Building mental health into emergency responses is finally getting the attention it needs while at the same time, police officers' mental health comes up short.
Six weeks - that s how long Gore District Council has left to make peace with residents upset over a roading project trial in their Southland town.
Gore District Council roading asset manager Peter Standring squats next to a vandalised planter box.
Photo: LDR / Sandy Eggleston
Discontent has bubbled over following the rollout of a Streets Alive project two months ago. Street calming planter boxes have been repeatedly vandalised, more than 1000 people have signed a petition and a council meeting this week burst at the seams with vocal locals.
The nearly $1 million roading project aimed to make Gore s streets both safer and more accessible.
Brad was only 51 at the time, and their son Christian was only 8. I was just in utter devastation, she said. The first year was a fog.
Boudreau, a Taunton resident, had waited a while to get married, she said. She and Brad didn t start dating until she was 37, and they got married when she was 40. They adopted their son when she was 44, and he died not even a decade later. It changes your whole future. Because everything that you had planned is now gone. So you re really lost because you don t know what to do. You don t know what to plan, what not to plan, because all of a sudden planning isn t safe, she said.
TAUNTON Five years ago today, Rosemary Heath was sitting at Bertucci s in the Silver City Galleria mall eating with her husband, George Heath.
It was the first time they d gone out on a weeknight in a long time, and sadly, it was the last time they ever would.
That night, George was stabbed to death by 26-year-old Arthur DaRosa, who had already stabbed 80-year-old Patricia Slavin to death. George died saving waitress Sheenah Savoy, who was 26 at the time and pregnant.
DaRosa was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff s deputy that night, and a mental breakdown was blamed for his rampage.
Acushnet Woman Accidentally Breaks Kindness Chain at Drive-Thru
Sometimes, however, it gets a little awkward when the “giving train” is broken.
An Acushnet woman hit the “pay it forward” jackpot when her coffee was paid for twice in two consecutive days, but she admitted that she forgot to return the favor. Bethany Gardner shared her “facepalm” moment with me to clear the air.
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Gardner took to Facebook this morning to share her experience at the Dunkin’ on South Main Street in Acushnet. Thursday morning, she entered the drive-thru, and when it came time to pay, she was told the car in front of her paid for her coffee.