profession she chose. She’s not at the bedside as much as she once was, but she’s still deeply committed to providing care and helping patients through the worst of times, just like those nurses did with her father.