Springfield has always had its share of big headlines, but the stranger stories tend to slip through the cracks.
A downtown café quietly invented something that would change how Americans eat. A snowstorm showed up the morning after a summer day.
Officials once handed out hillbilly medallions, live country music broadcasts reached coast to coast, and a lemur led police on a late-night chase. There’s a reason the city got its name, and it wasn’t after a spring or a field…