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West Springfield councilors concerned over ‘inflammatory’ wording in mayor’s anti-racism order
Updated Jan 24, 2021;
WEST SPRINGFIELD Town councilors will meet Monday to discuss “inflammatory” and “accusatory” language in Mayor William Reichelt’s executive order declaring racism a public health crisis.
They’ll also consider an alternative wording drafted late last week by Council President Brian Griffin, intended to preserve the mayor’s goals while toning down the rhetoric that some councilors found objectionable.
“The wording in it, to me, is inflammatory,” Councilor Daniel O’Brien said of the mayor’s proposal. “I don’t understand where you’re basing the facts of this document, … how it ties in with West Springfield, and the West Springfield that I know. I find this to be accusatory.”
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West Springfield council has questions on proposed business advocate
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
WEST SPRINGFIELD Businesses will need help bouncing back when the coronavirus pandemic subsides, but the Town Council is split on whether funding a new government office would help.
At their meeting Tuesday, councilors could not reach a consensus on whether to back a proposal by Council President Brian Griffin and Mayor William Reichelt to hire a temporary economic recovery administrator with a $35,000 salary for the five months remaining in the current fiscal year.
“Oftentimes a business just doesn’t know where to turn,” said Griffin. “Having a direct individual for our business community to go to for this technical advisory assistance will go a long way toward us recovering. It’s going to take years for us to recover. This is one of the best hires we could have in this time.”
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West Springfield breaks ground on new Coburn School
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
WEST SPRINGFIELD State and local taxpayers will pay $69 million to build a new Philip G. Coburn Elementary School, but it’s the students and teachers who will build its community, educators said at a groundbreaking ceremony this week.
“From the moment I stepped into Coburn School, I knew it was a special place,” recalled Colleen Marcus, a West Springfield School Committee member and former principal of Coburn School, at the Wednesday event. But “it was never the building that mattered, it was the magic happening inside the building.”
She and other school officials told stories about how a true community formed around Coburn, including in the aftermath of the 2011 tornado that ripped through West Springfield’s nearby Merrick neighborhood. More than 100 people made homeless by the tornado were housed in a shelter at the school, and students’ families stepped up with donations.
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