Perseverance Keeps Jazz Festival Going
WHAT: The Hoop City Jazz & Art Festival WHEN: July 4th & 5th (Saturday – Sunday) WHERE: STCC Campus, Armory Square (off of State Street), Springfield, MA – - John Osborn had just recently moved to the Mason Square neighborhood when the idea of a jazz festival first came to him. He wanted to have [...]
Scenes from the Parks Dept-United Way Cleanup
The Springfield Parks Department teamed up with the United Way to clean up two local parks in the city this past Wednesday. Coordinated as part of the Extreme Makeover Home Edition’s “Week of Caring,” volunteers from the United Way picked up trash along Riverfront Park in downtown Springfield and Breckwood Park in the city. – [...]
River Walk Assessment – The North End Section
On Wednesday, June 24, River Walk supporters walked the North End section of Springfield’s segment of the Connecticut River Walk and Bikeway. The North End section stretches from West Street (at the the North End Bridge) to the Chicopee city line, and – most walkers agree – is the most scenic and well-kept portion of [...]
Local News Briefs & Tidbits: 06-25-09
SUMMER IS HERE. Or so rumor has it. At least that’s what the calendar says. If anything else, the month of June has confirmed the fact that the Earth’s surface is indeed largely made up of water. REPUBLICAN TO FOLD? It’s no secret that The Republican – greater Springfield area’s only daily newspaper, has fallen [...]
At the Tea Pot Gallery
~ ~ Downtown Westfield has lots of little treats for the eye as you walk along its beautiful springtime avenues. Sometimes, while on my explorations of other cities and towns in the Pioneer Valley, I come upon a chance encounter that turns out to be an entirely different story all on its own. Such was [...]
Poor Springfield
As the final act began to play out in a drama that has torn apart a community, George Pappas of the neighborhood group Springfield Forward stood before the members of the Springfield Finance Control Board this past Tuesday and directly addressed Mayor Domenic J. Sarno. In what may be his final words on the matter [...]
Rooke Critical of School HQ Move
When news broke that the City planned on moving the Springfield School Department’s headquarters to office space at the old federal building on Main Street, not everyone was entirely pleased with the idea. Springfield City Councilor Timothy Rooke told the Intruder that the overall cost of the move may turn out to be too high [...]
‘Asylum’ Building to be Demolished
The vacant former Asylum building. SPRINGFIELD – Much to the delight of neighboring business owners in downtown Springfield, the City announced today that the former Asylum nightclub building on Main Street will be introduced to the wrecking ball in order to make way for additional parking and open space. Mayor Domenic J. Sarno, accompanied by [...]
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