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DALTON, Mass. The town s Traffic Commission fully supports a proposal by Select Board member John Boyle to try to advance a walkway project for the Housatonic Street bridge for possible funding under the anticipated federal infrastructure bill. The project had been fully engineered and slated to be part of a previous federal road project completed in 2018, but was deleted from the final draft. Boyle has pointed out that the way the current sidewalk ends at the bridge is unsafe for pedestrians. Based on most recent engineering, the estimated cost for the walkway would be around $3 million. Which is chicken feed, when you re talking about federal funds and billions of dollars in construction, Boyle told the Select Board, adding that U.S. Rep. Richard Neal s office believes it to be a worthy project, easily fundable.
Growing up in Cheshire, he graduated from Hoosac Valley High School and enlisted at age 19, inspired to serve by the 9/11 terror attacks. I just walked right into the recruiter and signed up …. always wanted to serve my country, he said. I remember watching the attack on the World Trade Center and it just fueled my fire to serve. It was really an eye-opening experience, he said. I came from a small community, I learned so much about everything in the world . everyone is equal and on the same playing field. It was a great experience for a young adult. Gaylord deployed in 2009 to Afghanistan with the 379th Engineer Company for a post that put his life at risk every day.
COVID plays havoc on Massachusetts county sheriff budgets; overtime costs rise exponentially amid pandemic
Updated Feb 07, 2021;
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“But then, here came the virus,” he said.
Cocchi is the first to admit that, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, overtime spending for the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department went through the roof. By year’s end, the department’s anticipated $200,000 surplus became a $7.4 million deficit. Overtime spending went from $1.3 million in 2019 to $8.6 million in 2020.
That works out to a 571% year-over-year increase.
“That’s a lot of money. Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “That is above and beyond what we normally spend.”
SHEFFIELD Two people were killed early Wednesday when a home was engulfed by an “extremely intense blaze,” according to a statement the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office.