East Longmeadow

East Longmeadow Town Council begins budget hearing

By Sarah Heinonen | May 21, 2025

East Longmeadow Town Council begins budget hearing

EAST LONGMEADOW — After a month of meetings of the Financial Oversight Committee, the East Longmeadow Town Council conducted a public hearing over the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget during its meeting on May 13.

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Election sees familiar faces and a challenge for East Longmeadow Town Council

By Sarah Heinonen | May 21, 2025

Election sees familiar faces and a challenge for East Longmeadow Town Council

EAST LONGMEADOW — It is election season in East Longmeadow. Three of the seven seats on the Town Council are on the ballot this year. Kathleen Hill, Anna Jones and Ralph Page are the incumbents seeking reelection, while Carolyn Ferros is hoping to win her first three-year term.

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Local cleans headstones to honor veterans

By Sarah Heinonen | May 21, 2025

Local cleans headstones to honor veterans

EAST LONGMEADOW — It took a year, but Carl “Howie” Howard completed a project to honor the veterans buried in Brookside Cemetery by cleaning their headstones.

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East Longmeadow Farmers Market grows in size, vendor variety this season

By Sarah Heinonen | May 15, 2025

East Longmeadow Farmers Market grows in size, vendor variety this season

EAST LONGMEADOW — Summer is growing season, and the East Longmeadow Farmers’ Market is growing, too.

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Lifelong Easthampton resident named next police chief

By Trent Levakis | May 13, 2025

Lifelong Easthampton resident named next police chief

EASTHAMPTON — Chad Alexander, lifelong Easthampton resident and officer on the Police Department for over 20 years, has been selected to become the city’s next chief of police.

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East Longmeadow Finance Oversight Committee approves $36.89M ELPS budget

By Sarah Heinonen | May 8, 2025

East Longmeadow Finance Oversight Committee approves $36.89M ELPS budget

EAST LONGMEADOW — Days after meeting with the Financial Oversight Committee as part of its efforts to find potential money-saving opportunities in the municipal budget, Superintendent Gordon Smith and the School Committee reviewed the major aspects of the School Department’s $36.89 million budget for fiscal year 2026 and how it had arrived at that number.

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By Sarah Heinonen | May 1, 2025

Tariffs not expected to impact local ‘Made in America’ products

Two local businesses are grateful their products are sourced and made in the United States, as the uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s tariffs creates apprehension across the economy.

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Koebler proud of Pleasant View as she leaves for new position

By Debbie Gardner | Apr 23, 2025

Koebler proud of Pleasant View as she leaves for new position

EAST LONGMEADOW — Change is coming to the Pleasant View Senior Center.

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East Longmeadow Lions Club hosts annual fishing derby

By Sarah Heinonen | Apr 23, 2025

East Longmeadow Lions Club hosts annual fishing derby

EAST LONGMEADOW — About 200 families woke up bright and early on April 19, put on rain boots and grabbed their tackle boxes for the East Longmeadow Lions Club Fishing Derby at Heritage Park.

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East Longmeadow to celebrate American Revolution’s 250th anniversary

By Sarah Heinonen | Apr 16, 2025

East Longmeadow to celebrate American Revolution’s 250th anniversary

EAST LONGMEADOW — The story is well known. Battles between members of colonial militias and British soldiers broke out in the towns of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. It was, as Ralph Waldo Emerson described it, the “shot heard ‘round the world.” The American Revolution had begun.