Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NATALIA MUNOZ GOSHEN, MA – Fire Chief Francis Dresser can’t pinpoint exactly what it is that makes a good firefighter. But when a Chicopee couple moved into town last August, they impressed him enough to encourage them to join the town’s volunteer Fire Department. “You go looking for character, I […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAN MILLER GOSHEN, MA – It turned out to be a pretty good day to roast a pig and dunk a town official or two. The approximately 150 people who ate hotdogs, hamburgers and corn at the first annual “Pignic” at Tilton field seemed to be enjoying the benefit for the […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI CHESTERFIELD, MA – Maybe Hollywood writers could have scripted a better small town Fourth of July parade than the one that pranced, tooted, honked, howled, whistled, blared and trumpeted up South and down Main streets yesterday – but probably not. They probably could not have created a better fantasy […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM GOSHEN, MA – Town officials, area residents and friends and relatives of persons killed in car accidents on the snaky stretch of Route 9 between this town and Williamsburg urged state Department of Public Works officials last night to take quick action to improve the road. That stretch of […]
Used by Permission – Daily Hampshire Gazette by James Klockow – Gazette Staff GOSHEN, MA – Former State Representative and Senator John D. Barrus was taken to The Cooley Dickenson Hospital in Northampton this morning after the tractor he was driving on Stone Road tipped over in front of his house, pinning one of his […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAVID GREENBERG STAFF; UNION-NEWS (Springfield, Mass.) ASHFIELD, MA – An afternoon fire heavily damaged the top floor of an 18th century house yesterday, but quick response from fire departments in five towns helped save most of the structure. No injuries were reported and while damages were thought to total several thousand […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A state police investigator said yesterday authorities may never determine what caused an automobile accident on Route 9 Monday night that killed a 23-year-old Cummington woman when her car careened out of control and slammed into a tree. Cassandra L. Affhauser of 184 W. Main St. […]
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 […]