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Westfield exploring energy grant

The Sons of Erin’s firetruck float is almost ready to go for Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Holyoke (Photo by Jayne Mulligan)

Sons of Erin prepare for Holyoke Parade

By Peter Francis Staff Writer WESTFIELD – It’s a magical time of year for the great many Americans whose family lineage traces back to Ireland, who look forward to St. Patrick’s Day every year with eager anticipation — for time spent with family and in church, at the pub for a stout, and around the dinner table for some cornbeef and cabbage.

In the City of Westfield, proud Irish Americans like Jayne Mulligan are ready to go to the legendary St. Patrick’s Day Parade next Sunday in Holyoke, long the second largest St. Paddy’s Day parade in America, after New York City.

“This is the 33rd year we’ve done the Colleen,” said the former city employee and longtime Sons Of Erin member. “But I think this is our 34th or 35th year of marching, and I believe the Holyoke Parade had it’s 60th running a couple years ago.”

This year’s event will be a special one for Mulligan as this year’s float will the club’s tribute to the rich history of Irish firefighters throughout western Mass. and beyond.

“Half the fire departments in Massachusetts are probably made up of Irishmen,” she said with a chuckle while assembling the float Friday in the warehouse of the Westfield Gas and Electric headquarters, the float-builders’ ‘home away from home’. “But every year, our float focuses on Irish culture, and over the years we’ve done more cartoonish floats.

But this year, we’re combining a little old with a little new.”

The float, which sits 28-feet tall by 14-feet wide, will suspend Paige

Sons of Erin. This is the first time in about 25 years that we’ve rewelded and put a new deck on the float.”

The firetruck’s intricate details haven’t been lost on the float’s builders, who have been loaned the bell used by the Westfield Fire Department in the city’s annual September 11 ceremony.

“We had three people from Westfield killed in 9/11, so the Sons does a big 9/11 ceremony every year- it’s a nice touch to be able to use their bell,” Mulligan said of the Westfield Fire Department. “I believe we were trying to get it arranged so that the Fire Department marches behind us this year. Normally they’re up front with the Westfield politicians, but hopefully they’re going to march with us and the fire truck.”

The committee has even taken the time to create gauges for the float’s fuel, oil, and water pressure, along with gauges for Guinness and Shepherd’s Pie, and a level for Blarney, which ranges from empty to Sarah O’Neil & Jillian Conroy attach “excruciating.”

Mulligan was aided Friday by fellow decorative petal paper (Photo by Jayne Sons of Erin members Lynda Cavanaugh Mulligan) and Maryalyce Morrissey, two of the vetTempleton, this year’s Colleen, and her erans who lend a hand with their floatcourt, 12 feet in the air, and is set to com- building process. bine the looks of both retro and more “It’s been seventeen joyous years,” modern firetrucks, complete with a ladder Cavanaugh said of her time building. “It’s adorned by a leprechaun holding a fire- been fun. There’s new friends each year, hose with blue and white streamers shoot- people who help and want to get involved. ing out.

Our club supports us, pushes us all the “We wanted to shoot out confetti, but way.” parade rules prohibit it,” Mulligan said Cavanaugh was sure to add that the goal with a sheepish grin before stating that the which every float committee shoots for is entire float will probably cost the club a simple token to commemorate the top maybe $5,000 to construct when all is said and done. “It’s all totally built by the See Sons of Erin, Page 3

By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The Patrick administration announced last week a new grant program to cut energy costs and reduce emissions at municipal drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities, the second largest municipal energy consumer.

The $1.5 million program is a collaboration among the Department of Energy Resources (DOER), Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). The program will provide gap funding to implement shovelready clean energy projects at these facilities, reducing municipal energy costs and cutting greenhouse gas emisRICHARD K. sions.

SULLIVAN “Water and wastewater treatment facilities are not only among the largest municipal energy consumers, they are also among our most important resources for protecting public health and the environment at the local level,” said Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Rick Sullivan. “By providing funds to reduce energy usage and costs at these facilities, this new program exemplifies the type of synergy Governor Patrick had in mind when he grouped energy and environment under a single secretariat.”

Water Resource Superintendent Dave Billips said this morning the department is investigating the details of the grant program announced Friday to determine if the city has projects at or nearing the “shovel-ready” requirement of the grant.

“It’s something they just passed, something you’d have to apply for going forward,” Billips said. “We always look at these grant. We always have projects.

“We do have a couple of projects in the planning stage for both the water division and the wastewater division,” Billips said. “We are planning to upgrade blowers and dewatering equipment with something more energy-efficient.”

“We also have a couple of projects in the planning stage to loop water lines, but we’ll have to find out if that type of work qualified for the grant funding,” Billips said.

“My team continues to work across the Commonwealth to help municipalities adopt clean energy practices at the local level,” said DOER Commissioner Mark Sylvia. “These funds will help expedite clean energy projects, leading to cost savings that can ultimately be reinvested in the facility’s assets and save taxpayer dollars.”

Projects will be funded through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) and Alternative Compliance Payment (ACP) funds. ACPs are made by electricity suppliers that do not meet their statutory Renewable Portfolio Standard obligation to purchase a sufficient percentage of renewable energy. ACP funds are allocated by DOER each year.

Warrant executed, drug charges result

By Carl E. Hartdegen Staff Writer WESTFIELD – City police have gone on record stating that Westfield heroin addicts buy their drugs in Holyoke or elsewhere because there are no retail heroin dealers in the city but apparently there is always an exception that proves the rule.

The latest exception was living in a city motel for about six weeks and was apparently making a living selling heroin to local users.

The more common paradigm is for users to travel, usually to Holyoke, to shop for drug and perhaps bring back a small surplus to sell to other local addicts.

Det. Sgt. Steven K. Dickinson reports city detectives became aware that a couple who had taken up residence in a Russell Road motel had been traveling the city making drug transactions.

The subsequent investigation by city officers indicated that the couple had been selling

Bundles of heroin packets, a large amount of cash and paraphernalia were seized when a warrant was executed Wednesday and a pair of alleged heroin retailers were arrested. (Photo

by Carl E. Hartdegen)

heroin to local addicts and transactions with known addicts were observed. Police also were able to set up controlled purchases of heroin from the couple and the investigation produced sufficient evidence for a warrant to be granted which was executed March 13.

Prior to moving in, detectives again followed the couple and observed known drug users, who are identified in the report filed at Westfield District Court, meet briefly with the suspects.

After observing several transactions, the detective arranged for uniformed officer to stop the suspects’ car.

Edwin Rivera, 30, and Vanessa I. Fonseca, 31, both of 50 Russell Road, were taken into custody.

Rivera was found to be in possession of $1,240 which included pre-recorded currency which had been expended in controlled purchases from the couple.

When officers executed the warrant to search the suspect’s efficiency apartment at the motel, they discovered “twenty-five bundles of heroin (250 bags) inside a pair of Rivera’s pants” as well as four Valium pills, rubber bands used to secure the packets of heroin into bundles, packaging paraphernalia and a ledger “showing monies owed to drug dealers for drugs.”

The investigating detective reports that Rivera’s pattern of meetings with known heroin users, the large amount of both heroin and cash found in his possession and his lack of gainful employment “shows that Rivera is See Warrant, Charges, Page 3

A test solution changes color to indicate the presence of heroin as officers examine evidence seized when a pair of alleged heroin retailers were arrested in the city. (Photo by Carl E. Hartdegen)

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Art Workshops

WESTFIELD - Westfield Creative Arts will hold Acrylic Painting, a one-day art workshop on Mondays March 17, 24 and April 7 and 21 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Westfield State University

Downtown Art Gallery. The class is instructed by New England artist Richard Nowak. In Acrylic Painting, students will be guided through the completion of an acrylic painting. Each week, Nowak will teach the unique qualities of a particular genre including landscape, seascape, still

life, or floral arrangement. The cost of the course is $25 for non-members. A full schedule of class dates and times can be found at www.westfieldcreativearts.com.

For more information on Westfield Creative Arts or for membership inquiries, call (413) 478-9423.

Celebrating 175 years On Saturday evening March 29, 2014 we celebrate our historic past, exciting present and hopeful future at our 175th Anniversary Scholarship Gala.

The Westfield City Council conveyed a tract of 26 acres on Western Avenue to the Commonwealth

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Charlyn Puza took a trip to Copper Mountain in Colorado to visit her son Henry (left) who works at the ski resort and her brother Dan Curran who lives in Colorado Springs and as any smart traveler knows, she brought a copy of The Westfield News with her. If you’re travelling somewhere, make sure to get a picture of yourself with a copy of The Westfield News and e-mail it, along with a description, to pressreleases@thewestfieldnewsgroup.com.

for $1 for the site of the Westfield State Teacher’s College. The campus opened with Parenzo Hall, Scanlon Hall and a maintenance building in September 1956, with an enrollment of 358 students.

For more information, please visit us at westfield.ma.edu

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It’s going to be a chilly St. Patty’s Day out there! Even though there will be plenty of sunshine today, temperatures will only top out near 30-degrees. Nothing but sunshine in the forecast tomorrow! Once again, despite bright, blue skies, expect highs only in the mid-30s. 40s will be back in the forecast on Wednesday, then we’ll quickly trade the 40s for 50s by Thursday!

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Promising Minn. ski season stalled in polar vortex DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s winter season delivered plenty of snow, but it also brought frigid temperatures that kept skiers and snowboarders from enjoying all the powder.

A Minneapolis Star Tribune report (http://strib.mn/1gDhRSA ) says outdoors officials initially thought 2014 was shaping up to be a record-setting year.

Instead they say it’s been disappointingly average.

Luci Botzek of the Minnesota Ski Areas Association says this year’s cold was unusually long and severe. She says that became a burden on ski areas.

Duluth resorts including Lutsen Mountains and Spirit Mountain say revenues were down about 20 percent on bitter-cold days.

Resorts in the Midwest have the advantage of being easily accessible to schoolaged kids. Botzek says while snow days at school usually mean plenty of business on the slopes, this season’s snow days were uncomfortably cold.

LOCAL LOTTERY Last night’s numbers

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, March 17, the 76th day of 2014. There are 289 days left in the year.

This is St. Patrick’s Day.

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n March 17, 1776, British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War.

On this date:

In 1969, Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel.

In 1970, the United States cast its first veto in the U.N. Security Council. (The U.S. killed a resolution that would have condemned Britain for failure to use force to overthrow the white-ruled government of Rhodesia.)

In 1861, Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed the first king of a united Italy.

In 1973, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, a freed prisoner of the Vietnam War, was joyously greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in California in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photograph.

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.

In 1988, Avianca Flight 410, a Boeing 727, crashed after takeoff into a mountain in Colombia, killing all 143 people on board.

In 1912, the Camp Fire Girls organization was incorporated in Washington, D.C., two years to the day after it was founded in Thetford, Vt. (The group is now known as Camp Fire USA.)

A car bomb tore apart the five-story Mount Lebanon Hotel catering to foreigners in the heart of Baghdad, killing seven people. Charles A. McCoy Jr., suspected in a series of highway shootings in central Ohio, was arrested in Las Vegas.

(McCoy later pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Gail Knisley plus 10 other charges and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.) Former MTV personality John “J.J.” Jackson died in Los Angeles at age 62.

In 1762, New York’s first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place.

In 1943, the Taoiseach of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, delivered a radio speech about “The Ireland That We Dreamed Of.” In 1950, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced they had created a new radioactive element, “californium.”

In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet for India in the wake of a failed uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule.

In 1966, a U.S. midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.

Ten years ago:

Five years ago: U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korea while reporting on North Korean refugees living across the border in China. (Both were convicted of entering North Korea illegally and were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor; both were freed in August 2009 after former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.) The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its final print edition.

One year ago: Two members of Steubenville, Ohio’s celebrated high school football team were found guilty of raping a drunken 16-yearold girl and sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison in a case that rocked the Rust Belt city of 18,000. Former Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis, 60, who’d led the Sooners to back-to-back national championships in the 1970s, was killed in a private plane crash in northern Indiana. Louisville earned the top overall seed in the NCAA tournament after a topsy-turvy season in college basketball.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Gabriele Ferzetti is 89. Jazz/New Age musician Paul Horn is 84. The former national chairwoman of the NAACP, Myrlie Evers-Williams, is 81. Former NASA astronaut Ken Mattingly is 78. Rock musician Paul Kantner is 73. Singersongwriter Jim Weatherly is 71. Singer-songwriter John Sebastian (The Lovin’ Spoonful) is 70. Former NSA Director and former CIA Director Michael Hayden is 69. Rock musician Harold Brown (War; Lowrider Band) is 68. Actor Patrick Duffy is 65. Actor Kurt Russell is 63. Country singer Susie Allanson is 62. Actress Lesley-Anne Down is 60. Actor Mark Boone Jr. is 59. Country singer Paul Overstreet is 59. Actor Gary Sinise is 59. Actor Christian Clemenson is 56. Former basketball and baseball player Danny Ainge is 55. Actor Arye Gross is 54. Actress Vicki Lewis is 54. Actor Casey Siemaszko (sheh-MA’-zshko) is 53. Writer-director Rob Sitch is 52. Actor Rob Lowe is 50. Rock singer Billy Corgan is 47. Rock musician Van Conner (Screaming Trees) is 47. Actor Mathew St. Patrick is 46. Actor Yanic (YAH’-neek) Truesdale is 45. Rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur is 42.

Soccer player Mia Hamm is 42. Rock musician Caroline Corr (The Corrs) is 41. Actress Amelia Heinle is 41. Country singer Keifer Thompson (Thompson Square) is 41. Actress Marisa Coughlan is 40. Rapper Swifty (D12) is 39.

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Government Meetings MONDAY, MARCH 17 WESTFIELD No Park & Rec meeting

SOUTHWICK Finance Committee at 6:30 pm Conservation Commission at 7 pm

BLANDFORD Police Department Meeting at 6 pm Selectmen’s Meeting at 7 pm Zoning Board Meeting at 7 pm

TOLLAND Men’s Coffee at PSC Building at 7:45 am Board of Selectmen at 5 pm Planning Board at 7 pm

HUNTINGTON Selectboard at 5:30 pm

TUESDAY, MARCH 18 WESTFIELD Citizens with Disabilities at 6:30 pm Planning Board at 7 pm

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Gubernatorial forum to focus on LGBT issues BOSTON (AP) — Candidates for governor in Massachusetts will participate in a forum to discuss issues related to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and progressive policies.

MassEquality and public broadcaster WGBH are hosting the forum on March 25 at the Boston Public Library.

All 10 candidates were invited, but seven are able to attend the event. They include state Attorney General Martha Coakley, Treasurer Steven Grossman, Juliette Kayyem, Scott Lively, Evan Falchuk, Don Berwick and Joe Avellone.

Peter Kadzis, senior editor for WGBHNews.org, will be

Assessor’s Meeting at 5:30 pm Fire Department Meeting at 6:30 pm

TOLLAND Board of Assessors at 6 pm Finance Committee at 6:30 pm

HUNTINGTON Board of Assessors at 6 pm Finance Committee at 6:30 pm

SOUTHWICK Park & Recreation Commission at 6:30 pm

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MassEquality and WGBH will present a mix of questions. Audience members will have the opportunity to submit questions to the candidates online. Seating will be on a first-come, firstserved basis.

Board of Health Meeting at 6 pm Finance Committee at 7 pm

HUNTINGTON SALT Agenda at 10 am Public Hearing at 5:30 pm Selectboard at 5:30 pm Conservation Commission at 7 pm ZBA at 7 pm

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“But the best thing is getting that cardboard ribbon,” she said enthusiastically of the grand prize. “And bragging rights… which last a whole year till the next float.”

“We’ve won a lot of grand prizes,” Mulligan concurred. “In 30 years, I think we’ve won eight. Numerous first prizes, a couple of best Colleens…”

The float will be completed this week, and will pull out of the G&E warehouse at 6:15 a.m. next Sunday to make the trek to Holyoke.

“We have a little bit of work to do when we get there, about a half hour or so, and the Colleens have to be on it to be judged at 8:00,” said Mulligan. “And after that we wait. It’s a very long day.”

The love for the Emerald Isle is what helps Westfield’s Irish elite get through the day in the Paper City.

“It brings a lot of the Irish in our community and our club together,” Morrissey said. “Not only do we have the float committee, but also the parade committee that organizes everyone in the Westfield contingent, and we have the Colleen committee which puts on a grandiose gala at the Chez Josef to choose our Colleen.”

The three women added that the Colleen’s are all representative of the communities in the greater Westfield area, and that the entire float-building effort requires a clannish dedication.

“There’s a lot of work that goes into the float, from the design phase before Christmas — we start right after Christmas — normally every Saturday with the full crew and then towards the end to prep for the parade,” Morrissey said.

Mulligan said that Westfield’s contingent is generally one of the bigger floats.

“The Holyoke Colleen is usually pretty big, West Springfield and Chicopee are about the same size,” she said. “Some of them are really small and cute. You’ve got people like us who’ve been doing it for 33 years, and you’ve got people who this is their first time. And we were there once, too.”

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selling heroin to make a profit.”

Dickinson pointed out that no user paraphernalia, such as hypodermic needles or straws, were found in the search nor were there any other indications that Rivera and Fonesca were using What excites Mulligan and her crew most about this annual the “product” they apparently sold.

But, he said, they had been paying $60 per night at the motel rite is the initiation of younger helpers each year.

“We’ve got some young kids and teenagers that work on it, for a month and a half.

“And they don’t work”, he said. “You do the math.” too,” she said, adding that about a dozen folks have contributed At the station during the booking process, Rivera was found to the building of this year’s float. “Because of the way it’s built, you can’t have two or three people come this week, and to have an additional five bundles of 10 heroin packets contwo or three people come next week, because theres no conti- cealed “within his buttocks cheeks.”

Rivera was charged with possession of heroin with intent to nuity.”

“Everybody that is part of the committee is here every distribute, a second offense. Dickinson reports that in 2009 Saturday, and a couple hours here and there,” Mulligan said. Rivera had been found guilty in Holyoke District Court of pos“It’s a huge commitment. We work hard but we play hard, too. session of cocaine and had served a two year sentence as a result.

Like Fonseca, he was charged with conspiracy to violate drug It’s one big family.” laws.

During booking, she was found to be in possession of ten pills identified as 5 mg oxycodone tablets and two waxed white baggies typically used to package heroin.

She, too, was charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute and also with possession of a Class B drug.

Both were arraigned the same day before Judge Philip A. Contant in Westfield District Court who cited Rivera’s record of illegal drug distribution and appearance defaults when he set bail for him at $10,000.

Rivera was held when he did not post bail but Fonseca was released on $2,500 personal surety.

In an unrelated case, Community Policing Officer Kevin Bard had observed a drug transaction while off duty on Wednesday and had alerted other officers who made the arrest.

In that case, investigators arrested Malachi V. Roman, 22, of 204 Fairview West St., Greenfield, for possession of heroin with intent to distribute, distribution of a Class A drug, a drug violation near a school or park and conspiracy to violate drug laws.

His apparent customer, Jonathon P. Helnarski, 24, of 22 Scenic Ave., Webster, was arrested for possession of a Class A drug and conspiracy to violate drug laws.

Dickinson said that while Roman was in custody at the station he asked to speak with him and reports that the man was hoping to trade on his knowledge of drug dealers to mitigate his legal issues.

Dickinson said that the man declined to identify his supplier but offered to give Dickinson a “bigger fish” selling heroin in the city.

When Dickinson found that the “big fish” he was offering was Rivera, Dickinson told him why he wasn’t interested and sugMark Hanrahan & Maryalyce Morrissey put decorative touches onto the Sons of Erin’s 2014 Holyoke St. Patrick’s Day gested that Roman say hello to Rivera as he passed the cell Parade float. (Photo by Jayne Mulligan) Rivera was in on his way back to his own cell.

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I’m reading the entry about the potholes on Western Ave. I have an idea!!! Why don’t the residents of this City SLOW DOWN. I travel Springdale Rd. every day and the potholes have been filled many times. Within an hour of being filled with; whatever is available at this time of year; the filling is everywhere but in the potholes because the drivers go TOO FAST. Shame on the person who wrote in about the ripped flag on the front page of the paper. You are obviously not a Veteran. In the time it took you to write your nasty message, you too, could have gone and bought a new flag.

Last year a reader wrote into the pulse line asking about the light at the bottom of Clay Hill/ Notre Dame St intersection.

The Westfield News commented that there was a part that had to be ordered. I question- how long does it takes for this part to come in. I seem to recall that the part of the traffic light that is covered up has been this way since the new bridge had been under construction. A couple of months ago, in the Springfield Republican Sunday paper, a reader also questioned about the light.. The Republican responded that by the time the question and answer appeared in the paper, the traffic light would be operational.. It still isn’t I would ask the Westfield News to follow up on this. A major accident is just waiting to happen here.

I agree with the reader in Saturday’s Pulse Line comment about the potholes on Western Ave and other streets here in Westfield. Going back and forth to work, I see other streets that are just as bad and nothing has been done. There have been several nice days that the DPW could be out there filling in the holes. What are they waiting for??!!! I know the winter has been bad and there are many miles of streets in Westfield, but I think the city should concentrate on the main roads. Some holes are big enough to ‘swallow’ a car up!!! As the reader asked, where is the tar machine. Evidently the mayor doesn’t care what happens to our cars.. He / the city won’t pay for repairs. Does the city need to hire an outside firm to do the job the DPW is being paid not to do??!!

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Crimea parliament declares independence after vote SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Crimea’s parliament on Monday declared the region an independent state, after its residents voted overwhelmingly to break off from Ukraine and seek to join Russia.

In a sign of rising tensions following the Sunday referendum that called for annexation to Russia, the Ukrainian parliament also approved the president’s order for a partial armed forces mobilization of up to 20,000 people and said that all Ukrainian state property on the territory of the Black Sea peninsula will be nationalized and become the property of the Crimean Republic.

The referendum is not recognized by the West, and the United States and the European Union are preparing sanctions against Russia, whose troops have been occupying Crimea for several weeks.

Crimean lawmakers have asked the United Nations and other nations to recognize it.

A delegation of Crimean lawmakers is set to travel to Moscow Monday for negotiations on how to proceed further.

Russian lawmakers have suggested that formally annexing Crimea is almost certain.

The Kremlin clearly put the issue on a fast track. Both houses of parliament were set to gather for a joint meeting in the Kremlin on Tuesday to hear President Vladimir Putin’s address on the subject.

In Kiev, the national parliament approved acting President Oleksandr Turchynov’s call for a military mobilization that would include 20,000 volunteers with previous military experience, and reservists. Ukraine recently formed a national guard also about 20,000-strong.

Turchynov said the order was necessary “considering the continuing aggression in ... Crimea, which Russia is trying to disguise with a large farce called ‘referendum,’ which will never be accepted by Crimea or the whole civilized world,” he was quoted as saying by the Intefax news agency.

Russia is expected to face strong sanctions Monday from the U.S. and Europe over backing the Crimean referendum, which could also encourage rising pro-Russian sentiment in Ukraine’s east and lead to further divisions in this nation of 46 million.

Residents in western Ukraine and the capital, Kiev, are strongly pro-West and Ukrainian nationalist.

Fast and Furious echoes in CIA-Senate fight

By Josh Gerstein Politico.com The court battle over the House’s investigation of Operation Fast and Furious and the new showdown between the CIA and its Senate overseers have something in common: aggressive executive branch claims for secrecy.

At the core of both fights are bold assertions from President Barack Obama’s administration that agencies like the CIA and the Justice Department have the legal right to put some of their internal communications beyond the reach of Congress — even though it funds those agencies, writes the laws they’re supposed to obey and has a responsibility to monitor how they operate.

While the Obama lawyers’ claims are not wildly different than some made by the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, many legal experts say Obama’s secretive stance is sharply at odds with vows he made on the campaign trail — a reminder of how difficult it is to rein in the power of the presidency, even when a candidate promises to do it.

“What strikes me as ironic is that this administration is picking up the cudgels of all these tired old shibboleths about executive privilege,” former House Counsel Stan Brand said. “It pains me to say this, but it’s Nixonian in its reach.”

High-profile fights over executive privilege in recent memory have usually broken out over White House records, especially those involving advice to top presidential aides or the president himself. But the disagreement that triggered the new conflict between the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee was not about White House records — it centered on internal CIA analyses of records of its Bush-era interrogation efforts.

In a letter to the Senate writ-

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ten last month and made public Tuesday, CIA Director John Brennan said those summaries should have been offlimits to congressional investigators.

“These documents were not created as part of the program that is the subject of the Committee’s oversight, but rather were written in connection with the CIA’s response to the oversight inquiry. They include a banner making clear that they are privileged, deliberative, pre-decisional CIA documents, to include attorney-client and attorney work product,” Brennan wrote.

“The Executive branch has long had substantial separation of powers concerns about congressional access to this kind of material.”

Brennan’s argument is virtually identical to one the Justice Department and ultimately, Obama himself leveled in response to a House committee’s demand for records relating to Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation that may have allowed as many as 2,000 weapons to flow to Mexican drug cartels.

The Obama administration turned over thousands of pages related to the operation, but drew the line at certain records showing how it responded to congressional and media inquiries. That refusal led to a pair of House votes holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. A federal judge is now mulling a House-filed lawsuit seeking to force Holder to turn over the records.

Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said Wednesday that the administration’s contention in the CIA fight “appears to be the same unprecedented claim” he’s been hearing from the Justice Department for nearly two years in the Fast and Furious faceoff.

“The Obama administration’s argument is that even when the Executive Branch gives Congress false information or otherwise acts inappropriately, as long as it occurred in the course of responding to Congress, it shouldn’t have to reveal the full truth,” said Issa. “Their argument is a dangerous attempt to expand the reach of Executive Privilege to cover abuses within agencies – even if they are well below the level of the President himself.”

In an interview last May, Issa said he generally believes the executive branch should be entitled to private communications, but not when some misconduct appears to have taken place.

“I’m one of those people that very strongly supports that the deliberative process in

the ordinary course is not something that we should be asking for,” he told NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “But… when people make a decision to give us something that’s false and it’s shown to be false, and then particularly if there’s false statements to Congress, of course we have an obligation to look at it.”

George Mason University Professor Mark Rozell, who has written extensively on executive privilege, also sees the same position on display from the Obama administration in both the gun-walking and CIA-related fights. The administration’s stance evokes a posture many liberals reviled and denounced during the Bush years: the so-called “unitary executive” theory asserting that the president had strict authority to control all actions taken in any portion of the executive branch as if they were merely extensions of the White House itself.

Obama “is effectively walling off another part of the executive branch from legislative oversight and review using the same reasons the administration has used in other contexts, including the Fast and Furious investigation,” the professor said. “It’s clear that presidents possess the right to candid advice, to preserve frank and candid deliberations among White House aides without public disclosure of every utterance that takes place in the White House.”

But “this seems of an entirely different nature….It’s almost breathtaking in its scope,” Rozell added.

During the 2008 campaign, Obama said the Bush administration had invoked executive privilege too often. He signaled that he believed executive privilege should be limited to White House communications — but he left himself some wiggle room.

“My view is that executive privilege generally depends on the involvement of the

President and the White House,” he said in a 2007 Boston Globe questionnaire.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney stressed Thursday that Obama has rarely invoked the privilege.

“We’ve been here for fiveplus years, and there’s often a sort of frisson in the air when Republicans start saying, ‘Oh, they’re asserting executive privilege…’ Do you know how many times this administration has actually asserted executive privilege? Once — once,” Carney said.

He said in other cases where such issues had arisen with Congress, the administration had reached agreements “to move forward without the need to assert that privilege.”

Lawyers who served in Republican administrations offered more charitable assessments of the Obama administration’s stance in the two disputes.

David Rivkin, who worked in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, said the Obama administration’s claims of secrecy for agency documents are not without merit — if not quite as strong as the arguments for secrecy for presidential advice.

“These are weaker grounds, but they’re not unprecedented grounds, and I think the matter can certainly be litigated,” Rivkin said. He said court decisions in civil cases and criminal investigation have protected the deliberative process in government agencies, but he acknowledged there’s little precedent addressing whether such a privilege can be wielded against Congress.

A top lawyer in the George W. Bush administration also backed the Obama team’s claims in both the CIA and Fast and Furious standoffs.

“That is consistent with the past position of the executive branch,” said the attorney, who asked not to be named.

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WESTFIELD Emergency Response and Crime Report Thursday, March 12, 2014 9:31 a.m.: motor vehicle violation, North Elm Street, a patrol officer reports a traffic stop, the vehicle’s registration was found to have been revoked for lack of insurance, the car was towed to the police impound yard; 10:50 a.m.: motor vehicle violation, Colonial Pine Acres, a patrol officer reports he encountered a parked vehicle found to have revoked registration, the plates were seized and a note was left on the vehicle; 3:07 p.m.: annoying phone calls, Jefferson Street, a resident came to the station to report that she has been receiving annoying telephone calls from a person who previously hacked her computer, the responding officer reports that the woman said that since October she has been getting calls from the same male voice who calls from different numbers and claims to represent a major software company, the woman said that previously she was persuaded to provide the man with information which led to her computer being hacked and eventually discarded, the woman said that the man claimed that she owes him $100 but he will forgive the debt if she provides him with a sexual service; 3:11 p.m.: city ordinance violation, Bates Road, a community policing officer reports he spoke with a resident about two unregistered vehicles and advised him that they must be removed, the CP officer reports that he will check the property again in 30 days to ensure compliance; 4:09 p.m.: identity fraud, City View Road, a resident came to the station to report that a “return to sender” package which he had not mailed but had his return address on was found to contain two checks made out in his name to unknown persons, the responding officer reports he contacted the credit unit which the checks were drawn on and was told that the credit union is already working with the Secret Service in regards to fraudulent use of accounts at the union; 5:12 p.m.: Meadow Street, a caller reports that she took custody of a stray pit bull dog on Meadow Street and transported it to the municipal animal shelter on Apremont Way, an animal control officer responded to the shelter and took custody of the gray and tan brindled male pit bull dog; 11:11 p.m.: building check, Chapel Street, an officer reports that he checked a business which has reported repeated incidents of illegal trash disposal and noted two mattresses, a tarp and motor vehicle parts next to a refuse receptacle.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014 Matthew J. Bishop, 29, of 47 Grant St., Easthampton, was held in lieu of $100 cash bail pending a May 8 hearing after he was arraigned on charges of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license and operating a motor vehicle without a valid inspection sticker brought by Westfield police.

Jonathan Rojko, 24, of 42 Acushnet Ave., Springfield, was released on $100 cash bail pending a May 23 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license brought by Westfield police.

Malachi V. Roman, 22, of 204 Fairview St. Greenfield, was held in lieu of $1,000 cash bail after he was arraigned on charges of possession of a Class A drug with intent to distribute, distribution of a Class A drug, conspiracy to violate drug laws and a drug violation near a school or park brought by Westfield police.

Jonathon P. Helnarski, 24, of of 22 Scenic Ave., Webster, was held in lieu of $1,000 cash bail after he was arraigned on charges of possession of a Class A drug and conspiracy to violate drug laws brought by Westfield police.

Evan M. Cioffi, 19, of 308 Springdale Road, was held in lieu of $100 cash bail after he was arraigned on two charges of breaking and entering a vehicle in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony and a charge of larceny of property valued more than $250 brought by Westfield police.

Christopher M. Greenwood, 23, of 91 Nash Hill Road, Williamsburg, was placed on pretrial probation until May 29 after he was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery brought by Westfield police.

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Join us to celebrate the talent of the students of Westfield Where: Westfield Vocational Technical High School 33 Smith Avenue When: Friday, March 28th 5:30pm – 8:30pm Saturday, March 29th 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Free & Open to the Public • Seethousands of art projects from students of all ages from all Westfield schools displayed throughout the halls of Westfield Vocational Technical High School.

• And A special performance of the Toe Jam Puppet BandSaturday morning at 11:30 in the auditorium… donate a canned good for local food pantries.

•Hear choral performances from Southampton Road, and Paper Mill Elementary Schools along with the South Middle, North Middle, and Westfield High jazz bands. These performances will take place in the auditorium on the upper level campus.

• Toureleven (11) Career Technical Shops for a chance to win a TABLET. • Enjoy a pasta supper Friday evening for $5 a person and a Hearty Breakfast on Saturday morning for $5 a person.

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April Mayor’s Coffee Hour — Your Voice, Your City WESTFIELD, MA- Renaissance Manor of Westfield is the host of the Mayor’s April Coffee Hour. The Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Daniel Knapik would like to invite you to participate in this free meeting.

This event will be held on Monday, April 7, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. at 37 Feeding Hills Road, Westfield, MA. The Mayor would like your participation in the upcoming Coffee Hour by submitting any questions, concerns, or ideas for discussion. He will also provide any updates or news about our great City.

To register please call Pam Bussell at the Chamber office at (413) 568-1618 or email info@westfieldbiz. org. The coffee hour is free and open to the public.

WEST SPRINGFIELD - The Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts Scholarship Committee announces scholarship applications are now available online at adclubwm.org.

Applications will also be available through guidance departments at high schools in Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties or by contacting the Ad Club at 413-736-2582.

Western Massachusetts seniors who have been accepted by an accredited college or technical school to study advertising, communications, marketing or graphics arts and will be attending in September 2014 are encouraged to apply.

In 2014, one $1000 scholarship will be awarded. Completed scholarship applications and all support materials must be submitted to the Ad Club and postmarked by April 28. Scholarship decisions are made by the Scholarship Committee of Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts and are considered final. The scholarship will be awarded at the Ad Club’s June professional development luncheon.

Now Enrolling WESTFIELD - Saint Mary’s Parish School in Westfield is now enrolling students for the 2014-2015 school year for preschool, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and grades 1-12. Come and see how our preschool and pre-kindergarten programs help your child explore, learn, and grow in a loving environment. Saint Mary’s strives to develop academic success and spiritual growth in all our students. For more information call Saint Mary’s High School Campus at 5685692 or Saint Mary’s Elementary and Preschool Campus at 568-2388.

NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Police say the death of a woman at a North Attleborough gun range appears accidental but remains under investigation.

The woman apparently shot herself at the American Firearms School at about 2 p.m. Saturday.

She was taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead Sunday. Her name was not released.

The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1eaYh2M) reports that after the shooting, the range officer ordered everyone to stop firing and evacuate the range.

Officials closed the facility for the day while police investigated.

Oakham crash takes life of teen OAKHAM, Mass. (AP) — The teen killed in a weekend crash in Oakham has been identified as a senior at Quabbin Regional High School.

School District Superintendent Maureen Marshall identified the victim of the crash at about 4:20 a.m. Sunday as 17-yearold Jeremy Kauppila of Hubbardston.

Marshall tells The Telegram & Gazette (http://bit.ly/1qL6Bf7 ) that Kauppila was involved in junior ROTC and was a member of the football team.

Kauppila was a passenger in a car driven by 17-year-old Aaron Witkos of Oakham. Witkos was flown to a Worcester hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.

Police say their vehicle veered off the road and struck a tree.

The crash remains under investigation.

Mass. man hurt in NH snowmobile accident CAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been injured in a snowmobile accident in New Hampshire.

Fish and Game officers say 49-year-old Eric Mueller of Wales, Mass., lost control of the machine while going over a piece of uneven terrain at the Owl’s nest Golf Course in Campton on Sunday afternoon and was ejected.

Mueller was taken to a hospital with injuries to his torso. His condition wasn’t immediately known.

Fish and Game officer say it appears that operator inattention was a contributing factor in the accident.

Uxbridge sex offender facing new charges UXBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A 62-year-old man on the state’s sex offender registry who won a $10 million lottery prize in 2008 is facing new charges police allege he committed with the help of his winnings.

Daniel Snay was arrested Friday and charged with sexually assaulting a boy over several years starting when the boy was 8.

Snay is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges including indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14.

Police Chief Jeffrey Lourie says Snay’s “windfall aided the commission of the crimes” by helping him gain favor with people.

Snay is listed as a Level 3 sex offender by the state, considered the most likely to re-offend.

He was held without bail over the weekend and it’s not clear if he has a lawyer.

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WESTFIELD - A limited number of free grant-funded smoke and/or carbon monoxide detectors are available for Westfield residents 60 and older who meet income eligibility requirements.

Installation of these detectors will also be done at no cost to eligible recipients.

Applications are available at the Westfield Senior Center at 40 Main Street. In addition, volunteers from the Westfield Rotary Club are available to assist the city’s older adults with changing the batteries in their smoke and/or carbon monoxide detectors if such help is needed. Please call the Senior Center at 562-6435 for more information.

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Online Courses for Educators WESTFIELD - To facilitate current, convenient and practical teacher professional development, Westfield State University and the Commonwealth Learning Online Institute (CLOI) have partnered to bring innovative online graduate level courses in reading to educators. The courses are based on the most recent research, classroom practices, state standards changes and Common Core State Standards for English and language arts.

Participants will receive instruction in student assessment, classroom administration and skills analysis as well as practical classroom learning strategies to teach reading skills. Each course also provides supportive readings, practical classroom videos and suggested activities. These six and seven week courses are approved for three graduate credits.

For more information on graduate course schedules, please visit the Westfield State University website, www.westfield.ma.edu/center or the Commonwealth Learning Online

SOUTHWICK - Southwick-On-Stage announces a director’s search for the 2014 season. The theatre group plans to produce two shows. Both shows will be presented on the stage at the Southwick Town Hall.

The first show will be: ‘On Golden Pond’, by Ernest Thompson (first produced in 1979) and the second production (pending licensing approval) will be a musical “The Fantasticks’, music by Harvey Schmidt, book and lyrics by Tom Jones.

Interested parties should contact the theatre group via their website: southwick-on-stage.org or contact Joan Perkins-Smith at 413-569-1572 and select ‘Opportunities’ and ‘Directors’.

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The library’s passes/discounts include: The Springfield Museums, Amelia Park Children’s Museum, the New Children’s Museum in West Hartford and Roaring Brook Nature Center, Eric Carle Museum, Connecticut Trolley Museum, Massachusetts State Parks Pass, Connecticut Science Center, and the U.S.S. Constitution, Boston.

The Friends of the Library passes/discounts include: The Basketball Hall of Fame, Magic Wings, Mystic Seaport, New England Air Museum, Zoo at Forest Park, Holyoke Children’s Museum, and Norman Rockwell Museum.

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EASTHAMPTON — Matthew S. Sosik, President and CEO of Easthampton Savings Bank, announced that Jessica West was promoted to Branch Officer at the Northampton Street office.

West served as Assistant Manager with Eileen Hickle as Branch Officer before her retirement at the end of February.

She joined the bank as a Senior Teller for the Belchertown office in 2002. West was promoted to Assistant Branch Manager in Belchertown in 2008. She became the Assistant Branch Manager at the Northampton Street office in 2012.

FEEDING HILLS — Ted Cassell, President of Park Square Realty, is pleased to announce that Erica Quinn has joined Park Square Realty’s Feeding Hills office as a Sales Associate.

Erica comes to Park Square Realty from her prior company, Keller Williams, where she served her clients over the past year.

Erica resides in Longmeadow with her husband and two sons. Erica graduated from Longmeadow High School and Smith College, Northampton with a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Art.

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World stock markets mostly shrug off Crimea vote HONG KONG (AP) — World stocks drifted Monday as investors largely shrugged off a weekend vote in which Crimeans opted to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

Safe-haven assets such as the Japanese yen got a boost after results showed an overwhelming number of voters in the Ukrainian region approved splitting off and joining Russia in Sunday’s vote.

The U.S. has threatened Russia with sanctions should it annex Crimea.

President Barack Obama and other top U.S. officials warned Moscow against making further military moves toward southern and eastern Ukraine.

In early European trading, Germany’s DAX edged up less than 0.1 percent to 9,062.63 while France’s CAC 40 added 0.2 percent to 4,224.13. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 0.1 percent to 6,537.59.

U.S. stocks were poised to rise. Dow futures and S&P 500 futures were both up 0.7 percent.

Asian markets ended the day mixed.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.3 percent to close at 14,277.67 as the yen gained.

“If there are signs of Russian influence extending beyond Crimea, expect risk aversion to reverberate,” said Vishnu Varathan of Mizuho Bank in Singapore, adding that “safety bolts” such as yen, gold, Swiss francs and U.S. Treasurys will also gain.

The dollar, which has lost about 1.4 percent against the yen in the past week, was trading at 101.78 yen compared with 101.30 yen late Friday. A stronger yen makes goods from Japanese exporters such as Sony and Canon pricier overseas.

South Korea’s Kospi edged up 0.4 percent to 1,927.53 while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped 0.3 percent to 21,473.95. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 0.2 percent to 5,317.60.

In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite rose 1 percent to 2,023.67 after officials announced on the weekend that exchange rate controls would be modestly eased. It was the latest step in an eventual plan to let the yuan float freely.

The dollar rose to 6.1773 yuan, up 0.4 percent from 6.1531 late Friday, and is at the highest since the end of June last year, according to FactSet data. The yuan has reversed course recently after strengthening steadily for years. Analysts believe the central bank is guiding the exchange rate lower against the dollar in an effort to discourage speculators from moving money into the country to profit from the yuan’s rise.

Japanese internet company Softbank Corp. surged 5 percent after China’s Alibaba, in which it owns a 37 percent stake, confirmed long-awaited plans to move forward with a U.S. stock listing that could value the e-commerce giant at more than $100 billion.

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Reaching new heights at North Middle

WESTFIELD — The Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a Social Media Workshop on Thursday, April 4, 2014.

The workshop will be facilitated by Alfonso Santaniello, president and CEO of the Creative Strategy Agency, Inc. Mr. Santaniello will show the participants how to “Engage Across Platforms” by learning the importance of planning out content and engagement strategies. You will learn:

Westfield North Middle School Principal Christopher Rogers, rear center, watch Hannah Bean and Brian Daly, both 12, scale a newly installed rock climbing wall donated by Westfield Bank. Joining Rogers in the school’s fitness room are James Hagan, rear left, president and CEO of Westfield Bank, and North Middle School Physical Education Instructor Dana King. The wall is 24-feet long by 10-foot high with a large padded cushion below. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

• How to create engaging content • What types of content should you be creating • How to distribute content through various platforms • Importance of tracking along the way.

U.S. lags as commercial drones take off around the world JOAN LOWY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A small, four-rotor drone hovered over Washington Nationals players for a few days during spring training in Florida last month, taking publicity photos impossible for a human photographer to capture. But no one got the Federal Aviation Administration’s permission first.

“No, we didn’t get it cleared, but we don’t get our pop flies cleared either and those go higher than this thing did,” a team official said when contacted by The Associated Press. The drone flights ceased the next day. The official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be named.

The agency bars commercial use of drones no matter how seemingly benign. The lone exception is an oil company that has been granted permission to fly drones over the Arctic Ocean, and it took an act of Congress to win that concession.

FAA officials say rules to address the special safety challenges associated with unmanned aircraft need to be in place before they can share the sky with manned aircraft. The agency has worked on those regulations for the past decade and is still months and possibly years away from issuing final rules for small drones, which are defined as those weighing less than 55 pounds. Rules for larger drones are even further off.

But tempting technology and an eager marketplace are outrunning the aviation agency’s best intentions. Photographers, real estate agents, moviemakers and others are hurrying to embrace the technology. Drones have been used to photograph the two apartment buildings that collapsed in New York City this past week and a car crash in Connecticut. The AP, in fact, is one of several news organizations studying the possible use of drones.

Unless FAA officials receive a complaint or chance upon a news story that mentions drone flights, they have little ability to find out about violations. The ban was further undercut this month when a federal judge dismissed the only fine the FAA has imposed on a commercial drone operator. The judge said the agency can’t

enforce regulations that don’t exist.

The FAA, which contends it controls access to the national air space, has appealed.

The use of commercial drones, most of them small, is starting to spread to countries where authorities have decided the aircraft presents little threat if operators follow a few safety rules.

The drone industry and some members of Congress are worried the United States will be one of the last countries, rather than one of the first, to gain the economic benefits of the technology.

“We don’t have the luxury of waiting another 20 years,” said Paul McDuffee, vice president of drone-maker Insitu of Bingen, Wash., a subsidiary of Boeing. “This industry is exploding.

It’s getting to the point where it may end up happening with or without the FAA’s blessing.”

In Japan, the Yamaha Motor Company’s RMAX helicopter drones have been spraying crops for 20 years. The radio-controlled drones weighing 140 pounds are cheaper than hiring a plane and are able to more precisely apply fertilizers and pesticides. They fly closer to the ground and their backwash enables the spray to reach the underside of leaves.

The helicopters went into use five years ago in South Korea and last year in Australia.

Television networks use drones to cover cricket matches in Australia. Zookal, a Sydney company that rents textbooks to college students, plans to begin delivering books via drones later this year. The United Arab Emirates has a project underway to see whether government documents like driver’s licenses, identity cards and permits can be delivered using small drones.

In the United Kingdom, energy companies use drones to check the undersides of oil platforms for corrosion and repairs, and real estate agents use them to shoot videos of pricey properties. In a publicity stunt last June, a Domino’s Pizza franchise in the U.K. posted a YouTube video of a “DomiCopter” drone flying over fields, trees and homes to deliver two pizzas.

This workshop is free for members of the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce and a nominal fee of $25.00 for non-members in advance. The workshop is hosted by the Holiday Inn Express at 39 Southampton Road, Westfield, MA. Registration and networking will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the program will run from 8:30 to 10:30. The workshop is device friendly, so feel free to bring your laptops/notebooks etc. Wi-Fi is also available.

Seating is limited, so please R.S.V.P. early to reserve your seat by contacting Pam Bussell at 413-568-1618 or email info@westfieldbiz.org .

Oil down after Crimea votes to split from Ukraine The Associated Press Oil prices were slightly lower Monday after Crimea’s vote to split from Ukraine and join Russia.

Benchmark U.S. crude for April delivery was down 9 cents to $98.80 a barrel at 0715 GMT in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 69 cents to close at $98.89 on Friday.

Brent crude, used to set prices for international varieties of crude, was down 21 cents to $108 on the ICE exchange in London.

Residents in Crimea voted Sunday overwhelmingly in favor of the split in a referendum that the United States, European Union and others say violates the Ukrainian constitution and international law.

The U.S. and its allies in Europe are expected to announce sanctions against Russia, including visa bans and potential asset freezes, on Monday. Russia is a major oil and gas producer.

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Eurozone inflation in surprise fall to 0.7 percent LONDON (AP) — Pressure on the European Central Bank to do more to prevent prices from falling in the 18-country eurozone ratcheted up Monday after figures showed inflation across the region unexpectedly fell in February to its lowest level since October.

Figures released Monday by the Eurostat statistics agency showed consumer prices were 0.7 percent higher in February than the year before. That was lower than the 0.8 percent initial estimate and took the annual rate down to the level it was in October, which was the lowest level since late 2009.

The figures are likely to reinforce concerns in the markets that the eurozone risks suffering a bout of deflation, or falling prices. Deflation can hurt an economy by encouraging consumers and businesses to delay spending in the hope of cheaper bargains further down the line.

The inflation rate, which is way below the level the ECB’s target of just below 2 percent, also comes at a time when the euro has been buoyant in currency markets. A higher currency can pressure inflation downwards in two ways: It can make imports cheaper and weigh

on economic activity by making exports more expensive on international markets.

Following the data, the euro was down 0.2 percent on the day at $1.3890. In recent sessions, the euro had nearly breached the $1.40 mark for the first time since October 2011.

The Eurostat figures showed that four of the 18 European Union countries that use the euro as their currency — Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and Slovakia — are currently experiencing a fall in prices. Others such as Spain and Ireland barely saw prices rise, while no euro country has a rate of 2 percent or more.

A spokeswoman for the statistics agency said the main reason for the revision was lower data from Germany, which has an annual inflation rate of 1 percent.

At a press briefing this month following the ECB’s decision to keep its main interest rate unchanged at the record low of 0.25 percent, the bank’s president, Mario Draghi, was cautiously optimistic about the outlook for the economy, adding he did not expect broadbased deflation.

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After 5 Connection Hosted by: Czar Energy Solutions WESTFIELD, MA- The Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce’s April After 5 Connection will be held on Wednesday, April 9th from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

This networking event is hosted by Czar Energy Solutions located at 53 North Elm Street, Westfield, MA. Come take advantage of this great networking opportunity and remember to bring your business cards. Admission is $10 for Chamber members and $15 cash for general admission. There will be complimentary hors d’oeuvres and cocktails will be available.

Walk-ins are welcomed!

If you have any questions or would like to participate in this Chamber opportunity to network with fellow businesses, contact Pam Bussell at 413-568-1618 or email info@westfieldbiz. org. Remember your first “After “5 is always complimentary!

Sarah Mitchell, a professional fiddler, performs at the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast at Westfield State University Friday. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

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Westfield Colleen Paige E. Templeton reads a speech during the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast at Westfield State University Friday. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

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Westfield Parade Marshall Dr. Brian Sutton addresses the audience during the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast Friday on the campus of Westfield State University. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Toyota said Monday it has shut down production at its two auto-assembly plants in India, locking out 6,400 workers amid testy wage negotiations and allegations of threats against management.

A statement from the Indian unit of the world’s largest automaker said that “under the instigation of the union, certain sections of the employees have resorted to deliberate stoppages of the production line, abuse and threatening of supervisors.” It said the company had no other option but to declare a lockout “to ensure the safety” of workers and management.

The union could not immediately be reached for comment due to a public holiday in India.

Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman Naoki Sumino in Tokyo said there have been no injuries or damage at its two plants.

In 2012, rioting workers at a New Delhi factory owned by India’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, killed a company manager and injured dozens. That factory was closed for nearly a month, which analysts estimated cost the subsidiary of Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp. about $18 million a day.

This week’s Toyota lockout comes after negotiations that began in April last year and arbitration talks that failed earlier this year.

The two plants outside Bangalore produce 310,000 vehicles a year, including the Innova van, Fortuner sport-utility vehicle, Corolla subcompact and Etios models.

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Toyota shuts 2 India plants in lockout over wages

Even so, he said the bank is assessing what it can do in the event the recovery stalls or prices do start falling. Options that have been mooted include a further reduction in the main interest rate, possibly to 0.10 percent, and cutting the deposit rate to

Continued from Page 6 below zero, which would encourage banks to lend rather than park their cash at the central bank.

Howard Archer, chief European economist at IHS Global Insight, said the prospect of any further ECB action in the months ahead could depend on how

the euro performs and how the recovery pans out.

“We believe that if the ECB does act, it will most likely be in the form of measures aimed at adding liquidity,” he said.

West Continued from Page 6 West graduated from STCC with an Associates Degree in Mechanical Technologies and has taken various CFT courses.

She is Treasurer for the Hadley Mother’s Club and the Hadley Cub Scouts Pack 505.

West is a Board member of Hadley Kid’s Inc and a volunteer for Girls Scouts of Central and Western Mass.

She resides with her family in Hadley.

World Markets Continued from Page 6 In currencies The euro dipped to $1.3893 from $1.3898.

Benchmark crude for April delivery was down 20 cents to $98.69 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 69 cents to settle at $98.20 on Friday.

Shea’s Barber Shop City and state officials join friends and family members of Jim Shea, front row third from left, and his son Jimmy, center, as the two cut a ceremonial ribbon in their new barber shop Friday. Shea’s Barber Shop is located at 234 Elm Street in Westfield. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

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Obituaries Alfred M. Pezzini WESTFIELD - Alfred Michael Pezzini, 95, of Westfield passed away peacefully, Monday February 24, 2014, at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke. Born in 1918 in Springfield, MA to Michael and Hilda (Taddia) Pezzini, he lived with his best friend and older brother, Albert and his parents next to the 13th Hole of the Springfield Country Club.

Michael and Hilda operated the concession stand at the 13th hole. Alfred attended high school at the Springfield Trade School, where he was a recognized sportsman. Alfred was an avid and accomplished golfer and his lifelong love of the sport began with his first job as a caddy at the Country Club. In 1940 Alfred and his brother established a golf and archery range at Hampton Ponds in Westfield, MA. There, Alfred taught archery and golf to area college students and the general public. Later in life, Alfred often visited his brother in Arizona where the two continued their shared love of golfing.

Shortly after opening the golf and archery range, Alfred met and fell in love with Rita Lambert, who was working across the street at the concession stand of her parent’s business, Lambert’s Beach. The pair married in 1942.

Alfred was called to service shortly after their marriage and upon his return, he worked for Standard Oil of New Jersey, a job that took him away from home frequently. A few years later, Alfred left that job to be the manager of Lambert’s Beach and later, Lambert’s RV and Marine.

Alfred and Rita had four daughters.

Alfred served from 1942-1944 in the Navy in the Pacific Theater aboard the destroyer escort, the USS Rudderow.

Throughout his life, he recounted stories of his service with admiration for the people with whom he served during those difficult times.

Alfred, who is remembered as an kind, loving, hardworking family man, leaves three daughters, Linda Pezzini of Florence, Nancy Pasquini-Pezzini, and Suzanne Tracy both of Westfield; eight grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Alfred was predeceased by his beloved daughter, Jean Duarte in 1968 and wife, Rita in 1974. Alfred’s large family brought him joy and he basked in their attention and was proud of the life his hard work provided them. He shared the latter half of his life with his loving partner, Reta Smith. The two split their time between Westfield, Florida and Arizona. Alfred’s friendly, generous manner and nice singing voice won him many admirers throughout his life. He will be missed.

Calling hours will be Saturday, March 22nd from 2:003:30 p.m. A memorial service will be held Saturday 2:30 p.m. at Firtion-Adams Funeral Service, 76 Broad Street, Westfield. Burial will be at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in Alfred’s memory be made to the Holyoke Soldiers Patient Fund, 110 Cherry Street, Holyoke, MA 01040. firtionadams.com

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The event will feature three live, interactive presentations, and include topics such as completing the FAFSA, understanding financial aid options and sharing tips on finding and applying for scholarships.

Participants can join the presentations from the comfort of their home, school, or library – anywhere that has a computer and internet access.

Please, join CSF Westfield Dollars for Scholars in this great opportunity!

Guitar Lessons WESTFIELD - The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Westfield is now accepting registrations for youth ages 8 and older for guitar lessons.

Lessons will held on Wednesdays.

Beginner classes will be from 4 p.m. 5 p.m. and advanced classes will be from 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.

You may register at the front desk Monday through Friday 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. or online at www.bgcwestfield. org. For more information please contact our Program Director Jose Roman at (413) 562-2301.

High School Council WESTFIELD - The WHS (Westfield High School) School Council invites you to our Town Hall meetings on the third Monday of every month at 5:30 p.m. The meetings will be held at the high school in Room 112.

Bring you concerns, ideas or compliments! We welcome all members of the community to contribute. For further information please contact the school at (413) 572-6463.

Doris B. Gadreault WESTFIELD - Doris B. (Lemire) Gadreault, 87, of Westfield and Zephyr Hills ,FL died Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Noble Hospital. She was born in Springfield on March 9, 1927 the daughter of the late Levi and Maude Lemire, lived in Westfield for several years and was a graduate of St. Mary’s High School. She was a communicant of St. Mary’s Church.

Doris was predeceased by her husband, Kenneth in 1965 and her son, Michael in 1985. She is survived by two sons, Wayne and his wife Elizabeth of Winter Park, FL, and Kevin and his wife Marcelle of Nassau, NY; a daughter, Patricia Strong and her husband Richard of Westfield; a sister, Margaret Bilek of Zephyr Hills, FL. Doris also leaves six loving grandchildren, Michelle Melo, Nicole Orsucci, Jason Gadreault, Christopher Gadreault, Benjamin Gadreault, and Nicholas Gadreault, and seven great –grandchildren, Nicole, Jeffrey, Bailey, Kane, Anthony, Austin and Gabriella.

Her funeral will be held on Wednesday from the Firtion-Adams Funeral Service,76 Broad Street, Westfield at 9:30 a.m. followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial in St. Mary’s Church at 10:30 a.m.

Burial will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Calling hours will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.

Donations may be made to the American Lung Association,1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004. firtionadams.com

Irene K. Dejkus WESTFIELD - Irene K. (Skwarek) Dejkus, 99, formerly of Lozier Avenue, passed away Friday March 14, 2014 in a local nursing home. Born and raised in Westfield, Irene was a 1933 graduate of Westfield High School and was a retired secretary for the late Dr. Walter Simpson, an optometrist in Westfield. Irene was a communicant of St. Peter and St. Casimir Church where she was also a member of its Rosary Society.

Her husband, Konstanty “Connie” Dejkus died in 1991.

She leaves 2 daughters, Patricia Katalina of Westfield and Susan Watson of Chester, 4 grandchildren and 3 greatgrandchildren; 2 nieces and 2 nephews.

Her funeral will be Wednesday, March 19th at 9:30 a.m. from the Robert E Cusack Funeral Home, 94 Main Street (Route 20), followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. in St. Peter and St. Casimir Church. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, all in Westfield. Calling hours are Tuesday March 18th from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Memorial contributions to St. Peter and St. Casimir Church, 24 State Street, Westfield, MA 01085.

The Robert E Cusack Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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CIA-Senate Continued from Page 4 claimed what’s called deliberative process privilege over internal memos analyzing congressional requests and deliberating over how to respond…. You don’t want a subordinate giving advice to a superior [to be thinking] Congress is going to be looking over their shoulder at everything they do.”

However, House aides said that in the pending court case over the Fast and Furious records, the Obama administration is claiming it can withhold “congressional response work product” even if it doesn’t reflect internal deliberations.

Rivkin said he’d never heard of such an argument.

“This is bizarre. This is totally bizarre,” he said. “I don’t recall ever using this formulation.”

While the Obama administration has been aggressive about defending executive branch prerogatives, it has sometimes backed down when faced with significant resistance.

This March 12, 2104 file photo shows a New York City police officer, left, telling Brian Wilson, center, to land the drone that he was flying over the scene of an explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in East Harlem in New York. Wilson says he uses the aerial drone to document buildings, weddings and news events. The Federal Aviation Administration bars commercial use of drones no matter how seemingly benign. Officials say rules to address the special safety challenges associated with unmanned aircraft need to be in place before they can share the sky with manned aircraft and final regulations could be years away. But tempting technology and an eager marketplace are outrunning the aviation agency’s best intentions. Photographers, real estate agents, moviemakers, and others are hurrying to embrace the technology. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Commercial Drones Continued from Page 6 But when Lakemaid Beer tried to use a drone to deliver six-packs to ice fishermen on a frozen lake in Minnesota, the FAA grounded the brewskis.

Andreas Raptopoulous, CEO of Matternet in Menlo Park, Calif., predicts that in the near term, there will be more extensive use of drones in impoverished countries than in wealthier nations such as the U.S. He sees a market for drones to deliver medicines and other critical, small packaged goods to the 1 billion people around the globe who don’t have year-round access to roads.

Later this year, Matternet plans to start selling to government and aid organizations a package that includes a drone and two landing pads. On the return trip, the drones can carry blood samples bound for labs and other packages.

Germany’s express delivery company Deutsche Post DHL is testing a “Paketkopter” drone that could be used to deliver small, urgently needed goods in hard-to-reach places.

Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drone-like satellites, to step up its efforts to provide Internet access to remote parts of the world.

There is also a strong business case for urban drones that can replace truck deliveries of single packages. “If you look at the economic footprint and CO2 emissions,” Raptopoulous said, the drone “beats the truck hands down.”

Worldwide sales of military and civilian drones will reach an estimated $89 billion over the next decade, according to the Teal Group, an aerospace research company in Fairfax, Va. The FAA estimates as many as 7,500 small commercial drones will be in use within five years once the necessary regulations are in place.

Jim Williams, head of the FAA’s drone

office, said writing rules for the U.S. is more complex than other nations. The U.S. has far more air traffic than anywhere else and a greater variety of aircraft, from hot air balloons and old-fashioned barnstormers to the most sophisticated airliners and military and business jets. At low altitudes, the concern is a small drone could collide with a helicopter or small plane flown by a recreational pilot.

“It’s a different culture in the U.S. and Canada,” Williams said in an interview.

“People believe they have the right to just jump in their airplane and fly just like they do their car. ... We can’t set up a system that puts any of those folks at risk.”

Yet the FAA permits hobbyists to fly model aircraft that have so improved in technology that they’re little different from small drones.

The FAA has issued voluntary guidelines for hobbyists, including staying away from airports, flying no higher than 400 feet and staying within the line of sight of the operator.

“You could go off to the hobby shop, buy a little remote control helicopter and fly it to your heart’s content,” McDuffee said. “But if you hung a digital camera on that, took pictures of your neighbor’s roof and sold those pictures to him or her, now you are in business and you’re flying” an unmanned aircraft system.

Sean Cassidy, senior vice president at the Air Line Pilots Association, said he worries that commercial drone users will be less willing than hobbyists to abide by restrictions because of economic pressures.

Drones are “becoming so prevalent and affordable that something has to be done to make sure they’re not being used in a reckless manner,” he, said. “Even a fairly small (drone), if the person flying this thing is unaware of their surroundings ... there could be very dire consequences.”

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THE WESTFIELD NEWSSPORTS WSU sweeps Babson in Florida finale WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The Westfield State University baseball team concluded its Florida trip with a big doubleheader sweep of Babson College on Saturday, March 15. The Owls won the opener, 2-1, and rallied from an early five-run deficit to win the second game in 12 innings, 11-9, to even their record at 5-5 as they head home.

In the opener, Westfield received a strong pitching performance from sophomore Pete Liimatainen to edge Babson in its season opener.

Liimatainen hurled six innings, allowing five hits and no walks while striking out five.

Senior Kevin Zyrkowski earned the save by pitching a tidy 1-2-3 last inning. Zyrkowski also earned a victory on the day as he closed the second game with six scoreless innings.

Danny DiMatteo collides with the Babson catcher, who drops the ball during sixth-inning action of Westfield’s 12-inning victory. (Photo by Mickey Curtis)

Westfield State’s Danny DiMatteo lands on homeplate after colliding with the Babson catcher to tie the score at 8-8. (Photo by Mickey Curtis) Babson scored its only run in the first inning. The leadoff batter was hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a double and scored on a sacrifice fly.

Westfield knotted the score in the home half of the second when cleanup hitter Tim Santilli smashed a triple over the center fielder’s head and scored on Danny DiMatteo’s RBI groundout.

The Owls scored the winning run in the fifth frame with the aid of two hit-and-run plays called by first-year head coach Nathan Bashaw. Connor Sheridan laced a one-out single and scampered to third when Kyle Colesanti tomahawked a high pitch through the open hole left by the second baseman. With Colesanti running from first base, Dan McCormack then delivered the game-winning hit, a single through a wide open right side to plate Sheridan.

The extra-inning second game that lasted four hour and 20 minutes was entertaining despite 20 walks (12 by Westfield pitchers) and three hit batters. Zyrkowski, the sixth and final Westfield pitcher, came up huge in the comeback victory; he allowed two hits and four walks and fanned three in his six-inning stint.

Trailing 7-2 after three innings, the Owls scored a run in the fourth and three more in the fifth on a balk, basesloaded walk and sacrifice fly to close within a run, 7-6.

Babson scored a run in the bottom of the fifth to take an 8-6 lead.

Westfield tied the score at 8-all with two sixth-inning

runs on Sheridan’s sacrifice fly and E.G. McMillan’s pinch hit RBI single.

Babson regained the lead with a run in the sixth, but Westfield responded with a run in the seventh inning of the scheduled seven-inning game. Santilli singled with two outs and pinch runner Kyle Murphy advanced to third on a throwing error on an infield throwing error.

Shane Lynch then blooped a single to right field to knot the score at 9-9.

The Owls finally scored two runs in the fifth extra inning. Sheridan swatted a one-out single up the middle and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Jeremy Tanguay was hit by a pitch then reserve catcher Dan Whigham delivered the game-winning hit, a sharp single to left field. McCormack added an insurance run with an RBI single down the left field line.

Sheridan posted big numbers for the Owls, going 4 for 5 with four runs scored and an RBI. The sophomore from South Hadley had Westfield’s only extra basehit, a double. McCormack was 2 for 5 with four big RBI and DiMatteo and Santilli both rapped two singles. Pat McWilliams had two hits in eight official plate appearances as he was one of the few players not to draw a walk.

Both teams stranded 18 base runners. Twenty-two of Westfield’s 30 players were in the box score as Coach Bashaw had one pitcher and one position player remaining on his lineup card.

Owls finish Florida trip, 6-3 CLERMONT, Fla. – The Westfield State University softball team concluded its Florida trip by splitting a pair of games of Friday, March 14. Westfield pounded Farmingdale (N.Y.) State College, 14-0, then dropped a 3-0 decision to Wesleyan University to finish its spring trip with a 6-3 record.

In the first game, a 16-hit attack powered Westfield to its five-inning victory over Farmingdale. Westfield, which also worked eight walks, scored three runs in the second and third

innings, two in the fourth, and six in the fifth.

Freshman Emma Dunbar carried the big stick, going 4 for 4 with three runs scored, three RBI and a double. Pitcher Emily Mailloux aided her own cause by going 3 for 4 with three runs scored and a double. Amanda Flower was 2 for 3 with a double and two RBI and freshman Elizabeth Kelly was 3 for 4 with a double.

Mailloux allowed three hits and no walks and struck out three in five innings.

Amanda Flower connects for a two-run double.

(Photo by

Mickey Curtis)

Faith Rheault (14) signals to Emma Dunbar as both freshmen score on a second-inning double by Amanda Flower. (Photo

by Mickey Curtis)

An outstanding pitching performance by sophomore Susan Pardo powered Wesleyan to its third win in six starts. Pardo fired a one-hitter with 15 strikeouts in keeping the Owls off the scoreboard; she walked two. Westfield’s only hit was a double to left-center field by Emma Dunbar to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning.

Westfield’s other big blow was a towering fly to left field by pinch hitter Jamie Ricciardi that was caught near the fence with a runner on base in the fifth inning.

Wesleyan collected three of its nine hits in the first inning when it took a 1-0 lead. Pardo aided her own cause with an RBI double in the Cardinals’ two-run third inning.

Westfield pitcher Kelley Fluet allowed three earned runs, walked five and struck out three.

Davis powers Pelicans past Celtics in overtime

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two consecutive games. Gordon’s foul shots with 9.4 seconds remaining gave the Pelicans a 121-117 lead.

“In overtime we did enough to squeak out a one-point win,” Pelicans coach Monty Williams said.

Jeff Green, who led Boston with 39 points, answered Gordon’s free throws in overtime with a three-point play that trimmed New Orleans’ lead to 121-120 with 5.7 seconds remaining. But the Celtics were unable to foul on the inbounds play and New Orleans ran out the clock.

“At least we played with better poise at the end of regulation and overtime,” said Celtics coach Brad Stevens, who blamed a defensive miscommunication for Boston not committing the late foul. “We gave ourselves a chance to win on the offensive end. Guys got

a couple of stops, just not enough at the end.”

Davis did not score in overtime but controlled the middle by grabbing six rebounds.

He became the first player in franchise history to have at least 40 points and 20 rebounds in a game. He is averaging 32.3 points in his last six games.

His previous high for points was Friday night when he scored 36 in a loss against Portland. Davis’ 21 rebounds erased his previous career high of 19 against Orlando on Jan. 26.

“I think he can do this 10 to 15 times a year just because he is so gifted and does things for the right reason,” Williams said.

“Obviously, he has great athletic ability but some of that stuff is just him. We try to put

(AP Photo/ Jonathan Bachman)

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Anthony Davis is getting even better while the New Orleans Pelicans close out another difficult season.

Davis set career highs with 40 points and 21 rebounds, and Eric Gordon made two crucial free throws in overtime to lead the Pelicans to a 121-120 overtime victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday night.

“My teammates tell me that they feed off my energy and they want me to be great so I can’t be timid and do what it takes to help my team win,” said Davis, who also blocked three shots, making him the eight player in NBA history with at least 40 points, 20 rebounds and three blocks in a game. “We’re trying to do a better job of making me comfortable down the stretch.”

Tyreke Evans added 26 points and Gordon had 19 for the Pelicans (27-39), who had lost

Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green (8) shoots over New Orleans Pelicans forward Al-Farouq Aminu (0) during the second half of the game in New Orleans, Sunday, March 16, 2014.

The Pelicans won 121-120.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL - SPRING TRAINING AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Cleveland 14 3 .824 Seattle 14 5 .737 Tampa Bay 11 4 .733 Baltimore 10 6 .625 Detroit 10 7 .588 New York 10 9 .526 Kansas City 8 8 .500 7 7 .500 Minnesota Oakland 8 8 .500 Los Angeles 8 9 .471 Houston 7 9 .438 Chicago 6 8 .429 Boston 7 10 .412 Toronto 7 10 .412 Texas 5 10 .333

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Miami 11 7 .611 7 .611 San Francisco 11 Pittsburgh 10 7 .588 Arizona 11 9 .550 Washington 10 9 .526 Chicago 9 10 .474 New York 8 9 .471 Colorado 8 10 .444 St. Louis 6 8 .429 Milwaukee 8 11 .421 Cincinnati 8 12 .400 Los Angeles 6 10 .375 San Diego 6 10 .375 Atlanta 7 12 .368 Philadelphia 5 12 .294

Price, Rays beat Red Sox PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — David Price went 6 2-3 innings, allowing two runs and three hits, with seven strikeouts, as the Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 8-4 on Sunday.

Price will start opening day for the Rays.

“He had everything going,” Rays manager Joe Maddon said. “You saw a lot of 95s early in the game.”

Allen Webster, who figures to start the season in Triple-A for the Red Sox, went four innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on three hits and three walks with three strikeouts.

James Loney went 3 for 4 with four RBI for the Rays and is now batting .409 this spring.

David DeJesus went 2 for 3 with a run scored and an RBI. Ben Zobrist went 2 for 3 with a walk, two runs scored, and an RBI. STARTING TIME Rays: Although his manager said he had everything going in the game, Price said there was one thing missing.

“More consistency, I feel like,” he said.

“Keeping your mind frame in the right position when you’re out there. Sitting on the bench your mind wanders. When you get between the lines you got to flip it back.

“Shutting them down with two outs is something I want to continue to work on.”

But he’s ready for opening day.

“I felt good,” he said. “I told (pitching coach Jim) Hickey I wish today was Opening Day.” Red Sox: Boston manager John Farrell was satisfied with Webster’s outing.

“I thought today Allen Webster continues to grow as a pitcher,” Farrell said. “There were some things that happened to him today that are going to happen to him from time to time behind him and I thought he did a great job maintaining his poise, continuing to make pitches, continuing to put the ball on the See Red Sox, Page 11

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Sunday’s Games Minnesota 4, Miami (ss) 2 Washington (ss) 4, Houston 3 Tampa Bay 8, Boston 4 N.Y. Mets (ss) 10, St. Louis 4 Toronto 4, Baltimore 3, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees (ss) 7, Atlanta 4 Detroit 2, Washington (ss) 1 Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia 0 N.Y. Yankees (ss) 7, Miami (ss) 0 Texas 14, Chicago White Sox 8 Chicago Cubs (ss) 6, N.Y. Mets (ss) 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, Colorado 3, tie Kansas City 9, San Diego 6, 10 innings Cleveland (ss) 5, San Francisco 1 Cleveland (ss) 3, Chicago Cubs (ss) 2 Seattle 5, L.A. Angels 3 Cincinnati 7, Oakland 6 Arizona 6, Milwaukee 5 Monday’s Games Washington vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Atlanta vs. Houston at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

St. Louis vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Baltimore (ss) vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

English Premier League D L 6 4 5 5 5 5 3 5 5 9 9 5 6 9 9 9 4 12 7 13 10 12 7 14 6 15 8 14 8 15 13 11 4 17 7 14 7 17 3 20 Saturday, March 15 Hull City 0, Manchester City 2

GP Chelsea 30 Liverpool 29 Arsenal 29 Manchester City 27 Tottenham 30 Everton 28 Manchester U 29 Southampton 30 Newcastle 29 Aston Villa 29 Stoke 30 West Ham 29 Hull City 29 Swansea 29 Norwich 30 West Brom 29 Crystal Palace 29 Sunderland 27 Cardiff City 30 Fulham 30

W 20 19 19 19 16 14 14 12 13 9 8 8 8 7 7 5 8 6 6 7

GF 56 76 53 71 37 40 46 43 37 32 32 32 30 38 24 33 19 26 23 30

GA Pts 23 35 28 27 38 28 34 37 40 38 44 38 37 43 48 43 38 42 52 65

66 62 62 60 53 51 48 45 43 34 34 31 30 29 29 28 28 25 25 24

Everton 2, Cardiff City 1 Fulham 1, Newcastle 0 Southampton 4, Norwich 2 Stoke 3, West Ham 1 Sunderland 0, Crystal Palace 0 Swansea 1, West Brom 2 Aston Villa 1, Chelsea 0 Sunday, March 16 Manchester United 0, Liverpool 3 Tottenham 0, Arsenal 1 Saturday, March 22 Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 1245 GMT Cardiff City vs. Liverpool, 1500 GMT Everton vs. Swansea, 1500 GMT Hull City vs. West Brom, 1500 GMT Manchester City vs. Fulham, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Norwich vs. Sunderland, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. Manchester United, 1730 GMT Sunday, March 23 Tottenham vs. Southampton, 1330 GMT Aston Villa vs. Stoke, 1600 GMT

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 67 45 17 5 95 215 146 Pittsburgh 67 44 19 4 92 209 167 Montreal 69 37 25 7 81 174 174 Philadelphia 67 35 25 7 77 192 193 Toronto 69 36 25 8 80 203 211 Columbus 67 35 26 6 76 195 184 Tampa Bay 67 36 24 7 79 194 175 N.Y. Rangers 69 36 29 4 76 177 170 Washington 69 32 27 10 74 201 207 Detroit 67 30 24 13 73 175 188 New Jersey 68 29 26 13 71 166 176 Ottawa 67 28 26 13 69 190 221 Carolina 68 29 30 9 67 169 194 N.Y. Islanders 69 26 34 9 61 195 233 Florida 68 25 35 8 58 169 221 Buffalo 68 19 41 8 46 132 202 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 67 46 14 7 99 223 151 Anaheim 68 45 16 7 97 218 172 San Jose 69 45 17 7 97 214 165 Colorado 68 44 19 5 93 209 181 Chicago 68 39 15 14 92 231 179 Los Angeles 68 38 24 6 82 165 144 Minnesota 67 35 22 10 80 164 164 Dallas 67 32 24 11 75 193 192 Phoenix 68 32 25 11 75 188 193 Vancouver 70 31 29 10 72 167 190 Winnipeg 69 31 29 9 71 193 201 Nashville 68 29 29 10 68 164 201 Calgary 68 27 34 7 61 165 202 Edmonton 69 24 36 9 57 171 224 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime Chicago 4, Detroit 1 loss.

Winnipeg 7, Dallas 2 Saturday’s Games Monday’s Games Columbus 2, Minnesota 1, SO Minnesota at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Boston 5, Carolina 1 Vancouver at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 0 Winnipeg at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Montreal 5, Ottawa 4, OT Phoenix at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 0 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 4, Buffalo 1 Boston at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

St. Louis 4, Nashville 1 Minnesota at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Phoenix 3, Calgary 2 Dallas at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Anaheim 2, Los Angeles 1 Carolina at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Colorado at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver 4, Florida 3, SO N.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3 Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Washington 4, Toronto 2 Chicago at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton 2, Carolina 1 Buffalo at Calgary, 9 p.m.

San Jose 1, N.Y. Rangers 0 Nashville at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Colorado 3, Ottawa 1 Washington at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Montreal 2, Buffalo 0 Florida at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Oakland at Phoenix, 4:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (ss) vs. Chicago Cubs (ss) at Mesa, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. L.A. Angels (ss) at Tempe, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Baltimore (ss) at Sarasota, Fla., 7:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Houston vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Detroit (ss) at Lakeland, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Boston vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Detroit (ss) vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 1:10 p.m.

Texas (ss) vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 4:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Texas (ss) at Surprise, Ariz., 10:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 10:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 10:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Minnesota vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Chicago White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Seattle at Peoria, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 4:05 p.m.

Houston vs. Washington at Viera, Fla., 6:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 7:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 9:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 9:40 p.m.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf x-Indiana 49 17 .742 — 6-4 W-3 30-4 19-13 32-7 x-Miami 45 19 .703 3 5-5 W-1 26-6 19-13 27-12 d-Toronto 37 28 .569 11½ 7-3 L-1 20-13 17-15 23-15 Chicago 37 29 .561 12 7-3 W-2 21-12 16-17 25-14 Washington 35 31 .530 14 7-3 W-2 17-16 18-15 25-16 Brooklyn 33 31 .516 15 7-3 L-1 20-11 13-20 19-20 Charlotte 33 34 .493 16½ 6-4 W-4 19-14 14-20 21-18 Atlanta 29 35 .453 19 4-6 W-3 19-11 10-24 19-19 New York 27 40 .403 22½ 6-4 W-6 15-20 12-20 19-23 Cleveland 26 41 .388 23½ 4-6 L-1 15-17 11-24 14-25 Detroit 25 41 .379 24 2-8 L-2 15-21 10-20 20-21 Boston 22 45 .328 27½ 3-7 L-4 14-21 8-24 18-20 Orlando 19 48 .284 30½ 2-8 L-5 15-18 4-30 15-28 Philadelphia 15 51 .227 34 0-10 L-20 8-27 7-24 10-29 Milwaukee 13 54 .194 36½ 2-8 L-4 8-27 5-27 11-31 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf d-San Antonio 50 16 .758 — 10-0 W-10 26-8 24-8 28-10 d-Oklahoma City 48 18 .727 2 5-5 L-1 28-7 20-11 29-12 d-L.A. Clippers 48 20 .706 3 10-0 W-11 29-5 19-15 29-11 Houston 44 22 .667 6 6-4 L-3 26-7 18-15 24-17 Portland 43 24 .642 7½ 4-6 L-1 24-9 19-15 24-20 Golden State 42 26 .618 9 7-3 W-1 21-11 21-15 24-17 Dallas 40 27 .597 10½ 6-4 W-2 21-10 19-17 21-18 Memphis 39 27 .591 11 7-3 W-1 20-14 19-13 21-19 Phoenix 38 28 .576 12 5-5 W-2 22-13 16-15 23-19 Minnesota 33 32 .508 16½ 6-4 W-1 19-13 14-19 18-22 Denver 29 37 .439 21 4-6 L-1 16-16 13-21 15-23 New Orleans 27 39 .409 23 4-6 W-1 16-16 11-23 11-29 Sacramento 23 44 .343 27½ 3-7 L-2 13-19 10-25 12-28 L.A. Lakers 22 44 .333 28 3-7 L-2 11-20 11-24 12-28 Utah 22 45 .328 28½ 1-9 L-4 14-19 8-26 11-29 Saturday’s Games Golden State 113, Portland 112 New York 115, Milwaukee 94 L.A. Clippers 102, Cleveland 80 Washington 101, Brooklyn 94 Monday’s Games Memphis 103, Philadelphia 77 Philadelphia at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Indiana 112, Detroit 104, OT Atlanta at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Atlanta 97, Denver 92 Phoenix at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago 94, Sacramento 87 Oklahoma City at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Utah at Houston, 8 p.m.

Charlotte 101, Milwaukee 92 Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Phoenix 121, Toronto 113 L.A. Clippers at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

Miami 113, Houston 104 Tuesday’s Games New Orleans 121, Boston 120, OT Miami at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Minnesota 104, Sacramento 102 Toronto at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas 109, Oklahoma City 86 Milwaukee at Portland, 10 p.m.

San Antonio 122, Utah 104 Washington at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

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9 Pittsburgh (25-9)

9 Oklahoma St. (21-12)

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12 N. Dakota St. (25-6)

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11 Dayton (23-10)

11 Nebraska (19-12)

3 Syracuse (27-5)

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14 Western Mich.(23-9)

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7 New Mexico (27-6) 1:40 p.m.

10 Stanford (21-12)

7 Oregon (23-9) 3:10 p.m.

10 BYU (23-11)

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2 Kansas (24-9)

2 Wisconsin (26-7) 12:40 p.m.

4:10 p.m.

15 Eastern Kent. (24-9)

15 American (20-12)

1 Virginia (28-6)

1 Wichita State (34-0) 7:10 p.m.

9:25 p.m.

16 Coastal Car. (21-12)

16 Cal Poly/TSU

8 Memphis (23-9)

8 Kentucky (24-10) 9:40 p.m.

6:55 p.m.

9 Kansas State (20-12)

5 Cincinnati (27-6)

5 St. Louis (26-6) 7:20 p.m.

2:10 p.m.

12 Harvard (26-4)

12 NCSU/Xavier

4 Michigan St. (26-8)

4 Louisville (29-5) 9:50 p.m.

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11 Providence 23-11)

11 Iowa/Tennessee

3 Iowa State (26-7)

3 Duke (26-8) 12:15 p.m.

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14 Mercer (26-8)

7 UConn 26-8)

7 Texas (23-10) 9:40 p.m.

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10 St. Joseph’s (24-9)

10 Arizona St. (21-11) 2 Michigan (25-8)

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him in a position where he can be a dominant player.”

Green made three big free throws late in regulation, tying it at 110. Davis answered with a jumper for New Orleans, but Kris Humphries, who scored 16 points, sent the game into overtime on a long jumper from the right corner.

“That’s a tough one to swallow,” said Celtics forward Jared Sullinger, who scored 14 points. “(Humphries) hitting that big shot to send it into overtime, we thought we could win. In the end we came up short.”

Avery Bradley had 12 points for the Celtics, who lost their fourth consecutive game.

Evans’ layup with 5:33 remaining in the fourth quarter gave the Pelicans a 102-89 lead. Boston then closed with a 23-10 surge to force the extra period.

It was similar to the past two games when the Pelicans blew leads against Memphis and Portland.

“We played defense in the fourth quarter and in overtime and got stops when we needed it,” Davis said. “We came up with the rebounds and made free throws.”

The Celtics, who attempted to push the pace against the defense-minded Pelicans, closed the first half on a 17-8 run to take a 64-57 halftime lead.

Boston scored 39 points in the second period.

Green had 20 points at the break. He had a tying dunk with 4:11 left and a 3-pointer with 2:35 remaining, giving Boston a 54-49 lead.

NOTES: The Pelicans finished 24 of 28 from the free-throw line, after making their only two foul shots in the first half. ... Davis was 12 of 12 from the line, and has not missed an attempt in his past three games. ... The Pelicans have won their past five games that have gone into overtime. ...

New Orleans scored a season-high 70 points in the paint, and held Boston to 46.

Red Sox

Milwaukee • Thurs.

14 N.C. Central (28-5)

Raleigh • Fri.

2:45 p.m.

7:20 p.m.

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9 G. Washington (24-8)

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Raleigh • Fri.

11 Iowa (20-12)

Milwaukee • Thurs.

Spokane • Thurs.

4:10 p.m.

16 Cal Poly (13-19)

San Antonio • Fri.

San Antonio • Fri.

1 Florida (32-2)

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Spokane • Thurs.

Buffalo • Thurs.

March 22-23

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12 NC State (21-13)

San Diego • Fri.

Orlando • Thurs.

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Patriots free agent WR Edelman returning HOWARD ULMAN AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Wide receiver Julian Edelman says he’s glad to be returning to the New England Patriots after a surprising breakout season.

Edelman became a free agent last week, but a post on his Twitter account said, “Foxboro is home. Excited to be back.”

The Patriots don’t always make official announcements when they reach contract agreements with their own players. Donald Yee, Edelman’s agent, did not respond to requests for comment.

Edelman also was a free agent before last season and re-signed with the Patriots.

Expected to be behind newcomer Danny Amendola on the wide receiver depth chart last year, Edelman had a career-high 105 catches, six for touchdowns. In his four other seasons with the Patriots since being drafted in 2009, he had 69 receptions. He also had 16 catches and one touchdown in the Patriots two playoff games last season but fell short of the Super Bowl when they lost the AFC championship game to the Denver Broncos 26-16.

Edelman emerged as Tom Brady’s top target after Wes Welker became a free agent before last season and signed with the Denver Broncos.

He also had another strong season as a punt returner.

His average of 12.3 yards per return over the past five seasons is second best in the NFL, behind Devin Hester’s 12.5.

Edelman caught nearly twice as many passes as Amendola, who signed as a free agent when Welker left. Hampered by injuries, Amendola had 54 catches and two touchdowns. The next two wide receivers for the Patriots were rookies — Aaron Dobson with 37 catches and Kenbrell Thompkins with 32.

The return of Edelman provides some continuity for Brady, who will be 37 when he starts his 15th season.

A quarterback at Kent State, Edelman was drafted in the seventh round in 2009 and converted to wide receiver. Slowed by injuries, he played 48 of the 64 regularseason games in his first four years. But he was healthy all last season.

Since free agency began on Tuesday, the Patriots have re-signed tight end Michael Hoomanwanui and added cornerback Brandon Browner as a free agent.

They also reached agreement with free agent cornerback Darrelle Revis, a three-time All-Pro, according to his business manager, John Geiger.

in the next

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ground, and keep things from becoming a big inning.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Rays right fielder Wil Myers, who bruised his right quad when he fouled off a ball on Saturday, said his leg felt better than he expected when he woke up Sunday morning and that he could return to the lineup Tuesday when the Rays follow their lone off day of the spring with a night game in Fort Myers against the Twins.

Infielder Sean Rodriguez has a tight left hamstring. He is expected to play in a minor league game on Tuesday.

Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks, who had missed the previous two games with a hyperextended right middle finger, was in the Tampa Bay Rays starting starting lineup Sunday. But he left after the sec- pitcher David Price pitches ond inning. He did not re-injure his finger, he in the second inning of an said, but it was still sore so he came out for pre- exhibition baseball game against the Boston Red Sox cautionary reasons. He is day to day.

Outfielder Grady Sizemore, who is attempting in Port Charlotte, Fla., to make his way back into baseball after being Sunday, March 16, 2014. sidelined more than two years by injuries, played (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) eight innings Saturday night, his longest outing of the spring. Farrell said Sizemore had no issues after his extended game.

FOR THE RECORD The Red Sox committed two errors in the game and now have16 in 17 games this spring.

THIS AND THAT Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, Maddon and many players, coaches and staff shaved their heads Sunday morning during the team’s third annual “Fortune Favors the Bald” event that raises money for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.

For $15, fans can by “Fortune Favors the Bald” T-shirts at the team store at Charlotte Sports Park or the Rays store in downtown Tampa. All proceeds go to the PCF. The game set an attendance record of 7,852 at Charlotte Sports Park, surpassing the previous high of 7,834 set March 19, 2010, against the Yankees.

Money Matters Money guru Dave Ramsey and daughter Rachel on the importance of raising financially savvy kids.

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Annie’s Mailbox

By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar

Too great a risk?

Dear Annie: After 35 years of marriage, my abusive husband asked for a divorce. I had stayed for the children’s sake, but now know that was a mistake. Children grow up thinking abuse is normal.

Since the divorce, I have fallen in love with “Derek.” Derek and his ex-wife both engaged in affairs when the going got rough. Derek has been totally honest with me about this. He’s in counseling and is committed to being a better man.

The problem is, I can’t kick the feeling that I can’t trust him.

Early in our relationship, Derek attended a reunion, drank too much and ended up having sex with an ex-classmate who came to his room. He was forthright about it and very regretful. He swore it would never happen again. We were not having a “rough time” in our relationship, so I don’t know why this happened. Do you think he’s a sex addict? Does he just like the challenge of a conquest? Does he need the excitement of a new partner? Is it to boost his ego?

It’s been four years, and he’s been faithful since. He has talked about marriage, but I’m not sure. I do love him. But the pain of being rejected by my husband was bad enough. It took a lot of counseling to regain my self-esteem. An affair in a second marriage would devastate me.

How can I trust Derek so that I am secure when he’s not with me? Is this relationship too great a risk? We’ve had counseling together and separately and discussed this issue, but I’m still confused. -- Want To Make the Right Decision Dear Want: One episode of cheating in four years does not constitute a sex addiction. We think it’s more a behavior pattern, and counseling plus motivation can change that. However, no marriage comes with a guarantee of fidelity. Derek is trying hard to prove himself trustworthy, but that doesn’t ensure he won’t cheat if your relationship takes a dive. All relationships require a leap of faith, although you do not need to commit to marriage if you aren’t ready.

Dear Annie: My sister put on an antique show at a nearby hall and asked whether I would provide refreshments as a favor.

An elderly man bought a chocolate-chip cookie and broke a tooth. I apologized and explained that I freeze the cookies after they are baked to keep them fresh. But they had been sitting out for 45 minutes, so they should have been plenty soft. He told me that he has problems with his teeth and knew something like this would happen someday, but he’s on disability and wants me to pay for his dental bill.

Am I liable? I am totally clueless. -- Cookies No More Dear Cookies: We have no way of knowing exactly what happened or why, whether you are at fault or whether the man is trying to con you. If you are being threatened with a lawsuit, please talk to a lawyer immediately. If he is simply asking for money and you feel responsible, whether to offer him anything is up to you, but get a release from him in writing saying that this settles the matter and he will make no additional claim against you.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Pennsylvania,” the woman whose husband supposedly has been calling escorts. We have not heard his side. She could be a liar.

If he is calling escorts, that means she is not doing her job as a wife. If she checks his cellphone bills, she cannot be trusted.

If my wife ever pulled that stunt, we would no longer be married. Not that she could find anything. I keep my private matters well hidden. -- S. Dear S.: You’re quite a guy. Your wife has our condolences.

Annie’s Snippet for St. Patrick’s Day (author unknown): A best friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column.

HINTS FROM HELOISE Drivers Need to Turn It On! Dear Readers: Here is this week’s SOUND OFF, about drivers not using their turn signals: “My Sound Off is to remind motorists that turn-indicator usage is not an option -- it saves lives and prevents crashes. Freeway travel is stressful at its best, and displaying five clicks of the turn indicator before changing lanes (not just one or two blinks) alerts fellow motorists to what’s about to happen. -Theresa S. in Alabama” A major pet peeve of many, many folks, myself included! It’s the LAW in most states. Not only are you being rude, you also might get a ticket. There are so many vehicle accidents, some fatal, where the driver did not signal the intended turn. And folks, do me a personal favor and be aware of motorcycles! We are on the road, too. -- Heloise FAST FACTS Dear Readers: Here are other uses for a photo album: * Use to hold recipe clippings. * Keep sports or other trading cards in one. * Keep empty seed packets in one as a reminder of what was planted. * Use to hold extra ID or reward cards. * Save special greeting cards in it.

-- Heloise

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, March 17, 2014: This year you have to handle more than your share of demands, especially those that revolve around a special relationship. You often might not see eye-toeye with this person, but you learn from each other, as you both present different perceptions that are valid. If you are single, you probably will date a lot and grow as you come to understand the various personalities you will encounter.

If you are attached, the two of you benefit from a healthy dose of nostalgia and romance. You often wonder how much to give and when to say “enough.” Open up this discussion with your significant other. LIBRA is as romantic as you are.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Your instincts will help you understand a partner’s needs. Be sensitive with this person. Understand that you are capable of expressing unusual sensitivity. You might find that you’re not sure how much to give. Don’t worry so much. Tonight: Get into the St. Paddy’s Day mood.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Speak your mind. You’ll sense a change in someone’s demeanor that could concern you. Your efforts count more than you realize. Approach a new situation in a different way. Follow your intuition in order to understand someone’s odd reaction. Tonight: Paint the town green.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH You might not be in the right shape to do what is necessary. You could find that relating to a child tests your need to control a situation. Your creativity will charge any interaction you have now, especially if you embrace the Irish spirit. Tonight: Enjoy the moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Pressure builds, and there are many options. You have a strong intuitive sense today that you’ll put to good use. A discussion with a loved one could be difficult. You might feel as if you have too much to juggle. Try to eliminate as much as you can. Tonight: At home.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Make yourself available for calls and others’ inquiries. You will receive a spontaneous invitation that you would like to say yes to, but it might force you to cancel other established plans. Only you can choose what to do.

Tonight: Whatever makes you happy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You could go overboard when celebrating your Irish heritage.

You might feel uncomfortable when someone brings up your tendency to overindulge. A loved one might try to encourage this conversation, which he or she could feel is long overdue. Tonight: Try to relax.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH You might have made plans with someone, only to have a last-minute change occur. Be gracious, because you could have an even better time opting to be spontaneous. If you are unattached, the potential for meeting someone is high. Remain open. Tonight: Party away.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HH If you want to let go of a tradition or decide not join in with the shamrocks and the green-themed parties, make it OK. It is quite possible that you need a break from rituals, so take it. By next year, you might be more up for participating. Tonight: Not to be found.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH You’ll want to network rather than be stuck in a meeting. You will feel 100 percent Irish today. Nothing makes you as happy as being the party animal you naturally are. Try to get started early on in your Irish transformation. Tonight: With friends.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You naturally take the lead, whether you’re at work or out socializing. Take charge -- be it at the office, at home or at a St. Paddy’s Day party. You might need to distance yourself from a situation that is evolving into a power play. Tonight: A must appearance.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Your mind wanders today to distant places or people far away You might need to carefully rethink a decision involving a personal matter. How much are you really willing to reveal?

Recognize a limitation instead of avoiding it. Tonight: Try a new spot.

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HHHHH One-on-one relating could take a new twist, as long as you remain open-minded. Perhaps a discussion about long-term goals with a close friend needs to happen. You also might find that you are changing your values and the kind of people you are with. Tonight: Go with the flow.

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New COA Book RUSSELL - The Russell Council on Aging (COA) book for March 18 is in! The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute is our new book. Meet the Bean family, of backwoods Egypt, Maine.

This family lives with dignity, honesty and humor! A window into the world of the very, very poor in rural America. We will be meeting on Tuesday, March 18 at 9:30 am. at the Russell Senior Center. Pick up your book today at the Russell Senior Center Library. All are welcome.

Knitting Class WESTFIELD - There will be a “Learn to Knit or Perfect Your Knitting Skill” class offered on Tuesday evenings from 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. starting March 18 to April 22 in the Jasper Rand Art Room at the Westfield Athenaeum. The class will hold a total of six sessions for a cost of $40. All levels of knitters are welcome.

Registration forms are available on the library’s website or at the circulation desks.

Preregistration is required as class size is limited. Questions should be directed to Donna at 262-4934. All proceeds will benefit supporting programs and projects at the Athenaeum.

History of the Atheneum WESTFIELD On Wednesday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Westfield Athenaeum, President of the Board of Trustees, Bob Brown will present his lecture “Fact and Fiction in Athenaeum History” in the Lang Auditorium.

Participants are invited to join us at 6 p.m. in the Jasper Rand Art Gallery for a welcoming reception. The purpose of the Edwin Smith Family Distinguished Speaker Award is to honor an individual who has distinguished him or herself in their chosen field, and who has been successful in communicating this interest to a wider audience. This program is free and all are welcome.

Please call the library for more information at 413-5620638.

Museum Trip SOUTHWICK - A bus will depart from the Southwick Senior Center at 10 a.m. on March 20 for the Connecticut Science Museum at 3 p.m.

The cost is $20 per person, which includes entrance to the museum and parking.

Lunch will be on your own at the museum.

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WESTFIELD - Westfield State University continues its Month Celebrating Women events with “Queer in South Asia,” a movie screening and discussion led by Dr. Shoba Sharad Rajgopal, associate professor of ethnic and gender studies on Tuesday, March 18 at 2 p.m. in the Scanlon Banquet Hall.

Dr. Rajgopal will screen the short film “Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh” from the anthology “Bombay Talkies” and lead a discussion following the film.

The short film follows a TV Editor, her husband, a news TV anchor, and a young intern who are entangled in their own web of lies and emotions. Rajgopal said she chose this film because it highlights gender rights, one of the core values of Month Celebrating Women.

WESTFIELD - Exercise classes at the Westfield Senior Center taught by Westfield State University students majoring in Movement Science under the direct supervision of Dr. Melissa Roti will begin in March and run for six sessions. The classes will be held on Thursdays, March 20 and 27, April 3, 10 and 17 and May 1 from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. There is no charge, but sign-ups are necessary because space is limited. This program has been very successful in the past so we are thrilled to have a new group of students to lead the classes again this year. Free parking is available in the Stop & Shop lot or, for no more than three hours, in the Thomas Street Municipal Lot located behind the Bank of America.

Services and programs at the Senior Center are open to any resident aged 60 and older. To sign up for the sessions or for more information, please call 562-6435

Breakfast Get Together RUSSELL Russell Council on Aging is hosting a Breakfast Get Together March 19 from 9:30-11:00 a.m. The breakfast is free and open to all seniors from Russell and neighboring communities. Stop by the Russell Senior Center, have breakfast, conversation, and friendly visiting. Breakfast includes oatmeal, muffins, smoothies, coffee and tea.

Take home breakfasts will be available. If you have any questions please leave a message on the Senior Center information line at 413-8626205.

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SOUTHWICK - The Southwick Historical Society will present “Threads from the Past - How to Care for Your Antique Textiles,” on Thursday, March 27. Our speaker is Penni Martorell from Whistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, where she serves as a professional archivist and curator of collections.

She also lectures on the industrial history, immigrant history and paper and textile mill history of Holyoke. She has led workshops on preserving heirlooms and basic textile preservation. Please join us at Christ Church United Methodist Fellowship Hall, at 222 College Highway, Southwick at 7 p.m. for this free and informative presentation. Bring your quilts or favorite antique textiles and learn how to care for your cherished items.

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0220 Music Instruction

0340 Apartment

ALICE'S PIANO STUDIO. Piano, organ and keyboard lessons. All ages, all levels. Call (413)5682176.

WESTFIELD 3rd floor efficiency apartment with lots of cabinet space. Recently remodeled. Appliances included. Washer/dryer hookups. Quiet neighborhood. Off street parking. $600/month WESTFIELD SCHOOL OF MU- plus utilities. No pets. Non SIC offers private instrument smoker. (413)374-8803. and vocal lessons and "Happy Feet" (babies, toddlers) class.

Visit our web site at: westfield- W E S T F I E L D 1 & 2 b e d r o o m schoolofmusic.com or call at apartments, rent includes heat (413)642-5626. and hot water. Excellent size and location. No dogs. Call weekdays (413)786-9884.

0235 Pets

0345 Rooms FURNISHED ROOM for rent.

Full kitchen and bath, on bus route. $105/week. (413)6425124.

HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air conditioning, refrigerator and microwave included. Call (413)531-2197.

ROOM FOR RENT in Southwick/Lakeview. Kitchen and laundry privileges. Female preferred. $475/month includes utilities. (413)244-0787.

WESTFIELD, 1st floor, 1 bedroom, kitchen and bath. No pets. $595/month plus electric. First, BERNESE MOUNTAIN PUP- last, security. Call (413)250ROOM TO RENT in a quiet PIES. Ready to go March 1st. 4811. neighborhood. Kitchen and launCall Dog Zone (413)569-1420. dry privilege. Heat, A/C, utilities.

Available now to non-smoker. $600/month, Westfield.

WESTFIELD, 2nd floor, 2 bed- (413)355-2338 or (413)5620255 Articles For Sale room, kitchen, living room, bath, 7341. enclosed porch. No pets. $795/month plus utilities. First, DIAMOND GOLD Connection last, security. (413)250-4811.

Gift Certificate. $100. value, $50.

Call (413)562-4220.

0260 Computers SOUTHWICK ENTERPRISE COMPUTERS. I/T for business without monthly fees. Networks, email, virus removal, Quick Books/office support. Free consultation. Microsoft certified.

(413)374-9910.

0265 Firewood 100% HARDWOOD, GREEN, $140. 3 year season. $150. 1/2 & 1/4 cords also available. Outdoor furnace wood also available, cheap. CALL FOR DAILY SPECIALS!! Wholesale Wood Products, (304)851-7666.

A SEASONED LOG TRUCK LOAD of hardwood; (when processed at least 7 cords), for only $650-$700 (depends on delivery distance). Call Chris @ (413)454-5782.

AFFORDABLE FIREWOOD. Seasoned and green. Cut, split, delivered. Any length. Now ready for immediate delivery.

Senior and bulk discount. Call (413)848-2059, (413)530-4820.

SEASONED FIREWOOD 100% hardwood. Stacking available.

Cut, split, delivered. (128cu.ft.)

Volume discounts. Call for pricing. Hollister's Firewood (860)653-4950.

SILO DRIED FIREWOOD. (128cu.ft.) guaranteed. For prices call Keith Larson (413)537-4146.

0285 Wanted To Buy PAYING CASH FOR COINS, stamps, medals, tokens, paper money, diamonds and jewelry, gold and silver scrap. Broadway Coin & Stamp, 144 Broadway, Chicopee Falls, MA. (413)5949550.

0340 Apartment WESTBRIDGE TOWNHOUSES, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, full basement. $800/month plus utilities.

(413)562-2295.

WESTFIELD Beautiful 2 bedroom townhouse, clean, quiet, 1-1/2 bath, carpeting, appliances, hot water included.

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MONTGOMERY 5 miles from Westfield. Spacious office includes utilities and WiFi. $350/month. Call (413)9776277.

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0390 Homes For Sale RUSSELL, 5 room, 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Updated plumbing, electric. Town utilities. Stream in back yard. $104,000. (508)2591856.

SOUTHAMPTON FOR LEASE 1,500 SQ.FT. Professional office space.

Prime location next to plaza.

John Kontekakis OPAL RE Group (413)204-4877

ROSEWOOD ESTATES 55+ CONDO

Beautiful 2 bedroom. Move-in condition. All new; kitchen cabinets with crown molding, stainless steel appliances, real hardwood floors, carpeting and vinyl. Asking $159,900. #50 ROSEWOOD LANE SOUTHWICK, MA

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0440 Services A1 ODD JOBS/HANDYMAN. Debris removal, landscaping, garage/attic cleansouts, interior and exterior painting, power washing, basic carpentry and plumbing. All types of repair work and more. (413)562-7462.

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Carpet

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CARPET, LINOLEUM, CERAMIC TILE, HARDWOOD FLOORS. Sales, Service. Installation & Repairs. Customer guaranteed quality, clean, efficient, workmanship. Call Rich (413)530-7922.

JIM FERRIS ELECTRIC. Senior discount. No job too small! Insured, DAVE DAVIDSON BATHROOM & free estimates. 40 years experience. KITCHEN REMODELING. “GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME” Complete Bath Lic. #16303. Call (413)330-3682.

Home Improvement

Renovations. Mass. License #072233, Mass. Registration #144831. CT. HIC. #0609568. Now serving CT. Insured.

Quality Work on Time on Budget MASTER ELECTRICIAN 40 years ex- Since 1984. (413)569-9973. perience. Insured, reasonable prices. www.davedavidsonremodeling.com

No job too small. Call Tom Daly, WAGNER RUG & FLOORING, LLC. 95 (413)543-3100. Lic# A7625.

MAINLINE DRIVE, WESTFIELD. (413)568-0520. One stop shopping for all your floors. Over 40 years in business. www.wagnerrug.com Flooring/Floor Sanding

Chimney Sweeps

DELREO HOME IMPROVEMENT for all your exterior home improvement needs. Roofing, siding, windows, decks and gutters. Call for free quote.

Extensive references, fully licensed & A RON JOHNSON’S FLOOR SANDinsured in MA. & CT. www.delreoING. Installation, repairs, 3 coats homeimprovement.com Call Gary polyurethane. Free estimates. (413) Delcamp (413)569-3733.

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HENTNICK CHIMNEY SWEEPS. Chimney repairs and rebuilds. Stainless steel caps and liner systems. Inspections, masonry work and gutter Hauling cleaning. Free estimates. Insured.

Quality work from a business you can A DUMP TRUCK. Attic, cellars, yard, trust. (413)848-0100, 1-800-793-3706. scrap metal removal. Seasoned Firewood. (413)569-1611, (413)374-5377.

Drywall T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete profesA.R.A. JUNK REMOVAL SERVICE. sional drywall at amateur prices. Our Furniture, trash, appliances. Full house ceilings are tops! Call Mike 413-821cleanouts, basements, attics, yards.

8971. Free estimates.

Furnace and hot water heater removal.

24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE. Free estimate on phone. Senior disElectrician count. Call Pete (413)433-0356. www.arajunkremoval.com.

POEHLMAN ELECTRIC. All types of wiring. Free estimates, insured. SPECIALIZING IN PORTABLE AND WHOLE HOUSE KOHLER GENERAHome Improvement TORS, SERVICE UPGRADES, SMALL JOBS, POOLS. Gutter deicing cables installed. I answer all calls! Prompt service, best prices. BRUNO ANTICO BUILDING REMODELING.Kitchens, additions, Lic. #A-16886. (413)562-5816.

TURCOTTE ELECTRIC. 30+ years experience. Electrical installations, emergency service work. Generac portable or whole house generator installations. HVAC controls and energy saving green technology upgrades. Fully insured. All calls answered. Master’s Lic #A-18022.

(413)214-4149.

TOM DISANTO Home Improvements The best choice for all interior and exterior building and remodeling. Specializing in the design and building of residential additions, since 1985. Kitchens, baths, siding, windows, decks, porches, sunrooms, garages. License #069144. MA Reg. #110710. FREE ESTIMATES, REFERENCES, FULLY INSURED. Call Tom (413)568-7036.

PAUL MAYNARD CONSTRUCTION. All your carpentry needs. (413)3864606. Did your windows fail with the cold weather? Don't wait another year!

Call Paul for replacement windows.

Many new features available. Windows are built in CT. All windows installed by Paul, owner of Paul Maynard Construction. My name is on my work.

Home Maintenance

HANDYMAN/CARPENTER. All home repairs: Honey to do list, bathroom remodeling, tile work, sheetrock repairs, decks, rec rooms, more. Prompt, re- winterization.

No job too small. 35 years liable service, free estimates. Mass profressional experience. (413)519Registered #106263, licensed & in- 3251.

sured. Call Bruno, (413)562-9561.

JOSEPH’S HANDYMAN COMPANY. Carpentry, remodeling, kitchen, baths, C&N CARPENTRY. Suspended ceil- basements, drywall, tile, floors, susings, home improvements and remod- pended ceilings, restoration services, eling. Licensed and insured. Call doors, windows, decks, stairs, interior/exterior painting, plumbing.

(413)262-9314.

Small jobs ok. All types of professional work done since 1985. Call Joe, (413)364-7038.

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ONE STOP SHOPPING for all your ROOFING needs! POWER WASHING/CLEANING revitalizing your roof, removing ugly black stains, mold and moss, we’ll make it look like new plus prolong the life of your roof. We do emergency repairs, new construction, complete tear off, ice and water protection barrier systems, skylight repairs.

Snow & ice removal. FREE gutter cleaning with any roof repair or roof job.

At SANTA FE PAINTING CO. We're 10% senior discount. Free estimates. your color specialists! Fall season is MA. Lic. #170091. Call (413)977-5701 in full swing. Get all your exterior painting needs done now. Including Snowplowing painting and staining log homes.

A.B.C. SNOWPLOWING. Westfield Call (413)230-8141 residential only. 15 years experience. Call Dave (413)568-6440.

ALWAYS CALL FIRST!!! M&M SERVICES-20 Years serving the Westfield area. Painting, staining, house washing, interior/exterior. Wall coverings.

Commercial/residential. Free estimates. Insured. References. Mass Reg. #121723. Call (413)568-9731. No job too small !!

A NEW LOOK FOR 2014. Let Home Decor help. Interior painting and wallpapering, specializing in faux finishes.

Servicing the area over 12 years. Call Kendra now for a free estimate and decorating advice. (413)564-0223, (413)626-8880.

Landscaping/Lawn Care

SNOWPLOWING / Snowblowing lots, driveways. ROOF RAKING. Dependable, reliable service. Call (413)3745377.

SNOWPLOWING, SNOW BLOWING, SHOVELING. Call Accurate Lawn Services, (413)579-1639.

SOLEK BROTHERS SNOW REMOVAL. Roofs, decks, driveways, parking lots, ice dams. Fully insured.

Free estimates. Sean (413)977-5456.

YARD CLEANUP, thatching, leaf brush removal, hedge/tree trimming, Tree Service mulch/stone, mowing. Call Accurate A BETTER OPTION - GRANFIELD Lawncare, (413)579-1639.

Masonry ABC MASONRY & BASEMENT WATERPROOFING. All brick, block, concrete. Chimneys, foundations, hatchways, new basement windows installed and repaired. Sump pumps and french drain systems installed. Foundations pointed and stuccoed. Free estimates. (413)5691611. (413)374-5377.

TREE SERVICE. Tree Removal, Land Clearing, Excavating. Firewood, Log Truck Loads. (413)569-6104.

AMERICAN TREE & SHRUB. Professional fertilizing, planting, pruning, cabling and removals. Free estimates, fully insured. Please call Ken 5690469.

CONRAD TREE SERVICE. Expert tree removal. Prompt estimates.

Crane work. Insured. “After 34 years, we still work hard at being #1.” (413)562-3395.

Plumbing & Heating

Upholstery

NICK GARDNER PLUMBING, WELDING & MECHANICAL SERVICES. Professional, reliable service.

MA Lic. #PL31893-J. Certified Welding. Insured. Call (413)531-2768 Nick7419@comcast.net

KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & REPAIRS. 30+ years experience for home or business. Discount off all fabrics. Get quality workmanship at a great price. Free pickup and delivery. Call (413)5626639.