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Grand re-opening of Bergen Circle in Springfield
The Bergen Circle apartments on Girard Avenue in Springfield celebrated its renovation completion at the 201-unit housing community on Wednesday. According to the City of Springfield, Mayor Domenic Sarno announced three years ago that the complex has dealt with many different problems and that it was time for a change. MassHousing closed on $21.2 million…
Greenfield Builds Momentum on Many Fronts
Virginia “Ginny” Desorgher is a retired emergency-room nurse, mother of three, and grandmother of nine. She had no real desire to add ‘mayor of Greenfield’ to that personal profile, but Desorgher, a transplant from the eastern part of the state and, by this time last year, a veteran city councilor and chair of the Ways…
UMass Aeronautics wins 1st place in design competition in Kansas
The UMass Aeronautics placed 1st in New England during a Design, Build and Fly event last weekend. The team drove over 24 hours to Wichita, Kansas to compete at this year’s Design Build Fly competition The team spent months designing and building a carbon fiber remote control plane to carry out missions, like taking off…