East Helena seeking applications for new police chief
Jonathon Ambarian
and last updated 2021-07-02 22:08:45-04
EAST HELENA â The city of East Helena is seeking a new leader for its police department.
They are currently accepting applications for a new police chief. According to the job posting, they are looking for candidates with at least five yearsâ experience in law enforcement. The chief will oversee up to four full-time officers and additional reserve members.
The city will be taking applications through Friday, July 9, at 4 p.m. You can find more information about the position on East Helenaâs website.
Mayor James Schell says a review panel will begin going over the candidates on July 12. The members of that panel are still being finalized, but Schell said it is expected to include one or two East Helena City Council members, the chair of the cityâs police commission and representatives from the Lewis and Clark County Sheriffâs Office and possibl
Lowell H. Young
On Sunday, May 2, at 7:30 a.m., a commercial gardener arrived at our absentee neighborâs home and fired up his illegal blower. When I politely asked him to stop because the blower was illegal, he became belligerent and said he knew of many gardeners âusing illegal blowers all over town.â
I was put in a difficult position because of the continued failure of the city of St. Helena to enforce an agreement that was obviously negotiated in very bad faith; that bad faith remains to this day. There is no need to ascribe blame to one individual. What has happened was the result of not a single city official being courageous enough to take a proactive role to correct an obvious miscarriage of justice.
The City of St. Helena is forming a permanent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and taking other steps to promote tolerance for marginalized and underrepresented groups.
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St. Helena is a city of 6,100 people in an area with more than 400 vineyards. It’s also where housing policies have concentrated Latino residents on the east side while a more affluent, white majority lives on the west side.Josie Norris / The Chronicle 2019
Marcus Kirkwood was riding his bike through St. Helena last month when he noticed a man take a photo of him from the sidewalk.
Kirkwood at first wrote it off as poor timing. Maybe the man was taking a picture of a house across the street. Kirkwood turned his bike around and asked. The man told him he often took photos in St. Helena of things that he found “suspicious.” He meant Kirkwood.