Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Community Spotlight After relocating to Belchertown a few years ago, Jacob Robinson found himself a frequent visitor to nearby Amherst and admits to falling in love with its downtown — […]
Community Spotlight Virginia “Ginny” Desorgher is a retired emergency-room nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of nine. She had no real desire to add ‘mayor of Greenfield’ to that personal […]
Community Spotlight Palmer is known to many as the Town of Seven Railroads, a nod to a very rich history as a transit center. Indeed, several passenger and freight […]
Community Spotlight ‘Diverse.’ That’s the one word Jessye Deane kept coming back to as she talked about Deerfield and its business community. And with good reason. Indeed, while this […]
Blueprinting a Unique Culture It’s called “The Pick, Place, Podcast.” It’s co-produced by Worthington Assembly Inc. (WAi) and a collaborator — and tenant within its space in Deerfield’s industrial park […]
Big Ideas in Small Towns When Lucy Damkoehler returned to Western Mass. after 20 years away, she opened a bakery in a town she knew well — Bernardston, to be […]
Community Spotlight As he talked about Holyoke and its many marketable assets, Mayor Joshua Garcia listed everything from its location — on I-91 and right off a turnpike exit […]
Community Spotlight As executive director of the Northampton Chamber of Commerce, Vince Jackson spends a lot of time talking to business owners, and what he hears is generally optimistic — […]
Community Spotlight Like most other cities and towns, Lee Pouliot says, Chicopee has a housing shortage. It’s evidenced by everything from lengthy waiting lists at apartment complexes and skyrocketing rents […]
Community Spotlight Chris Brittain says the report wasn’t exactly surprising, but it was still quite eye-opening. Indeed, by the time the Boston Business Journal listed Lee as one of […]
Community Spotlight Chris Johnson was elected Agawam’s first mayor back in November 1989. He then served five two-year terms before returning to his real-estate law practice in 2000. In the […]
Community Spotlight For decades now, a rail stop in Enfield, Conn. on the line from Springfield to Hartford, New Haven, and points south has been a dream. Finally, the […]
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 […]
