West Springfield breaks ground on new Coburn School
West Springfield breaks ground on new Coburn School Updated Dec 10, 2020; WEST SPRINGFIELD — State and local taxpayers will pay $69 million to build a new Philip G. Coburn Elementary School, but it’s the students and teachers who will build its community, educators said at a groundbreaking ceremony this week. “From the moment I stepped into Coburn School, I knew it was a special place,” recalled Colleen Marcus, a West Springfield School Committee member and former principal of Coburn School, at the Wednesday event. But “it was never the building that mattered, it was the magic hap...