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Articles mentioning both Greenfield and Holyoke

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1. Greenfield, Holyoke, Springfield Technical community colleges receive grants to support initiatives
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 27 2012 Education
  
  ...o graduate. Some of the money is also designed to enhance career training. Community colleges in Greenfield, Holyoke and Springfield are among 15 statewide which will share a $4 million grant, Gov. Deval L. Patrick anno...
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  Mentions: Governor Deval L. Patrick Holyoke Community College Springfield Technical Community College
2. Northfield power facility looks to expand
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 22 2012 Energy
  
  ...n together, that is be enough power for about 1 million average homes. By contrast, the Mt. Tom coal plant in Holyoke, also owned by FirstLight, has the capacity to generate enough power for about 100,000 average suburba...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Greenfield Holyoke
3. Officials to highlight 'Knowledge Corridor' passenger train service at potential
  
  Explore masslive.com Aug 27 2012 Transportation
  
  ... service will include stops throughout Connecticut before heading north to Springfield, Holyoke, Northampton, Greenfield and Vermont. The corridor, already home to more than 45,000 companies, has been billed as a lower-c...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Springfield Northampton
4. Massachusetts to buy Knowledge Corridor right-of-way for Springfield-to-Vermont passenger rail
  
  Explore masslive.com Aug 23 2012 Transportation
  
  ...said. The Knowledge Corridor, as it is being called, will have stops in Springfield, Holyoke, Northampton and Greenfield. The entire line will run from Washington, D.C., to Burlington, Vt. Currently, the route veers east...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Palmer Springfield
5. Boston to Washington rail corridor -- including Springfield area -- focus of federal review
  
  Explore masslive.com Aug 13 2012 Transportation
  
  ...in Northampton, a new $15.1 million inter modal transit center in Greenfield and possibly a future station in Holyoke. The new alignment, called the “Knowledge Corridor-Restore Vermonter Project,” would reduce overall tr...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Amtrak Springfield
6. Greenfield saves on energy costs with solar array
  
  Explore masslive.com Aug 11 2012 Energy
  
  ...ne in Holyoke and Springfield, and Amherst has been planning to build a solar array atop its capped landfill. GREENFIELD — The forecast for energy savings is sunny in Greenfield, where the first month of a new solar oper...
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  Mentions: Springfield Amherst Northampton
7. New ties to mark rail work start in Northampton
  
  Explore GazetteNET Jul 10 2012 Transportation
  
  ...and Palmer before getting to Springfield, to a more direct southern route through Greenfield, Northampton and Holyoke, officials with the state Department of Transportation are in the midst of completing designs, purc...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Palmer Amtrak
8. Holyoke Children's Museum gets $171,800 'clean energy grant' from state
  
  Explore masslive.com Jun 28 2012
  
  ...as given the city a grant of $171,800 to make improvements to the heating and air conditioning systems at the Holyoke Children’s Museum, officials said. The money was part of $2.8 million in grants to fund 55 “clean ener...
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  Mentions: Springfield Northampton Greenfield
9. Holyoke seeks design for platform that Mayor Alex Morse expects will lead to return of passenger train service
  
  Explore masslive.com Apr 17 2012 Transportation
  
  ...o Holyoke. Shown is a conductor looking out as a train leaves Warwick, R.I. in 2011. Related links * Complete Holyoke coverage Follow Mike Plaisance on Twitter HOLYOKE – The city has begun soliciting designers to diagram...
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  Mentions: Springfield Greenfield Holyoke
10. Westfield prepares to launch $400,000 transportation study
  
  Explore masslive.com Mar 2 2012 Transportation
  
  ...s the Pride convenience store and service stations chain. Intermodal centers have been created in Holyoke and Greenfield but Westfield is considering a smaller scale facility to serve the transportation needs of its resi...
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  Mentions: Westfield State University Springfield Amherst
11. Higher education institutions turn out a well-prepared workforce which helps attract business
  
  Explore masslive.com Feb 11 2012 Education
  
  ...nator, at her 206 Maple St. office in Holyoke. Recognizing the growing involvement of students in places like Holyoke, Five Colleges Inc., the consortium of Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst and Hampshire colleges and UMass,...
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  Mentions: American International College University of Massachusetts Holyoke Community College
12. Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts issues $717,800 in grants
  
  Explore masslive.com Jan 30 2012
  
  ...ricans and Arena Civic Theater. Homework House, which provides free tutoring to 150 elementary-school kids in Holyoke and Springfield, got a grant. So did the Fractured Atlas, a national organization that offers support ...
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  Mentions: Springfield Greenfield Holyoke
13. Railroad developments on track for Valley
  
  Explore GazetteNET Jan 1 2012 Transportation
  
  ...deral project to rehabilitate the Pan Am southern tracks that extend from Greenfield through Northampton into Holyoke is slated for completion in the next few years, with some of its components already in the works. The ...
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  Mentions: University of Massachusetts University of Connecticut Palmer
14. Breaking Down the Report Card
  
  Explore BusinessWest Dec 6 2011 Education , Health Care
  
  ...tive on Western Massachusetts,” said Pura. “I thought that the wonderful work that’s going on in Springfield, Holyoke, the Berkshires, and here in Franklin County was not spoken to. That fact is that community colleges a...
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  Mentions: Holyoke Community College Springfield Technical Community College Greenfield Community College
15. Bus service in Westfield to be study of new PVTA transportation study
  
  Explore masslive.com Dec 1 2011 Transportation
  
  ...in 2008 off Southampton Road near Exit 3 of the turnpike. Intermodal centers have been created in Holyoke and Greenfield but the focus in Westfield will be on a smaller scale, Knapik said. City officials said earlier thi...
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  Mentions: Westfield State University Springfield Greenfield
16. Western Massachusetts food programs receive grants from Project Bread to fight hunger
  
  Explore masslive.com Nov 9 2011
  
  ...in County Community Meals Hatfield: Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Holyoke: Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holyoke; Holyoke Health Center; Providence Ministries; Salvation Army; Huntington: Huntington Food Pantry at P...
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  Mentions: Baystate Health Springfield Amherst
17. Palmer, Amherst, Montague among communities advocating restoration of passenger rail service along New England Central rail line
  
  Explore masslive.com Nov 4 2011 Transportation
  
  ...ide of the Connecticut River are completed. The Vermonter would stop in Springfield, Holyoke, Northampton and Greenfield. "That would remove any direct rail passenger service to Amherst and significantly worsen access...
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  Mentions: Palmer Amtrak Springfield
18. Utilities say nearly all customers to have power restored by Friday or Saturday
  
  Explore masslive.com Nov 3 2011 Energy
  
  ...ored. That’s because an electrician is required to do that work. Holyoke Fewer than 50 homes scattered around Holyoke remained without electricity as of Thursday afternoon. Those residents will need to work with the Holy...
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  Mentions: Domenic J. Sarno Governor Deval L. Patrick Michael D. Bissonnette
19. Care Center in Holyoke receives National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the White House
  
  Explore masslive.com Nov 1 2011 Education
  
  ...ecutive director, and Tashia Davis, a student at Holyoke Community College, will represent The Care Center of Holyoke when the organization receives a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from first lady Mich...
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  Mentions: University of Massachusetts Holyoke Community College Greenfield Community College
20. SAT scores drop statewide but more students take the exam
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 14 2011 Education
  
  ...ar colleges, he said. Several schools including Holyoke High, Longmeadow High and Ware High saw increases. At Holyoke High School, which is frequently struggling, 17 more students took the exam and reading scores increas...
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  Mentions: Springfield Northampton Chicopee
21. Western New England University opens pharmacy college, only one in Western Massachusetts
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 12 2011 Education , Health Care
  
  ...hampton, Holyoke Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, and Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield. Western New England has already opened the Western New England College and Big Y Foods Inc. Consul...
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  Mentions: University of Massachusetts University of Connecticut Big Y Foods
22. Community colleges in Greenfield, Holyoke and Springfield win grants in new Massachusetts competition
  
  Explore masslive.com Sep 6 2011 Education , Life Sciences
  
  ...e grant program designed to encourage innovation at state campuses of higher education. Community colleges in Greenfield, Holyoke and Springfield win grants in new Massachusetts competition Published: Tuesday, September ...
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  Mentions: Governor Deval L. Patrick Holyoke Community College Springfield Technical Community College
23. In tight economy, Pioneer Valley experts look to fire up regional job engines
  
  Explore GazetteNET Aug 17 2011
  
  ...m Vermont to New Haven, Conn. Along the way, it will pass through new stations in Northampton, Greenfield and Holyoke before linking up with Springfield. The offshoot of that, of course, is more travelers, new business ...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Coca-Cola Springfield
24. Amherst Select Board to vote on fuel efficency policy so town can apply for green status
  
  Explore masslive.com Jul 31 2011 Green Region
  
  ... So far, 74 communities have received the green designation including Springfield, Easthampton, Greenfield, Holyoke and Northampton. It enables them to receive grants for energy efficiency projects. Granby, Monson and ...
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  Mentions: Springfield Amherst Northampton
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