West Springfield, MAWEST SPRINGFIELD — Congressman Richard Neal joined local officials Monday to announce a $48,000 federal grant for the West Springfield Fire Department, which will use the money...
Basketball anniversary coin could be approved in 2016
Jun 15, 2016
Washington, DCA commemorative coin that honors the 125th anniversary of basketball could be approved this year, according to U.S. Rep. Richard Neal (D-Springfield.). Neal said the bill has 215...
Congressman Neal issues statement on the Orlando mass shooting
Jun 13, 2016
Washington, DC Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal released a statement Monday on the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. At least 50 were killed and 53 others were injured. Below is the...
Congressional Corner With Richard Neal
May 20, 2016
Washington, DC It’s an important anniversary in Irish history. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock about the Easter Rising. To view...
Springfield’s Union Station will be much more than a transit hub
May 9, 2016
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...
Officials tour progress of Union Station project
May 9, 2016
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...
‘Make it a neighborhood’: Amtrak officials tour progress at Springfield’s Union Station (photos, video)
May 9, 2016
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...
Holyoke student wins the nationwide high school visual art competition
May 9, 2016
Washington, DC CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The winner of the 2016 Congressional Art Competition was announced Monday. Mark Sweeney, a student at Holyoke Catholic, was declared the winner by Congressman...
Springfield officials, supporters laud renovations to Clifford Phaneuf Environmental Center at Forest Park
May 5, 2016
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...
Tuskegee Airman James Sowell, 94, finally receives Congressional Gold Medal in Wilbraham
May 4, 2016
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...
National insurance group schedules 2018 convention in Springfield: $1 million economic impact expected
May 4, 2016
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...
Congressman Neal Nominates Hoosac Valley Student to Annapolis
May 3, 2016
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...
Congressman Neal, Hoosac Valley celebrate Jared Haley, school’s future midshipman
May 3, 2016
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...
Historic Stockbridge Library set for celebratory reopening
Apr 30, 2016
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...
Springfield memorializes 100-year anniversary of Ireland’s Easter Rising
Apr 24, 2016
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...
The 1916 Easter Rising and America: Congressman Richard E. Neal
Apr 21, 2016
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...
Springfield gets $13.8 million more in FEMA funds for tornado damage
Apr 11, 2016
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...
1930s Springfield Union Station barber chair refurbished to raves from officials, historians … and barbers
Apr 11, 2016
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...
Congressman Richard E. Neal honored with Henry A. Butova Award
Apr 8, 2016
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...
World health leader to speak at Commencement.
Apr 7, 2016
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...