Saturday, April 6, 2013
A single car crash on Chemung St. in Stoughton Friday night sent the operator of the car (the lone occupant in the vehicle) to a Boston hospital. Power was knocked out in the area.
A man was transported to a Boston hospital Friday night after his vehicle struck a utility pole on Chemung St. The single car crash occurred shortly after 6:30 p.m. on April 5 near the intersection of Chemung St. and Joanne Rd., according to the Stoughton Fire Department. The car, a Ford Explorer, struck the utility pole, shearing the pole off at its base, Stoughton Fire Department Captain Robert O'Donnell said. The pole fell parallel to the road, but brought a large wire down across Chemung St. The operator was the lone occupant in the vehicle and was transported by the Stoughton Fire Department via ambulance to Boston Medical Center, according to O'Donnell. The injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, O'Donnell said, noting the…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
National grid is reporting about 7.5 percent of the town lost power the morning of August 15. The outages were contained to a pocket of neighborhoods in the north and south sections of Stoughton.
About 900 people lost power in Stoughton Wednesday morning, August 15, National Grid spokesperson Charlotte McCormack confirmed. The outage was reported at 11 a.m., McCormack said, knocking out power to 894 of the approximate 12,000 National Grid customers in town (about 7.5 percent of the total number of customers). According to the National Grid outage website, areas of Park Street (from Prospect Street to Turnpike Street), Turnpike Street (from Park Street to Pleasant Street), Central Street (from Lincoln Street to Route 24) and Page Street near the Avon line lost power. The signal lights were also out or just blinking at busy intersections like Lincoln at Central and Turnpike at Central, as a result. The cause of the outage is unknown…
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 …
Al Presutti
4:38 pm on Friday, March 8, 2013
where's the snowplows? Cars are abondened on the side of the riad in Stoughton. I know the predictions are way off, but come on. Canton roads are plowed down to the cement, Stoughton is a mess !!! more ›