A heartfelt thank you to the entire staff at NEBB, and all you do for your customers. This past Saturday brought good times and laughter. The food and hospitality was incredible. Thank you everyone at NEBB!!!
Continuing the discussion of the recent impact of Westfield State University on the city of Westfield, I would like to bring up yet another problem, the impact of college housing in downtown Westfield. Many of our neighborhoods have been deeply hurt by these houses. I live on a street approximately 300 yards long that presently has THREE college houses. Many families in our neighborhood have children. In addition, there are elderly on this street, and, unfortunately, it is impossible to get a good night’s sleep. There are parties and drunken students parading up and down the street at all hours of the night, talking in loud voices as if it is 2:00 in the afternoon. Of course there are the mid-week trips to the bars with the return at 2:00 in the morning. I write specifically of my street, but this problem is acted out all over the city every week. Much of the blame can be directly placed at the door of the President of the University, Evan Dobelle, and the philosophy that fosters this problem, but there are others to blame as well–a Mayor and City Council that allowed this to happen and greedy landlords that care nothing for the streets they impact. And, what can we do???? I guess NOTHING! My street is DONE and MANY others as well. I once lived in a great neighborhood, but no more. I have endless parties to look forward to and interrupted sleep. Please contact the police, not the PulseLine, when you have a problem such as you’ve described. The PulseLine can’t help. If the police continually respond to these calls the number of incidents will decline.
I was glad to see in Saturday’s paper that some students were able to give their thoughts on Dress Code Enforcement. I read all of them. However, I am going to ask a question to Devon Kurtz. How can you judge a parent when you have never been one? I sense from your article that you feel as though you are better, brighter and not the least trashy as you portray the rest of the students at the High School. Am I to assume that you are in fact superior to all of them in maturity, dress and professionalism? The opinions of our contributors to our Student Think Tank are merely that, opinions of students.
