THANK YOU to Robert McKean and Donald Wielgus for planning and making the MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY at Stanley Park a success. It always amazes me as to how few people attend this event. If it weren’t for the soldiers who fought the wars and who are still fighting; there would be NO Memorial Day. It’s unfortunate the young children are not made aware of the meaning of MEMORIAL DAY.
Hi! I’m calling about the area of Westfield and everything where you can’t trust people. They go behind your back sometimes. I wonder what has happened to this city? Please print this. Thank you.
Here we go with the teachers complaining about their salaries again. I’m sure they knew what the pay rate was when they decided to become a teacher. And we can’t compare the western end of the state with the eastern end of the state. It’s like comparing apples to oranges. Those communities are a lot richer. And I hear it is taking three people to do the superintendent’s job now where it used to take one. And getting back to the teachers, if they aren’t making enough money, they can always get a part-time job, like so many other people do who work 367 days a year. And some even have two full-time jobs. $50,000 a year, or in that range, for 180 days of work, with all the benefits included is a pretty good job. They ought to be thankful for what they got.
Southwick, I was reading in the paper that you were looking for somebody to mow the cemetery, paying right around $11 an hour. But yet you hire people to mow the rail trail and Whalley Park for $15 an hour. How come? And also, if you get hired for that rail trail job, you have to have a pickup truck to pull the trailer with the mower on it to the job. What’s with this? Are you paying gas a mileage also? Think about it, selectmen.
