Staasi Heropoulos

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Tandem Bagel Co. bucks current business climate, opens 6th location in Ludlow

1 week ago | masslive.com | Staasi Heropoulos

LUDLOW — Tariffs. Inflation. Economic uncertainty. Entrepreneurs Chris and Andrea Zawacki have found a way to buck the business trends: with fresh bagels, of course. Named for the partnership with each other and their host communities, Tandem Bagel Co. cafe opened May 23 in Ludlow, a sixth location in the Zawackis’ growing chain of shops across Hampshire and Hampden counties.
Tandem Bagel Co. bucks current business climate, opens 6th location in Ludlow

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Staasi Heropoulos

LUDLOW — Tariffs. Inflation. Economic uncertainty. Entrepreneurs Chris and Andrea Zawacki have found a way to buck the business trends: with fresh bagels, of course. Named for the partnership with each other and their host communities, Tandem Bagel Co. cafe opened May 23 in Ludlow, a sixth location in the Zawackis’ growing chain of shops across Hampshire and Hampden counties.
Muppet-based dollmaker in Wilbraham helps PBS with $10K fundraising effort

1 week ago | masslive.com | Staasi Heropoulos

WILBRAHAM — A Wilbraham businesswoman was so angry that President Donald Trump is trying to defund public television that she ran sewing campaign to help PBS. Emily Engel, 41, is a fiber artist working out of a small studio in Wilbraham. “When I say I do fiber art, people look at me weird, or they ask if it is like fiber optics,” she told The Republican.
Muppet-based dollmaker in Wilbraham helps PBS with $10K fundraising effort

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Staasi Heropoulos

WILBRAHAM — A Wilbraham businesswoman was so angry that President Donald Trump is trying to defund public television that she ran sewing campaign to help PBS. Emily Engel, 41, is a fiber artist working out of a small studio in Wilbraham. “When I say I do fiber art, people look at me weird, or they ask if it is like fiber optics,” she told The Republican.
Franklin County Technical School answers region’s student hunger problem with food pantry

1 week ago | masslive.com | Staasi Heropoulos

TURNERS FALLS — Richard Martin doesn’t make very many easy decisions, but allowing a food pantry in the Franklin County Technical School he runs was a no-brainer. “It would have been foolish not to approve this,” said Martin, the school’s superintendent. There are more than 600 students in grades 9-12 at the tech school. While there are many community-based pantries, this is the only one in a Franklin County high school just for students and their families.
Exhibit explores Springfield’s witch panic that occurred years before Salem

1 week ago | masslive.com | Staasi Heropoulos

SPRINGFIELD — Years before people accued of being witches were tortured, tried and hanged in Salem, witch hysteria swept through Springfield when a prominent couple began acting strangely in the eyes of suspicious citizens. A new exhibit at the Springfield Museums called “Witch Panic! Massachusetts before Salem” explores the case against Hugh and Mary Parsons. William Pynchon, a businessman from outside Boston, and six other men founded Springfield 1636.
Trump administration policies creating ‘chilling effect’ on smaller colleges

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Staasi Heropoulos

SPRINGFIELD — The new president of American International College wants to increase enrollment by touting the school’s benefits, but she is watching what she says, careful not to anger President Donald Trump. That’s because AIC is in no position to antagonize or resist Trump, said AIC’s new president, Nicolle Cestero, in an interview with The Republican. “We are a small, private institution without a large endowment.
Trump administration policies creating ‘chilling effect’ on smaller colleges

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Staasi Heropoulos

SPRINGFIELD — The new president of American International College wants to increase enrollment by touting the school’s benefits, but she is watching what she says, careful not to anger President Donald Trump. That’s because AIC is in no position to antagonize or resist Trump, said AIC’s new president, Nicolle Cestero, in an interview with The Republican. “We are a small, private institution without a large endowment.
11-year-old Holyoke actor lands role in Huntington Theatre musical

2 weeks ago | masslive.com | Staasi Heropoulos

HOLYOKE — When Odin Vega, 11, found out the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston was offering him a role in an upcoming performance, his reaction was real. “I was like, ‘That would be amazing.’ I started tearing up,” said the child actor from Holyoke. Vega joins the cast of “The Light in the Piazza” at the Huntington Theater, running through June 15. The production follows a mother and her daughter on their Italian holiday in the summer of 1953.
11-year-old Holyoke actor lands role in Huntington Theatre musical

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Staasi Heropoulos

HOLYOKE — When Odin Vega, 11, found out the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston was offering him a role in an upcoming performance, his reaction was real. “I was like, ‘That would be amazing.’ I started tearing up,” said the child actor from Holyoke. Vega joins the cast of “The Light in the Piazza” at the Huntington Theater, running through June 15. The production follows a mother and her daughter on their Italian holiday in the summer of 1953.