Nightmare Image

At MassLive.com today is the kind of photo you hope to never see: a group of dark-suited teenagers carrying the coffin of their friend into his funeral mass. The friend was Conor Reynolds, the 17-year-old Springfield boy who was stabbed to death last weekend at a...

Audacious Asselin

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes … here comes Chris Asselin again?No, it’s not an early April Fool’s gag—fresh off an 18-month stint in prison on federal corruption charges, the former Springfield state rep, dropped the bombshell...

Walk for WIC

Tapestry Health will mark the end of National Nutrition Month tomorrow (Thursday, March 25) with its 5th annual Community Kids Walk, organized by Tapestry’s Springfield North WIC program. The event begins with a group of Springfield preschoolers walking down...

Curran on Asselin

Last week, in a post about former state Rep. Chris Asselin’s improbable efforts to reclaim the legislative seat he lost shortly before being convicted on corruption charges, I mentioned the trouble I was having getting Asselin’s successor, Sean Curran, to...