GOSHEN, MA – Firefighters from Chesterfield, Goshen and Williamsburg recently attended a series of three Mass Fire Academy Impact Drills. The drills, which were hosted by each of the towns, were held over a period of three weeks in March. The first class on Common Emergencies was held on March 3rd in the Goshen fireshouse. […]
WILLIAMSBURG, MA – When the pager for Williamsburg Fire Chief Donald Lawton went off Saturday morning, a dispatcher’s voice from Northampton Control announced “Attention all Williamsburg units, Box Alarm. Attention all Williamsburg units, Box Alarm. Respond to Bacon’s Equipment, 29 Goshen Road in Williamsburg for a reported structure fire.” Chief Lawton, who lives just a […]
Used by permission. Copyright GazetteNET.com By TAMARA LLOSA-SANDOR Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, MA – All four young men injured in Tuesday’s one-car crash in Williamsburg were counselors on their night off from the Boy Scout camp in neighboring Chesterfield. The driver, Shawn Robbins, 20, of 43 Harryell St., Pittsfield, remained in critical condition today at Baystate […]
Rescue workers from half a dozen Hilltowns work with hydraulic tools to free the passengers trapped Tuesday in a car that crashed on Petticoat Hill Road in Williamsburg. Rescue workers from half a dozen Hilltowns work with hydraulic tools to free the passengers trapped Tuesday in a car that crashed on Petticoat Hill Road in […]
Photo courtesy Goshen Fire Department Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NANCY H. GONTER; [email protected] WILLIAMSBURG, MA – It appears speed was a factor in a Tuesday evening accident on Petticoat Hill Road that left two young men hospitalized, authorities said yesterday. Police Chief John W. Cotton said that rescue workers from Williamsburg, Goshen and Northampton were […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By CHRIS HAYDEN Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Almost every day in Hampshire County, emergency personnel must to work together to help save lives, minimize damage and secure accident, fire and crime scenes. They did so again Tuesday. Around 6:30 p.m. that day in Williamsburg, a speeding Ford Mustang with […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By CHRIS HAYDEN and DAN CROWLEY Staff Writers WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A car police say was speeding on a small Williamsburg road crashed into a utility pole early Tuesday night. The wreck sent four people, including three teenaged boys, to area hospitals. The driver, Shawn Robbins, 20, of 43 Harryell […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A fire that started around a wood stove quickly consumed a three-story home on Nash Hill Road on Saturday, displacing an elderly couple and their disabled son. The family’s home was uninsured. According to another son, Tobias Rice of Goshen, his father, […]
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 […]