Springfield Technical News Today

I’m writing to encourage gifts to support the Greenfield Community College Foundation and to tell you how Greenfield Community College stands out among the other 14 Massachusetts community colleges. In the 60 years of GCC’s existence, one incident in...

The Urban College of Boston is one of the state's seven Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or HSIs, federally recognized colleges whose enrollment is at least 25 percent Latino.

All community colleges distribute CARES Act money to eligible students. Holyoke and Springfield Technical community colleges are not unique. Greenfield Community College gave over $1 million to eligible students in CARE funds between April 2020 and...

Administrators say enrollment has been limited due to a shortage of instructors and internships.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Jahana Hayes (CT-05) College students became eligible for expanded SNAP benefits temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic. This bill would make that expansion permanent and provide other supports for students’ basic needs. Washington, D.C. – Today, United States Representatives Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), Al Lawson (D-Fla.), and Norma Torres (D-Calif.) and United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.),...

Four candidates vie for two seats on South Hadley Select Board Candidates for two open Select Board seats in South Hadley, clockwise from top left: Trevor Baptiste, Carol Constant, Renee Sweeney, and Jeffrey Cyr. SUBMITTED PHOTOS CAROL CONSTANT Published: 4/7/2021 8:43:48 PM As voters head to the polls for next Tuesday’s town election, four candidates will be competing for two open seats on South Hadley’s Select Board. Incumbent Jeffrey Cyr and challengers Trevor Baptiste, Carol Constant a...

Easthampton’s Rock Valley Tool looks forward, not back Updated Feb 15, 2021; Facebook Share EASTHAMPTON — Elizabeth A. Paquette is no stranger to reinvention. The former special education administrator became a co-owner of a precision machining business in 2013, Rock Valley Tool, a venture she took on with her husband, Jason G. Paquette. It wasn’t a difficult decision to buy the company. Jason Paquette had experience working there, and, she says, they didn’t want to look back and regre...