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Customers head into PortSmittâs Lakeway Restaurant on Pecks Road in Pittsfield in late October, shortly before its final day on Oct. 31. Contact tracers ultimately linked more than 60 coronavirus infections to PortSmittâs.
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Yuki Cohen, shown in her Methuselah Bar and Lounge, has been cited for a third time for COVID-19 health violations. She said she is being targeted by frivolous complaints.
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Ann and Carlos Shacar wait to get into PortSmittâs Lakeway Restaurant on Pecks Road in Pittsfield in late October, days before its closing. Contact tracers have linked more than 60 coronavirus infections to Portsmittâs.
YSET Academy delivers toys to 1,100 kids in need throughout Springfield for Christmas
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
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SPRINGFIELD Even though the coronavirus pandemic has made celebrating difficult this year, members of YSET Academy have been delivering more than 1,100 toys to children around the city to brighten their Christmas.
Youth Social Educational Training Inc. since 2003 has provided after school activities, job training and social services for inner-city youth. Executive Director Paula Porter, PhD. said the academy, at 57 School St., is committed to helping children and teens.
“We meet with them on Wednesday evenings. The African Diaspora Mental Health Association, the therapists from there come every Wednesday to meet with the youth here in the building,” Porter said.