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New Workshop Opens For Women To Weave Their Way Out Of Poverty

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Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce
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   ArteSana is dedicating its new storefront workshop in downtown Holyoke, Massachusetts later today.

     The nonprofit was founded more than a year ago to help women living in poverty to achieve greater self-sufficiency.  

    WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with ArteSana founder and director Katy Moonan.

            The public open house for the organization’s new workshop is from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. today at 362 Dwight St. in Holyoke.

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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