Divided We Stand: A Street in Our School

The Gerena School’s unique design allows for residents to use a tunnel system to travel from one side of the community to the other safely. Today with limited accessibility to that tunnel, residents unfortunately sometimes cross active rail lines or walk through...

Teacher of the Year

Springfield Central High School 9th Grade English Language Arts teacher Anne Marie Bettencourt discusses her recent selection as Massachusetts Teacher of the...

New England Adolescent Research Institute

Steven Bengis, Ed.D LICSW, Executive Director of the New England Adolescent Research Institute and NEARI School in Holyoke; Shannon Chabot M.A., Kinesiologist; and Leigh Mahoney, M.Ed., NEARI School Principal, discuss the work they do to help students with multiple...

Divided We Stand: A Street In Our School

The second segment in our special series, “Divided We Stand: A Street in Our School” features residents’ memories of “the tunnel” along with their hopes for this community space beneath I-91. Connecting Point contributor Carolee McGrath looks into the history of the...

Gerena School

In our first in a series of stories related to the environmental issues that have plagued the Gerena Community School in the North End of Springfield, Springfield School Superintendent Daniel J. Warwick and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno talk with Jim Madigan to...