Thursday, February 25, 2010
NORTHAMPTON - Fallout from Wednesday's shifting precipitation included closed schools, homes and businesses without power, flooded streets, damaged vehicles and backs made to ache from shoveling the miserable stuff. As heavy, wet snow and the soaking rain that follow it brought down tree limbs and power lines, more than 14,000 Western Massachusetts Electric Co. customers lost power, almost half of them in Hampshire County. And power to some customers may not be restored until Thursday.
--Watch GazetteNET's video report on the storm
Saturday, February 20, 2010
GOSHEN - Thanks to a $38,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Fire Department will soon be able to purchase and install new safety equipment in the station.
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Franklin and Hampshire councils of governments - COGs, as they're known - are different animals, like the different county governments from which they grew.
Now Hampshire COG, representing only a dozen of the smaller 20 Hampshire County towns, has launched a strategic planning process to figure out whether it should try to be more like its larger counterpart to the north.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
GOSHEN - A proposal to hold a public hearing geared to keeping a day care center in its current location in the Town Offices failed to get the support of selectmen Monday. But the proposal's supporter, resident Elaine Ulman, said she will continue to push for the hearing.
Friday, January 22, 2010
The town's 16 volunteer firefighters have received thanks from the town for their hard work over the past six months, in the form of tax-free incentive money. The checks are the first installment of the new Volunteer Firefighters Incentive Program that residents voted to adopt in 2008.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
NORTHAMPTON - More than a dozen local communities stand to benefit from a new Safe Passage program targeting rural domestic violence.
