The Westfield News
Posts By Amy Porter
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5.2KAround TownCouncilor celebrates Ward 3 winning competition to plant trees
WESTFIELD — The results are in from the first year of Greening the Gateway Cities tree plantings, and Ward 2 City Councilor...
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6.2KAround TownUniversity, middle school pen pals meet in person for 1st time
WESTFIELD — A new project this year is bringing college students and middle school students together in an old-fashioned way; through writing...
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2.5KAround TownGrant will boost support for students experiencing homelessness
WESTFIELD — Student Interventions and Safety Administrator Christopher Rogers, who also administers the McKinney-Vento Title I program in the Westfield Public Schools,...
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2.9KAround TownParents continue to bring masking concerns to school board
WESTFIELD — For months, ever since the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education mandated wearing masks in school, a small group of...
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2.7KAround TownClassroom staffing shortages have administrators filling in
WESTFIELD — Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski had to use a rerun from September for his Dec. 2 Superintendent’s Spotlight on WSKB Radio and...
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2.4KAround TownCouncilors push back on state’s school reimbursement cap
WESTFIELD — Taking one more step before the City Council votes to approve financing for the new elementary school, estimated to cost...
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2.8KAround TownCouncil tables 10% sewer rate hike until Dec. 16
WESTFIELD — At a meeting of the Natural Resources Committee on Dec. 2 prior ot the City Council meeting, interim Public...
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2.5KAround TownBombers parent raffling a PS5 for new football uniforms
WESTFIELD — When Cooper McNamara made the Westfield High School varsity football team as a freshman this year, he came home with...
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3.1KAround TownWeekend crafts fairs this month will raise funds for food pantry
WESTFIELD — Today and tomorrow, Dec. 4 and 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is the second of four weekends...
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2.1KAround TownRather than canceling, band ‘toughs it out’ under stars
WESTFIELD — When it looked like rising COVID-19 numbers might interfere with plans to hold their holiday concert, Westfield Middle School Band...
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2.6KAround TownHiring means meeting employee needs, Chamber panel says
WESTFIELD — A panel representing recovering addicts, disenfranchised women, teenagers seeking work and one local company seeking employees tackled the subject of...
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2.6KAround TownScience, career fairs will return in person in 2022
WESTFIELD — At the Westfield Education to Business Alliance (WE2BA) meeting on Nov. 30, Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski said the schools are busy...
