—–By Kenneth Harris—- Members of our communities and representatives of the Springfield Police Department must embrace the practice of sustaining a healthy collaboration in an effort to improve standards of living city wide. For nearly a year, I took it upon myself to visit all the monthly Beat Management Team meetings, with the exception of…

  SPRINGFIELD, MA   The Springfield Cultural Council, part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts network of Local Cultural Councils, has selected its 2017 grant awardees.  Sixty awardees selected are comprised of local Springfield applicants who submitted proposals for funding in the arts, humanities and interpretive sciences.  Over $114,000 will be dispersed to local grantees to assist with improving the quality of…

—-By Frederick A. Hurst—- Dr. John B. Cook is the youngest Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) president since the college was founded in 1967 with Edmond Garvey as its first president. Garvey was followed by Robert C. Geitz (1974-1981), Leonard J. Collamore (1981-1983), Andrew M. Scibelli (1983-2004) and Dr. Ira H. Rubenzahl, who served for…