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 […]
The ‘tower man’ must stay on his toes and keep a clear eye while watching over a wide area for potential forest fires. Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM GOSHEN, MA – A hot afternoon during this unusally dry spring finds “tower man” John DeNardo on full alert. “Today’s a red flag day, ‘Smokey’ says […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Several brush fires kept firefighters busy across the county yesterday, with the largest blackening about 10 acres in Ashfield. It took about 60 firemen from Ashfield, Buckland, Plainfield, Goshen, and the state Forestry Department about four hours to douse the brush fire on Beldingville Road, said Ashfield Fire […]
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 […]
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 […]