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After Almost 40 Years, Tim Brennan To Retire As Leader Of Regional Planning Agency

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published August 9, 2019 at 12:27 PM EDT

After almost 40 years as executive director of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Tim Brennan will soon retire.

During his tenure, the regional planning agency has played a key role in scores of public policy issues from transportation to reducing pollution in the Connecticut River to improving public safety in small western Massachusetts towns.

Brennan sat down with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill for an interview.

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Paul Tuthill

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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