Making News in Business, Feb. 7

NORTHAMPTON — The Sphere Northampton has received $89,000 through the Small Business Technical Assistance (SBTA) Grant program to launch an initiative supporting women and nonbinary entrepreneurs.

New Deerfield yoga practice seeks to ‘tend to the soul’

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Eternal Life Yoga & Wellness is putting down roots in the valley.

The joy of creating: Peacock’s Nest in Easthampton moves store to prominent Cottage Street location

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — Lauren Grover has become accustomed to encountering people who think they aren’t creative. They might say they can’t draw, can’t sculpt, can’t make some elaborate decor out of paper or paint or clay. She hears it all the time, but it never makes her any less sad.

Area property deed transfers, Jan. 31

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Making News in Business, Jan. 31

FLORENCE — Florence Bank has pledged $75,000 to Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s $26 million Transforming Emergency Care Campaign to renovate, expand and enhance the Emergency Department.

Eventide Acupuncture and Integrative Health seeks to blend eastern, western medicine in new space in Haydenville

By SAMUEL GELINAS

HAYDENVILLE — On Dec. 10 Angelique Britt opened her first business, Eventide Acupuncture and Integrative Health, in the Brass Works building at 132 Main St.

Consumer Corner with Anita Wilson: Stopping identity theft in its tracks

A Hampshire County college student received a bill for a cellphone plan he never signed up for with a telephone number he didn’t recognize.

Area property deed transfers, Jan. 24

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Area property deed transfers, Jan. 17

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How removing unpaid medical bills from credit reports could help consumers

By CORA LEWIS

NEW YORK — Lenders will no longer be able to consider unpaid medical bills as a credit history factor when they evaluate potential borrowers in the U.S. for mortgages, car loans or business loans, according to a rule the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized this month.

Making News in Business, Jan. 17

SPRINGFIELD — Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts recently awarded $3.2 million in Flexible Funding grants to 109 local organizations in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties, an increase of over $900,000 in grant support since last year.

Planner pitches lifting big box retail size cap in Hadley

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — While Hadley has several shopping centers and malls on its commercial corridor, for nearly 20 years the town has prohibited construction of any new retail store exceeding 75,000 square feet.

Ten Thousand Villages in downtown Northampton to close at end of March

By SAMUEL GELINAS

NORTHAMPTON — After a quarter century downtown, Ten Thousand Villages is preparing to close its Main Street store for good on March 31.

Making news in business, Jan. 10

HOLYOKE — Pyramid Management Group, a privately-held shopping center developer based in Syracuse, New York, has successfully worked with its lender to secure a three-year extension for the loan on Holyoke Mall at Ingleside in Holyoke.

Greeting cards seed Small Victories at Thornes shop

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Small Victories, a retail shop that has taken root downtown, began in the same way the business’s seed paper stationary does: start with dirt, add water and soon something will sprout.

Area property deed transfers, Jan. 10

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Elements Massage studio closure in Hadley stiffs clients with thousands in gift cards

By SCOTT MERZBACH

HADLEY — Weekly massage client Debra Morin went all in on a two-for-one holiday season promotion in 2023 at Elements Massage studio .

Sackrey Construction Co. of Sunderland celebrating 35 years in business

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — In December 1989, one of the coldest on record in the region, John Sackrey was in Conway with a small team building an addition onto a home.That addition, for an associate working with Berkshire Design Group, kicked off a decades-long...

Area property deed transfers, Jan. 3

AMHERSTEllen S. Orourke to U&a LLC, 502 Main St., $575,000 Margaret R. Alperstein and David N. Alperstein to Jordan L. Menter, 28 Salem Place, Lot 28, $195,000 BELCHERTOWN Wicked Deals LLC to Fasm Homes LLC, 571 Federal...

Area property deed transfers, Dec. 27

AMHERSTNigel H Coxe RET and Edmund Jones to Meghan Macfadden and Oliver Macfadden, 147 E. Hadley Road, $425,000 Phatcharee Tran to James E. Sarris, 27 Greenleaves Dr., Lot 722, $300,000 Mimsy Cove LLC to Benjamin W. Strom and...