Comments of the Week: March 13-19

As Westwood Patch continues to bring you up-to-the-minute news and stories about what's going on in town, we also want to focus on thanking our readers for their continued effort in providing feedback in the form of comments on our articles. As such, here is a roundup of some great feedback our articles received this week.

Discussions continued to gain momentum regarding the installation of a cell tower at Temple Beth David, with seven new comments this week. , and feel free to add your input as well.

Shedding some light on school work, this week , and how parents can help their children with various tasks and schedules. "Great advice, thank you for putting together something concrete," one reader commented. "Often the homework debate turns into anecdotal accounts, which makes it hard to point to solutions." Be sure to check out the column for more.

One area that has been heavily explored by the town as Town Meeting approaches is the potential adoption of a Stretch Energy Code, a component of the Massachusetts Building Energy code, that would bring the town one step closer to being designated a "green community." But the issues was this past week.

"In my vision of the ideal world, capital budgets will take into account long term operational cost savings potential," commented Westwood Patch reader Claire Sullivan. "Relatively small investments in energy efficient design and equipment for both public and private construction projects have huge payback potential, both financially and environmentally."