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Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Powder Mill Road to get a full rehabilitation
SOUTHWICK — The DPW let the Select Board know last Monday it will start applying for state grants to do a complete renovation of Powder Mill Road, one of the town's most degraded roads. 'The road does need some work,' DPW Director Randy Brown said on Wednesday about the road's condition. 'It's a multiphase and multiyear project,' he added. The road, which is nine-tenths of a mile long, has been on the DPW's priority list of road rehabilitation projects for several years. That list is used by the Select Board when deciding which projects will be funded using money allocated during Town Meeting each year. In 2022, the town was awarded a $115,500 grant from the state's Rural and Small Town Development Fund for the redesign of the road, Brown said. The design, which was done by Westfield-based Tighe & Bond, was completed in 2024, he said, and has been waiting for state grant opportunities to become available, he said. The redesign, which is estimated to cost $1.86 million, is comprehensive, which Brown called a 'big price.' He said once the project is completed, it will connect the regional district's schools, the Southwick Recreation Center, Whalley Park and the rail trail with sidewalks. But before the sidewalks are installed, Brown said the road needs to be realigned. A portion of the current road is not in the center of the town's right of way, and if it isn't shifted, the sidewalks would be built on private property, which is not an option for the town, he said. Also included in the rehabilitation will be new drainage and an upsized water line. Hesitant to provide a time frame for when the project might be started and completed, he said it was dependent on the grants it could secure from the state. Two of the grants Brown said the department would be applying for is a Safe Routes to School, which is a state program, as is the Complete Streets Funding Program. When the town's Stormwater Coordinator Jon Goddard informed the Select Board that the DPW would be seeking the Community One Stop for Growth grant to cover a portion of the project's cost. Read the original article on MassLive.
Axios
09-04-2025
- Business
- Axios
Inside Rise & Revel, Fountain Square's new coffee and cocktail spot
Fountain Square's newest coffee shop has a whiskey problem. Driving the brews: West Fork Whiskey opened Rise & Revel, a cocktail bar that sunlights as a coffee shop, on the ground floor of the Union Square apartments. Flashback: West Fork closed its Kennedy-King tasting room last fall, leaving the Westfield-based distiller without an Indianapolis presence. 💭 Arika's thought bubble: It's a cozy spot, but you can tell that coffee isn't the shop's first or second priority. It operates like a cocktail bar, with small menus placed around the space and open ordering along the concrete bar top. It's a little confusing at first if you walk in expecting a more traditional coffeehouse experience. My latte was solid, though coffee offerings are on the basic side — espresso, lattes, matcha, a few flavored syrups and a seasonal drink. Yes, but: The cocktail menu is more robust. By night, Rise & Revel is serving up more than a dozen craft cocktails, plus beer, wine and, of course, West Fork's various whiskey offerings. If you go: 1233 Shelby St., Suite 125.
