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City projects benefit young and old By Peter Francis Staff Writer WESTFIELD – When compared to other similarly sized municipalities in western Massachusetts, the city of Westfield has a much higher median age than Chicopee, Holyoke, and Pittsfield, which poses a challenge to Mayor Daniel M. Knapik in his next term – convincing Westfield’s aging population that continued investment in the city is not only a necessary investment, but an essential imperative. At the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce’s first Mayor’s Coffee Hour of the year at Armbrook Village on North Road, Knapik painted a picture befitting of the location of the coffee hour, touching base on how Westfield’s elderly will impact the direction of the city over the next few years. “There are more of these types of projects being built,” Knapik said in reference to Armbrook, an assisted living village of independent apartments. “In Westfield, I believe it is now 8,000-9,000 (people) over the age 60 in a city of 41,000.” To put it in perspective for the gathering,
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Chamber ‘focused on serving’ in 2014 By Peter Francis Staff Writer WESTFIELD – Kate Phelon, executive director of the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce, believes her organization is ready for big things in 2014. “We already have our calender organized for the year, with our standardized events, and our ‘After 5′ events,” she said yesterday after the first of the Chamber-sponsored Mayor’s Coffee Hours. “We’re now working on the programming for our specific members, based on the size and sector of their businesses.” Covering Westfield and the towns of Southwick, Granville, Tolland, Russell, Blandford, Chester, Huntington and Montgomery, the Chamber is also looking to increase membership in 2014. “We currently have 227 members,” Phelon
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Westfield Mayor Daniel M. Knapik is sworn into office by Karen M. Fanion, right, Westfield city clerk, during the City of Westfield Inauguration Ceremony at Westfield Middle School South yesterday. Joining in the ceremony is Knapik’s wife Tricia, left, who was presented a bouquet of flowers. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Knapik and elected officials sworn in By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The 2014 Inauguration ceremony, with pomp provided by the South Middle School Jazz Band playing patriotic music, initiated a new term in office for Mayor Daniel M. Knapik, City Council members, three members of the School Committee, six Municipal Light Board members and Westfield Athenaeum trustees yesterday morning. The ceremony was conducted in the school auditorium in front of the family members of the elected officials, community leaders, city officials and interested citizens. Rev. Joseph Soltysiak, pastor of the St. Joseph’s National Catholic Church, opened the ceremony with an Invocation. “Almighty God, as you hold all of us accountable for the use of all our powers and privileges, direct, we pray, Mayor Daniel Knapik and all incoming City Councilors of Westfield as they begin their duties in this year,” Soltysiak said. “Lord, inspire and guide them, especially in those most difficult decision they will need to face, that their voting may be in the very best interest of the people they represent, and always in accord with Your holy will. “May we, too, as citizens of Westfield, support our elected officials in such a way that we become an extension of them as they serve in the
best of their capacity. As we listen to what is said here today, may our hope in the New Year be kindled to believe that the voters have spoken and we have the best possible individuals in the offices in which they serve. Almighty God, we ask all of these things in your Holy Name. Amen.” City Clerk Karen Fanion read the results of the November general election then proceeded to give the groups of elected officials the oath of office. The School Committee members, which include William Duval, Jeff Gosselin and Cindy Sullivan, took the oath individually, rather than collectively, which led Master of Ceremony Brian Sullivan, who had promised the mother of a crying child that the ceremony would be short, to urge the second group, the members of the Municipal Light Board and the Athenaeum Trustees to take the oath “in unison.” The next group to take the oath was the 13 City Council members, which included six members taking that oath for the first time. Fanion then gave the oath to Knapik, Michael Knapik, the former state Senator, who was in the audience and the elder brother of Mayor Daniel M. Knapik. Fanion, following that moment of jocularity, administered the oath to the correct Knapik. “That was appropriate as I spent three years in this very school being See Inauguration, Page 5
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By Dan Moriarty Staff Writer WESTFIELD – Brent B. Bean II was elected last night to serve as the 2014 City Council President as the city’s legislative body, which includes six new members, began its 2014-15 term. Bean, nominated for the post by Brian Sullivan who served in the same capacity last year, and David A. Flaherty, nominated by Ward 4 Councilor Mary O’Connell, both briefly addressed their fellow councilors. O’Connell made the motion to open the floor for discussion to allow Bean and Flaherty to describe BRENT BEAN II their “vision” for the upcoming year. Flaherty thanked Sullivan and Ward 1 Councilor Christopher Keefe who both served as council president during the previous twoyear term. “I had some differences, but respected the opinions of both of you,” Flaherty said. “This will be a very challenging year. We have six new councilors and great expectations for what can be accomplished during the next two years.” Flaherty said the seven returning incumbents will have to serve as mentors to the new council members. “Sometimes we have to slow down a little bit,” Flaherty said, suggesting a formal “buddy system” between the experienced and new councilors and that whoever serves as president will be required to be flexible during meetings. Bean said that he served as council president a decade ago. “I did the job in 2003 during a contentious term back then,” Bean said. “I hope I bring value-added when it comes to experience and move the city forward. That’s my promise to you.” “My door will always be open. I will listen to what you have to say. I might disagree, but I am a strong advocate of voting,” Bean said. President Pro Tempore Keefe then called the vote on the nominations. Bean received 10 votes to Flaherty’s three. Councilor At-large Dan Allie joined O’Connell and Flaherty in the minority. Sullivan then moved for reconsideration of that vote and O’Connell requested Keefe to explain to the new members why the vote was being reconsidered. “The prevailing councilor is traditionally given the well wishes of all council members,” Keefe said. Bean received the support of all 13 council members on that second vote.
One suspect caught, one suspect escapes By Carl E. Hartdegen Staff Writer WESTFIELD – A Chicopee man is facing a larceny charge after a failed shoplifting attempt but his apparent colleague escaped when he attempted to steal the same merchandise from the same store on the same day. City police responded Tuesday, Dec. 31, to a 10:15 a.m. call from a city worker who reported he had seen a male party with a shopping basket flee from the Walgreens store on Main Street while pursued by a store employee. Officer David Racicot was the first officer to arrive and reports that the store manager told him that he
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had been chasing a suspect who fled the store. The store manager said that when he yelled at the suspect he discarded the basket and jumped the fence surrounding the city’s old burial ground. Officers Kerry Paton and Charles Kielbasa also responded and, when they learned that the suspect was believed to be in the burial ground, drove their cruisers on Mechanic and White streets until they spotted the suspect in the graveyard. An officer scaled the fence and detained the man. The store manager went to the cemetery and identified the suspect as the man who had attempted to
steal from his store. Racicot report that a store employee said that she had seen the man put electric toothbrushes into one of the store’s handbaskets and confronted him when he appeared to be leaving the store without paying for the merchandise. When the man fled from her, the clerk informed her manager who gave chase. The shopping basket was retrieved and five electric toothbrushes valued at $721.38 were recovered. The suspect, Claudio Mateo, 26, of 27 Davenport St., Chicopee, was arrested for larceny of property valued more than $250. The store manager told Racicot
that there had been a vehicle which had apparently been waiting for the suspect when he fled the store but the operator apparently abandoned his accomplice and left without him. Det. Anthony Tsatsos found that a review of security video associated with another open shoplifting case, at another city drug store, appeared to show that Mateo and another man had been responsible for a larceny there and a vehicle which fit the description of the one the manager had seen waiting had been involved. Tsatsos reports that when he went to the Walgreens store a short time after the larceny attempt employees told him that another attempt had been made minutes earlier to steal
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electric toothbrushes. Tsatsos was told that an employee had seen a man, who fit the description of Mateo’s apparent accomplice from the other incident, put electric toothbrushes into a handbasket and walk toward the exit. The store manager said that when he saw the man and approached him, the suspect discarded the basket and fled, successfully. Mateo was arraigned later that day in Westfield District Court before Judge Rita Koenigs. Koenigs, citing his “history of defaulting” on court dates, set bail at $1,000 and Mateo was held pending a Jan. 30 hearing.
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school be cancelled for the day. Although I shared the process While we don’t like changing the used to determine delays, early call, we must also be cognizant that releases, or school cancellations safety of our students in our primadue to weather and road conditions ry consideration in bad weather and earlier this school year, I’m going make the change as conditions dicto quickly review the decision protate. The second cancellation was cess used in the last few weeks and also interesting as it was a day that elaborate on a few items. I also want to remind people that this we had already scheduled an early year’s school calendar only has 5 release for professional developsnow days built into the schedule ment. Given that timing, the timing before we start using April vaca- Dr. David Hopson of the storm, and the road conditions tion days as make-up days. As of January 6, we that morning, the decision was made to cancel have used 4 snow days leaving only one more school. school cancellation before taking days off of January 2nd was an easy call given the predicApril vacation. (As a reminder, please use the tions of the weather services (despite the snow updated calendar for April vacation dates, which starting somewhat later than predicted, the roads the school committee changed last fall to April did become slippery fairly quickly). The next 18-25). day was almost a given that we wouldn’t have While the decision to cancel school, delay the school because of the Governor’s announcement start time or have an early release impacts the of a shutdown of state government and his district and all students, it remains each family’s request that private businesses consider closing decision as to whether they believe conditions in that day. Today’s (January 6) delay was based their own neighborhood are safe enough to upon town highway departments’ difficulty in allow their children to attend school. This keeping dirt roads safe to travel due to the rain Monday’s late start was a good example of this bringing the frost out of the ground and washing as, depending on where you were, temperatures away the sand: a problem evidently not faced in and road conditions varied greatly within a very the more populated areas that do not have sigshort distance. While these absences wouldn’t nificant numbers of dirt roads! be considered ‘excused’ under the attendance Just a reminder that we make decisions based policy, the majority of students have sufficient upon conditions in the entire district; while you leeway that missing a day of school due to local may have good road conditions in your neighweather or road conditions would not impact borhood, conditions just up the road may be their standing in school. severe enough to make traveling in a school bus As everyone knows, we’ve missed four days dangerous. While we weren’t the only district of school to date. The first was a combination event, i.e., we started with a 2-hour delay as we cancelling school, or having delayed starts so far were told the highway departments would be this year, we could be in the situation at some able to make the roads safe with some addi- point of being the only school doing so, but tional time. Shortly before that 2-hour window please remember that we have a large district was up, one of our local highway departments with varied topography and we’ll make the decilet us know that they were not able to keep up sion we think is in the best interest of our stuwith the icing on the roads thus requesting that dents.
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Westfield State to Offer Boating Safety Course WESTFIELD– The Division of Graduate and Continuing Education will be offering Boating Safety on Tuesday nights, February 4 to April 8, 2014, from 7:00 to 9:15 p.m. Taught by qualified U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary instructor, Bob Madison, this course includes information on boat construction, life jackets, trailer handling, boat handling, the waterway marking system, reading buoys, day markers, lights, rules you must follow, inland boating, introduction to navigation, charts, chart tools boat motors, lines and knots, basic weather, and your boat radio. This course is suitable for beginners as well as for serious boaters and satisfies all states requirements for licensing. A certificate will be issued after passing the final exam. This course is designed for adults, as well as for children as young as 7th grade. The required book ($35) will be available from the instructor on the first night of class. The cost of this course is $25 for community members. Registration will be accepted until the first night of class. For information and to register, contact Brandon Fredette at (413) 572-8033 or bfredette@westfield.ma.edu or visit www.westfield.ma.edu/neighbors/community-education.
Civil War Hit Parade SOUTHWICK - The Southwick Historical Society will host” Civil War Hit Parade” On Thursday, January 23, at 12:30 p.m. This special concert will feature historical stories and songs from the Civil War. Mr. Richard Spencer will be our guest presenter. Please note that the concert will be held at the Southwick Town Hall Auditorium at 434 College Hwy in Southwick. All are welcome to join us for this entertaining afternoon concert.
Developmental Screening at Fort Meadow Early Childhood Center for Peer Partners WESTFIELD - Families who live in Westfield and are interested in having their preschoolers attend Fort Meadow are invited to attend a developmental screening. The screenings will be held for children who are 3-5 years of age. Children will be chosen by lottery to fill current classroom openings and classes for the 2014-2015 school year. Currently Fort Meadow charges tuition for our high quality 4 and 5 day programs. Screening date will be January 10, 2014. Please call 572-6422 for a screening appointment.
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Homeless Mass. man not hard rock band’s drummer GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — He wasn’t asked to play a few licks on the drums, but police in Gloucester quickly determined that the homeless man they found at a city business wasn’t who claimed to be. When officers responded to the business Thursday to assist employees with the man, he claimed he was the drummer for the 1980s-era hard rock band Whitesnake. The Gloucester Times reports that a quick check of records indicated that that was not true. The man, who had no known address, had been asked to leave an apartment building earlier in the night when he was found sleeping in the doorway. The unnamed man was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2014. There are 358 days left in the year.
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n Jan. 7, 1789, America held its first presidential election as voters chose electors who, a month later, selected George Washington to be the nation’s first chief executive.
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Union message to Congress that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. In 1963, the U.S. Post Office raised the cost of a first-class stamp from 4 to 5 cents.
In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei began observing three of Jupiter’s moons (he spotted a fourth moon almost a week later).
In 1973, sniper Mark Essex laid siege at a Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge in downtown New Orleans for about 10 hours, killing seven people before being slain by police sharpshooters.
In 1800, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, was born in Summerhill, N.Y.
In 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
In 1894, one of the earliest motion picture experiments took place at the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, N.J., as Fred Ott was filmed taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing.
In 1989, Emperor Hirohito of Japan died in Tokyo at age 87; he was succeeded by his son, Crown Prince Akihito.
In 1927, commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London.
In 1999, for the second time in history, an impeached American president went on trial before the Senate. President Bill Clinton faced charges of perjury and obstruction of justice; he was acquitted.
In 1942, the Japanese siege of Bataan began during World War II. (The fall of Bataan three months later was followed by the notorious Death March.) In 1949, George C. Marshall resigned as U.S. Secretary of State; President Harry S. Truman chose Dean Acheson to succeed him. In 1953, President Harry S. Truman announced in his State of the
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush proposed legal status, at least temporarily, for millions of immigrants improperly working in the U.S. Swedish actress Ingrid Thulin died in Stockholm at age 77.
Five years ago: President-elect Barack Obama met at the White House with America’s four living presidents: George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bill
Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Russia shut off all its gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine in a price and payment dispute; the cutoff lasted nearly two weeks.
One year ago: President Barack Obama announced he would nominate former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him “the leader our troops deserve”; Obama also chose White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. The No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide rolled top-ranked Notre Dame 42-14 for the BCS championship.
Today’s Birthdays: Author William Peter Blatty is 86. Pop musician Paul Revere is 76. Magazine publisher Jann Wenner is 68. Singer Kenny Loggins is 66. Singer-songwriter Marshall Chapman is 65. Latin pop singer Juan Gabriel is 64. Actress Erin Gray is 64. Actor Sammo Hung is 62. Actor David Caruso is 58. Talk show host Katie Couric is 57. Country singer David Lee Murphy is 55. Rock musician Kathy Valentine is 55. Actor David Marciano is 54. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is 53. Actress Hallie Todd is 52. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is 50. Actor Nicolas Cage is 50. Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik (on-DRAH’-sik) (Five for Fighting) is 49. Actor Doug E. Doug is 44. Actor Kevin Rahm is 43. Actor Jeremy Renner is 43. Country singer-musician John Rich is 40. Actor Dustin Diamond is 37. Actress Lauren Cohan is 32. Actor Brett Dalton (TV: “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) is 31. Actor Robert Ri’chard is 31. Actress Lyndsy Fonseca is 27. Actor Liam Aiken is 24. Actress Camryn Grimes is 24. Actor Max Morrow is 23.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 7 Westfield Armbrook Village hosted yesterday morning’s Mayor’s Coffee Hour sponsored by the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce. (Photo by Steve Dondley)
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Continued from Page 1 said, adding that she hopes to bring onboard an additional 60 members in the coming months. “I think 280 is very doable.” Phelon, who is entering her third year as executive director, said she is seeking to gain a more active presence in the hilltowns of Blandford, Chester, and Huntington, looking to recruit businesses like the Miniature Theatre of Chester, for instance. “(And) home-based businesses,” she said. “Joining (the Chamber of Commerce) will be great networking for these businesses.” Phelon stated that the Chamber is currently organizing it’s workshop schedules, as well as the speakers for those workshops. “All of our communities are important,” she said. “And for the towns without the commercial industry of Westfield and Southwick, it’s nice to get to know your business neighbors.” At the request of Mayor Daniel M. Knapik, Phelon said that private company tours for Chamber members will be returning in 2014, further enabling the ability of members to get to know their business neighbors.
“Each business in the Chamber benefits in a different way,” said New Business Developer Suzanne Sullivan, who was appointed to serve as a recruiter for the organization. “For small businesses, it’s for the networking aspect. For large businesses, it’s giving back, connecting with non-profits. It keeps them aware of what is going on and how best to give back.” Sullivan also said the Chamber will be focusing efforts on educating businesses on pay rates, zoning, and educational seminars which will be hosted by Holyoke Community College, Springfield Technical Community College and Westfield State University in an effort to help businesses become more savvy with social media and website development. “The majority of our members are small businesses,” said Sullivan, who resides in Granville. “For businesses in the small, hilltown communities, they make connections, reach more customers, and get their name out there, but the biggest thing they get is support. We’re looking to keep the local economies thriving.”
Knapik referenced the city’s student population as a contrast, which swells to only around 6,000 at any one time. “None of us are getting any younger, so facilities like this play a vital role in the next phase of our lives,” he said. Knapik went on to to touch upon the central theme of the morning: growth, at the state, regional, and local level. “It’s heartening to see that, for the first time since 1960, Massachusetts’ growth year over year was at or above the national growth,” he said. “We have been in a very slow growth situation. In my lifetime, we’ve lost three or four congressmen.” While adding that the Commonwealth’s predica-
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Westfield GED Program Announces Spring Classes WESTFIELD -Westfield Community Education (WCE), an area community youth and adult, alternative evening education program of Domus Inc. will be holding an “Open Registration Night” on January 14 at the Westfield Athenaeum beginning at 5:30pm in the Lang Auditorium. Candidates will complete paperwork and take an assessment. Classes are 30 weeks in length and begin January 21. Three levels of classes are offered in addition to a Computer Literacy and Career Development course which are available to all residents of Greater Westfield. Classes are free with a small charge for the text To date this year, 44 area residents have received their high school equivalency diploma through WCE. For more information, contact 568-1044 or go to www.westfield-ged.org Sustaining support for WCE is provided by The Beveridge Family Foundation, the City of Westfield CDBG, the Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield Bank Future Fund, Easthampton Savings Bank, Kiwanis Club of Westfield, First Niagara Bank, Shurtleff Children’s Services, Western Mass Hospital, Berkshire Bank, and Babson Capital.
Cultural Council at 7 pm Fire at 7 pm EMTs at 7 pm
Huntington Historical Commission at 7 pm
Blandford Assessor’s Meeting at 5:30 pm Fire Department Meeting at 6:30 pm
Southwick Park & Recreation Commission at 6:30 pm
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 Huntington Planning Board Council on Aging at 12 pm Selectboard at 4:30 pm Multi-Town Forum at 5:30 pm
Young and Old Continued from Page 1 ment is not unique, and that Massachusetts.” When asked about how he other Northeastern states like New York have experienced a will continue to improve the mass exodus of seniors in quality of life for the city’s recent years, Knapik said to elderly population while be ahead of the national aver- simultaneously continuing to age is positive, but that popu- attract new residents and busilation numbers in the Pioneer nesses, Knapik pointed out the Valley remain at the low end planned senior center, which of the spectrum, statewide. is currently in the design “Our numbers are still poor, stage. and they’ll continue to stay “About $300,000 has poor,” he said, adding that the already been allocated,” he majority of the state’s growth said Tuesday morning, adding is occurring in greater Boston, that more funds will be allowhere higher paying jobs are cated accordingly. “It’s been a more plentiful. priority for the past four “(Eastern Mass. employers) years.” are driven by biotech, softCommunity Development ware, and the computer indus- Director Peter Miller added try, and are growing like gang- that the project will go out to busters,” Knapik said, before bid in the spring, with conmentioning Gulfstream, the struction beginning in the aerospace giant who estab- summer or fall. lished a new service hangar at “Holyoke and Agawam Barnes Regional Airport last have similar facilities that are year. Knapik accompanied open, and Chicopee has one Gulfstream representatives to under construction,” said a November ceremony in Miller. “The Mayor is excited Boston which commemorated about pushing it forward, but the hiring of several hundred the challenge is going to be employers. getting people to understand “It’s been great for why it’s important.” Westfield,” Knapik said of On the overall city front, Gulfstream’s impact. “But Knapik said that the city is there were companies getting one of, if not the only, city recognition awards at that cer- west of Worcester that has emony that plan to hire thou- seen positive growth over the sands and thousands of work- past few census cycles. ers over the next decade. That “With demographics there’s just doesn’t happen in western nothing you can do,” he said
Barnes Aquifer Protection Advisory Committee at 3:30 pm School Committee at 6 pm Planning Board at 7 pm Fire Commission at 7 pm
of the aging of the city’s population. “Your competition for incoming citizens is with your neighboring communities, and I want to continue to make Westfield attractive.” Knapik mentioned the quality of the city’s neighborhoods, the value of it’s housing stock, and it’s overall size landwise as factors which will continue to seal the deal for incoming families. “The housing in Westfield, you get a much better value than you would in communities like Longmeadow or Wilbraham. Having land benefits you,” he said before touching on the city’s improving school system as a catalyst for continued growth. “Having good schools, the best possible education, attracts families.” “We continue to have positive growth of large populations from surrounding communities,” he said. “Cities like Holyoke spend twice as much on police as we do, which isn’t to say we don’t have concerns about crime. It just isn’t the issue here it is elsewhere.” “We’re also making significant progress with our downtown, and we’re going to continue to make Westfield attractive to newcomers,” he said.
Blandford Conservation Commission Meeting at 6:30 pm Finance Committee at 7 pm
Westfield Board of Assessors at 5 pm Public Safety Communications Commission at 6 pm Board of Health at 6 pm ZBA at 7 pm Municipal Light Board at 7 pm
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Tolland Ladies Aid at 7 pm
Westfield Community Preservation Committee at 7 pm Airport Commission meeting is rescheduled to Jan 15 at 7 pm
Southwick Lake Management Committee at 7 pm
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Veteran Campaigner Newly elected Westfield City Councilor Dan Allie gathers signatures for the State Representative Special Election to fill Don Humason’s seat. Allie, an Army veteran served two and half years in Bavaria, West Germany from 1979 to 1981 at the end of the cold war. Allie was specialist and served as the Battalion Commander’s secretary and field driver as part of the 141st Signal Battalion, 1st Armored Division. Allie, who gathered signatures last year in the rain in May and heat and humidity of June and July says this weather presents a unique challenge, “Our pens are freezing and we cannot feel our faces. I look forward to this race heating up,” says Allie. An April 1 date has been set for the election.
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Al From: It’s still the economy By Patrick Gavin Politico.com Democratic Leadership Council founder Al From is out with a new book, “The New Democrats and the Return to Power,” that both examines the success of the ideology most prominently practiced by former President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and lays out From’s vision of where Democrats need to go next. Although From told POLITICO that the current Democratic Party “is doing pretty well,” he says “we also have some big challenges.” “We have to make sure that we can grow the economy and create jobs,” From said. “We have to be the party of opportunity. But if you don’t grow the private economy over the long haul, you can’t be the party of opportunity because there are only so many golden eggs to pass out if you don’t have a healthy goose.” Part of growing the private economy, said From, involves raising the minimum wage, but not quite to the level embraced by some liberals. “We ought to increase the minimum wage,” From said. “But we’re probably not going to increase it to the level that a lot of people — some people, anyway, in the Democratic Party — would like. And what our goal ought to be, as modern, tough liberals, is that nobody who works full time, year-round in this country to support a family ought to be poor. That ought to be the liberal goal.” From said that the party’s current leader — President Barack Obama — could stand to sharpen his own vision on economic matters. “I think he could articulate a theory of economic growth that people could understand better,” From said. “I think he could take a strong stand on issues that would lead to growing the economy. … I think a little less rhetoric, what I could call class warfare and more on focusing on how you grow the economy.” From says that the bungled roll-out of Obamacare hurts the Democratic Party’s aspirations of being good stewards of efficient, effective government. “We have to make it work,” said From. “It’s incumbent on Democrats to make government work. Democrats are the party that believes in an activist government. We believe that the government is the agent of our collective wills. It is the vehicle for doing good things for people. … You just cannot mess around with Obamacare. It’s just too important.” Long a Clinton family friend and ally, From says he would support a presidential run by Hillary Clinton should she choose to pursue it and says that her road to the White House has some natural advantages. “She needs to take the core principles that under girded Bill Clinton’s principles, the New Democratic principles of opportunity, community and responsibility, but understand that there are new challenges and come up with a new agenda,” From said. “If she lays out a vision for the future of the country with specific ideas, I think she’s going to be unstoppable. … I think that when people look back on eight years of peace and prosperity, some of the personal things that may have gotten in the way at the end of his administration, people forget that. But I think people will look back at the 1990s as as pretty good time in this country.”
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Right: Common Core fight prelude to bigger agenda By Stephanie Simon Politico.com National advocacy groups powered by the Koch brothers and other conservative megadonors have found a new cause ripe with political promise: the fight to bring down the Common Core academic standards. The groups are stoking populist anger over the standards — then working to channel that energy into a bold campaign to undercut public schools, weaken teachers unions and push the federal government out of education policy. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in 45 states plus the District of Columbia, are meant to guide rich and rigorous instruction in math and language arts. They have substantial bipartisan support. But they have also drawn sharp bipartisan criticism as Big Government overreach. What started as a ragtag opposition led by a handful of angry moms is now a sophisticated national movement supported by top donors and strategists on the right. Conservative groups say their involvement already has paid dividends in the form of new members and troves of email addresses. But that’s just the start. A draft action plan by the advocacy group FreedomWorks lays out the effort as a series of stepping stones: First, mobilize to strike down the Common Core. Then push to expand school choice by offering parents tax credits or vouchers to help pay tuition at private and religious schools. Next, rally the troops to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Then it’s on to eliminating teacher tenure. “This is going to be a huge campaign,” said Whitney Neal, the group’s director of grass-roots activism. She plans to kick it off within weeks with a series of videos that will “connect the dots” between killing Common Core and enacting other conservative priorities. The campaign will build to a march on Washington this summer, perhaps in partnership with radio host Glenn Beck. “This is definitely an institutional priority for us in 2014,” she said. “We’re putting a lot of time and resources into it.” Americans for Prosperity, an advocacy group backed by the Koch brothers, is pressing similar themes in town hall meetings across the country. A key battleground: Missouri, where conservatives are pushing to get measures promoting vouchers and ending teacher tenure on the fall ballot. Increasingly, the issues are being linked to Common Core. Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government-run schools. Concerned Women, which is part of a Koch-backed network of conservative organizations, will hold additional seminars across the state this month. The libertarian Show-Me Institute in St. Louis is also fighting Common Core — and sponsoring policy breakfasts in both St. Louis and Kansas City this month on the virtues of expanding school choice. Meanwhile, the institute’s president, retired investment manager Rex Sinquefield, has poured $850,000 of his personal fortune into promoting the ballot measure to end tenure. Missouri will also host a two-day conference devoted to attacking Common Core at the end of the month. Supporters of the Common Core standards have plenty of resources to fight back. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $170 million to develop and promote the standards. The Obama administration has pushed them hard. Big Labor and Big Business both back them. Still, supporters have struggled to counter the critics. They have had trouble even understanding the contours of the smoldering opposition. “We don’t know who’s funding the other side, and to what purpose,” said Michael Cohen, president of Achieve, a nonprofit that helped write the standards. “It’s really murky.” Such dark suspicions tickle Sean Fieler, the hedge fund manager who chairs the American Principles Project, another conservative think tank on the front lines of Common Core opposition. “I wish the money stream were more murky here,” Fieler said. At least at APP, he said, “most of the funding is from me.” Fieler, a prominent social conservative who has spent big in the past to fight gay marriage, said he has directed his organization to spend $500,000 organizing the Common Core opposition and connecting it to his think tank’s long-standing drive for school choice. “The grass-roots support for this is stronger than for anything else we work on,” Fieler said. “This is an issue with great political promise.” That same political calculation is evident in FreedomWorks’ draft plan for an Educational Freedom Campaign. Picking up the mantle of parental rights “casts a passionate and caring light on our activists — different from the image currently portrayed by media,” the draft states. The campaign also offers a rare chance to attract new members from outside the tea party —
“especially minority communities.” Already, the strategy is paying off. FreedomWorks started the year in contact with a few dozen stalwart foes of the standards; it now holds weekly strategy sessions with more than 200. “Common Core is bringing in people who are brand-new to activism. They’re coming out of the woodwork,” Neal said. “That’s huge for us.” Americans for Prosperity’s state chapters also report membership growing because of the issue, even in states like Texas that have not adopted the standards. “It’s been exhilarating” to watch momentum gather and allies come aboard, Fieler said. “I would characterize this as a tipping point.” The opposition movement is even starting to draw in conservative Christian groups that in the past have mostly focused on promoting home schooling. Parents who teach their children at home aren’t directly affected by the new standards but fear they will face pressure to follow them when most textbooks, not to mention the SAT, are aligned to Common Core. Homeschoolers also sense an opportunity to grow their ranks by fanning anger at the public education system. The Home School Legal Defense Association is putting the finishing touches on a documentary painting the Common Core standards in ominous terms. FreedomProject Education, a Christian homeschool group affiliated with the John Birch Society, is promoting an hourlong video on the “threats to American liberty” posed by the standards. Even the evangelical group Focus on the Family has chimed in with a video that pivots from the perceived dangers of Common Core to the need to push for expanded school choice. All of this has left supporters of the standards reeling. “There’s no doubt it’s going to be a brutal legislative session,” said Michael Petrilli, executive vice president at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Petrilli has spent the past year traveling from statehouse to statehouse, attempting to shore up support for Common Core. He expects to earn many more frequent-flier miles trying to keep the standards on track as protests mount, especially in wavering states such as Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Michigan. The Common Core State Standards were written by nonprofit education advocacy groups with input from state associations and funding from the Gates Foundation. The Obama administration gave states financial and policy incentives to adopt the standards in 2010; most quickly did, often with little public debate. In the past year, as the standards have begun rolling out in classrooms nationwide, the opposition has picked up steam. Tea party activists angry about federal overreach have joined forces with liberals who object to the new standardized tests and worry that Common Core asks too much of some students and too little of others. Conservative organizations — including think tanks connected with the Koch brothers, such as the Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation — have dedicated the most resources to fighting the standards, but liberals have been highly active on social media and at public hearings. And they’re not happy that conservative political strategists are seeking to harness the opposition to their own ends. “I would be very concerned if opposition to Common Core became a vehicle to promote vouchers and charters,” said education historian Diane Ravitch, a prominent critic of the standards. The politics of the debate are so tangled that education policy analyst Frederick Hess said he doubts groups like FreedomWorks would be able to mold the opposition into an effective lobbying See Common Core, Page 8
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Members of the Westfield City Council, standing, are sworn in by Westfield City Clerk Karen M. Fanion, left rear, during yesterday’s City of Westfield Inauguration Ceremony staged at the Westfield Middle School South auditorium. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Inauguration Continued from Page 1 called Michael,” Dan Knapik quipped as he began his Inaugural speech. Knapik thanked the elected officials, their families and “city employees who made my job as mayor a truly rewarding experience,” and dignitaries in attendance for attending the Inauguration ceremony. “I want to thank my wide, Tricia,” Knapik said. “Without her and our immediate and extended family, I would not be here today. And of course I would like to acknowledge and say thank you to my parents, for without them of course, I would
not be here today.” “I would like to take a moment to say thank you to all of those citizens who served our city in elective office the last four years,” Knapik said. “You have the honor and distinction of forever being a citizen who put your name on the ballot to serve your city. You have joined a legion of fellow citizens who have played a part in our city’s government dating back to 1920.” “Participation in municipal government as elected officials is one of the purest forms of democracy practiced in our nation,” Knapik said.
“Men and women from all walks of life, occupations and life experience offering themselves to represent their fellow citizens in their government is a great tradition. There are no career politicians in this type of government. Just average, everyday citizens, who have full-time jobs, but who ran for elected public office so they could make a contribution to their community.” Knapik spoke of challenges and accomplishments during his previous two terms as the city’s executive officer and those yet to come as he begins his third term.
Westfield Mayor Daniel M. Knapik reads his Inaugural Address after being sworn in during yesterday’s City of Westfield Inauguration Ceremony at the Westfield Middle School South auditorium. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
Members of the Westfield Middle School South Jazz Band supply the music as part of yesterday’s City of Westfield Inauguration Ceremony. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
“Not to rest on our laurels, we must continue the city’s forward progress,” Knapik said. “Through the economy still faces some challenges, in the next two years we will
Police Logs WESTFIELD Emergency Response and Crime Report Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 1:28 a.m.: city ordinance violation, beginning at 1:28 a.m. police responded to reports of snow parking ban violations on Orange Street, Shepard Street, Belmont Street, Ellis Street, McKinley Terrace, Dartmouth Street, Summer Street, Columbia Street, Jefferson Street, Atwater Street, Parker Avenue, Pine Street, Kellogg Street, Conner Avenue, East Bartlett Street, Meadow Street, William Street, Otis Street, Frederick Street, Chapel Street, Day Avenue and Squawfield Road; 5:46 a.m.: animal complaint, Miller Street, a caller reports a possibly rabid raccoon growled at her husband as he was leaving for work, the responding officer reports a raccoon under a porch is making noises but does not appear to be a threat; 6:40 a.m.: arrest. William Road, an officer reports he sought the subject of two outstanding warrants at his last known address. Jeffrey Thomas Greenwood, 25, of 4 William Street, was found at his home and arrested on the two warrants without incident; 7:14 a.m.: assist resident, Ridgeway Street, a caller reports he is locked out of his home, the responding firefighters report entry was made; 10:13 a.m.: fire, Granville Road, an caller reports a fire in his garage, the responding firefighters report smoke was showing at the single vehicle garage upon arrival and the resident said that he had parked his tractor there about an hour earlier, the firefighters report that the fire was found to have originated at the battery of the 1986 tractor, the fire damage was confined to the garage although the house had filled with smoke, the fire was extinguished without incident and the smoke was ventilated; 1:53 p.m.: larceny, Powder mill Village, 126 Union St., a caller reports his home health care aide stole from him, the responding detective reports the complainant said that while he was in hospital his personal care attendant stole and fraudulently cashed his checks ,the detective reports his investigation is ongoing; 10:46 p.m.: city ordinance violation, Smith Avenue, a patrol officer reports he observed a vehicle parked at the vocational school and reports that as he approached it appeared as if the occupants were hiding something, the officer reports he detected an odor of marijuana and the occupants admitted they had smoked marijuana in the vehicle earlier but did not have any more, they occupants declined to consent to a search of the vehicle and said that they were in the area to ride snowboards;
continue to work hard to attract new businesses and continue to do all we can to retain and support existing businesses, keep our financial standing strong, build our new
senior center, construct two solar farms, invest in our neighborhoods and roadway and utility infrastructure, renovate our recreational spaces and complete our new elementary school and maintain what we have repaired.” “We must always remember that we represent the people who have elected us,” Knapik said. “Though we may disagree at times, we must always keep an open mind in order to continue to move the people’s business forward.” Rev. Valerie Roberts-Toler, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, gave the benediction, asking God to be a beacon of light for the elected officials. “May this administration be granted bold and creative solutions to the demands of our time. May they guard our freedom and independence, but never favor the strong nor forget the weak. As citizens of Westfield, may we see God’s face in stranger and neighbor alike. We offer this benediction with a spirit of gratitude for all of the blessings and accomplishments of the past years and with the hope that as we move into a new year that our decisions might serve not only this present age, but the well being of generations to come. “To everything there is a season, let this be a season of peace. Amen.” To see video of the inauguration ceremony visit http:// vimeo.com/83512863.
LOST AND FOUND girlfriend, the responding officer reports he was told that the woman makes insulting and slighting comments to the youth, the officer advised the complainant of her civil options; 10:24 a.m.: larceny, Kasper Drive, a caller reports two bottles of prescription medication were stolen on Christmas day, the responding officer reports a suspect was identified and the case was referred to the detective bureau; 2:52 p.m.: disturbance, Danek Drive, a caller reports his friend was thrown to the ground, the responding officer reports the victim said that he was thrown to the ground and kicked but declined transport to hospital; 3:37 p.m.: harassment, Wyben Road, a resident came to the station to report receiving harassing email and text messages, the responding community policing officer reports he was able to speak with the father of the suspect who was asked to advise his son to stop contacting the complainant; 10:44 p.m.: disturbance, Belmont Street, a caller reports a physical altercation involving his two sons, the responding officer reports he was told that the disturbance was entirely verbal, the officer reports one of the sons agreed to leave for the night and spend the night at a hotel, a courtesy transport was provided for the young man to a Russell Road motel.
Court Logs Westfield District Court Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 William J. Jegelewicz, 54, of 49 Franklin St., was found to be responsible for a charge of operating an uninsured motor vehicle brought by Westfield Police. Joshua F. Spear, 34, of 126 Union St., was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 5 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery brought by Westfield police. Thomas W. Scott-Smith Jr., 31, of 21 Matthews Road, Southwick, was released on his personal recognizance pending a March 5 hearing after he was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery brought by Southwick police.
Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 Samantha L. Liptak, 20, of 100 Whitaker Road, was released on her personal recognizance pending a March 4 hearing after she was arraigned on two charges of uttering a false check, two charges of forgery of a check and a charge of larFriday, Jan. 3, 2014 9:18 a.m.: harassment, Old Farm Road, a caller reports that ceny of property valued more than $250 by a single scheme her son is being threatened and verbally abused by his father’s brought by a Westfield check cashing agency.
$100. REWARD. LOST: BRACELET, black leather and silver on 12/5/13. Vicinity Westfield Shops parking lot possibly Friendly’s, Big Y areas. (508)685-7949. FOUND - Diamond ring in Westfield. Call 5687560 (12/2/13) $500. REWARD. Lost cat. “Nowelle” black with white striped nose, white paws and white bib. Needs daily insulin. Call, text, email Karen, (413) 478-3040. findnowelle@gmail.com anytime. . (11-27-13) REWARD! Lost: black and white medium haired cat. Vicinity of Munger Hill area of Westfield. Work (617)212-3344. (11-27-13)
FOUND: Young pet bird. Vicinity Russell Road/ Straffield Avenue, Westfield. Call with description (413)214-3276. FOUND - Eyeglasses - 568-8541 (10/7/13)
Ex-Mass. lab chemist pleads guilty to drug theft NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — A former chemist pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing drugs from a state crime lab in a case prosecutors said led to the dismissals of more than 200 drug cases. Sonja Farak pleaded guilty in Hampshire Superior Court to theft of a controlled substance, tampering with evidence and drug possession, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced. The 35-year-old Northampton resident was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, with 18 months to serve and the rest suspended during a five-year probation. Farak was arrested in January 2013 after co-workers at the Amherst lab reported that drugs were missing. Prosecutors said Farak tampered with four drug samples stored at the lab, in two cases mixing the drug evidence with counterfeit drugs to hide her thefts. They said cases were dismissed because Farak couldn’t testify about the results of her drug testing. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported the judge told Farak in court her conduct “clearly has eroded everybody’s confidence” in the crime labs, which can affect people’s lives and liberties. Defense attorney Elaine Pourinski asked the judge to sentence Farak to four years of probation, saying she struggles with drug addiction and mental health issues, the Gazette reported.
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Historic smoking report marks 50th anniversary MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Fifty years ago, ashtrays seemed to be on every table and desk. Athletes and even Fred Flintstone endorsed cigarettes in TV commercials. Smoke hung in the air in restaurants, offices and airplane cabins. More than 42 percent of U.S. adults smoked, and there was a good chance your doctor was among them. The turning point came on Jan. 11, 1964. It was on that Saturday morning that U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released an emphatic and authoritative report that said smoking causes illness and death — and the government should do something about it. In the decades that followed, warning labels were put on cigarette packs, cigarette commercials were banned, taxes were raised and new restrictions were placed on where people could light up. “It was the beginning,” said Kenneth Warner, a University of Michigan public health professor who is a leading authority on smoking and health. It was not the end. While the U.S. smoking rate has fallen by more than half to 18 percent, that still translates to more than 43 million smokers. Smoking is still far and away the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Some experts predict large numbers of Americans will puff away for decades to come. Nevertheless, the Terry report has been called one of the most important documents in U.S. public health history, and on its 50th anniversary, officials are not only rolling out new anti-smoking campaigns but reflecting on what the nation did right that day. The report’s bottom-line message was hardly revolutionary. Since 1950, headturning studies that found
This Monday, Oct. 13, 1997 file photo shows a cigarette vending machine in a bar in Montpelier, Vt. A law passed by the Legislature banned all cigarette vending machines in the state as of August 28, 1997, but Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell ruled that enforcement of the law would begin in March 1998. On Jan. 11, 1964, U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released an emphatic and authoritative report that said smoking causes illness and death - and the government should do something about it. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) higher rates of lung cancer in heavy smokers had been appearing in medical journals. A widely read article in Reader’s Digest in 1952, “Cancer by the Carton,” contributed to the largest drop in cigarette consumption since the Depression. In 1954, the American Cancer Society announced that smokers had a higher cancer risk. But the tobacco industry fought back. Manufacturers came out with cigarettes with
filters that they claimed would trap toxins before they settled into smokers’ lungs. And in 1954, they placed a full-page ad in hundreds of newspapers in which they argued that research linking their products and cancer was inconclusive. It was a brilliant counteroffensive that left physicians and the public unsure how dangerous smoking really was. Cigarette sales rebounded. In 1957 and 1959, Surgeon General Leroy Burney issued
statements that heavy smoking causes lung cancer. But they had little impact. Amid pressure from health advocates, President John F. Kennedy’s surgeon general, Dr. Luther Terry, announced in 1962 that he was convening an expert panel to examine all the evidence and issue a comprehensive, debate-settling report. To ensure the panel was unimpeachable, he let the tobacco industry veto any proposed members it regarded as biased.
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Obituaries Martha A. Lewis WESTFIELD - Martha Ann Lewis was granted her angel wings on Friday, January 3, 2014. Martha “Martie” Ann Lewis was born in Westfield, Massachusetts on Friday, December 17, 1954. She is survived by her mother, Dorothy Mae Lewis, who resides in Camden, Maine; and Martha’s siblings: Barry Lewis of Lexvernia, Texas, Barbara Bowden of Elgin, Oklahoma, Suzanne Bowden of Rockland, Maine and Mark Lewis of Springfield, Massachusetts. Martha was predeceased by her brother, Eric Lewis and her father, Emery Lewis. Martha will be missed dearly by her four devoted children: Elizabeth Mae Paskins, Christopher John Paskins, Matthew Ian Paskins and Alex J. LaValley, all of Westfield, Massachusetts. She has four beautiful grandchildren, Cierra Anne Paskins, Matthew Paskins, Isaac Paskins and Sarissa Paskins. In addition to the family tree is Ariel, the family pet dog and loyal companion. Martha was an intelligent woman with a heart of gold. She loved animals and she had an extensive teddy bear collection. Some of her other interests included family, gardening, knitting, and playing video games on Nintendo Game Boy; Tetris was one of her favorites. Martha was an Alumna of Springfield Technical Community College, where she accomplished an Associate’s Degree in Human Services, graduating on the Dean’s list with High Honors. Martha’s legacy will continue to carry on in others, as her final act was to give the gift of life through tissue donation. In accordance to Martha’s wishes, a private service and burial will take place at Oak Hill Cemetery in Camden, Maine. There will be a Memorial Service held in Westfield, Massachusetts for Martha Lewis, which will be published at a later date - all friends and loved ones are welcome to attend. Arrangements entrusted to the Byron Keenan Funeral Home and Cremation Tribute Center, 1858 Allen Street, Springfield, MA 01118. Please visit www.byronkeenan. com
Common Core Continued from Page 4 force for bold goals like expanding vouchers. “How do you take a whole bunch of disjointed criticism from left and right and use that to mobilize people for a policy agenda?” said Hess, of the conservative American Enterprise Institute. But strategists leading the fight are convinced it will work. The anti-Common Core movement so far has been about saying “no” to the standards, “but at some point soon, we’ll have to define what ‘yes’ is — and school choice is a perfect ‘yes’ for people to galvanize around,” said Jim Stergios, executive director of the Pioneer Institute, a conservative think tank. Exhibit A: North Carolina, where the wealthy and influential conservative strategist Art Pope funds a think tank that has mobilized strident opposition to Common Core. That think tank, Civitas Institute, also backed a successful drive in the Legislature last year to eliminate teacher tenure and enact a voucher program to pay private school tuition for lowincome students. Lawmakers stipulated that voucher students will not have to take the same state tests as public school students — a huge win for Common Core foes, who want private schools to feel free to teach what they want, without pressure to prepare students for exams aligned to the new standards. Bob Luebke, education policy analyst for Civitas, said the voucher bill may well have passed in North Carolina even without the Common Core fight stirring up parent demands for school choice. But his colleague Terry Stoops, who works on education for another Pope-funded advocacy organization, said linking the two issues is helpful and would likely give a boost to voucher legislation in other states. In addition to Missouri, Tennessee and Kansas are likely battlegrounds. In Kansas, a voucher bill failed to pass in 2012 — but Americans for Prosperity spent the fall holding town halls across the state, in part to prod anti-Common Core activists into pressing the issue anew in the coming months. “It’s one of our key talking points,” said Peggy Venable, AFP’s state policy adviser. As they take up the fight against Common Core, conservative groups are injecting a dash of professionalism into a scrappy mom-and-pop campaign. They have the money to fly prominent Common Core foes to testify before state legislatures and speak at public forums. They’ve helped rookie activists set up websites and recruit allies. They’ve drafted model legislation. Their battle-tested political strategists have even drawn up game plans for key states — including how to secure meetings with key lawmakers and which talking points to stress. “For a mom like me who has spent the last 14 years raising children, buying groceries and cleaning house, having those type of groups to ask questions of, … it’s been invaluable,” said Debbie Higginbotham, a mother of six in Orange Park, Fla., who sees the standards as a federal power grab. “They’ve been a huge asset.”
Health Plans Continued from Page 6 update their coverage directly,” responded administration spokesman Aaron Albright. A Dec. 31 circular from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services addressed the problem. In questions and answers for insurers, the government said that the federal insurance marketplace will not be able to add a child until the system’s automated features become “available later.” It does not provide any clue as to when that might take place. The federal marketplace serves 36 states through HealthCare. gov and call centers. The Medicare agency, which runs the government’s other major health programs, is also responsible for the coverage expansion under Obama’s law. The question-and-answer circular says parents with a new baby will be told to contact their insurer directly “to include the child immediately” on their existing policy. After the federal system is ready to process changes, parents will have to contact the government to formally bring their records up to date. Albright said parents will be able to add a new child to their policy for 30 days. Having a baby could increase a family’s monthly premiums, but it could also mean that the parents are eligible for a bigger tax credit to help with the cost. Under some circumstances, it could make the child or the family eligible for Medicaid, a safety-net program that is virtually free of cost to low-income beneficiaries. “Add it to the list that shows HealthCare.gov is not done,” Laszewski said.
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Key dates in tobacco fight since smoking report Some key events in the fight over tobacco during the last 50 years: 1964: U.S. surgeon general report concludes smoking causes lung cancer. 1965: Warning labels required on cigarette packs.
1971: TV and radio commercials for cigarettes banned. 1972: Airlines told to provide no-smoking sections.
1987: Aspen, Colo., becomes first U.S. city to ban smoking in restaurants.
1998: Forty-six states reach $206 billion settlement with cigarette makers.
1988: Smoking banned on short domestic airline flights.
2000: Smoking prohibited on international flights.
2009: Food and Drug Administration authorized to regulate tobacco products.
Report but then began to rebound. Health officials realized it would take more than one report. In 1965, Congress required cigarette packs to carry warning labels. Two years later, the Federal Communications Commission ordered TV and radio stations to provide free air time for antismoking public service announcements. Cigarette commercials were banned in 1971. Still, progress was slow. Warner recalled teaching at the University of Michigan in 1972, when nearly half the faculty members at the school of public health were smokers. He was one of them. “I felt like a hypocrite and an idiot,” he said. But smoking was still the norm, and it was difficult to quit, he said. The 1970s also saw the birth of a movement to protect nonsmokers from cigarette fumes, with no-smoking sections on airplanes, in restaurants and in other places. Those eventually gave way to complete smoking bans. Cigarette machines disappeared, cigarette taxes rose, and restrictions on the sale of ciga-
Continued from Page 7 rettes to minors got tougher. Tobacco companies also came under increasing legal attack. In the biggest case of them all, more than 40 states brought lawsuits demanding compensation for the costs of treating smokingrelated illnesses. Big Tobacco settled in 1998 by agreeing to pay about $200 billion and curtail marketing of cigarettes to youths. In 1998, while the settlement was being completed, tobacco executives appeared before Congress and publicly acknowledged for the first time that their products can cause lung cancer and be addictive. Experts agree that the Terry report clearly triggered decades of changes that whittled the smoking rate down. But it was based on data that was already out there. Why, then, did it make such a difference? For one thing, the drumbeat about the dangers of smoking was getting louder in 1964, experts said. But the way the committee was assembled and the carefully neutral manner in which it reached its conclusion were at least as important,
said Dr. Tim McAfee, director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the same time, he and others said any celebration of the anniversary must be tempered by the size of the problem that still exists. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking, according to the CDC. Donald Shopland finds that depressing. Fifty years ago, he was a 19-year-old who smoked two packs a day while working as a clerk for the surgeon general’s committee. He quit cigarettes right after the 1964 report came out, and went on to a long and distinguished public health career in which he wrote or edited scores of books and reports on smoking’s effects. “We should be much further along than we are,” the Georgia retiree lamented.
Government might deregulate corn, soybean seeds MILWAUKEE (AP) — The federal government on Friday proposed eliminating restrictions on the use of corn and soybean seeds that are genetically engineered to resist a common weed killer, a move welcomed by many farmers but feared by scientists and environmentalists who worry it could invite growers to use more chemicals. The herbicide known as 2,4-D has had limited use in corn and soybean farming because it becomes toxic to the plants early in their growth. The new seeds would allow farmers to use the weed killer throughout the plants’ lives. Farmers have been eager for a new generation of herbicideresistant seeds because of the prevalence of weeds that have become immune to Monsanto’s Roundup. But skeptics are concerned that use of the new seeds and 2,4-D will only lead to similar problems as weeds acquire resistance to that chemical too. “It’s just so clear. You can see that you have this pesticide treadmill effect,” said Bill Freese, a chemist with the Washington, D.C.-based Center For Food Safety, which promotes organic agriculture. Most corn and soybeans grown in the U.S. are already genetically engineered, largely to resist Roundup, which was introduced in 1976. Before that, most farmers tilled their fields prior to planting, flipping the soil over and burying the weeds to kill them. The technique also exposed tilled earth to the air, creating problems with erosion and runoff. Herbicide-resistant seeds permitted most farmers to stop tilling because they could spray fields after their plants emerged, killing the weeds but leaving crops unharmed. The new generation of plants “allowed us to do a better job of controlling the weeds, and therefore, we’ve been able to do a better job of preserving the soil, which is our primary natural resource,” said Ron Moore, who grows 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans with his brother in western Illinois. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plant-inspection agency concluded that the
greatest risk from the new seeds developed by Dow AgroSciences was increased use of 2,4-D, which could hasten the evolution of weeds resistant to it. But, the agency said, resistance could develop anyway because 2,4-D is the third most-used weed-killer in the nation. Freese and other advocates also raised concerns about possible health risks from increased use of 2,4-D and the chemical’s tendency to drift beyond the area where it is sprayed, threatening neighboring crops and wild plants. Dow AgroSciences has attempted to address that by developing a new version of 2,4-D and new equipment to use with it, company spokesman Garry Hamlin said. The seeds and new 2,4-D have been approved in Canada but not yet sold there. The company has targeted their release in the U.S. for 2015, pending approval by various federal agencies. In anticipation of that, it has received import approval from seven
nations and has applications pending in about six others to allow farmers who use the seeds sold under the Enlist brand to export their crops. Some nations, particularly in Europe, have been resistant to genetically engineered crops, and consumer concerns have created a market for organic and other foods made without genetically modified ingredients. Minneapolisbased General Mills announced Thursday that it had switched the sugar and cornstarch in original Cheerios to make that product GMO-free. For now, Dow AgroSciences’ seeds can only be used in tightly controlled trials. The Center for Food Safety and the environmental group Earthjustice threatened legal action if restrictions are the seeds are lifted. The public has 45 days to comment on the USDA report published Friday as part of the deregulation process. The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a sepa-
rate review on the impact of expanded use of 2,4-D, although it previously found the herbicide safe. The EPA plans to release a report in the coming months, and the two agencies are expected to make final decisions simultaneously on use of the chemical and seeds. It was not clear when that would happen. Dow AgroSciences has asked the USDA to deregulate one corn and two soybean varieties, all resistant to both 2,4-D and glyphosate, the generic form of Roundup. The USDA said farmers could help curb resistance to 2,4-D by using a variety of means to fight weeds and not relying solely on the one herbicide. Eighty-six percent of corn, soybean and cotton farmers in the South and 74 percent of those in the Midwest have had problems with hard-tocontrol weeds, Hamlin said, citing private data from agricultural services. “These growers need new tools,” he said.
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It’s Fox TV! By Chris Putz Staff Writer WESTFIELD – One local resident is about to get a bigger view of the NFL playoffs. Sue Fox, of Southwick received a 32-inch LED flatscreen television from Westfield News President Patrick Berry Monday after her entry was blindly chosen from a pool of nearly a thousand entries in our “Beat The Putz” pro football contest grand prize drawing. “My goal was to play every week, pick my picks … and win the TV,” said an exuberant Fox. Fox said she also received just as much enjoyment beating her competition. “Beating (“The Putz”) is fun, and I like beating my husband every week,” she said. Much of the husband-wife rivalry stems from the fact that Sue’s favorite team is the Pittsburgh Steelers, while her husband, Russ, is a die-hard Patriots fan. While the Steelers bowed out of the playoff race late in the season, the Patriots are alive and well with a Saturday night home playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts on tap.
Fox offered a few thoughts about the upcoming weekend of NFL playoff games. “I can’t wait for the Pats-Colts, and Peyton Manning,” she said. “He’s a great quarterback. I’d like to see him come back after a devastating injury and win the Super Bowl.” If the Patriots were to win, and the Manningled Denver Broncos beat up on the San Diego Chargers as expected, both teams would meet in the AFC Championship game next Sunday, with a Super Bowl berth up for grabs. “The holiest day of the year is Super Bowl Sunday,” Fox said. “Christmas is just a prelude to the big show.” A show now made even bigger with her big screen TV. Some notable items from our 17-week contest run included a one-week record of 114 entries (Week 4), a one-person high of 47 entries from Dan Alvord, and a one-family record 59 submissions from the Pellis. Fox participated 14 times. Thank you to everyone for participating once again, and here’s to a few more super Sundays. Notes: Jack Pelli, of Westfield was the final
Sue Fox, left, of Southwick, accepts a new 32-inch LED television from Westfield News Sports Editor Chris Putz, center, after winning the Beat the Putz football contest sponsored by the Westfield News. Joining in the presentation is Westfield News President Patrick Berry. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
winner of our weekly gift certificate with a 15-1 record in Week 17. Pelli edged Barbara
Lowe, who also went 15-1, on tiebreaker points.
Tigers still on prowl; Rams win again By Chris Putz Staff Writer WESTFIELD – The Westfield Voc-Tech girls’ basketball team may have lost its varsity status due to a lack of participation, but it would not throw in the towel on its 2013-14 season. Playing as a Junior Varsity team, Westfield Voc-Tech finally broke through in the win column Monday, defeating visiting Commerce 41-20 to improve to 1-3. The Tigers were led by Ashley Lees and Katie Nesmelova, who scored 11 points apiece. “Our plan (for winter 2014) is to get some success, some wins, and some more interest in (this sport at our school,” Voc-
Tech coach Matt Seklecki said. “With each success, hopefully something builds and we’ll see where it goes.” The girls’ varsity basketball program was suspended for one season due to lack of players committed to a full season of games and practice. Only six players were eligible to play this season, according to Westfield Voc-Tech athletic director Karen Gomez. Southwick-Tolland 46, Greenfield 21 SOUTHWICK – Morgan Harriman scored a game-high 15 points to lead Southwick to another victory Monday. See Southwick-Tolland, Page 11
Westfield Voc-Tech’s Katie Nesmelova (12) passes the Westfield Voc-Tech’s Shannon Michael (1) drives the baseline ball from the sideline. (Photo past a Commerce player in a high school junior varsity girls’ by Chris Putz) basketball game Monday in Westfield. (Photo by Chris Putz)
Anastasia Pascari handles the ball for the Tigers in between the Commerce defense. (Photo by Chris Putz)
Voc-Tech’s Ashley Lees clamps down on defense as Commerce looks for an opening. (Photo by Chris Putz)
Felix leads WSU past Suffolk By Chris Putz Staff Writer WESTFIELD – Junior center Gabby Felix had 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead Westfield State University to a 67-51 victory over Suffolk University in non-conference women’s basketball on Monday. Westfield boosted its record to 6-5 heading into its conference opener this Thursday, Jan. 9, when it hosts Framingham State at 5:30. Suffolk, 5-3, suffered from a severe cold shooting spell in its first game in 30 days, an 83-67 triumph over Fitchburg on Dec. 7. The Rams missed their first 18 shots from the floor as the Owls took a 15-0 lead with 12:33 remaining in the first half. Suffolk finally scored its first field goal at the nine-minute mark to make it 15-3. For the game, Junior reserve guard Brianna the Rams shot 22 percent (17 for 76) from the Lowry converts a layup a sec- field, including 14 percent (5 for 34) in the first ond before the first-half half. They were 3 for 23 from 3-point range but buzzer sounds. (Photo by did can 14 of 18 free throws. Mickey Curtis) Westfield shot 38 percent (24 for 63) from the
field and 71 percent (15 for 21) from the foul line. Felix had the hot hand, making 7 of 12 field goal attempts and 10 of 12 free throws. But the Owls were unable to pull away as they committed 22 turnovers. Suffolk trailed 20-10 at the 4:19 mark when Westfield quickly built an 18-point lead sparked by five points and and assist from junior reserve forward Molly Waitt. The Owls led at halftime, 33-14, and took their largest lead of 23 points, 39-16, with 17:19 left in the game. Led by Shelby Santini (team-high 19 points) and Jennifer Ruys (13 points, 12 rebounds), Suffolk outscored Westfield 18-6 over the next seven minutes to pull within 11 points, 45-34, with 10:24 remaining. The Owls withstood the Rams’ initial comeback attempt as Tayler Travis nailed a 3-pointer from the left wing and Jen Ashton converted a layup for a 50-34 advantage at the 8:53 mark. Suffolk did slice the Westfield lead to single digits, 54-45, with 5:07 remaining on a 3-point
Westfield sophomore Forbasaw Nkamebo powers to the hoop during first-half action. (Photo by Mickey Curtis)
basket by Santini. Westfield then scored six straight points for a 15-point lead with 3:17 remaining. Westfield sophomore point guard Keri Doldoorian had a rare double-double with 11 points and 12 rebounds, all on the defensive end as she corralled many long rebounds. Ashton tallied 10 points and had game highs of seven assists and three steals in 23 minutes of action. Also playing 23 minutes was sophomore forward Forbasaw Nkamebo, who finished with nine points and seven boards.
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SCHEDULES TUESDAY January 7
WEDNESDAY January 8
THURSDAY FRIDAY January 9 January 10 WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Commerce, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Commerce, 7 p.m. GIRLS’ HOCKEY (Cathedral/WHS/Long.) vs. Algonquin, Cyr Arena, 7 p.m.
WRESTLING vs. Agawam, 7 p.m. GIRLS’ HOCKEY (Cathedral/WHS/ Long.) at Brattleboro Union, Nelson Withington Rink BOYS’ ICE HOCKEY vs. East Longmeadow, Amelia Park Ice Arena, 8 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Hampshire, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Hampshire, 7 p.m.
WRESTLING vs. Dean Tech, 7 p.m.
SKIING – PVIAC Race, Berkshire East, 5 p.m. GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Ludlow, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Cathedral, American International College, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Ludlow, 7 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Cathedral, American International College, 7 p.m.
SWIMMING vs. East Longmeadow, 4 p.m. GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Amherst, 5:30 p.m. INDOOR TRACK at Central, Smith College, Northampton, 6:45 p.m. BOYS’ V HOCKEY vs. GrotonDunstable Regional, Amelia Park Ice Arena, 7 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Amherst, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY January 11
MONDAY January 13
WRESTLING DUALS Gateway included), 9:30 a.m. GIRLS’ HOCKEY (Cathedral/WHS/ Long.) at Leominster, Gardner, 5:30 p.m.
GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Longmeadow, 7 p.m.
SOUTHWICK-TOLLAND REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Mohawk, 5:30 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Mohawk, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Palmer, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Palmer, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Dean Tech, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Dean Tech, 7 p.m.
GATEWAY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. Dean Tech, 6 p.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Westfield Voc-Tech, 4:30 p.m. SKIING – PVIAC Race, Berkshire East, 5 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS vs. St. Mary, 6:30 p.m.
WRESTLING vs. Granby, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Westfield Voc-Tech, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Westfield Voc-Tech, 7 p.m.
WRESTLING at Westfield Duals, 9:30 a.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Franklin Tech, 5 p.m. GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Franklin Tech, 6:30 p.m.
WESTFIELD VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ JV HOOPS at Pathfinder, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS at Pathfinder, 7 p.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS at Gateway, 4:30 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Franklin Tech, Westfield Middle School South, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Franklin Tech, Westfield Middle School South, 7 p.m.
GIRLS’ V HOOPS at Gateway, 5:30 p.m.
GIRLS’ JV HOOPS vs. Putnam, 4 p.m. BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Gateway, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Gateway, 7 p.m.
SAINT MARY HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Pathfinder, Westfield Middle School South, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Pathfinder, Westfield Middle School South, 7 p.m.
BOYS’ HOCKEY at Turners Falls, Collins/Moylan Arena, 6 p.m.
BOYS’ JV HOOPS vs. Pioneer Valley Christian School, Westfield Middle School South, 5:30 p.m. BOYS’ V HOOPS vs. Pioneer Valley Christian School, Westfield Middle School South, 7 p.m.
WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY SCHEDULES
Ice Hockey DAY Wednesday Saturday Tuesday Thursday Thursday Saturday Thursday Saturday
DATE OPPONENT Jan. 8 at Becker College Jan. 11 FRAMINGHAM STATE Jan. 14 at Southern New Hampshire Jan. 16 SALEM STATE Jan. 23 at Fitchburg State Jan. 25 at UMass Dartmouth Jan. 30 WORCESTER STATE Feb. 1 PLYMOUTH STATE
TIME 5:35 7:30 7:35 7:00 4:30 7:35 5:35
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Jan. 9 Jan. 11 Jan. 18 Jan. 21 Jan. 25 Jan. 28 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 6 Feb. 11 Feb. 15 Feb. 18 Feb. 22 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 March 1
FRAMINGHAM STATE at Bridgewater State at Salem State WORCESTER STATE MCLA at Fitchburg State at Framingham State BRIDGEWATER STATE at Western Connecticut SALEM STATE at Worcester State at MCLA FITCHBURG STATE MASCAC Quarterfinals MASCAC Semi-finals MASCAC Championship
TIME 7:30 3:00 3:00 7:30 3:00 7:30 3:00 7:30 7:00 7:30 3:00 7:30 3:00 TBA TBA TBA
Thursday Saturday Saturday Thursday Saturday Tuesday Saturday Tuesday Saturday
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Southwick’s Haley Parker, right, looks for a pass while battling a Greenfield defender. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
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Southwick junior center Monica Kucienski, left, and Greenfield’s Tiana Duggan battle for a loose ball during the second period of last night’s game. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
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Continued from Page 9 Jackie Maziarz and Ashley Shea chipped in for a Southwick victory on offense. The Rams’ six and five points, respectively, for the Rams, JV unit was stout on defense, especially in the who delivered a dominating defensive effort in first half of action. the second half to gain control of the game. LATE RESULTS Gateway 60, Smith Voke 40 JV RESULTS Curtis Dowers scored a game-high 26 points Southwick-Tolland 36, Greenfield 9 for Gateway, and brother, Calvin, had a monSam Perusse (9 points), Morgan Peterson ster effort all-around with 16 points, 10 (8), and Alyssa Cournoyer (7) paved the way rebounds, seven assists, and seven steals.
Southwick junior forward Morgan Harriman, center, leaps for the net as a group of Greenfield defenders move in during the first period of last night’s game in Southwick. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
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Southwick sophomore forward Ashley Shea, center, underarms the pass as a host of Greenfield defenders attempt the block during last night’s game in Southwick. (Photo by Frederick Gore)
GIRLS’ HOOPS Westfield 2-1 Southwick 5-0 St. Mary 0-5 Gateway 0-0 BOYS’ HOOPS Westfield 1-4 Southwick 0-3 Westfield Voc-Tech 0-0* St. Mary 0-3 Gateway 4-1 HOCKEY Westfield 2-1 St. Mary 2-1 BOYS’ SWIMMING Westfield 4-0 GIRLS’ SWIMMING Westfield 3-0-1
BOYS’ INDOOR TRACK Westfield 0-0 GIRLS’ INDOOR TRACK Westfield 0-0 BOYS’ SKIING Westfield 0-0 GIRLS’ SKIING Westfield 0-0 *No Report
Monday’s Results GIRLS’ HOOPS Southwick-Tolland 46, Greenfield 21
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf d-Indiana 27 6 .818 — 7-3 W-2 16-1 11-5 19-4 d-Miami 26 8 .765 1½ 8-2 W-2 15-3 11-5 17-6 Atlanta 18 17 .514 10 5-5 L-3 12-5 6-12 12-10 d-Toronto 16 16 .500 10½ 7-3 L-1 6-8 10-8 11-9 Washington 14 17 .452 12 5-5 L-3 7-8 7-9 12-9 Chicago 14 18 .438 12½ 5-5 W-2 9-7 5-11 12-10 Charlotte 15 20 .429 13 4-6 W-1 8-10 7-10 12-10 Detroit 14 20 .412 13½ 3-7 L-4 6-12 8-8 13-9 Brooklyn 13 21 .382 14½ 4-6 W-3 8-9 5-12 8-13 Boston 13 21 .382 14½ 3-7 L-4 8-10 5-11 10-12 Philadelphia 12 22 .353 15½ 5-5 L-1 7-9 5-13 7-11 New York 11 22 .333 16 4-6 W-1 4-12 7-10 9-12 Cleveland 11 23 .324 16½ 2-8 L-2 9-8 2-15 8-18 Orlando 10 24 .294 17½ 3-7 L-4 7-11 3-13 8-13 Milwaukee 7 26 .212 20 2-8 L-2 3-12 4-14 6-18 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf d-Oklahoma City 27 7 .794 — 7-3 W-2 15-3 12-4 17-5 d-San Antonio 26 8 .765 1 7-3 W-1 13-5 13-3 15-6 Portland 26 8 .765 1 6-4 L-1 13-4 13-4 14-6 d-L.A. Clippers 24 13 .649 4½ 6-4 W-1 15-3 9-10 16-7 Golden State 23 13 .639 5 9-1 W-9 11-4 12-9 15-12 Houston 22 13 .629 5½ 6-4 W-1 14-5 8-8 12-11 Phoenix 20 12 .625 6 7-3 W-1 12-5 8-7 15-10 Dallas 19 15 .559 8 5-5 L-2 11-6 8-9 10-11 10 5-5 W-1 10-6 7-11 7-12 Minnesota 17 17 .500 Denver 16 17 .485 10½ 2-8 W-2 8-8 8-9 9-13 New Orleans 15 17 .469 11 4-6 L-1 9-5 6-12 7-14 Memphis 15 18 .455 11½ 5-5 W-1 7-11 8-7 9-14 13 3-7 L-1 8-10 6-10 9-14 L.A. Lakers 14 20 .412 Sacramento 10 22 .313 16 3-7 L-2 6-13 4-9 7-15 17 5-5 L-1 6-10 5-15 6-18 Utah 11 25 .306 Sunday’s Games Memphis 112, Detroit 84 Golden State 112, Washington 96 Indiana 82, Cleveland 78 Miami 102, Toronto 97 Oklahoma City 119, Boston 96 New York 92, Dallas 80 Denver 137, L.A. Lakers 115 Monday’s Games Minnesota 126, Philadelphia 95 Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 86 L.A. Clippers 101, Orlando 81 Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Indiana, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Washington at Charlotte, 7 p.m. New Orleans at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Phoenix at Chicago, 8 p.m. Golden State at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. San Antonio at Memphis, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Boston at Denver, 9 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 9 p.m. Portland at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Dallas at San Antonio, 7 p.m. Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m. Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Indiana at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Houston, 8 p.m. Washington at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m. Orlando at Portland, 10 p.m. Boston at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
GP 44 42 44 42 42 42 43 43 43 44 44 43 43 43 44 42
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EASTERN CONFERENCE L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div 12 1 63 142 103 19-3-0 12-9-1 15-5-0 12 2 58 124 89 18-4-2 10-8-0 11-6-0 14 5 55 114 103 13-7-3 12-7-2 6-4-2 17 4 46 111 116 11-7-0 10-10-4 7-5-2 13 4 54 119 100 14-4-2 11-9-2 10-3-1 16 6 46 128 128 13-8-2 7-8-4 9-5-2 14 10 48 114 121 6-10-7 13-4-3 7-5-4 17 5 47 119 127 14-9-1 7-8-4 6-5-2 16 9 45 105 124 9-8-5 9-8-4 9-6-1 20 3 45 108 119 8-10-3 13-10-0 5-8-3 8-8-3 10-4-3 18 7 45 126 141 11-10-4 18 8 42 101 110 8-6-5 9-12-3 9-6-2 20 4 42 117 126 9-9-2 10-11-2 9-7-1 21 6 38 102 136 9-9-4 7-12-2 6-9-1 22 7 37 119 146 7-9-7 8-13-0 3-10-3 26 4 28 74 118 9-12-2 3-14-2 5-10-2
GP Anaheim 44 Chicago 45 St. Louis 41 San Jose 43 Colorado 42 Los Angeles 43 Vancouver 44 Phoenix 41 Minnesota 44 Dallas 42 Winnipeg 45 Nashville 43 Calgary 42 Edmonton 45
W 31 29 29 27 26 26 23 20 22 20 19 18 15 14
WESTERN CONFERENCE L OT Pts GF GA Home 8 5 67 146 111 17-0-2 7 9 67 167 124 15-2-6 7 5 63 150 95 17-3-2 10 6 60 142 111 15-1-3 12 4 56 123 108 15-6-2 13 4 56 113 89 14-5-2 13 8 54 117 108 11-6-4 12 9 49 123 127 11-5-3 17 5 49 106 113 16-5-2 15 7 47 123 131 9-6-5 21 5 43 123 135 10-8-4 19 6 42 102 129 10-8-3 21 6 36 100 131 7-11-3 26 5 33 117 156 7-11-2
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Away Div 14-8-3 11-1-2 14-5-3 9-6-2 12-4-3 13-0-1 12-9-3 12-3-2 11-6-2 9-5-2 12-8-2 9-3-1 12-7-4 6-5-4 9-7-6 7-5-4 6-12-3 8-6-1 11-9-2 5-7-4 9-13-1 5-11-3 8-11-3 6-7-0 8-10-3 4-7-2 7-15-3 2-9-3
Tuesday’s Games NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime Carolina at Buffalo, 7 p.m. loss. N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7 p.m. Sunday’s Games San Jose 3, Chicago 2, SO Pittsburgh 6, Winnipeg 5 Carolina 2, Nashville 1 Edmonton 5, Tampa Bay 3 Anaheim 4, Vancouver 3, OT Monday’s Games Columbus 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, SO N.Y. Islanders 7, Dallas 3 Montreal 2, Florida 1 Calgary 4, Colorado 3
Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. San Jose at Nashville, 8 p.m. Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Calgary at Phoenix, 9 p.m. St. Louis at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Boston at Anaheim, 10 p.m. Minnesota at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Montreal at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 8 p.m. Ottawa at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.
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Annie’s Mailbox By Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
Conflicted Dear Annie: When I was a freshman in high school, I became friends with “Agnes,” who was (like me) something of a social outcast. Agnes still considers me to be her best friend. That was 10 years ago. We have both grown up to be very different people. I am repelled by Agnes’ lifestyle of promiscuity and high-risk behaviors. Although she is free with praise and is loyal in an odd sort of way, she is incredibly narcissistic and often condescending. Add to that a volatile and sometimes violent temper, and she is a person I no longer want in my life. Still, we have a history. When she says I am “the only one who has stuck with her,” I feel a responsibility to maintain the friendship. I am also fond of her 5-year-old son. I don’t want to be dishonest by pretending that her decisions, her manner and her lifestyle don’t bother me. It seems dishonorable. But if I tell her any of this, I know it will lead to a nasty confrontation. The truth about my feelings would crush her. She considers friendship and loyalty to be sacred and would take my disapproval as a betrayal of her trust. Should I tell her the truth for my sake or continue the deception for hers? -Conflicted Dear Conflicted: It depends on what you want. If your goal is not to see Agnes anymore, go ahead and let loose. People outgrow friendships all the time. You don’t have to maintain this one, although it means you would not be around to show her son what a stable person looks like. You also could slowly make yourself less available to Agnes so there is no confrontation at all while the relationship withers. But a true friend would tell Agnes gently and kindly that you are worried about her. In turn, Agnes, while not pleased, would accept your concern and not cut you out of her son’s life. Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for two years, and we have been together for 16. This is my third marriage and his second. He is 61, and I am 58. I work out of the home, and he is now semi-retired. I would appreciate some help with cooking or cleaning, but he always says I wouldn’t be happy with the way he does it. I’ve told him this is a cop-out. I honestly do not care how well he does, only that there is effort and validation of my feelings. I’m exasperated. We get along great otherwise, but he is such a horse’s butt about this. Just yesterday, he made himself a sandwich for dinner and never even asked whether I wanted anything. He doesn’t pressure me to cook. I do it because I know he likes to have dinner and I enjoy cooking. But I would certainly never eat in front of him and not offer something. Am I being overly sensitive? Is it too much to ask for help with cleaning and cooking or to have my feelings taken seriously? -- Hurt and Exasperated Dear Hurt: We think your husband is a little lazy and has been trained to be waited on. He needs to step up and be more of a full partner. Separate the household chores and assign specific tasks for each of you. If you enjoy cooking, you could do more of that, and he could do more cleaning. Ask what he’d prefer. If he doesn’t follow through, do NOT pick up after him. Or, if you can afford it, hire someone. Dear Annie: “Ms. Bit” said she was having trouble reaching certain body parts to clean them. I suggest she upgrade her toilet to a bidet toilet that provides a warm water bath and a drying fan for the parts in question. My elderly parents had one installed years ago, and it served them well. -- A Fan of Being Clean
HINTS FROM HELOISE Don’t ZIP It Up? Dear Heloise: I enjoy reading your column in our local paper, The Orange County (Calif.) Register. Although I agree regarding your advice that shoppers don’t have to leave a ZIP CODE when asked (and that there may be marketing reasons behind it), there may be other valid reasons as well. In California, we pay sales/use tax based on where an item is going to be used. Retailers who do business in several counties need to charge sales tax accordingly. For example, my in-laws bought a car at the same dealership I did, located in Orange County. But, since my in-laws live in Los Angeles County, they paid 8.25 percent sales tax, where I paid 7.75 percent. So, the ZIP code may be used to determine what sales tax to charge for the purchase. -- Sofia P. in California Each state, county and city can be different. When making a regular purchase at a store (not a major purchase, such as an automobile), unless you are using a credit card that requires a ZIP code for security purposes, you do NOT have to give the store your ZIP code. There is no reason to give your ZIP code if you are buying a few things at the drugstore or department store, especially if you are paying cash! -- Heloise
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014: This year you face a lot of strong feelings, especially when you experience disruption or a forced decision. There is no room for hemming and hawing. You tend to be passionate about what you believe in, but you also can be quite practical and discerning about your decisions. This combination often leaves people wondering who is the real you. This dichotomy also could be a source of mixed messages. If you are single, you will meet at least one person with whom you could become seriously involved. Take your time getting to know this person. If you are attached, your tendency to send mixed messages often comes up in conversation. It will not take long for your sweetie to understand that both voices belong to you. ARIES can be a hothead! 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 You can’t deny a volatile element that runs through your day. Pressure builds because someone in authority makes heavy demands. A new beginning might be plausible, though there could be some awkward and/or hard moments. Tonight: Beam in more of what you want. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH You might feel pressured and overwhelmed. A situation could become more out of control than you thought possible. Your sense of humor will come through, but perhaps a little too late. Express your true feelings. Tonight: Try to be unavailable. Cocoon, if need be. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You usually flex well with the unexpected. You might get an opportunity to test out that ability today. A friend could feel threatened by your devotion to someone else. Remind this person that your feelings for him or her are not affected by this. Tonight: Out and about. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HH You might decide that you can’t depend on a higher-up to help you. This is an excellent decision, though it probably would be best not to announce it to the world. Your emotions could point you in one direction, while your intellect will suggest a different path. Tonight: Work late. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Keep your eye on the big picture, especially as others seem to be reactive and difficult. You will understand where they are coming from, but convincing them to consider a different perspective could backfire. Tonight: Choose something that you don’t normally do. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Deal with a partner directly. An argument regarding your spending might seem inevitable, but if you chill out, you could find a compromise. Friends surround you, but a child or loved one needs more of your time or attention. Tonight: Share with a trusted friend. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might want to defer to someone who seems much surer of his or her position than you do. Nevertheless, if you are not careful, a major disagreement still might ensue. Understand the effect that a loved one has on your moods and your reactions. Tonight: Paint the town red. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH In your situation, actions count more than words. You often push yourself very hard without thought to the implications. Stay focused and you will accomplish a lot more than you thought possible, especially if you maintain your distance. Tonight: Choose a relaxing activity. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Allow your creativity to flourish, and you will gain as a result. You might have come to a conclusion that you want to buy a certain item that will add to the quality of your life. Talk to others who have made a similar purchase before you act. Tonight: Ever playful. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Deal with a personal matter before it deals with you. Your sense of humor emerges with a contrary boss or older friend who challenges one of your loved ones. You might be questioning the outcome and the reason behind this person’s behavior. Tonight: Happily at home. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Communication remains vigorous, but it could take an interesting twist or turn. Just when you thought you had a grasp on a situation, you will discover otherwise. You might not know the other parties involved as well as you think you do. Tonight: Let off some steam. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Be aware of the cost of being spontaneous. You might have set yourself back without intending to. You can stop what seems like a runaway train by
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Patriots not taking Colts defense lightly HOWARD ULMAN AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — A defense that allowed 44 points in a playoff game might boost the confidence of its next opponent. Such generosity rarely leads to wins. But the New England Patriots aren’t counting on the Indianapolis Colts being that vulnerable again. “I hope we can find something that we can move the ball with,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Monday, “but you have to go out there and execute it and do it at a high level.” Much of the focus in the Colts’ 45-44 AFC wild-card playoff win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday went to quarterback Andrew Luck for directing a comeback from a 38-10 third-quarter deficit. The defense that put Indianapolis in that hole got far less attention. In the first half, the Chiefs marched 82, 79 and 81 yards to touchdowns and 73 yards to a field goal after kickoffs or punts. Did Belichick spot anything he could exploit when the Patriots host the Colts in a divisional-round game Saturday night? “We might get an idea or two from that game and the other games they played before that,” he said, “but we’re not going to change our wholesale offense just because we saw somebody else do something. That’s what (the Chiefs) do. We’ll try to find things that we can do that we feel like we can attack the Colts with.” Things, perhaps, like those the Patriots did last season in a 59-24 win over Indianapolis. That tied a team record for most points scored in a game. But the Colts’ defense wasn’t entirely to blame. New England returned two interceptions and a punt for touchdowns. Turnovers also plagued the Colts against the Chiefs, leading to 17 points. That was uncharacteristic of Indianapolis, which committed an NFL-low 14 turnovers in the regular season. And the Colts allowed only 186 yards in the second half after giving up 327 in the first. “Kansas City took advantage of a few opportunities and really made some big plays in critical situations,” Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said. “I think the turnovers, a few big plays here or there, can certainly change the complexion of any game and seemed to do that the other day. That being said, this is a tremendously disruptive group.” It’s led by Robert Mathis, who will try to speed up Tom Brady’s throws or tackle him before he can make them. The linebacker topped the NFL with a career-high 19 1/2 sacks and forced nine fumbles. “He seems to be getting increasingly better as the years go on, which, as an offensive coach, you tend to hope it goes the other direction,” McDaniels said. “He’s as disruptive a player on the edge as
New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick walks along the sideline of a rain-drenched field in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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we have played or will play.” Speed, acceleration, effort. Mathis has it all, McDaniels said. “You can’t ever assume that, ‘Well I did enough,’ because if you assume that then usually he ends up finishing the play better than you did,” he added, “and a lot of times that ends up in a bad situation for the offense.” Mathis has five sacks against Brady in 12 games, the most he has against any quarterback not in the Colts’ AFC South. But he lines up in different spots on different plays, so Brady’s blockers must be sharp. “No one’s more explosive than him,” Brady said Monday on his contractually obligated appearance on WEEI radio. “Once he gets to the quarterback, it’s not as much sacking him, but it’s the strip sacks. The fumbles and the fumble recoveries is where he’s really dangerous.” Six minutes into the third quarter last Saturday, Mathis did just that against Kansas City’s Alex Smith. Kelvin
Sheppard recovered for the Colts and they capitalized with Luck’s 3-yard scoring pass to Donald Brown. The 38-10 deficit early in the quarter was down to 38-24. But if the Patriots keep double-teaming Mathis, they’ll have one less player to block a blitzer. “It would be great to say, ‘Well, why don’t we just put a guy over there to help?’” McDaniels said. “They pressure enough with enough people, use the secondary, use the linebackers, that some of those people that you would like to use in help on a guy like him may have to be blocking blitzers.” Brady, though, is among the best at reading defenses. So he can throw quickly and remain upright. “Every game you go into, you feel like you can do something,” Belichick said. “I don’t think we’ve ever played a team that we didn’t feel like that.” ——— AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org
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0265 Firewood 100% HARDWOOD, GREEN, $140. 3 year season. $150. 1/2 & 1/4 cords also available. Outdoor furnace wood also available, cheap. CALL FOR DAILY SPECIALS!! Wholesale Wood Products, (304)851-7666. A SEASONED LOG TRUCK LOAD of hardwood; (when processed at least 7 cords), for only $650-$700 (depends on delivery distance). Call Chris @ (413)454-5782. AFFORDABLE FIREWOOD. Seasoned and green. Cut, split, delivered. Any length. Now ready for immediate delivery. Senior and bulk discount. Call (413)848-2059, (413)530-4820. END OF YEAR FIREWOOD SALE. Seasoned or green. Cut, split and delivered. Call for pricing after 7p.m. or before 11a.m. (413)627-9110.
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0285 Wanted To Buy PAYING CASH FOR COINS, stamps, medals, tokens, paper money, diamonds and jewelry, gold and silver scrap. Broadway Coin & Stamp, 144 Broadway, Chicopee Falls, MA. (413)5949550.
0339 Landlord Services DASHE-INTEL Comprehensive Landlord Services Tenant screening including criminal background and credit checks. Call Steve or Kate (413)5791754 www.Dashe-Intel.com
0340 Apartment 1 BEDROOM, recently remodeled efficiency apartment. Quiet neighborhood, off street parking, appliances including washer/dryer hookups. $600/month no utilities. First, last, security. Non smoker, no pets. (413)374-8803. 5 ROOM, 3 bedroom, completely renovated Westfield/Russell area, country setting. NEW stove, refrigerator and heating unit. Large yard, parking. $895/month. No pets please. Call today, won't last. (413)3483431. GRANVILLE, QUIET, SECURE location. 2 bedroom, 2nd floor, utilities, laundry hookups. $800/month. New Year's Special. (413)231-2015. PLEASANT STREET, Westfield. 4 room, 1 bedroom. $725/month plus utilities. (413)562-2295. WESTBRIDGE TOWNHOUSES, 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, full basement. $800/month plus utilities. (413)562-2295. WESTFIELD Beautiful 2 bedroom townhouse, clean, quiet, 1-1/2 bath, carpeting, appliances, hot water included. Very reasonable heat cost. Sorry no pets. From $795/month. Call for more information (860)485-1216 Equal Housing Opportunity WESTFIELD 1 bedroom apartments, large closets, free heat and hot water included, laundry, parking. Possible pet. $785/month. (413)562-2266. WESTFIELD 1 BEDROOM, kitchen and bath, 2nd floor. No pets. $650/month includes utilities. First, last, security. (413)250-4811. WESTFIELD 1&2 bedroom apartments, rent includes heat and hot water. Excellent size and location. No dogs. Call weekdays (413)786-9884.
0340 Apartment WESTFIELD 1st floor, 2 room apartment, all utilities included. Parking on premises. Storage area. Non smoking, no pets. $615/month. Available December 15th. Call (413)568-5905.
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MONTGOMERY 5 miles from WHS. Beautiful office. $350/month includes utilities and WiFi. 2 adjoining offices. $525/month. Call (413)9776277.
WESTFIELD 1st floor, 2 room apartment, all utilities included. Parking on premises. Storage area. Non smoking, no pets. $615/month. Available January 15th. Call (413)568-5905.
WESTFIELD, 2nd floor, 2 bedroom, kitchen, living room, bath, enclosed porch. No pets. $825/month plus utilities. First, last, security. (413)250-4811.
HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air conditioning included. Refrigerator and microwave. $110/week. (413)531-2197.
WESTFIELD 2 bedroom, 1 bath condo. $875/month includes heat and hot water. No smoking, no pets. First, last, security. (413)519-8271.
WESTFIELD 2&3 bedroom available. Large yard, washer & dryer hook-up. No smoking. No pets. Off-street parking, quiet neighborhood. Please call (413)519-7257.
LARGE FURNISHED ROOM. Parking, bus route, walking dis- 0380 Vacation Rental tance to all amenities. $120/weekly. Responsible ma- E N G L E W O O D , F L O R I D A . t u r e m a l e p r e f e r r e d . N o n - Lovely home for vacation rental. smoker. (413)348-5070. Two bedroom, two bath, garage. ROOM TO RENT in a quiet Close to beaches. Text/call for neighborhood. Kitchen and laun- details, 413-543-1976. dry privilege. Heat, A/C, utilities. Available now to non-smoker. 0400 Land $600/month, Westfield. (413)355-2338 or (413)5627341. BEAUTIFUL, SECLUDED
WESTFIELD 3 BEDROOM, kitchen, livingroom, bath, 2nd floor. WONDERFUL 1&2 bedroom $950/month plus utilities. First, apartments in beautiful downlast, security. (413)250-4811. town Westfield. Carpeting, AC, parking. Starting at $540/month. WESTFIELD reconditioned, 2 Call Debbie at (413)562-1429. bedroom condo. $795/month heat included. For sale or rent. Call (603)726-4595. 0345 Rooms
WESTFIELD large 1 bedroom, off Mill Street. First floor, recently updated. $650/month plus utilities. First, last, security required. Available mid January. SEASONED FIREWOOD 100% (860)335-8377. hardwood. Stacking available. Cut, split, delivered. (128cu.ft.) Volume discounts. Call for pricing. Hollister's Firewood (860)653-4950. SILO DRIED firewood. (128cu.ft.) guaranteed. For prices call Keith Larson (413)357-6345, (413)537-4146.
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HUNTINGTON 1 room with heat, hot water, cable TV, air conditioning included. Refrigerator and microwave. $110/week. (413)531-2197.
0400 Land
LAND FOR SALE in West Springfield-Tatham Section. Building 100ft. by 314ft., $40,000. Call for details (413)495-2059.
0410 Mobile Homes
CHICOPEE, Bluebird. Remodeled throughout, 2 bedrooms, 12'x51' + 10'x12' + 8'x16' porch, with aluminum roof $53,500. (413) 593-9961. DASAP.MHVILLAGE.COM.
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mountaintop lot in MontODD JOBS/HANDYMAN. 0350 Apt./House Sharing g o m e r y , M A . P a n o r a m i c A1 Debris removal, landscaping,
views. Fully cleared, desROOMMATE WANTED to share tumped and graded. Ready to mobile home. Please call for build. Minutes to Westfield. more information (413)572- 5.69 acres. Asking $160,000. Call (413)562-5736. 6708.
garage/attic cleansouts, interior and exterior painting, power washing, basic carpentry and plumbing. All types of repair work and more. (413)562-7462.
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Carpet
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Electrician
CARPET, LINOLEUM, CERAMIC TILE, HARDWOOD FLOORS. Sales, MASTER ELECTRICIAN 40 years exService. Installation & Repairs. Cus- perience. Insured, reasonable prices. tomer guaranteed quality, clean, ef- No job too small. Call Tom Daly, ficient, workmanship. Call Rich (413)543-3100. Lic# A7625. (413)530-7922. WAGNER RUG & FLOORING, LLC. 95 MAINLINE DRIVE, WESTFIELD. Flooring/Floor Sanding (413)568-0520. One stop shopping for all your floors. Over 40 years in busi- A RON JOHNSON’S FLOOR SANDness. www.wagnerrug.com ING. Installation, repairs, 3 coats polyurethane. Free estimates. (413) 569-3066. Chimney Sweeps HENTNICK CHIMNEY SWEEPS. Chimney repairs and rebuilds. Stainless steel caps and liner systems. Inspections, masonry work and gutter cleaning. Free estimates. Insured. Quality work from a business you can trust. (413)848-0100, 1-800-793-3706.
Computers
Gutter Cleaning RAIN GUTTERS CLEANED, REPAIRED. Antennas removed, chimneys repaired and chimney caps installed. Roof leaks repaired, vent areas sealed. Sr. citizen discount. Insured. Free estimates. H.I. Johnson Services. (413)596-8859 before 9p.m.
COMPUTER HELP AVAILABLE. In home training. Network setup, data re- GUTTER CLEANING. Get then clean covery and much more. For more infor- ed before the FREEZE!! Clean, flush and check for leaks. Call Matt mation call John (413)568-5928. (413)777-8381.
Drywall
T-BEST DRYWALL. Complete profesHauling sional drywall at amateur prices. Our ceilings are tops! Call Mike 413-821- A DUMP TRUCK. Attic, cellars, yard, 8971. Free estimates. scrap metal removal. Seasoned Firewood. (413)569-1611, (413)374-5377. KINGER PAINT & DRYWALL. Interior, exterior, ceiling repair, drywall A.R.A. JUNK REMOVAL SERVICE. damage, cabinet refinishing, specialFurniture, trash, appliances. Full house izing in textured ceilings. Fully incleanouts, basements, attics, yards. sured. Call (413)579-4396. Furnace and hot water heater removal. 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE. Electrician Free estimate on phone. Senior discount. Call Pete (413)433-0356. JIM FERRIS ELECTRIC. Senior dis- www.arajunkremoval.com. count. No job too small! Insured, free estimates. 40 years experience. Home Improvement 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. Gutter deicing cables installed. I answer all calls! Prompt service, best prices. Lic. #A-16886. (413)562-5816.
AMR BUILDING & REMODELING. Sunrooms, decks, additions, bathrooms, window and door replacements and more. MA. Reg. #167264. Licensed and fully insured. Call Stuart Richter (413)297-5858.
C&N CARPENTRY. Suspended ceilings, home improvements and remodeling. Licensed and insured. Call TURCOTTE ELECTRIC. 30+ years (413)262-9314. experience. Electrical installations, emergency service work. Generac portable or whole house generator installations. HVAC controls and en- BRUNO ANTICO BUILDING REadditions, ergy saving green technology up- MODELING.Kitchens, decks, rec rooms, more. Prompt, regrades. Fully insured. All calls an- liable service, free estimates. Mass swered. Master’s Lic #A-18022. Registered #106263, licensed & in(413)214-4149. sured. Call Bruno, (413)562-9561.
Home Improvement DAVE DAVIDSON BATHROOM & KITCHEN REMODELING. “GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME” Complete Bath Renovations. Mass. License #072233, Mass. Registration #144831. CT. HIC. #0609568. Now serving CT. Insured. Quality Work on Time on Budget Since 1984. (413)569-9973. www.davedavidsonremodeling.com
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Masonry
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.
ABC MASONRY & BASEMENT WATERPROOFING. All brick, block, concrete. Chimneys, foundations, hatchways, new basement windows installed and repaired. Sump pumps and french drain systems installed. Foundations pointed and stuccoed. Free estimates. (413)5691611. (413)374-5377.
House Painting COPPA HOME IMPROVEMENTS. Remodeling, home restoration, home repairs, finish basements, bath/kitchen trim/woodwork, siding/decks, windows/ doors. CSL 103574, HIC Reg.147782. Fully licensed and insured. Free estimates. Call Joe (413)454-8998.
DELREO HOME IMPROVEMENT for all your exterior home improvement needs. Roofing, siding, windows, decks and gutters. Call for free quote. Extensive references, fully licensed & insured in MA. & CT. www.delreohomeimprovement.com Call Gary Delcamp (413)569-3733.
TOM DISANTO Home Improvements The best choice for all interior and exterior building and remodeling. Specializing in the design and building of residential additions, since 1985. Kitchens, baths, siding, windows, decks, porches, sunrooms, garages. License #069144. MA Reg. #110710. FREE ESTIMATES, REFERENCES, FULLY INSURED. Call Tom (413)568-7036.
PAUL MAYNARD CONSTRUCTION. All your carpentry needs. Remodeling specialty. Additions, garages, decks, siding. Finish trim, window replacement. Kitchens designed by Prestige. (413)386-4606.
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ALWAYS CALL FIRST!!! M&M SERVICES-20 Years serving the Westfield area. Painting, staining, house washing, interior/exterior. Wall coverings. Commercial/residential. Free estimates. Insured. References. Mass Reg. #121723. Call (413)568-9731. No job too small !! At SANTA FE PAINTING CO. We're your color specialists! Fall season is in full swing. Get all your exterior painting needs done now. Including painting and staining log homes. Call (413)230-8141
Plumbing & Heating NICK GARDNER PLUMBING, WELDING & MECHANICAL SERVICES. Professional, reliable service. MA Lic. #PL31893-J. Certified Welding. Insured. Call (413)531-2768 Nick7419@comcast.net
Roofing ONE STOP SHOPPING for all your ROOFING needs! POWER WASHING/CLEANING revitalizing your roof, removing ugly black stains, mold and moss, we’ll make it look like new plus prolong the life of your roof. We do emergency repairs, new construction, complete tear off, ice and water protection barrier systems, skylight repairs. Snow & ice removal. FREE gutter cleaning with any roof repair or roof job. 10% senior discount. Free estimates. MA. Lic. #170091. Call (413)977-5701
A NEW LOOK FOR FALL. Let Home Decor help. Interior painting and wallpapering, specializing in faux finishes. Servicing the area over 12 years. Call Kendra now for a free estimate and Snowplowing decorating advice. (413)564-0223, A.B.C. SNOWPLOWING. Westfield (413)626-8880. residential only. 15 years experience. Call Dave (413)568-6440. PROFESSIONAL PAINTING & WALLPAPERING. Quality workmanship at low, SNOWPLOWING / SNOWBLOWING. low prices. Interior/Exterior Painting & On time, reliable service. Average Staining, Wallpaper, Ceiling Repair & driveway, $40.00. Also specializing in Spray. Free Estimates. Call Steve at fall clean ups. Call (413)727-4787. (413)386-3293. SNOWPLOWING, SNOW BLOWING, SHOVELING. Call Accurate Lawn Landscaping/Lawn Care Services, (413)579-1639. ALL CALLS RETURNED! Fall cleanups, curb side leaf pickups, mow- Tree Service ing, aerating, overseeding, dethatching, mulch & trimming. Free estimates. Ask A BETTER OPTION - GRANFIELD TREE SERVICE. Tree Removal, Land for Mel (413)579-1407. Clearing, Excavating. Firewood, Log
Truck Loads. (413)569-6104.
AMERICAN TREE & SHRUB. Professional fertilizing, planting, pruning, caLEAVES -CURB SIDE LEAF RE- bling and removals. Free estimates, MOVAL - FALL CLEAN UPS. Call for fully insured. Please call Ken 569your free Quote today! You rake um' & 0469. Leaf the rest to us. Residential and Commercial, Fully Insured. Visit our CONRAD TREE SERVICE. Expert website at tree removal. Prompt estimates. www.BusheeEnterprises.com for all of Crane work. Insured. “After 34 our services! Bushee Enterprises, LLC. years, we still work hard at being (413)569-3472. #1.” (413)562-3395.
RICHTER HOME Building & Remodeling. Specializing in home improvement services. Roofs, windows, doors, decks, finished carpentry, remodels, additions, basement refinishing, and much more. Quality work from a punctual, reliable and experienced home improvement company. Upholstery Licensed and Insured. MA CSL #97940, MA HIC #171709, CT HIC YARD CLEANUP, thatching, leaf brush #0633464. Call Dave Richter for an es- removal, hedge/tree trimming, KEITH'S UPHOLSTERY & REPAIRS. mulch/stone, mowing. Call Accurate 30+ years experience for home or busitimate (413)519-9838. Lawncare, (413)579-1639.
ness. Discount off all fabrics. Get quality workmanship at a great price. Free pickup and delivery. Call (413)5626639.