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Florissa Fuentes went through an admittedly rocky adolescence growing up in the city’s North End, finding herself in loads of trouble before a high school-based city police officer persuaded her to move to North Carolina for a new perspective. Hailing from a heavily military family, Fuentes returned to the city in 2007, a teen hoping for a fresh start. She aimed to join the U.S. Navy, but her brother, Daniel Newsome, was killed in combat in Baghdad, discounting her from enlisting just as she prepared for basic training. Fuentes eventually set her eyes on a corrections career, graduating from the...

Coaching Icon Archie P. Allen '37 Passes Away at the Age of 93 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- This past Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006, Springfield College coaching icon Archie P. Allen, 93, of Springfield, Mass., died peacefully at Reeds Landing. Archie Allen is one of the best-known and one of the more well-respected coaches in Springfield College history. So revered was Archie that he was selected to the Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame’s first class in 1972. Archie Allen ’37 will be best remembered as an outstanding baseball coach. He was Springfield College’s head baseball coach from 1948 through 1978, inclusive....