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Officials will be joining the Italian Cultural Center of Western Mass Inc. to raise the Italian Flag to honor Italian Heritage Month. During this month, we celebrate the Italian-American culture and spread the word about the traditions that come with it, according to the National Day Calander. Italian-American Heritage Month was first celebrated in...

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A generation ago in the mid-1990s, a cadre of business and civic leaders from Greater Springfield confronted a dim outlook for the Western Massachusetts economy. It proved a pivotal moment to rally the region’s cities and towns to rise together for collective success. The vision set out in 1996 by the founders of the Economic Development Council of...

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Marchers, accompanied for the first time in years by a brass band, will parade La Madonna del Carmine through the streets of Springfield’s South End Sunday. The 11:30 a.m. procession will follow a 10:30 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in honor of the feast day of the church’s namesake. The Society of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel is hosting a d...

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With the new Italian Consulate of Western Massachusetts officially open, as of late Monday, it was already Tuesday in Italy. April 25 is Liberation Day, a holiday recognizing the victory of the Italian resistance — with Allied help — over Nazi Germany and its puppet state. “We recognize what Americans did for us,” said Arnaldo Minuti, consul genera...

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The Italian Government is going to establish an official Italian Consulate office in Springfield. The 25th floor of Monarch Place in Downtown Springfield will become the space of the official Western Massachusetts Consulate of Italy. This new location means residents will no longer have to travel to the Boston Italian Consulate office for business...

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What better way to celebrate Italian Heritage Month than with a little bocce and a lot of food, and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno got some of both when he accepted an invitation to one of the few private bocce courts in Western Mass. on Saturday.   Tomasso and Anthony Mancuso, a father-and-son team who built a regulation-sized bocce court in the...

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Organizers of the Taste of Italy are pleased to present again the festival to benefit Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Springfield (MA) after two years of COVID-19 restrictions. It will take place Oct. 1 from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at the South End Middle School auditorium, 36 Margaret St., Springfield, and offer more than 30 favorite Italian main and si...

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Mayor Domenic J. Sarno congratulated Paul Picknelly for serving as the Honorary Consul General for the Italian Consulate in Springfield. Along with Massachusetts, the consulate also serves New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. In addition to his roles as Honorary Consul General, Paul continues to maintain and strengthen relationships between the city o...

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A Springfield community staple got a big surprise for his birthday Sunday. Italian Bread Shop owner Joe Santos was surprised by his family and Mayor Domenic Sarno to celebrate his birthday.His birthday is June 23, but to catch him off guard, they decided to have the party a little early. “Mr. Santos has been a community small business owner, well r...

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In West Springfield, people of all ages are coming together to play the sport of bocce. At the Dante Club in West Springfield, teams are set and the balls are rolling. The group is playing bocce, an Italian ball sport. “We’ve been playing since the 90s here, when we built the indoor bocce court, and we have anywhere between eight and 12 teams,” sai...

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