Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – An army truck crashed into a utility pole on Route 9 yesterday, forcing officials to reroute traffic through the center of town for about three hours. According to a bystander, the accident took place about 3 p.m. Robert Szafran, pastor of the Goshen Congregational Church, said he was […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MARLA A. GOLDBERG GOSHEN, MA – It may never happen. That was what officials from District 1 of the Massachusetts Highway Department told town administrators yesterday about possibly relocating part of Route 9. But nonetheless, Edwin Taginski, a project development engineer, and Rudyard Longton, acting director of District 1, questioned selectmen […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MARLA A. GOLDBERG GOSHEN, MA – A small section of Route 9 here that town officials say say is a frequent site of accidents, may eventually be improved by the state Highway Department. “We are considering some changes in there, and we will be meeting with the town,” Chrysa Meyers, a […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA CHESTERFIELD, MA – Emergency Medical Technicians Tom Oborne and Kammille Terstegge remember exactly where they were when they got the call back on that Saturday in April. They had attended church in Amherst and were on their way to a benefit concert for battered women when the fire engine sped […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – A Springfield man was injured yesterday after his tractor-trailer jackknifed, the gas tank was punctured and he slipped on the leaking gas, state police said. Robert Madory, no age or address available, was treated and released from Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton after the 8:25 a.m. accident. Madory was […]
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 […]
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. […]
Weekend crashes claim 5 in state Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: PETER GOONAN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – The three-day New Year’s weekend, which turned suddenly warm and wet Sunday, returned last night to the cold of the past month, leaving roadways icy. Local and state highway departments, which were kept busy Saturday and Sunday with plowing […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: HOWARD DUPUIS GOSHEN, MA – Two people died in separate accidents in Western Massachusetts yesterday, as rain, sleet and snow put a dangerous glaze on the region’s roads, and thick fog and holiday traffic made for treacherous traveling throughout the day. One of the fatal accidents occurred in Amherst, the other in […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE GOSHEN, MA – Traffic accidents in Hampshire County have claimed two lives so far this holiday weekend. The wife of a University of Massachusetts teaching assistant was killed yesterday afternoon when the car in which she was a passenger swerved into the opposite lane and collided with a pickup […]