Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: STEPHEN R. JENDRYSIK CHICOPEE, MA – Six years ago at the United States Naval Academy Chapel, our son Stephen married Catherine Peters of Lincoln, Neb. We gained a lovely daughter-in-law whose career just happens to be naval aviation. Today, my son and his wife are lieutenant commanders in the United States […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: JACQUELINE WALSH WORTHINGTON, MA – Firefighters were able to save a man’s Model A car yesterday morning, but could not prevent his 113 Sam Hill Road home from burning to the ground. Chief Richard F. Granger said that flames were issuing from the roof of the home of Peter Bates, 70, […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WESTHAMPTON, MA – Firefighters from seven communities battled a blaze at a remote homestead yesterday, but failed to save the 19th century house and adjacent buildings. Walter and Mary Challet lost nearly everything they had at their property at 315 Northwest Road including a barn, garage and the two-story […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Bruce Niemitz and a co-worker were planning to install just one sheet of metal on the steeple of the First Congregational Church yesterday morning before calling it a day. Before they could finish putting the piece of sheet metal in place, Niemitz slipped and fell 80 […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DANIEL MILLER SHELBURNE, MA – Two fires erupted in western Franklin County yesterday, killing two dogs, bringing firefighters from seven towns to Ashfield and leading officials to suspect arson in a blaze here. Both fires were reported shortly past noon. A dispatcher at the central dispatch office here said a state […]
A coat and a pair of boots are all a man has left after fire raced through his home yesterday. Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Don Johnson was cleaning up in the Coasters lounge yesterday morning when he saw what looked like a low-lying thunder cloud drifting past the tavern. When […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Firefighters from six towns snuffed a smoky blaze that damaged this Main Street house in Ashfield yesterday. Trucks from Ashfield, Goshen, Buckland, Hawley, Conway and Turners Falls responded to the 2 p.m. blaze in the unoccupied home and the state fire marshal was called into investigate.
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 […]
Emergency medical services personnel are often taken for granted – but not by those whose lives they have saved. Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM NORTHAMPTON, MA – Tonight, 18-year-old Shane Scott will meet the men and women who jump-started his heart and saved his life. Scott has no memories of the car crash that nearly […]