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Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, toured Union Station on Monday with Amtrak representatives and city officials in search of ways to make the revamped depot a...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) — Today, local and federal officials got an inside look at the Union Station rehabilitation project. The transportation hub is in its last stages of...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) — Springfield’s 90-year-old Union Station is getting a facelift. 22News strapped on our hard hats, and took a look inside the $88.5-million rehabilitation...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — City and school officials and many supporters gathered at the Clifford A. Phaneuf Environmental Center at Forest Park on Thursday to praise a completed $4 million...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — A national organization representing insurance agents and brokers will conduct its annual four-day fall convention in downtown Springfield in 2018. The event is expected...

Washington, DC WILBRAHAM – Tuskegee Airman James Sowell, 94, who lives at Wingate Nursing Home in Wilbraham, was unable to attend the 2007 ceremony in which the Tuskegee airmen were awarded the...

Washington, DC CHESHIRE — For this first time in as long as anyone can remember, a Hoosac Valley Student has been tapped to attend a United States service academy. Hoosac Valley High School senior...

Washington, DC CHESHIRE, Mass. — One of Hoosac Valley High School's best will be headed for the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis this summer. Jared Haley of Adams is the first Hurricane in recent...

Washington, DC STOCKBRIDGE — Amid a whirlwind of finishing touches and unpacking of boxed book collections, Director Katie O'Neil conducted a grand tour of the historic Stockbridge Library on...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — At the exact anniversary of the Easter Rising, William Cahillane stood up and read the 100-year-old document that officially created the Provisional Government of the...

Washington, DC Four weeks ago, I stood in the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in Dublin, a guest of the Irish government, to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising, one of...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — A barber chair that once served a bustling Union Station in the 1930s, and beyond, was back in public view on Monday after decades of storage, refurbished to its former...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — The city has received a new $13.8 million federal grant as compensation for the damage to the former state armory building on Howard Street from the 2011 tornado. The...

Washington, DC When Richard Neal played football for Technical High School in the mid-1960s, there used to be two different ways home after a game. Which road the team took, however, depended on the...

Washington, DC Global champion for human rights Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer for Partners In Health (PIH), will deliver the keynote speech for Mount Holyoke College’s 179th Commencement...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Congressman Richard Neal (D-Springfield) was among the political leaders who attended Outlook 2016- an annual luncheon hosted by the Springfield Regional...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD – City veteran Joseph Gucciardi said his colleagues in the Veterans Services office learned that he had received a Purple Heart award in the mail, decided that would not...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Charlie Baker answered calls Tuesday for Massachusetts' economic successes – including General Electric's decision to relocate its global headquarters to Boston –...

Washington, DC HARTFORD — Connecticut is spending $643 million in state and federal money improving the rail line from Springfield south to New Haven, with plans to run frequent commuter service by...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD - The Easter Rising of 1916 set Ireland on the road to independence and Western Massachusetts plans to mark the event with the help of John Wayne. A free showing of "The...