Just watched a 6″ limb fall from a tree in the driveway to Kennedy apts (Westfield Housing) just missing a pedestrian. The city should do more regarding trees on the tree belt before someone is hurt. If you see a potentially dangerous tree situation, contact the Westfield DPW so they can remove the hazard before an accident occurs.
Yes, I see where Governor Deval Patrick wants to raise the gas tax so they can have money enough to work on roads and bridges. What happened to all that trillions that the government was supposedly going to use that for the same jobs? Remember shovel-ready jobs and all these jobs that people are going to have?
What is the sense of having rules and laws? I’m talking about this 20-foot setback in regards to the new school that’s trying to be built: 20-foot setback from a property line. So the Zoning Board of Appeals just goes in three and changes it. And actually a judge supports them. What is the sense? What is the sense of even trying? These politicians just change the rules as they go along and make things the way they want, not the way the taxpayers and the voters that voted them in.
I saw the artwork sponsored by Josh Simpson and United Bank. What a good corporate neighbor United Bank has turned out to be. Now, if they could only share their parking lot on Elm Street, they’d be a great corporate neighbor. Hunh.
I was calling about the park that is down near Butcher Block. That park is very beautiful compared to the other ugly one we have in the center. But I went there this morning, Sunday morning, at about 6:30 and the whole place smelled like pee. That’s not the word I want to use, but the whole place smelled like pee. And there were leaks like from water in places not near where the water is running, where there shouldn’t be any leaks. In the parking lot, one of the trees is dead and the other one isn’t looking too good. All the bushes are dying. They have dying spots on them. There’s grass all overrun that hasn’t been weeded. The place is starting to look like a dump and it was just made. Why don’t they get somebody to clean that out? If they can’t find anyone, why don’t they pick people from the homeless shelter? That would be a good job for them. Did you notify the DPW about the landscaping concerns? They can address it.
