The Women’s Foundation of Boston recently announced that it has awarded more than $2.17 million in grants funding to nonprofits that focus on serving women and girls. These include three organizations based in the Pioneer Valley that will receive a total of $583,000 over the next three years.
LONGMEADOW — The Longmeadow Select Board weighed whether to approve a dramatic hike in water rates when it met on June 3. The rate increases are the largest in years, but Finance Director Ian Coddington warned they will not be the last.
EAST LONGMEADOW — As East Longmeadow heads into a time of change, with a new high school building, shifting of town offices and a potential center town district, Robert Watchilla has taken the reins as director of planning and community development.
LONGMEADOW — Two-hundred fifty years after the death of an enslaved couple in Longmeadow, two stones that bear witness to their lives have been set into the ground in front of the First Church of Longmeadow.
EAST LONGMEADOW — Gloria Hogan, at 102 years old, is the oldest resident of East Longmeadow. As such, the Golden Cane was bestowed on her at a May 23 ceremony at the Pleasant View Senior Center.