By Dick Lindsay, The Berkshire Eagle
CHESHIRE — Cheshire has avoided a property tax override vote — at least for this year.
At Tuesday’s annual town meeting, residents approved a balanced budget of nearly $6.64 million, an increase of 6.2 percent ove…
The delayed annual town meeting was held at Hoosac Valley High School to ensure room for social distancing.Town meeting votes to move forward with design work for Cheshire School. Town officials are looking to turn the school property into town offi…
When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday; check-in at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Hoosac Valley Middle and High School; face masks required
Highlights: If the proposed budget of approximately $6.65 million passes as is, it would be $139,000 more than the town’s tax levy limit a…
Several years ago I owned a block of dog kennels, professionally built on a concrete base with the appropriate planning consent.
Unfortunately access was via a strip of grass, which became increasingly muddy during winter when I drove along it. The ans…
A thug who shot a man in the leg and then fled in a milkman’s truck has been convicted.
Daniel Evans, who was living in Chirkdale Street, Liverpool, shot a man in the leg in Winsford last year.
It came after Evans got into a heated row with a woman in …
Cheshire-based logistics firm extends relationship with Volvo Trucks to maximize driver satisfaction
LOGISTICS specialists H. Freund, based in Runcorn, have taken delivery of four new Volvo FH 6×2 Lite tractor units with flagship Globetrotter XL cabs, …
The leather-trimmed seats have shown themselves to be comfortable even on long journeys, too, so I can arrive at shoot locations feeling fresh and ready to work, rather than needing 20 minutes to sort out my back and legs before getting…
It’s a car that has always been present on the fringes of my life, too, because I’ve long had a keen interest in pick-up trucks and my uncle (a farmer) had a bright blue L200 when I was growing up. It amazed me back then to think how large it was insi…
Police are hunting a biker after a lorry driver was seriously injured in a brutal road rage attack.
Emergency services descended on the A49 at Whitchurch on the Cheshire/Shropshire border following an altercation near to Bradley Green Lane at aro…
A woman who was hit by a truck on the A41 was walking along the road after crashing her car earlier that morning.
Police rushed to Whitchurch Road, near Broxton, at around 4.40am last Friday (August 7).
Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered t…
FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a fire involving a flatbed truck in Chester.On arrival the crew discovered that it was a small fire caused by a fuel spillage shortly after 1.20pm today (Monday, August 10) in Kelvin Grove.
There was no sign of a leakage…
A woman from Chester has died after being struck by a heavy goods vehicle.
Emergency services were scrambled to reports of a collision between a HGV and a pedestrian on the A41 Whitchurch Road, near Broxton, at around 5am today (Friday August 7).
The p…
A large fire has broken out at a former mansion in Macclesfield.
The fire has prompted a road closure on Beech Lane and people are being asked to avoid the area.
Firefighters have been tackling the blaze at a former three-storey home on Beech Lane thro…
Two men have been jailed after hitting a cash machine with a sledge hammer and then using a tow rope to steal it from a shop.
Thomas Eden, 26, and Christopher Jones, 31, targeted the ATM at the Co-op store in Orford, Warrington on June 15.
The pair pul…
A PAIR of robbers who were found hiding in a resident’s garden after ram raiding a convenience store have been jailed.
Christopher Jones and Thomas Eden targeted a Co-op store in Warrington in a ‘planned, professional robbery’ before fleeing in a getaw…