Peter Francis

Posts By Peter Francis

• SWK/Hilltowns

  Open Meetings in the Digital Age

  WESTFIELD – As social media grows more powerful in shaping the daily lives of everyday Americans, capable of shifting public opinion and...

• Health

  Noble joins health record exchange

  WESTFIELD — Massachusetts has launched the next phase of an electronic medical records system designed to make it easier for doctors to...

• SWK/Hilltowns

  Four-day school week weighed

  WESTFIELD — Across the country and throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as school budgets are stretched ever tighter, a radical idea is...

• SWK/Hilltowns

  Worthington withdrawal weighed

  HUNTINGTON – As the Town of Worthington pursues the process to withdraw from the Gateway Regional School District, residents of the other...

• Westfield

  City projects benefit young and old

  WESTFIELD – When compared to other similarly sized municipalities in western Massachusetts, the city of Westfield has a much higher median age...

• Business

  Chamber ‘focused on serving’ in 2014

  WESTFIELD – Kate Phelon, executive director of the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce, believes her organization is ready for big things in...

• Westfield

  Westfield NYE petition seeks signatures

  WESTFIELD – At Mayor Daniel M. Knapik’s first coffee hour of 2014 this morning at Armbrook Village, sponsored by the Greater Westfield...

• Westfield

  City preps for frigid forecast

  WESTFIELD – As the New Year Nor’Easter passed us by, many city residents stoked their fires, turned up the thermostat, and nestled...

• Westfield

  New high school equivalency exam coming

  WESTFIELD — State education officials are phasing out the old GED test in favor a new high school equivalency exam. The Department...

• Westfield

  Familiar faces appointed at WSU

  WESTFIELD – Westfield State University saw great change in 2013, a trend that continues into the new year. The school announced two...

• SWK/Hilltowns

  New year’s first snow blankets region

  WESTFIELD — The new year began with a flurry, and then some yesterday, as the first winter storm of the year touched...

• Westfield

  Westfield State honors student leaders

  WESTFIELD – Westfield State University President Dr. Elizabeth Preston has named seven students as winners of the University’s prestigious Presidential Award. Prior...