Nine seniors from Westfield Technical Academy participated in the heat this week in the Massachusetts Pre-Apprenticeship and Vocational School Training Program, sponsored by MassDOT through a grant from the Federal Highway Administration.
For the past several years, students in the program have been working on digging up the broken slate entrance to the school at 33 Smith Ave., Westfield, to prepare for pouring concrete slabs, under the auspices of program director Jeffrey Cathcart and lead instructor Thomas Lemon.