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The safe had been abandoned in City Hall replacement when the police department moved to the new headquarters building in 1972. (Photo by Carl E. Hartdegen) process begins By AMY PORTER Correspondent WESTFIELD – The job description for general man- Safe ager of Westfield Gas & Electric has been posted on the G&E website and other online and trade publications, following the notification by Daniel Howard that he will be retiring in November. cracked, The announcement of the impending retirement was 2018 Westfield Fair initially made by Municipal Scenes from this weekend’s 2018 Westfield Fair. See additional photos Pages 6, Light Board Chairman 7. (Photos by Marc St.Onge) Thomas P. Flaherty at the contents July 11 MLB meeting, at which Flaherty stated that he had received a letter from Howard of his intention to revealed retire, in accordance with the By CARL E. HARTDEGEN terms of his contract. The let- Correspondent ter was not discussed at the WESTFIELD – After more than meeting because it was not 40 years, a police department safe on the agenda, and was was cracked – and found to be scheduled to be placed on the empty. agenda at an upcoming meet- Two other safes of similar vin- ing. Howard has served as tage, apparently abandoned in City General Manager of Hall for decades, were also opened Westfield Gas & Electric Dan Howard, General and one contained old records. since 2009, and has worked Manager of Westfield’s The safes piqued the interest of for the company for 34 years. Gas & Electric and Whip city Police Capt. Michael McCabe The General Manager City Fiber, announced when the department’s safe became Employment process was on his retirement for later an issue at Moseley School. the agenda at the August 1 this fall. (WNG File Photo) That safe had apparently been meeting, where it was dis- left at City Hall when the police cussed along with the planned department vacated the former resignation of Thomas Flaherty, the Ward 5 Commissioner, headquarters in 1972 for the then from the Municipal Light Board. Flaherty was not pres- newly built police station on ent at the Aug. 1 meeting. Washington Street. The combina- According to the minutes of that meeting, which are tion was not recorded anywhere Meghan Lacas, Miss Westfield 2018, with posted at cityofwestfield.org, the discussion at first cen- McCabe was able to find. multiple trophy winner Amelia Goldrup. tered on whether the screening of the applicants for gen- During renovations to City Hall eral manager should be done by the Human Resource several years ago, the safe was subcommittee as in the past, or by the board as a whole. stored at Moseley School which is MLB Vice Chairman Ray Rivera noted that this was the now being transformed into afford- most important decision the MLB would make, and able housing. raised the issue of whether it should be in subcommittee McCabe said that although he or for the entire MLB board to perform the initial screen- did not expect the safe to contain Shurtleff Brook Bridge project ing. important treasures “it’s intriguing Also discussed was the process for replacing enough for me to give the go Commissioner Flaherty on the board. Attorney John ahead” to open the safe and he completion expected soon Welch explained the process in detail, noting that it began to look for somebody who involved a joint meeting with the City Council and the could do it. By GREG FITZpaTRICK MLB, with each councilor and MLB member having one He said that he went to social Correspondent vote. media platforms to seek volunteers SOUTHWICK – As construction According to the Aug. 1 minutes, Ward 6 Commissioner and got several offers. However, is underway, and the contractor Robert C. Sacco raised a potential conflict of interest as he said, he offered one man an working throughout the weekend, it applied to ethics considerations surrounding the report- opportunity to try, based largely on the Shurtleff Brook Bridge replace- ed resignation of Thomas Flaherty. Attorney Welch said the man’s name, Tarbox. ment on North Loomis Street is he had read Ethics Commissions opinions and statutes, Brandon Tarbox, the owner of progressing. and explained to the board that the search process can Tarbox Lock and Safe in Wendell, According to Dick Grannells, continue, and any other applicant, other than came to the city to attempt to Special Assistant to the DPW Commissioner Flaherty, can be screened or otherwise manipulate the lock and spent Director, the intent from the contrac- contacted. He said Flaherty may apply for the position at “many, many hours”, McCabe tor is to re-open North Loomis Street any time, but the MLB would have to wait thirty days said, working with the safe’s dial this Friday, August 24. Paving for after his resignation before any action on the application in an attempt to discover the com- the road is expected to take place on could occur, including selecting him for an interview or bination. Thursday. screening his application. Tarbox said that he spent two The DPW closed North Loomis Sacco said he had contacted the manager to let poten- five hour sessions trying to Street from July 30 to August 1, and tial internal candidates know that Flaherty had no upper crack the safe. then again beginning August 6 until hand in the search process. He also said he was con- the project was finished. Construction was being done for the Shurtleff cerned about a public perception issue regarding See Safe, Page 5 Brook Bridge project on North Loomis Street on See Bridge, Page 5 Friday morning. (Photo by Dick Grannells) See Howard, Page 3 Review: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and The Actor’s Nightmare at Berkshire Theatre Group By MARK G. AUERBACH Mitzi Gaynor. As their careers progressed indi- storm of threats. When Sister Mary Ignatius Correspondent vidually, Durang wrote an amazing catalogue Explains It All For You played StageWest in There’s a lot of anger being directed towards of funny plays which took on controversial Springfield, Catholic clergy denounced the the Catholic Church these days, in light of the topics fused with anger. His Vanya and Sonia production, and nuns and priests picketed the shocking news coming from Pennsylvania. and Masha and Spike took home a Tony Award theatre. Almost forty years ago, Christopher Durang, in 2013. That said, the play has aged well, losing then an emerging playwright comically took on Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You none of its laughs nor edge in the almost forty the church in his bitingly angry, yet hilariously first appeared Off-Broadway in 1979, and later years since its premiere. the curtain raiser, The funny Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For returned with the accompanying playlet,The Actor’s Nightmare, is a great companion piece. You. Berkshire Theatre Group ends the sum- Actor’s Nightmare Diane Keaton played Sister An accountant, George, is thrust onstage in a mer part of its 90th season with a revival of this Mary in a 2001 film adaptation The show was play he doesn’t know, and is forced to impro- controversial and caustic comedy. a big hit with critics and audiences alike, and as vise his way through what appears to be Noel When I first arrived at The Yale School of ticket sales boomed ,so did protests–at Boston’s Coward’s Private Lives, with a hint of Hamlet, Drama, I was immediately attracted to the skits Charles Playhouse, Detroit’s Birmingham Samuel Beckett, and A Man for All Seasons. presented at the Yale Cabaret by Christopher Theater, and New York’s Nassau Community Matt Sullivan is brilliant as George, and the Durang and Albert Innaurato, two upperclass- College. The Missouri State Senate threatened ensemble swirl around him in scenes, snippets, Harriet Harris in Sister Mary Ignatius men who later wrote the successful comedy to cut off funds to the Theater Project of St. and lines from some major classics. Alan C. Explains it All For You. (Photo by Emma The Idiots Karamazov. Durang and Innaurato Louis because it staged the play. A West Palm Rothernberg-Ware) spoofed everything from Brecht and Weill to Beach theatre called off its production after a See Theatre Review, Page 5 PAGE 2 - MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018 WWW.THEWESTFIELDNEWS.COM THE WESTFIELD NEWS TONIGHT TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Sun and Clouds Mix. T-storms Likely. 73-76 76-80 WEATHER DISCUSSION Today, mostly cloudy skies. High 77F. Tonight, partly cloudy Partly Cloudy. skies. Low 58F. Tuesday, a mix of clouds and sun early, then becoming cloudy later in the day. High 76F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night, partly cloudy in the evening then becom- ing cloudy with periods of rain after midnight.