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Jessica Neiswender, store manager,  and Rosie Goldstein, owner of Inspirit Crystals  go through the candles at the store on Main street Northampton.

All in the family: New owners take over InSpirit in downtown Northampton

Sunday, June 16, 2013

NORTHAMPTON — When Rosie and Barry Goldstein of Northampton saw a “for sale” sign in the window of Inspirit Common late last year, they worried that the spiritual store on Northampton’s Main Street might go out of business or lose its character in a change of ownership. “This was always Rosie’s favorite store,” said Barry Goldstein, a retired school psychologist. … 0

Amherst, South Deerfield men who founded Argotec set to retire after sale

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

GREENFIELD — Argotec Inc., the plastic-film manufacturer that has seen rapid growth over the past six years at the Interstate 91 Industrial Park, has been purchased by a Chicago-based private-equity firm, Wing Point Partners, company officials announced Wednesday. The company was founded in 1988 by Richard Barnes of South Deerfield and Steven Wolkenbreit … 0

Making news

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Johnson joins environmental firm AMHERST — Steve Johnson has joined New England Environmental as a senior ecologist in the natural resource department, and he will be working to develop a wildlife and rare species division. He received a doctorate in biology from the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and he has been working in the environmental consulting … 0