‘It could be a turning point’: Locals respond to Chauvin guilty verdicts
Approximately 30 people gathered for the second weekly “Stand (or sit) For Racial Justice,” event in Northfield on June 7, 2020. The weekly stand-outs will continue on Sunday afternoons at Northfield Town Hall starting this May. Contributed Photo/Cate Woolner
About a dozen residents of Orange and the surrounding communities met at Memorial Park on Saturday, as they have for most weekends since George Floyd was killed in police custody last May. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of killing him. Staff Photo/MARY BYRNE
Modified: 4/22/2021 2:37:56 PM
While former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for killing George Floyd on May 25, 2020, leaders both nationally and locally say this is just one step toward achieving equitable racial justice.
‘It could be a turning point’: Locals respond to Chauvin guilty verdicts
Approximately 30 people gathered for the second weekly “Stand (or sit) For Racial Justice,” event in Northfield on June 7, 2020. The weekly stand-outs will continue on Sunday afternoons at Northfield Town Hall starting this May. Contributed Photo/Cate Woolner
About a dozen residents of Orange and the surrounding communities met at Memorial Park on Saturday, as they have for most weekends since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died in police custody last May. Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for Floyd’s death. Staff Photo/MARY BYRNE
Mental health clinician to respond with area police
The Greenfield Station on High Street in Greenfield. STAFF FILE PHOTO/DAN LITTLE
The Montague Public Safety Complex on Turnpike Road in Turners Falls. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 4/13/2021 5:06:07 PM
Three Franklin County police departments have teamed up with Clinical & Support Options (CSO), allowing them to work with a mental health clinician, starting May 12, when they receive calls involving mental health issues.
The nonprofit, which operates licensed behavioral health clinics throughout Western Massachusetts, will provide a master’s-level clinician who will work out of the Greenfield Police Station and be dispatched regionally, not only in Greenfield, but to Montague and Deerfield, too. When called upon, the full-time regional co-response clinician who is yet to be announced will arrive to the scene with an officer to provide expertise in the areas of emotional and mental health and behavioral de-escal
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Editorial: Monday Shorts: Bad bot!
Greenfield Police K9 Officer Donut is featured in a video that has gone viral on TikTok. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Published: 3/1/2021 7:12:55 AM
Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
Internet guile
Readers got a lesson in internet guile with the story about the vaccination slots at a Mohawk Trail Regional School clinic that immediately disappeared, scarfed up by a bot. Picture Pac-Man, eating up all those precious appointments.
A bot short for robot and also called an internet bot is a computer program that simulates a human activity, like “chatting” with you about an item you are thinking about buying online. (No, that’s not some kindly person on the other end of that chat box.) There are good bots, bad bots and everything in-between. Good bots help you make a dinner reservation online or automatically add an appointment to your calendar. Bad bots buy up all the popular concert