I certainly hope the mayor or perhaps Rep Velis will step up and try to enter into negotiations with the National Envelope Co and their landlord. If the reason 200 people are losing their jobs is because they can’t come to an agreement, it is time for intervention. I find it hard to believe the owner of that building wants to see it empty. 200 people out of work in addition to the 37 from Savage Arms will make a big difference to the city.
Attention Western Avenue homeowners: Frank Mills, notorious curmudgeon bringing your attention to recent engineering changes. If you think the traffic was bad and backed up due to the tree-trimming between Lloyd’s Hill and Bates Road, wait until the traffic light and the left lane turn signal are installed at Lloyd’s Hill. That will be a traffic SNAFU of permanent, hysteric proportions. The cure for the Westfield State University-created problem is to create access and egress from Route 20 to the campus. Don’t buy into the malarkey the DOT, WSU and city officials are trying to sell you. Should you doubt me, you can contact me or your Ward 4 councilor. Thank you.
Hi! In Tuesday’s edition of The Westfield News, Domus is getting, for their latest project, to convert the Red Cross into a house for homeless high school students, which is very good, but they are awarded a loan for $189 and change, and then they receive an additional gift of $83,000. And then they other article here is Southwick’s animal control officer is looking for a little money to keep her operation going. Seems to me the state could do a little something about funding all these animal shelters out there, because if it wasn’t for the volunteers I don’t see how they’d keep them going at all. It sounds like the animal shelter lady just got put on hold. Ok – thank you.
I wholeheartedly agree with the comment in 4/10 Pulseline in response to the issue of homeless high school students. When is enough going to be enough for taxing the hardworking, economy sustaining property owners in Westfield? In my opinion the snarky bold text Pulseline editors comment on 4/9 was inappropriate, “To ensure that our readers understand your point, you are against providing homeless high school students a place to live? One student’s parents decided to move away and left their kid behind to fend for himself and he needs a place to live while he finishes high school. It would behoove you to learn more about these students before making such remarks.” It sure is easy to tug at heart strings and then slam the Pulseline commenter. Bravo! It would behoove the Pulseline editor to learn that $80,000 of tax money collected for community preservation and now used for homeless student housing is not just some budget line item to us taxpayers, people actually work hard for it. Why doesn’t the WEstfield. News publicize what they do to help these homeless students? I am doing my part by contributing tax dollars with no say in the matter.
WAKE UP! Westfield residents, just this week alone Mary O’Connell put Mayor Knapik’s true self of doing nothing out for all to see with city halls elevator. “SHAME” NOW! We are losing over 400 jobs in Westfield from two major companies. There goes your property values! Didthe mayor even try to intervene and do ANYTHING to save or stop the loss of all these 400+ people? And the rail trail? What a horror! Making the ramp on the residential side and not the industry side! YOU voted for him now make him start to do something! This city needs to have a leader that is on the front lines fighting for the people.
As far as the city hall elevator is concerned it was cited for repair by the state DPS inspector to box in or remove water piping in elevator machine room and was given 90 days to do so. The job was not completed so the state inspector had no choice except to placard the elevator and shut it down, that is state law. Now the town has to do the repair and reapply for a new state test which could take up to 3 or 4 months.
