Longmeadow News

By ELIZABETH R. LAFOND COPPEZ For Maine novelist Morgan Callan Rogers, it's a bizarre yet fabulous feeling to know her imaginative first novel, "Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea," is being enjoyed by readers in Germany and the United States, and is being published in Australia and Spain this year.

Firefighters remained at the scene early Wednesday afternoon of a fire at the new Longmeadow High School's construction site .

The American Heart Association recently announced the individuals selected to be the 2012 Go Red Leading Ladies of Western Massachusetts.

The Select Board voted to hold a special election to fill the seat left by member Christine Swanson, who resigned in December.

Maestro Kevin Rhodes will be behind the keyboards rather than in front of an orchestra when the Springfield Symphony Orchestra conductor performs on Friday with the Longmeadow Chamber Music Society .

It's been almost three months since the October nor'easter devastated thousands of residents across Western Massachusetts.

SPRINGFIELD - Police arrested Christina Gerasimchuk, of Longmeadow, Saturday morning after she allegedly threatened to burn a woman while holding a handgun, said Sgt.

Adam Romaniak, left, and Michael Simmons were arrested by Longmeadow police following an assault and unarmed robbery that occurred last Friday on Tanglewood Drive.

It was at Mechanics Hall two years ago to the day that Scott Brown pulled one of the biggest upsets in Massachusetts political history when he defeated Attorney General Martha Coakley after Ted Kennedy held the seat for more than 40 years.

Sunday afternoon, temperatures were in the teens across most of the Pioneer Valley.

Economic signals remain mixed in Western Massachusetts, but good news continues to push its way into the headlines.