Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Community Spotlight For the past four years, Amy Cahillane has led the Downtown Northampton Assoc. (DNA) in its many efforts to boost vibrancy in the city’s center. The DNA typically […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris Despite all the challenges a pandemic brings, Mary McNally says, town officials and business leaders in East Longmeadow are looking forward with a sense of […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris Before the pandemic, up to 80,000 cars would travel on Route 9 in Hadley each day, bringing workers, students, and customers to and through the […]
Community Spotlight Wilbraham is a mostly residential town with two main business districts — the town center, as it’s known, on Main Street, and along a lengthy stretch of Route […]
Punching Back Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno noted that his city is certainly well-versed in dealing with natural and man-made disasters — everything from the tornado in June 2011 to the […]
Delivering the Message John Renzi says that, when the pandemic arrived in mid-March, the sign industry, like most all others, was hit hard. Indeed, as a sector that has always […]
Culture Shock For the folks at Berkshire Theatre Group, things were going according to plan. A three-year sustainability plan, to be specific, developed back in 2018, said Nick Paleologos, the […]
Community Spotlight If there’s one thing capitalism doesn’t like, Ryan McNutt says, it’s uncertainty. And COVID-19 has certainly injected plenty of that into the regional and national economic picture. But […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris Despite what she described as “shifting sands and shifting times,” Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle believes her city is more than holding its own in the […]
Community Spotlight John Vieau wasn’t exactly planning on running for mayor last summer. That’s because he was reasonably sure that incumbent and two-time Mayor Richard Kos would be seeking another […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris While communities nationwide continue to grapple with what he calls the “grumpy cloud” of COVID-19, Westfield Mayor Donald Humason is looking to project a little […]
Waiting Game Magic Wings is a year-round operation, Kathy Fiore said — even when its doors are shut. “This is different from a clothing store,” said Fiore, who co-owns the […]
View from Main Street Diana Szynal is encouraged by what she sees on Main Street in Greenfield as restaurants and retail continue to emerge from months of closed doors. “I […]
Community Spotlight It’s been more than three years now since Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse told a TV reporter, tongue in cheek (or not), that he wanted to rename Holyoke ‘Rolling […]
Community Spotlight Mark Avery says he doesn’t tell the story as much as he used to — maybe because so many people have heard it by now — but he […]
