Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WORTHINGTON, MA – Lightning kept firefighters on the go Thursday afternoon as they responded to damage from back-to-back strikes. Firefighters were finishing up at 301 Dingle Road – where a lightning strike caused approximately $1,000 of damage to household appliances, they estimated, when a Hilltown […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN CHESTERFIELD, MA – At New Hingham Elementary School, fire safety is fun. Joined by members of the Goshen and Chesterfield fire and police departments, the students celebrated the sixth annual SAFE (Student Awareness of Fire Education) Fire Safety Day with musters, crafts, safety skill drills and a […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer GOSHEN, MA – Voters were in an approving mood at Monday’s annual Town Meeting. Not a single nay vote was cast as they worked their way through 18 warrant articles, addressing everything from the operating budget to the gender of library trustees. Voters readily approved […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WESTHAMPTON, MA – A Pine Island Lake resident whose home was heavily damaged by a blaze Feb. 19 is asking questions about how the fire was battled and the treatment he said he received from volunteers. S. Michael Figarsky is one of a dozen full-time […]
By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WESTHAMPTON, MA – Contending with a lack of available water, firefighters from six departments had to shuttle water from a hydrant at Hampshire Regional High School to put out a fire Thursday morning that displaced a man from his Pine Island Road home. The fire, reported at 12:30 a.m. Thursday, devoured […]
Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) SOUTHAMPTON, MA – Fire damaged a detached garage next to a home at 41 Cold Spring Road yesterday, the fire chief said. The homeowners were burning brush in their backyard when a passerby noticed smoke coming from the garage and called 911 at 2:20 p.m., said Southampton Fire Chief Robert […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – A family sugar house on Bug Hill Road was destroyed by fire last night. Fire Chief Douglas M. Field said no one was injured in the blaze. A home only three feet away was in jeopardy, but firefighters were able to keep it from burning, he said. The […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WESTHAMPTON, MA – A woodstove fire that got out of control destroyed a workshop in a remote part of town yesterday. Fire departments from Chesterfield, Williamsburg and Goshen joined Westhampton firefighters in responding to the blaze at 195 King’s Highway. The address is in a sparsely developed neighborhood on […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Harold T. Mollison, 80, of Wing Hill Road, a longtime town official and civic leader, died Friday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. He served on the Board of Selectman for 12 years, and also chaired it. He sat on the Board of Health for 29 years, served […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: STEPHEN R. JENDRYSIK CHICOPEE, MA – Six years ago at the United States Naval Academy Chapel, our son Stephen married Catherine Peters of Lincoln, Neb. We gained a lovely daughter-in-law whose career just happens to be naval aviation. Today, my son and his wife are lieutenant commanders in the United States […]