On a rainy Thursday last month, two drivers hit the same pole on Route 208 14 hours apart, said Glen Rock police. But it wasn ...

IN B Residents of a Brookfield neighborhood say a utility pole near the center of a paved roadway is a road hazard, but town officials are calling it more of a short-term inconvenience.

Lexington’s Town Meeting fired the latest salvo in a five-year war against Verizon’s neglect of a timely removal of utility poles. Lexington will ask the state’s Department of Public ...

And for good reason. Utility poles dot the landscape of every town around the state and most of the country. They form the highway above us that keeps everyday life in order. In fact ...

A UTILITY POLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ... which kept the pole from being removed. The town prepared in the spring to shift the road, including installing a new pole and then paving around ...

Generally speaking, your town’s phone or electric company can install any number of things on the various utility poles littered around your town. They might even have opened up access to the ...

TOWN OF WALLKILL — More than half of the "zombie" utility poles in the Town of Wallkill have been removed by utilities in the wake of a local law passed earlier this year requiring they be ...

Double utility poles — when a new pole is put in the ground, and the old one is cut off and attached to it — litter the sides of Massachusetts roadways in nearly every city and town.

NORTH ANDOVER — They're considered a lasting blemish after years of construction on the town's Old Center, and as unsafe as they are ugly. But come July, the utility poles jutting out of ...

“Fight the MONSTER UTILITY POLES in Garden City,” screams a mailer sent by Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin and Hempstead Councilman Thomas Muscarella. Addressed to “Garden City neighbor ...