Social Issues

Stroll for Strength

For the last 8 years, the Sport and Event Management class at Longmeadow High School has been holding and fund raising event called Stroll for Strength. This year the event, a 5K road race through Longmeadow, will honor 23 people from the region who have lost loved...

Veterans Coming Home: Employment

In tonight’s Veterans Coming Home story, we discuss the issues of employment. We introduce you to two veterans, one from the Marines and the other from the Navy, and learn of the challenges they faced when they transitioned out of the military and began the search for...

Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society

Leslie Harris, Executive Director of the Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society discusses the important work that organization performs and the support they need for the many programs they undertake to protect and care for animals in our region. Dakin Pioneer Valley...

Veterans Coming Home: PTSD

Veterans Affrairs Patient Service Coordinator & veteran Leigh Paz and US Army Iraq War veteran Andrew Bellizzi discuss their own battles with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and the addiction problems and other difficulties that often accompany PTSD....

CISA: Farm to Table

Many restaurants in the area are sourcing their food directly from local farms. Executive Director of CISA, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, Phil Korman visits E. Cecchi Farms in Feeding Hills to see how their farm supplies food to a local restaurant in...

Mason Square Boxing Coach

Rupert Daniel, a Springfield police officer, takes time out of his schedule to coach some twenty boxers ages 6 to 22 at the Dunbar Community Center in Springfield. Rupert a Lieutenant on the Springfield force was tired of locking up kids and sending them into the...

Women in War

Charly Oliva, a US Army veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Deputy Director of the Department of Veterans Services for the City of Springfield, discusses her experiences as woman serving in combat zones in the U.S. military and the changing role of women in...

Veterans Coming Home: Veteran Homelessness

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) states that the nation’s homeless veterans are predominantly male, with roughly 8% being female. The majority are single; live in urban areas; and suffer from mental illness, alcohol and/or substance abuse, or co-occurring...

Web Premiere: Mason Square Boxing Coach

Rupert Daniel, a Springfield police officer, takes time out of his schedule to coach some twenty boxers ages 6 to 22 at the Dunbar Community Center in Springfield. Rupert a Lieutenant on the Springfield force was tired of locking up kids and sending them into the...