Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris By all indications, from bustling sidewalks to traffic congestion, Amherst is most definitely back. As the home of UMass Amherst, Hampshire College, and Amherst College, […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris You might say Ryan McNutt is a man with a plan. The Palmer town manager keeps a copy of the town’s master plan on his […]
Community Spotlight MJ Adams recalled a community event in February 2020 called “A Deliberate Downtown: Growing by Design.” “Because so many interesting things were happening downtown at that time, […]
The Paper City Looks Back — and Ahead Read More: • Going with the Flow: Holyoke’s History Is One of Adaptation, Evolution, and Water • City Hall’s Dedication Is Long […]
Community Spotlight It’s called ‘Site 9.’ This is a 16-acre parcel within the William Stanley Business Park, created at the site of the massive General Electric transformer manufacturing complex in […]
Community Spotlight When Westmass Area Development Corp. and its board of directors went all in and acquired the massive and environmentally challenged Ludlow Mills complex in 2011, Jeff Daley said, […]
Community Spotlight ‘Good traffic.’ That’s the phrase used by Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno — who acknowledged that it is somewhat of an oxymoron — to describe traffic that is, well, […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris When people ask Easthampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle to list her priorities for the city, her answer is always, “housing, housing, housing, and housing.” […]
Community Spotlight While the country will be celebrating its 250th birthday in 2026, West Springfield will mark that same milestone two years earlier. And the planning for what will […]
LEE — Lee Bank Foundation has awarded $70,700 to 13 Berkshire area organizations for their second-round of 2022 community funding. Recipients were awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $12,500 to […]
NORTH ADAMS — Last month, BFAIR staged its First Annual Summer Kick-Off Festival, which that raised more than $31,000. With support from 34 sponsors and 28 in-kind donations from local businesses, the […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris Southwick residents love the natural beauty and the many recreation choices their town offers but they also like reasonable tax rates. Russell Fox, chair […]
The Berkshire Economic Recovery Project, a program of 1Berkshire and Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, with funding from the United States Economic Development Administration, announced the launch of its women- and […]
LENOX — The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, announced its 2022 Summer Lecture Series line-up. Now in its 29th year, the Summer Lecture series brings leading biographers and historians to the […]
LEE — Evan Collins has joined Lee Bank as a mortgage originator and will be working out of the Pittsfield branch. Colins was previously employed as a sales associate at […]
