Shooting Mishap Injures Boy

Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A 15-year-old boy accidentally shot himself with a .22-caliber rifle yesterday when he slipped on the snow while walking up a hill behind his North Main Street home on his way to target practice, police said. The youth, whom police declined to identify, suffered a flesh wound in […]

‘Hamp State Police Barracks May Be Main Dispatch Center

Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: NATALIA MUNOZ NORTHAMPTON, MA – The state police Northampton barracks might become the county’s disptach center for fire and police calls from small towns, Hampshire County administrator Bambridge Peterson said yesterday. Last Thursday, the county commissioners’ public safety committee met with Capt. James Sheehan of the Northampton barracks of the State […]

Guard May Demolish Fire Station

GOSHEN, MA – The state National Guard has tentatively agreed with a town request to demolish the town’s old fire station on Route 9. Though the town budgeted $10,000 for the demolition, town meeting failed to approve. Planning Board member Dale Morrow suggested the National Guard may be available for the job. Fire Chief Francis […]

2 Apartments Hit by Fire in Ceiling

Firefighters Rush to Williamsburg Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A fire that apparently started in the ceiling of a first-floor apartment of a house on Mountain Street damaged that unit and one upstairs before being extinguished by firefighters yesterday. Volunteer firefighters from Williamsburg, Goshen and Chesterfield responded to the 11:38 a.m. blaze […]

Fire Damages Williamsburg House

Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Fire Chief Roger Bisbee said yesterday that an electrical switch in a cellar stairway caused a fire Tuesday which heavily damaged a house on Route 9 and left a family of four homeless. Bisbee said the blaze at the two-story, combination frame and concrete block house at […]

Blaze Destroys Lodge

Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI CUMMINGTON, MA – A blaze possibly started by a lightning bolt leveled the vacant Berkshire Snow Basin lodge early yesterday. Cummington Fire Chief Bernard Forgea said the wood structure, which was supported by steel girders and encased in large picture windows, was engulfed in flames that were shooting high into […]