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Expensive electric bills during the winter are nothing new in the Northeast, but residents across Massachusetts say they’re really feeling the burn this season – all just to keep the heat going. It’s enough to get state and local officials to call out utility companies as well as regulators who approved some of the most recent rate hikes.

The city council in Springfield, Massachusetts approved a plan that advocates say could lead to lower electricity bills for residents. A draft of a long-sought “Community Choice Power Supply Program” now heads to the state for approval.

The conversion of all 14,000 streetlights to LED will take five years.

City Councilors urge repairs to broken streetlights as daylight time grows shorter

Suggests using recent back taxes payment from Eversource to start the project

The utility company is challenging a decade of personal property tax assessments

The Pittsfield, Massachusetts city council has denied a request from Verizon New England and an electric company to install a new support pole for wires and cables, citing frustration with unpaid taxes.

Springfield City Councilors call for Eversource to pay its tax bills

Underground pipeline would go from Longmeadow to the South End

Wednesday’s powerful storms downed trees and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands in the WAMC listening area.The storm that brought heavy rain and…