On November 12, 1985, two Springfield police officers made a routine traffic stop on State Street not far from the Friendlys restaurant. It was like any number of stops cops make many times a shift. Maybe they suspected something about the people in the car. Maybe not. Within hours one was dead, the other barely clinging to life.
Michael Schiavina and Alain Beauregard were just doing… Read more »
Rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic has turned against free trade and against international cooperation, according to Stavros Lambrinidis, ambassador from the European Union to the United States.
"In practice, on the ground? No way," said Lambrinidis, a Greek lawyer and politician who also served as his country's minister of foreign affairs for three months in 2011 during the worst of… Read more »
The CEO of online retail giant Wayfair talked taxes, trade, and immigration with Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal in Pittsfield Wednesday.
Niraj Shah – a Pittsfield native turned billionaire businessman – sat down with Neal at an economic summit at Berkshire Community College. His home furnishings company, Wayfair, is opening up a call center in Pittsfield that it says… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD — Revitalize Community Development Corp. and its JoinedForces initiative announced they were awarded a $730,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to continue their mission to support military veteran families.
“We are one of 10 nonprofits nationwide [to receive] this particular grant that we were awarded,” said Colleen Loveless,… Read more »
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The founder of Wayfair engaged in a conversation with U.S. Rep. Richard Neal on Wednesday morning, covering topics of technology, entrepreneurship, immigration, taxes and trade.
Niraj Shah, a 1991 graduate of Pittsfield High School, is bringing 300 jobs to his hometown with the development of a call center for the international home decor company. He… Read more »
PITTSFIELD — Boyd Technologies of Lee recently hired a seamstress who worked at the former Country Curtains to run an ultrasonic sewing line. While that might seem like a mismatch between job skills and professional requirements, it's not.
This person's previous employment history, productivity level and approach to work outweighed the lack of high-level work skills. The… Read more »
SPRINGFIELD — Lonnie Chappell was a Marine serving in Vietnam in 1966 when he was blown off the back of a truck in a bomb attack.
Chappell, 78, said Tuesday that his body has hurt every day since. He’s sought treatment for a bad disc in has back and uses a wheelchair to get around.
But he’s about to get additional modifications to the home he and his wife, Mary, share… Read more »
A new program in Massachusetts is helping military veterans and their families stay in their homes.
Two years ago, volunteers organized by Revitalize Community Development Corporation did some yard work and other chores around the home of Lonnie and Mary Chappell.
" I… Read more »
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal has introduced legislation to amend the Windfall Elimination Provision, or WEP, for future retirees and provide additional benefits to current recipients.
The WEP is a formula that can reduce the size of a Social Security retiree’s monthly benefit check if the retiree received a pension from a job in which they did not pay Social… Read more »
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — More than 200 area firefighters will be receiving turnout gear thanks to a nearly $600,000 federal grant made through the North Adams Fire Department.
"That's over 200 sets of personal protective equipment for firefighters and it's about safety," Fire Chief Stephen Meranti said. "You can't go into a burning building without it."
The regional Assistance… Read more »
