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When I first met with members of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Council for Adult Foster Care in August to gather information, it was like working with a clean slate.

LONGMEADOW—Dr. Andrew Lam enjoys his job as an eye surgeon, especially when through his surgical skills he can sometimes return a legally blind person’s sight to the point that he or she can see [...]

Imagine living less than eight miles from a beautiful park in the next town over and never having the time – in 30 years – to visit it.

SOUTH HADLEY—Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella has a beautiful office in the Mary Lyon Hall building on campus. The bright yellow walls play host to sports memorabilia and [...]

Michele Brennan worries whether young adults do enough reading these days. “We need to get them reading more. I don’t care how they read it, electronically or on ink and paper,” she said.

Imagine how cool it would be to invent a product. I wished I was one of those smart, creative and persistent people that make things happen – like Denis Gagnon. He’s one of those [...]

I first met Margi Caplan and Aprile Gallant when I interviewed an exhibitor at the Smith College Museum of Art in February. Margi is the membership and marketing director at the museum while [...]

During his 18 years in corporate sales, John DeVoie became a connoisseur of fast-food sandwich shops while traveling all over New England. As a purchaser of catering products, the Springfield [...]

Rich Cooper is constantly finding ways to make customers want to come back and to draw in new ones. The 58-year-old cares as much about the customer experience at Cooper’s Corner in Florence and [...]

Long before two couples opened a bagel shop last year in a former historic train station in Easthampton, they were friends first. Chris and Andrea Zawacki and Brian and Shannon Greenwood have [...]