Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Community Spotlight There were more than 800 people at Longmeadow’s recent special town meeting in the high-school gym. They were there to consider 30 warrant items, most of them of […]
Community Spotlight “Sophisticated rural.” That’s how Craig Sweitzer, who has lived and worked in Monson for more than 40 years now — and served on the town’s Planning Board for […]
Community Spotlight Rebecca Brien grew up in Berkshire County and has lived in Pittsfield for more than 30 years now. She’s old enough to remember what it was like downtown […]
Community Spotlight Officials in many different communities like to say they’re ‘at the crossroads’ — of their region or even New England. In Sturbridge … they mean it. Indeed, this […]
Community Spotlight Jennifer Macksey grew up North Adams, and she’s seen some profound changes in her 50 years — and from many perspectives. As a young girl, she remembers […]
Community Spotlight The students have started calling it the “Harry Potter dining hall,” and with good reason. That’s the look that will be created by an ambitious initiative to transform […]
Community Spotlight As he led BusinessWest on a tour of what’s known as the ‘carpentry building’ at the Ludlow Mills complex, A.J. Crane walked up a deteriorated but […]
Community Spotlight Once the 17 days of the Big E Fair begin, Gene Cassidy settles into a routine he’s followed for years now. His day starts early, with a […]
Community Spotlight As he reflected on 16 years in office and his intention to serve another four, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said that, while much has been accomplished during […]
Community Spotlight It’s called WorkHub on Union. This is an ambitious project to create co-working space at the Easthampton Chamber of Commerce facility on Union Street. WorkHub will create space […]
An Uphill Climb Dan Moriarty was among the participants in the recent IRONMAN competition that wound its way through many Western Mass. communities. The president and CEO of Monson Savings […]
Community Spotlight The F-35 stealth fighter is nicknamed ‘Lightning,’ and it is certainly expected to provide a powerful surge in Westfield. The Pentagon announced in April that 18 F-35A fighters […]
Community Spotlight For more than 35 years now, the property at 330 Chestnut St. in East Longmeadow, known colloquially as the Package Machinery complex, has been the subject of question […]
Putting the Focus on Community Thomas Meshako acknowledged it was a quite a change moving from the large, regional institutions where he worked the first 30 or so years of […]
Northern Exposure Brolin Winning and his wife used to run a barbecue stand on the Mohawk Trail, and he’d occasionally look up at the abandoned building next door, a mansion […]
