Hi Pulse Line! President Dobelle has done a lot for WSU and Westfield. The number of new buildings on campus were unheard of in previous administrations! Just look how he has helped create a New Westfield downtown! During the 1950s,1960s and 1970s foot traffic brought dollars to downtown merchants like Eatons, Blocks, and Newberrys! The Westfield Shops killed downtown shopping just as Walmart is about to draw away shoppers from The Westfield Shops! The new dorms that President Dobelle has created downtown will bring foot traffic back to our downtown. In Northampton college kids spend a fortune every year there and are its life blood. We are on the verge of seeing this happen to Westfield! At our former Westfield State College, many new programs and courses, such as Nursing and Environmental Studies have caused such growth in prestige that Westfield State University is second to HARVARD as a good school to send your kid to! Every one of us has slipped and has fallen into a mud puddle at one time in our lives. It looks like President Dobelle has also taken one hell of a swan dive! He has not only soiled his feathers but the reputation of the institution he loves and has tied to enhance! At 68 years he should consider retirement. There are many rivers full of trout in western Mass!
To the people down the road on Sammy lane and Bailey Dr…….I have lived on Egleston Rd for more than forty years for a good part of that time we had to deal with big rigs coming down our street at all hours of the day and night driving like it was a highway, we had little kids and no sidewalks, they had to get the bus right on Southampton Rd and there was no guard there to watch them it was our responsibility ….if I remember correctly when the land was given to the city it was with the stipulation that Egleston Rd would be blocked at the other end so that traffic could no longer come down……we have also inherited four or five new communities since that time, we still have children on our street and also on East and West Glenn….if you have had seven hundred cars go down you street in two days we have had even more since the only way for them to get out is from here…..that means our traffic has increased substantially with the addition of your two streets since you also have to go down this street to get to your homes and I m sure everyone down there does not obey the speed limit …we also have a lot of elderly people on this street that people don’t seem to consider when the speed down the road on their motorcycles and cars…..so your homes have just compounded our already increased traffic in many ways……NO REOPENING OF EGLESTON RD TO INCREASED TRAFFIC ….when I moved here there were less than ten houses on this street now I can’t even get out of the street because of all the traffic and business on Southampton Rd When you purchased you home I’m sure you were aware of the fact that all those business were in your back yard….I had no choice but to move if I didn’t like it as with all the new communities and businesses added to our neighborhood….we don’t even qualify for help with noise pollution from the air port because we are out of the flight pattern which is right across the street from us….so if you can come up with a solution that helps us all I’m more than interested in hearing it..but don’t put us back in harm’s way we had no choice you could have bought elsewhere NO REOPENING OF EGLESTON RD Brenda Morse
How come the PulseLine is like the police department when they don’t put in everything that people call in about in the newspaper and the police logs they don’t put everything in? The police logs. Like the police department don’t report everything. You know, do we ever look into corruption in our police department here in Westfield? Or the calls these policemen don’t answer? We pay all this money for this police force here in Westfield and they’re no good. There are certain policies of what appears in the printed PulseLine such as: the comments are local in nature, there are no personal attacks, no offensive language and no comments about local businesses, the comments will appear. As for the Emergency Services Call Log (AKA Police/Fire log) not every call is printed. Due to space restrictions in the printed paper we can only print some of the daily calls and we only print the ones that we deem newsworthy.
Hi PulseLine! A couple days somebody wrote in: where did all the birds go, as well as the squirrels? Well, I’d like to know the same thing. I’ve never seen this before at all. I live in Feeding Hills and I have a sister that lives in Southwick. About three or four weeks ago, I called her up and I said where had all the birds gone? And where did all the squirrels go? I’ve been feeding loads of squirrels and I went through a bag of bird seed almost every day. I had so many birds! My sister said, here in Southwick, where she’s living, that all the birds disappeared about the same time, as well as the squirrels. Now, this is unbelievable. This is the first year that I, my sister and some neighbors ever saw this in Agawam and also in Southwick. But now that we’re hearing it in Westfield, it’s all over. I imagine we’d like to hear from places and other towns and other, you know, places and find out what’s going on because I have never seen this in my lifespan, in my time of living, never, never saw this. Not one bird at the bird feeder. Not one squirrel since three, four weeks ago. At the beginning of October everything disappeared. This is a first for me and I’m almost 70 years old. All right. Thank you very much. If anybody can write in and has any answers we’d like to hear them. Bye-bye.
Southwick: I have a question for somebody on the select board or that organization that’s not connected to the town of Southwick called the Southwick Rec Center, which is a non-profit organization for sports. This past weekend, Saturday and Sunday, the Southwick Rec Center ran a program for children from New England to participate in. They, in turn, used town property, which now is called Whalley Park to park cars on, charging them $10 apiece., and there had to be 400-500 cars there on both days at $10 apiece. That’s town property which our taxes pay for and we’re also paying for a very high water bill from them because they used water from Whalley Park and didn’t get permission from the town. Who is going to receive all of that money for parking? Are they turning that back over to the Park and Rec Commission of the town of Southwick or are they going to put it in their own pockets and once again laugh at us?
I know when I see that our government, you know, especially the post office, is bleeding money like you would not believe, billions of dollars they’re losing every year, but, if the postman would only work eight hours a day, instead of, I know, it’s not their fault, they get stuck working seven in the morning to six at night delivering the mail. Eight hour workday, that’s it. Let’s cut out Saturdays, time and a half, that’s it. So now, if you get a guy working eight hours, you’re not paying him $2-3 extra an hour in overtime to work, and then, I go to the post office and who is outside sweeping the parking lot? Post office worker! Who is outside cutting the grass? A post office worker! Can you imagine with all the pay that they get, and the benefits they get, and they’re out sweeping the grass. I tell you what – I’ll sweep your lawn and I’ll cut your grass $8 an hour. How’s that sound? No benefits. Why is it that UPS vehicles never get tickets for double-parking? I’m sitting at the Green in downtown Westfield, there’s a UPS vehicle there, he’s blocking a lane in a busy downtown section of Westfield… at least three cop cars have driven by so far, and not one ticket. Boy! If I pulled my car over like that, and put my flashers on and I got out, I wonder how many tickets I’d get? I’d probably get towed! Why the special treatment for UPS and all these other delivery guys?
