by Letters to the Editor | Sep 8, 2025 | Letter to the Editor, Opinion
On Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m., Longmeadow voters will decide whether to build a new consolidated middle school. This is the only item on the warrant that night. I urge residents to vote YES. A new middle school is the SMART choice: SMART Educationally — Our children...
by Letters to the Editor | Sep 8, 2025 | Letter to the Editor, Opinion
Consolidation is based on assumptions that larger schools are more economical to operate and offer higher quality curricula than small neighborhood schools. Research, however, demonstrates that neither of these assumptions are necessarily true. Longmeadow Public...
by Letters to the Editor | Aug 27, 2025 | Letter to the Editor
This letter is in support of the Longmeadow Middle School project and a vote of “yes” at the Special Town Meeting on Sept. 9 at Longmeadow High School. For the last couple of years and throughout the planning phases of the new joint middle school project, there has...
by Letters to the Editor | Aug 20, 2025 | Letter to the Editor
Medical research that helps families like mine is in danger in the United States. I grew up in Wilbraham and my family still lives in the area. I majored in accounting in college but left my career as a certified public accountant to study Alzheimer’s disease (a type...
by Letters to the Editor | Aug 20, 2025 | Letter to the Editor
By now, most residents should be aware that on Sept. 9, we will be voting on whether to fund a proposed new consolidated middle school. The price tag for this project is currently estimated at about $151.5 million, with an MSBA grant of $53.7 million, meaning the...
by Letters to the Editor | Aug 20, 2025 | Letter to the Editor
ngmeadow and communities across Massachusetts found themselves at the crossroads of science and democracy, tasked with a grave responsibility: deciding, by popular vote, whether fluoride should fortify the town’s public water supply. What unfolded was not merely a...
