Raising the Bar
The Hampden County Bar Assoc. held its annual meeting and dinner on June 19. The event, staged in the Marriott Springfield ballroom, featured a number of awards and presentations, and
included a new wrinkle, a vendors show, which preceded the dinner and keynote address from Mass. Lawyers Weekly Editor David Yas. Clockwise, from above: outgoing President Thomas Kenefick III, left, a Springfield-based attorney, presents a 50-year membership plaque to Theodore Dimauro, a Springfield-based attorney and former mayor of that city; attorney Mary A. Socha, left, who was presented with the Mass. Bar Assoc. Community Service Award, shares a moment with Hampden County Juvenile Court Judge Patricia Dunbar; President-elect Mark Albano, an attorney with the firm Dalsey, Ferrara & Albano, is flanked by Kenefick, left, and former past president Paul Rothschild, an attorney with the Springfield-based firm Bacon Wilson, P.C.
Martini Magic
Max’s Tavern, located at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, staged its annual ‘Martini Madness’ event on June 12. The get-together/networking event drew hundreds of area residents and business leaders, and raised money for the Ronald McDonald House in Springfield. Among those in attendance and
experiencing the “reinvention of the martini,” as organizers put it, were
(clockwise, from below) Michael Favreau, president of Ronald McDonald House, and his wife, Donna; Marco Amato, president of Dowd Financial, AnnMarie Harding, promotions director for Max’s Tavern, and Greg Toegel, owner of
Ride Kenya’s Horse Safaris; and Jim Pollard, president of Carter-McLeod, and his wife, Amy.
For Art’s Sake
Easthampton Mayor Michael Tautznik, left, shakes hands with mural artist
Tom Pappalardo, owner of Standard Design in Northampton, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the completion of a mural at 71 Cottage St. The mural project was coordinated by Easthampton City Arts and was sponsored by the Williston Northampton School, Hampton Wholesale Auto, LLC, the Easthampton Cultural Council,
and the Mass. Cultural Council.
