Jim Kinney

The base was placed on lockdown at about 9:45 a.m., and law enforcement personnel responded to the scene. The all clear was declared at noon.

Owners Cara Aiello and Felice Aiello met in Brooklyn where they also learned the coffee and baked-goods business. They came here to western Massachusetts to start a family.

The city wants redevelopment on this stretch of High Street which greets visitors with derelict, or at least underutilized storefronts, and vacant lots.

Stacey Rosenberry, chief operating officer for Albany, New York, WAMC said Western New England is renovating the building where the office is currently located.

American Medical Response's Earn While You Learn program graduated 27 EMTs and paramedics on Friday.

“I think that a lot of them now are going to come to their senses,” U.S. Rep. Richard Neal said.

Events continue through the weekend, including a Monday morning Mass at St. Michael's Cemetery in Springfield and at 1 p.m. an observance at the Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Agawam.

Thursday night, U.S. Rep. James McGovern called out Republicans over the War Powers Resolution being pulled: “You guys don’t have the guts or the balls to vote on this.”

Conservative PragerU supplied the multimedia content for the Freedom Truck mobile museums.

Residents will start moving into the new $405 million veterans' home in September.