Is a Happy Ending in Sight for Supporters of the Mason Square Branch Library?
* It’s been a long and exhausting road for supporters of the Mason Square Branch Library, who for many years have had to suffer the indignity of having residents use a wing of a building owned by the Urban League as their local library outlet.
Candidates to Appear at Forum on August 24
The McKnight Neighborhood Council & Youth Council are sponsoring a candidates forum at American International College’s Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. Five Democratic candidates for the office of Hampden County District Attorney, along with one Independent candidate, will be in attendance. The candidates include: Democrats Stephen [...]
Kimball Towers to Celebrate 100 Years in Downtown Springfield
News from Kimball Towers, via press release dated August 16, 2010… [begin release] HOTEL KIMBALL CELEBRATES 100 YEARSWITH A SERIES OF EVENTS DOWNTOWN The Kimball Towers Condominium Association will host a series of events downtown, beginning with an Art Show, Live Music and Open House during the weekend of the Mattoon Street Art Show and [...]
Rat Hole Revisited: City-Owned Property Worse Now Than When Absentee Landlord Owned It
The City of Springfield often draws a hard line against absentee landlords with its much-publicized “Operation Clean Sweep” campaigns. The City uses the media to its own advantage by making public its aggressive program of confronting and taking to court those land owners who are neglectful of their properties in Springfield. But who do you [...]
Big Shoes and Dillweedz Cafe Come to Downtown Springfield
Downtown Springfield is a bustling little city on weekdays as downtown workers and visitors go about their business, visiting shops and stopping for a bite to eat in the many cafes, taverns and restaurants.
MA Gateway Cities Celebrate Key Provisions in Economic Development Bill
From the UMass Dartmouth Urban Initiative – [via press release] MASSACHUSETTS’ GATEWAY CITIES CELEBRATE KEY PROVISIONSIN THE STATE’S RECENTLY PASSED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BILL A coalition of leaders from Massachusetts’ Gateway Cities is celebrating the recent passage of an economic development bill that contains provisions that create new opportunities for state and private investments in business [...]
New Forums Page at the Intruder
Check out the brand-new forums page at the Springfield Intruder. I’ve tried putting up a forum in the past – once at this site, and years ago at my old, pre-blog news website, the New England Rogue Journal. It’s tough to get folks to participate, but it’s free, and as long as it doesn’t get [...]
Local Group Hints of Racism in New High School Construction Budget
Earlier this year ground was broken at the site of the long-awaited-for new Putnam Vocational Technical High School in Springfield. Beyond all the back-slapping and beaming smiles of city officials on-hand that day, however, there still remains some city residents who are less than pleased with the final plans for the new high school. “We [...]
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