Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Creating Impact Anyone who hasn’t been to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in the past decade might be surprised at how different it is from its early days. From […]
Community Spotlight West Springfield Mayor Will Reichelt recalls that, after his community’s City Council voted in the spring of 2018 to place a ban on any and all cannabis-related businesses, […]
Designs on the Future Jonathan Butler knows what happens to a lot of reports, and he’s determined to avoid that fate. “This wasn’t intended to be just a two-year study […]
Community Spotlight Palmer’s leaders see the town as a destination — and hope the myriad players investigating east-west passenger rail service in Massachusetts view it the same way. That’s why […]
Community Spotlight Jennifer Tabakin is a believer in using public investment to spur private investment. After six years as Great Barrington’s town manager — she’s stepping down in June — […]
Community Spotlight Deerfield boasts numerous draws for businesses looking to relocate, Diana Schindler says, from its reasonable property-tax rate to its proximity to Interstate 91, Route 116, and Routes 5 […]
Community Spotlight Alex Morse says his phone was already ringing — quite frequently, in fact — before he was interviewed on CBS This Morning late last June. But then, it […]
Come as You Are Co-working spaces — hives of business where members share office space — have taken root in many Western Mass. communities over the past several years, for […]
Community Spotlight Mayor William Sapelli has developed a routine since he was sworn into office roughly 13 months ago. Always early to the ‘office’ (he worked within the city’s school […]
Connecting Past and Present It’s a grand reopening more than 200 years in the making. Specifically, it’s a house in Deerfield, built in 1795, that operated as a tavern for […]
Community Spotlight By Joseph Bednar As part of her annual state-of-the-city address recently, Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer praised the arrival of Wayfair — the fastest-growing e-commerce home-décor company in the […]
Community Spotlight The phrase ‘4/20-friendly’ has been around a while now. April 20 las long been an international counterculture holiday of sorts, when people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis. […]
Community Spotlight Amherst is a community in transition, Paul Bockelman says — in some positive ways. The most notable change, obviously, was the seating of Amherst’s first Town Council last […]
Community Spotlight On the heels of one home run for recreation and tourism, Hartford, Conn. is hoping for another — well, not a home run, exactly. More like a goal, […]
Community Spotlight As a long-time resident of North Adams, Mayor Thomas Bernard understands the city’s reputation as a tourist destination. It’s a good reputation to have, as it puts more […]
