Community Profiles
Community Profiles
They called it the Woods O’Cross. That’s the name that was affixed to a recent event at Motocross 338 in Southwick, a.k.a. ‘the Wick.’ And as that name suggests, it’s […]
Community Spotlight For Nismah Osman, acquiring Greenspace CoWork late last year with business partner Sarah Little feels like a full-circle moment. After relocating from Boston to Gill, her first […]
Community Spotlight Jeff Bagg says he’s come full circle. Sort of. He graduated from UMass Amherst back in 2002 and then worked for the town of Amherst as senior planner […]
Community Spotlight It’s called the TWIST program, an acronym that stands for Technical Work Instruction and Skills Training, and leaders at Sanderson MacLeod Inc. are excited to see it continue […]
Community Spotlight Eric Nakajima recalls that, while earning his master’s degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley 25 years ago, one of first assignments in one […]
Community Spotlight When it comes to the arts, hospitality, history, and architecture, Sara Goodberlet says, Lenox has an extremely strong brand. It’s been built over time and is fortified […]
Community Spotlight Victoria Tubbs says her first visit to Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory in Deerfield was certainly a memorable one. Indeed, as she and her brother, Vytautas Sukys, offered a […]
Community Spotlight John Vieau says he remembers the event vividly. It was the fall of 2019. Vieau, a Chicopee city councilor at the time, was running for mayor, and he […]
Community Spotlight They call it ‘the Pit.’ This an open area with several work stations, and it’s built “for momentum, not necessarily quiet,” said Adam Rovithis, adding that it is […]
Community Spotlight Lisa Wong says she was following a trend of sorts. But this was also a no-brainer. She was referring to her move to follow up four terms […]
Community Spotlight Marty O’Shea says officials in Longmeadow have been discussing what to do with the town’s two middle schools — Williams and Glenbrook — for nearly 20 years now. […]
Community Spotlight Jeff Cohen says he was “looking for something to do.” That was how the long-time developer, lawyer, and one-time police officer casually described how he began what […]
Community Spotlight Tom Christensen says most East Longmeadow residents have learned to live with — and drive through — the infamous rotary in the center of town. And some even […]
Community Spotlight It’s called Get Lost in Ludlow. That’s the theme of a campaign — being promoted in many ways, including a website and streetlight banners — in this […]
Community Spotlight Marya Kozik says North Adams is much like its larger neighbor to the south, Pittsfield, in that it is working very hard not to live in the […]
