Is anyone really surprised who the next city treasurer will be? Same as good ol’ Westfield with the good ol’ boys. It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.
Election Day is coming up and all the candidates running for everything – they all sound the same. Any of them are not going to help us, so why even bother to vote? You all should think about the people in New York and New Jersey. Of the bad stuff that happened this week with the hurricane. They should be all in our prayers and we all should try to help them people as much as we can.
Hi PulseLine! I live at the Washington House. I’m a 63-year old man living on the first floor and it’s supposed to be quiet and elderly people are supposed to live here but why does one of the tenants on the first floor have two children living with him and an adult living with him? Are there gay couples living here?
Hallelujah! No more roller coaster ride on Union Street. I think it’s great. And Bah Humbug! I wish Walmart would have night stockers. The aisles are terrible, because the employees are trying to stock the shelves during the busy daytime hours. Bah Humbug on Walmart!
I have a question for Mayor Knapik. I noticed that in the Saturday paper, they are continuing with the demolition of the Ashley Street School. I’m just wondering what is going to happen to vacant Moseley School? Will something be done with that? I hope so. I know that it’s just being left and it’s kind of falling apart at this time. Hopefully it can be renovated and be useful. So if somebody could get an answer on that for me, I would appreciate it. Thank you very much. We reached out to Mayor Knapik and this is his response: We have been talking to a few interested parties. It is a big building, that isn’t ADA compliant and is enormously expensive to heat. Over 40k a month when the school operated it. Those factors are hard to overcome and developers have told us that. A decision will need to be made soon as to its future.
I gotta say I was a bit disturbed this morning… at about 12:20 a.m. this morning, Saturday, I had just gotten out of work and had just pulled into my driveway on Western Avenue and not a minute later a cruiser, heading west on Western Avenue, went by home between 90 and 100 miles an hour. Lights and sirens, of course. But all I thought about was: Gee! What if somebody pulled out of these side streets? They’d be cut into two. I don’t care, police, no police: slow it down, please!
I was just wondering if anybody out there knows how to get in contact with the Amish that build the electric heaters? Electric furnaces? I would appreciate it. I’ve been checking the paper every day every week and they used to advertise but I haven’t seen one yet. So if you please could find out, I would really appreciate it, as my other one just died and I definitely need a new one. Thank you very much and you have a very nice day. Bye!
Thank you, Patrick. Regarding Saturday’s PulseLine: this person who gave us a good idea of what the hell is going on for the past five years in Westfield. I just want to thank him for his long explained comment. Right on! In fact, his message was right next to the message of comic relief of the so-called mayor, who has put us in such a nightmare. He is the mayor of Nightmare on Elm Street. Thanks again! Thank you.
I see a picture in the paper in The Westfield News, middle of the week: go down to downtown Westfield. Where do you go? Barrooms? Pizza shops? A few restaurants? (Half of them you wouldn’t want to go to anyway.) I think this Jeff Daley makes pretty good money. I think he’s overpaid. But I think he lays awake night thinking he’s going to build it up like it is in Northampton. That’s never going to happen. So I think they should just bulldoze the rest of those buildings and leave them be. Thank you. There are numerous independently owned retail businesses on and around Elm St. that are trying to make the downtown area a vibrant shopping district. We encourage you to get out of your car and take a walk to meet these business owners who are trying to make a difference. If you are old enough to recall Northampton in the 1970’s it was no different than what Westfield was for the past 20-30 years. The introduction of the bike trail and small independently owned businesses to Northampton is what turned that city around.
I see where the good ol’ boys got one of the good ol’ boys back in the city council, treasurer, whatever, whatever… Don’t be surprised. Check back through the years and see how the good ol’ boys always bring their good ol boys back in. Look at Brent Bean, when he left. Jimmy Adams, when he left. It goes right down the line. So don’t be surprised. As far as Keefe, well, he is a puppet for the mayor. We know that. It’s too bad Mike Belanger didn’t get in, because he would have changed it, but they didn’t give him a chance, because the good ol’ boys made sure that he was not voted back in. Oh well, that’s Westfield for you. Now the taxes are definitely going to jump. The mayor and all councilors are elected into office by the citizens. If someone is not elected it means they did not have the support of the citizens. Please encourage all registered voters to vote.
Southwick animal control officer: why don’t you do a little more patrolling of the school area and the Southwick recreation area? These areas are posted “no dogs” but I guess the owners of the animals that are roving around this property can’t read. I would be willing to bet that some of them aren’t even registered and could care less whether children go down there and play ball and step in the dogs’ waste. I’d like to see you patrolling that area more.
After six years of vicious fighting the anti-biomass faction believe they have won a great victory! Russell Biomass has terminated its plans to build a plant in my town! During the past six years the anti-biomass extremists have said that The Westfield River would be drained, that hot polluted water would kill aquatic life, including trout and salmon! However, they could not get our Mass. Div. of Fish and Wildlife to support their claims! They have charged that pollution to our air and water from this plant, would harm residents of both Westfield and Russell! When asked at town hearings if they could back up their wild claims they became mute! Now, they have jumped on the efficiency of such a biomass plant! Russell Biomass said that it could increase its efficiency from 24 percent to 40 percent by building large greenhouses in Russell and Montgomery! These greenhouses would have added cheap food for us, and added hundreds of jobs to our cities and towns! It would have also added $1.3 million a year for 20 years to Russell’s base! Our presidential race has been dominated by the loss of jobs to China! The Democratic Party wants four more years to help us become more productive again! Yet the same party in Boston, has with malice raised the efficiency of future biomass plants to 50 percent, a level that they cannot meet, by using a flawed scientific study that the anti-biomass insisted on four years ago. After they dropped their anti-CO2 question from the ballot and supported our governor’s election! Using our waters and woodlands to provide us with biomass electric power to light and warm our homes is far more productive than using solar panels MADE IN CHINA!
