The Westfield News
Posts By Peter Francis
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Sports
Rams reload for upcoming season
SOUTHWICK – After a respectable 2012 season that saw his boys go 7-7-4 and earn a trip to the western Mass....
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Sports
Cloud, Westfield dance company impresses
LANCASTER, Penn. – Fans of the Lifetime Television reality series “Dance Moms” will now be able to watch the show’s upcoming third...
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Sports
Bombers look to send coach out with a bang
WESTFIELD – It’s been quite the run for Westfield High School football coach Bill Moore, who is set to step down from...
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SWK/Hilltowns
Local farmers react to proposed immigration reform
WESTFIELD – Landmark immigration reform legislation passed by the Senate in April has given a glimmer of hope to 11 million people...
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Westfield
Springfield hearing planned on all-electronic tolls
BOSTON – State transportation officials are looking for the public to weigh in on proposals to switch to an all-electronic tolling system...
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Westfield
Cappa looks for strike on Church Street
WESTFIELD – Much like Gepetto tinkering away at his wooden Pinocchio, Ron Cappa has been attempting to realize a wooden dream of...
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Business
Minimum wage could be put to vote
BOSTON – A higher minimum wage, a cut in the state sales tax and a repeal of a new tax on computer...
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Westfield
Data driving city management
SOMERVILLE – While it rained outside onto the streets of the Commonwealth’s most densely populated city yesterday morning, the chamber of Somerville’s...
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Westfield
Grant to benefit local seniors
BOSTON – State Treasurer Steven Grossman announced last week that the Financial Literacy Trust Fund, a non-profit board for which he serves...
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Business
YouthWorks celebrates success
WESTFIELD – It was a festive environment inside Amelia Park’s Children’s Museum last night, as around 80 parents, family members and students...
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SWK/Hilltowns
Flash flooding shuts down parts of city
WESTFIELD – What began as an early morning drizzle continued throughout the day before turning into a torrential rainstorm by early afternoon...
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Business
Tech tax causes confusion
WESTFIELD – A week after the Commonwealth implemented a tax on software and computer services, one of the first of it’s kind...
