Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Five Things You Need to Know Today: Stoughton's Town Hall Elevator Out of Service; Meet and Greet Scheduled with New Stoughton High Principal; Lessons Learned from Tropical Storm Irene; and more...
"Five Things you Need to Know Today" is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. 1. Stoughton's Town Hall Elevator Out of Service The elevator at Town Hall is out of service, Interim Town Manager Joseph Feaster said at Tuesday's Board of Selectmen meeting. As a result, Tuesday's meeting was held in the community room of the Police Station. The Town Hall is still open for business, however. The damage is more significant than initially thought, Feaster said. It's not just fixing a few buttons or a pulley, he said - there is an oil leak which needs to be addressed. An environmental company is coming to deal with the oil leak on Wednesday before a repair company can come to fix the elevator. Because …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Power outages, public safety concerns and clean-up of debris created a long and eventful week for town officials and for Stoughton residents last August after Tropical Storm Irene hit Stoughton.
A year ago, August 28, 2011, Irene hit Stoughton as a tropical storm—her winds and rains not living up to their forecasted Hurricane potential, but don’t tell that to the nearly 10,000 National Grid customers in town who lost power, many for the better part of a week. The widespread outages in town, and the extra effort it took town officials to get National Grid to restore power in a more timely and efficient manner placed an increased burden on the town’s post-storm response and cleanup. The storm hit on a Sunday. As of 6 p.m. on Wednesday of that week, 5,960 customers in Stoughton were still without power, out of a total of 11,893 customers (a little more than 50 percent). It took until Saturday, September 3, 2011 for power to be …
Thursday, July 26, 2012
The state's Attorney General, Martha Coakley, seeks more than $16 million in penalties for National Grid's "inadequate storm response during Tropical Storm Irene and the October 2011 Snowstorm.
As we near the one-year anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene, which left thousands of Stoughton residents (and nearly a million total Massachusetts residents) without power for days, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is proving that she hasn't forgotten what she calls an "inadequate response" to both the tropical storm and an October snowstorm with similar results. Coakely is recommending a $16 million fine against the company – the largest penalty ever recommended against a utility in Massachusetts, according to a statement from her office released Thursday. The penalties, if passed, would not affect National Grid customers and would have to be borne on shareholders. Stoughton dealt with only scattered outages in the October …
Sunday, January 15, 2012
AG Martha Coakley wants utility penalties to go to customers.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
The Following is a press release from the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley: In the wake of major storms last year that left thousands of Massachusetts customers without power for days, Attorney General Martha Coakley is working with the legislature to implement changes to the law that would direct all penalties paid by utilities directly back to impacted customers through rate credits. In a letter to the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities & Energy, issued Wednesday, AG Coakley expressed support for a bill filed by Senate Chairman Benjamin Downing (D-Pittsfield) that would require utility companies to implement additional storm-related communications and plan details, and requested that the bill include…
Monday, January 2, 2012
Patch editors look back at the biggest stories of 2011.
As the Patch editors look back at 2011, they are picking the biggest news stories of last year. Benjamin Paulin, Dover-Sherborn Patch Editor- The biggest news event of the year would have to be the death of Osama bin Laden. Not only did it help to bring some semblance of closure to the countless victims he affected but it also helped shift the focus toward the importance of our military and all they do overseas. Seal Team 6 gave us a glimpse of how ordinary men and woman from the United States can do extraordinary things in the face of danger. Michael Hardman, Regional Editor, Attleboro Patch Editor - The weather was the biggest story of the year and it showed how faulted our infrastructure in the area has been become with the lack of …
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Looking back at a hurricane that took Stoughton residents by surprise back on September 21, 1938.
Stoughton suffered with fallen trees, down telephone poles and wires, damaged roofs and broken windows. Does this sound like Hurricane Irene which made its way through town in August? Actually, I am referring to a hurricane 73-years ago which took place in Stoughton on Sept. 21, 1938. The Hurricane of 1938 left six injured in Stoughton and many with damage to businesses and residential property. The hurricane struck Stoughton around 5:15 p.m. and continued on for near two and half hours. The entire town of Stoughton was without electrical power for a period of several hours. For quite sometime Stoughton residents were isolated from the news except by battery radios or car radios. An interesting description of Stoughton residents …
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Locals officials will voice complaints with National Grid in future conferences. Last week's widespread outages were caused by Tropical Storm Irene on August 28.
Stoughton officials told Selectmen Tuesday that their town lagged behind other towns, in getting a response from National Grid to restore power last week following Tropical Storm Irene. The slow response included a lack of power to water stations, but the town was never in danger of losing it water supply. In addition, officials said they kept pressing for power restoration, which eventually helped to speed up response time. The comments were made during a Tropical Storm Irene “post-mortem” session, which included members of the town’s emergency management team. Acting Fire Chief Mark Dolloff, who headed the team, said there were no deaths or serious injuries resulting from the storm, but that power was slow to come back. He said about …
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Welcome to "About Town with Mark Snyder," a column that will keep you up to the minute with what's what, who's who and what's going on around town. If you see or hear something we could use here, let us know by sending an e-mail to pmpco@aol.com.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: to Nina Bloomstein Shatz, who was the Director of the afternoon programs for Striar JCC when my kids attended there. She is now a Promotions Specialist at Triad Advertising/Red Ball Promotions. And, Happy Birthday to Arthur Arkanese, an active member and volunteer at Ahavath Torah Congregation. BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAYS: to Hannah McCarthy of Stoughton. She celebrated Sweet Seventeen Thursday. And, to Colin Lama on his 13th. And, to Carol DiStefano, owner of Reliable Window & Siding; and to Carin Klipp, a Stoughton Town Meeting member and handicapped access advocate, originally from Rockville Centre, New York. WE'RE ALMOST ALL UP AND RUNNING: According to the latest statistics from National Grid (from 9:30 Saturday morning…
Friday, September 2, 2011
Power outages, public safety concerns and clean-up of debris created a long and eventful week for town officials (and for Stoughton residents).
“As of September 2, at 4:33 p.m. National Grid reports only 90 customers remain without power in the Town of Stoughton,” Acting Fire Chief Mark Dolloff wrote in a release sent to local media Friday afternoon. “The light at the end of the tunnel is once again shining bright. Thank you to all the residents for being so cooperative during this difficult time. Stoughton Pride Shines again.” The statement almost echoes the famous line from Gerald Ford’s inaugural address when Ford, assuming the presidency after President Richard Nixon had resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal, proclaimed: “Our long national nightmare is over.” Irene hit Stoughton on Sunday as a tropical storm—her winds and rains not living up to their forecasted …
Bob Wren
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