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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - Congressman Richard Neal Thursday announced funding for construction of a new cargo-jet hangar at Westover Air Reserve Base. Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee is home to a fleet of eight C-5-M Super Galaxy Military cargo jets. But all 50 of the U.S. Air force's C-5-M's will eventually be serviced at a $42.6 million maintenance Hangar that will be built at… Read more »

An aircraft hangar the size of two football fields will be built in western Massachusetts where maintenance will be done on the largest planes in America’s military fleet. Congressman Richard Neal (D-MA1)  announced Thursday that the White House had signed off on spending $43 million to build the hangar at Westover Air Base in Chicopee. He said it should help keep the… Read more »

CHICOPEE — Westover Air Reserve Base aircraft maintainers were out Thursday in 4-degree weather working on the base’s massive C-5M Super Galaxy cargo jets. But more of that work will happen inside once a $42.6 million hangar is built, probably by the year 2022. The new hangar, to be called the Regional ISO Maintenance Hangar, was announced at a Thursday news conference.… Read more »

CHICOPEE — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, has announced more than $42 million in funding for a new aircraft maintenance hangar at Westover Air Reserve Base. “I’ve worked on this for a long time,” said Neal. The money was announced at an event Thursday at Westover with Neal, Brig. Gen. Scott Durham, Col. David Post, and Chicopee Mayor Richard Kos. Durham… Read more »

General Dynamics will continue to produce fire-control systems that go to sea aboard U.S. Navy submarines, securing jobs for a large Pittsfield workforce. The company's division in Pittsfield received a $13 million extension this week to a Defense Department contract, the office of U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, announced. On Thursday, Neal went to the 439th Airlift Wing… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD — Ruth Elizabeth Park, between Hancock and Walnut streets in the Six Corners / Old Hill neighborhoods, will get improvements including an ADA-accessible and universal access park entrance and interior walking path as well as an open space urban trail connecting it with six other urban parks, officials said Wednesday. The connector trail will link to Harriet Tubman,… Read more »

House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal today defended his go-slow approach to demanding President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Under pressure from some liberal groups unhappy he hasn’t acted more quickly, Neal (D-Mass.) said: “You’re going to have to, I think, resist the emotion of the moment and make sure your case is carefully… Read more »

The House Ways and Means Committee announced that it has canceled a hearing slated for Thursday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to appear. Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) last week called on Mnuchin to appear before the committee for a hearing on the shutdown's impact on the Department of Treasury and… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Richard Neal moved this week to cancel a Thursday House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the federal government shutdown’s impacts after Treasury Department Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined his invitation to speak before the tax-writing panel. Neal, a Springfield Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, said late Wednesday that while panel members… Read more »

Congressman Brendan Boyle and Congressman Richard Neal have introduced a resolution in Congress honoring the hundredth anniversary of the inaugural meeting of Dáil Éireann, which produced a Declaration of Independence for Ireland on January 21, 2019. “One hundred and forty-three years after a group of brave American patriots signed the Declaration of Independence in my… Read more »