EAST LONGMEADOW — The town of East Longmeadow was recently awarded $1,975,000 through the MassWorks Infrastructure Program to support the town’s work to upgrade the Chestnut Street Water Pumping Station.
WESTFIELD — Sarah Gillett Services for the Elderly is seeking volunteers to serve as corporators, and potentially board of trustees members, to continue its important work providing grants to local organizations to provide services to the elderly.
SOUTHWICK — The federal Natural Resources Conservation Service will hire a consultant to survey Congamond Lake in person to settle on a flooding plan.
WEST SPRINGFIELD — The Zoning Board of Appeals denied a variance to WS Coliseum Inc. for a proposed Riverdale Street cannabis dispensary, refusing to waive a requirement that marijuana retail stores be at least 1,300 feet apart from each other.
GRANBY — The first meeting of the Town Administrator Search Committee took place on Oct. 23 where town officials met to begin the process in hiring a new town administrator with former administrator Chris Martin having retired on Nov. 1.
HOLYOKE — The Care Center has completed its $4 million “Moving Women Forward” Endowment Campaign, ensuring that its growing microcollege program for young mothers and other under-resourced women will remain tuition-free.