Kinga Borondy & Nell Escobar Coakley / medford@wickedlocal.com
The city administration is facing dueling investigations into claims by two department heads that the mayor and her staff have not only created a toxic work environment, but neglected financial obligations to one of its employees.
A cease and desist order was sent by former city solicitor Mark Rumley to Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn, Assistant City Solicitor Kim Scanlon and Director of Human Resources, Diversity and Inclusion Neil Osborne in early June, demanding city officials stop harassing behavior towards the city s chief financial officer/auditor/finance director Aleesha Nunley Benjamin.
The order also demanded Michael Durham, the city’s director of the Office of Veteran’s Affairs, be compensated for work done to clear out a backlog of contested parking tickets after becoming the city s hearing officer in 2020.
Medford Police investigate shooting on Exchange Avenue
Medford Police this morning are investigating a shooting on Exchange Avenue last night.
At approximately 5:01 p.m. on Monday May 10, a 22-year-old man was shot in his car as he was driving on Exchange Avenue.
Police say the man appeared to have just pulled out of a parking space from the area of Exchange Avenue near the Community Center when he was shot twice in the torso area.
He drove to the former Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford to seek emergency medical services, but that hospital is no longer fully operational, so a 911 call was made to the Medford Public Safety Dispatch center to get help for the victim.