A Look Back, June 10

Making News in Business, Aug. 21

Roberts joins Western Mass EDC SPRINGFIELD — Justin Roberts has joined the Western Mass Economic Development Council (WMEDC) as chief marketing officer. Roberts will serve in a fractional leadership capacity, working alongside EDC President and CEO Aaron Vega and the EDC team. The addition advances Vega’s strategy to strengthen the EDC’s role as a regional […]

A Look Back, Aug. 20

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Gov. Healey stumps in Northampton to discuss affordability, federal cuts ahead of November election

FLORENCE — Meeting with Northampton Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra, Sen. Jo Comerford and other supporters, Gov. Maura Healey made her way to the Sip413 Coffee Shop Wednesday morning to discuss food security, housing, federal funding cuts and other issues impacting western Massachusetts and the state at-large. The visit to Paradise City was a stop on Healey’s […]

UMass football: Minutemen continue to fine-tune defensive identity

AMHERST — Practice No. 15 of fall camp is in the books for the UMass football team. The Minutemen finished up a somewhat chippy session at sunny McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Wednesday morning. Linebacker Tyler Martin met with the media following practice. As a redshirt junior, Martin registered 103 tackles last season. He was 31st […]

Guest columnist Philip Lussier: The vanishing security of old age

My wife’s uncles and aunts all lived very comfortable lives. They had nice homes on quiet streets and did the usual modest things, visiting locally and not traveling much, during their retirement years. The uncles had all been World War II vets. They came home from the war and went back to work in the same jobs they’d had in their teens prior to leaving. For all of them it was working at the “shop,” except for one who was employed by the railroad as a freight conductor. The “shop” was the Lamson and Goodnow cutlery. That business still exists but […]