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CANDIDATE STATEMENTS
Once again, we offered all of the city council and school committee candidates who are in contested races the opportunity to submit a Candidate Statement free of charge since we believe that citizens who are knowledgeable about a candidate’s issues and positions make for informed voters. We thank all of the candidates who took the…
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Every Belief, Every Application: Why FAFSA Matters
October is College and Career Awareness Month, and I am honored to shine a light on the futures of our students. Each child in our classrooms deserves to see a clear path leading to success after high school.
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THE REST OF THE STORY
Since the editor, Marjorie Hurst, and I have different creative inclinations based on our decidedly different temperaments and on my well known inclination to tell the “controversial” truth along with the “noncontroversial,” rather than trying to push Marjorie into writing the controversial truth about her rocky journey to becoming a member of Springfield School Committee,…
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Passing The Torch To Denise Hurst
In the Spring of 2009, it was with mixed feelings that I decided I was not going to run for re-election to the Springfield School Committee. I had been privately agonizing over my decision for several months. On the one hand, I felt I had served long enough and had accomplished several significant achievements of…
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HCC Holds First-Ever Campus Police Pinning Ceremony
HOLYOKE — About 10 years ago, when she was promoted from campus police officer to sergeant, Jacqueline Robles remembers her boss basically sliding her new badge across a table to confer her new status. “I had taken an exam,” she said, “went through the interview process, and then, after it was announced that I got…
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Student Support Program Keeps Men’s Soccer Successful on the Field and in the Classroom at STCC
SPRINGFIELD – For Coach William Sweidel, the defining moment of the men’s soccer season at Springfield Technical Community College didn’t come from a single goal, win or playoff result. Instead, it came from a realization. “I think this kind of experience,” Sweidel said, gesturing toward the table where he sat alongside MILE advisor Melvin Tejada…
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