Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Community Spotlight Tyler Saremi calls it “cross-pollination.” That’s how he chose to describe how the various businesses, government offices, and cultural institutions, especially the Majestic Theater, clustered in the downtown […]
Community Spotlight Stacey Blanco says she’s always been entrepreneurial. Although she’s worked in office settings — and those experiences have helped inspire her current venture — she has […]
Community Spotlight Joesiah Gonzalez calls it a “game changer.” He was referring to the Gemini Townhomes project in Springfield’s South End, an initiative that will create 40 single-family homes, […]
Community Spotlight Mikki Lessard calls it “Main Street USA reinvented.” She was referring to her business, oHHo, a cannabis and botanical wellness company “dedicated to bringing you plants with benefits,” […]
Community Spotlight Mike McCabe isn’t sure how or why Westfield hasn’t really been part of the discussion when it comes to stops on the planned — most believe we’ve […]
Community Spotlight Gordon Smith became superintendent of schools in East Longmeadow in 2010. Not long after, the ‘journey,’ as he called it, to build a replacement for the high school […]
Community Spotlight Becky Piccolo says the Olde Heritage Tavern is the ‘Cheers’ of Lenox. It’s a place where … well, most everyone knows your name. Indeed, while it’s a popular […]
Community Spotlight There is no official countdown clock on the massive project to widen and reconstruct roughly 2.5 miles of Route 9 in Hadley. But there might as well […]
Community Spotlight After relocating to Belchertown a few years ago, Jacob Robinson found himself a frequent visitor to nearby Amherst and admits to falling in love with its downtown — […]
Community Spotlight Virginia “Ginny” Desorgher is a retired emergency-room nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of nine. She had no real desire to add ‘mayor of Greenfield’ to that personal […]
Community Spotlight Palmer is known to many as the Town of Seven Railroads, a nod to a very rich history as a transit center. Indeed, several passenger and freight […]
Community Spotlight ‘Diverse.’ That’s the one word Jessye Deane kept coming back to as she talked about Deerfield and its business community. And with good reason. Indeed, while this […]
Blueprinting a Unique Culture It’s called “The Pick, Place, Podcast.” It’s co-produced by Worthington Assembly Inc. (WAi) and a collaborator — and tenant within its space in Deerfield’s industrial park […]
Big Ideas in Small Towns When Lucy Damkoehler returned to Western Mass. after 20 years away, she opened a bakery in a town she knew well — Bernardston, to be […]
Community Spotlight As he talked about Holyoke and its many marketable assets, Mayor Joshua Garcia listed everything from its location — on I-91 and right off a turnpike exit […]
