Carolyn Robbins

3 weeks ago | masslive.com | Carolyn Robbins

SPRINGFIELD — Franconia Golf Course manager and professional golfer Steven Carle had some gentle advice for his young protégés from Van Sickle middle school who gathered around him on the course on the green on late Tuesday afternoon. “As long as the ball goes in the right direction, that’s all I care about,” Carle, a PGA-trained golf pro, said as he instructed his eight beginners on the proper golf stance and the difference between irons and woods.

2 months ago | masslive.com | Carolyn Robbins

SPRINGFIELD — When Bay Path University held its first Women’s Leadership Conference nearly three decades ago, an audience of 500 women gathered at the downtown Marriot to hear Elizabeth Dole — the first woman to hold two presidential cabinet positions and who would later serve in the U.S. Senate and run for president. The inaugural event held in April 1995 and spearheaded by former university President Carol Leary, was a big undertaking for the then-small women’s college.

Feb 14, 2025 | masslive.com | Carolyn Robbins

Author and medical technology engineer Todd Zive was just 4 years old in 1980 when his father was murdered by an armed robber in the Easthampton pharmacy he owned, leaving his mother Eydie alone to raise three young sons. As the family coped with the trauma that followed, Zive never forgot the lessons his father, Leslie Zive, taught him about how to be successful in life: “Be a ‘mensch,’” he was told.

Feb 3, 2025 | masslive.com | Carolyn Robbins

Peter Benjamin long believed the European chapter of his family’s life had ended. He knew that his father’s parents, Richard and Charlotte Benjamin, Jewish residents of Berlin, died in Nazi concentration camps. Benjamin’s own father, Gerhard, had managed to flee Germany before his parents were seized in 1941; his parents had refused their son’s pleas to leave their home in a largely Jewish neighborhood.

Jan 23, 2025 | masslive.com | Carolyn Robbins

Los estudiantes del programa de carpintería de la escuela Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy en Springfield están construyendo su futuro, un clavo a la vez. Desde la restauración de edificios públicos en Forest Park hasta la construcción de casas para Habitat for Humanity, el último equipo de 20 estudiantes carpinteros de Putman continúa con un legado de servicio público que la escuela ha fomentado durante generaciones.