Spring Cleaning

While the battle over a city trash-collection system rages on in City Hall, Keep Springfield Beautiful—the non-profit with the rather pleasing slogan “the go-to guys to get clean & go green”—has a couple of events coming up where residents...

Pepe Set to Pep Up Mayor's Race

If you’ve found this year’s Springfield mayor’s race to be a little dull thus far, well, that’s about to change. Fearless (some would say fearsome—and mean it as a compliment) School Committee member Antonette Pepe will officially enter...

A Big Change for ADP

Caroline Murray, the unstoppable long-time executive director of the Springfield-based Alliance to Develop Power, has left the group after 18 years. In its early days, ADP—at the time, the initials stood for the Anti-Displacement Project—worked with...

Countdown to Big Biomass Hearing

Two weeks from tomorrow, opponents of the proposed wood-burning plant in East Springfield will finally get what they’ve spent months asking for: a City Council hearing on whether to revoke the special permit awarded to the project in 2008. On Tuesday, May 17, at...