Community Profiles
Community Profiles
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 […]
Community Spotlight Nicholas O’Connor says there’s a generational split in Belchertown when it comes to new amenities and development in general — but that line has become increasingly blurry. “There’s […]
Community Spotlight A 250th anniversary celebration, Karl Stinehart says, is an opportunity in many ways for a town like Southwick. “It’s tourism, it’s economic development, but it’s also history — […]
Community Spotlight Margaret Kerswill has a couple of good views of Stockbridge’s business community. One is as president of the Stockbridge Chamber of Commerce. The other is from her storefront […]
Community Spotlight Denise Menard has witnessed plenty of growth in East Longmeadow’s Town Hall since becoming the community’s first town manager two years ago, from the creation of a seven-member […]
Changing the Narrative Created through the merger of several economic-development-focused agencies, 1Berkshire has a broad mission statement, but it can be boiled down to making this unique region a better […]
Community Spotlight Folks in Western Mass. know they’re often dismissed by residents out east, Lisa Stowe says. So how does a city like Westfield make its case as a vibrant […]
Creating an Ecosystem Steven Boyd isn’t just the president and board chairman of the Berkshire Innovation Center; he’s a true believer that the $13.8 million facility will be a game […]
