Letters to the Editor

As Longmeadow moves closer to a funding vote later this year on its new middle school, we are still waiting and wondering,where are the traffic studies? A preliminary traffic analysis was conducted in April of 2024, but the design of the new school property with...

The past three editions of the Reminder contained letters from Longmeadow residents about the shameful treatment two members of the previous Board of Assessors received from the majority of the Select Board. Both Richard Foster and Mr. Zeller have stellar records...

This is in regards to “HWRSD pleads case for more ed funds.” I would like to remind everyone that this is the very same school department that IMMEDIATELY after giving us not one, not two, but three override votes they wouldn’t even initially close Thornton Burgess to save money.

The Friends of Hampden Senior Citizens would like to thank everybody for the wonderful donations that came in for our Holiday Shop til you Drop Sale and all of you who did Shop our Holiday Sale – you helped raise over $1,350 for the benefit of our Senior Center; we are so grateful.

I am writing this letter to bring community awareness to the MassDOT/Longmeadow project. I am one of the few residents who will have part of their property seized by eminent domain. I first became aware of this project when I received a letter from the town back in...

The recent resignation of Longmeadow Board of Assessors Chairperson Michael Zeller in his letter to The Reminder raises questions on the rationale and decision by the Select Board which led to Mr. Zeller’s stepping down. Mr. Zeller who has 15 years of experience on...

Mr. Michael Zeller recently posted a letter explaining why he resigned from the Longmeadow Board of Assessors after serving for 15 years. He talked about serving our community as an unpaid volunteer while devoting thousands of hours of personal time serving as a...

Massachusetts should be proactive as new concerns over the safety and environmental impacts of “clean energy” battery storage facilities after numerous fires at these facilities have led governors in California and New York to call for investigations into the safety and risks associated with this new technology.

I live at Brownstone Gardens and I frequently walk on the Pleasant Street sidewalk. One cold day recently I was walking and picking up the various pieces of trash left along the way. I normally take a small plastic bag with me, but this day I didn’t, and had my...