EAST LONGMEADOW — At the Nov. 3 East Longmeadow School Committee meeting, the committee recognized Food Service Director Lori Pahl and voted in the town’s Superintendent Screening Committee.

EAST LONGMEADOW — After several hours of public hearings, points and counterpoints made by lawyers and discussions about the turning radius of large vehicles, the East Longmeadow Planning Board voted 4-0 on Nov. 4 to approve the site plan for a group of warehouses at 330 Chestnut St.

WILBRAHAM — An update to the ongoing projects with the Massachusetts School Building Authority was provided at the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School Committee meeting on Nov. 3.

LONGMEADOW — On Nov. 4, residents of Longmeadow attended the town’s Special Town Meeting at the Longmeadow High School gymnasium to vote on 19 articles.

EAST LONGMEADOW — This November a local business is teaming up with a “Star Wars” actor to help raise funds for pediatric cancer research.

HOLYOKE — City Auditor Tanya Wdowiak announced that she is resigning from her current position to take another opportunity nearby.

NORTHAMPTON — In a gathering space on the third floor of Brushworks Art & Industrial, a factory-turned-artist studio complex in Florence, pillows of all shapes and sizes were piled high in the center of the room.

WEST SPRINGFIELD — A part of West Springfield’s recreational life is about to receive an overhaul.

AGAWAM — Steel girders for the community wing — the first phase of what will become Agawam’s new, state-of-the art high school — have begun to rise into the sky next to the current high school where students and staff are transforming how students will learn.