Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Roberts Brothers sawmill caught fire and was destroyed yesterday morning. The fire department was called to the scene at 8 a. m., after an employee heard a noise and saw the 40-by-100-foot wooden building had caught fire. Fire Chief Douglas Field said a diesel generator started the […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: JOHN G. GRAIFF SOUTHAMPTON, MA – Although the Southampton Central Communications Commission voted last week to assume dispatch services for Goshen police, it plans to raise the fees for all the towns it serves by about 50 percent for the coming fiscal year. The Southampton dispatch center also handles emergency police calls […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Fire raced through a landmark blacksmith shop in the town’s Historic District yesterday, gutting the interior and backing up traffic for more than a mile along Route 9. Williamsburg Blacksmiths, Inc., was still standing last night as firefighters from three towns continued to extinguish small blazes through […]
Firefighter’s response lessens damage of blaze Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD BOURIE; FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A volunteer firefighter driving students home from school yesterday helped avert a disaster when he radioed in a report of a fire on Nash Hill Road, according to Fire Chief Roger Bisbee. Pete Banister, who also drives a Williamsburg […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: STAFF; UNION-NEWS (Springfield, Mass.) ASHFIELD, MA – A house off Buckland Road was destroyed by fire yesterday morning, but there was no one at home when the blaze erupted. Fire Chief Douglas Field said the origin of the blaze at the home of James Sullivan hasn’t been determined, but it is not […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A 15-year-old boy accidentally shot himself with a .22-caliber rifle yesterday when he slipped on the snow while walking up a hill behind his North Main Street home on his way to target practice, police said. The youth, whom police declined to identify, suffered a flesh wound in […]
Firefighters Rush to Williamsburg Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A fire that apparently started in the ceiling of a first-floor apartment of a house on Mountain Street damaged that unit and one upstairs before being extinguished by firefighters yesterday. Volunteer firefighters from Williamsburg, Goshen and Chesterfield responded to the 11:38 a.m. blaze […]
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 WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Fire Chief Roger Bisbee said yesterday that an electrical switch in a cellar stairway caused a fire Tuesday which heavily damaged a house on Route 9 and left a family of four homeless. Bisbee said the blaze at the two-story, combination frame and concrete block house at […]