WESTFIELD — Out of a record 7,455 applications and 5,947 acceptance letters, 1,073 first year and transfer students are continuing their academic careers at Westfield State University this fall.“This was a big institutional effort and we’re really, really excited about the end result,” said WSU...
WEST SPRINGFIELD – New signs will go up with fresh warnings to wash hands after visiting animal exhibits at the Big E this year.But concerns about the spread of avian flu, H5N1, are waning across the country and shouldn’t have a big impact on this...
Jacoby Brissett said he cried at least three times before Sunday’s game. That’s how much it meant to him.A journeyman quarterback for much of his NFL career, Brissett came in as the starting quarterback, got the support of his coaches and led the New England...
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One of my favorite stories about The Republican is that its founder, Samuel Bowles, poled a rented printing press on a flat-bottomed barge up the Connecticut River to reach Springfield, his wife and infant daughter aboard.Yes, we’re that old as a publication – 200 years...
I’m no regular. The young waitress behind the counter, though, marks my entrance to Petros Breakfast & Lunch in Chicopee with a broad smile on her lips and a brightness in her eyes.She delivers my black coffee in one of those thick-walled, white diner mugs...
Ann M. Murphy still counts the days.Twenty-three years.It’s now been a generation, enough time for her brother’s two children to have grown from little girls in kindergarten and nursery school into accomplished women, one an attorney and the other in her second year of medical...
When Nashoba Valley Medical Center and Carney Hospital in Dorchester closed their doors for the final time last week, scores of workers suddenly found themselves without a job.And with the hospital’s owners, Dallas-based Steward Health Care, in the middle of a messy federal bankruptcy case,...
WESTFIELD — A former Westfield State University professor’s paintings are on display in the Westfield Athenaeum’s “The Art of Ron Michaud: The Road to Dana” exhibit. He will speak about his art at a reception at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 in the library’s Jasper...
Since the beginning of 2022, the city of Boston has planted more than 5,000 trees on public property.Some of those trees are part of planned public works projects, but many are the result of simple requests from residents who can get a tree planted for...
