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1. Mass Mentors: Volunteers to guide young people in short supply
  
  Explore masslive.com Apr 8 2013 Entrepreneurship
  
  ...Springfield. Holyoke has 13 percent of the mentor-youth matches; Chicopee, 6 percent; Amherst, 8 percent; and Greenfield, 4 percent. Martinez said there probably could be a lot more teens involved, but for that waiting l...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Springfield Amherst
2. Phoenix Academy Public Charter High School approved for Springfield; Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley allowed to expand
  
  Explore masslive.com Feb 26 2013 Education
  
  ...cutive director of the school. The school accepts students from the entire region ranging from Springfield to Greenfield. Along with standard courses offered in all schools, students take Chinese classes daily, he said. ...
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  Mentions: Holyoke Community College Springfield Technical Community College Springfield
3. Massachusetts energy officials tap local communities and regional planning agencies to help promote clean-energy initiatives
  
  Explore masslive.com Feb 25 2013 Energy
  
  ...hampton and East Longmeadow, while the Franklin Regional Council of Governments is participating on behalf of Greenfield, Montague, Buckland and Shelburne. Also taking part are the communities of Watertown and Newburypor...
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  Mentions: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Amherst Northampton
4. Solar panel installation underway on old town landfill in Ludlow
  
  Explore masslive.com Feb 4 2013 Energy
  
  ...vironmental Protection. Similar solar projects on closed town landfills are being operated in Easthampton and Greenfield. A fairly flat piece of land is needed for a photovoltaic generation system, Harrington said. “We a...
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  Mentions: Greenfield Holyoke Easthampton
5. Bellucci Salon & Day Spa gets makeover with help from Massachusetts treasurer's small business program
  
  Explore masslive.com Jan 15 2013
  
  ...ra H. Rubenzahl. Other Western Massachusetts banks participating in the program are Easthampton Savings Bank, Greenfield Co-operative Bank, Hoosac Bank, Berkshire Bank, Hampden Bank, Nuvo Bank & Trust Co. and Westfield B...
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  Mentions: Springfield Technical Community College Berkshire Bank Springfield
6. Gateway Cities $1.7 billion investment proposal could drive projects in Springfield, Holyoke, Pittsfield and Westfield
  
  Explore masslive.com Jan 14 2013
  
  ...ions. “Once we see where the public money goes, we want to capitalize on that,” said State Rep. Aaron Vega of Holyoke. Kathleen Anderson, president of the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, said the initiative dovetail...
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  Mentions: University of Massachusetts Brian M. Connors Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
7. Western Massachusetts companies get state funds to aid in cost of training workers
  
  Explore masslive.com Jan 7 2013 Manufacturing
  
  ...warded, 75 employees to be trained, eight additional jobs are expected to be created as a result of training. Greenfield Savings Bank: $ 125,175 awarded, 73 employees to be trained, five additional jobs are expected to b...
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  Mentions: West Springfield Palmer Springfield
8. Massachusetts Cultural Council grants awarded to Pioneer Valley communities
  
  Explore masslive.com Oct 11 2012 Education
  
  ... Holyoke, $84,340 to Springfield, $24,450 to Chicopee, $14,540 to Westfield, $18,250 to Amherst and $7,340 to Greenfield. Holyoke’s Community Adolescent Resource Education Center also received two grants, $11,100 to help...
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  Mentions: Palmer Springfield Amherst
9. Passenger rail service returns to Palmer for a day
  
  Explore masslive.com Oct 4 2012 Transportation
  
  ...at service is expected to be added in 2014. The Vermonter would stop in Springfield, Holyoke, Northampton and Greenfield. That project is being funded through the $73 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, High-...
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  Mentions: University of Massachusetts University of Connecticut Mohegan Sun
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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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22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
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