Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – If the cable television company selected by the town wants to put its reception station here, it will have to meet the price requested for the county-owned tower site. Selectman Harold Mollison said Hampshire County will not budge from the $6,000-a-year rental fee it is asking […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – The company chosen to provide cable television service to Goshen and Chesterfield has balked at the price of rental space for its satellite dish on a county-owned tower. Barbara Striebert, a representative for Amrac Cable Co. of Waltham, said yesterday that $6,000 is too great a […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE NORTHAMPTON, MA – The new regional dispatching center on Main Street has had some problems, but none has arisen during emergencies, the dispatch director said yesterday. Cummington Police Chief Raymond L. Vandoloski said he has heard in listening to his police scanner that Cummington fire officials have trouble hearing […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: STAFF; UNION-NEWS (Springfield, Mass.) GOSHEN, MA – The Hampshire County Executive Committee voted yesterday to ask for $6,000 a year to lease space on their Goshen communications tower to a cable television company. Committee members will bring their proposal to the full board next week. They made their recommendation based on […]
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 […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: WILLIAM FOSHER; RAY KELLY NORTHAMPTON, MA – Crews working on the reconstruction of King Street yesterday afternoon severed a fiber-optic cable that provides long-distance service to Hamsphire County and sections of Franklin County. The accident disrupted access to emergency dispatch services in western hilltowns of Hampshire County, which call an Amherst-based […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAVID GREENBERG HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – An enhanced 911 emergency service will be activated in 14 communities in Hampden and Hampshire counties next month. With the new system, which goes into effect Nov. 30, police will be able to know the point of origin of calls to a centralized dispatch unit […]