Yes, you can take water from rivers and lakes during a drought, but you need permission first
The Merrimack River at Memorial Park in Pembroke on Monday, April 26, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
Published: 4/26/2021 4:38:06 PM
In normal times, the request to fetch water from the Merrimack River for home lawn care would barely register on any hot-button radar.
But these are not normal times, and it has nothing to do with COVID. It has to with a drought. It’s here, now, and that could mean a few clandestine withdrawals from lakes and rivers in the coming months.
It’s legal to do, but you need permission first.
Parking on Kimball Street in Pembroke given the squeeze
Narrow Kimball Street in Pembroke is getting clogged by traffic and parked cars. Courtesy Pembroke Police
Narrow Kimball Street in Pembroke is getting clogged by traffic and parked cars. Courtesy Pembroke Police
Published: 4/23/2021 3:24:17 PM
A steady stream of delivery trucks dropping off packages from internet shoppers during the pandemic has had an undeniable effect on a narrow street in Pembroke.
Kimball Street – already too tight for two cars to pass one another, already clogged to make room for the sidewalk, the snow and the snowplows, and already squeezed due to the big delivery trucks that park on the road and are common these days due to COVID – created a perfect storm that officials could no longer ignore.
Andover truck driver was texting before fatal crash on Route 28 in Pembroke, chief says
Thomas Taylor Courtesy
Published: 3/11/2021 11:37:24 AM
A lengthy police investigation indicated that a 34-year-old Andover man was talking on his cellphone last year in Pembroke at the moment his dump truck crashed into another vehicle, killing a passenger in the car, Pembroke Police Chief Dwayne Gilman said Thursday.
Thomas Taylor was arrested last week and charged with negligent homicide, manslaughter and three counts of second degree assault stemming from the accident on May 26.
The victim was an 81-year-old woman, Gilman said, but he declined to give her name or hometown, saying there were family matters that needed to be addressed first.
Precious metals make catalytic converters a tempting target
An evidence photograph shows underneath a vehicle where a catalytic converter is missing. Courtesy of the Chichester Police Department
Chichester Police Chief Pat Clark holds a catalytic converter outside the police headquaters on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. MELISSA CURRAN Monitor staff
Chichester Police Chief Pat Clark holds a catalytic converter outside the police headquarters on March 3. MELISSA CURRAN / Monitor staff
Keep an eye on your catalytic converter. Its days under your car might be numbered.
The police chiefs in Chichester and Concord know this. Both say reports of stolen catalytic converters – which contain a pair of precious metals – are on pace to top overall numbers from previous years in their jurisdictions.