Unsung Heroes to Receive Awards

Emergency medical services personnel are often taken for granted – but not by those whose lives they have saved. Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM NORTHAMPTON, MA – Tonight, 18-year-old Shane Scott will meet the men and women who jump-started his heart and saved his life. Scott has no memories of the car crash that nearly […]

Dynamite Cache Removed from Goshen House

Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA GOSHEN, MA – Clad in armored suits that could not have adequately protected them, members of the State Police Bomb Squad yesterday burned a cache of dynamite big enough to have shattered windows a quarter mile away. More than 30 public safety officials, including members of the Goshen police and […]

E-911 Center On-line

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 […]

Celia Thomas, Goshen Official

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 […]

Goshen Dedicates Fire Station

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 […]

System For 911 Delayed

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 […]

State Police Gear Up for E-911 Calls

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 […]