image description — What appears to be the top of one of the turbines was headed east on Route 2 on Thursday, July 19.

Wind Turbines Parts Headed for Florida Mountain

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01:23PM / Wednesday, July 18, 2012Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Thanks to reader George Betourney for forwarding these pictures he took of parts of a wind turbine taking the corner at Beaver Street and Route 2 on Tuesday morning.

The oversized parts were being carefully swung around the tight intersection at about 9:40 a.m., he wrote us.

The parts are for the long-delayed Hoosac Wind Project being built on Bakke Mountain in Florida and Crum Hill in Monroe. The 30-megawatt project, with 20 wind turbines, is expected to be completed later this year and will be the largest of its kind in the state.

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Court Briefs: Contractor Guilty of Tax Fraud, Windsor Man Sentenced for Threats

10:34AM / Thursday, February 12, 2026

Windsor Man Sentenced in Threat Case

A Windsor man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Springfield for making online threats and extortionate demands.

Michael Andrew Rodgers, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to 15 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. In November 2025, Rodgers pleaded guilty to one count of threatening interstate communications and one count of extortionate interstate communications. Rodgers was arrested and charged in September 2024.

On April 5, 2023, Rodgers posted a threat on the Google review page of a Springfield medical practice that stated: "They gonna get what's coming soon. […] Will be there in the morning to get them myself one way or another. Locked and loaded." Beneath this text, Rodgers included an image of a hand holding a gun.

On April 6, 2024, Rodgers submitted a threat through a fraud reporting website for the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General with the intent to extort Social Security disability benefits.

Specifically, Rodgers stated: "I m gonna start taking what I need. By any means nessacary. […] GIVE ME MY MONEY OR IM GONNA START DROPPING PEOPLE. YOULL NEVER FIND MY WEAPONS SO STOP LOOKING AND GIVE ME MY CHECK. […] NEXT TIME I SLICE SOMETHING OPEN. IT WONT BE ME. ITLL BE ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN ILL MERC A WHOLE SCHOOL AND NOT GIVE A F***. […] SO YOULL BE MY FIRST TARGET IF YOU KEEP REFUSING TO HELP ME."

Windsor, State and Springfield Police assisted federal authorities in the investigation.

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