I have a question regarding the BID, the Business Improvement District. Are the members that are members of BID – is that public information? Can I find out who and how many members there are? Thank you. As the WBID always looks to encourage people to support downtown businesses, business membership can be found, listed by industry, by visiting their website, www.thedistrictwestfield.com. Please contact Maureen Belliveau, Executive Director, with any further questions.
A battered flag flies over the General Shepard Apartments. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Good Morning. This message is for the General Shepard staff. Many people have complained about the American flag being ripped and everything and is now ripped completely in half. I wish they would do something about it because I know there is a big fine. Who knows – maybe even jail time. Please print this. Thank you. We reached out the the property managers, Hallkeen Real Estate Management and Investment, yesterday. We also notified the City of Westfield about the condition of the American flag at Park Square, after a rough winter. The City does replace damaged flags as they are made aware of them. Due to cumbersome purchasing rules, it does take almost a month from notification for the order to be fully processed, however.
The city flag at Park Square is battered by the recent weather. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Hi! Here we go again. You see in the paper snow budget is running out. Year after year it happens. It’s just another excuse to raise taxes. Just an excuse. If they got leftover money in the snow budget, they don’t save it. They just spend it on something else. Thank you to our mayor and our city council, the city is just depending on the taxpayers to dig them out of debt.
Can the PVTA bus drivers bring shovels with them on the tour buses to shovel out the bus stops along Court Street and Stop & Shop. They can’t put the tour buses over the snow banks on the sidewalks. The sloppy job at the Bank of America, the Tavern, and the hairdresser at Elm and Main. The ice on the sidewalks not shoveled and it just piled up. Give them a ticket for unshoveled sidewalks.and along those lines, the hairdresser on the corner of Elm and Main: you can’t see the traffic coming because of the snow bank on the corner. Sloppy, sloppy job downtown.
I was recently told about two events that I would have liked to have seen. Number one is students from Westfield High School on TV under the program “As Schools Match Wits.” Number two a play at Westfield High School. Somebody from the Westfield High School should have informed this newspaper so we readers would have been informed of these two events. Not everyone has children in the school system and some don’t have a computer to know what is going on in the schools. I know this spring, concerts will be coming so somebody inform this newspaper so that they will have an article about these events so that we readers will know the dates. Thank you.
