Longmeadow Emerges as Dining Destination

Ralph Santaniello was gushing about the Longmeadow Shops as the location for a restaurant - specifically the one operated by his family, Posto, which features Italian cuisine. Meznwhile, three years after fire destroyed the Maple Shopping Center at the corner of Maple and Shaker roads near the Enfield line, the shell of a new plaza has been constructed, saic Simmons, adding that its owners have rot announced any tenants to date. [...]for several decades, this was a flagship location for Friendly's, the chain started by Longmeadow Shops developer S. Prestley Blake and his brother Curtis. The town's two middle schools, Williams and Glenbrook, are aging structures, opened in the '60s, noted Simmons, adding that the trend in communities of this size is toward one middle school, which in this case would be built on the athletic fields adjacent to Williams, with the existing structure then demolished.