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Kat Okhrimenko, 22, a graduate of Westfield Vocational High School, spoke at the 2015 Summer Jobs Kickoff Friday about her employment experience with the YouthWorks program at Westfield City Hall, where she sold stickers for the transfer station. Okhrimenko is currently an intern with Aero Fastener in Westfield. On the right is Sherry Elander, Transition Teacher for the Westfield Public Schools, who was an advisor to Okhrimenko.

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WHS students allegedly attack principal WESTFIELD (WWLP) – Two Westfield High School students allegedly assaulted school principal Jonathan Carter.

The school’s resource officer and other members of the administration came to help.

The Superintendent of the Westfield Public Schools says the two high school students will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Dr. Suzanne Scallion said two girls, ages 16 and 17, tried to attack another student. That’s when Carter blocked a doorway that led to their target.

The two girls allegedly turned their attack on Carter, punching, kicking and biting him. The school’s resource officer arrested the girls and Scallion said they’ve been suspended and could be expelled.

Summer youth jobs program kicks-off

By AMY PORTER Correspondent WESTFIELD – The Regional Employment Board (REB) of Hampden County hosted a kick-off at Shaker Farms Country Club on Friday for its 2015 Summer Jobs Program, connecting youth from Westfield, Springfield, Holyoke and Chicopee to career opportunities.

The goal of the REB is to place 1,000 Hampden County youth in jobs this summer. Of those jobs, 525 are statesubsidized for eligible youth through the YouthWorks summer jobs program.

Youth employed through YouthWorks earn $9 per hour, work an average of 125 hours for six weeks, and receive 15 hours of workplace readiness and workplace safety training. Fifty of the YouthWorks slots are earmarked for Westfield.

Mayors Daniel M. Knapik of Westfield and Dominic J. Sarno of Springfield joined State Senator Don Humason and Representative John Velis in offering words of encouragement to the young people who came to the kickoff to learn more about seeking summer jobs.

Master of Ceremonies Cleveland Burton, chair of the Hampden County Youth Council, introduced Knapik with an award for his support of the Summer Jobs Program.

Knapik in turn thanked the legislators in attendance.

“This is a wonderful program that you guys have supported over the years,” Knapik said. “The most important thing we can provide youth in our community is an educational experience. The next best thing is an employment experi-

Master of Ceremonies Cleveland Burton, chair of the Hampden County Youth Council, introduced Mayor Daniel M. Knapik with an award for his support of the Summer Jobs Program at the 2015 Kickoff at Shaker Farms Country Club on Friday. (Photo

by Amy Porter)

ence.”

Velis spoke about his first summer job at Pizza Town in Westfield.

“The first thing my employer said to me was, ‘if you’re late, I will fire you.’”, Velis said. He said that was one of many important lessons he learned on that job.

“You will be shocked that so many people you will meet will become resources for the rest of your life,” he said.

Kat Okhrimenko, 22, a graduate of Westfield Vocational High School in business technology, spoke about her employment experience with the

YouthWorks program at Westfield City Hall, where she sold stickers for the transfer station.

She said her goal on the job was to make people smile. She also helped translate for Russian speakers.

“I loved this experience because it gave me something to do for the summer and helped me to find myself,” she said.

“It made me more confident.”

Okhrimenko is currently an intern with Aero Fastener in Westfield.

Employers Nancy Kotowitz of Shaker Farms Country Club and Laura Smigel of Noble Hospital also spoke of the benefits of employing young people during the summer.

Kotowitz noted that for her seasonal business, summer help was needed.

“We really love having the kids.

They’re great,” she said. Smigel called hiring youth a “win-win” for Noble Hospital and the REB program.

“We’re proud to say that we’ve had two kids in the last two years that we’ve been able to hire at Noble,” Smigel said.

Cleveland Burton said there are three ways that everyone can help a young person find employment this summer: hire a youth, donate money, or become a worksite.

He said a donation of $150 would help to pay wages for one week for a youth working in a community betterment project in parks, camps, or non-profit agencies.

Employers who are interested in learning more about the project should contact Kathryn Kirby, Manager of Youth Employment and Workforce Programs at the Regional Employment Board of Hampshire County (www.rebhc.org).

JONATHAN CARTER

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DR. SUZANNE SCALLION Superintendent

Ruling could allow debate on budget tax amendments BOSTON (AP) — A ruling by Senate President Stan Rosenberg could open the door to debate over tax changes when the Senate takes up the roughly $38 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts in July.

The Amherst Democrat’s position is that the spending plan approved by the House last month is by definition a “money bill,” and can be a vehicle for hiking or lowering state taxes.

The Senate Ways and Means Committee is expected to unveil its version of the state budget this week, with floor debate likely the following week.

While it may seem counter-intuitive that a $38 billion budget would not be considered a money bill, that’s how the state constitution has been interpreted.

According to the most recent edition of the Legislative Research and Drafting Manual, agreed upon by both House and Senate counsel, a money bill “may either See State Budget, Page 3

Bike week events planned for city

Don Podolski, owner of New Horizons Bikes on Franklin Street, Westfield, will offer a free maintenance clinic on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. for biking enthusiasts as part of the annual Bay State Bike Week celebrations.

By LORI SZEPELAK Correspondent WESTFIELD – Don Podolski, known by many as the “face” of bicycling in the city for almost three decades, is once again energized as plans roll out for Bay State Bike Week which takes to the streets through May 17.

“We’re very fortunate in Massachusetts to have a bikefriendly government and bikefriendly Massachusetts Department of Transportation,” said Podolski.

Podolski, owner of New Horizons Bikes on Franklin Street, explained that Massachusetts is one of several states where cyclists have the right to use the full lane.

“Lane positioning in Massachusetts is determined by what the cyclist considers safe and drivers are required to slow down and pass at a safe distance,” he said.

This year marks the 16th anniversary of Bike Week in the Pioneer Valley, and Podolski is proud that the city has been an active participant in festivities since the beginning.

“We are proud that the state took our lead and now sponsors Bike Week across the state,” he said.

A Mayor’s Ride from City Hall kicks off Bike Week at 8:30 a.m.

Monday, which includes highlights of current and future projects that

impact bicycling. On Tuesday, a Slow Ride kicks off at 6 p.m. from Park Square. The 30- to 40-minute ride will encompass four miles and include core bicycling areas of the downtown. On Wednesday, a free breakfast for cyclists is planned from 6 to 10 a.m. in front of the Rinnova building at 105 Elm St. On Thursday, Podolski will lead a free maintenance clinic at New Horizons Bikes starting at 6:30 p.m.

“The clinic will review the basics of bike set up, flat tire repair, and safety checks on parts including gears,” he said.

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The Darrin and Celinez Jodoin family from West Springfield enjoy a warm day at Stanley Park. In the photo, Darrin, Myalynn Ranson, Mark Jodoin and Celinez Jodoin. (All photos by Don Wielgus)

Mother’s Day celebrated

Mother Sarah Wain, Emily Gillis, and Shirley Wain take home A carnation on Mothers day.

Joyce Catrambone and May Mallgraf hold on to their carnations with family.

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Chinese billionaire gives France vacation to 6,400 workers NICE, France (AP) — The billionaire chief executive of the Chinese conglomerate Tiens has given 6,400 of his best salespeople a vacation that started in Paris and ended with a parade on France’s Cote d’Azur.

CEO Li Jinyuan said he was celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary by rewarding his staff and aimed for the world record in spelling out a phrase in human bodies.

As their vacation wound down, the employees on Friday massed on the coastal promenade in Nice and, dressed in identical sky blue hats and T-shirts, spelled out the words “Tiens’ dream is Nice in the Cote d’Azur.”

Jinyuan was greeted by France’s foreign affairs minister, Laurent Fabius, mid-week in Paris.

French media estimated the trip’s cost at 13-20 million euros ($14.5-$22.3 million).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, May 11, the 131st day of 2015. There are 234 days left in the year.

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n May 11, 1945, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill was attacked and severely damaged by two kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa; according to the U.S. Navy’s official website, 346 men were killed, 43 were left missing, and 264 were wounded.

In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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In 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.

In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.

In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.

In 1985, 56 people died when a flash fire swept a jampacked soccer stadium in Bradford, England.

In 1862, during the Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia was scuttled by its crew off Craney Island, Virginia, to prevent it from falling into Union hands.

In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

In 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces launched a major offensive against Axis lines in Italy.

In 1953, a tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.

In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.

TEN YEARS AGO: More than 1,000 demonstrators rioted and threw stones at a U.S. military convoy in Afghanistan as protests spread over a Newsweek report that interrogators had desecrated Islam’s holy book at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. (Newsweek later retracted the story.) Actor Macaulay Culkin took the stand at Michael Jackson’s trial to denounce the molestation allegations against the pop star as “absolutely ridiculous.” (Jackson was acquitted.)

FIVE YEARS AGO: Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years af-

ter Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government. Italian designer Giuliana Coen Camerino, credited with making handbags a fashion item, died in Venice at age 89.

ONE YEAR AGO: Pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine said voters overwhelmingly favored sovereignty in balloting that the Ukraine central government and the West denounced as an illegal sham. Musa Dayib, a 15-month-old toddler, miraculously survived an 11-story fall from a Minneapolis high-rise apartment balcony. Jeb Stuart Magruder, 79, a Watergate conspirator-turned minister, died in Danbury, Connecticut.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Comedian Mort Sahl is 88. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 82. Rock singer Eric Burdon (The Animals; War) is 74. Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo is 63. Actress Frances Fisher is 63. Actor Boyd Gaines is 62. Country musician Mark Herndon (Alabama) is 60. Actress Martha Quinn is 56. Country singer-musician Tim Raybon (The Raybon Brothers) is 52. Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 51. Actor Jeffrey Donovan is 47. Country musician Keith West (Heartland) is 47. Actor Nicky Katt is 45. Actor Coby Bell is 40. Cellist Perttu Kivilaakso is 37. Actor-singer Jonathan Jackson is 33. Rapper Ace Hood is 27. Musician Howard Lawrence (Disclosure) is 21.

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GOVERNMENT MEETINGS MONDAY, MAY 11 GRANVILLE Monday Night meetings at 7 pm

TOLLAND Board of Selectmen at 5 pm

CHESTER Selectmen’s Meeting at 6 pm Board of Health at 6 pm

WESTFIELD Police Commission at 5:30 pm School Committee at 6:15 pm Special Meeting of the School Committee at 7 pm

TUESDAY, MAY 12 SOUTHWICK Annual Town Elections at 7 am

TOLLAND Council on Aging at 9 am Conserv Comm Open Office Hours & Business Meeting at 12 pm

WESTFIELD Conservation Commission at 6:30 pm

MONDAY, MAY 18 GRANVILLE Monday Night meetings at 7 pm Planning Board

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

TUESDAY, MAY 19 TOLLAND School Committee at 7 pm

WESTFIELD Planning Board at 7 pm

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 GRANVILLE EMTs at 7 pm

CHESTER Municipal Electric Light Meeting at 7 pm

THURSDAY, MAY 21 GRANVILLE Library Trustees at 7 pm

MONDAY, MAY 25 GRANVILLE Monday Night meetings at 7 pm

TOLLAND Legal Holiday Memorial Day All Day Men’s Coffee at PSC Building at 7:45 am Board of Selectmen at 5 pm

CHESTER Selectmen’s Meeting at 6 pm Board of Health at 6 pm

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reduce general tax revenue or increase state tax revenue.” A straight appropriations bill that only involves expenditure of state funds would not be considered a money bill.

Another important distinction is that money bills must originate in the House of Representatives.

Former Senate President Therese Murray ruled in previous years that the House-approved budget was not a money bill and that any Senate amendments to raise or lower taxes were out of order.

The spending plan unanimously approved April 29 by the House included a little-noticed provision that increased the state cap on tax credits for conservation land by $3 million.

Rosenberg’s spokesman said the Senate leader believes that’s enough to make it a “money bill.”

Senators from both parties welcome the ruling. Some members may seek to raise additional revenue to support state programs, while others might file amendments to cut taxes or rein in certain tax breaks and incentives.

Major changes seem unlikely.

Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and Democratic House Speaker Robert DeLeo are firmly on record against any increase in broad-based taxes. The state’s tight finances also appear to weigh against any significant tax breaks.

CSF Westfield Dollars for Scholars Annual Scholarship Awards Night WESTFIELD — CSF Westfield Dollars for Scholars is pleased to announce the 53rd Annual Scholarship Awards Night to be held Wednesday, May 20, 2015 beginning at 7pm. in the Auditorium of the South Middle School.

Fire Department investigators determined that the cause of a two-alarm fire which ignited a 12-by-12 shed at 63 Montgomery Street, then jumped to a nearby structure used for furniture storage at 65 Montgomery Street, gutting both structures, was an unattended chiminia burning near the shed. (Photo by Dan Moriarty.

Blaze destroys shed and storage building

By DAN MORIARTY Staff Writer WESTFIELD – Fire Department investigators determined that the cause of a two-alarm fire which ignited a 12-by-12 shed at 63 Montgomery Street, then jumped to a nearby structure used for furniture storage at 65 Montgomery Street, gutting both structure, was an unattended chiminia burning near the shed.

The fire was reported as a brush fire near a shed at 4:38 p.m., but Deputy Chief Mark Devine reported that when firefighters arrived the shed was burning and the flames spreading to the nearby building which formerly housed the office, retail area and storage building of the former Bilodeau Flower business.

“The call came in as a shed fire, a rather large shed at 63 Montgomery St., which was fully engulfed when the first firefighters arrived, and was spreading next door to the building at 65 Montgomery St.,” Devine said. Devine listed the cause of the fire as a “hot ember or ash” from the chiminia.

Devine said that all of the department’s apparatus, including the aerial tower, pumpers 2,3,4 and 5, and an ambulance, as well as 16 fire personnel were dispatched to bring the blaze under control and to protect nearby residential structures.

Devine said the heat of the fire did cause damage to the house at 63 Montgomery St., melting the exterior siding of a sun room at the rear of the structure near the location of the chiminia.

Devine called a second alarm, requesting mutual aid from Holyoke and West Springfield. The Holyoke Fire Department dispatched a ladder truck while the West

Fire Department investigators determined that the cause of a two-alarm fire which ignited a 12-by-12 shed at 63 Montgomery Street, then jumped to a nearby structure used for furniture storage at 65 Montgomery Street, gutting both structures, was an unattended chiminea (pictured here) burning near the shed. (Photo by Dan Moriarty) Springfield Fire Department dispatched a pumper. Both of those apparatus were stationed at Broad Street to respond to emergencies elsewhere in the city.

Devine said one firefighters suffered an injury and was transported to Noble Hospital where he was treated and later returned to duty.

Two firefighters and an engine were stationed at the fire scene overnight to ensure that the fire did not rekindle and to control hot spots in the storage structure which had several sections of the roof collapsing inside the building during the fire.

Devine said firefighters heard several explosions while fighting the blaze, but were unable to determine the cause and source of those explosions.

The heat of the fire also blew out the windows of the former business building.

“We found a propane tank inside, but that had not

exploded,” Devine said. “All sort of things explode in the heat of a fire. It’s common for tires, aerosol cans and other items to explode.”

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The secret weapon for beleaguered police Amid unprecedented criticism, a union chief has a plan to redeem law enforcement’s image

By BEN SCHRECKINGER Politico.com American law enforcement, long accustomed to deference from Washington, faces a mounting onslaught. Its public image is in the tank, the Justice Department is fielding calls to investigate departments across the country, and lawmakers from both parties are pushing to pass reform right now. It’s a perilous time for police, but the cops have a secret weapon: Jim Pasco. And Jim Pasco has a plan.

Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest law enforcement union, has consistently defended officers, even rebuking President Barack Obama as unrest flared in Ferguson, Missouri. “I would contend that discussing police tactics from Martha’s Vineyard is not helpful to ultimately calming the situation,” he said in August. But the steady series of controversial deaths of black men — in New York, South Carolina and Baltimore — has spurred Pasco to action. His strategy for the present crisis: Slow down the pace of reform with a congressional commission to study the issues and come back with recommendations.

Pasco is betting he can leverage his carefully built relationships — which extend to both sides of the aisle and into the top reaches of the White House and the Justice Department — to take the most drastic remedies, like opening a string of “pattern and practices” investigations, off the table.

It’s an approach reminiscent of the NRA’s response to urgent calls for new gun control measures after the mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012. The group commissioned a private task force led by Asa Hutchinson, now the governor of Arkansas, which came back four months after the shooting with a recommendation that schools arm staff members.

Pasco said he’s not aware of the NRA precedent and that he doesn’t want to stand in the way of good ideas that are ready to go but that the task at hand needs time. “As much as we’d like to see a result tomorrow,” he says, “every law enforcement problem does not require a solution tomorrow that’s going to have ramifications for 20 or 30 years.”

But reformers in Congress, led by the Congressional Black Caucus and libertarian Republicans, want results now.

“There are many throughout the country who’ve run out of patience with conversations and commissions,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), a CBC member. “The Congressional Black Caucus is committed in my view to get something done with the fierce urgency of now.” The caucus rejects Pasco’s suggestion that much of the reform should be referred to a congressional commission like one proposed by Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.

Along with trying to discourage Department of Justice investigations such as the one underway in Baltimore, Pasco is battling a bill that would restrict the flow of excess military supplies to police departments. He wants any plan for gathering data on deaths at the hands of police to be tied to one for gathering data on attacks on police officers, and he wants Congress to deal with policing reforms through a successor to the Kerner Commission, the body established by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to address the causes of race riots in Detroit, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles and other major cities.

He has two advantages: a rare depth of connection to both parties and the job of representing a group that has both labor and law-andorder appeal. “Jim Pasco’s name is on the wall of the National See Union Chief, Page 5

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Trade bill fate in doubt as debate kicks off Both sides are racing to sway lawmakers on President Barack Obama’s top priority.

By LAUREN FRENCH, BURGESS EVERETT and JOHN BRESNAHAN Politico.com A controversial trade bill is well shy of the votes needed to pass the House and faces a difficult vote in the Senate as the debate in Congress kicks off in earnest this week.

Congressional sources say that fewer than 20 House Democrats currently back giving President Barack Obama increased powers to cut trade deals — a top priority of the White House and the business lobby. And with Senate Democrats vowing to stall consideration of Obama’s request for fast-track trade authority possibly for weeks, Republicans in both chambers face a high hurdle to get the measure through Congress.

Each side is projecting confidence that it will prevail.

Indeed, this is a rare debate in Congress in which ideological lines are so scrambled that the outcome is truly anyone’s guess.

The Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to take up the bill, and Minority Leader Harry Reid is leaning on his caucus to block the chamber from doing so until it first deals with reform of government surveillance programs and transportation legislation. The procedural vote is as much a barometer of the retiring Reid’s hold on his divided caucus as it is a gauge of support for the trade bill. That’s because some Democrats who back the trade bill are nonetheless expected to support the Nevada Democrat’s bid to force the GOP’s hand on the other measures.

Opponents and advocates of the trade bill still regard the Tuesday vote as important. If Democrats are able to stop Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from bringing the trade legislation to the Senate floor until June, it will give liberal and labor groups more time to mobilize opposition in Congress and complicate Obama’s efforts to clinch the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.

Senate Republicans are plainly worried about the effect of Reid’s procedural gambit.

“I don’t even want to speculate on that,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said last week.

Nonetheless, the Senate is expected to eventually approve the so-called trade promotion authority bill — which would allow Obama to submit unamendable trade deals to Congress for up-or-down votes — whenever it comes up for a final vote.

The bigger drama may turn out to be in the House, where the overwhelming majority of Democrats and a large contingent of Republicans oppose the measure.

Passage of the bill there will put pressure on House GOP leadership to schedule a quick vote, even though congressional sources predict supporters in the House need at least 20 more votes to pass the legislation.

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told lawmakers that the House will likely take up TPA in May after the Senate acts, but he didn’t allot a specific time on the calendar. But he and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) have their work cut out for them.

Upward of 60 House Republicans are expected to vote against TPA despite a push from Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) — a key policy figure within the Republican Conference — for support. That means Obama and Boehner would need 30 or more Democrats to back the bill — a tough sell within a caucus that is both deeply skeptical of labor provisions and pushing for the inclusion of enforceable currency language in the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.

Still, those close to Ryan are confident Republicans can round up enough votes to get the trade authority bill over the 217-vote threshold. Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) is setting up small meetings with Republicans and Ryan for this week as part of a push to bring skeptical GOP lawmakers on board.

“The more members learn about the bill — and how it empowers Congress, not the president — the more confident we grow,” said Ways and Means spokesman Brendan Buck.

Republicans have been counting votes for more than a week but still have to persuade a faction of Republicans who are hellbent on denying Obama any additional executive authority — even on trade, a policy that normally enjoys broad support from the GOP. McCarthy said Thursday that Republicans need to weigh the economic boost that trade provides the U.S. and look past their distrust of Obama.

“We cannot hold ourselves back because someone does not care for the person in the White House. We have a check and balance,” McCarthy said. “Ronald Reagan did not stop and not move forward because the Democrats controlled the House and Senate. He moved forward each and every day and he took what he could get and came back the next day for what he didn’t get.”

Still, the larger problem is within the Democratic caucus.

Lawmakers such as Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) have been fiercely whipping members against fast track for a year.

She brought 151 Democrats together to oppose the legislation

last year and predicted on Friday that if the House were to vote on the measure this month, it would fail.

“I’m very confident, so what does that tell you?” she said.

“We have overwhelming opposition to TPA.” Aides think fewer than 20 Democrats are prepared to sign onto the TPA legislation, and both sides are battling over a pool of members sources put at close to 40.

Democrats have had their ears bent by both sides for months.

The Obama administration has been holding briefings for the past three months for members to sell the trade deal. And on Thursday, United States Trade Representative Michael Froman and other top Obama administration officials will brief lawmakers on the trans-Pacific trade deal.

Last week, Obama hosted a group of Senate Democrats at the White House to shore up support, and he has invited House Democrats for policy discussions on trade. He’s courting members of the Congressional Black Caucus and for weeks has sent top deputies to Capitol Hill to attempt to secure more votes.

The White House offensive is drawing rare praise of Obama from Republicans.

“He’s showing some strength on this,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). “It’s the president’s job to lead the country on important issues and lead his party. And on this, he’s doing that.”

Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Ron Kind, one of the most outspoken supporters of TPA in the House, argued more Democrats will side with Obama as they learn about the trade bills.

“The administration has been very proactive, with the president personally reaching out … and addressing concerns that members may have had,” said Kind, who chairs the moderate New Democrat Coalition.

Kind noted that just last week three Democrats said they would support TPA — Reps. Ami Bera of California, John Delaney of Maryland and Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon — a boost for proponents that he predicted would continue. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat, also announced last week her intention to vote for TPA. As for the planned Senate vote on Tuesday, there are signs Reid is prevailing on Democrats on both sides of the trade issue to stand by him. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) had been adamant that he’d vote against Reid but later turned around to say he can’t guarantee he’ll vote to advance the trade package, evidence that Reid’s argument is, at the very least, turning what should be an easy vote for Republicans into a toss-up.

“For a man who is not known for his subtlety, he’s been very clear about his views,” one Democratic senator said of Reid’s efforts. “But he’s also saying: ‘You know what, you’ve got to reach your own decisions.’”

Even Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has refused to say that he will vote to open debate on the trade legislation on Tuesday — a startling development to Republicans who thought they had a deal with Wyden to move the fast-track trade bill alongside a measure to provide aid to workers hurt by the free trade agreement.

But in interviews, Wyden and other Democrats say they want more, including greater assurances that Congress will also renew a duty-free trade program with African countries and a trade enforcement package that the GOP views as further complicating the bill.

“We’re still in discussions about what that really means,” Wyden said of the vote to open debate.

Democrats say McConnell has not yet sketched out how or whether various trade-related bills will be rolled together.

That’s a potential sticking point for Democrats, who are insisting that four pieces of trade legislation be taken up as a package.

No matter how McConnell handles those bills, their complexity practically ensures the debate won’t wrap up before the Memorial Day recess, no matter the result on Tuesday.

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Defense rests in penalty phase of bombing trial DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case Monday to save him from the death penalty, portraying him as an impressionable teenager from a troubled family who was lured into the deadly plot by his radicalized older brother.

The defense team called more than 40 witnesses during the penalty phase of his DZHOKHAR trial in the hope of convincing the jury that TSARNAEV Tsarnaev’s late older brother was the mastermind of the plot and that Tsarnaev deserves life in prison instead of execution.

His teachers recalled a sweet, hardworking boy, while his Russian family members wept as they described a kind child with an infectious smile.

A psychiatrist said Tsarnaev’s father struggled with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, while others described a mother who became obsessed with religion.

A nun and death penalty opponent made famous in the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking” said Tsarnaev expressed genuine sorrow for the victims of the attacks when she spoke with him recently.

Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when the Tsarnaev brothers placed two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the marathon April 15, 2013. Days after the bombings, the brothers also fatally shot a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in his cruiser.

From the beginning of the trial, Tsaranev’s lawyers admitted he participated in the bombings but said his older brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind. Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him during the first phase of the trial, including 17 that carry the possibility of the death penalty.

During the penalty phase, Tsarnaev’s lawyers urged the jury to consider Tsarnaev’s young age at the time of the bombings —19 — and his dysfunctional family as mitigating factors and grounds to spare his life.

Friends and family members said 26-year-old Tamerlan embraced a radical form of Islam and became a domineering influence on Dzhokhar.

Southwick Police Sergeant Kirk Sanders, left, an instructor of the 2015 Citizen’s Police Academy Spring Class, joins academy graduates, Chris Allen, Heather Allen, Jan Argiro, Nancy Bailey, Donna Charron, Brett Colson, Diane Graham, Roger Graham, Kenneth Phillips, Marilyn Phillips, Wendell Phillips, Patricia Phillips, Dan Provost, Kristin Rechenberger, David Rechenberger, Cindy Sullivan, Janet Vincent, Margaret Weston and Jean Welsh after Tuesday night’s graduation ceremony at the Southwick Town Hall. (Photo by Frederick Gore)

Citizen Police grads help solve crime, learn police ropes

By HOPE E. TREMBLAY Staff Writer SOUTHWICK – Last week, 19 students graduated from the Southwick Citizen Police Academy, bringing the total number of program graduates to 350.

Sgt. Kirk Sanders revived the academy in 2013 and since then, four groups of citizens have graduated.

Sanders said the program first began in 2001 and remains a great way for police to connect with the public.

PROSECUTORS:

Ex-police chief stole from Christmas toy fund SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The trial of a former western Massachusetts police chief who prosecutors say stole thousands of dollars from a Christmas toy fund is slated to begin next week.

The Springfield Republican reports former Lee Police Chief Joseph Buffis was indicted in 2013 following allegations he pocketed about $60,000 from the police-sponsored LaLiberte Toy Fund over five years. His trial is scheduled to start May 18.

Prosecutors are attempting to include evidence showing Buffis' thefts went beyond that period.

Officials say a forensic analyst determined Buffis took "nearly all" of hundreds of individual donations meant for poor children to write checks to "cash," himself, various credit cards and his own bank between 1999 and 2012.

Buffis pleaded not guilty to extortion, fraud and related charges. He denies he stole the money.

“It’s really about education,” said Sanders. “Citizens learn a lot about our police department and the different duties assigned to our officers.”

Sanders said the citizens academy is eight weeks and citizens spend one night for seven weeks learning the ropes. The last week is a two-night session covering Crime Scene Investigation (CSI).

“The CSI portion of the academy is fairly new,” Sanders said.

The CSI session was well-

the academy. “It helps us better communicate with people and our officers get to meet the public in a friendly setting.”

The Southwick Citizen Police Academy is open to any Southwick resident age 17 and older, or anyone who works in Southwick age 17 and older. The next session is set to begin the second week of October.

“Applications are available in the station lobby and I recommend people do not wait until October – it fills up fast,” said Sanders.

Police seek driver who lost wheelbarrow OXFORD, Mass. (AP) — State police want to talk with two drivers witnesses say were at the scene before a fatal crash caused by a wheelbarrow left on Interstate 395.

State police said Sunday they are looking for the driver of a red pickup truck with red wooden sides that witnesses said was carrying the wheelbarrow on top of a load of garden mulch. Witnesses said the wheelbarrow fell off Saturday.

Bike Week

Union Chief

Continued from Page 4 Democratic Club, and he was one of the clos- confirmed, I still said I didn’t think he’d get conest advisers that Karl Rove had,” noted Kevin firmed.”

Pasco said he’s not surprised by Driscoll’s O’Connor, a lobbyist for the International Association of Fire Fighters. “There’s not a lot of reaction. “Bob knew we would fight this guy people in this town anymore who really practice until the last dog died,” he said. “He understood that. And he knew there were levers we could bipartisanship.”

And Pasco, 68, has weathered crisis before — push in the Senate that would cause us to prevail, most memorably as congressional and media but that’s not true on every issue.”

Adegbile withdrew his nomination in liaison for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the wake of its botched 1993 raid on September and entered private practice. Pasco the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. maintains good relations with the Obama adminHe said he took an important lesson from the istration. “He’s a straight shooter,” said White disaster. “You can never be too careful or pay too House Counsel Neil Eggleston of the FOP lobbymuch attention to detail when planning for an ist. “We don’t always agree on everything, but operation, whether it’s a political operation, a law he’s a guy I can trust.”

Pasco said he’s in regular contact with the enforcement operation or anything in between.”

Pasco came to the ATF in 1970 by the way of administration’s new choice for the civil rights short stints in the Army and the U.S. Customs role, acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Service, and he jumped to the Fraternal Order of Gupta. He’s been discouraging “patterns and Police in 1995. He served as an adviser to George practices” investigations like the one the Justice W. Bush’s White House transition. He has also Department opened Thursday into Baltimore’s built strong relationships with Democrats, espe- police department at the request of Mayor cially Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who amid Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. (The Baltimore FOP the national backlash against police scored a has asked that the mayor’s role in policing also be legislative victory for them on Wednesday with subject to the investigation.) Instead, Pasco is Senate passage of a bill that reauthorized an pushing Justice to opt for “collaborative reviews” expired grant program that buys bulletproof vests like the one it opened with Baltimore police in for state and local law enforcement agencies.

October, which he views as less adversarial Pasco’s knack for playing on all sides has also toward police officers. Pasco describes his comlanded him in hot water. In 2010, The Washington munications with Gupta as “very positive” and Post reported on the tangled web of interests said that the FOP’s position on her nomination caught up in Pasco’s FOP work, his side practice will depend on the department’s handling of calls lobbying for private clients and his wife’s lobby- for these investigations. ing business. The Post cited several instances in “I understand what the fraternal order are saywhich positions taken by the FOP aligned with ing, but I would encourage them to think about the interests of the couple’s clients. In one, the history,” said Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver of FOP signed on to an amicus brief backing the Missouri, a Democrat and member of the CBC. music industry in a lawsuit against a file-sharing “Historically, the local police departments have service lawsuit at the same time that Sony was been almost as hostile as the outright hoodlums. paying Pasco $200,000 to lobby on Internet intel- … Minority communities believe they’re going lectual property theft. Pasco said his bosses at the to get a much more objective reading on things FOP have signed off on all of his private lobbying from the federal government.” Cleaver said the clients. opening of a patterns and practices investigation That same year, Pasco spoke forcefully against last year in Ferguson was instrumental in calming the use of civilian video of police activity, assert- unrest there. ing that amateur video is less trustworthy than Pasco is also working against a bill introduced patrol cars’ dash cameras because it is not pre- in the House by tea party Republican Raúl served in a chain of custody. In April, a bystand- Labrador of Idaho and Democrat Hank Johnson er’s cellphone video was instrumental in deter- of Georgia, a CBC member, that would “de-milmining a South Carolina officer had shot a man itarize police” by ending the transfer of certain fatally in the back as he ran away. equipment, including high-caliber weapons and The controversy over Pasco’s lobbying obliga- armored vehicles, from the Department of tions did little to diminish the sway of the FOP Defense to local police. The FOP’s position is — which spent $220,000 on lobbying last year that local police ought to have access to much of — as was evidenced in January 2014, when the the equipment, but that it should be tied to traingroup flexed its muscle on the nomination of ing.

Debo Adegbile to be the next assistant attorney Pasco’s suggestion doesn’t go far enough for general for the civil rights division. The group’s CBC member Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.). “What president, Chuck Canterbury, wrote an open let- is a local police force doing with a tank?” he ter to Obama to express the group’s “extreme asked. “If you need the military, call the National disappointment, displeasure and vehement oppo- Guard.” sition to the nomination” because of Adegbile’s Pasco and the reformers will maneuver in the work at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to coming weeks, with hearings planned by the reverse the death sentence of a man convicted of House and Senate judiciary committees, but killing a police officer. don’t expect Pasco to burn any bridges.

When Robert Driscoll, a former deputy assis“Jim’s a great strategist, and he takes a long tant attorney general in George W. Bush’s Justice view, and he knows he’s in this for the long run,” Department, saw the letter, he says he knew said Driscoll. “So he doesn’t blow up relationimmediately: “This guy’s not getting confirmed. ships based on the issue of the day.”

And even when it looked like he was going to get

received, especially by students who are fans of crime television.

“They made plaster molds of footprints and dusted and processed items for fingerprints,” Sanders said. “The second night they worked on a ‘crime’ and tried to figure out how evidence pertained to the case to solve the crime.”

Det. Sgt. Robert Landis and Officer Marc Siegel led the recent academy and, according to Sanders, “did a great job.”

“I love it,” Sanders said of

At each event, bike safety trinkets will also be distributed including reflective arm/leg bands, bells, Blinkie lights, and reflective stickers for one’s bike or helmet.

“We also hope that area residents visit the free Bicycle Eclectic photo exhibit in the Rinnova building this month,” said Podolski, noting the exhibition from Adventure Cycling features 21 prints from cyclists who tell their stories of traveling around the country.

Jay Vinskey, principal planner for the city and chair of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, also encourages area residents to participate in the festivities planned across the city and region.

“Bicycling is a great mode of transportation that is safe, economical, healthy, environmentally friendly, and fun,” he said.

“The Columbia Greenway Rail Trail, as it progresses further into the downtown, will really change the access and vitality of downtown Westfield.”

Vinskey added that as more residents ride bikes, the perceptions, awareness and safety of this mode of transportation is likely to be enhanced.

Podolski echoed those sentiments.

“Health benefits far outweigh any risks,” said Podolski.

“Bicycling is one of the safest modes of transportation and it is a very social activity.”

Vinskey also noted that during the May 6 meeting of the advisory committee, of which Podolski is also a member, the concept of a complete streets policy was endorsed and now advances to the Planning Board for review and suggestions.

“Complete streets are designed and operated to provide safety, comfort, and accessibility for all the users of our streets, trails, and transit systems, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, motorists, commercial vehicles, and emergency vehicles and for people of all ages, abilities and income levels,” said Podolski.

Complete streets also contribute toward the safety, health, economic viability, and quality of life in a community by improving the pedestrian and vehicular environments to provide safe, accessible, and comfortable means of travel between home, school, work, recreation

Police say 32-year-old Steven Richards of Webster was driving southbound around 1 p.m. when he lost control and was fatally injured trying to avoid hitting the wheelbarrow.

Police said they also want to talk with a man driving a green Ford Explorer. Witnesses said he stopped and spoke to other people at the scene just before the crash near Exit 5 in Oxford.

Continued from Page 1 and retail destinations, according to Podolski.

Vinskey also acknowledged Westfield State University Associate Professor Marijoan Bull of the Geography and Regional Planning Department, and several students who are wrapping up a land use audit which will assist the committee in future endeavors.

“Westfield State students and Professor Bull have gone far beyond the capacity of the committee or the city’s resources on its audit and outreach activities,” said Vinskey. The Westfield State report is expected to be

completed and presented to the committee at the end of May. Bay State Bike Week in the Pioneer Valley is a collaboration of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, MassRides, and MassBike. Details about schedules, activities, events and locations are available at www.baystatebikeweek.org.

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BUSINESSFINANCIAL 2015 Annual Southwick Home & Business Show MONDAY, MAY 11, 2015 4:30 to 7:00 pm Free to General Public: Cash bar and complimentary light hors d’oeuvres will be available.

The Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the Southwick Economic Development Commission (EDC)

HOSTED BY:

625 College Highway, Southwick, MA Only Southwick business owners can exhibit including home based businesses.

May After 5 Connection Wednesday, May 13, 2015 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Hosted by Armbrook Village 551 North Road Westfield, MA 01085 Sponsored by: Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity / Restore Members $10 Non-Members $15 Cash at the Door To register, please call Pam at the Chamber 568.1618

54th Annual Golf Tournament Monday, May 18, 2015 Tekoa Country Club 10:00 am: Registration & Lunch 11:00 am: Shotgun Start 4:00 pm: Cocktail Hour 5:00 pm: Dinner & Awards

Mayor’s Coffee Hour Promoted by the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce All employees are Chamber members! Please forward this email to your co-workers!

Monday, June 1, 2015 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Hosted by:

Tiger’s Pride Restaurant at WVTHS, 33 Smith Avenue, Westfield, MA Coffee Hours are free and open to the public.

Please call Pam at the Chamber to register at 413.568.1618! * Coffee Hours are subject to change at the discretion of Mayor Knapik.

Lynn F. Boscher, Secretary and Past President, Jennifer Gruszka, President Elect, from the Rotary Club, stand in with the American Legion Whip City Memorial Post 454 members who helped with the project; Robert J. Ragone, Dick J. Trusty and Ron F. Cappa. (Photo by Don Wielgus)

Welcome to Westfield signs repainted WESTFIELD — The four Welcome to Westfield signs that were purchased by the Westfield Rotary Club, located at the major entrances to Westfield, were recently repainted, with the help of American Legion Whip City Memorial Post 454.

The time and talents of Post 454 exhibit Rotary's motto "Service Above Self" The Rotary Club thanks the members of Post 454 for their generous help in keeping our community beautiful. The signs are available for use by Westfield community organizations. Send your requested dates of use and your contact information to: Rotary Club of Westfield, P.O. Box 754, Westfield, MA 01086-0754.

Apple co-founder talks early stages of company

By BRIAN STEELE Republican of Springfield SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Steve Wozniak captivated the crowd last Friday at the MassMutual Center, telling stories from the early days of Apple, promoting technological advances like self-driving cars and describing the philosophy that has driven him to such success.

The Apple co-founder participated in a question-and-answer session moderated by NECN’s Latoyia Edwards. The talk was put on by the Springfield Public Forum with help of sponsors including MassMutual, Wilbraham & Monson Academy and Paragus Strategic IT. MassLive was the media sponsor.

“Everything you do should have a little bit of fun,” said Wozniak.

“What is success in life? … I don’t want to frown.”

Money didn’t motivate the man who’s credited with inventing the personal computer; he said he just loved working with computers and he wanted to make something useful to people. Wozniak applauded the

entrepreneurs in attendance, adding that not every idea needs to be worldchanging in order to be important.

“When we started, we had a really lousy idea of what a computer was for,” he said, referring to himself and Steve Jobs, who founded Apple in the Jobs family garage in 1976. They thought about people using home computers to store recipes and balance their checkbooks, but that would be just “a $2,000 word processor if we ever came up with a printer.”

Time, tenacity and talent grew the company from its meager roots into the world’s leading technology giant.

When Jobs died in 2011, some analysts wondered if the company would suffer. Wozniak said that shouldn’t have been a concern because the people who run it now are top-notch, and the sheer financial power “buys a lot of opportunities for failure.”

Wozniak spoke openly about Jobs’ death, saying it “hit me emotionally.”

Jobs would call Wozniak in the later days of his life and the two would look back at the times they shared.

Wozniak came to Springfield through chance and generosity. He had events in Buffalo and Boston, with a few days off in between, so he came to the city for a discount.

Sponsors leapt at the opportunity to put on the event.

Demand for the free tickets was so high that they vanished in just hours, so the talk was moved to a larger space and more people were allowed in.

Wozniak didn’t disappoint. The crowd laughed at his jokes. They applauded when he mentioned his donations to children’s museums.

They went along for the ride when he pontificated about marijuana legalization (he’s for it) and more familiar topics like driverless cars (he can’t wait).

“I love technology, to try it out myself,” said Wozniak. “I’ve got at least 5 iPhones. … I have some Android phones.”

He imagined a world in which these kinds of devices would be able See Apple, Page 7

Plastic bag and bottle bans take effect

By ANITA FRITZ The Recorder GREENFIELD (AP) — Several cities and towns throughout the state have banned either plastic bags or bottles. Some are considering banning more plastic items in the future. But it appears Greenfield may be the first to try to ban plastic bags, single-serve plastic water bottles and plastic foam containers at one fell swoop, not to mention curtailing paper bag use as well.

Sandra Boston, one of the authors of a local referendum against plastic and paper, said she and four others have decided to push ahead to collect 1,093 voter signatures needed to move their proposition toward the town’s fall election.

The Town Council rejected the group’s first proposal in late 2013 and was expected to reject a second one that was withdrawn.

This is the third try in about 18 months.

While Boston says she and her fellow petitioners hope voters see things their way, one town in the eastern part of the state says they may be pushing too much all at once.

Here are the experiences of some of the state’s other communities who have enacted plastic bans.

“If you try to kill two birds with one stone, you usually end up missing both,” said Alan Balsam, director of public health and human services in Brookline, a suburb of Boston.He said a plastic bag and Styrofoam ban has been in effect in that town for more than 18 months.

“We didn’t ban plastic bags in stores smaller than 2,500 square feet, because we didn’t want to hurt the mom and pop stores,” he said. “Any store 2,500 square feet and larger, especially chains and pharmacies, have to comply. There are more than 75 stores affected by that ban, and more than 300 food service locations affected by the Styrofoam ban.”

Balsam said the bylaw was passed “overwhelmingly” at town meeting. It went into effect in late 2013.

“We gave people a year to get used to the bag ban before it actually went into effect,” he said. “We did a lot of education in that year.”

He said businesses received waivers in the beginning, because they needed to deplete their inventories of bags and Styrofoam.

“You do need a little flexibility when implementing such a bylaw,” said Balsam.

Balsam said the town didn’t want to ban everything at once, because it wanted to ease people into it.

For instance, he said the town is just now talking about having businesses charge a small fee for people who want paper bags, as

opposed to bringing their own reusable bags when they shop.

“The manufacturing of paper bags uses a lot of fossil fuels, so even if renewable trees are used in the process, it still isn’t great for the environment,” said Balsam. “We need to move toward reusable bags.”

He said next month the town will also begin looking at banning single-serve plastic water bottles.

“Such a ban would require the municipality and all food service establishments to offer municipal water to people,” he said.

“Vendors would be restricted from offering water in machines.

Those details need to be worked out and talked about.”

Balsam said he’s already hearing some push-back on the proposal to ban bottles.

“It’s a little more controversial than the plastic bag ban was,” he said. “I get it, but I think it’s eventually necessary.”

He said from a public health point of view, it’s a conundrum— does the town take the most healthy alternative out of vending machines and leave unhealthy drinks like soda?

“We don’t like the idea of leaving only sugary drinks in vending machines, but we also have to think about the effects of plastic on the environment,” said Balsam.

He said enforcement hasn’t been difficult— five businesses are still serving drinks with plastic foam lids, but the town plans to meet with them soon and suggest other alternatives.

“We’re an ocean community, so we see what plastic does every day— we’re very aware of the issues,” said Manchester by the Sea Town Administrator Greg Federspiel.

He said a plastic bag ban was voted at town meeting in April 2013 and was supposed to go into effect on July 1 that year, but selectmen delayed until Jan. 1, 2014 to give merchants time to use up their inventory.

Federspiel said “People have accepted the bylaw and are working with it,” he said. “I haven’t heard any comments, good or bad.”

Chris Whelan, town manager in Concord, said it took the town three tries to pass a single-serve plastic water bottle ban. Concord is one of the first towns in the country to ban the sale of small plastic water bottles.

“It’s going well, but it did take some time,” he said.

Whelan said the issue was brought forward by a citizens’ petition the first time and passed by just 17 votes, but the attorney general, who had to sign off, didn’t because there were several legal issues with it.

The second time, the proposed bylaw was defeated by 13 votes at town meeting.

It was the third time in spring 2011 that it passed, said Whelan, and it went into effect on Jan. 1, 2012.

“The town gave merchants a little time to prepare,” he said.

Like Brookline, the town’s Board of Health enforces the bylaw.

It appears that’s the case in many of the Massachusetts towns that have banned plastic bags or bottles.

Whelan said shortly after the bylaw went into effect, the board found 14 violations— Cumberland Farms kept selling single-serve plastic water bottles, because the company believed the bylaw would be rescinded by the following year.

“The company was fined and has been in full compliance since,” he said.

Whelan said no one is prohibited from giving water away in single-serve bottles, just the sale of bottles is prohibited.

“A couple of merchants aren’t very happy— they feel like they’ve lost some profit —but everyone is working with it,” said Whelan.

He said the town is placing bubblers and water fountains throughout town to compensate.

“We install one or two a year,” he said. “We put them in public buildings, parks and other places.”

The town recently voted to ban plastic bags, and that will take effect Jan. 1, 2016.

Several other towns and cities in Massachusetts have passed either plastic bag or plastic bottle bans, but it appears none have passed both at the same time, like Greenfield citizens will attempt this fall.

Great Barrington in the Berkshires passed a plastic bag ban on March 1, 2014, but it doesn’t appear the town has any immediate plans to ban plastic bottles.

Provincetown, the outermost town on Cape Cod, tried twice before it banned plastic bags, and the small Massachusetts island of Nantucket has had a plastic-bag ban since 1990. Falmouth, another Cape Cod town, passed a plastic bag ban late last year and will phase it in over the next 18 months.

Northampton’s City Council recently took its first of two votes to pass an ordinance that would require stores 2,000 square feet and larger to replace single-use, polyethylene plastic bags with reusable or biodegradable ones.

The city will take a second vote in May. If it votes “yes” again, the ordinance would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2016.

There have also been a couple of statewide efforts to ban plastic bags in all Massachusetts towns, but nothing has come of those, yet.

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Westfield Financial, Inc. reports results, declares quarterly dividends Loan growth continues to be strong at 12.7% year-over-year WESTFIELD — Westfield Financial, Inc. (the “Company”) (NasdaqGS:WFD), the holding company for Westfield Bank (the “Bank”), reported net income of $1.3 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, compared to $1.6 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.

Selected financial highlights for first quarter 2015 include: • Total loans increased $82.2 million, or 12.7%, to $730.4 million at March 31, 2015 compared to $648.2 million at March 31, 2014. This was primarily due to increases in residential loans of $38.9 million, commercial and industrial loans of $29.8 million and commercial real estate loans of $13.0 million. On a sequential-quarter basis, total loans increased $5.7 million, or 0.8%, from $724.7 million at December 31, 2014. This was due to an increase in commercial real estate loans of $8.7 million, offset by a decrease in commercial and industrial loans of $2.8 million, primarily due to normal loan payoffs and pay downs.

• Securities declined $26.3 million, or 4.9%, to $515.2 million at March 31, 2015, compared to $541.5 million at March 31, 2014.

On a sequential-quarter basis, securities increased by $6.4 million, or 1.3%, at March 31, 2015, compared to $508.8 million at December 31, 2014.

• Net interest and dividend income decreased $65,000 to $7.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 compared to $7.7 million for the comparable 2014 period.

On a sequential-quarter basis, net interest and dividend income decreased $288,000 for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, compared to the quarter ended December 31, 2014. The fourth quarter 2014 included $88,000 in

deferred fee income recognized upon the payoff of a relationship.

• The Bank prepaid a repurchase agreement in the amount of $10.0 million with a rate of 2.65% and incurred a prepayment expense of $593,000 for the first quarter 2015 in order to eliminate a higher-cost liability.

• Non-interest expense was $6.7 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 and $6.5 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.

On a sequential-quarter basis, noninterest expense increased by $215,000 for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, compared to $6.5 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2014.

The increase on a sequential-quarter basis was due in part to an increase in salaries and benefits of $178,000. Of this amount, $51,000 is attributable to salary-related taxes which are typically higher in the first quarter of each year.

President and CEO, James C. Hagan stated, “During the first quarter, harsh winter weather slowed economic activity, and therefore loan demand, particularly commercial construction projects. We continue to cultivate new and existing customer relationships in western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut and our outlook for growth remains positive for 2015. We have an experienced, disciplined, regional leadership team prepared to take advantage of continued opportunities for organic growth and expansion into demographically attractive markets.”

Hagan continued, “The customer response to our strategic initiatives has been very positive. Our Enfield branch, which opened in November 2014, and Granby Branch, which opened in June 2013, have combined deposits of over $23.0 million. We currently have both a commercial lender and a residential lender based in the Connecticut market and we anticipate adding another commercial lender in 2015. In addition, we relocated a commercial loan team to downtown Springfield, Massachusetts in 2014, which provides prox-

imity to the I-91 corridor and better access to the borrowers and centers of influence in the greater-Springfield area and northern Connecticut. We have taken action to strategically expand our market reach, and while this initially has increased non-interest expense, we feel this will create opportunities to grow our franchise and generate higher revenue.”

Additional Income Statement Discussion Net interest and dividend income was $7.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 and $7.7 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. The net interest margin decreased 11 basis point to 2.52% for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, compared to 2.63% for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. The yield on average interest-earning assets decreased 7 basis points while the cost of average interestbearing liabilities increased 4 basis points.

This was partially offset by an increase of $39.9 million in the average balance of interest-earning assets. Our strategy has been to structure the balance sheet with a focus on better earnings and performance in a rising rate environment. Interest rates falling back to historically low levels has put pressure on our net interest margin, however we feel that it is important to be better positioned toward the eventual rise in rates.

Non-interest income increased $151,000 to $1.2 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, compared to $1.1 million for the same period in 2014. Net gains on sales of securities were $817,000 for the first quarter 2015, compared to $29,000 in the first quarter 2014 as management sold securities with lower yields. The Bank also prepaid a repurchase agreement in the amount of $10.0 million with a rate of 2.65% and incurred a prepayment expense of $593,000 in order to eliminate a higher-cost liability.

Non-interest expense increased $177,000 to $6.7 million for the first quarter 2015, compared to $6.5 million in same period in 2014.

Occupancy expense increased $79,000 for the

first quarter 2015, primarily due to new locations in Enfield, CT and Springfield, MA. Data processing expense increased $70,000.

The efficiency ratio, excluding non-core items, was 78.08% and 75.07% for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Additional Balance Sheet Discussion Total deposits increased $66.6 million, or 8.3%, to $873.3 million at March 31, 2015, compared to $806.7 million at March 31, 2014. This was primarily due to increases in term accounts of $42.2 million, money market accounts of $24.9 million and checking accounts of $4.5 million, partially offset by a decrease in regular savings accounts of $5.0 million. On a consecutive quarter basis, total deposits increased $39.1 million, or 4.7%, compared to $834.2 million at December 31, 2014. In addition, short-term borrowings and long term debt decreased $11.7 million to $295.3 million at March 31, 2015, compared to $307.0 million at March 31, 2014. This was primarily due to the prepayment of a repurchase agreement in the amount of $10.0 million during the 2015 period.

Shareholders’ equity was $140.3 million at March 31, 2015 and $142.5 million at December 31, 2014, which represented 10.6% and 10.8% of total assets, respectively. The decrease in shareholders’ equity during the quarter reflects the repurchase of 225,041 shares of common stock for $1.7 million (an average price of $7.44 per share), a decrease in accumulated other comprehensive income of $1.6 million, and the payment of a quarterly dividend of $531,000. This was offset by net income of $1.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2015.

On March 13, 2014, the Company announced a repurchase program under which it may repurchase up to 1,970,000 shares, or 10% of its outstanding common stock. At March 31, 2015, there were 774,419 shares remaining under this repurchase program.

Groundbreaking for new Beveridge Pavilion Board of Directors gathered during their annual board meeting to break ground on the new Beveridge Pavilion at Stanley Park. Left to right are Board Members….. Jonathan Caswell, Paul Marchese, Rafael Bones, Donna Herman, Ward Caswell, Jeff Glaze (Board President), Judge John Greaney, Fred Stecher, James Hagan, Mark Morin, Harry Rock, Rock Palmer, Judge Steven Pierce, and Bob McKean, Managing Director. We remain in the Fundraising phase for the completion of construction and additional amenities. We respectfully ask for support to help complete the project. Our friends at the Beveridge Family Foundation have led the way in our campaign, with the lion’s share of the funding, joined by our board and other friends of the Park. If you would like to learn more about the project please contact us at 413-568-9312 ext. 102. Please send your Pavilion donations to Stanley Park, 400 Western Avenue, Westfield, MA 01085. (Photo submitted)

Apple to teach our children for us.

“A lot of our schools slow students down,” he said. “We put computers in schools and the kids don’t come out thinking any better.”

Rather than just putting more gadgets and gizmos in the classroom, he said, each classroom needs to have fewer students, and kids who are further ahead than their peers should be nurtured, not forced to fall in line.

Dismissing the concern over giving artificial intelligence too much intelligence, he said that’s already hap-

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“The machines won 200 years ago. We made them too important,” said Wozniak.

“That makes us the family pet.”

Before his talk at the MassMutual Center, Wozniak visited Tech Foundry, the computer education program downtown. He met dozens of high school students and some of the winners of Thursday’s Valley Venture Mentors Accelerator Awards.

“Creativity is the most important thing we have,” Wozniak told the students. He

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added that knowledge does not always come from other people and books; you can teach yourself everything you need to know to make your dreams a reality.

At the end of the evening, Edwards asked Wozniak how he would like people to remember him after his own death.

“I really want them to remember me as being a caring person, gave a lot, cared about others, and shared,” he said. But he acknowledged that most people will remember his role at Apple.

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In this photo taken Friday, May 1, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak speaks with students at Tech Foundry before a highly anticipated talk at the MassMutual Center in Springfield.

Wozniak captivated the crowd, telling stories from the early days of Apple, promoting technological advances like self-driving cars and describing the philosophy that has driven him to such success. (Brian Steele/The Republican via AP)

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2015 WVTHS Junior/ Senior Prom (Photo by Marc St. Onge)

King and queen Terry Taskey and Tamika Gagnon share a dance and a special moment. (Photo by Marc St. Onge)

Partyers begin to arrive.(Photo by Marc St. Onge)

Beau Bailey and Renee Gloss arriving. (Photo by Marc St. Onge)

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Olena Kulliak, Aline Yurovskiyh, and Mariya Babinova. (Photo by Marc St. Onge) Casting votes for king and queen of prom. (Photo by Marc St. Onge)

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Westfield Little League Report two innings. The scoring was due to the bats and base running of Amy Pilecki (2 singles, 3 runs), Brienne Senez (single, run, RBI), Lindsey Gibson (single, run), Chase Foster (2 singles, 2 runs), and Erin Gour (single, 3 runs, RBI).

After the early scoring, Raven Hollow pitchers Emma LaPoint and Anna Kosinski kept the scoring to a minimum.

LaPoint pitched the third inning allowing a single run while striking out 2. Kosinski came in to close the game in the fourth facing just 3 batters and forcing all 3 to ground out. She was helped by the fine defensive play of Gour at shortstop. With the win, Raven Hollow improved its early season record to 2-1.

BASEBALL ROUNDUP MAJOR LEAGUE Game Date: April 29, 2015 Hastie Fence 6, Slovak Club 1 The bats came alive tonight! Hits by Josh Sturmer, Nate Podmore, Anthony Pighetti, Nick Brown, and Josh Mayo helped Hastie Fence notch their first win of the season. A strong defense allowed only one run through six innings of solid pitching by Cody Collins.

Kiwanis 10, Moose 9 Going up against a tough Moose Lodge ball club, Kiwanis looked to bounce back from a loss earlier in the week. Moose started out with great pitching and timely hitting and took a 6-2 lead after 3 innings.

But Kiwanis started its comeback.

Down 8-4 in the top of the 6th, things looked bleak for good Kiwanis. But they continued to show the spirit that has propelled them to the top of the National League division. With one out, Kiwanis scored 6 runs to take a 10-8 lead heading into the bottom of the 6th. Anthony Schabowski closed the door on Moose striking out a Moose player with the bases loaded to end the game at 10-9.

Kiwanis improved to 4-1.

JT Oleksak and Anthony Schabowksi combined for 7 strikeouts in great relief pitching. Tyler Cousineau went 2 for 3.

Schabowski had 3 hits and 2 runs scored.

Sean Dondley went 1 for 2. Dylan Arooth, Jared Noel, Cam Hoynoski and Ryan Morash each went 1 for 2 with a run scored. Will Brewster went 1 for 2 with 2 runs scored.

Game Date: May 2, 2015 Hastie Fence 14, Advance Manufacturing 3 On a beautiful Saturday afternoon, Hastie Fence claimed their second win in as many games, putting them at 2-4 for the season. Behind a complete game by Josh Mayo and solid defense, Hastie allowed only three runs. Cody Collins, Danny Melchionne, and Josh Sturmer all went 3 for 3 for the game pushing the team to their best offensive effort to date.

Kiwanis 3, Police 2 Cam Honoyski pitched great today for Kiwanis striking out 10 in 5 innings. The bats were slow to come around for Kiwanis but they eventually took a 3-2 lead heading into the bottom of the 6th.

Up 3-2, Riley “Bulldog” Sullivan came in and slammed the door on Police. Sullivan recorded two strikeouts with the tying and winning runs on second and third. Kiwanis continues its magically season. Jared Noel played great behind the dish and some nice defensive plays by Jimmy Cloutier, Tyler Cousineau, and Sean Dondley helped secure the win.

Commercial Distributing 5, Sons of Erin 0 Commercial rookie Jay Sherpa pitched 4 strong innings giving up only 1 hit and added a 2 RBI base hit as Commercial shut out Sons of Erin 5-0.

The game was very close until a 3 run 4th inning in which Colby Nadeau delivered a clutch RBI triple. Brody Zabielski pitched well for Sons Of Erin, going 5 innings, giving up only 2 earned runs.

Game Date: May 3, 2015 Sons of Erin 4, Kiwanis 3 Kiwanis took its 5-1 record to Cross Street field to battle Sons of Erin. Joey Calderella, coming off a knee injury, pitched 3 tremendous innings for Kiwanis.

But Sons were too much for Kiwanis, scoring in the bottom of the 6th to win the game 4-3. Jimmy Cloutier, Will Brewster, and Ryan Morash each had a run scored.

Tyler Cousineau and Jared Noel played great defensively. Cousineau went 2 for 3 on the day with a double. Kiwanis looks to bounce back next week against Advance.

Camfour 10, Hastie Fence 6 It was another gorgeous day for baseball, with the sun shining and spring in

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the air. Hastie Fence pushed across six in a losing effort behind the solid pitching of Nate Podmore and Mason Barnachez.

Patrick Callahan went 2 for 2 at the plate.

Hastie Fence (2-5) looks to get back in the win column this Thursday against Air Compressor Engineering.

Commercial Distributing 6, Slovak Club 2 American Division rivals Commercial Distributing and Slovak Club met on Sunday at Cross Street. The teams were locked in a tightly contested game with Commercial pulling away late with a 6-2 win.

Commercial scored 3 in the top of the 1st inning. Jake LaBombard led off with a single and was joined on the base paths

by David Tirrell who walked. Adam Tremblay’s hard hit double helped score LaBombard for a 1-0 lead. Bobby Miele brought in both Tirrell and Tremblay with a double of his own and extended the lead to 3-0. Slovak pitcher Troy Hevey kept the Commercial bats in check through the middle innings before Commercial scored 3 runs late to complete the scoring.

Tremblay finished 2 for 2 with 2 runs scored and 2 RBI. Fellow veteran player Miele finished 2 for 2 with 2 RBI as well.

Ethan Mulville picked up an RBI with a well hit single in the 5th inning.

Pitcher David Tirrell allowed just 2 runs in 5 innings. He was relieved by LaBombard, who closed the game. In the third inning, Commercial was helped by the strong defensive play of Aidan King who gunned downed a runner trying to score from third with a fine throw to catcher Darin Towle.

Game Date: May 5, 2015 Commercial Distributing 12, Camfour 0 Pitcher Jay Scherpa took to the mound for the second time in four days. Once again he helped Commercial (8-0) shut out an opponent. This time around, Commercial defeated Camfour by a final count of 12-0.

Jay pitched 3 innings allowing 2 hits and striking out 5. Bobby Miele took the mound in the fourth and struck out 2 while getting a third batter to ground out back to him.

The Commercial bats were led by the usual suspects. Notable performances were the multi-hit games of David Tirrell (2 for 2, 2 doubles, RBI), Adam Tremblay (2 for 3, 2 singles, RBI), and Chris Wilda (2 for 2, double, triple, 3 RBI). Second year players Aidan King (single, RBI), Ryan LaPoint (single, RBI), and Darin Towle (double, RBI) rounded out the scoring.

WHEELER LEAGUE Game Date: April 29, 2015 Tucker’s Restaurant 16, Little Dog Sales 10 Tucker’s Restaurant started off strong vs. Little Dog Sales foreshadowing the 16-10 victory that was to come. Ethan Thompson blasted an inside the park homerun driving home Nathan Pudlo and Connor Niemiec, and grabbed an early 5-1 lead. In the top of the 4th, Thompson and Michael Dorunda each caught one fly ball to the outfield preventing Little Dog Sales from crossing the plate. Pitchers Ted Dunn, Sam Yesu and Thompson threw for a total of 10 K’s. Little Dog Sales rallied late in the game scoring five runs in the 5th, not enough to catch Tucker’s Restaurant who dominated this game, bringing their record to 3-1.

Game Date: May 1, 2015 King Pest Control 14, Specialty Bolt & Screw 8 Both King Pest Control and Specialty Bolt scored in 5 of the 6 innings in a high scoring game at Cross Street Field. King Pest Control (2-2) led the whole way after back-to-back four run frames in the first and second innings. The offense was paced by Cooper LeClair who went 2-4, with a single and a three run triple.

Marcus Cole had three hits and scored two runs while Brandon Kingsley had two hits and scored a run. Sullivan Donohue reached base three times and scored two runs and Alejandro Rogers scored twice with two stolen bases. Jayden Santiago had a triple and two RBI and Ben King reached base safely in all three of his plate appearances for King Pest Control.

LeClair hurled three innings, striking out six batters and allowing two unearned runs. Kingsley pitched the final three innings for King Pest Control striking out three batters and allowed five runs.

Game Date: May 3, 2015 Green Meadow Lumber 12, King Pest Control 5 Green Meadow Lumber scored in four innings including four runs in the bottom of the 4th and five runs in the bottom of the 5th en route to a 12-5 victory over King Pest Control. Sullivan Donohue went 2-3 with two singles and two runs scored for King Pest Control (2-3).

Donohue also pitched 2.2 innings and struck out four hitters. Brandon Kingsley continued his hot hitting with a single, double, a walk, two runs scored and two RBI. Game Date: May 6, 2015 Bertera Dodge 14, King Pest Control 3 Bertera Dodge scored in every inning of the four-inning game, scoring 14 runs as they defeated King Pest Control. King Pest Control (2-4) got solid contributions at the plate from Brandon Chapman (2 hits), Ben King (one run scored), and Brandon Kingsley (1 hit and 1 run scored).

Richard’s Grinders 14, Northampton 11 After 4 innings and a solid game defensively from two of the catchers, Amber Garfield and Kelsey Spiller, Richard’s Grinders beat out softball heavy weight Northampton 14-11.

Carina Franco started for Richard’s on the mound and ended strong with five strike outs. Amber Garfield finished the game in relief with three strike outs.

Garfield also had a strong at-bat with a great hit to center field, which was caught.

However, Garfield didn’t give up. Both Garfield and Franco smashed a base hit each to end the game.

Raven Hollow Winery 17, Montgomery Road Animal Hospital 13 Raven Hollow Winery and Montgomery Road Animal Hospital met on a beautiful Saturday afternoon for softball. The teams battled back and forth with Raven Hollow emerging with a 17-13 win.

The bundle of runs for Raven Hollow (3-1) came from the fine hitting of Emma LaPoint (single, triple, 3 runs, 2 RBI), Erin Gour (single, run, RBI), Megan St. Onge (single, 2 runs), and Chase Foster (single, run). Anna Kosinski scored 2 runs with some wise base running after taking advantage of 3 walks on the day.

In the fifth and final inning of this game, with Montgomery Road within 5 runs, Kosinski shut down the top of the lineup.

She struck out 2 and retired another with a fly ball back to the pitcher.

Game Date: May 5, 2015 Easthampton 14, Richard’s Grinders 9 Easthampton came out swinging and scored three times in the first inning.

Richard’s Grinders fought back with a double by Ema Sherman, and singles from Ava Gaughan and Morgan Ruffo to end the inning at 3-2, Easthampton.

Richard’s kept Easthampton to three in the 2nd inning with great field work by catcher Amber Garfield who snatched the ball at home and fired it to Ruffo to get the third out of the inning.

Richard’s kept after Easthampton with two more runs in the 3rd inning off a single by Gaughan and a triple by Garfield.

Easthampton responded with two more runs, ending the game for Richard’s with a score of 14-9.

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U8 SOFTBALL

Game Date: May 3, 2015

Game Date: May 2, 2015

Pikeside Auto 9, 7B’s 9 Another evenly matched contest took place on this warm Sunday morning.

Tyler Howard was 2 for 2 with a run scored that started off a three run third inning. Jaiden White made a great stop in the 2nd inning keeping the ball in the infield and preventing extra bases. The game ended in a 9-9 tie reflecting a great effort from both teams.

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Dunkin Donuts 12, Westfield Police 8 After a valiant effort, Westfield Police fell to Dunkin Donuts in U8 softball. First time pitcher Grace Leduc was the star of the game, collecting her first two career

hits and knocking in three runs. Leduc and Alejandra Strange helped the team on the field, with an awesome defensive play to throw a runner out at first. Lily Trembley also knocked in three runs with three bases loaded walks. Strange, Allie Stucenski, Mia Tavares, Korrina Hooben and Julia Bonfito all reached base at least twice with Bonfito collecting two RBIs. - Courtesy of Westfield Little League

U12 SOFTBALL Game Date: April 30, 2015 Raven Hollow Winery 18, Easthampton 8 On Thursday night, Raven Hollow Winery traveled to Easthampton for their first meeting of the season. It was worth the drive as Raven Hollow won by a score of 18-8.

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULES TUESDAY May 12

MONDAY May 11

WEDNESDAY May 13

THURSDAY May 14

FRIDAY May 15

SATURDAY May 16

WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ LACROSSE at South Hadley, Michael E. Smith Middle School, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL at Longmeadow, Russell Field, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ TENNIS at Holyoke, Crosier Field and Tennis Courts, 4 p.m.

JV BOYS’ LACROSSE at South Hadley, Michael E. Smith Middle School, 4 p.m.

JV GIRLS’ LACROSSE vs.

Belchertown, 4 p.m.

JV SOFTBALL at Longmeadow, Turner Park, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ LACROSSE vs.

Belchertown, 5:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ TENNIS vs. Ludlow, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL vs. Cathedral, 5 p.m.

JV BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL at Chicopee Comp, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL at Chicopee Comp, 6:30 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Cathedral, Bullens Field, 7 p.m.

BASEBALL at Central, 4 p.m.

BOYS’/GIRLS’ TRACK & FIELD at Chicopee, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ TENNIS at Longmeadow, Blinn Tennis Courts, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ TENNIS vs.

Chicopee Comp, 2 p.m.

JV BASEBALL at Central, Blunt Park, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ LACROSSE at Agawam, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL vs. Agawam, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ TENNIS vs. Chicopee Comp, 2, 4 p.m.

JV SOFTBALL vs. Agawam, 4 p.m.

JV BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL vs. Agawam, 5:30 p.m.

JV GIRLS’ LACROSSE at Agawam, 5:30 p.m.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL vs. Agawam, 7:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL vs.

West Springfield, 4 p.m.

JV SOFTBALL vs. West Springfield, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL at Amherst, Amherst Regional Middle School, 5:15 p.m.

BASEBALL at Amherst, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ LACROSSE vs. Mount Greylock, noon JV GIRLS’ LACROSSE vs. Mount Greylock, 1:30 p.m.

BOYS’ LACROSSE at Wahconah, 2:30 p.m.

JV BOYS’ LACROSSE at Wahconah, 1 p.m.

SOUTHWICK-TOLLAND-GRANVILLE REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL vs. Monson, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL at Smith Academy, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL vs. Monson, 4 p.m.

JV SOFTBALL at Smith Academy, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL at Wilbraham & Monson Academy, 4:30 p.m.

SOFTBALL vs. Easthampton, 4 p.m.

JV SOFTBALL vs. Easthampton, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL at Ware, Memorial Field, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL at Sabis, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL at Ware, 4 p.m.

BOYS’/GIRLS’ TRACK & FIELD vs. Belchertown, 3:30 p.m.

BASEBALL at Suffield, 10 a.m.

JV BASEBALL at Suffield, 10 a.m.

GATEWAY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL vs. Easthampton, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Mount Everett, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ TENNIS vs. Pioneer Valley Christian Academy, Municipal Tennis Courts, 3:30 p.m.

BASEBALL at Holyoke Catholic, Sarah Jane Field, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ LACROSSE at Monson, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ LACROSSE vs. Cathedral, Boardman Field, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL at Holyoke Catholic, Anniversary Field, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ LACROSSE vs. Monson, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ TENNIS vs. Turners Falls, Municipal Tennis Courts, 4 p.m.

GIRLS’ TENNIS at Chicopee Comp, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Holyoke Catholic, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL vs.

Smith Academy, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Sci-Tech, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL at Ware, 4 p.m.

BASEBALL at Granby, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL at McCann Tech, 4 p.m.

SAINT MARY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ TENNIS at Sci-Tech, Blunt Park, 3:30 p.m.

BOYS’ LACROSSE at Granby, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL vs. Granby, Westfield Middle School North, 5 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Granby, Bullens Field, 7 p.m.

GIRLS’ LACROSSE vs. Lee, Boardman Field, 3:30 p.m.

GIRLS’ TENNIS at Palmer, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL vs. Sabis, Westfield Middle School North, 4 p.m.

BOYS’ LACROSSE vs. Chicopee Comp, Boardman Field, 5 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Sabis, Bullens Field, 7 p.m.

WESTFIELD VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL vs. McCann Tech, Bullens Field, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL vs. McCann Tech, Jachym Field, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL vs. Dean Tech, Whitney Park, 4:15 p.m.

BASEBALL vs. Pioneer Valley Christian Academy, Bullens Field, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL vs. Commerce, Whitney Park, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL at Pathfinder, 3:30 p.m.

SHELL’S TEKOA TUESDAY GOLF LEAGUE 2015

TEKOA GOLF RESULTS

RESULTS FROM APRIL 28, 2015

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Paul Joubert & Ron Bonyeau

Ed West & Harry Pease

Bill Murphy & Chris Olsen Harpo Czarnecki & Ray West Barry Slattery & Bob McCarthy Bill Frothingham & Carl Haas Don Fioroni & Jack Kennedy Butch Rines & Gary Marcoulier Dick Williams & Ron Sena Angelo Mascadrelli & Frank Kamlowski Dave Liberty & Jim French John Kidrick & Milt Holmes Bob Berniche & Fred Rogers Erroll Nichols & Mark Dunn Joe Hebda & Tom Baker Al Szenda & Jim Johnson Mike Clark & Terry Clark Jack Leary & Jim Liptak Ed Harrington & Jim Crawford Bill Wallanovich & Fran Siska

30.5 Points 28.5 Points 27.5 Points 26.5 Points 26.0 Points 24.5 Points 24.5 Points 23.5 Points 22.5 Points 22.5 Points 22.0 Points 19.0 Points 19.0 Points 17.5 Points 16.5 Points 15.5 Points 15.0 Points 14.0 Points 13.5 Points 11.5 Points

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BASEBALL at Franklin Tech, 4 p.m.

SOFTBALL at Smith Voke, Sheldon Field, 4 p.m.

JV BASEBALL vs. Franklin Tech, Jachym Field, 4 p.m.

Bob Thompson – Steve Ouellette 74 Kyle Dulude – Clem Fucci 61 Steve Demerski – Ron Bachand 64.5

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MOUNTAIN COUNTRY CLUB

Results East Mountain Friday Couples League Twenty-Three couples played on a beautiful summer like evening for golf.

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015 Front nine results: Points: Bryan Candiano and Missy Candiano 37 points Net: Dave Palermo and Chris Palermo 72 Dave Warner and Sue Moore 72 Back nine results: Points: Dave Sears and Doreen Sears 42 points Dan Harris and Nancy Harris 38 points Net: Dennis Desmarais and Linda Desmarais 67 Mark Kurowski and Lynn Kurowski 71 Pioria: Art Franz and Marilyn Schmidt 67 Mike Simonz and BJ Simonz 67 Congratulations to the winners. Winning teams receive pro shop “chits” money redeemable for pro shop merchandise. Winning “chits” may be used anytime during the season and must be used by October 31, 2015. Special orders must be made before September 30, 2015.

Final evening for the 2015 Friday Couples League is September 18. Steak dinner and awards ceremony will follow golf. Teams must let us know if they will be playing and attending the final evening and dinner. The final evening will be a scramble format for each team with dinner to follow at approximately 7:00pm.

Thank you to all teams that participated.

Kathy Downie scored a Hole-In-One WESTFIELDv— On the 95 yard 10th hole using a pitching wedge. Her ace was witnessed by Kim Shattuck and Renee Cantwell.

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Westfield ‘Y’ excels at states WESTFIELD — The Westfield YMCA Gymnastics Program attended the 2015 YMCA MA/NH State Gymnastics Championships, April 17-19. Teams from YMCA’s across Massachusetts & New Hampshire attended, competing against gymnasts in Levels 2-9 and Xcel Levels. All gymnasts were required to qualify during the course of the regular season in order to be eligible to compete at this Championship meet.

The Level 7s, 8s & 9s competed on April 17. In the age 13 & up age group, Level 7, Miranda Wozniak placed 9th on vault and floor. In the same age group, Avery Farquharson placed 6th on vault and placed 2nd on floor scoring an 8.975. Level 9 and graduating senior, Samantha Dame placed 4th on beam in her age group in her last State Championship competing for the YMCA gymnastics team.

On April 18, the Level 4 Team competed. Rylee Altieri placed 8th on vault in the 10 year old age group. Nicole Marek placed 8th on floor in the 12 & older age group. Julia Maryanski placed 8th on vault and 4th on floor. Sierra Moulton placed on all 4 events including 3rd place on bars and floor and

placed 5th all-around in 12 year old & up age group.

Level 5, Lindsey Jacobs placed 4th on floor and vault. Laura DelMonte placed 6th on vault. Xcel Gold, Melanie Katykhin placed 8th on vault and bars.

Level 3, Teagan Sullivan placed 7th on floor with a 9.225 and 6th on bars with an 8.9. Teammate, Abbey Hutchison placed 7th on bars with her best bar routine of the season.

The Level 2 Team had an amazing State Championships placing 2nd as a team.

Contributing to the Level 2 team score was Madison Koziol in the 8 to 9 year old age group.

She placed 8th on vault, 10th on bars and 3rd on floor with a 9.0. Teammate, Makayla Rivera placed 9th on bars, 6th on vault, 2nd on beam, and 5th allaround. Makayla was also the State Floor Champion, placing 1st with a 9.25. Olivia Irving, in the same age group placed 7th on bars, 6th on beam, 4th on floor and 3rd on vault. She was placed 3rd allaround with a 36.05. Hannah Keeney had an amazing meet, placing 4th on beam with a 9.3, 2nd on floor and bars and she was the State vault and allaround Champion placing first with a 36.9.

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By KATHY MITCHELL and MARCY SUGAR

Very Confused

Dear Annie: Many years ago, “Hazel” sat next to me in high school and apparently had a crush on me. (I had no clue.) She married someone else, and her husband passed away 20 years ago. Four years later, she met “Larry,” who is married and says he can’t divorce because of his religion. He tells Hazel he loves her and often drops by with gifts. She told him she loves him, but just as a friend. She thinks he is wonderful but says there is nothing physical between them.

My wife died a year ago. A few months later, Hazel contacted me. We hit it off right away. She lives three hours away, so we take turns visiting every two weeks. We get along very well, except when the subject of Larry comes up.

Hazel says her relationship with him is over now that I’m in the picture, but I discovered that he had stopped by again with a gift. She said she didn’t let him in the door. The other day, she slipped and called me “Larry.” She apologized, but you can imagine how that made me feel. I’m starting to believe I’m her rebound guy. I think she is crazy about Larry and if his wife should die, she’d be at his door in a heartbeat.

Is it possible for Larry and Hazel to be such good friends without something more going on? He even told her about his erectile dysfunction, but I worry that may have come from firsthand knowledge. Hazel says she loves me and has for years, but the “green-eyed monster” has taken over my heart, and I don’t know how to get rid of these jealous feelings. -- Very Confused Dear Confused: Your jealousy is not completely unfounded.

Hazel rejected Larry not because she dislikes him, but because he is married. If that obstacle didn’t exist, there is indeed the possibility that she would be more interested in him, especially since he seems to be quite interested in her. Their relationship is friendship mixed with flirting, and that is why you react so negatively toward him.

You are not the rebound guy. You’re the backup. Hazel needs to tell Larry to pay more attention to his wife -- no more gifts, no more surprise visits, no more intimate confidences, and the friendship must include you. If she is unwilling to do this, her attachment to him is stronger than it should be. Either give her time to see whether she becomes more connected to you, or let her go.

Dear Annie: “Like Pregnant Not Fat,” I am amazed at how rude people can be to pregnant women.

I am pregnant with my second child and have been asked, “Was this pregnancy planned?” It is such a personal and nosy question, it stuns me. Any suggestions on how to respond? -Expecting Mom in the Midwest Dear Expecting: The default response to nosy, intrusive questions is, “Why do you need to know?” But if any of our readers has a better one, we’ll be happy to print it. And by the way, we now have a Facebook page: Facebook.com/AskAnnies.

So check it out, like it, share it and post comments!

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

HINTS FROM HELOISE SOME ATMS ARE LOUDMOUTHS! Dear Readers: Here is this week’s SOUND ON, about ATMs: “I like ATMs that don’t sound out the amount of money you are getting and instead just spit it all out at once. It is a safety issue for me. You never know who is nearby. If they hear the machine spitting out 10 $20 bills, they know that you now have a bunch of cash on you.”

-- I.G., via email It is important to be safe when using an ATM, and this certainly is a consideration.

Guess it’s time to scout out the machines that don’t announce how much money you are getting! You can put your hand over the speaker to muffle the sound, if needed. -- Heloise TRANSFERRING FLOUR Dear Readers: Why make a mess when transferring flour when you don’t need to? Here are just a few of the many hints you sent, responding to our Sound Off: From Melanie T. in New Orleans: “My solution is simple: Lift a corner and use scissors to cut it off. You now have a spout to pour flour, sugar, cornmeal or coffee without spilling a drop.

If you don’t empty the bag, just fold the corner back, roll down the bag and put a rubber band around it to keep it sealed.

Thanks for the great column.”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, May 11, 2015: This year you often will be dealing with strong feelings. Some of you will manifest defensive behavior. You will be spending a lot of money on achieving a long-term goal. You also will have to tame a tendency to go overboard. You will be in a position of power within your community and/or workplace.

Others will observe how you are able to navigate through difficult situations. If you are single, you are likely to meet someone of significance. If you are attached, a move or remodeling your home will be a mutual focus this year.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Don’t lose your focus. You can accomplish a tremendous amount if you just keep your attention on the matter at hand. Use care with a neighbor or sibling, as misunderstandings could start up from out of the blue. Tonight: Take some much needed personal time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Others seem to be asking a lot of you. For some reason, you’ll feel obligated to meet each request or challenge. Slow down and look at what you really want to do. You could be overwhelmed by others. A late afternoon meeting will be significant. Tonight: Hang with a pal.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You have the ability to see the big picture. How you handle a situation could change after some detachment. You’ll gain new information through new insights. Observe a tendency to get frustrated when others don’t seem to get your message.

Tonight: In the limelight.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Relate to one person directly, and make sure that your message is properly conveyed. Not everyone attaches the same symbolism to a word.

Reiterating a statement several different ways likely will add power to your words. Tonight: Respond to an odd but interesting idea.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You might be concerned about an associate or a special loved one. Much information suddenly could come forward. A friend will want things to go his or her way, which is likely to put your friendship at risk. Exhaustion surrounds you. Tonight: Nap first; decide later.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Try another approach or do something very differently from how you have done it in the recent past. A boss could start becoming more argumentative and difficult. You might want to distance yourself, as this person needs to work through a personal issue.

Tonight: Out late.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be more in touch with a problem than you are aware. You can make light of it, but ultimately you will need to deal with the issue at hand.

A conversation with a dear friend will give you another perspective to work with. Tonight: Make sure to get enough exercise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Stay close to home. In fact, if you can work from home, you could be much more content and happier. An associate might be challenging you a little too much for your taste. Work with the person’s ideas rather than negate them. The results will be better. Tonight: All smiles.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You are likely to notice someone get quite hostile or angry in a situation, whether it happens now or in the next few weeks. A person who reacts that strongly probably feels insecure or judged. It would be wise to give him or her some space for now. Tonight: Head home early.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You could be taken aback by a situation that surrounds your finances.

Communication will be necessary once you decide which way to go. Others seem to be somewhat combative in your daily life. Find out why. Tonight: You don’t need to go far to have a deep conversation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You will be ready to head in a new direction. An issue could arise that you and your associates don’t agree on. You probably will have to stall some in order to maintain a cohesive bond. Be

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Play it low-key throughout the day. You will note an intense, busy pace in the morning that could become frantic by midday. A problem with a family member is likely to flare up.

Someone close to you could decide to put on war paint.

Tonight: You feel better and better.

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Stone wins All-New England Long Jump BOSTON, Mass. – Westfield State freshman Dereck Stone (Bellingham/Bellingham, Mass.) uncorked a leap of 7.25 meters (23'-9.5") to win the All-New England title in the long jump in the meet that included Division I, II and III competitors at Boston University this weekend.

Stone's jump is just 1.75" shy of Mike Coyne's school record mark set in 1982. The jump puts Stone in a tie for 8th place on the national performance list. If the mark holds up for another week, it would be good enough to qualify for the NCAA Division III Championship meet in two weeks.

The Westfield State men placed 16th at the meet out of 37 scoring schools with 18 points scored. Rhode Island won the meet with 104.5 points, followed by Southern Connecticut State (82) and UConn (77).

Westfield also got points from Travon Godette (Mahar/Orange, Mass.) who placed second in the javelin with a throw of 61.88m (203'-00").

The Owls will have athletes back in action with one more chance to qualify for the NCAA meet, competing at the ECAC Meet at Springfield College next weekend.

Palma second in All-New England Discus BOSTON, Mass.

– Westfield State junior Naloti Palma (Westborough/ Westborough, Mass.) scored all the points for the Owls at the All-New England Championship meet at Boston University this weekend.

Palma placed second in the discus, tossing the disc 41.63m (136'-07") finishing behind only the University of Maine's Ashley Donohoe.

Palma also placed sixth in the shot put with a throw of 12.95m (42'-6.00").

Westfield scored 11 points at the meet to place 22nd among 41 scoring schools from Division I, II and III.

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letes back in action with one more chance to qualify for the NCAA meet, competing at the ECAC Meet at Springfield College next weekend.

L.A. Clippers 128, Houston 95, L.A. Clippers leads series 3-1 Monday, May 11 Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 12 Chicago at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13 Washington at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 14 Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m. x-Houston at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 or 10:30 p.m.

Friday, May 15 x-Atlanta at Washington, 7 or 8 p.m. x-Golden State at Memphis, 8 or 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 17 x-Chicago at Cleveland, TBD x-L.A. Clippers at Houston, TBD x-Memphis at Golden State, TBD Monday, May 18 x-Washington at Atlanta, 8 p.m.

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A copy of the application and the plan may be inspected at the Planning Board office or the Town Clerk’s office during regular office hours.

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CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Sunday, May 3 Washington 104, Atlanta 98 Golden State 101, Memphis 86 Monday, May 4 Chicago 99, Cleveland 92 L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101 Tuesday, May 5 Atlanta 106, Washington 90 Memphis 97, Golden State 90 Wednesday, May 6 Cleveland 106, Chicago 91 Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109 Friday, May 8 Chicago 99, Cleveland 96 L.A. Clippers 124, Houston 99 Saturday, May 9 Washington 103, Atlanta 101, Washington leads series 2-1 Memphis 99, Golden State 89, Memphis leads series 2-1 Sunday, May 10 Cleveland 86, Chicago 84, series tied 2-2

New England D.C. United New York Columbus Toronto FC Chicago Orlando City New York City Philadelphia Montreal

The Applicant proposes to retain the car sales use in addition to selling retail products specializing in Vapor products, equipment and oils in accordance with the Code of Southwick Zoning Bylaws, Chapter 185, Sections 9, 10, and 17.

Doug Moglin, Chairperson Southwick Planning Board

NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFS

Notice is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 40A, Section 11, that the Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 7:15 p.m. in the Land Use Hearing Room, Town Hall, 454 College Highway on an application by Joel Faillace for a Modification to the Special Permit and Site Plan Approval for property located at 797 College Highway, zoned as Business Restricted (BR). The property is shown on current Assessors Map 19, Parcel 5.

City of Westfield FIRST PUBLICATION OF AN ORDINANCE THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE WAS GIVEN FIRST READING AT THE MAY 7, 2015 MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL: That Chapter 9 of the Code of Ordinances be and is hereby amended as follows: Chapter 9: Licenses, Permits and Miscellaneous Business Regulations

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Saturday’s Games Real Salt Lake 2, Chicago 1 Portland 2, Montreal 1 Vancouver 3, Philadelphia 0 D.C. United 1, Sporting Kansas City 1, tie Columbus 3, Seattle 2 FC Dallas 2, Los Angeles 1 Sunday’s Games Houston 2, Toronto FC 1 New York 2, New York City FC 1 Wednesday, May 13 Orlando City at D.C. United, 8 p.m.

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Friday, May 15 Chicago at New York City FC, 7 p.m.

New York at FC Dallas, 9 p.m.

Saturday, May 16 Real Salt Lake at Montreal, 4 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Toronto FC at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Portland at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Colorado at Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

Columbus at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 17 Los Angeles at Orlando City, 5 p.m.

D.C. United at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Public Hearing The Southwick Conservation Commission will hold a public hearing under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act G. L. C. 131 §40 and the Southwick Conservation Commission Regulations & Bylaw Chapter 182 and Chapter 450 for a Notice of Intent. The proposed project is a single family home and associated site work, driveway and sanitary system within the buffer area to a Bordering Vegetated Wetland. The location of the project is 194 Hillside Road, Southwick, MA 01077.

Map 29, Parcel 41.

The hearing will be held May 18, 2015 at 7:30p.m. at Southwick Town Hall, 454 College Highway in the 2nd floor Land Use Hearing Room (rear entrance).

For further information please contact the Commission office at (413) 569-6907 between the hours of 10 to 2 Monday through Friday.

Christopher J. Pratt, Chairfor the Commission

Napoli, Sandoval homer, lead Buchholz, Bosox over Blue Jays

By IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The day after their second team meeting in less than a week, the Boston Red Sox turned in a winning performance.

Mike Napoli hit a three-run homer, Pablo Sandoval added a two-run shot and the Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.

“The way we played today is the way we know we can play,” Napoli said. “That’s the way we should play.

That’s the way we expect to play.”

Clay Buchholz (2-4) allowed three runs in 6 1-3 innings for his first victory in six starts. The last-place Red Sox won for just the second time in nine games. ”Regardless of the level you play at, it stinks to lose,” Buchholz said. “I think everybody here takes it to heart because we’re Boston Red Sox and we know this team is built around winning.

When you’re not doing that or you’re not getting the breaks, it sort of wears on you.”

Buchholz is 9-3 with a 2.30 ERA in 14 career starts in Toronto. He gave up seven hits, walked three and struck out three.

The Westfield Planning Board will conduct a Public Hearing on May 19, 2015, at 7:00 P.M. in City Council Chambers, Municipal Building, 59 Court Street, Westfield, MA on an application submitted by Ronald Schortmann for Site Plan Approval per Section 6-10 of the Zoning Ordinance and Stormwater Management Permit per Section 16109 of the Code of Ordinances for development of an office building and lumber warehouse building/distribution facility in the Industrial A and Floodplain districts. The properties are located at 61 Union Street, Fowler Street Extension and Springdale Avenue (subject parcels are 224-18, 225-11, 18, 19, 20 ,23 through 28, 30, 31, 41, 47, 51, 53). The application is available for public inspection during regular business hours at the Planning Office and at www.cityofwestfield.org

By adding: May 11, 2015 May 18, 2015

Article XIII: Mobile Food Vendors Section 9-495.–Definitions (a) Board-City of Westfield Board of Health (b) Mobile food Vendor-any mobile operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, sells or otherwise provides for human consumption any prepared or packaged food or beverages from a truck or a cart. This definition does not include “Ice Cream truck” as defined and permitted under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 270, section 25.

Any person interested or wishing to be heard on the application should appear at the time and place designated.

Section 9-496.

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Dereck Stone long jumps earlier this year at the Gravel meet. (Photo submitted)

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Mobile Food Vendor License Required (a) No person or business entity shall operate as a mobile food vendor in any public, private or restricted space without obtaining a license from the Board.

Said license shall be conspicuously posted in a place that is visible to all customers. (b) The applicant must complete an application form and pay an application fee of Sixty Dollars ($60.00) in the Business License Office. All applicants will need a state hawker/peddler license and a City of Westfield hawker/peddler license. (c) In the event either the state hawker/peddler license or the City of Westfield hawker/peddler license is revoked, the mobile food vendor license shall automatically become void. Failure to notify the Board within ten days that such license has been revoked shall constitute a violation of this article.

Town of Granville, MA LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Hearing in the Granville Town Hall, 707 Main Road, at 7:30pm on Monday June 1, 2015 to all parties having interest in the petition of Leon K. and Joyce M. Ripley, requesting a special variance from the Granville Zoning Bylaws Section 3.8.2 so as to construct a building setback less than 40 feet of the frontage property line on the premises located at 787 Beech Hill Road.

Matt Brown Chair, Granville Zoning Board of Appeals May 11, 2015 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS LAND COURT (SEAL) DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT 15 SM 002608 ORDER OF NOTICE TO: Ghenadie V. Cravet Tatiana I. Cravet

and to all persons entitled to the benefit of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 50 U.S.C. App. § 501 et. Seq.: U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee for SROF-2013-S3 REMIC Trust I claiming to have an interest in a Section 9-497.–Renewal Mortgage covering real property Every mobile food vendor li- in Westfield, numbered 50 cense may be renewed annu- Pleasant Street, given by Ghenally upon payment of the fee, adie V. Cravet and Tatiana I. provided that the mobile food li- Cravet to Mortgage Electronic censee is in compliance with the Registration Systems, Inc. actapplicable requirements of this ing solely as a nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., article. dated November 10, 2005, and Section 9-498.–Conditions of recorded at Hampden County Registry of Deeds at Book Operation (a) Unless otherwise specified, 15487, Page 64, and now held no mobile food vendor may op- by the Plaintiff by assignment, has/have filed with this court a erate between the hours of complaint for determination of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on any Defendant’s/Defendants’ Serpublic property. vicemembers status. If you now (b) Mobile Food Vendors shall are, or recently have been, in not be allowed to remain in one the active military service of the location for more than eight (8) United States of America, then hours on any given calendar you may be entitled to the benefits of the Servicemembers Civil day. (c) The mobile food licensee Relief Act. If you object to a foreshall comply with all applicable closure of the above-mentioned rules, regulations and ordin- property on that basis, then you or your attorney must file a writances, including but not limited ten appearance and answer in to the board of health regula- this court at Three Pemberton tions, traffic and parking regula- Square, Boston, MA 02108 on tions and the noise ordinance. or before June 15, 2015 or you (d) Mobile Food Vendor Li- will be forever barred from claimcenses are not transferable. ing that you are entitled to the (e) Permitting of mobile food benefits of said Act.

vendors does not supersede approvals required for special Witness, events on public property or JUDITH C. CUTLER within the public right of way. Chief Justice of said Court on May 4, 2015

Section 9-499-Enforcement (a) Any Mobile Food Vendor operating in violation of any provision within this section or any other rules and regulations promulgated by the board may be subject to a fine of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per day, enforced by noncriminal disposition under M.G.L. c. 40, section 21D. The Board or their designee, the Police Department, Fire Department or Superintendent of Buildings may enforce any provision of this ordinance. Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense. (b) The Board may revoke, suspend or modify a mobile food vendor license after reasonable notice to the licensee of the grounds for the proposed revocations, suspension or modification and the time and place of the hearing regarding such proposed action.

In City Council May 7, 2015 Passed to Second Reading Brian P. Sullivan, President A true copy, Attest: Karen M. Fanion, City Clerk

Attest: Deborah J. Patterson Recorder 14-019451 / Cravet, Ghenadie V. and Tatiana I. /05/11/2015 May 4, 2015 May 11, 2015 City of Westfield Planning Board NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Westfield Planning Board will conduct a Public Hearing on May 19, 2015, at 7:00 P.M. in City Council Chambers, Municipal Building, 59 Court Street, Westfield, MA on an application submitted by Bell Atlantic Mobile of MA d/b/a Verizon Wireless for a Special Permit per Section 5-50(II) of the Zoning Ordinance to allow for installation of telecommunication antennas and equipment. The property is located at 24-26 Elm Street and zoned C.O.R.E. The application is available for public inspection during regular business hours at the Planning Office and at www.cityofwestfield.org

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WESTFIELD. Kitchen, living room/bedroom. $575/month includes utilities. First, last, security. (413)5683519.

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WALLPAPERING CARE HAULING   HOME MAINTENANCE • Westfield News •             2:00 p.m. the day prior                      Fall  to publication.PRIDE PAINTING           ACCURATE LAWNCARE, A.R.A. Junk, Furniture &    JOSEPH'S HANDYMAN COM        A STEP ABOVE THE REST! "Where we take  Pride in our work!"  Email: dianedisanto@                                  Appliance Removal thewestfieldnewsgroup.com       Cleanup, leaf/brush removal,    FREE ESTIMATES  PANY. Carpentry, remodeling, JMF CHIMNEY SERVICE                          Full house clean-outs.      Ext. 118    mulch, gutter cleaning.(413)562-4181 FULLY INSURED          kitchen, baths, basements, dry- trimming,        Repair your chimney  before         attics  &  Basements, garages.          (413)579-1639.       wall, Call tile, floors, suspended ceil                winter wreaks havoc.

We do Demolition: Patios,      sheds    and Call 345 Jeff, 413-655-2779               Rooms   services,      ings, restoration doors,          You     brick repair, crown seals and re-         swing-sets. name it...we 413-563-1428 LARGE FURNISHED ROOM.or Parking,                     w i n d o w s , d e c k s , s t a i r s ,  bus route, walking distance to all ALL CALLS RETURNED!  take it! Senior discounts. pairs. We also do stainless steel Free            amenities. $120/weekly. Only respon   interior/exterior painting, plumb  sible mature adult need apply.

Call for yard clean-ups, mowing, estimates on phone. 7 days a   liner installs, as well as stain(413)348-5070, (413)862-4522.         PLUMBING & HEATING  ing. Small jobs ok. All types of   week. Emergency, same day   weeding, trimming, mulch and   less rain caps. We sweep all service.         ROOM FOR RENT on bus route, fully    scrap removal. work  done  since Call Pete 413-433-0356 Referral rewards      professional  furnished. $100/week.

Call (413)731            flues.

9233.     Free   estimates  provided.    1985.

Call Joe, (413)364-7038.  and more.

Ask for Mel.      NICK GARDNER PLUMBING,                 Call: 413-330-2186     House Rental 355                              WELDING & MECHANICAL 413-579-1407                    #1 PHIL'S DUMP RUNS/ SOUTHWICK SMALL 2 bedroom            house, all SERVICES. new. $900/month plus utilit- Reliable service,          DEMOLITION  ies. 100 yard walk to South Pond with    Professional.

Certified Welding.  MOWING,           beach front rights. Call (413)525-1985.             LAWN        Removal of any  items in  cellars,         Insured.

MA Lic. #PL31893-J.    RAIN GUTTERS         Spring/Fall    Business Property 375  Cleanups, attics,  etc... Also brush removal            C aSPACE l l in new (market 413)531-2768 CLEANED & REPAIRED H E N T N I C K  C H I M N EY     Hedge LAST RETAIL     Trimming, Thatching,      (sheds,         small demolition  place. 5 miles from Westfield in Mont       Nick7419@comcast.net Antennas removed, chimneys SWEEPS. Chimney repairs and  and                gomery. $400/month. (413)977-6277.   Aeration, Mulching decks, fences, one car garages).                   rebuilds. repaired and chimney caps    Stainless   steel  caps         Mulch & Topsoil DeliveriesHomes For  Free             Fully insured. estimate Sale   390   repaired,          and systems.        installed.

Roof leaks    Needs  WESTFIELD.   liner   Inspections,   Phil All Your Landscaping     (413)525-2892 or RECENTLY  RENO-              STUMP masonry work and gutter clean VATED! 3 bedrooms, new roof, GRINDING    vent  areas sealed. Senior      Residential & Commercial      (413)265-6380   hardwood floors. Central. Corner         ing.

Free estimates. Insured.            citizen discount. Insured. lot. $190,000. For more information       call (413)244-4703.      Quality work from a business   Free estimates.              (413)626-6122 or visit:                   Mobile Homes 410 you can trust. (413)848-0100, K & B STUMP GRINDING   H.I. Johnson Services    www.haggerscape.com              WESTFIELD HAMPDEN Village.     HOME IMPROVEMENT (800)793-3706.            the Westfield area since (413)596-8859 (before 9pm) $29,900. serving 2 bedroom, 14’x67’.

New                         sink, floor, windows, appliances, shed.        1988. Clean-up available. Fully  DASAP.MHVILLAGE.COM (413)593 LETOURNEAU & SONS                       SPRING CLEANUP: 9961. insured;  reliable; experienced &        PAINTING         DELREO HOME    Services 440       & Residential.

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(413)562-9128             A1 ODD JOBS/HANDyMAN, Debris  IMPROVEMENT         DRYWALL           Removal, landscaping, spring yard Weekly mowing and maintenONE CALL DOES IT ALL!           clean-up, interior and exterior painting,       All your exterior home    ance,   power washing, basic carpentry and removal,    dethatching,    tree                      plumbing. All types of repair work and  improvement needs. Roofing,    cleaning,      mulch, gutter etc. more. (413)562-7462.           TRACTOR SERVICE  owned  We are a family and      LETOURNEAU & SONS           decks    siding, windows, and                  T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete Call Shea Landscaping            operated, painting and home        PAINTING        Free quotes.

Extensive professional drywall at amateur gutters.              (413)244-3028 company serving                     improvement JIM'STRACTOR SERVICES  prices.

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ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!       Grading & leveling of dirt drive      Call Mike 413-821-8971. Free Advertise Your LANDSCAPING    T&S   insured in MA/CT.             We specialize in residential/com       estimates.

Highest quality, lowest prices. ways & short roads. Loam www.delreohomeimprovement.com                  Residential & spread, loader work, post hole mercial, exterior/interior   painting  We are a family  owned and  Lawn mowing.        Delcamp        Call Gary              Commercial.

Weekly/Bi-weekly digging.   Mowing of fields and and staining, ceiling and   operated, painting and home                 drywall        (413)569-3733       No lawns too small        repairs,              lots with large rotary mower. watercompany damage repair, improvement serving                delivery      Material available.   and   (413)330-3917 home repairs, the Westfield area since 1986.      exterior        ELECTRICIAN Call (413)530-5430                            including    carpentry of all We specialize intypes residential/com   DAVE DAVIDSON: Bathroom              (413) 562-4181              roof repairs.

LAWN CARE mercial,         Ext. 118 & Kitchen Remodeling      exterior/interior  painting  clean-ups, weekly  mow- staining, ceiling and drywall ALEKSANDR DUDUKAL    TREE SERVICE         and       Spring SPRING ing, shrub trimming and gutterrepairs, water SPECIAL! damage repair, ELECTRICAL "GET  IT RIGHT THIS TIME"              10% off any exterior painting or cleaning.

Senior discounts.

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Kitchens, addi (413) 562-5727 by operating as efficiently as      #16303.

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All types of wiring.

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PORTABLE AND WHOLE     at a reasonable price.       Insured. References. Mass Reg. Call or text TreeWorks:  now      General Contracting HOUSE KOHLER GENERAT- St. for a free estimate     413-977-8049 Pierre     #121723. Call (413)568-9731.  Call                Homes Additions, Fin413-231-4281 ORS, SERVICE UPGRADES, Custom  No job too small !!      SMALL JOBS, POOLS. Gutter ished Basements, Remodeling.

UPHOLSTERY        Fully-Licensed & Insured.  PAINTING    de-icing All &  cables  installed.              HOME/OFFICE fee estimates.  WALLPAPERING      calls answered! Best prices, Prompt       KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & RECLEANING Competitive prices- Quality prompt service. Lic. #A-16886.    PAIRS. 30+ years experience       work.

(413)562-5816.     for home or business. Discount PROFESSIONAL PAINTING SPRING CLEANING        HIC# 177834 CS-101969 off all fabrics.  Get quality work  Low, low prices!

Interior/Exterior Kitchens, bathrooms, living      manship at a great price.

Free MASTER ELECTRICIAN    painting & staining, Ceilings, areas and more! Services      i c k u p a n d d e l i v e r y . C a ll   repair.   p 40 years experience. Insured. (413) 454-0019 Westfield, MA include shopping/errands and walls and sheet-rock        (413)562-6639.       Reasonable prices. No job too     are thorough, professional, and Carpentry of all forms.

Trim,    small.

Call Tom Daly, (413)543-     consistent. Affordable. windows & flooring.  Lic#      3100.

A7625.

No detail is over-looked.

WINDOW CLEANING Commercial and Residential.         Call Annie: 413-209-1424    Call Steve   Free Estimates.                  413-335-4587        or 860-741-5588 RESIDENTIAL               WINDOW      MASONRY CLEANING   FLOORING & FLOOR      In business locally for 25 years.

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