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By LIESEL NYGARD

LEYDEN — By recruiting members, acquiring more gear and creating plans to purchase a new truck, Leyden’s Fire Department has become “a success story.” At the beginning of 2023, Fire Chief Nikolas Adamski stood alone as the only member of the town’s...

By MAX BOWEN

ORANGE — A three-alarm house fire on Jones Street reported the afternoon of Christmas Day killed two dogs and left the home uninhabitable, according to the Orange Fire Department.The fire was reported at 15 Jones St. at 4:05 p.m. Initially a...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — Though move-in remains a few months away, the new fire station on Main Street is inching toward completion.“Now is the part of the project that is the finish work, the detail work,” Fire Chief Robert Strahan said from the station last...

By MARY BYRNE

BUCKLAND — Donations are pouring in online and at Buckland-Shelburne Elementary School for a family of four whose home was destroyed in a fire Saturday night on Charlemont Road. “It’s overwhelming,” said Grant Haffner, whose family was renting the...

By MAX BOWEN

ORANGE — The state Department of Fire Services has identified the woman who died in the Dec. 13 house fire at 99 West River St. as 65-year-old Debra Marini.Marini and one other resident of the home were hospitalized following a fire reported shortly...

By LIESEL NYGARD

BUCKLAND — Cloth and kindling placed too close to a wood stove caused a fire that destroyed a home at 126 Charlemont Road on Saturday night and displaced a family of four, according to Buckland Fire Chief Herb Guyette.Multiple area departments...

BERNARDSTON — No injuries resulted from a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Northfield Road (Route 10) and Parmenter Road on Friday, according to the Bernardston Fire Department.The collision occurred at 3:09 p.m. According to the Fire...

By MAX BOWEN

ORANGE — One older adult has died and a second remains hospitalized as a result of injuries sustained in a three-alarm house fire at 99 West River St. on Wednesday night.Authorities have deemed the home a total loss and all four residents have been...

By MARY BYRNE

BERNARDSTON — Two people were transported for medical treatment Tuesday night after a head-on collision that resulted in the closure of Northfield Road (Route 10) for about three hours. The two vehicles, each with a single occupant, were traveling in...

By CHRIS LARABEE

ORANGE — The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office has identified the 76-year-old man who died Thursday morning after the truck he was driving veered off Tully Road and crashed into a tree as Princeton resident Charles Beach.The crash, which...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Firefighters have to remove and bag their gear at a fire scene before bringing it to the secondary Fire Station on Mill Yard Road, the only one with the proper cleaning equipment. But construction of the public safety complex proposed for 574...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

SHUTESBURY — Gasoline contamination at the Fire Station on Leverett Road, first discovered 15 years ago during a drainage ditch installation and seemingly remedied by a subsequent cleanup, has returned.The town recently received a letter from the...

By DOMENIC POLI

TURNERS FALLS — Emergency personnel rescued a man who was clinging to debris in the Turners Falls power canal at around noon on Friday and transported him to the hospital.The Turners Falls Fire Department was dispatched at 11:25 a.m. for a report of a...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

TURNERS FALLS — No one was harmed after a problem with the heating unit filled Walgreens on Avenue A with a thick haze and forced the store’s evacuation on Tuesday afternoon, according to Deputy Fire Chief Kyle Cogswell.The Fire Department was...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — A new online system is offering residents and businesses a platform to input important site-specific data that can help emergency personnel respond to their properties more efficiently during a crisis.Community Connect, which residents...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Representatives from an architectural, engineering and construction firm remotely attended the latest Selectboard meeting to explain the options for creating a public safety building that would consolidate the town’s police and fire...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

Fire departments in Gill and Northfield are set to receive a combined $146,766 in new equipment via the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters grant program.The program, which is intended to help first responders obtain...

By MAX BOWEN

ATHOL — The state Department of Fire Services has identified the woman who died in the Sept. 7 house fire at 92 Fern St. as 62-year-old Jacqueline M. Doherty.Doherty was described by Town Manager Shaun Suhoski as a beloved member of the community who...