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1. Labor ordinances designed to help city workers

   Explore The Reminder Online Aug 20 2009

   Labor leaders and city officials hailed the ordinances signed by Mayor Domenic Sarno on Tuesday as ways to help ensure Springfield residents are hired on public works projects.

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   Mentions: Domenic J. Sarno Springfield

2. Tourism effort boosted

   Explore The Reminder Online Aug 20 2009 Tourism

   A major effort to increase tourism to Holyoke was started last week with the release of a "Discover Holyoke" walking tour guide.

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   Mentions: Holyoke Volleyball Hall of Fame

3. Bissonnette and Gov. Patrick work to prevent more manufacturing layoffs

   Explore The Reminder Online Aug 20 2009 Energy , Manufacturing

   To try to lower the expenses Callaway Golf has with its Chicopee manufacturing facility, Mayor Michael Bissonnette has been working to switch Callaway from buying its electricity from Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO) to Chicopee Electric Light Department (CELD).

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   Mentions: Governor Deval L. Patrick Callaway Golf Michael D. Bissonnette

4. New restaurant hits it right On The Mark

   Explore The Reminder Online Aug 20 2009 Tourism

   On Aug. 6 Watkins hosted a grand opening celebration for his new restaurant, On The Mark. Located in the heart of Agawam off of Springfield Street, the Walnut Street eatery serves up fresh homestyle breakfast and lunch, seven days a week.

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5. Dynamite Records closes after 27 years | GazetteNET

   Explore GazetteNET Aug 20 2009 Retail , Tourism

   

   A Main Street record store that began in the back of a station wagon nearly three decades ago is no more

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   Mentions: Amherst Northampton Easthampton

6. Future turns on windmills

   Explore masslive.com Aug 20 2009 Energy , Green Region

   At 386 feet from the ground to the tip of the blades, the wind turbine on the Williams Stone Co. property might look odd now to drivers headed along the Massachusetts Turnpike

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   Mentions: Renewable Energy Trust

7. Foreclosure woes persist

   Explore masslive.com Aug 20 2009 Education

   The number of Hampden County mortgage foreclosures fell 12.35 percent in July from 81 in July 2008 to 71, according to statistics released Wednesday by The Warren Group, a Boston-based provider of real-estate information.

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8. Teenagers learn, earn by holding summer jobs

   Explore masslive.com Aug 20 2009 Education

   SPRINGFIELD - The terraced amphitheater on Albany Street where the Gasoline Alley Foundation will graduate young people from its summer work program on Friday was choked with six years of brush growth before the youth started working.

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   Mentions: Regional Employment Board of Hampden County Inc. Springfield New England Farm Workers Council

9. McGinn: surprise survivor in race for mayor?

   Explore The Seattle Times Aug 20 2009

   Mike McGinn entered Seattle's race for mayor in April with a few big ideas and an obsessive dislike for the plan to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel.

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10. State Revises Data Security Regulations

    Explore From the EDC Aug 19 2009 Information Technology

    State regulators today revised the controversial Massachusetts data-privacy regulations, extending the deadline to March 10, making the rules consistent with federal standards and allowing employers to determine the technology needed to comply. AIM, which has represented employers for more than a ye

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11. WMECo Targets Young Adults to Reduce Energy Use

    Explore news.prnewswire.com Aug 19 2009 Green Region

    WMECo Targets Young Adults to Reduce Energy UsePR Newswire (press release)SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Massachusetts Electricity Company (WMECo) today announced an effort to help "Echo Boomers" ...and more »

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    Mentions: Northeast Utilities Springfield Western Massachusetts Electric Company

12. Paramount Owners to Announce Renovation Plans

    Explore From the EDC Aug 19 2009 Tourism

    One of the countries most storied venues will soon re-open under its original name, The Paramount Theater. Recently known as The Hippodrome, the downtown Springfield facility has been closed for several months as owners sought solutions to the new state fire code. Owners Michael J. Barrasso and Ste

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13. A Degree of Progress?

    Explore BusinessWest Aug 19 2009 Education

    

    It’s called the American Graduation Initiative, an Obama administration program to pump $12 billion into the nation’s community college over the next decade. While administrators at those institutions welcome the federal help, some wonder out loud whether the measure will have any meaningful impact and do what its name implies – graduate more individuals into the workforce.

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    Mentions: University of Massachusetts Greenfield Community College Springfield

14. Putting the Pieces in Place

    Explore BusinessWest Aug 19 2009

    

    Springfield’s New Chief Development Officer Sets His Sites

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    Mentions: Domenic J. Sarno Amtrak Baystate Health

15. Turcotte Data & Designs - solving your big and small technology issues

    Explore masslive.com Aug 19 2009 Information Technology

    Today's entrepreneurs and small business owners must wear a lot of hats to run a successful company. Whether marketing, selling or hiring, business owners are expected to know everything! For some, understanding the entire realm of technology needs for a...

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    Mentions: University of Massachusetts Easthampton

16. Protecting home tricky in recession

    Explore masslive.com Aug 19 2009

    Nationally, there's talk that the recession may be over. But for confirmation that the economy is still on the skids here in Western Massachusetts, one need only look at the increase in the number of creditors knocking on the...

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    Mentions: Springfield The Republican

17. Tomato crop cut by blight

    Explore masslive.com Aug 18 2009

    

    Fungal blight ruined the tomato harvest for many in the Pioneer Valley.

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    Mentions: University of Massachusetts Amherst Chicopee

18. Landfills eyed as solar sites

    Explore masslive.com Aug 18 2009 Energy

    Mayor Michael A. Tautznik wants free-standing solar power facilities to be able to locate on the city's former landfills.

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    Mentions: Michael A. Tautznik Easthampton

19. Westfield Charts Progress Downtown and in Its Industrial Parks

    Explore BusinessWest Aug 18 2009 Health Care

    

    Business WestWestfield Charts Progress Downtown and in Its Industrial ParksBusiness WestNationwide, economic development has been as stagnant as the summer's heat. But Westfield boasts new-business planning that most communities can only dream ...

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    Mentions: Westfield State University Springfield Northampton

20. Mass. Hopes To Import Recovery

    Explore Home - BostonHerald.com Aug 17 2009 Education

    Battered Massachusetts exporters could soon see a lift from the slowly recovering economies in Germany, Japan and France, economic experts said yesterday. Massachusetts...

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    Mentions: Massport Holyoke Community College Associated Industries of Massachusetts

21. Springfield Technical Community College lays off 10 employees, anticipates further cuts

    Explore masslive.com Aug 17 2009 Education

    No faculty members were laid off.

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    Mentions: Holyoke Community College Springfield Technical Community College Springfield

22. Chicopee gets ready to buy 30 acres of land no longer used by military

    Explore masslive.com Aug 17 2009 Aerospace/Defense

    The property has been appraised at $2.5 million.

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    Mentions: Michael D. Bissonnette Chicopee

23. Gerardo Ramos growing his own ocean-life laboratory right in Holyoke

    Explore masslive.com Aug 17 2009 Education

    

    He owns Marine Reef Habitat, an aquarium located in a tiny greenhouse on the corner of Main and Cabot streets.

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24. Governor's office chief quits

    Explore masslive.com Aug 17 2009 Education

    The director of Gov. Deval L. Patrick's office in Western Massachusetts will step down on Friday amid uncertainty over the long-term future of the office.

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    Mentions: Governor Deval L. Patrick Springfield College West Springfield

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