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 […]
SOURCE: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – A selection committee with an apparent bent for the macabre has chosen the eerie work of South Street artist Michael Melle and his children as the “Best of the Hilltowns” scarecrow in a contest sponsored by the Hampshire Hills Bed & Breakfast Association. Besides […]
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: RICHARD NADOLSKI CUMMINGTON, MA – A blaze possibly started by a lightning bolt leveled the vacant Berkshire Snow Basin lodge early yesterday. Cummington Fire Chief Bernard Forgea said the wood structure, which was supported by steel girders and encased in large picture windows, was engulfed in flames that were shooting high into […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – Between the lazy days of summer and the brisk fall foliage season comes the day of the scarecrow, and the local bed and breakfast association here is hoping to stir interest in this familiar autumnal character with its first annual Berkshire/Hampshire Hills Scarecrow Competition. Members of […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – The Williamsburg and Haydenville Business Association has made its maiden charitable contribution – a $450 check to the Goshen Fire Department ambulance fund. Association President David Majercik presented the check Monday to Goshen Fire Chief Francis Dresser that will be used to pay for capital expenses […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – The Goshen Fire Department station finds itself without drinking water, the result of a spring-fed well going dry. Fire Chief Francis Dresser said the well, which is only six feet deep, was dug three years ago when the new fire station was built. The well was dug […]