Thunderbirds looking to build on momentum
5/18/2017
| Chris Maza
news@thereminder.com
The ice is melted, the boards have been removed and players have long since left to head home for the offseason. But for the Springfield Thunderbirds’s front office team, this is the proving ground. After what has been heralded by most as a successful start for the franchise in its inaugural season, Executive Vice President Nate Costa and his team are now tasked with building upon their accomplishments to build a sustainable future for the team.
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Springfield College to build Adaptive Ballpark
5/18/2017
| Chris Miracle
Baseball great Cal Ripken Jr. and the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation is partnering with Springfield College to jointly design a one-of-a-kind intercollegiate and adaptive baseball park on the Springfield College campus. Construction began on April 27. Springfield College President Mary-Beth A. Cooper, Ripken, and foundation board chair Mark Butler signed the partnership agreement during the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation board meeting at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel back in December.
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Group promotes biking and walking in Springfield
5/18/2017
| Chris Maza
chrism@thereminder.com
After a successful community bike ride in the fall of 2016, the group has taken on a goal of hosting monthly rides in different sections of the city to encourage biking as a viable option for getting around. “The ride we did last fall and the rides this year are designed to show just how accessible some areas of the city are. We’ve got some existing bike lanes and some roads that are plenty wide enough,” Johnson explained. “We’re going to do one that emphasizes Indian Orchard, another for East Springfield, and our next one will be around the Blunt Park area.”
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Opinion: At Town Meeting, emotion can trump logic and reason
5/18/2017
| G. Michael Dobbs
news@thereminder.com
Of course, that is not the point of Town Meeting. It is a place for advocacy and discussion and is the purest form of a representative democracy we have. You’re supposed to talk if you have a salient point and treated with respect by your neighbors. Hopefully there won’t be a flaming bag of dog poo on your front steps afterwards.
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