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 […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NATALIA MUNOZ GOSHEN, MA – Fire Chief Francis Dresser can’t pinpoint exactly what it is that makes a good firefighter. But when a Chicopee couple moved into town last August, they impressed him enough to encourage them to join the town’s volunteer Fire Department. “You go looking for character, I […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAN MILLER GOSHEN, MA – It turned out to be a pretty good day to roast a pig and dunk a town official or two. The approximately 150 people who ate hotdogs, hamburgers and corn at the first annual “Pignic” at Tilton field seemed to be enjoying the benefit for the […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI CHESTERFIELD, MA – Maybe Hollywood writers could have scripted a better small town Fourth of July parade than the one that pranced, tooted, honked, howled, whistled, blared and trumpeted up South and down Main streets yesterday – but probably not. They probably could not have created a better fantasy […]