Longmeadow Daze is an occasional series about Longmeadow government and politics. Longmeadow voters authorized a debt exclusion on Tuesday that will let the town build a new middle school to replace Williams and Glenbrook Middle schools. A special town meeting had advanced the question to
Local members of Congress are calling out Nexstar Media Group, the owner of WWLP, for its role in the suspension of ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Last week James McGovern, a whose Worcester-based district includes Amherst, Greenfield and Northampton, demanded answers from Nexstar leadership after the company said it would preempt Kimmel.
The Springfield City Council again put off approval of a bevy of permits for GoNetSpeed, an Internet Service Provider, fearing the company will not deliver on promises to wire the whole city. The issue has bubbled up at full Council and subcommittee meetings. In July, councilors continued the permits.
Although WWLP is not the Western Mass affiliate of ABC, the Disney-owned network that airs Jimmy Kimmel Live!. However, its parent company, Nexstar, owns ABC affiliates elsewhere. It was via those affiliates that Nexstar contributed to Disney’s decision to suspend Kimmel’s show.
Voters in three Valley cities slimmed down their ballots on Tuesday and began the march to the general election in November. Chicopee, Holyoke and Northampton had a handful of races among them where more than two candidates were running. By far, however, the highest profile of these races was for mayor in Northampton, which is experiencing a heated cycle as the mayor seek reelection.
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The incumbents, Ward 4 Councilor Malo Brown, Ward 6 Councilor Victor Davila and District Committee member Christopher Collins—whose district represents Wards 6 and 7—all placed first in the Springfield preliminary. They will face Willie Naylor, Mary Johnson and Rosa Valentin, respectively, in November.
On August 29 Judge Richard Leon dealt a blow to the efforts of Springfield and other municipalities to recover billions Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency illegally rescinded. As had seemed likely after a Supreme Court ruling days before, Leon found that he lacked jurisdiction over the claims and therefore dismissed the case.
Earlier this year, the EPA essentially refused to disburse billions in the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants
UPDATED 9/10/25 1:03AM: In the prelim, Davila and Johnson advanced to the general election. SPRINGFIELD—Since the return of ward representation on the City Council here in 2009, one ward has seen four people serve as its councilor. There are many reasons slightly more people have
Springfield City Council and School Committee hopefuls plied their political wares last week during an outdoor forum. Focus Springfield and White Lion Brewing organized and staged the event in the “Pridelands” beer garden, across Main Street from the brewer’s taproom in Tower Square. It may
SCOTUS dealt a potential blow to efforts to recover grants that Donald Trump’s administration had swiped from Springfield and other municipalities. In a fractured ruling, five of the nine Supremes stayed an order that had required the National Institutes of Health to restore grant funding. The ruling, in effect, said recovery of the funds did not belong in US District Court.