Reconsidering the welcome mat for the Army

(Pearse Pinch photo)

An interesting article in today's Washington Post indicates that the Army may not be as nice a neighbor as they would lead us to believe. Considering the fact that the Army intends to conduct its own environmental testing, and come to its own environmental conclusions in their plans to build an Army Reserve Training Center in Westfield, on Boardman Lane, this article is a must read. It may come as some surprise to town and state officials that the army, which refuses to build on brownfields, also refuses to clean up the worst of theirs. And they're the biggest polluter in the country.