Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAVID KELLY CHESTERFIELD, MA – A Northampton man was rescued by raft yesterday after injuring his leg in a 40-foot fall into Chesterfield Gorge. Charles Bixby, 41, of Florence escaped serious injury in the fall, which came as he was climbing out of the gorge after swimming at about 12:30 p.m. Police […]
Used by permission – Springfield Republican By Rick Reiken, Staff Writer CHESTERFIELD, MA – Wile making a climb on the cliffs of Chesterfield Gorge yesterday, a Northampton man fell 35 feet, injuring his left knee and requiring a two-hour rescue by local emergency personnel. Charles Bixby, 41, was taken to the Cooley Dickenson Hospital where […]
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) CHESTERFIELD, MA – Residents and town officials have set up a fund to aid a Willicutt Road couple whose home was badly damaged in a fire last Friday. Selectman Donald Houghton said contributions are being taken to help John and Dorothy Beaulieu, who are planning to live in a trailer until their […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI CHESTERFIELD, MA – By next spring the Board of Selectmen are hoping to be issuing $100,000 in tax-free municipal bonds backed by the good faith and trust of the Town of Chesterfield to community-minded investors who know a good deal when they see one. In what is believed to be […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI CHESTERFIELD, MA – No missing Dead Sea Scrolls. No hill town equivalent of the treasure of the Sierra Madre. However, there was a license to conduct Beano, circa 1972, and an increasingly familiar photograph. The selectmen met for the third time since the beginning of the month in the […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI CHESTERFIELD, MA – Al Capone’s vault it’s not, but the largely forgotten and locked safe once used by selectmen years ago that is buried in the deepest part of the town’s library is now drawing a great deal of interest among officials. “Just what is in that safe, anyway?” selectmen […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: ELIZABETH FREY Chesterfield, MA – Millie Chick’s new apple business went bust when the Steven’s Brook Bridge connecting her orchards to the rest of town was closed last fall. The bridge’s closure two weeks ago for repairs has flattened her hopes for any summer customers. “If we get five cars going by […]