Northampton Hub of Activity Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAVID REID HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – While dozens of small town police and fire chiefs hobnobbed with State Police brass at the Troop B barracks here, radio dispatchers operating new E-911 consoles answered emergency calls from throughout the region as the celebrants looked on. After several delays this […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Celia E. (Marcheska) Thomas, 57, of 29 South Main St. died Sunday at home. She and her husband, Anthony Thomas, owned and operated the Lunch Box Restaurant in Williamsburg for 26 years. Born in South Deerfield, Mrs. Thomas was graduated from Deerfield High School in 1954. She was […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Roof repairs will be made to Town Hall and Goshen Center School, because voters approved spending for the projects last night at a special town meeting. Phyllis Mollison, secretary to the Board of Selectmen, said upwards of 25 voters approved spending of $2,700 for the school roof, $7,500 […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MARLA A. GOLDBERG HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. MA – Volunteer fire departments in Hampshire County’s hilltowns may go the way of the bucket brigade unless more young people step forward to become firefighters, some fire officials say. Hilltown fire officials say they are in chronic need of volunteers, and that their departments are aging […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DANIEL MILLER HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – The Enhanced 911 police and fire dispatch service for 14 towns in Hampden and Hampshire counties will not become operational until early October, a top state police official said yesterday. State police first said the system would go on line Aug. 3, and that date was […]
Small Towns Getting Help Answering Emergencies Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAVID REID HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – State and local public-safety officials are hailing the long-awaited installation of Enhanced-911 emergency telephone equipment at the state police barracks here, with the dispatch service slated to start Aug. 3 for 14 small towns in Hampshire and Hampden counties. The […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: NJUBI NESBITT HATFIELD, MA – A firefighter was injured and a building destroyed by a suspicious fire on Linseed Road about 5 a.m. yesterday, according to fire officials. Capt. Fred Beckta, of the South Deerfield Fire Department, was injured at the scene while trying to open a window, which broke and cut […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) CUMMINGTON, MA – A barn on Packard Road was destroyed and one of its owners was kicked by a horse during a fire here early Monday. Fire Chief Bernard Forgea said he is still investigating the blaze which began at about 3:20 a.m. in a 40 by 30 foot barn belonging to […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MARLA A. GOLDBERG GOSHEN, MA – It may never happen. That was what officials from District 1 of the Massachusetts Highway Department told town administrators yesterday about possibly relocating part of Route 9. But nonetheless, Edwin Taginski, a project development engineer, and Rudyard Longton, acting director of District 1, questioned selectmen […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MARLA A. GOLDBERG GOSHEN, MA – A small section of Route 9 here that town officials say say is a frequent site of accidents, may eventually be improved by the state Highway Department. “We are considering some changes in there, and we will be meeting with the town,” Chrysa Meyers, a […]