Thursday, March 21, 2013
To educate interested residents about the "Stoughton Saves" campaign, and to show how energy efficiency is beneficial for residents, there will be a kick-off event on Sunday, March 24 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Great Hall of Stoughton’s Town Hall.
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Thursday, March 21
The following is a press release from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC): Stoughton has launched its new “Stoughton Saves” campaign, which will help connect Stoughton residents to the MassSave Program through National Grid and Columbia Gas. MassSave provides residents with a no-cost home energy assessment that can help save hundreds of dollars through energy efficiency investments. This campaign is being made possible through the town’s partnership with Next Step Living, a residential energy efficiency and renewable company that offers no-cost energy services. Qualified residents who sign up for the Stoughton Saves campaign will receive a complete review of their home’s energy consuming equipment by an Energy Specialist from …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Updates from the latest snowstorm, which is expected to last throughout Thursday and into Friday afternoon.
SNOWFALL TOTALS Based on nearby snowfall totals posted by the National Weather Service, the Stoughton area has received about 2 feet of snow. POWER OUTAGES National Grid is reporting 921 outages in town (about 7.4 percent of the town's customers) as of 5 p.m. on March 8. More than 800 of these outages are in a large pocket which includes parts of Park St. (Prospect St. to the center), Central St. (Pearl St. to Lincoln St.), Pleasant St. (just beyond Central St. to the center) and Washington St. (Canton line to the center). Another 110 outages are in a pocket down by Central St. and Bay Rd. nearCobbs Corner. See outage map (posted in the media gallery) for more details. National Grid said these outages started around 1 p.m. and expects …
Monday, December 17, 2012
A high voltage wire came down across Parkview Ave. in Stoughton Monday evening, causing a small amount of power outages. An hour later, there was a two-car crash a half-mile away on Park St. involving a Stoughton Police cruiser on traffic detail.
A high voltage transmission line (13,800 volts) came down across Parkview Ave. in Stoughton, a side street off Park St. near the Brockton line, shortly after 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, causing a small amount of power outages in the area, according to Captain Don Jasmin of the Stoughton Fire Department. As crews from the Stoughton Fire Department were returning from the Parkview Ave. incident, they received a call at 6:13 p.m. for a motor vehicle accident at 1002 Park St. (about a half-mile away) involving a Stoughton Police cruiser and a pickup truck, Jasmin said. The driver from both vehicles were each transported to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. There were no other occupants. A Stoughton Police cruiser, directing traffic near …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
National Grid said it is ready to go with more than 500 crews in the event of power outages from Wednesday night's Nor'Easter.
National Grid, the electric utility that had hundreds of thousands of customers without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, said it is ready for Wednesday night’s Nor’Easter. The latest storm first moved in on Wednesday morning and is expected to last into Thursday with high winds, heavy rain and some heavy wet snow to the west and north. National Grid said it is ready to respond to any power outages that may occur as a result of the weather. There are more than 500 line and tree crews available and ready to respond to any storm-related outages, plus more than 200 “wires-down” personnel. That includes both National Grid crews and those from other companies that are assisting National Grid. The storm has also activated the company’s…
Thursday, November 1, 2012
No outages remain in Stoughton after Monday's storm, according to the National Grid outage website.
Updated at 5:45 p.m. on Nov. 1: The National Grid outage website reports that as of Thursday evening, power has been restored to all Stoughton customers following Monday's bout with Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy-related outages in Stoughton peaked at about 2,100 of the town's 12,399 customers (17-percent) as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, the morning after the storm. But by 6 p.m. Tuesday, just 573 customers were without power (4.6 percent). By 5 a.m. Wednesday, 142 were without power (1.1 percent). And, by Thursday morning, less than five customers in town were without power, according to the National Grid outage website. By Thursday at 5:30 p.m., all Stoughton customers had had their power restored. When Stoughton was down to just a handful of …
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
National Grid President Marcy Reed said Wednesday that the company is ahead of schedule in its effort to restore power and said the company will continue to wok out kinks with the newly-created community liaison position.
National Grid is head of schedule in its effort to restore power following widespread outages following Hurricane Sandy, according to company President Marcy Reed. Reed, speaking to reporters in a conference call from a Chelmsford parking lot Wednesday afternoon, said the company’s estimated restoration times were based on having three-quarters of its customers restored by Thursday night. “We are already there,” she said. “We are progressing ahead of schedule.” As of 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 78 percent of the 237,000 National Grid customers that were without power statewide had been restored. “We are pressing ahead as we always have been,” she said, adding she expects that a majority of the customers still without power will have it back by …
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Stoughton's Emergency Management tea held a post-Hurricane Sandy press conference Tuesday afternoon discussing the storm's impact. Officials credited National Grid for improved communication and response times.
The magnitude of outages were different - loss of power was not as widespread for Hurricane Sandy on Monday as it was with Tropical Storm Irene back in August 2011, but Stoughton officials nonetheless said there was a marked improvement in communication and in response time from National Grid this time around. "It was night and day," Stoughton Police Executive Officer Robert Devine said when comparing National Grid's responses to the two storms. "Last August I can't tell you how frustrating it was to get information." Members of the Stoughton Emergency Management team addressed members of the media in a post-Sandy pres conference at Fire Station 2 Tuesday afternoon. "Since our meeting that we had after our last incident things have …
As of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, less than 1-percent of the town is without power as a result of Hurricane Sandy, down from a high of 17-percent.
Update VI - Oct 31, 2:30 p.m. - In an email sent at about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, Deputy Fire Chief Greg Goldberg writes: "Of the 12,399 National Grid customers in Stoughton, 106 were still listed without service, that is down from yesterday's 2 p.m. number of 2065. Probably less now as crews I know are out working [editor's note: as of 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday there are just 72 outages, or 0.6 percent of the town's customers]. "The liaison is still working with me in the Station and we are communicating constatnly and go out & assess the town several times a day. National Grid has gotten quite a lot accomplished in 24 hours. Many of the customers still out have personal damage to their homes that will need repair and inspection before…
Hurricane Sandy hit Stoughton on Monday, causing damage and power outages around town. However, the town was spared the extent of damage and outages experienced during Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011.
While damage and power outages were not as widespread as what occurred in August 2011 during Tropical Storm Irene, Hurricane Sandy made its presence felt in Stoughton, Monday, Oct. 29. However, the the town was luckily spared any catastrophic events. At day's end about 17-percent of the town was without power, a number that remains unchanged as of Tuesday morning, according to National Grid. Deputy Fire Chief Greg Goldberg said it was a busy day for the team's Emergency Management Response team - the Stoughton Fire , Police and Public Works Departments - which declared a local state of emergency for the town on Monday. Goldberg said from the hours of 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. the fire department responded to about three dozen logged calls, many …
Monday, October 29, 2012
The president of National Grid offered an update on Monday afternoon about the company's preparedness and response to Hurricane Sandy.
There are more than 1,300 electric crews on the ground in Massachusetts ready to restore power in the National Grid service area once Hurricane Sandy blows through. That’s according to Marcy Reed, president of National Grid in Massachusetts. She met with the press on Monday afternoon in a conference call for about 20 minutes where she said the company has been preparing for Hurricane Sandy since last Monday. As of mid afternoon Monday, the hardest hit areas included Quincy on the South Shore and Salem on the North Shore, she said. “Many utilities have been able to send crews and they are here,” she said. National Grid’s 16,000 employees are “all hands on deck,” from line crews to office staff, who are working to coordinate lodging for the …
Jill Somers
10:44 am on Friday, May 3, 2013
Correction: Holly States correct email address is: hstates@massasoit.mass.edu more ›