Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – It took 30 minutes for a special town meeting to unanimously pass all 11 articles on the warrant last night, including a revision to the town’s driveway bylaw and cuts totalling $6,673 to bring the town’s budget into balance. The first order of business for Town Clerk […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – A cable television official learned last night that there may yet be a chance to rent space on a county-owned radio tower at what the firm views as an affordable rate. Barbara Striebert, a representative of Amrac Cable Co. of Waltham, learned from Fire Chief Francis […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: STAFF; SUNDAY REPUBLICAN (Springfield, GOSHEN, MA – The Board of Selectmen will meet with a representative of Amrac Cable Co. of Waltham tomorrow night to determine whether any progress has been made by the company in finding a site to establish a tower and reception station for cable service to […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – If the cable television company selected by the town wants to put its reception station here, it will have to meet the price requested for the county-owned tower site. Selectman Harold Mollison said Hampshire County will not budge from the $6,000-a-year rental fee it is asking […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – The company chosen to provide cable television service to Goshen and Chesterfield has balked at the price of rental space for its satellite dish on a county-owned tower. Barbara Striebert, a representative for Amrac Cable Co. of Waltham, said yesterday that $6,000 is too great a […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE NORTHAMPTON, MA – The new regional dispatching center on Main Street has had some problems, but none has arisen during emergencies, the dispatch director said yesterday. Cummington Police Chief Raymond L. Vandoloski said he has heard in listening to his police scanner that Cummington fire officials have trouble hearing […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: STAFF; UNION-NEWS (Springfield, Mass.) GOSHEN, MA – The Hampshire County Executive Committee voted yesterday to ask for $6,000 a year to lease space on their Goshen communications tower to a cable television company. Committee members will bring their proposal to the full board next week. They made their recommendation based on […]
Source; Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: NATALIA MUNOZ GOSHEN, MA – Air is what breathes life into fires, and firefighters. And when firefighters have exhausted all the oxygen in their portable air tanks, the time it takes to refill the tanks is crucial. Most county fire departments have machines to refill the tanks, but they are at […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM WORTHINGTON, MA – Fire departments from at least six hilltowns converged on Old River Road last night to put out a quick-moving barn fire in the rear of the Brookstone House property. No injuries were reported in the fire, which gutted the office space of The Newborne Co., an […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: JANICE BEETLE SCAIFE PLAINFIELD, MA – Residents are expressing sympathy for the financially troubled family whose three-story house, destined for the auction block on Aug. 21, was destroyed by a fire yesterday that has been termed suspicious. “I feel sorry for the kids; I guess for the whole family,” Iris Martin said […]