Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – Years ago, state police on horseback provided protection to people in small towns and took four days to make the rounds. Today, the push of a computer or phone button accomplishes almost the same thing, and state police still want to be involved. They have offered to […]
To the Editor: I am writing this letter in support of my husband and the Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services in Goshen. These services are provided free of charge to all town residents, and staffed by volunteers who are very dedicated. At a recent budget meeting, two members of the Town Management Committee were […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM NORTHAMPTON, MA – Capricious winds fanned a brush fire near the upper portion of Sylvester Road into a 100-acre conflagration yesterday that took more than 40 area firefighters most of the day to extinguish, according to a fire department spokesman. No injuries were reported in the blaze, the city’s […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – A fire that started in a kitchen wood stove caused heavy heat and smoke damage to a house on South Main Street yesterday morning and killed three pets, fire officials said. Fire Chief Francis Dresser traced the fire’s origins to a smoke pipe at the house occupied […]