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Toward More Accessible Housing On June 27, the Massachusetts Senate passed its Affordable Homes Act, authorizing $5.4 billion in borrowing and making policy changes with the goal of building […]
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Room to Grow Rocky’s Ace Hardware, one of the country’s largest family-owned Ace Hardware dealers, held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 19 for a new, expanded store in the […]
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Building on Momentum Total construction starts rose 10% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.24 trillion, according to Dodge Construction Network. Non-building starts gained 49% during […]
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Firm Foundation Marking 75 years in business is a significant milestone for any company, and when Mowry & Schmidt Inc. hit that mark in 2022, it was extra gratifying, […]
Solving a Sticky Situation UMass Amherst food scientist Lynne McLandsborough recently won the 2024 Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for her research that offers a solution to a sticky sanitation and […]
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Engineering a Youth Movement Ashley Sullivan can think of plenty of reasons why someone might want to go into engineering. “It is a very rewarding field where you get […]
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Safety First As the weather warms up and people spend more time outside getting their yards and homes ready for the summer, it’s important to keep safety in mind […]
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Food for Thought Big Y has been making significant strides in enhancing its stores across the region. Since 2022, the company has celebrated the grand reopening of 26 remodeled stores, […]
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Energy for Change Dr. Fahad Khan said the HVAC program at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) has been around since the 1960s. “Many in the field around here went to […]
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Taking Flight In a location that once thrived as part of a computer manufacturing facility for Digital Equipment Corp., a joint-venture development team of Winstanley Enterprises LLC and NorthPoint Development […]
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Building on Momentum To Wonderlyn Murphy, a successful construction project can be defined in different ways. And one of those is how gratifying it is. Take the new […]
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Shore Thing Sanjay Arwade says UMass Amherst has a long and proud history in the broad realm of wind energy. It dates back nearly a half-century to professor William […]
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Up Close and Personal Andrew Crane said the annual Home & Garden Show staged by the Home Builders and Remodelers Assoc. of Western Massachusetts (HBRAWM) began as a way […]
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A Lifetime of Lessons One great thing about opening a business, Curio Nataloni said, is that no one can lay you off. Oh, sometimes businesses fail, but entrepreneurship means everything […]
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Professional Development — by Design To explain what it means to be named an Emerging Professional Friendly Firm, Jason Newman offered some background on what it’s like to be an […]