From the Editor's Desk: Welcome to Agawam Magazine!
2/1/2017
| Chris Maza
chrism@thereminder.com
For more than 50 years Reminder Publications has been synonymous with community.
We have made our collective livelihood proudly joining you in your home to keep you informed on what is going on in the places you live and work.
It truly is a labor of love.
With that in mind, I’d li
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The Maple Hut: A family taps success
2/2/2017
| Chris Maza
chrism@thereminder.com
If you weren’t looking for it, you might not even realize it was there. Sitting in the corner of the backyard of a home on River Road, even if you saw it, you might just think it’s a large shed. Little would you know that inside are the tools to make one of New England’s sweetest delicacies – maple syrup. It’s The Maple Hut, a small, but busy sugarhouse nestled right smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood along the Connecticut River.
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Curran pursues dreams on the diamond
2/2/2017
| Chris Maza
chrism@thereminder.com
Since signing a professional baseball contract as a teenager, a lot has changed for Agawam native Seamus Curran. First and foremost, Seamus Curran has changed. “I was 17 and I was just like any other 17-year-old would be. The guys in the locker room are 22, 23 years old,” Curran, now 19, recalled of the first time he walked into a locker room after being drafted in the seventh round by the Baltimore Orioles. “I had to grow up really fast.”
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Tot Lot support exceeds expectations
2/2/2017
| Chris Maza
chrism@thereminder.com
As part of the Lions International 100th anniversary celebration, Agawam Lions Club Secretary Dick Lanier explained, the organization charged each of its 42,000 clubs to go out into the community and identify a “Centennial Community Legacy Project,” aimed at creating a lasting contribution to the town. For its part in the worldwide outreach campaign, the Agawam Lions are now in the midst of a campaign to raise $25,000 in seed money to upgrade the “Tot Lot” at Perry Lane Park.
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Changes coming to Walnut Street Extension
2/2/2017
| Chris Goudreau
cgoudreau@thereminder.com
Four projects are in the works in Agawam to bring new vibrancy to the Walnut Street Extension Area. These projects include a streetscape redesign, the redevelopment of the former Games & Lanes site, the reconstruction of the Morgan-Sullivan Bridge, and the development of the now demolished Agawam Motor Lodge.
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