My clients, and those I work with in The Creative with Ruth Griggs and Maureen Scanlon, often impress me with their savvy. Recently, it was Valley Community Development that Ruth, Maureen, and I [...]
When my journalism career began in the mid-1990s, David Starr already had 40 years under his belt in the newspaper industry. When I was covering Granby and South Hadley on my first news beat for [...]
Much of my work in the early years of my business was writing stories for newspapers as well as newsletters and magazines put out by area nonprofits, colleges, and universities.
A few weeks ago, I gave you a glimpse at some of the stories I wrote about local business and nonprofits for the Springfield Republican’s annual, award-winning Outlook business section. Today, I [...]
NORTHAMPTON—A fundraising workshop for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of the Pioneer Valley will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on March 14 at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Hall, [...]
Husband-and-wife team to open “#LOCAL by Cider House” in former Nash Gallery on Cottage Street EASTHAMPTON—Lennie and Elizabeth Appelquist, the owners of Cider House Media and active members of [...]
Event scheduled for March 21 at Look Memorial Park FLORENCE—When Florence Bank presents the awards in its 16th annual Customers’ Choice Community Grants Program this year at an event slated for [...]
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Beetle Press, I’ll write a few flash-back blogs this year. This one takes us back to May 1998, my first month in business. It was about that time that Rich [...]
When Gabrielle Freel headed to college five years ago, her thought was to become a criminalist. She loved shows like Criminal Minds and NCIS and wanted to learn more about profiling.
