Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM GOSHEN, MA – Town officials, area residents and friends and relatives of persons killed in car accidents on the snaky stretch of Route 9 between this town and Williamsburg urged state Department of Public Works officials last night to take quick action to improve the road. That stretch of […]
Used by Permission – Daily Hampshire Gazette by James Klockow – Gazette Staff GOSHEN, MA – Former State Representative and Senator John D. Barrus was taken to The Cooley Dickenson Hospital in Northampton this morning after the tractor he was driving on Stone Road tipped over in front of his house, pinning one of his […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAVID GREENBERG STAFF; UNION-NEWS (Springfield, Mass.) ASHFIELD, MA – An afternoon fire heavily damaged the top floor of an 18th century house yesterday, but quick response from fire departments in five towns helped save most of the structure. No injuries were reported and while damages were thought to total several thousand […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A state police investigator said yesterday authorities may never determine what caused an automobile accident on Route 9 Monday night that killed a 23-year-old Cummington woman when her car careened out of control and slammed into a tree. Cassandra L. Affhauser of 184 W. Main St. […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE AMHERST, MA – Town Manager Barry L. Del Castilho said yesterday he has avoided the politically unpopular step of having to ask Town Meeting members this spring to approve extra money for the over-budgeted, $5.8 million police station by finding other funds for some new costs. Up to another […]
Williamsburg blaze routs 4 families; none injured Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Firefighters from here and Goshen battled high winds to contain a fire that whipped through a four-family home on Williams Street yesterday. Fire Chief Roger Bisbee said no one was injured in the blaze that caused an estimated […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE PELHAM, MA – Town Meeting members will be asked this spring to approve as much as $120,000 in extra funding for the new police station, in addition to the $5.8 million already appropriated, a step that the Finance Committee chairwoman yesterday said was unexpected. “It certainly came as a […]
Weekend crashes claim 5 in state Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: PETER GOONAN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – The three-day New Year’s weekend, which turned suddenly warm and wet Sunday, returned last night to the cold of the past month, leaving roadways icy. Local and state highway departments, which were kept busy Saturday and Sunday with plowing […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: HOWARD DUPUIS GOSHEN, MA – Two people died in separate accidents in Western Massachusetts yesterday, as rain, sleet and snow put a dangerous glaze on the region’s roads, and thick fog and holiday traffic made for treacherous traveling throughout the day. One of the fatal accidents occurred in Amherst, the other in […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE GOSHEN, MA – Traffic accidents in Hampshire County have claimed two lives so far this holiday weekend. The wife of a University of Massachusetts teaching assistant was killed yesterday afternoon when the car in which she was a passenger swerved into the opposite lane and collided with a pickup […]