WESTFIELD — The Planning Board voted 5-2 to approve the site plan, stormwater permit, and special permits for Falcon Landing, after months of tension between the board, developers, and North Side residents over the warehouse proposal.
WESTFIELD — The City Council approved $150,000 in overtime for Westfield’s Fire Department, and pledged to avert extreme cost-saving measures that firefighters warned would happen if the overtime account runs out, such as closing Fire Station 2 or instituting “brownouts” in coverage.
WESTFIELD — When Luke Bulan volunteered at Baystate Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU, for a week last summer, he noticed he couldn’t do anything to help with half the babies in the unit, because they were confined to incubators.
WESTFIELD — Westfield’s public schools are hosting a “Countdown to Kindergarten” information and registration night in the Westfield Middle School cafeteria, 30 W. Silver St., on Tuesday, Feb. 6.
WESTFIELD — At the latest Planning Board meeting, current and former Westfield city officials spoke against the Falcon Landing distribution warehouse proposal.
WESTFIELD — School administrators recently announced that Jill Phelan, principal of Highland Elementary School, has been named the principal of the new elementary school being built on Franklin Street.