by Sarah Heinonen | Jun 25, 2025 | Hampden, Hampden County, Local News, More Local Headlines
HAMPDEN — Erik Vanderleeden won the Selectboard seat left vacant by the April resignation of former member Craig Rivest. With 405 votes, Vanderleeden bested his opponent, Kathy Pessolano, who saw 105 ballots cast in the June 23 special election.
by Sarah Heinonen | Jun 25, 2025 | Hampden County, Local News, Longmeadow, More Local Headlines
LONGMEADOW — In cities and towns across Massachusetts, electricity customers have seen the cost of energy rise in recent years, and Longmeadow is no exception. Eversource owns most of the utility poles and wires that transport electricity to homes and businesses in Longmeadow. Customers pay a distribution charge for the use of this infrastructure. Eversource sets the fee for distribution and users are obliged to pay it.
by Sarah Heinonen | Jun 25, 2025 | East Longmeadow, Hampden County, Local News, More Articles
EAST LONGMEADOW — St. Michael’s Knights of Columbus in East Longmeadow presented checks of $2,000 each to the Veterans’ Memorial Committee and the town’s Council on Aging. They are two of the five organizations the Knights gifted with funding recently.
by Sarah Heinonen | Jun 25, 2025 | Hampden County, Local News, Longmeadow, Photo Slider
LONGMEADOW — Christian Whitsett of Jones Whitsett Architects delivered to the Longmeadow Select Board a presentation on the middle school building project as it stands, three months before the town votes on whether to authorize spending for the project.
by Sarah Heinonen | Jun 23, 2025 | Dining and Entertainment, Easthampton, Features, Hampshire County, Local News, Reviews
EASTHAMPTON — Gambling is serious business, but audiences will get plenty of laughs watching Easthampton Theater Company’s production of “Guys and Dolls,” a 1950 musical by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. The musical is based on the 1933 short story, “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown,” by Damon Runyon.