Professional Development is Key
My third grade teacher, Mrs. Lambson, wore her graying hair in a thick bun snug at the nape of her neck. She was a bit of a scowler, the kind of teacher you could imagine shaking a ruler at you [...]
Common Capital Selects Longtime Business Advisor for New Leadership Role
Bill Horowitz named director of the Business Assistance Program HOLYOKE—Common Capital Inc. has created the new position of director for its Business Assistance Program and hired longtime [...]
Craftworking Works
This is another look at innovative ways to network.
Nonprofits Tell the Best Stories
As a writer, there’s nothing I enjoy more than crafting a story that shows how an individual, or an organization, changed someone’s life—except maybe hearing such stories told aloud.
Area Lawyer to Teach Series at Holyoke Community College
HOLYOKE—Attorney Karen G. Jackson of Jackson Law will teach a series of three classes on elder law and estate planning at Holyoke Community College on Mondays, May 2, 9 and 16 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Panel on Philanthropy’s Role in Estate Planning Offered Options, Inspiration
LONGMEADOW–Wealth manager George C. Keady III has a client who says she has five children: four actual humans, and philanthropy.
An Assignment that Hit Home
I lost my childhood home to foreclosure in January 2014 after my mother decided she had spent enough time in New England and felt the urge to go back to her Californian roots—without my brother [...]
