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Westover Air Show This Weekend Will Have Dozens Of Planes

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published July 13, 2018 at 6:56 AM EDT
Westover Air Reserve Base

The sky over part of western Massachusetts will be filled this weekend with modern and vintage military aircraft.  On the ground, there could be traffic jams.

An air show, that in the past has drawn hundreds of thousands of spectators, is returning to Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee this Saturday and Sunday.  It the first air show the base has hosted since 2015. 

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe, the acting chief of public affairs at the base.
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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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