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Monday, March 29, 2010
Sgt. Eric Hall was the first officer to respond and was followed within seconds by Officer James Renaudette. The resident told the officers that she had observed an unoccupied vehicle parked in the street’s cul-de-sac with the engine running when she returned home shortly before 3 a.m. The woman said she then saw that somebody was in her husband’s 2002 Mercury Mountaineer and she confronted the young man who fled to the running vehicle and rapidly left the area. The woman said her husband’s vehicle had not been locked. … The tradition started 16 years ago when newly elected former Mayor Richard K. Sullivan Jr. assumed the corner office of Westfield City Hall. Sullivan said the first Mayor’s Easter Egg Hunt was staged at Grandmothers Garden on Smith Avenue, but the hunts eventually settled onto the front lawn of the Genesis Spiritual Life Center on Mill Street. FREDERICK GORE
WRWA speaker calls for energy diversityWESTFIELD — The 16th Annual Westfield River Watershed Association’s Westfield River Symposium brought together disparate groups with a common desire to preserve and enjoy the Westfield River. From fly fishermen to kayakers to research biologists, a myriad of interests share the river and its shoreline, WRWA Board Member Kathy Meyer said. But this year’s symposium was not all about the river as it has been in the past, Meyer said, but instead examined energy production and conservation for a better environment. Local events shaped this year’s symposium, she said. “The Russell Biomass controversy has become such a polarizing thing for the area, we felt that we needed to talk about it, to take a look at biomass and other energy issues and talk about what are the tradeoffs of so-called ‘green energy,’” she said. “Also we want to know what are the hands-on things people can do to improve their own energy efficiencies.”…