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Neighbor’s prayers heard as turtle she saved returns to Westfield

By | Jul 9, 2024

Neighbor’s prayers heard as turtle she saved returns to Westfield

WESTFIELD — It was a homecoming more than eight months in the making. Hudson, a large snapping turtle, was returned to its pond on Westfield’s North Side after being hit by a vehicle in October and severely injured.


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By | Jul 2, 2024

Westfield City Council agrees to purchase of rectory lots for police station

WESTFIELD — The City Council voted unanimously on June 20 to purchase the land on Union Street where Westfield plans to build a new police headquarters.


Amy Porter
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By | Jul 2, 2024

Chess club may end without donations for meeting space

WESTFIELD — For more than five decades, chess players from around the region have met in Westfield to learn, play and hone their skills. Unfortunately, this tradition could soon come to an end.


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Whitney Park diamond dedicated as ‘Chico Field’

By | Jul 2, 2024

Whitney Park diamond dedicated as ‘Chico Field’

WESTFIELD — Current and former softball, basketball, baseball and hockey officials and players, family and friends came together to honor Robert “Chico” Veronesi at Whitney Playground on Shepard Street on June 29, and to dedicate Field 1 as Chico Field.


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Wyben July 4 parade marshals cited as farmers, parents, neighbors

By | Jun 25, 2024

Wyben July 4 parade marshals cited as farmers, parents, neighbors

WESTFIELD — The Wyben Fourth of July Committee has announced that Annette and James “Jim” Bemis, “outstanding members of the Wyben community,” will be the 2024 grand marshals for this year’s parade. Sue Crane, a member of the parade committee, said the selection is well deserved.


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Police pedal 300 miles in Unity Tour for fallen officer fund

By | Jun 25, 2024

Police pedal 300 miles in Unity Tour for fallen officer fund

In May, a team of five Western Massachusetts police officers honored all fallen cops — 23,785 throughout American history, according to the memorial fund — by pedaling more than 300 miles from northern New Jersey to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.


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Staasi Heropoulos has been a broadcast and print journalist as well as a corporate communications practitioner, in Western Mass. and internationally for more than 40 years. He loves writing feature articles on local people and places but also welcomes story ideas about corporate and government malfeasance. Staasi can be reached at Staasi.Heropoulos@gmail.com.

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Elks honor Agawam youth for patriotic essay contest win

By | Jun 25, 2024

Elks honor Agawam youth for patriotic essay contest win

WESTFIELD — Ava Skowron, a sixth grader at Doering School in Agawam, is one of two statewide winners of an annual Americanism essay contest to be sponsored by the Westfield-West Springfield Lodge of Elks.


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Elks honor Russell teen for contest-winning patriotic essay

By | Jun 19, 2024

Elks honor Russell teen for contest-winning patriotic essay

WESTFIELD — Makaylah Motyl thought she was in trouble when she was called to the principal’s office at Gateway Regional Middle School. Instead, she received a check as a winner in an essay contest sponsored by the local Elks lodge.


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