Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE AMHERST, MA – Town Manager Barry L. Del Castilho said yesterday he has avoided the politically unpopular step of having to ask Town Meeting members this spring to approve extra money for the over-budgeted, $5.8 million police station by finding other funds for some new costs. Up to another […]
Williamsburg blaze routs 4 families; none injured Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Firefighters from here and Goshen battled high winds to contain a fire that whipped through a four-family home on Williams Street yesterday. Fire Chief Roger Bisbee said no one was injured in the blaze that caused an estimated […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE PELHAM, MA – Town Meeting members will be asked this spring to approve as much as $120,000 in extra funding for the new police station, in addition to the $5.8 million already appropriated, a step that the Finance Committee chairwoman yesterday said was unexpected. “It certainly came as a […]