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Springfield City Council Approves 15 Community Preservation Projects

the former Brookings school building
City of Springfield

       The green light has been given to fund 15 projects in Springfield under the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act program.

       Recommended by a citizens committee, the projects involve housing, historic preservation, improvements to parks, and creating recreation space.

      The City Council voted Monday night to approve the projects with funds totaling almost $1.6 million.

       Projects range from $250,000 to help pay to renovate an old school into affordable housing to $20,000 for a study on how to preserve a Spanish-American War monument.

       WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Bob McCarroll, chairman of the Community Preservation Committee.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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