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MOULTRIE, Ga. â The National Alliance on Mental Illness presented its Recovery Happens speaker series Friday to celebrate the beginning of Mental Health Month.
As part of Mental Health Month, NAMI along with other mental health awareness groups, presented three speakers as well as a proclamation from Moultrie Mayor William McIntosh. NAMI President Lynn Wilson opened the program by thanking all those in attendance and announcing that NAMI will resume in-person meetings starting in June.Â
âTodayâs event is not only about spreading awareness of mental illness but the recovery that happens after seeking assistance,â said Wilson in her opening speech.
New London The New London Police Department will promote a new captain this week and fill a vacancy that has been a source of frustration for the local police union.
Lt. Matt Galante, 45, married and a father of two, will be sworn in as captain in a closed virtual ceremony on Wednesday. He fills the position of retired Capt. Lawrence J. Keating Jr., who left the department in January 2020. It is one of three captain positions at the department.
Galante’s promotion was announced by city officials on Wednesday during a virtual hearing with the state Board of Labor Relations. The local union had filed two labor complaints, one over alleged “bad faith bargaining” related to a promotional list that had expired and the other over the city’s slow movement on promoting a captain.
Published January 26. 2021 6:07PM
“No one’s going to tell us what to put on our union website, period,” local police union President Todd Lynch said in a recent interview, “New London police union defends use of website,” (Jan. 21).
This was Officer Lynch’s bellicose response to the recommendation of the New London Public Safety Review Committee that the Police Union “…cease targeting individuals in the community on their website and social media channels.”
We are not at all interested in telling the Union what to put on their website. We are interested in the website upholding what should be the highest professional standards of police officers. This could be accomplished by having a monitor approve or disapprove and remove postings by union members if he/she deems them to be below the standards for good community practice. It is quite a simple solution and prevents the website from being abused by disgruntled and angry members who post in a pique and should b