On August 4th there was a substantial water main break on Eastview Drive that undermined the right hand lane. Channel 22 was on scene and reported that the road would be repaired on Monday the 6th. It is now Saturday the 18th and the road is still a wreck. This neighborhood has 160-plus homes. Eastview Drive is our only access road in and out of this neighborhood. The corner of Eastview Drive and East Mountain Road is a high school bus stop. This continuing problem has created a very dangerous and hazardous situation as it is difficult to see cars coming down Eastview until you are already turning or trying to turn off very busy East Mountain Road to enter the street. The residents of this neighborhood have been exceedingly patient (especially the family whose driveway has been damaged by the water main break- the town just got around to filling in their sunken driveway access with gravel- that has since partially washed out due to all the rain we’ve been having) and polite when trying to get into or out of the neighborhood- but as school starts we wonder how the buses will get up the hill to the bus stops on top? Meanwhile, the left hand lane is crumbling due to the rainstorms and everyone having to drive up and down that single now narrow side of the road to come and go. Does anyone have any idea when this problem will be rectified? Or does there have to be an accident or a high school student run over when school starts before someone in this city realizes there’s a problem? Don’t deliver a load of gravel to a hilly road so it too washes away- put some steel plates down at least from the bottom of Eastview to where the pipe broke so we can get in and out of our neighborhood without creating safety hazards for other drivers!! Or fix the road already!
“Well, you won’t have to think to hard to put my thought in the paper and my thought is this: I’m sick and tired of reading your total, total, republican editorials. Give me a break. I’m sick of it and I’m not buying your paper anymore. You didn’t want to be a political but, boy, are you ever.” We are always sorry to lose a reader, but especially so if they’re reasoning just isn’t true. Looking at every editorial page in August, there were 11 op/ed pieces written by Republicans (Gregg, Hutchison, Humason, Lowry, Scarborough, Priebus, the CATO Institute, Blue Star Strategies, GOPAC, and Let Freedom Ring); 11 by Democrats (Killian, Granholm, Rendell, Frost, Warren, Hacker, Lowentheil, Kerry, the Brookings Institute, 2 reps from a Democractic polling firm, the VP of AARP); and a few written from a more independent perspective (Vanderbilt, Stanford, Yale, Mt. Sinai Hospital, the White House Dossier blog, Leo Hindery on unions, and Politico’s media reporter on presidential spam.) We think that represents a pretty mixed bag, and is exactly what we want to see on page 4.
Hi, PulseLine. As an old timer in Russell, the Concerned Citizens of Russell baffle me! They asked the state D.E.P. to check the toxic soil and water tests done by Tighe & Bond and D.E.P tests showed no threat to public health. Now they want the federal government to run tests on the material that Tighe & Bond and the D.E.P already tested! They have scared a lot of people in town to the point that no industry will ever move into Russell. An industry would have to face the same crap that the biomass plant did but this time the industry would have had to pay the lawyers. Ron, Denise and Fred were replaced by C.C.R because they wanted industry in town to provide jobs and lower taxes. C.C.R wanted to keep Russell clean, green and pristine. In other words, NO INDUSTRY or as their signs stated “No Biomass in Russell, Mass!” The sad downside is that our old Select Board had over 60 years of combined experience. The new C.C.R. Select Board has five years of combined experience. They can not even hire a new police chief the correct way. Would it have been too embarrassing for them to ask the former selectmen for guidance in the correct way to interview the three candidates before picking the best one for the job?
Westfield News, thank you so much for the update on the Notre Dame Street Bridge. Hopefully we will see something started in September. Again, thank you for the update.
I am so saddened by the older couple who drowned trying to save their dog. I’m sure many will want to adopt their dog, but please, I am more than willing to take in this animal if no one claims her/him. Please, please try to give this message to the shelter, thank you so much.
