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Longmeadow hosts visioning session for middle schools

By Bill Zito | Apr 3, 2024

Longmeadow hosts visioning session for middle schools

LONGMEADOW — Parents and community members became classroom participants for an interactive visioning session designed to inform and solicit impressions on forthcoming plans for the Glenbrook and Williams Middle Schools.

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By Staasi Heropoulos | Apr 3, 2024

Golf creates opportunities for scholarship recipients

Left: Khruanha “Ning” Naiyanan. Right: Sean McMinn.Reminder Publishing submitted photo What could be more exciting in the game of golf than sinking a hole-in-one? When a caddy at the Longmeadow Country Club receives a full, four-year scholarship to one of America’s...

By Bill Zito | Mar 27, 2024

Longmeadow Select Board moves on funding priorities of capital projects

LONGMEADOW — Reviewing Capital Improvement Plan recommendations for fiscal year 2025 at their March 18 meeting, members of the Longmeadow Select Board focused on potential funding for HVAC system upgrades at the Wolf Swamp Road School and need for increased road...

Longmeadow approves parking expansion at LYA, building addition planned

By Sarah Heinonen | Mar 13, 2024

Longmeadow approves parking expansion at LYA, building addition planned

LONGMEADOW — Plans for the first phase of an expansion at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy, 1148 Converse St., were approved by the Longmeadow Planning Board on March 6.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Mar 13, 2024

East Longmeadow, Longmeadow police partner with CHD to address mental health crises

LONGMEADOW — As awareness of the widespread nature of mental health issues has grown in recent years, so too have efforts by police departments to add mental health professionals to the toolbox of ways to address emergency calls.

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By Laura Mason | Mar 11, 2024

Longmeadow School Committee approves FY25 budget

LONGMEADOW — After previously delaying the vote, the Longmeadow School Committee approved the modified fiscal year 2025 budget presented by Superintendent M. Martin O’Shea during its Feb. 27 meeting.

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By Sarah Heinonen | Mar 11, 2024

Longmeadow to bear witness to the lives of two enslaved people

LONGMEADOW — This May, two of the 16 people who were known to be enslaved in Longmeadow will have their lives and stories memorialized in stone.

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By Laura Mason | Feb 28, 2024

Bay Path University to host fifth President’s Gala in March

LONGMEADOW — Bay Path University will host its fifth President’s Gala on Saturday, March 23 in Springfield at the MassMutual Center, the university recently announced.

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By Laura Mason | Feb 28, 2024

Longmeadow Select Board, School Committee OK Center School statement of interest

LONGMEADOW — The statement of interest for a roof replacement project at Center Elementary School was approved by the Longmeadow Select Board during its Feb. 20 meeting.

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By Laura Mason | Feb 21, 2024

Following discussion, FY25 Longmeadow school budget vote delayed to Feb. 27

LONGMEADOW — During the Feb. 13 School Committee meeting, Longmeadow Public School Committee Chair Nicole Choiniere announced that the committee’s vote on the fiscal year 2025 budget would be delayed to Feb. 27 in order to further solidify budget expectations.