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Richard Roger Lavigne (February 18, 1941 – May 21, 2021) [1] [2] was a laicized priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts and convicted sex offender. Lavigne was at the center of the priest abuse scandal in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts with about 40 claims of sexual abuse of minors placed against him.
Leo O'Neil was born on January 31, 1928, in Holyoke, Massachusetts.He attended both Blessed Sacrament School and Sacred Heart High School in that town. [1] In 1945 he entered Maryknoll Junior Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. [1]
Domenic J. Sarno (born May 4, 1963) is the current mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts. First elected in 2007, Sarno has won re-election five times since and is a member of the Democratic Party. [1] Winning election to a fifth term overall in 2023 and the third four-year term, he is the longest-serving mayor in Springfield's history. [2]
[3]: 131 The company built a factory at the mouth of the Mill River in the South End of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1866; [2] [3]: 94 during its time in operation, it was a primary provider of jobs for Springfield workers. [2] In 1869, Barney bought Berry's share of the company, but retained the company's original name.
Annie "Mesannie" Wilkins (1891–1980) was a 63-year-old farmer who made national headlines by traveling over 5,000 miles across the United States from Maine to California with a retired race horse named Tarzan, a packhorse named Rex and a dog named Depeche Toi (French for "Hurry Up").
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
[4] [69] Also, the United States' first UHF television station was founded in Springfield in 1953, WWLP, (which, today, is Springfield's 22 News, Working for You). During this period, then-U.S. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, who served under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, famously opined, "Here is a center from which thought emanates. What ...
The Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts (Latin: Diœcesis Campifontis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in Western Massachusetts in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston.