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Cowles Bridge off limits to Westfield Fire Dept.

By DAN DESROCHERS Correspondent WESTFIELD—In a letter to the Westfield Fire Dept on Tuesday, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has requested that all Westfield Fire Department vehicles that exceed posted weight limits no longer use the Southwick Road bridge.

The Cowles Bridge, which runs along Route 10 and 202 and is over the Little River, has been used by the fire department to gain access to the other side but only in emergency

responses, according to Westfield Fire Chief Mary Regan. Now however, the department’s vehicles are largely unable to use the bridge due to preexisting weight limits, lack of waiver and based on the request from MassDOT, which Regan said can cause delays in responding to emergencies.

“Essentially none of our vehicles can cross the bridge,” Regan said.

According to Westfield Police Officer Charles Kielbasa of the city police department’s traffic bureau, several of the trucks the fire depart-

ment uses are over the weight limit listed on the bridge, which is 12 tons for 2-axle vehicles, 16 tons for 3-axle vehicles and 29 tons for 5-axle vehicles.

“I weighed several of the trucks and all of them are overweight—the two axle pumper trucks and three axle ladder trucks, are well over those limits,” he said. “The ambulances will be under, the rescue truck, that’s under.”

The weights are gathered with a See Cowles Bridge, Page 3 A portion of Cowles Bridge, which is along Southwick Road.

Marijuana subcommittee discusses drafted town bylaw

Franklin Land Trust and Preserve North Pond receives check from local business

By GREG FITZPATRICK Correspondent SOUTHWICK – The marijuana Subcommittee held their second official meeting on Monday night. Subcommittee member Marcus Phelps noted that their main focus is to form a town bylaw on both medical and recreational marijuana based on the updates in the state’s recreational marijuana law.

The state has developed a 75-page document that refers to the original law that was passed for recreational marijuana.

“There are stipulations in there that relate to a local bylaw,” said Phelps.

Although, there is a document, the subcommittee is still waiting for a more clear and elaborate response from the state about the law for recreational use.

“Once we have that, it’ll make a lot more sense,” said fellow member Doug Moglin.

It is expected that the state could begin issuing medical marijuana licenses as early as April 2018. On Monday, the subcommittee had two drafted bylaws in front of them for review.

The draft the subcommittee looked at was the document that Phelps created which was based on the PVPC (Pioneer Valley Planning Commission) model.

The marijuana subcommittee discussed a number of things in the drafted bylaw, including the separation of sales in residential areas, especially with 74% of Southwick being residential zoning.

According to Moglin, the areas in town where medical

By GREG FITZPATRICK Correspondent SOUTHWICK – The Big Y supermarket of Southwick presented a $1,000 check to the Franklin Land Trust on Wednesday morning at their College Highway Big Y location. The funds donated were the result of a recent charity golf tournament that Big Y hosted.

Rich Hubbard, the Executive Director of the Franklin Land Trust, was pleased with the relationship that has been formed with Big Y. “This has been a big lift, so we really appreciate the support of Big Y,” said Hubbard. “Finding another partnership is really great.”

Hubbard also announced that Franklin Land Trust is working with the Amelia Peabody Foundation, a grant-making institution located in Wellesley, Mass. Through this partnership, Franklin Land Trust will be able to accept a $200,000 challenge grant from the Amelia Peabody Foundation, if they can raise $200,000 worth of donations by December 15, 2017, with the help of North Pond supporters.

Christopher Pratt, who is the Chairman of the Conservation Commission and was in attendance for the presentation of the Big Y check, said that it’s important for the community to take part in the latest fundraising opportunities for supporting North Pond.

“It’s really important that we get people motivated,” said Pratt.

Most recently, and reported by the Westfield News on July 25, Franklin Land Trust met with the Select Board and the CPC (Community Preservation Committee) and discussed the updates on the North Pond land acquisition.

Franklin Land Trust has been given an extension from the land owner of the North Pond property, which lasts until May 2018 as there is about $1.8 million left to be raised in order to preserve the land.

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Huntington residents turn out Wednesday for a Special Town Meeting to vote on the Gateway budget. (Photo by Amy Porter)

Huntington votes twice on Gateway budget

By AMY PORTER Correspondent HUNTINGTON – 85 registered voters came out to a Special Town Meeting on Wednesday to vote for a second (and third) time on the Gateway Regional School budget. The vote on the overminimum contribution of $722,266, the first of three Articles, had to be retaken due to a challenge to the validity of the first vote.

Doors were open early to Stanton Hall for residents before any town officials arrived for the 6:30 p.m. meeting.

Residents signed in with their addresses, but were not confirmed on the voter registration rolls. The first attempt at a vote by paper ballot resulted in ten more votes cast than residents who signed in, leaving the question of whether the votes were cast by registered voters.

The meeting had to be paused as selectmen consulted with the Town Counsel Thomas W. McEnaney by phone, who said the original vote was null and void. Some residents objected, saying that several people had left following the first vote. However, the only course was to have everyone remaining at the meeting sign in on the voter rolls, and cast a second paper ballot.

Town treasurer Aimee Burnham, who counted both ballots with an assistant, shredded the first ballot before the second vote was taken. The results of the

first ballot were not announced. In the end, Huntington’s over-minimum contribution to Gateway was rejected by a vote of 32 yes to 52 no, one less than the registered voters that had been confirmed.

The second and third Articles were for an additional sum of $4,004 for Huntington’s share of the minimum contribution, which is set by the state; and an additional sum of $11,000 for Huntington’s costs for vocational tuition.

Both questions passed by a majority of hands with no discussion.

The confusion of the vote-taking overshadowed the discussion on the overminimum contribution that preceded it.

When the first Article was moved and seconded, Ed Renauld, chair of the Board of Selectmen, said they were not recommending approval.

During the discussion, Selectman Darlene McVeigh read a lengthy argument which challenged Gateway’s assertion that the budget could not be cut without impacting student services.

McVeigh cited the following statistics: Gateway spends $17,381 per pupil, 112% of the state per pupil average. She also said the superintendent’s salary is 300% of the state per pupil average, while teachers earn 91% of that same average.

By press time, The Westfield News was not able to confirm the accuracy of these See Gateway Budget, Page 3

Big Y of Southwick presented Franklin Land Trust Executive Director Rich Hubbard, Conservation Commission Chairman Chris Pratt, and Select Board Chairman Doug Moglin a $1,000 check towards preserving the North Pond property. (Photo courtesy of Greg Fitzpatrick)

Girl Scouts seeking vendors for farmers’ market

Westfield Girl Scout Troop 40230, led by leaders Patricia O’Connor and Lisa Stawasz, includes Heather O’Connor, Kristen Stawasz, Allison Bower and Paige Stawasz. The troop will sponsor a farmers’ market at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church on Aug. 20.

By LORI SZEPELAK Correspondeent WESTFIELD-Food vendors have a unique opportunity on Aug. 20 on the grounds of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church – to showcase their local produce at a farmers’ market hosted by Girl Scout Troop 40230.

The troop members – Allison Bower, Heather O’Connor, Kristen Stawasz and Paige Stawasz – gathered Wednesday morning at the church at 127 Holyoke Road to discuss lastminute logistics with their leaders, Patricia O’Connor and Lisa Stawasz, in anticipation of filling the front lawn of the church from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jordan Bower, another troop member, was unable to attend the gathering. The deadline for vendors to reserve a space free of charge is Aug. 13 by emailing Patricia O’Connor at oconnorp1749@comcast. net. Vendors are expected to set up their space at 7 a.m.

“Vendors and shoppers should participate because it is a great opportunity for the community to come together to share healthy, local foods, to support local businesses and neighbors, and to help the environment by encouraging eating locally,” said Patricia O’Connor, adding that an additional

benefit for vendors is a guarantee of a “good amount of potential customers.”

This will be the third year that troop members have conducted a farmers’ market and note each year the event continues to grow. The market idea was spawned after an intensive year-long Girl Scout leadership journey titled “Sow What?”

“The girls looked at where our food comes from, how it is processed and delivered to us and the carbon footprint created in the process,” said Patricia O’Connor. “We spent a good amount of time focused on local foods and food sources.”

The “journey” challenged the girls to examine food-related issues and put a plan into action that would help solve one or more of the issues raised.

“The plan the girls chose to put into action was to create a farmers’ market that would bring attention to all the wonderful foods and food sources we have in our own backyard – in some cases – literally,” added O’Connor, who has a garden brimming with zucchini, tomatoes and squash.

After the girls studied “backyard gardeners” they realized See Girl Scouts, Page 8

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50th Reunion Announced for Tech High Class of 1967 Technical High – Springfield, MA, Class of 1967 will hold its 50th Class Reunion from September 29 to October 1, 2017. A full weekend of exciting activities are being planned for this significant milestone with a dinner banquet and live entertainment set for Saturday evening September 30 at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel in Springfield, MA. If anyone is aware of classmates who may not have heard about the reunion, either send us their name and contact info or have them email Carolyn or Pam and the Reunion Committee will follow through. Names and information should be emailed to 1967Tech50th@gmail.com

West Springfield High School Class of 1952 Reunion The West Springfield High School Class of 1952 is celebrating its 65 Reunion at the Crestview Country Club on September 14. The following members are missing. If anyone has information regarding their whereabouts please call and leave a message at 786-4726. Maurice Allen, William Athas Jr., John Bremsar, Fred Brown, Ruth Cosby Sterling, Cynthia Brice Faucette, Carolyn Harris Herrick, Glendore Lyman McLaughlin, Ann Thomas, Carol Tranghese Croteau

Holyoke High School – 45th Reunion Looking for classmates….Holyoke High School Class of ’72 is holding 45th on Sept.9 @ the Summitview Restaurant Rt. 5 in Holyoke. For more information please contact Laura Meara at laura.meara@gmail.com before August 18.

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It’s DiGiorno Pizza ... spilled on I-30 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas highway officials shut down westbound lanes of a cross-country interstate for four hours so crews could pick up pizza.

An 18-wheeler containing DiGiorno and Tombstone frozen pizzas scraped a bridge support and sliced open its trailer Wednesday, spilling the pies across Interstate 30 in front of the Arkansas Department of Transportation office just south of Little Rock.

Agency spokesman Danny Straessle said the bridge suffered only cosmetic damage.

He says “there were some people shaken up” but that no one was hurt.

The westbound section of I-30 was closed for four hours and was closed eastbound for an hour too while crews cleared away the mess.

Straessle says the pizza sauce, the cheese and pepperoni, plus some spilled diesel left a “slippery spot.”

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2017. There are 143 days left in the year.

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n August 10, 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being “Son of Sam,” the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area. (Berkowitz is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences.)

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of “Amazing Fantasy” (cover price: 12 cents).

In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.

In 1680, Pueblo Indians launched a successful revolt against Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who were interned by their government during World War II.

In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries (TWEE’-luh-reez) Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.)

In 1991, nine Buddhists were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Arizona. (Two teen-agers were later arrested; one was sentenced to life in prison, while the other received 281 years.)

In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state.

In 1846, President James K. Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.

In 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.

In 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.

In 1949, the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense.

In 1962, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in West Branch, Iowa, on the 88th birthday of the former president, who attended the ceremony along with former President Harry S. Truman. Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man made his debut in issue 15

In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

TEN YEARS AGO: Three men being lowered into a southern Indiana coal mine were killed when a nylon sling attached to the bucket the men were riding in got caught, causing the bucket to tip and sending them plummeting more than 500 feet to their deaths.

FIVE YEARS AGO: A man in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American service members in southern Afghanistan; the Taliban claimed the shooter joined the insurgency after the attack. At the London Olympics, the United States won the women’s 4x100-meter track relay in a world-record time of 40.82 seconds to give the Americans their first victory in the event since 1996.

ONE YEAR AGO: During a raucous campaign rally outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Republican Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama of being the “founder” of the Islamic State group. (Trump later said he was “being sarcastic” before adding, “but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.”) Lonnie Franklin Jr., the Los Angeles serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper,” was sentenced to death for the murders of nine women and a teenage girl. At the Rio Olympics, Katie Ledecky turned in another overpowering performance to carry the United States to victory in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay. John Saunders, the versatile sportscaster who hosted ESPN’s “The Sports Reporters” for 15 years, died in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, at age 61.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Rhonda Fleming is 94. Singer Ronnie Spector is 74. Actor James Reynolds is 71. Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 70. Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 68. Singer Patti Austin is 67. Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 65. Folk singer-songwriter Sam Baker is 63. Actress Rosanna Arquette is 58. Actor Antonio Banderas is 57. Rock musician Jon Farriss (INXS) is 56. Singer Julia Fordham is 55. Journalist-blogger Andrew Sullivan is 54. Actor Chris Caldovino is 54. Singer Neneh Cherry is 53. Singer Aaron Hall is 53. Boxer Riddick Bowe is 50. Actor Sean Blakemore is 50. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is 50. Singer-producer Michael Bivins is 49. Actor-writer Justin Theroux is 46. Actress Angie Harmon is 45. Country singer Jennifer Hanson is 44.

Actor-turned-lawyer Craig Kirkwood is 43. Actress JoAnna Garcia Swisher is 38. Singer Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels & Rope) is 38. Rhythm-and-blues singer Nikki Bratcher (Divine) is 37. Actor Aaron Staton is 37. Actor Ryan Eggold is 33. Actor Charley Koontz is 30. Actor Lucas Till is 27.

Reality TV star Kylie Jenner is 20.

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GOVERNMENT MEETINGS THURSDAY, AUGUST 10

SOUTHWICK Lake Management Committee at 7 pm MONDAY, AUGUST 14

GRANVILLE Selectboard at 7:30 pm

SOUTHWICK Board of Appeals Public Hearing - 21 Lakeview St at 7:15 pm Board of Appeals Public Hearing - 15 North Pond Rd at 7:30 pm

BLANDFORD Assessor’s Meeting at 6 pm Zoning Board Meeting at 7 pm

TOLLAND Men’s Coffee at PSC Building at 7:45 am

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

WESTFIELD License Commission meeting is cancelled.

Park & Rec at 7:30 pm TUESDAY, AUGUST 15

WESTFIELD Planning Board at 7 pm WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16

HUNTINGTON Veterans’ Agent at 2:30 pm

BLANDFORD Board of Health Meeting at 6 pm Fire Department Meeting at 7 pm Historical Commission Meeting at 7 pm Finance Committee at 7 pm

CHESTER Municipal Electric Light Meeting at 7 pm

WESTFIELD Off-Street Parking Commission at 6 pm THURSDAY, AUGUST 17

BLANDFORD Library Trustees Meeting at 7:30 pm MONDAY, AUGUST 14

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

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WESTFIELD Historical Commission at 7 pm

CANCELLED: Stanley Park’s Friday Mornings For Children Presents Julie & Brownie: “Double Decker Bus Show” On August 11th The Julie & Brownie: “Double Decker Bus Show” scheduled for August 11th has been cancelled. For further information on the Friday Mornings for Children Series please go to www.stanleypark.org or call the park office at 413-568-9312.

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portable scale that Kielbasa has, where a portion of the scale is put under each axle of the vehicle and a weight is then provided.

The request came in the form of a letter from MassDOT dated Aug. 3. A copy of the letter was provided to The Westfield News from MassDOT. From the letter: “It has come to the attention of MassDOT that a Westfield Fire Department vehicle exceeding the posted weight limits crosses the bridge. While MassDOT understand that the restrictions may be a hardship to some Municipal services, a vehicle exceeding the posted limits should not cross the bridge unless an analysis of the specific vehicle has been performed and MassDOT has granted a waiver for that vehicle to cross the bridge.”

According to Patrick Marvin from MassDOT via email on Aug. 9, “Upon learning of this situation, MassDOT notified the City of Westfield of the proper procedure to request a weight restriction waiver.”

He also wrote that the city “yesterday applied for a weight restriction waiver to have emergency response vehicles utilize this bridge and MassDOT will be evaluating this waiver request.”

Regan also said that the department requested the waiver and is awaiting MassDOT’s response.

Regan is concerned about delays until a waiver is received or if one is received at all. Regan could not specify how much of a delay there may be in emergency response time due to the different areas where the department may need to respond to on the other side of the bridge but did note that it could create a delay in at least some instances.

“We do feel like there is a public safety issue,” she said.

In the meanwhile, the department has established new routes and coordinated with the dispatch center about the restricted access to Cowles Bridge.

Regan said that the use of the bridge was previously OKed from the Westfield Police Department “as many as seven, eight years ago,” for emergency purposes, following the weight restriction on the bridge reportedly changing.

“For emergency purposes we could respond,” she said.

“But upon returning to avoid the bridge.”

However, Kielbasa said that he was unaware of an agreement, which would have been made prior to his current position with the department.

“I don’t know where that came from, if they in fact had anything like that,” he said.

According to Mark Cressotti, city engineer for Westfield, the bridge is maintained and is under the purview of MassDOT, who has done repairs on it recently in order to extend its life.

The Westfield News reported in July 2013 on some minor bridge repairs .

In addition, the bridge is being looked at being replaced in the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), he said, with the project being targeted for Fiscal Year 2020. Cressotti added that this would be a short timeframe for a project like that.

“Three years is a pretty short period of time to advance

The posted weight limit on Cowles Bridge. a project of that size,” he said.

He also added that the weight limit is related to deterioration of the bridge, not a one-time traversing.

“Weight limits posted on a bridge are not an indication that a vehicle over those weights on the bridge is going to fall down,” he said. “Repeated application of that weight will deteriorate the bridge.”

According to Kielbasa, within the past two days there have been two violations on bridge related to weight restrictions in general.

Each violation can come with a $205 fine according to Chapter 85, Section 35, Kielbasa said.

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statistics.

McVeigh also said that the district does not spend its entire budget. She said in FY16, the budget was underspent by $528,000.

McVeigh also said that since Fy14, Huntington’s share of the Gateway budget has increased by $450,000, while the town’s budget has only increased during that time by $227,000. She said town officials have been trying to balance school needs versus town needs.

Gateway business manager Stephanie Fisk, who is also a resident of Huntington, asked what would be the tax impact if voters were to approve the over-minimum contribution.

McVeigh responded that the increase on the tax rate would be $1.08 per thousand.

Renauld said another consideration is that Huntington is one of six towns in the district, and is only as strong as its “weakest link.” He said the town of Russell, which also rejected the Gateway budget at its town meeting, would be facing a tax rate of over $24 per thousand if the budget were passed. He said Proposition 2 ½ limits the tax rate to $25 per thousand.

“The town of Russell’s back is against the wall. They will not be able to fund the school next year,” Renauld said. Russell is holding a Special Town Meeting on Thursday, August 10 at 6:30 p.m.to vote on its share of the over-minimum contribution.

Chester, who also voted down the budget, is holding its meeting on Saturday at 1 p.m. One of the two towns must vote for the budget in order for it to pass, or it will go back to the School Committee, who will have 30 days to vote on a new version.

McVeigh also suggested that Gateway use some of the revenue in its incoming school choice revolving account, which she said had a balance of $600,000 at the end of FY16.

When asked by a resident whether those funds could be used for other purposes, Fisk responded that the funds have to be used for instructional services, and cannot be used to make up for the cost of outgoing school choice students. The resident then commented that the town was asking the school district to take money out of a fund for educational purposes.

The question was then moved and approved, before the first vote on the over-minimum contribution was attempted.

Following the meeting, Renauld said he was told by the town’s attorney that there was “no way we could accept the first vote.”

Residents line up for a second vote. (Photo by Amy Porter)

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Study: Trump actions trigger health premium hikes for 2018

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's own actions are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many consumers, a nonpartisan study has found.

The analysis released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that mixed signals from President Donald Trump have created uncertainty "far outside the norm," leading insurers to seek higher premium increases for 2018 than would otherwise have been the case.

The report comes with Republicans in Congress unable to deliver on their promise to repeal and replace the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Trump, meanwhile, insists lawmakers try again. The president says "Obamacare" is collapsing, but he's also threatened to give it a shove by stopping billions of dollars in payments to insurers. Some leading Republicans are considering fallback measures to stabilize markets.

Researchers from the Kaiser foundation looked at proposed premiums for a benchmark silver plan across major metropolitan areas in 20 states and Washington, D.C. Overall, they found that 15 of those cities will see increases of 10 percent or more next year.

The highest: a 49 percent jump in Wilmington, Delaware.

The only decline: a 5 percent reduction in Providence, Rhode Island.

About 10 million people who buy policies through HealthCare.gov and state-run markets are potentially affected, as well as another 5 million to 7 million who purchase individual policies on their own.

Consumers in the government-sponsored markets can dodge the hit with the help of tax credits that most of them qualify for to help pay premiums. But off-marketplace customers pay full freight, and they face a second consecutive year of steep increases. Many are self-employed business owners.

The report also found that insurer participation in the ACA markets will be lower than at any time since "Obamacare" opened for business in 2014. The average: 4.6 insurers in the states studied, down from 5.7 insurers this year. In many cases insurers do not sell plans in every community in a state.

The researchers analyzed publicly available filings through which insurers justify their proposed premiums to state regulators. To be sure, insurers continue to struggle with sicker-thanexpected customers and disappointing enrollment. And an ACA tax on the industry is expected to add 2 to 3 percentage points to premiums next year.

But on top of that, the researchers found the mixed signals from the administration account for some of the higher charges. Those could increase before enrollment starts Nov. 1.

"The vast majority of companies in states with detailed rate filings have included some language around the uncertainty, so it is likely that more companies will revise their premiums to reflect uncertainty in the absence of clear answers from Congress or the administration," the report said. Once premiums are set, they're generally in place for a whole year.

Insurers who assumed that Trump will make good on his threat to stop billions in payments to subsidize copays and deductibles requested additional premium increases ranging from 2 percent to 23 percent, the report found.

Insurers who assumed the IRS under Trump will not enforce unpopular fines on people who remain uninsured requested additional premium increases ranging from 1.2 percent to 20 percent.

"In many cases that means insurers are adding double-digit premium increases on top of what they otherwise would have requested," said Cynthia Cox, a co-author of the Kaiser report.

"In many cases, what we are seeing is an additional increase due to the political uncertainty."

That doesn't sound like what Trump promised when he assumed the presidency.

In a Washington Post interview ahead of his inauguration, Trump said, "We're going to have insurance for everybody."

"There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it," he added. "That's not going to happen with us."

People covered under Obama's law "can expect to have great health care," Trump said at the time. "It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better."

But the White House never produced the health care proposal Trump promised. And the GOP bills in Congress would have left millions more uninsured, a sobering side-effect that contributed to their political undoing.

The Trump administration sidestepped questions about its own role raised by the Kaiser study.

Spokeswoman Alleigh Marre said rising premiums and dwindling choices predate Trump.

"The Trump administration is committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare and will always be focused on putting patients, families, and doctors, not Washington, in charge of health care," Marre said in a statement.

The ongoing political turmoil for people who buy individual health insurance stands in sharp contrast to relative calm and stability for the majority of Americans insured through workplace plans. The cost of employer-sponsored coverage is expected to rise around 5 or 6 percent next year, benefits consultants say.

Losing His Supporters

By NORMAN HALLS Contributor During Trump’s campaign he made 76 promises, very few he could accomplish. There is one, number 17 from the Washington Post list that he decided to not do: “Never take a vacation while serving as president.” As we know to date, he did pick a Supreme Court justice. The 74 others are now getting him in trouble. A number of Trump’s directives are being ignored by those on Capitol Hill in his own party and the military. Trump does not understand how to govern. If he did, many of his supports would approve of his job as president.

Recently, Quinnipiac University reported: “Just 33% of American voters approve of how President Trump is performing as president.” The report continues saying; “Trump’s numbers declined more among Republicans than they did among Democrats, who had already viewed the President unfavorably.” “The poll found that 63% of voters say they don’t believe Trump has good leadership skills and that he does not share their values.”

The question should not be why voters think or thought that this businessman could accomplish the job of being president without any experience in any governmental position. It’s possible that what Trump had promised was not true. Many voters heard something that could be better for them. Many communities thought he could bring back many of the industries that had moved to other states or countries. One example is the coal industry, that particular industry today will never hire the number of people it had 10 years ago. New technology today, equipment and standards, has resulted in fewer employees.

This is true in manufacturing in this country and worldwide.

We are going to see more solar and wind energy. This energy source will create more jobs.

Forbes magazine reported: “American Preservationists (a 20 percent cluster) is the core group that propelled Trump to the nomination. Nearly nine in ten of these voters described their vote as a vote for Trump, and more than three-quarters (77 percent) had a very favorable opinion of him. The Preservationists have lower levels of formal education and lower incomes than other Trump groups. They favor higher taxes on the rich, back the social safety net, believe the economic and political systems are rigged, and are skeptical of free trade. They are very skeptical about immigration. They vote for both Democrats and Republicans and look like Democrats on many economic issues.”

DAVID CITY, Nebraska (CNN) – “A gleaming series of pipes and engines tower over one corner of Bob Hilger’s acres of alfalfa fields. Hilger sold the land for a new pump station for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project President Donald Trump revived that had been halted under President Barack Obama. “I’m really impressed with all of the things that (Trump’s) accomplished,” the 72-year-old farmer said, looking over the chain-link fence securing the installation. “Energy security is one of his big things, and that’s what this is all

about.” Hilger is one of the almost 80% of voters here in Butler County who voted for Trump in November’s election, out of a total of 3,770. “You won’t find much buyer’s remorse around here,” Mayor Alan Zavodny of David City, the county seat for Butler,” told CNN to Marquardt and B. Vitagliano.

Reading this article there are 2 topics that it’s hard to comprehend; one, President Obama was considering to safety of the pipeline, and two, the farmer made money selling his land.

But, he lost his field to grow his product.

Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine reported, “Support for Trump is solidifying. So, too, is support for his impeachment.

There is a venerable centrist point of view that partisan polarization is a function of Washington’s warring politicians, who inflate artificial differences into causes for political war. Out there in the country, it is thought, Americans simply want politicians to come together and work out sensible, centrist policies. Whatever this applicability, it is increasingly clear that in the era of Donald Trump it’s The People who are even more polarized than their representatives in Washington.

Unsurprisingly, these sentiments closely match partisan preferences. According to this same poll, 82 percent of self-identified Republicans (18% voted for Trump) approve of Trump’s job performance, 46 percent of them strongly. Seventy-nine percent of self-identified Democrats disapprove of Trump’s job performance, 65 percent of them strongly. These grassroots Americans are really, really at odds.”

“Understanding Trump’s Personality Type and Why it Matters” by Beatrice Chestnut; “There has perhaps never been more attention focused on interpreting the behavior of a world leader as there is on Donald Trump right now. His ascendancy to the U.S. presidency shocked and surprised people around the world. Even as it was happening, many in the U.S. believed it couldn’t happen. And then it did. The slogans and policies espoused by Trump have been called reactionary, inhumane, heroic, authoritarian, and fascist. He campaigned on an “America First” platform that is troubling and problematic given the increasingly global and inter-connected world we live in. Like an unhealthy Eight, Trump seems unwilling (or unable) to moderate his often impulsive, excessive behavior and reckless claims. A recent New York Times editorial highlighted Trump’s self-centered, impulsive hostility towards his opposition: “The news conference proved to be another signature recapitulation of himself by himself—Mr. Trumps’ relentless superlatives of self-congratulation, his paint-ball putdowns of any and all critics, his swaggering dismissal of controversies already occurring in plain sight.”

Some of us are optimistic about the communities they live in—but not their nation. I have seen a number of president’s over the years. I remember the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Riots in most major cities. The impeachment of Nixon. The Vietnam War, and the 16 year war in the Middle East, which doesn’t make sense. Our economy has gone up and down, how far will the Dow go and is good?

FBI agents search Manafort home in Virginia WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents looking for financial documents have searched one of the homes of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.

Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni says FBI agents obtained

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The Associated Press has learned the warrant for the search on July 26 at Manafort’s home in Alexandria, Virginia, sought information including tax documents and banking records.

The Washington Post first reported the raid.

Manafort has been a subject of a longstanding FBI investigation into his dealings in Ukraine and work for the country’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych. That probe has been swept into the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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Family of late officer accused of theft won’t get pension SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The family of a Massachusetts police officer who died before he was scheduled to plead guilty to stealing from an evidence room will not receive any of his remaining pension.

Kevin Burnham’s family will give up about $74,000 under a settlement with the city of Springfield approved Wednesday.

Burnham was accused of stealing nearly $400,000.

Prosecutors said he stole cash from envelopes involving drug cases when he was in charge of the Springfield Police Department’s evidence room from 2009 until his 2014 retirement.

He was found dead of an apparent suicide at his Wilbraham home June 5, the same day he was expected to plead guilty to larceny.

The attorney general’s office dropped all charges after his death.

Police: 2 juvenile girls put baby in refrigerator SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Two teenage girls from Massachusetts are facing charges after police say they put an infant they were baby-sitting inside a refrigerator and closed the door.

The girls were released to their parents after their arraignments Tuesday in juvenile court on charges of child endangerment and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Their names were not made public because of their ages.

Police became aware of the Monday night incident after a social media video surfaced of the child crying and the girls laughing.

The girls were baby-sitting for a family in Danvers but their hometowns were not released.

The baby's mother told WBZ-TV she was angry but does not think the girls intended to harm the infant. The mother says her child is fine.

With pot legal, state vows crackdown on impaired drivers

By BOB SALSBERG Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts officials promised a crackdown Thursday on marijuana-impaired driving as the state prepared for full implementation of the voter-approved law legalizing adult use of recreational pot.

State police said they were increasing the number of officers with special training in detecting whether motorists are under the influence of THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana.

One continuing hurdle for law enforcement is the lack of a reliable scientific test, similar to a breath test for alcohol, to measure THC impairment.

Officials also unveiled a public education media campaign aimed at younger adults that uses a humorous touch to drive home the risks associated with driving while high. One TV spot depicts an obviously stoned young man repeatedly and futilely attempting to light a gas grill without a propane tank, suggesting how dangerous it might be if the man tried to drive somewhere to fill the tank.

Arthur Kinsman, regional administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said the goal isn't to "demonize" marijuana use, but change perceptions that it's safer to drive after using pot than after drinking alcohol.

"This isn't a Cheech and Chong movie, where everybody is kind of laughing and driving along and everyone is laid back," said Kinsman, referring to the popular 1970s-era stoner comedy duo.

Massachusetts voters were among those in four states that approved recreational marijuana questions last November, joining four states that had done so previously.

Jennifer Queally, undersecretary of public safety for law enforcement, cited evidence that those earlier states had experienced a spike in marijuana-related highway crashes since legalization.

A recent study by the Highway Loss Data Institute, a leading insurance research group, found that collision claims in Colorado, Washington and Oregon went up 2.7 percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana sales began, when compared with surrounding states.

Drivers who are high on marijuana demonstrate slower reaction times, sleepiness and more difficulty estimating time and distance, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Col. Richard McKeon, head of the Massachusetts State Police, said law enforcement planned to increasingly rely on drug recognition experts, officers who are trained in identifying drug impairment. There are currently 33 such experts in the state police force and 141 total in departments around the state, he said, with funding available to add another 60 in 2018.

But McKeon acknowledged the current lack of a conclusive test for measuring THC impairment makes prosecutions difficult.

"We can testify to our observations and we bolster that with our training and our experience and that is how we bring these cases forward," he said. "But it is a challenge."

A recently passed bill that makes revisions to the Massachusetts law included creation of a task force to study "all aspects of law enforcement personnel ability to properly test impaired operators and prevent impaired operation of motor vehicles."

While questioning some of the methodology behind studies that link marijuana legalization to increases in highway crashes, cannabis industry representatives have generally embraced efforts by states to tackle impaired driving.

Mike Dundas, chief executive of Sage Naturals, a medical marijuana dispensary in Cambridge, said his staff is trained to discuss the risks with customers.

"We urge other dispensaries to join us in partnering with the state to raise awareness about the dangers of smoking and driving," said Dundas.

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WESTFIELD Major crime and incident report Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 9:35 a.m.: Warrant service, King Street. Police reported that they arrested Nathan Santiago, 19, of Springfield, on a warrant.

9:56 a.m.: Motor vehicle theft, walk-in. Police received a report of a 1998 Pontiac Bonneville that was allegedly stolen sometime overnight on Russell Road. Police reported that this is under investigation.

12:01 p.m.: Motor vehicle violation and arrest, Holyoke Road. Police reported that they stopped a vehicle that was initially allegedly speeding. Upon stopping the vehicle, police reported that it was found the operator, William J. Saporito, 40, of Westfield, also had a revoked license. Police arrested Saporito and charged him with speeding and operating motor vehicle with license revoked, subsequent offense.

Court Logs Westfield District Court Aug. 2, 2017 Kyle L. Cortis, 34, of 1026 Springfield St., Apt. 9, Feeding Hills, was held in lieu of $500 bail or personal surety pending an Aug. 30 hearing after being arraigned on a charge of assault and battery on family/household member, brought by Agawam Police, and breaking and entering into building daytime for felony and larceny under $250, brought by State Police Russell.

Ramon V. Rivera, 54, of 155 Farnum Dr., Holyoke, was released on his personal recognizance pending a Sept. 14 hearing after being arraigned on charges of operating motor vehicle with license suspended—second or subsequent offense, and unsafe operation of motor vehicle, brought by Westfield Police.

Jose R. Melendez, 40, of 27 Horace St., Springfield, was released on his personal recognizance pending an Oct. 20 hearing after being arraigned on a charge of operating motor vehicle with license suspended, brought by State Police Russell.

Anthony G. Davy, 41, of 52 Danek Dr., Apt. A, Westfield, had a charge of possession of class A drug found admission to sufficient facts found but continued without a finding until Aug. 2, 2018, brought by Westfield Police.

Kristel M. Rivera, 24, of 91 Malden St., Springfield, was released on her personal recognizance pending an Oct. 12 hearing after being arraigned on charges of unlicensed operation of motor vehicle and speeding in violation of special regulation, brought by State Police Russell.

Boston accountant sentenced for stealing $3.5M from employer BOSTON (AP) — Federal authorities in Boston say a former accountant for an investment advising firm is headed to prison for stealing more than $3.5 million from the company.

The U.S. Attorney's office says Gary Tiffany II, of Boston, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to more than four years behind bars. He pleaded guilty last year to two counts of wire fraud and one count of monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity.

Tiffany was responsible for maintaining the company's checkbook and making payments to vendors. From about April 2011 through November 2015, prosecutors say he made wire transfers totaling more than $3 million from his employer's accounts to his personal accounts. Prosecutors say Tiffany also forged signatures on about 46 checks payable to himself that totaled about $456,000.

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Lt. Colonel Tim Matthews to speak On Monday, August 21 Lt. Colonel Tim Matthews will speak to the Westfield Rotary Club about his unit’s mission.

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Matthews enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1990 and served for 12 years as an enlisted Marine prior to his commissioning from Officer Candidate School 2002. His key assignments include serving as a Platoon Commander, DASC Company Commander, Operations Officer, and Executive Officer. Lieutenant Colonel Matthews deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005 as Air Support Liaison Team OIC assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 and to the Horn of Africa in 2006-2007 as platoon commander assigned to the 6th Provisional Security Company. His recent operational deployments include strategic and operational planning for Northeast Asia, embassy reinforcement/ evacuation Libya, and Joint Special Operations Task Force-Bragg.

Lieutenant Colonel Matthews’ awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Joint Service Commendation Medals and three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals as well as various service and unit awards. He graduated Boston College with a B.A. in History and an M.Ed in Secondary Education. He is 2012 graduate of the Naval War College in Newport, RI with a M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies. He is currently an 8th grade U.S. History teacher in Newton, Massachusetts. Lieutenant Colonel Matthews lives in Westfield, Massachusetts with his wife of 22 years, Bridget, and their four children.

The Westfield Rotary Club meets on Monday’s at 12:00n at the Genesis Spiritual Life Center at 53 Mill St. The meeting is open to all.

Car show at Food Fest WESTFIELD – Automobile aficionados will be able to feast their eyes – as well as their taste buds – at the third annual Rotary Food Fest which will be staged on the weekend of Aug. 25-26 in downtown Westfield. For the first time, the Food Fest will include a car show which will bring as many as 50 vintage and customized cars to Elm Street which will be closed to vehicular traffic from School Street to Franklin Street for the event. Visitors to the Food Fest will be able to get an up-close and personal looks at stunning examples of the cars of yesterday and today as the owners of the cars show off their treasures and compete for prizes. The car show is a new addition to the Food Fest (now in it’s third year) sponsored by the Rotary Club of Westfield. The free two day event will begin on Friday at 5 p.m. and close for the night at 10 p.m.

The street festival will resume on Saturday at noon and will will feature food and drink from local restaurants and food trucks as well as entertainment from local musicians.

Rotarian Jennifer Gruszka, a co-chair of this year’s festival, said the goal of the event is “to showcase local businesses as well as the downtown area.” The Westfield Rotarians will be selling beer and wine to adults at the festival which will enjoy live coverage from local FM radio station WSKB. Gruszka said that proceeds from the event will be returned to the community by the club in the form of grants for service projects which promote Rotary’s areas of focus.

As space to display cars is limited on Elm Street only the first 50 registrants will be able to participate in the car show.

The site will open to participants at 11 a.m. and all cars must be in place when the Food Fest resumes at noon. The car show will continue until 3 p.m. although the Food Fest will not end until 10 p.m.

Car owners who wish to participate or learn more about the car show are encouraged to send an email to foodfestcars@ gmail.com. The advance registration fee for the car show will be $10 while registration on the day of the event (as space is available) will be $15.

For sponsorship opportunities or to become a vendor at the Food Fest, please contact Gruszka at jennifergruszka45@ gmail.com or visit the club’s website, westfieldrotary.org.

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ful Off Broadway run at Barrow Street Theatre, and was subsequently adapted for television and broadcast on HBO. When a boy’s mother attempts suicide, he starts a list of everything that’s brilliant in the world to convince her to stay: things with stripes, ice cream, Christopher Walken’s hair. Joel Ripka, in his 7th appearance at Chester Theatre, leads the audience on an engaging journey of a son’s gift to his mother, to himself, and to the audience.

For the first time in its tenure at The Town Hall Theatre, Chester Theatre will be turning the space into a theatre in the round. For details: 413354-7771 or www.chestertheatre.org.

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Chester Theatre Company presents the New England Premiere of Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing, directed by Daniel Elihu Kramer, and starring Joel Ripka, through August 13 in Chester, MA Every Brilliant Thing was produced

by Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company at the Ludlow Fringe Festival, enjoyed a success-

The world of a charming songwriter is on the rocks in Daniel Zaitchik’s contemporary new musical Darling Grenadine plays Gooidspeed Musicalss August 18-September 17, at The Terris Theatre in Chester, CT. In Darling Grenadine, funloving jingle composer Harry lives a chamred life in modern Manhattan with his girlfriend Louise, brother Paul and beloved Labrador Retriever (also Paul!). Life sparkles with the fizz of romantic comedies and the whimsy of MGM musicals. But will it all go flat when reality interrupts Harry’s tenderly orchestrated fantasia? A rich contemporary score explores the friction between romance and reality, bitter and sweet, high and low.

Darling Grenadine features book, music and lyrics by Daniel Zaitchik. As a singersongwriter, his recording projects include Bad Dancer and Summer of the Soda Fountain Girls (with his old band Blue Bottle Collection.) As a playwright-composer his projects include Picnic at Hanging Rock (Goodspeed’s 2017 Festival of New Musicals),

Hershey Felder Brings “Our Great Tchaikovsky” to Hartford Stage Hershey Felder, the remarkable actor, pianist, playwright, composer, and historian brings his solo play with music, Our Great Tchaikovsky to Hartford Stage or a limited run on August 19-27. The versatile Felder, who has starred in his George Gershwin Alone and Monsieur Chopin at Hartford Stage, portrays the famous and very eccentric Russian composer, who created such masterworks as the scores to The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and the 1812 Overture. Nine days after he conducted the premiere of his Symphony Pathétique as a healthy 53-year-old, he was dead. To this day, how and why remains a mystery.

Felder recently directed concert pianist Mona Golabek in The Pianist of Willisden Lane, his adaptation of Golabek’s memoir co-written with Lee Cohen.

The Montreal-born artist has adapted plays with music about composers Beethoven, Bernstein, and Berlin. Felder, in 1994, spent time working on Stephen Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation interviewing

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Hershey Felder brings Our Great Tchaikovsky to Hartford Stage. and Suprema (with playwright Jordan Harrison.) His work has been developed at Lincoln Center Theater, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New Dramatists, Ars Nova and The Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. He has been awarded the 2017 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Musical Theatre Lyricist.

Darling Grenadine will be directed by Kristin Hanggi. who is best-known for directing and developing the international smash-hit Rock of Ages. For details: 860-8738668 or www.goodspeed.org

Plan Ahead Warhol Capote opens the fall season at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, September 9-October 13. In the late 1970s, Truman Capote and

Andy Warhol decided that they were destined to create a Broadway play together. Over the course of the next several months, they would sit down to record a series of intimate, wide-ranging conversations.

The play never came to be, and the hours and hours of tape were lost to the ages. Until now. Rob Roth adapts the play; Michael Mayer directs. Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella, direct from Berkshire Theatre Group’s Children of a Lesser God, and Leslie Jordan from Will & Grace and Sordid Lives co-star. For details: 617547-8300 or www.americanrepertorytheater.org

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Arts Beat Radio welcomes Chester Theatre Company’s Daniel Elihu Kramer on Friday, August 11 from 8AM-9AM. live from The Press Room in Westfield, MA, on 89.5FM/WSKB. C’mon down, caffeinate, and watch live radio; or tune in live on the airwaves, on Comcast ch. 15, www.wskb.org or at www. westfieldtv.org Rorianne Schrade, awardwinning pianist, and the voice of the Sevenars concerts, previews her September Carnegie Hall recital program at the Sevenars season finale on August 13. Her program will include works by Mozart,

LESLIE JORDAN Beethoven, Scriabin, Glazunov, and Rachmaninoff.

This concert marks her return to the concert stage after a five year hiatus. Welcome her back! For details: 413238-5854 or www.sevenars. org.

Love Letters, the A.R. Gurney play about two upper-crust New Englanders, who share their correspondence of fifty years, will be presented on August 20 at Historic North Hall in huntington, MA. Actor and playwright Mitch Giannunzio directs; Margery Shaw and Kenneth Tigar co-star. For details: 413-667-5543 or www.northhallhuntington. org..

Pravda, David Hare’s and Howard Benton’s powerful play explores the role of journalism in society. The Berkshire Theatre Group presents a free staged reading, staged by Dan Dwyer on August 18. Tickets required.

For details: www.berkshiretheatregroup.org.

——— Mark G. Auerbach studied theatre at American University and the Yale School of Drama. He’s worked for arts organizations and reported on theatre for newspapers and radio.

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Fri-Sun: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 Mon: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Tue: 10AM, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Wed: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Thu: 1:00, 4:00, 9:15

Falsettos (NR) Thu: 6:30 PM

WhipCity Wordsmiths, a group for writers and authors at all levels of their craft, is currently accepting new members. The group has been founded by mother/daughter Westfield authors, Susan Buffum and Kelly Buffum, who currently have 30 published novels and story collections between them. The group is for those aged 15 or older who share a passion for the written word and want to explore the craft of writing, develop or hone their skills, learn the ins and outs of self-publishing and traditional publishing which are among the topics the group will be discussing. Even if you have only thought about writing and don’t quite know where to begin, you are welcome to join and be mentored by an author/ writer as well as share in the support and camaraderie of those who possess a love of writing in all its myriad forms. Membership forms are available at Blue Umbrella Books, 2 Main Street, Westfield, MA or can be requested by contacting Kelly at kellybuffumauthor@gmail.com The group will be launchedwith a once a month meeting beginning in September. Members will stay connected between meetings or if unable to attend a meeting via a blog already in existence at whipcitywordsmiths.blogspot.com

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Holy Trinity Parish Fall Festival Holy Trinity Parish of Westfield will be holding its FALL FESTIVAL on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2017, 12 noon to 5 pm at Pilsudski Park, 200 Old County Rd., Holyoke, MA. The day will begin with Mass celebrated at 10:30 am. The Festival will feature a Polish Kitchen serving the popular Polish Plate with pierogi, golumbki, kielbasa, and kapust. These items can also be purchased separately.

The American Kitchen will serve hot dogs, hamburgers & kielbasa grinders. Take-Out will be available starting at Noon. Our Bake Sale will have delicious homemade baked goods.

The festival will include Bingo, a Straw Booth, games of chance, a Chinese Raffle and a 50/50 Raffle.. There will be children’s games, activities and a Bounce House. The Grand Raffle has 10 money prizes worth a total of $2,000 with the first prize being $1,000. Tickets are $1 each or a book of 6 tickets for $5. Raffle tickets can be obtained in advance at the parish office during office hours and at the Festival. The drawing will be at the Festival. For your listening and dancing pleasure The “Mark VI Band” will provide Polish & American music from 1 to 5 pm in the spacious ballroom.

The Festival is open to the public with free admission & parking, held rain or shine. Come for good food and a fun time. For more information call the Parish Office, Monday thru Friday from 9am to 4pm at 568-1506 or email htoffice@comcast.net. We hope to see you there!

Russell Senior Center Hosts Clarence Darrow Performance Monday, September 18th at 2:00 p.m., Richard Clark will perform Clarence Darrow by David Rintels, at the Russell Senior Center, 65 Main Street, Russell, MA. This play features intense court room drama and comic relief as it highlights the life and times of Clarence Darrow, attorney extraordinaire and defender of the downtrodden and the damned. From his youthful innocence in small town Ohio to the embattled national stage of the “Scopes Monkey Trial” and the Leopold and Loeb court rooms it is a roller coaster ride into the heart and mind of a complex American hero. Richard Clark is an actor with over thirty years of experience in New England regional theater, New York Theater and television. Mr. Clark’s performance is sponsored by the Russell Cultural Council.The public is welcome; light refreshments will be served after the performance. Please make reservations by leaving a message on the Russell COA reservation line at 862-6205.

Monday, September 18th at 2:00 p.m., Richard Clark will perform Clarence Darrow by David Rintels, at the Russell Senior Center, 65 Main Street, Russell, MA. This play features intense court room drama and comic relief as it highlights the life and times of Clarence Darrow, attorney extraordinaire and defender of the downtrodden and the damned. From his youthful innocence in small town Ohio to the embattled national stage of the “Scopes Monkey Trial” and the Leopold and Loeb court rooms it is a roller coaster ride into the heart and mind of a complex American hero.

Richard Clark is an actor with over thirty years of experience in New England regional theater, New York Theater and television.

Mr. Clark’s performance is sponsored by the Russell Cultural Council.The public is welcome; light refreshments will be served after the performance. Please make reservations by leaving a message on the Russell COA reservation line at 862-6205.

LIVESTRONG at the YMCA The YMCA of Greater Westfield is committed to serving individuals and their families living with, through and beyond cancer. LIVESTRONG at the YMCA is a free 12-week exercise program for adult cancer survivors who are currently in or have completed treatment and are physically deconditioned. Developed by Stanford University, this specially designed program has proven to help survivors regain strength, overcome fatigue, and enhance functional ability to do everyday tasks. Beginning September 19th, the class will meet twice a week, for 12 weeks on Tuesday & Thursday; 3:30AM-5PM to strength train and improve cardiovascular function. Currently enrolling for the fall, space is limited. For more information, visit www.westfieldymca. org or contact: Cindy Agan, Health & Wellness Director, at the YMCA of Greater Westfield 1.413.568.8631 or cagan@ westfieldymca.org

Looking For Direct Sales Vendors For Upcoming Vendor Fair When: Saturday September 30, 2017 Where: Southwick Congregational Church, 488 College Hwy, Southwick, MA Time: 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

Cost is $30.00 per table or $25.00 if you bring your own, plus an item to be donated for a raffle.

If interested, please call Andrea at 413-262-1959 or email rezten@comcast.net

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The marijuana sub committee discusses the medical marijuana town bylaw they are creating. (Photo courtesy of Greg Fitzpatrick)

Bylaw marijuana could be allowed is in the industrial zone, which includes Hudson Drive. But, as the subcommittee continues to upgrade their town bylaw, it isn’t

Girl Scouts the market could also be an “opportunity” for those in the church community to share their goods.

As the date for the market quickly approaches, the girls relish their roles of assisting vendors with setting up tents or tables and carrying goods for them. At the end of the market they are also responsible for cleaning up the site.

“Our main target is people who grow and prepare foods locally, but we have had a few non-food vendors in the past,” said O’Connor, adding that local crafters are welcome.

For Kristen Stawasz, her newfound

Continued from Page 1 just about where the facilities can be, but how far apart multiple facilities can be from each other.

These are all points of discussion that

the marijuana subcommittee will resume at their next meeting on August 22.

Continued from Page 1 knowledge about the importance of farmers’ markets has been a godsend.

“We hope not only vendors but the community will support this event,” said Stawasz. “It’s always great to bring people together – especially around organic foods.”

Paige Stawasz echoed those sentiments.

“Some of our vendors have unique items like popcorn on the cob,” she said, adding, “everything that is sold is fresh produce which is important for healthy eating.”

Heather O’Connor shared the senti-

ments of her friends.

“Our vendors work hard to produce good food and need to be appreciated more,” said O’Connor.

Allison Bower concurred.

“We worked really hard to get the market started so we could support all of our farmers,” said Bower. “We know how important it is to support those who grow fruits and vegetables.”

During the event the girls and their leaders can also answer questions about the Girl Scout organization and literature will be available upon request.

Trump escalates feud with Senate GOP leader over health care

By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump resumed his taunts of his party’s Senate leader on Thursday, expressing disbelief that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn’t persuade a Republican majority to pass a health care bill.

“Can you believe that Mitch McConnell, who has screamed Repeal & Replace for 7 years, couldn’t get it done. Must Repeal & Replace ObamaCare!” Trump tweeted Thursday.

The president bristled this week after McConnell, R-Ky., told an audience in his home state that Trump had “not been in this line of work before” and had “excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process.”

Both before and after taking office, Trump spoke repeatedly about passing the massive health care overhaul quickly.

Asked to respond to Trump’s statement, McConnell spokesman David Popp said, “The leader has spoken repeatedly about the path forward regarding Obamacare repeal and replace on the Senate floor, at media availabilities and in Kentucky.”

The Senate rejected repeated attempts by McConnell last month to approve legislation annulling and rewriting much of President Barack Obama’s health care law. Nursing a 52-48 majority, McConnell needed support from 50 GOP senators to prevail because of unanimous Democratic opposition, but there were enough Republican “no” votes on each tally to sink the effort. Vice President Mike Pence would have broken cast a tie-breaking vote.

McConnell spelled out his view of the path forward in his Monday remarks to the Rotary Club in Florence, Kentucky.

“If people can show me 50 votes for anything that would make progress on that, I’ll turn back to it. But in the absence of that, we’re going to be moving on. We have a number of thigs to do in September,” he said.

McConnell cited must-pass bills that would prevent a government shutdown and a federal default, plus a GOP desire to turn to tax cuts.

But he also kept the door open for narrower health care effort aimed at stabilizing individual health insurance marketplaces around the country.

“I think no action is probably not going to work, because you’ve got a lot of private health insurance markets imploding,” McConnell said. “So exactly what form that takes is unclear right now. “ A small handful of online exchanges created by Obama’s law may have no insurers offering coverage next year, but many may have just one company selling policies. And many insurers around the country are proposing to raise premiums, often citing worries that the Trump administration will take steps to undermine the markets, such as halting federal subsidies they receive to lower costs for millions of people.

In Trump’s shot at McConnell on Wednesday, he wrote on Twitter, “Senator Mitch McConnell said I had ‘excessive expectations,’ but I don’t think so. After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?”

US weekly requests for jobless aid up 3,000 to 244,000 WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans applied for jobless aid last week. Despite the small increase, the number of people seeking benefits remained close to historic lows.

THE NUMBERS: Weekly unemployment applications rose by 3,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 244,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The less volatile four-week average declined 1,000 to 241,000. The number of people collecting unemployment benefits has fallen 8.8 percent over the past 12 months to 1.97 million.

THE TAKEAWAY: The job market appears solid as the U.S. enters its ninth year of recovery from the Great Recession.

Employers are holding onto workers with the expectation that business will continue to improve. Jobless claims — a close indication of layoffs — have come in below 300,000 for 127 weeks in a row. That’s the longest such stretch since 1970, when the U.S. population was much smaller.

The unemployment rate has fallen to a 16-year low of 4.3 percent. The government’s report for July, issued last week, showed that U.S. employers added 209,000 jobs. A particular bright spot is the fact that more Americans are coming off the sidelines and finding jobs.

KEY DRIVERS: The economy revved up this spring after a weak start to the year, fueled by a surge in consumer spending.

The gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of goods and services, expanded at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter. That’s more than double the revised 1.2 percent in the first quarter.

This year, the economy is expected to grow at about 2 percent. That would be roughly in line with annual gains seen during the recovery. Consistent hiring has helped sustain the gradual recovery, although the expansion is starting to show its age as the pace of job gains has slowed this year.

Despite the steady strengthening of the job market, the Federal Reserve has yet to see inflation return to desired levels, so it’s left its key interest rate unchanged for now.

US wholesale prices edged down 0.1 percent in July WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level slipped in July, the first decline in 11 months and further evidence that inflation remains a no-show in the economy.

The Labor Department said Thursday that its producer price index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach the consumer, edged down 0.1 percent last month, reflecting a third month of declines in energy prices and a flat reading for food.

The July result followed a tiny 0.1 percent gain in June. It was the first drop in wholesale prices since a decline of 0.2 percent last August.

Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, also fell last month by 0.1 percent. Over the past 12 months, wholesale prices are up a moderate 1.9 percent, while core prices have risen 1.8 percent.

Inflation has been low throughout this recovery. For the past five years, it has fallen below the Federal Reserve’s target for annual price gains of 2 percent a year. At the beginning of this year, inflation by a gauge preferred by the Fed did climb as high as 2.2 percent gain in February compared to a year ago. But it has since backtracked and in June registered a 12-month gain of just 1.4 percent.

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Firtion Adams Ryan Major bats at the rebound. (Photo by Bill Deren)

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Day 3 of the Kevin J. Major Tournament the 7:00PM game featured Firtion Adams against Cool Runnings. (Photo by Bill Deren)

Lumberjacks, Ice Hawks first to 2-0

A Firtion Adams goal puts them in the lead by a goal. (Photo by Bill Deren)

By CHRIS PUTZ Correspondent WESTFIELD – Day 3 of the seventh annual Kevin J. Major Memorial Hockey Tournament wrapped with four games in the books Wednesday night at Amelia Park Ice Arena.

The headliners of the night featured the Lumberjacks beating Cocchi 3-1 and the Ice Hawks doubling up Tommy Car 4-2 in “Social” Division action to become the tournament’s first 2-0 squads.

In other action, Cool Runnings downed Firtion Adams 3-1, and Clapbomb topped the SKG Whalers 4-2.

On Thursday, Clapbomb seeks to extend its good fortune with a “Social” matchup against Whip City at 6 p.m. The action shifts to the “Old Boys” Division with SKG-Pikeside at 7, followed by Indians-Tims at 8, and Teddy Bear-Falcons at 9. SKG Whalers and Cool Runings collide in a “Social” meeting at 10.

Even though this is the “Social Division” you still protect your goalie.

(Photo by Bill Deren)

Cool Runnings goalie Pat Lusteg comes out of his net to rob a breakaway attempt. (Photo by Bill Deren)

Firtion Adams goalie Cam Parent controls the rebound. (Photo by Bill Deren)

Ryan Moorhouse corrals the puck and puts a shot on net from his knees. (Photo by Bill Deren)

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Ed Normand Golf League at EMCC STANDINGS WEEK 17 OF 22 155.5 153.5 153.5 151 149 147 146.5 142 128 118.5 118 84.5 158 148.5 148.5 148 146 144.5 141.5 141 139.5 139 137 128

153 152.5 151.5 150 149.5 146.5 142.5 132 132 130.5 128 85

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LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL

7/27/17

10-YEAR-OLDS East Region Invitational (at Jenkins Township, Penn.)

DIVISION 1 RICK BROWN – JIM CARTWRIGHT TIM LARAMEE – DAN LARAMEE DAVE DUBOIS – ALAN VELAZQUEZ TOM MASSIMINO – TIM HUBER MIKE BERARDELLI – JIM JOHNSON PAUL CARRIER – LARRY COURNOYER DAN HARRIS – SHAWN BRADLEY RANDY ANDERSON – BOB GENEREUX MARC GRENIER – JOHN LAROSE JESSE RASID – AL NUBILE MIKE COTE – RYAN MALONEY SEAN CAHILL – MARK O’DONNELL

Saturday, July 29 Rhode Island 5, Westfield 3

Tuesday, Aug. 1 Vermont 5, Westfield 3

Sunday, July 30 Westfield 4, Fairfield (Conn.) 3

Wednesday, Aug. 2 Westfield 13, Maine, 3 (Westfield eliminated from playoffs with 2-2 pool play record)

Monday, July 31 Westfield – OFF

DIVISION 2 BRUCE KELLOGG – RICHARD KELLOGG CAM LEWIS – BILL GRISE III DAN BURNS JR. – GREG GLIDDEN MARK LOGAN – JOE GAUDETTE CARLOS SANTOS – BILL GRISE II JIM CONROY – FRAN COMO ED BIELONKO – BRANDEN BIELONKO MIKE DOUVILLE – JODY WEHR JAY O’SULLIVAN – RICK BURKE GARY GLADU – FRAN DWYER BOB COLLIER – DON CLARKE MIKE MAHAN – JOE HEBDA

FRIDAY COUPLES LEAGUE • EAST MOUNTAIN COUNTRY CLUB

Results for August 4, 2017 19 couples participated on an overcast but nice evening for golf Points results front-9: Fran Como and Nadine Como 43 points Rich Slysz and Louise Slysz 43 points

DIVISION 3 GLENN GRABOWSKI – JEFF BERGER MIKE SOVEROW – MIKE MULLIGAN DAVE DOVER – BILL CHAFFEE BOB LEWKO – NICK STELLATO JASON GEORGE – DAN VAN KRUININGAN JIM HAAS – AL HAAS ROY BARTON – BILL REINHAGEN JOE BOUTIN – HENRY SMITH JIM STRYCHARZ – RICHARD ROY DAN BURNS SR. – MIKE MANIJEK CHRIS FENTON – RYAN DROBOT JASON FITZGERALD – STEVE TOMAINO

Net results front-9: Dave White and Ann White 68 Brian Zych and Sandy Zych 69 Points results back-9: Mike Cichonski and Dorothy Cichonski 34 points Net results back-9: Gerry Potvin and Nancy Jamrog 74

SHELL’S TEKOA • TUESDAY GOLF LEAGUE

Pioria results: Bob Genereux Jr and Jean Genereux 70

RESULTS FROM AUG 1, 2017

1st Place Bob Berniche & Fred Rogers 2nd Place Jim Johnson & Jim Floraski 3rd Place Bill Lawry & Dave Gile 4th Place Dick Williams & Ron Sena 5th Place John Kidrick & Erroll Nichols 6th Place Rich Chistolini & Eric Wilder 7th Place Ed West & Harry Pease

8th Place Ray West & Harpo Czarnecki 8th Place Angelo Masciadrelli & Frank Kamlowski 9th Place Dave Liberty & Jim French 10th Place Gene Theroux & Jack Kennedy

11th Place John Lucas & Carl Haas

12th Place Bob McCarthy & Jack Blascak 13th Place Harry Thompson & Jeff Guglielmo 14th Place Conrad Clendenin & Stu Browning 15th Place Skip Couture & Bob Dudas 16th Place Butch Rines & Bill Wallinovich 17th Place Ron Bonyeau & Mike Ripa

Low Gross Bill Lawry & Fred Rogers @ 42 Low Net Bob Dudas @ 29 Closest to Pin on 3rd (1st shot) Closest to Pin on 3rd (2nd shot) Closest to Pin on 6th (2nd shot)

Ray West Fred Rogers Ron Sena

169 Points 140 Points 138 Points 136 Points 135 Points 133 Points 131.5 Points 129 Points 129 Points 125 Points 124.5 Points 118.5 Points 117.5 Points 114 Points 113 Points 108 Points 103.5 Points 96.5 Points

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, 2017. Special orders must be made before September 29, 2017.

Thank you!

Ted Perez Jr East Mountain Country Club Westfield Final evening for the 2017 Friday Couples League is September 29. 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 7pm.

SHAKER FARMS CLASSIC (Bramble Format) ​Kevin Lancto 121 Ryan Stelzer Dennis Bleau Marie Nardi​ ​ at Miles 123 P Dan Kotowitz Jim Warner Lynn Robienciezak​

Mike Bishop 128 Don Skelly Ray Nardi Christine Consolini Ric Serrenho 128 Tim Jacques George Varosky Carla Warner

Trevor Wilder 127 Tom Daley Matt Mosher Lisa Strycharz

Shaker Farms Country Club 866 Shaker Road Westfield MA 01085 Ph. 413-568-4087

HOLE-IN-ONE AT EMCC HOLE-IN-ONE AT EAST MOUNTAIN COUNTRY CLUB WESTFIELD, MA CONGRATULATIONS TO MATT FONTAINE OS SPRINGFIELD, MA WHO SCORED AN ACE ON THE 130

YARD 3RD HOLE ON JULY 30, 2017.

MATT USED A 7-WOOD FOR HIS PERFECT SHOT HIS HIO WAS WITHNESSED BY: KELLIE MAHONEY

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Babe Ruth Fall Sign-ups WESTFIELD – Westfield Babe Ruth will hold a fall baseball information/sign-up session Tues., Aug. 15 at Bullens Field at 7 p.m.

Players from Westfield, Southwick, Blandford, Huntington, Agawam, West Springfield, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, Chester, and Southampton are eligible and invited to attend.

Little Leaguers turning age 13 and all other players ages 14 through high school (12/13 division, high school level JV and varsity teams) are welcome to participate.

Any questions, contact Dan Welch at dnl.welch@comcast.net.

Tampa Bay Rays starter Jake Odorizzi lays prone on the mound after he was hit in the right leg by a line drive from Boston Red Sox's Eduardo Nunez during the fifth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)

7TH ANNUAL KEVIN J. MAJOR MEMORIAL HOCKEY TOURNAMENT “OLD BOYS” DIVISION

“SOCIAL” DIVISION Icehawks 2-0

Pikeside 1-0

Lumberjacks 2-0

Pirates 1-0

Whip City Jerky 1-0

SKG Bruins 1-0

Clapbomb Crew 1-0

Tims Auto 0-0

Cocchi 1-1

Indians 0-1

Tommy Car Auto 1-1

Swamphogs 0-1

Cool Runnings 1-1

Teddy Bear Pool 0-1

SKG Whalers 0-1 Ice Cats 0-1 Firtion Adams 0-2 Quack Attack 0-2

7th Annual Kevin J. Major Memorial Hockey Tournament Schedules 8/1/2017 UPDATE GAME

7TH ANNUAL KEVIN J MAJOR MEMORIAL HOCKEY TOURNAMENT 2017 DATE DAY TIME TEAM TEAM

By DICK SCANLON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Eduardo Nunez chased Jake Odorizzi when he lined a single off the pitcher’s foot, starting a five-run fifth inning for the Red Sox in an 8-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night that extended Boston’s winning streak to a season-high eight.

Struck on the right foot, Odorizzi was face down on the mound, his face extending onto the infield grass, for several seconds. He hobbled off with one arm wrapped around Rays manager Kevin Cash, the other around assistant athletic trainer Paul Harker. Tampa Bay said Odorizzi sustained a bruise and X-rays were negative.

Rick Porcello (6-14) won consecutive starts for the first time this year, allowing two runs and four hits in six innings. Porcello was 22-4 last year, when he won the AL Cy Young Award. Boston is on its longest winning streak since taking 11 in a row last September.

Pitching for the first time since July 23 after being sidelined by a lower back strain, Odorizzi (6-5) gave up two runs — one earned — and four hits. Tampa Bay made a pair of errors, threw a pair of run-scoring wild pitches and had a run-scoring passed ball.

Andrew Benintendi had three hits and put Boston ahead in the third inning when he doubled and scored with two outs when Mitch Moreland hit a sharp two-out grounder down the first-base line. Trevor Plouffe made a diving stop, dropped the ball and then threw to first only for Odorizzi to drop the ball for an

error.

Dan Jennings relieved Odorizzi and gave up a single to Benintendi and an RBI single to Mookie Betts. After an intentional walk to Hanley Ramirez, Benintendi scored on a passed ball on a low pitch off the glove of Wilson Ramos, and Betts came home when Jennings threw a wild pitch that bounced away from Ramos. Sandy Leon’s two-run single boosted the lead to 6-0.

Adeiny Hechevarria and Brad Miller homered off Porcello. The Rays have scored four runs in their last five games.

Plouffe threw wildly past pitcher Sergio Romo at first base as Brock Holt scored in the seventh, and Romo threw a run-scoring wild pitch.

PEDROIA Dustin Pedroia (left knee) did not play on the artificial turf, a day after returning from the disabled list.

TRAINER’S ROOM Red Sox: LHP David Price (left elbow inflammation) made 60- and 90-foot throws in the outfield. He is to throw again on Friday in New York.

Rays: CF Kevin Kiermaier, who has been out two months with a right hip fracture, is expected to take batting practice Thursday.

UP NEXT Red Sox: LHP Eduardo Rodriguez 4-3) is to pitch Friday night’s opener of a three-game series at the Yankees.

Rays: Rookie RHP Jake Faria (5-2) is slated to start Thursday’s series opener at Cleveland.

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Firtion Adams Quack Attack Ice Hawks Whip City

Social Social Social Social

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Pirates Teddy Bear Pikeside Cocchi

Indians SKG Falcons Quack Attack

Old Boys Old Boys Old Boys Social

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Cool Runnings Ice Hawks Lumberjacks Clapbomb

Social Social Social Social

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Clap Bomb SKG Indians Teddy Bear SKG Whalers

Whip City Pikeside Tims Falcons Cool Runnings

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8/11/2017 Fri 8/11/2017 8/11/2017 8/11/2017 8/11/2017 8/11/2017

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Tims SKG Ice Cats Slapshot 5 College Purple Reign Ice Cats

Pirates Enfield Dynasty Milanos The Kitchen Quack Attack Whip City

Old Boys Pro Pro Pro Social Social

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Red Sox beat Rays for 8th straight win

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Dear Annie

By ANNIE LANE

Grief and Loss Dear Annie: Lord willing, next month I’ll turn 67. In a recent column, you solicited seniors to write about issues they are facing.

A big one for me is grief.

I met “Shirley” when she was 15 and a junior in high school. I was a senior. Both of our families relocated the same summer from different states, with us coming kicking and screaming, mad our social lives were being upended. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

She was so pretty I was afraid to ask her out. We became friends, both being the new kids. She would set me up with her girlfriends so we could double-date. After two years, when she was 17, we went out together and were together every day. I dropped out of night school to avoid getting more speeding tickets trying to make it to her parents’ house before her 10 p.m. curfew.

When she was 20 and I was 21, we got married, and we started our family 15 months later. When the children were 7 and 4, we started traveling in a used Volkswagen camper and told people we were growing up with our children. We retired four years before Shirley passed away at age 62. That was 33 months ago.

People give unsolicited kind observations that I am doing so well. I am. To be honest, I am not lonely. I have my children, grandchildren, friends, former co-workers and church members with whom I regularly interact.

But there are times when, for no rhyme or reason, an emptiness comes in and takes over. I’ve learned to face, even embrace, it so the episode passes more quickly and I can heal from the experience and gain a better perspective. But the emptiness is profound. It makes all of life look like vanity.

When I can talk to people about Shirley, it is the next best thing to being with her. All of our life together seems real again instead of being some wonderful, long dream that never happened. “How could it be real?” I often think. It was so good for so long. That never happens. -- Rob in Jacksonville Dear Rob: Thank you for your beautiful letter. I’m sure it will touch many others as it has touched me.

Dear Annie: My sister’s ex-mother-in-law just passed away.

My sister’s children were still very young when the divorce happened, barely into elementary school.

Anyway, her mother-in-law thought the world of her, and they got along very well. They saw each other often because of the children.

I am sure it is breaking my sister’s heart. What is the proper etiquette for me to do something for my sister? I am close to this family also and want to know what I can do for them. -- Elle Dear Elle: If you’re looking for something you can do to comfort her, bring over a home-cooked meal. Then sit with her and listen, or just sit with her in silence. When comforting someone who is grieving, it’s not about finding the exact right thing to say or do. It’s about being there.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators. com. To find out more about Annie Lane and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

HINTS FROM HELOISE COLLEGE CLOTHES CARE Dear Readers: Mid-August means BACK TO COLLEGE for lots of young people. It may be their first time living on their own and doing chores such as laundry. Here are some of my time-tested and classic Heloise laundry hints for college students (and everybody else): * Step One: Sorting. Whites and light colors get washed separately from dark clothes. Empty all pockets, zip zippers and fasten fasteners. Turn jeans inside out to delay fading. * Step Two: Washing. Read the care label thoroughly. Use the correct water temperature for the garments; cooler water usually works just fine. Don’t overfill the washer or use too much detergent. Less is more! * Step Three: Drying. Shake items to loosen them when transferring them from the washer to the dryer -- this will speed up drying. Select the cooler temperature on the dryer. A too-hot dryer can shrink and damage clothes. A dryer sheet can help eliminate static. Removing clothes as soon as the dryer stops can lessen wrinkling.

I have put all of my favorite laundry and stain-fighting hints (removing coffee, grass and lipstick stains, etc.) into a handy pamphlet, perfect for college kids, and for everyone else, too!

Would you like to receive one? Visit www.Heloise.com to order, or send a long, self-addressed, stamped (70 cents) envelope, along with $5, to: Heloise/Stains, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. One reader sent her son off to college with navyblue everything: sheets, towels and jeans. This is one way to limit laundry disasters -- ha! -- Heloise

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TV Sports Tonight Thursday, Aug. 10 BASEBALL 11 a.m.

ESPN — Little League, Midwest Regional, first semifinal, at Westfield, Ind 1 p.m.

ESPN — Little League, New England Regional, first semifinal, at Bristol, Conn.

3 p.m.

ESPN — Little League, Northwest Regional, first semifinal, at San Bernadino, Calif.

5 p.m.

ESPN — Little League, Great Lakes Regional, first semifinal, at Westfield, Ind. 7 p.m.

ESPN — Little League, Mid-Atlantic Regional, first semifinal, at Bristol, Conn.

9 p.m.

ESPN — Little League, West Regional, first semifinal, at San Bernadino, Calif.

GOLF 1 p.m.

TNT — PGA of America, PGA Championship, first round, at Charlotte, N.C. 6 p.m.

FS1 — USGA, U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, rounds of 32 & 16, at Chula Vista, Calif.

12:37 a.m. (Friday) CBS — PGA of America, PGA Championship, first round highlights, at Charlotte, N.C. HORSE RACING 4 p.m.

FS2 — Saratoga Live, Statue of Liberty Stakes, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. MLB BASEBALL 7 p.m.

MLB — Regional coverage, Kansas City at St. Louis OR Cleveland at Tampa Bay 10 p.m.

MLB — Regional coverage, L.A. Dodgers at Arizona (joined in progress) OR Baltimore at Oakland NFL FOOTBALL 8 p.m.

NFL — Preseason, Denver at Chicago TENNIS 12:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — ATP World Tour & U.S. Open Series, Rogers Cup, round of 16, at Montreal TRACK & FIELD 2 p.m.

NBCSN — IAAF, World Championships, at London WNBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m.

ESPN2 — Phoenix at Dallas

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Costume designer Lou Eyrich, left, producer Alexis Martin Woodall, center, and actress Leslie Grossman of the FX series "American Horror Story" take part in a panel discussion on the show at the 2017 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at 20th Century Fox Studios on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

‘American Horror Story: Cult’ stars can’t say much about it

By SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The women of “American Horror Story: Cult” came to Fox Studios promote the new season for an audience of television critics Wednesday, but they couldn’t actually say anything about the show.

Stars Sarah Paulson, Alison Pill, Leslie Grossman, Adina Porter and Billie Lourd gave vague answers to critics’ questions and apologized for saying so little. The actresses appeared alongside makeup artist Eryn Krueger Mekash, costume designer Lou Eyrich and executive producer Alexis Martin Woodall.

Here’s what they could reveal: “Cult” involves a lesbian marriage, a broadcast journalist and what Woodall described as “an exciting trip to the grocery store.”

“As with all good horror and suspense, knowing less is actually so much more because it’s going to unfold for you,” she

said.

Though show creator Ryan Murphy has said “Cult” was inspired by the election of President Donald Trump, Woodall said the seventh self-contained installment in the “American Horror Story” anthology “is more about the world around us.”

“This particular season has a streak of paranoia that I think is infectious,” said Pill.

And it’s scary like past seasons. Pill said that about two weeks into filming, she started checking behind her shower curtain at night to “make sure there’s nobody in the shower, hiding, with a knife.”

Grossman also confessed that she’s typically had to record “American Horror Story” episodes so she can watch them during the day.

“If I watch it before bed, there are terrible sleeping issues,” she said.

The show returns to FX on Sept. 5 for 10 episodes.

Suspended Fox host sues reporter over alleged lewd texts NEW YORK (AP) — Suspended Fox News host Eric Bolling on Wednesday sued the reporter who broke the story that he had allegedly sent lewd text messages to colleagues.

Bolling filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit in New York state Supreme Court against Yashar Ali, a Huffington Post contributing writer. The cable news host said Ali damaged his reputation through what Bolling called the "highly reckless publication of actionable false and misleading statements about the plaintiff's conduct and character," according to the suit.

Bolling was suspended over the weekend pending an internal investigation that a Fox spokesperson said is underway.

Ali wrote last week that Bolling is accused of sending unsolicited photos of male genitalia to co-workers over several years.

On Wednesday, the reporter tweeted that he stands by his story and will protect his sources. Ali also wrote that he is not going to stop reporting on Bolling "or anyone else. I've had family members killed/jailed in Iran, a lawsuit isn't going to scare me."

Bolling's lawyer, Michael J. Bowe, said in a statement: "This anonymously sourced and uncorroborated story is false, defamatory, and obviously intended to destroy this good man's career and family. We will defend Eric aggressively in court, where actual facts, based on evidence, testimony, and cross-examination, will belie these anonymous accusations."

Bolling tweeted that he "will continue to fight against these false smear attacks! THANK YOU FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT." Huffington Post is not involved in the legal action.

Scaramucci to guest on Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ next week LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS says Anthony Scaramucci will be a guest on Stephen Colbert's late-night show next week.

The network said Wednesday that Scaramucci will appear on Colbert's "The Late Show" on Monday.

The former White House communications director lost his job with President Donald Trump's administration July 31, after only 11 days in the job. His firing came after he gave an expletive-filled interview.

Scaramucci had been scheduled to make other public appearances, including at the Politicon political convention in Southern California, but the financier canceled.

Colbert's gleeful focus on the Trump White House has given his show a latenight ratings lead, and landing Scaramucci is a coup for the host.

In this July 21, 2017 photo, incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, right, blowing a kiss after answering questions during the press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington. Scaramucci is out as White House communications director after just 11 days on the job. A person close to Scaramucci confirmed the staffing change just hours after President Donald Trump’s new chief of staff, John Kelly, was sworn into office. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017: This year you open up to many new ideas and adventures. A close relationship you have with someone is likely to have a big impact on you. You feel as if there is a possibility of adding more creativity to your life. If you are single, a friendship could become more significant. This person will be very different from anyone you have dated in the past. If you are attached, you and your sweetie might opt to do more traveling. PISCES can be unusually caring, as long as you remain authentic.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Much is going on behind the scenes. Others see your responses as you integrate certain events into your life. You have a way of endearing yourself to those around you. You might feel tired of handling so much. Encourage a friend to pitch in.

Tonight: Visit with a loved one.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You have a way about you that draws others toward you. You see life from a different point of view. Others often come to you for advice. You also appreciate their feedback. Emphasize success and togetherness. Tonight: You have a reason to celebrate!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Listen to what is being shared.

You could see a personal matter differently from how you have in the past. Your ability to move past a problem or accept different viewpoints emerges. How you see a personal issue could change given some time. Tonight: Out until the wee hours.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH Listen to news more openly. As a result, you will be more in tune with what is happening. Question a decision, especially if you made it when you did not feel like yourself. Sometimes you push yourself too hard.

Reach out for help more often. Tonight: Make the moment count.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You have the ability to move past a problem quickly and efficiently. You could be enjoying the interaction you are having with a close friend. This person might be more serious than he or she has been in a while. Lighten the mood. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH A new beginning becomes possible when you decide to head in a different direction. Others might be more enthusiastic and willing to help you make the difference.

If possible, share more of your enthusiasm and less of your concerns. Tonight: Let the party go on and on!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You could be stuck in an intense work cycle that you find difficult to change.

Your ability to move forward is marked by various circumstances. Your insecurities might cause you to slow down and falter.

Reach out to a loved one for advice. Tonight: Completely in the moment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH You could be in a situation where others want to make a major change, but you are not quite ready. Your ability to center yourself and add to the creative process adds a lot to the moment. Be more willing to head in a different direction. Tonight: Ever playful.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You might be willing to share more with others. However, if you’re not feeling upbeat, you probably will opt to take a step back. By letting go and deferring to others, your mood will lighten up considerably.

Open up to some fast changes that will make you happy. Tonight: Order out.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You notice that it serves you better to say less and allow others to fill in the gaps. You could be surprised by what you are hearing. Help a friend make a dream a reality.

Bring more excitement into a conversation by sharing some odd but relevant thoughts.

Tonight: Be a duo.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might become more aware of what you have to offer as the day goes on.

You will see your strengths emerge as more people seek you out for feedback. A friend who feels less than great could decide to cancel plans. Tonight: Treat yourself to a new item for your wardrobe.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH Your ability to get past issues impresses several people around you. Don’t be surprised if others ask for your help more often in making their dreams a reality. Listen to news with an open ear, as you could be asked to participate in what is occurring.

Tonight: In the limelight.

BORN TODAY Fashion designer Betsey Johnson (1942), actor Justin Theroux (1971), author Suzanne Collins (1962)

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Boston 65 49 .570 — — 9-1 W-8 36-20 29-29 New York 60 52 .536 4 — 4-6 W-1 32-20 28-32 Tampa Bay 58 57 .504 7½ 1 5-5 L-2 30-27 28-30 Baltimore 56 58 .491 9 2½ 6-4 L-2 35-23 21-35 Toronto 53 60 .469 11½ 5 5-5 L-1 28-27 25-33 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Cleveland 60 51 .541 — — 4-6 L-1 31-27 29-24 Kansas City 57 56 .504 4 1 2-8 L-3 32-27 25-29 Minnesota 56 56 .500 4½ 1½ 6-4 W-4 27-33 29-23 Detroit 52 61 .460 9 6 5-5 W-1 28-25 24-36 Chicago 43 68 .387 17 14 4-6 W-2 23-29 20-39 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Houston 71 42 .628 — — 3-7 L-2 33-25 38-17 Seattle 59 56 .513 13 — 7-3 W-2 32-27 27-29 Los Angeles 57 58 .496 15 2 6-4 W-2 33-26 24-32 Texas 54 59 .478 17 4 4-6 W-1 28-26 26-33 Oakland 50 64 .439 21½ 8½ 5-5 L-2 31-27 19-37 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Washington 67 45 .598 — — 6-4 W-1 31-23 36-22 Miami 53 59 .473 14 10½ 4-6 L-1 27-28 26-31 Atlanta 51 61 .455 16 12½ 3-7 L-3 26-30 25-31 New York 50 61 .450 16½ 13 2-8 L-1 26-32 24-29 Philadelphia 42 69 .378 24½ 21 5-5 W-3 23-28 19-41 Central Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Chicago 59 54 .522 — — 4-6 L-2 29-26 30-28 Milwaukee 59 57 .509 1½ 6½ 4-6 L-4 31-28 28-29 St. Louis 58 56 .509 1½ 6½ 7-3 W-5 32-26 26-30 Pittsburgh 56 58 .491 3½ 8½ 6-4 L-1 32-26 24-32 Cincinnati 47 67 .412 12½ 17½ 6-4 W-1 28-31 19-36 West Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Los Angeles 80 33 .708 — — 8-2 W-1 47-13 33-20 Colorado 65 49 .570 15½ — 6-4 W-1 35-21 30-28 Arizona 64 49 .566 16 — 5-5 L-1 37-19 27-30 San Diego 50 63 .442 30 14 4-6 L-1 29-27 21-36 San Francisco 46 70 .397 35½ 19½ 6-4 W-2 27-32 19-38 AMERICAN LEAGUE Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 3 Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Boston 2, Tampa Bay 0 Cleveland 4, Colorado 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Texas 4 Chicago White Sox 8, Houston 5 Minnesota 11, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 10, Kansas City 3 Seattle 7, Oakland 6, 10 innings L.A. Angels 3, Baltimore 2 Wednesday’s Games Colorado 3, Cleveland 2, 12 innings Texas 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Seattle 6, Oakland 3 L.A. Angels 5, Baltimore 1 N.Y. Yankees 11, Toronto 5 Boston 8, Tampa Bay 2 Detroit 10, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago White Sox 7, Houston 1 Minnesota 4, Milwaukee 0 St. Louis 8, Kansas City 5 Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh (Cole 9-8) at Detroit (VerHagen 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Gray 6-6) at Toronto (Estrada 4-7), 7:07 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 4-5) at Tampa Bay (Snell 0-6), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Hammel 5-9) at St. Louis (Lynn 10-6), 7:15 p.m.

Houston (Peacock 10-1) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-4), 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 6-9) at Milwaukee (Davies 13-5), 8:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Miley 5-9) at Oakland (Smith 0-1), 10:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-2) at Seattle (Paxton 12-3), 10:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Boston (Rodriguez 4-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Garcia 5-8), 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Taillon 6-5) at Toronto (Stroman 10-5), 7:07 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 10-5) at Tampa Bay (Faria 5-2), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Berrios 10-5) at Detroit (Sanchez 3-2), 7:10 p.m.

Houston (Morton 9-4) at Texas (Hamels 6-1), 8:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Duffy 7-7) at Chicago White Sox (Lopez 0-0), 8:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Jimenez 5-7) at Oakland (Blackburn 3-1), 10:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Nolasco 5-12) at Seattle (Gonzales 0-0), 10:10 p.m.

——— NATIONAL LEAGUE Tuesday’s Games Miami 7, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 6, Detroit 3 Cleveland 4, Colorado 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Texas 4 San Diego 7, Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 2 Minnesota 11, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 10, Kansas City 3 Arizona 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Francisco 6, Chicago Cubs 3 Wednesday’s Games Colorado 3, Cleveland 2, 12 innings Texas 5, N.Y. Mets 1 San Francisco 3, Chicago Cubs 1 Washington 10, Miami 1 Cincinnati 8, San Diego 3 Detroit 10, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 2 Minnesota 4, Milwaukee 0 St. Louis 8, Kansas City 5 L.A. Dodgers 3, Arizona 2 Thursday’s Games San Diego (Lamet 6-4) at Cincinnati (Castillo 2-5), 12:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cole 9-8) at Detroit (VerHagen 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

Miami (Straily 7-8) at Washington (Roark 9-7), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (deGrom 12-5) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 2-6), 7:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Hammel 5-9) at St. Louis (Lynn 10-6), 7:15 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 6-9) at Milwaukee (Davies 13-5), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Darvish 7-9) at Arizona (Banda 1-1), 9:40 p.m.

Friday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Lugo 5-3) at Philadelphia (Pivetta 4-7), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Stratton 0-2) at Washington (Jackson 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Taillon 6-5) at Toronto (Stroman 10-5), 7:07 p.m.

Colorado (Gray 4-2) at Miami (Urena 10-5), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Bailey 3-6) at Milwaukee (Nelson 9-5), 8:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Foltynewicz 10-6) at St. Louis (Wainwright 11-5), 8:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lackey 9-9) at Arizona (Walker 6-5), 9:40 p.m.

San Diego (Richard 5-12) at L.A. Dodgers (Hill 8-4), 10:10 p.m.

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All too often, negativity dominates the news. It’s time to change that!

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Serving Westfield & Surrounding Areas • 25+ Years Experience

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413-572-0900

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since 1984

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(413) 579-4073

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Carleton’s

Custom Lamp Picture Repair Framing 38 West school st. and and Restoration Westfield, MA Repair Appointments anytime

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(413) 537-5842

Back Yard BOBCAT Service • Debris, shrub & thick brush removal • all types of home lanDscaping consiDereD • mulch, stone, fill anD loam

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Lic. #26177 • AGAWAM, MA

(413) 569-3172 (413) 599-0015

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ESTATE

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Others try to match our price...but can't beat our quality.

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THE WESTFIELD NEWS

TAG SALES TAG SALES SOUTHWICK: 200 Hillside Rd, Saturday, August 12th, From 9:00AM-3:00PM. DOWNSIZING!

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Something for everyone, and much more.

APARTMENT

business DIRECTORY

3 & 4 Room, 1 Bedroom $750-$800 p/month. Includes heat & hot water, on-site laundry and storage unit.

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floram@thewestfieldnewsgroup.com • PROFESSIONAL SERVICES • To Advertise call 413-562-4181 Ext. 118 CHIMNEY SWEEPS

A STEP ABOVE THE REST! JMF CHIMNEY SERVICE Repair your chimney before winter wreaks havoc. We do brick repair, crown seals and repairs. We also do stainless steel liner installs, as well as stainless rain caps. We sweep all flues. Free estimates provided.

Call: 413-330-2186

FLOORING & FLOOR SANDING

HOME IMPROVEMENT

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Free estimates. (413)569-3066.

JOSEPH'S HANDYMAN COMPANY Carpentry, remodeling, kitchen, baths, basements, drywall, tile, floors, suspended ceilings, restoration services, doors, windows, decks, stairs, interior/exterior painting, plumbing. Small jobs ok. All types of professional work done since 1985. Call Joe, (413)364-7038.

HAULING A DUMP TRUCK Attic, cellars garages cleaned out. Wood and brush removal.

Handy-Man services plus painting.

(413)569-0794 (413)374-5377

HENTNICK CHIMNEY SWEEPS. Chimney repairs and rebuilds. Stainless steel caps and liner systems. Inspections, PHIL'S DUMP RUNS & masonry work and gutter cleanDEMOLITION ing. Free estimates. Insured.

Quality work from a business Better Business Bureau A+ you can trust. (413)848-0100, Removal of any items in cellars, (800)793-3706. attics, etc... Also brush removal

CLEANING A.R.A. Junk, Furniture & Appliance Removal Full house clean-outs.

Basements, attics & garages.

Demolition: Patios, sheds and swing-sets. You name it...we take it! Senior discounts. Free estimates on phone. Credit cards accepted. 7 days a week.

Emergency, same day service.

Call Pete 413-433-0356

DRYWALL T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete professional drywall at amateur prices. Our ceilings are tops!

Call Mike 413-821-8971. Free estimates.

and small demolition (sheds, decks, fences, one car garages).

Fully insured. Free estimates.

(413)525-2892 (413)265-6380

HOME IMPROVEMENT AFFORDABLE BUILDING CONTRACTOR

Call Bill for your FREE no obligation estimate (413) 977-9633 or (413) 562-5727

JD BERRY GENERAL CONTRACTING

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40 years experience. Lic. #16303. Call (413)330-3682.

POEHLMAN ELECTRIC All types of wiring.

Free estimates. Insured.

SPECIALIZING IN PORTABLE AND WHOLE HOUSE KOHLER GENERATORS, SERVICE UPGRADES, SMALL JOBS, POOLS. NOW DOING LIGHT FIXTURE REWIRING AND LAMP REPAIR. Gutter de-icing cables installed. All calls answered!

Best prices, prompt service.

Lic. #A-16886 (413)562-5816

MASTER ELECTRICIAN 40 years experience. Insured.

Reasonable prices. No job too small. Lic# A7625.Call Tom Daly, (413)543-3100.

Call Jim: 413-530-5430 or 413-569-6920

DAVE DAVIDSON: Bathroom & Kitchen Remodeling "GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME" Complete Bath Renovations.

Now serving CT. Insured. Quality Work on Time on Budget Since 1984. MA. License #072233, MA.Registration #144831. CT. HIC. #0609568 569-9973. www.davedavidsonremodeling. com PIONEER VALLEY PROPERTY SERVICES 413-454-3366

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ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!

Call Dave: 413-568-6440

Framing, siding, windows, doors. Site work, additions, garages and decks.

Trim work.

Fully Insured CS 077728 H.I.C. 129700 37 Years Experience

Call Jason, Master Electrician: 413-568-6293

LETOURNEAU & SONS PAINTING

21 Years experience.

Licensed & insured.

Repairs, Renovations & Construction. Specializing in Decks, Garages, Basement conversions. Additions, Log Cabins and Barn Repairs.

Veteran Owned & Operated 10% Sr. Discounts

ELECTRICIAN

Fully experienced for all your electrical needs, in your home or business. No job too small or too big. Electrical service upgrades, new construction or additions, emergency generators; New installation and maintenance service. Fully insured/licensed.

ALWAYS CALL FIRST!!!

M&M SERVICES 29 Years serving the Westfield area. Painting, staining, house washing, interior/exterior. Wall coverings. Water damage and ceiling/wall repairs.

Commercial/residential. Free estimates. Insured. References.

Call Carmine at: 413-568-9731 or 413-537-4665 No job too small !!

We are a family owned and operated, painting and home improvement company serving the Westfield area since 1986.

We specialize in residential/commercial, interior/exterior painting and staining, ceiling and drywall repairs, water damage repair, exterior home repairs, and carpentry of all types including roof repairs.

Full Service Contracting

FLOREK'S ELECTRICAL SERVICE

HOUSE PAINTING

LANDSCAPING & LAWN CARE

www.Ls-painting.com PROFESSIONAL PAINTING Low, low prices! Residential & Commercial. Interior/Exterior painting. Sheet-rock repair.

Ceilings, walls and Light carpentry.

Free Estimates 413-333-6321 or 860-741-5588

LANDSCAPING & LAWN CARE ACCURATE LAWNCARE Leaf & Brush Removal Gutter Cleaning Trimming & Mowing, Snow Removal with Sanding Family owned & operated Call (413)579-1639 accuratelawncare2013 @gmail.com

Plumley Landscape, Inc. Call us today for all your landscape needs. Design and planting, irrigation installation and repair, complete yard renovations. Drainage problems, stump grinding, chipper service, bobcat service, gravel driveways, excavation and demolition, including in-ground and above ground swimming pools.

413-862-4749

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Rental Property Management, Turnovers and Repair Services.

CSL Licensed, HIC Reg. Fully Insured - Free Estimates & References

Others try to match our price...but can't beat our quality.

Accepting most competitors coupons. We deliver. Run by veterans.

Green Meadow Lumber 568-0056

SAWMILL DIRECT BEST QUALITY

FREE Removal of Junk Riding Lawnmowers Will remove any junk riding lawnmowers and will buy lawnmowers in running condition.

Call anytime: 860-216-8768

LOGGING WEIDLER LOGGING Purchasing standing timber and specializing in land clearing. Local company in business for 20+ years.

Green firewood. Cut, split & delivered. Free delivery in Westfield area. Mixed hardwoods. $180 p/128 cf.

413-835-5491

MASONRY ABC MASONRY & BASEMENT WATERPROOFING All brick, block, concrete.

Chimneys, foundations, hatchways, new basement windows installed and repaired.

Sump pumps and french drain systems installed. Foundations pointed and stuccoed.

Free estimates (413)569-1611 or (413)374-5377

PAINTING & WALLPAPERING HOME DECOR Making beautiful new rooms for over 16 years. From cabinet make-overs to faux finishes, and staging for sales and decorating advice for a new look. Call Kendra now for all your painting needs. Fully insured.

Free Estimates (413)626-8880 or (413)564-0223

PLUMBING & HEATING NICK GARDNER PLUMBING, WELDING & MECHANICAL SERVICES. Reliable service, Professional. Certified Welding.

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

RAIN GUTTERS RAIN GUTTERS CLEANED & REPAIRED Chimneys repaired and chimney caps installed.

Antennas removed. Roof leaks repaired, vent areas sealed.

Senior citizen discount. Insured.

Free estimates.

H.I. Johnson Services (413)596-8859 (before 9pm)

TRUCK SERVICE TOP TRUCK SERVICES CORP. Family Owned Servicing Western Mass since 1998

Truck & Trailer Repair We repair Pick-ups, Vans, SUVs & Campers in addition to light, medium, and heavy duty diesel trucks.

NAPA Truck Service Budget Truck Rental Location 24-Hour Emergency Service Fleet Repair MA Inspection Station "No truck or job too big or too small"

Westfield – 3 Bedroom First floor , off-street parking, hardwood floors, washer hook up. Central location. Please call 413-519-7257 to set up appointment for viewing.

WESTFIELD 1 bedroom apartment, large closets, free heat and hot water included, laundry, parking. $830/month.

(413)562-2266

ROOMS

HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air conditioning, refrigerator and microwave included. $110 p/week.

Call (413)531-2197

SOUTHAMPTON FURNISHED ROOM To rent, available August 11.

Country setting, 2nd floor. Single occupancy only. Female preferred,(second floor has two other rented rooms, female occupied). Not on bus line. Quiet home, owner occupied. Fields, woods, trails, back yard. Includes laundry, utilities, Wifi. No cable. $400/month. Available now. Please calls only. No texts or emails. Call after 2 pm, 413259-7044 for information and appointment to view. In Southampton near Westfield line.

APARTMENT & HOUSE SHARING RETIRED PROFESSIONAL with unfurnished room to rent in quiet condominium complex seeks male retired/semi-retired, preferably professional. On-site parking, washer/dryer, central air & heat, deck. Utilities included.

Month to month tenancy.

Smoking outside. No alcohol/drugs. References required. $500/month. Call Curtis, 413-568-8867.

165 Bliss St. West Springfield, MA

413-788-6787

OFFICE SPACE

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TREE SERVICE American Tree & Shrub: Removal, pruning, bucket/crane work. Stump grinding, light excavation and tree planting.

Firewood Available Fully Insured, Free Estimates.

24-hour Emergency Services.

Veteran Owned 40 yrs. Experience 413-569-0469

UPHOLSTERY KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & REPAIRS 30+ years experience for home or business. Discount off all fabrics. Get quality workmanship at a great price. Free pickup and delivery. Call (413)562-6639.

WINDOW CLEANING

WESTFIELD: Furnished office for rent, one room, 1st floor with private bathroom. $400 per month includes utilities, ample parking, security deposit required.

413-568-1957

BUSINESS PROPERTY MONTGOMERY: Large open space. Retail or multi-desk office. 800 sq. ft. Many windows.

Includes utilities and free wi-fi. $750 per month. Minutes from Westfield. 413-977-6277

MONTGOMERY: Spacious Office 200+ sq. ft.

Includes utilities and free wi-fi. $350 p/month.

Call 413-977-6277

HOME WANTED HANY'S BARBER SHOP. Looking for experienced licensed barber. Full time position. Busy shop. Call Hany, 413-888-4008

CRYSTAL CLEAR WINDOWS Cleaned Inside & Out! Including screens and storm windows. Fully insured.

Free Estimates Call Paul NOW for your SUMMER appointment.

413-237-2053

SERVICES A1 ODD JOBS/HANDYMAN Debris removal, landscaping, SPRING yard cleanup, interior and exterior painting, power washing, basic carpentry and plumbing. All types of repair work and more. (413)562-7462