by On Springfield | Apr 22, 2013 | On Springfield
It’s hard this morning to focus on much news beyond the riveting manhunt for the surviving alleged Boston Marathon bomber (Boston.com is running up-to-the-minute blog and Twitter updates, including, questionably, the movements of law enforcement personnel). But...
by On Springfield | Apr 23, 2013 | On Springfield
This fall’s City Council race continues to shape up, as yet another candidate jumps into the contest. Justin Hurst picked up his nomination papers at City Hall this morning, his campaign has announced. He’ll be running for at at-large seat. A former city...
by On Springfield | Apr 26, 2013 | On Springfield
Like a lot of people, I suppose, I was so focused last week on the news out of Boston and then Watertown that I missed some local developments, like this interesting report by Channel 22’s Ryan Walsh. Luckily, a reader sent me a copy. Walsh took a look at the...
by On Springfield | Apr 29, 2013 | On Springfield
Sure, in an ideal world, everyone would clean up his own messes. In the real world, it often falls to volunteers to pick up the slack—like Keep Springfield Beautiful, which tomorrow holds its annual citywide cleanup, part of the national Great American Cleanup....
by On Springfield | Apr 30, 2013 | On Springfield
Tim Collins has been the president of Springfield’s teachers’ union for so long, and so visibly, that it’s easy to forget that it’s an elected seat, not one he holds by birthright. But next week, he’ll face a challenger for the position,...
