Posts by Janice Jackson

 SPRINGFIELD, MA – (October 21, 2020) Big Y has announced that they will close all of their stores including Big Y World Class Markets, Table & Vine and Fresh Acres specialty market on Thanksgiving November 26 as well as Friday November 27. Big Y Express Gas & Convenience locations will be closed on Thanksgiving Day…

SPRINGFIELD, MA (10/21/2020) State and college officials announced Tuesday that Western New England University (WNE) and Convergent Photonics received a $2.5 million grant to start an integrated photonics laboratory together. The Baker-Polito Administration announced a new grant totaling over approximately $2,581,109 from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) to support the development of a new…

SPRINGFIELD, MA – (October 20, 2020) On Thursday, November 5, Big Y will be celebrating the official opening of their 71st supermarket at 1313 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury CT. In the interest of consumer and employee safety, Big Y World Class Market will not be holding an opening event. Instead, they will kick off a…

SPRINGFIELD, WORCESTER, Mass. – Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C., the leading labor and employment law firm serving employers in the greater Springfield area, announced today that two of its attorneys, Marylou Fabbo and Timothy Murphy have been selected to the 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers® list in the field of employment and labor law. Additionally, attorneys…

Springfield— The Davis Family has established the Joseph F. and Helen C. McGovern Scholarship Fund at the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts in honor of The Irene E. & George A Davis Foundation’s recently retired executive director Mary Walachy (photo attached).   Walachy retired in June after serving 23 years as executive director of the…

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. –Shatz, Schwartz and Fentin, P.C., a regional law firm serving clients throughout western New England and New York, as well as nationally and internationally, today announced that seven attorneys from the firm were named to the 2020 Massachusetts Super Lawyers® list. Attorney Michael A. Fenton was also chosen as a 2020 Massachusetts Rising…

(SPRINGFIELD, MA) For the second time in the award’s history, The Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts’ Trustees of the Order of William Pynchon has announced, amidst a global pandemic, their selection of local recipients of the Pynchon medal. Scott Whitney, chairman of the Pynchon Trustees, stated, “For more than 100 years, including during the 1918…

NORTH ADAMS, MASS. —In support of MCLA’s ongoing commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and in recognition of the public health crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the MCLA Office of Admission will be waiving the SAT/ACT testing requirement for students who apply for Fall 2021 and Fall 2022. MCLA will also be piloting…

SPRINGFIELD – Breast surgeon Jesse T. Casaubon, D.O., who recently completed training in breast surgical oncology, has joined the Department of Surgical Oncology at Baystate Health.   “I was inspired by my physician grandfather, who worked so hard for his community. I heard so many stories about him and I remember wanting to impact the…

Chicopee, MA, October 16, 2020– Mercedes-Benz of Springfield is 3 years old. Officially, doors opened on October 16, 2017. As you may recall, the ribbon cutting ceremony took place November 1, 2017 and the grand opening reception on December 1, 2017.   Time flies when you are having fun… While it may only be 3 years since we first opened our…