Community Profiles
Community Profiles
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris For the past year, the town of Lenox showed what happens when uncertainty meets a can-do attitude. Despite the formidable challenges of COVID-19, Town Manager […]
Growth Market Elly Vaughan knows a lot about the global food system — and the myriad problems it has posed over the decades. “Local food is so important for so […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris For MJ Adams, 2020 felt like someone had pushed a ‘pause’ button. Adams, director of Community and Economic Development for the city of Greenfield, had […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris As the world looks to generate energy from different sources and reduce waste, a new facility just opened in Agawam that contributes to both efforts. […]
Community Spotlight The last time BusinessWest spoke with Mayor Thomas Bernard for the Community Spotlight, about a year ago, he was talking up the city’s Vision 2030 plan, which was […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris Despite the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19, the town of Ludlow keeps building and improving. As coronavirus rates continue to rise across Massachusetts, Manuel Silva, […]
Community Spotlight By Mark Morris For Longmeadow Town Manager Lyn Simmons, it’s been quite a first year on the job. With 16 years of experience in municipal government in of […]
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 […]
