Jeanette DeForge

1 week ago | masslive.com | Jeanette DeForge

SPRINGFIELD – Pawn brokers will continue to document information from each person who hawks an item and must keep items received for at least a month to help police track stolen items. The City Council also raised the annual renewal fee for a pawn brokers license from $100 to $200 this month, formalizing the price charged for several years.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jeanette DeForge

SPRINGFIELD – Pawn brokers will continue to document information from each person who hawks an item and must keep items received for at least a month to help police track stolen items. The City Council also raised the annual renewal fee for a pawn brokers license from $100 to $200 this month, formalizing the price charged for several years.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Jeanette DeForge

SPRINGFIELD — People looking for inexpensive family fun this summer won’t have to go far, since the city is returning with a full lineup of its free movies in multiple parks and concerts at the Forest Park Amphitheater. The fairly low cost to the city is worth it for the enjoyment that everyone — from toddlers to retirees — get from the annual summer tradition, said Mayor Domenic J. Sarno when announcing the lineup. There will be eight concerts and 10 movie showings in July, August and September.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Jeanette DeForge

Her Springfield church is being rebuilt after arson and the man who set it on fire, in a racist tirade, is in custody accused of committing a hate crime. But for Rev. Terrlyn Curry Avery, the story isn’t over. “As a pastor whose church was burned down, if we don’t look at the rhetoric that caused such racism and hatred we won’t get anywhere,” said Curry Avery, pastor of MLK Community Presbyterian Church and interim executive director of the Healing Racism Institute.

1 week ago | masslive.com | Jeanette DeForge

SPRINGFIELD — City police confiscated 11 guns over two days, including a machine gun, two untraceable ghost guns, a firearm equipped with a switch that makes it fully automatic and one stolen from another state. During the three separate investigations, detectives with the department’s Firearms Investigation Unit arrested eight people on drug and firearms charges, and confiscated more than 250 rounds of ammunition, said Ryan Walsh, police spokesman.