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     COVID-19 testing capacity is being expanded in the largest city in western Massachusetts.      The city of Springfield is planning to open a COVID-19 testing site at the Putnam Vocational Technical High School.  It will be for city residents who want to get tested whether they have symptoms or not, according to the city’s Health and Human Services Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris.      "Right now, the only other testing site is at Eastfield Mall and there are long lines there and individuals waiting," said Caulton-Harris.      Since the testing site in the Eastfield ...

3:27          The newly-installed president of the City Council in Springfield, Massachusetts has announced a special committee to address COVID-19 issues.         Springfield City Council President Marcus Williams said the new ad hoc COVID-19 Response Committee will look into issues exacerbated by the pandemic including housing instability and food insecurity.       "It will also provide a public forum for residents to provide input and feedback, " explained Williams.        Williams appointed City Councilor Jesse Lederman to chair the special committee.      ...

The Springfield City Council meetings have sometimes stretched to midnight or longer.

Springfield City Council President Marcus Williams shuffles committees, resurrects elder affairs panel Updated Jan 07, 2021; Posted Jan 07, 2021 1/4/2021 -Springfield- Marcus Williams delivers his speech after being sworn in as president of the Springfield City Council. The formalities were done in the TV studio of Focus Springfield with other councilors participating remotely. (Don Treeger / The Republican) Facebook Share SPRINGFIELD — New City Council President Marcus Williams has announced his committee assignments for 2021, naming new leaders and restoring a committee on senior ci...

A Massachusetts bill classifying biomass as renewable reignites a decade-old fight Photo courtesy of René Théberge When Tanisha Arena thinks of the proposed biomass facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, she remembers a recent fire in a nearby trash incinerator that blanketed her neighborhood in smoke. That smoke was the last thing her city needed, she said. It was October, in the middle of allergy season and a respiratory pandemic, in the asthma capital of the United States. When Arena remembers hiding from that smoke, she imagines a biomass incinerator burning wood in her backyard. He...