Wendell applies for state grant for Police Station’s future use
Wendell’s old Town Hall and Police Station. Staff File Photo/Paul Franz
Modified: 4/18/2021 5:00:03 PM
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WENDELL Having entered an inter-municipal agreement with Leverett last year for that town to provide its policing services, Wendell officials have applied for up to $120,000 in state funding to support using its Police Station at 4 Center St. as a substation for Leverett officers.
After the new policing arrangement began, Leverett Police Chief Scott Minckler said he and Officer William Campbell started cleaning out the Wendell Police Station. Inventory was taken and all police evidence in the building was brought to the Leverett Public Safety Complex at 90 Montague Road. Other items were thrown away, recycled or put in storage.
Michael Taylor thought he might die alone in the Shelby County Detention Center.
Taylor had been sick with the coronavirus for weeks. It was early March, and he was living in a cell with 19 other people, some of whom had not yet tested positive for the virus. Taylor’s symptoms got worse and worse until medical staff quarantined him in the cell usually reserved for people in solitary confinement.
On March 3, the first night he spent in what he calls the hole, Taylor said he was having trouble breathing.
“I could die in here and nobody’s ever even come around and said anything,” Taylor said the next day, when jail staff let him out for an hour to make phone calls. “I feel like this little sentence that I got just turned into a life sentence.”
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The first part of the fiscal 2022 state aid process has begun with Gov. Charlie Baker s budget recommendation, known as House 1.
The Division of Local Services posted the preliminary cherry sheet estimates on its website.
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