by On Springfield | Mar 23, 2010 | On Springfield
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...
by On Springfield | Mar 24, 2010 | On Springfield
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...
by On Springfield | Mar 30, 2010 | On Springfield
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...
by On Springfield | Apr 2, 2010 | On Springfield
When Carole O’Malley was 13 years old, her mother got sick, with what her father told her was mononucleosis. In fact, Betty O’Malley had cancer. But like many families of that time and place—it was the 1950s, in Springfield’s Hungry Hill...
by On Springfield | Apr 5, 2010 | On Springfield
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...