by Tyler Lederer | Oct 9, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, Photo Slider, West Springfield
WEST SPRINGFIELD — For Bryan Doe, outreach specialist for the Springfield Vet Center, the organization’s summer cookout on Sept. 6 was not just a fun event, but a community building exercise and foot in the door for local veterans.
by Michael Ballway | Oct 9, 2024 | Hampden County, Local News, More Local Headlines, West Springfield
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Before the school year is out, the cellphone pouches introduced at the high school this September may end up at West Springfield Middle School, too. It won’t happen without parent and student input, however, middle school Principal Peter Gillen...
by Mike Lydick | Oct 9, 2024 | Agawam, Hampden County, Local Headlines, Local News
AGAWAM — When Clark W. “Cracker” Jones joined the Agawam High School football team in 1929, he became a legend as part of the team’s first “golden” era under fabled head coach Harmon Smith. Jones will be among the star athletes who played on the team whose feats will...
by Mike Lydick | Oct 9, 2024 | Agawam, Chicopee, Hampden County, Local News, Photo Slider, Springfield
AGAWAM — Teenagers from Chicopee, Springfield and Suffield who attend a Feeding Hills dance studio soon will be making a trip to Poland to perform before an international audience as members of a U.S. dance team.
by Mike Lydick | Oct 9, 2024 | Agawam, Hampden County, Local News, More Articles
Agawam’s Sapelli School is one of 57 schools in Massachusetts recognized in September by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as part of its annual accountability reporting process. The department identified the schools as a 2024 “School of Recognition” for significant growth and academic achievement.
by Miasha Lee | Oct 9, 2024 | Agawam, Hampden County, Local News
AGAWAM — A new business in town, bringing back the old-school video game arcade, has something both for the kids who grew up feeding quarters into the likes of Centipede, Pac-Man, Asteroids and Galaga, and for the youngsters of today who may find those games just as...
