Please be advised that Governor Deval L. Patrick has ordered that the United States flag and the Commonwealth flag be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, in honor of the individuals who lost their lives and were injured during the Boston Marathon Bombings of April 15, 2013. This gubernatorial order applies to: 1. The main or administration building of each public institution of the Commonwealth, e.g. town and city halls. 2. Other state-owned or state-controlled buildings. 3. All state military installations.
Hello Westfield! I’m calling about the envelope company closing. How long has Old Colony been in Westfield? C’mon! And the mayor can’t do anything to talk to the owner of the building? Do something about the rent? Not taxes but the rent? We pay enough taxes now. No need to give any of the companies tax breaks. But to help the people out, 200 people. Savage Arms, everybody should have known that once they sold out, something might happen, sooner or later. But c’mon – Old Colony Envelope? I’ve been here all my life – 57 years. I know a lot of people who worked there out of high school before getting before getting good jobs. Some people who are still there. And it’s a shame to see them disappear from Westfield and I think the mayor should be doing something about it. If not, it could be time to vote in a new mayor. Thank you very much. National Envelope is a private business that is maximizing efficiencies by combining operations into another one of their plants. That was a business decision that no politician could change.
This is a message for Councilor Harris. We need more like you and Dan Allie. No more yes men.
Yes, I’m calling the PulseLine because I read in Friday night’s PulseLine about Dumus Incorporated making a place for teenagers and that is a good idea because I am a resident in one of their buildings and there would be all kinds of rules for these teenagers to follow. There would be no drugs. There would be no alcohol. There would be a staff on 24-hours, I guess. Why wouldn’t keeping these teenagers off the street be a good idea? Dumus Incorporated would be keeping these kids off the street, keeping them out of jail, probably helping them get their GED and making them part of society, where they could pay taxes when they got older. So stop putting down what these people are doing because you’re not doing it. You’re not volunteering to do it. So goodbye.
Kudos to the caller who saw the insanity of putting more and more properties in non-profits, like Domus and such. Pretty soon Westfield is going to become a non-profit Brockton, Massachusetts. Keep it up.
I was calling about the lady who was complaining about the bike path being next to her house. Yeah, I guess I wouldn’t want it there, either, but she’s talking about unsavory characters lurking around. Well, she had trees there before and they were probably the same people lurking around and being on the path because you see lots of people crossing that trestle and they’ve been using that path for a long, long time. And maybe she couldn’t see them but they could see her peeking through the trees. So, it’s unfortunate that it is so close to her house but I don’t see the difference in the people that are going to be looking at her, the same ones.
Hi! A while back I called into the PulseLine and inquired why there weren’t any benches with backs on them in the new Park Square. The PulseLine was nice enough to look into it for me and they even enclosed a picture. I guess the trend now is don’t put benches with backs on them to avoid vagrants sleeping on the benches. The picture was that of a man sleeping on a bench. Well, I happened to go by the little park by the north side today, across from the Westwood parking lot there, and there are six benches with backs over there. What’s up with that, Mr. Mayor? Ok, thanks. Have a nice day.
