Agawam News

Waclaw A. Szymczakiewicz, Mayor Michael D. Bissonnette and Joseph Topor, from left, attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Polish Center of Discovery and Learning in Chicopee.

In small Massachusetts towns like Agawam and Attleboro, you'll find an unlikely financial behemoth beating the bushes for small municipal bond underwriting deals.

Steve Como, executive vice president of the nonprofit group Soldier On, which wants to develop the site, said the Western Massachusetts housing plan is on hold after questioning from Sen.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 21-year-old homeless man suspected of robbing the Sunoco gasoline station on Southwick Street at gunpoint Sunday night.

Longmeadow's Joey Polverini turns up the field in his team's game against St. John's of Shrewsbury on Sept.

A sign outside Izzo's restaurant at 254 Worthington St. in Springfield notifies passersby of the auction Thursday.

Police continue to search for a suspect who stole a pickup truck in Westfield early Friday morning, fled from police in this town and then crashed it on Route 57 just over the line in Agawam.

Chef Carol E. Bernazki's French meat pies don't last long at the Agawam Senior Center.

The long fight to return ward representation to city government in Springfield reached a major moment Tuesday night, with eight ward councilors elected to join five at-large councilors in January in the new 13-member City Council.

The downtown restaurant that got the city's hot dog wars boiling this summer will be sold to the highest bidder next week.

Our editorial board meetings with political candidates give us the opportunity to ask a variety of questions, many of them the same ones you might ask, but there was one question that was put to all the mayoral candidates this year: "Have you ever been arrested?" Some of them were taken aback, even after we prefaced the question by explaining that ...

Burdened with a terrible state fiscal crisis and deep cuts in local aid, the winners of today's mayoral elections in Western Massachusetts will be dealing with some of the worst fiscal conditions in decades, observers said on Monday.

Al Valenta, a tattoo artist at Loonar Tattoo in Hadley, and owner Amity Perman talk Thursday about Wednesday's police raids on two nearby massage businesses.

President Barack Obama has nominated a state police detective lieutenant from Agawam to be the next U.S. Marshal in Massachusetts.

MAKES IT THIS TIME TO BECOME THE FIRST FEMALE MAYOR OF HOLYOKE. SHE ACCEPTED THE CONCESSION OF BUSINESSMAN DANIEL BOYLE WHO WAS WARMLY RECEIVED BY PLUTA SUPPORTERS WHEN HE ADDRESSED THEM AT THE WHEREHOUSE.

Richard A. Cohen greets his supporters at The Oaks as supporter Shane R. Hope of Agawam gives out a yell in the backround after the results for Agawam mayor were announced Tuesday night AGAWAM - As he stood in the foyer of the Oaks on Suffield Street and greeted well-wishers, Richard A. Cohen, the city's mayor-elect, credited his political ...

Westfield voter Kenneth S. Andwood, standing, checks in Tuesday morning at Munger Hill Elementary School with election workers Florence A. White, left, and Suzanne Adams, right, while Warden Judith A. Matyseck stands by.

Voters in cities across Western Massachusetts will go to the polls Tuesday to decide elections that include mayoral races in which incumbents are fighting to keep their jobs.

Springfield Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell will dedicate and bless the newest Catholic mausoleum, to be named Most Holy Redeemer, on Monday, Nov.

In a prelude to Tuesday's election, 16 of the City Council candidates staked out their positions on Thursday at a political forum at the Middle School.