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 [...]
Lauren Kendzierski and Jimmy Tarr both operated gourmet-style food trucks in the Northampton area for the first time in 2013. They learned a few hard lessons about their newly chosen industry. [...]
Beetle Press oversees the publicity for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life of Hampshire County. This year, intern Alaina Leary, a junior at Westfield State University, has done much of [...]
Watching the Wizard of Oz as a kid, I could so relate to Dorothy as she desperately clicked her red heels and said, “There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.” I could well imagine [...]
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 [...]
Val Nelson is a petite woman who is also soft spoken. She is gentle, kind and compassionate, and the work she does with entrepreneurs packs a surprising punch with its effectiveness.
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 [...]
I plan to laugh myself silly at the Log Cabin restaurant on March 13. That’s the night of the Women Business Owners Alliance 21st annual Women’s Night of Comedy. Judy and I have gone together for [...]
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 [...]
