Meeting with Massachusetts officials should clarify future of Holyoke's Dean Tech High School

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...ents’ chronically poor academic results, but agency and local officials have clashed about control. HOLYOKE — A meeting with state officials May 30 should clarify the future of Dean Technical High School, an......ll be a lot of clarity,” said Devin M. Sheehan, School Committee vice chairman. Options include the Northampton-based Collaborative for Educational Services continuing to run Dean, the city finding another firm ... (Read Full Article)

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Arts Walk in Holyoke promotes cultural renaissance of downtown

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...e and former New York architect who returned to the Pioneer Valley in 1999. The rebirth of downtown Holyoke’s canal district, which had anchored the city’s economy since the mid-1800s, provides a hopeful cou......dy going on here,” said Lori Divine, an artist who has been on the board of the Guild Art School in Northampton and Snow Farm in Williamsburg. “It’s making others want to take ... (Read Full Article)

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Howdy winners recognized for great customer service

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...of America was the winner in the category of Transportation at the Howdy Awards at the Log Cabin in Holyoke Tuesday evening. At right at Arsenault's table is June LeDuc, president of Cancer Free Kids. HOLYOKE – Kristen M. Cole, operations manager for the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce, is used to helping tourists who have heard good things about Northampton but have no idea what to see, what to ... (Read Full Article)

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Recycling brings $1.4 million to Western Massachusetts communities in 2011

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...ng local communities and the payments they received were: Westfield, $102,172; Longmeadow, $91,877; Northampton, $76,592; Holyoke, $76,524; East Longmeadow, $75,921; South Hadley, $66,259; West Springfield, $58,380; and Ludlow, $... (Read Full Article)

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Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School auto body instructor Craig Sankey receives excellence in teaching award

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...erving people at Pathfinder who could have gotten the award. Sankey was honored at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, along with other teaching excellence award winners last week. He credited his parents, who attende......m a good set of values. Sankey, of Hadley, went to Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School in Northampton where he studied auto body and was the class valedictorian. The “great instructors” he had there we... (Read Full Article)

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Northampton Community Music Center scores with renovation grant

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Pioneer Valley Planning Commission celebrates 50th birthday

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... Reversing decades of neglect, the Connecticut River is suitable for swimming and boating above the Holyoke Dam, the standard for rivers. Work remains on the lower stretches, where sewer pipes in older, urba...... has been a triumph, though. For a decade, the Norwottuck Rail Trail, the scenic, 10-mile link from Northampton to Belchertown, was the jewel of the state’s bike path network. No longer. Since the mid-2000s, tre... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Pioneer Valley Planning Commission   West Springfield   Springfield

Massachusetts education board has 'significant concern' about Collaborative for Educational Services' progress at Holyoke's Dean Technical High School

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... pace of progress at Dean Technical High School, an official said Educational Services' progress at Holyoke's Dean Technical High School Published: Monday, April 09, 2012, 10:09 PM Updated: Monday, April......, an official said. The March 29 letter said that the Collaborative for Educational Services, of Northampton, the public non-profit agency hired to manage Dean, “does not appear to be providing the ‘rapid and... (Read Full Article)

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Girl Scouts break ground for new Holyoke Service Center

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...enter in Worcester, but will close and sell offices in East Longmeadow and in the Leeds section of Northampton when the Holyoke building opens. The Scouts are funding the new building through the sale of those two offices as w... (Read Full Article)

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Northampton Country Club clubhouse sold to former owner at foreclosure auction

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... According to the latest assessor’s records, the 150-acre course is valued at nearly $1.3 million. Northampton Country Club clubhouse sold to former owner at foreclosure auction Published: Thursday, March 08, 2......, promising to keep it operating as a golf course. And entrepreneur Eric Suher bought the nine-hole Holyoke Country Club for $850,000 last summer, and the course is slated to reopen April 1 provided the weat... (Read Full Article)

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Charters for two new proposed schools granted in Springfield and Holyoke

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New charter schools in Springfield, Holyoke recommended by Massachusetts Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester

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...ecember letter to the state. The Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School is planned in downtown Holyoke but will serve six primary communities of Holyoke, Chicopee, Westfield, West Springfield, South Hadley and Northampton, said Robert K. Brick, a founding board member. “We are really excited and we are humbled by the op... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Springfield Technical Community College   West Springfield   Baystate Health

Holyoke, Northampton among 6 New England towns picked by EPA for help improving local economy, environment

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...ociated Press Follow 0 Tweet Share close Digg Stumble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print downtown northampton massachusetts File photo by The RepublicanDowntown Northampton, Massachusetts. BOSTON — Federal environmental officials have picked six New England communities to get techn......said it selected Simsbury, Conn., Burlington, Vt., and the Massachusetts communities of Fall River, Holyoke, Northampton and Roxbury. They are among 56 municipalities in 26 states to receive help. Specialists will work ... (Read Full Article)

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Taking Center Stage

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...usinesswest.com Previous Top Entrepreneurs • 2010: Bob Bolduc, founder and CEO of Pride • 2009: The Holyoke Gas & Electric Department • 2008: Arlene Kelly and Kim Sanborn, founders of Human Resource Solution......sident of Balise Motor Sales • 2004: Craig Melin, president and CEO of Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton • 2003: Tony Dolphin, president of Springboard Technologies in Springfield • 2002: Timm Tobin, then... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Big Y Foods   MassMutual   Springfield Technical Community College

Railroad developments on track for Valley

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...lion federal 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. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   University of Connecticut   Palmer

Northampton Community and Economic Development Coordinator Teri Anderson to leave post for private sector

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Anderson became Northampton’s first economic development director 11 years ago after Mayor Mary Clare Higgins created the post.......derson will assume the newly created position of business development director at Common Capital, a Holyoke-based organization that provides assistance to expanding businesses in the four western counties. A... (Read Full Article)

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Editorial: Western Massachusetts construction projects sign of brighter days

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...nline at MassLive.com to learn about projects that are under way from Springfield to Longmeadow and Holyoke to Northampton. But in case you’re unaware of the uptick in construction activity – funded by both public and priv... (Read Full Article)

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Vocational high schools in Western Massachusetts could offer associate degree programs in the future

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...r licenses, Widelo said. A number of other high schools, including Smith Vocational Agricultural in Northampton, Pathfinder Regional in Palmer and Franklin County Regional Technical also offer adult programs, sa......based Collaborative for Educational Services that now helps run William J. Dean Technical High in Holyoke and also offers vocational programs for the Department of Youth Services and for youth with learnin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Springfield Technical Community College   Regional Employment Board of Hampden County Inc.   Palmer

Holyoke computing center contractors to teach project details to vocational students

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... The Republican Follow 0 Tweet Share close Digg Stumble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print 111511 holyoke high performance computing center.JPG The Republican | John SuchockiSteel workers set beams in plac......opportunity,” said William Diehl, deputy director of the Collaborative for Educational Services, of Northampton. The collaborative is a private, nonprofit company that is managing Dean Technical High School here... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Northampton

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick awards grants to boost cultural attractions

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...ts for nonprofit arts, history, and science groups across the state including money for projects in Holyoke, Northampton, Springfield and Sturbridge. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick awards grants to boost cultural attra... (Read Full Article)

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Western Massachusetts food programs receive grants from Project Bread to fight hunger

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... are: • The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts; • Open Pantry Community Services, of Springfield; • Northampton Survival Center; • Franklin County Community Meals Program, of Greenfield; • Salvation Army, of Holyoke; and • Berkshire Food Project, of North Adams. “We run two emergency food shelters in Hampshire C... (Read Full Article)

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Palmer, Amherst, Montague among communities advocating restoration of passenger rail service along New England Central rail line

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Utilities say nearly all customers to have power restored by Friday or Saturday

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...ectrician to repair damage to their homes, such as if downed wires ripped off part of their houses, Holyoke Mayor Elaine A. Pluta said. The city will begin curbside collection of fallen trees and branches ne......id they have had people from other towns, such as Wales and Wilbraham, stay at the shelter as well. Northampton All but about 6,000 National Grid customers in Northampton had power by mid-afternoon ... (Read Full Article)

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's revenue leaders plan to distribute $65 million in additional local aid to cities and towns on Halloween

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