Susan Brooks, Republican primary candidate for Indiana's 5th Congressional District (Dan Burton's old seat) will be holding a "Meet and Greet" at Jan's Village Pizza in Downtown Westfield on Saturday, February 25th from 1:00 to 2:30 pm. For those of y... Continue reading →

Pretty soon you'll start seeing Westfield firefighters swarming all over certain buildings along U.S. 31. Well, maybe not swarming. How about crawling, or traversing, or gingerly making their way. So, before you see this and ask, "What gives?", I'll... Continue reading →

This past Monday evening, the Westfield City Council and the Westfield Washington School Board held a joint meeting.  Such meetings are not unprecedented, but they are pretty rare.  During my four years on the City Council I can remember only... Continue reading →

Now that Queso Blanco is gone, what business would be on your wish list to go into the old Picket's Cafeteria building?  When considering this question, keep in mind that the building is not likely to be there in five years.  When the state e... Continue reading →

We need to attract some more quality businesses to downtown. There's been a fairly high turnover in downtown Westfield businesses over the last four or five years. I don't know that it's all that unusual to see such attrition in the downtowns of bedr... Continue reading →

Now that the Super Bowl is over, it's time to start tallying up the resultant economic impact on Indianapolis and Central Indiana.  By all accounts, Indianapolis hit the ball out of the proverbial park (pardon me for using a baseball cliche when d... Continue reading →

Welcome to What's Up, Westfield?  As far as I can tell, there are no other blogs dedicated to all things Westfield, Indiana.  So let's get on this train they call social media.There's lots going on in Westfield these days.  The Grand Par... Continue reading →