James Paleologopoulos
Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief at WAMC, Northeast Public Radio
@WAMCNews Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. Former @7News web reporter, @BUNewsService managing editor, @WWLP22News producer. @Fitchburg_State & @COMatBU alum
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5 days ago |
wamc.org | James Paleologopoulos
Marking a milestone more than a decade in the making, officials broke ground Wednesday on the Jones Library expansion project. Ahead of two years of work, locals celebrated the library’s legacy and what’s to come for the almost-century-old library. Board of Trustees President Austin Sarat says since the last groundbreaking in 1927, Jones has grown into one of the area’s most iconic structures.
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1 week ago |
wamc.org | James Paleologopoulos
An embattled Longmeadow Planning Board member has resigned - months after he was caught intruding on a resident's property and making discriminatory comments. Walter Gunn is resigning effective immediately, according to Select Board Chair Vineeth Hemavathi. Residents and town officials had been calling for Gunn to resign following a January incident in which he ventured onto a resident's property uninvited.
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1 week ago |
wamc.org | James Paleologopoulos
As further court action looms, advocates for the Job Corp center in Chicopee, Massachusetts say a lot is at stake if federal plans to “pause” and ultimately defund the program go through. Dozens of young adults and their families were at Elms College Tuesday – celebrating a new graduating class who went through the Westover Job Corps Center. Around 90 graduates were honored indoors. Outside, local lawmakers spoke of what the program has meant for the region and how it’s under threat.
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1 week ago |
wamc.org | James Paleologopoulos
In the wake of a massive drug bust in Springfield, Mass., city leaders have been looking to shut down a convenient store at the center of the investigation. But as city councilors learned this week, closing up the shop is easier said than done. Authorities put an end to a drug trafficking operation in the city’s Forest Park neighborhood in May – netting 19 arrests and over 12,000 grams of cocaine.
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1 week ago |
wamc.org | James Paleologopoulos
Long-awaited renovations are complete at one of the oldest baseball diamonds in western Massachusetts — just in time for a local summer classic. When spectators come to Forest Park for a special summer classic baseball game slated for Sunday, they'll be among the first to sit in the newly-renovated Walker Memorial Grandstand. Built in the 1940s, the covered bleachers and baseball diamond recently underwent $4 million worth of improvements.
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