A member of Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s inner circle during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and one of the longest-serving representatives in the House of Representatives, John Lewis died Friday after battling pancreatic cancer.
While Lewis served as the U.S. Rep. for the Fifth District of Georgia since 1987, he also had an outsized impact in Springfield as well.
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SPRINGFIELD — As numbers of coronavirus patients at Baystate Medical Center continue to drop, health administrators and political leaders are crediting the dedicated essential workers who have helped care for patients who have contracted the virus.
Mark A. Keroack, president and CEO, of Baystate Health, said the hospital has experienced losses, but also many success cases… Read more »
BOSTON — Trustees of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke have endorsed multiple recommendations made in a highly critical state investigation into dozens of coronavirus-related deaths at the facility for aging veterans.
The board of trustees met by teleconference Tuesday for the first time since the report was released on June 24, Masslive.com reported.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – On Thursday, U.S. Representative Richard Neal visited Baystate Medical Center to thank frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a news conference in front of the hospital, Rep. Neal discussed the last stimulus package and how crucial it was for hospitals during the pandemic, securing necessary testing sites and providing personal protective… Read more »
LUDLOW — Inmates in the York Street Industries vocational training program at the Hampden County Correctional Center have made 67,000 face masks as well as hundreds of protective face shields and gowns for the fight against the coronavirus.
And on Wednesday they got a visit from U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal congratulating them on their efforts and handing out award… Read more »
LUDLOW, Mass. (WWLP) – Many state agencies have played a significant role in fighting COVID-19. The Hampden County Jail inmates have been working to help benefit the future of others and themselves by assisting in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic
“We are self sufficient, we have to be, we’re a city behind the fences.”
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Inmates at correctional institutions across the country are producing face masks and other protective equipment to combat the coronavirus pandemic. There is a PPE production program at a county jail in western Massachusetts.
York Street Industries, the corrections industry of the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, has produced more than 67,000 face masks,… Read more »
We speak with Congressman Richard Neal about the Supreme Court's ruling on President Trump's taxes, the coronavirus pandemic, his reelection campaign and other issues facing his district.
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LUDLOW — In March, when everyone was still learning about the coronavirus and before it had killed 136,00 Americans, U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal was telling people to pay attention to everything Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
Today, with the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under attack from the Trump administration and seemingly sidelined from… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD — As Black Lives Matter protests around the country continue in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, several residents of Springfield’s Atwater Park noticed an uncomfortable silence about the issue from their neighbors.
“George Floyd’s death was a shock for the entire nation,” said Jillian… Read more »
