Early Longmeadow School Department budget sees level services for FY26
LONGMEADOW — A preliminary budget for fiscal year 2026 presented by Longmeadow Public Schools Superintendent M. Martin O’Shea provides level services for the School Department, despite increased costs and minimal state aid.
Committee hammers out East Longmeadow’s center town district bylaw
EAST LONGMEADOW — The first steps toward crafting a center town district bylaw were taken at the Jan. 29 Center Town District Steering Committee meeting.
Charter school students use art to explore Black history
WEST SPRINGFIELD — Students at the Hampden Charter School of Science Middle School in West Springfield are learning how art can connect them to others — those who see it now and those who lived long ago.
Legislators, activist champion pay equity, overtime for farmworkers
SPRINGFIELD — The blueberries in a morning smoothie. The tomatoes in a BLT at lunch. The asparagus on a dinner plate. The food people in Massachusetts eat every day is often grown here. But the people who harvest the crops that feed Baystaters are often paid nearly half of what other workers in the state receive.