The Westfield News
Health
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Westfield public water filtration update
WESTFIELD—According to the city’s Department of Public Works director David Billips, the new water treatment facility coming to Westfield has been making...
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Community members recognized for heroic efforts
SOUTHWICK – The school committee recognized more than a dozen people at their meeting on Tuesday night. Superintendent Jen Willard gave some individuals...
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Faces of Carson
Ella couldn’t tell her Carson Art Therapist what had happened to her. At three years of age, the things that she’d survived...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Awareness Month Spotlights Processing Trauma with Therapy
SPRINGFIELD –Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is often viewed in the context of soldiers coming home from war where they experienced trauma....
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Women feted for work keeping seniors safe
WESTFIELD-“Everyone has a right to be safe” was a central theme during a special award presentation Thursday at lunchtime at the Westfield...
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Resolution could put moratorium on synthetic fields
WESTFIELD—The City Council’s natural resources committee has drafted a resolution that could ban crumb rubber use on city property in Westfield. The...
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Faces of Carson The Woodpile
Every season means a different wood-related activity when you heat with a woodstove in New England. Hot and sunny spring and summers...
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Board of Health discusses increases, low recycling rate in Huntington
HUNTINGTON –At a public hearing Wednesday on a planned increase in rates at the transfer station, Board of Health member Thomas Hart...
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Women On Front Lines Combating Elder Abuse
WESTFIELD-Karen Noblit and Fran Aguda of the Westfield Council on Aging are on the front lines as advocates for seniors in the...
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Huntington Board of Health to vote on price raise for transfer station
HUNTINGTON – On Wednesday, June 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Board of Health will vote on whether to raise the transfer station...
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Faces of Carson
The house is still clean, your bed empty and made. There’s no need to run the dishwasher; not yet the washer; they...
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Feelings Are Mentionable and Manageable
By Kimberley A. Lee, VP Office of Advancement for CHD Fred Rogers, famous as TV’s Mister Rogers, was a gentle, thoughtful man...
