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Hilltown CDC Annual MeetingYou are invited to the Hilltown CDC Annual Meeting
Hilltown Spring Festival
Save Saturday June 1, from 10 AM to 5 PM, to help us celebrate spring, the hilltown community, music, art, food, sustainability, kids, families and more. The Hilltown Spring Festival will feature 10 musical performances on two stages from 11:15 until 5:00 (click here for performance schedule), great food from local vendors, children’s activities all day long, a mid-day dance around the May pole, and exhibits of products and services from many local vendors, including a Focus on Sustainability. To register children to display and sell their own craft and art work at the Hilltown Spring Festival, click here for the registration form Last year 2,000 people came to celebrate spring and to enjoy each other and our community. There’s still time to sign up to volunteer, to be a sponsor (click here for sponsorship form), or to reserve a booth (click here for registration form). Admission is $8 per person; children 12 and under are free. All proceeds go to benefit the programs and services of Hilltown CDC, including business development and support programs for low income local elders. See you on June 1! Support is provided by business sponsors, by the exhibiting businesses, and by grants from the Local Cultural Councils of the Towns of Ashfield, Chester, Chesterfield, Conway, Cummington, Goshen, Middlefield, Plainfield, Washington, Westhampton, Williamsburg, Windsor and Worthington, local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Link to the Spring Festival’s Facebook page. Thank you to our major sponsorsClick any photo below to see larger images of last year’s festival Chesterfield Energy Efficiency Grant ProgramChesterfield Residential Energy Efficiency Grant Program Offers up to $1,000 per Household for Energy Improvements Chesterfield residents are invited to apply for up to $1,000 per household to help pay for home energy improvements. This grant program has been designed to supplement the Western Massachusetts Electric Company Mass Save residential incentive program, which offers a 75% incentive up to $2,000 toward the cost of installing insulation and weatherization upgrades. Taken together, Chesterfield residents are eligible for up to $3,000 to help improve the energy performance of their homes. Program Steps
The Chesterfield Residential Energy Efficiency Grant can also be applied toward energy efficiency and renewable energy items that are NOT listed in the Mass Save energy assessment. Town of Chesterfield program partners at the Hilltown CDC and Pioneer Valley Planning Commission can also point you toward other available incentives like rebates for efficient heating, solar hot water, solar PV and microwind systems; as well as the Mass Save Heat Loan Program, which provides a 0% loan up to $25,000 for energy efficiency upgrades and solar hot water systems. In 2011, the Town of Chesterfield was designated a Massachusetts “Green Community” by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. The Chesterfield Residential Energy Efficiency Grant Program is an initiative to help reduce energy used in Chesterfield. Learn more at www.townofchesterfieldma.com Download program applications below or contact Bea at 296-4536 ext 115 or beavh@hilltowncdc.org
Does your small business need help finding health insurance plans?
The Massachusetts Health Connector's Business Express Program can help small businesses with 50 or fewer employees find health insurance plans for their eligible employees. Click for more information. Hilltown Business Directory! The printed Hilltown Business Directory is published once a year; it was distributed in January to 16,500 households in 22 towns. The online edition of the 2013 Hilltown Business Directory is now available at www.HilltownCDC.com, and you can add your business to it at any time. The cost to be listed in the online edition is just $5. Click here for the Reservation Form. Businesses can be searched by business name, contact name, category or town. The online edition is available all year for anyone searching the web for local businesses. The Hilltown Business Directory can include any business located in the Towns of Ashfield, Becket, Blandford, Chester, Chesterfield, Cummington, Dalton (new), Goshen, Haydenville, Hinsdale, Huntington, Middlefield, Montgomery, Otis, Peru, Plainfield, Russell, Savoy (new), Washington, Westhampton, Williamsburg, Windsor and Worthington, or any business whose owner resides in these towns. Here's what local businesses say about the Hilltown Business Directory: "I get better response from listing in the Hilltown Business Directory than I get from the Verizon Yellow Pages" "I got a job recently from a woman from my own town who wouldn't have known I was here except for my listing in the Hilltown Business Directory." "I got a sizeable project from someone who saw my ad in the Hilltown Business Directory." "It's the only advertising I use and it has paid for itself many, many times over" In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) To file a complaint of discrimination, write to USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-940, or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider employer, and lender. |
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