Program to coordinate police response for people with disabilities, special needs expands
Modified: 5/11/2021 9:47:59 PM
HANOVER A newly expanded program that allows residents to alert police about family members with special needs may make responding to scenes less stressful and safer for both emergency responders and the public in 20 more Upper Valley towns.
Hanover Police and the White River Junction-based Special Needs Support Center recently adopted the “special needs information program” to cover all towns within the Hanover dispatch territory, including Hanover, Canaan, Cornish, Enfield, Lyme, Orford, Plainfield, Piermont, Grafton, Springfield, Dorchester and Grantham in New Hampshire, and Norwich, Thetford, Fairlee, Bradford, Strafford, Vershire, West Fairlee and Corinth in Vermont.
Column: Police in schools don’t make them safer
Steve Nelson
Modified: 5/7/2021 10:10:03 PM
On Wednesday, the Lebanon School Board will finally vote on the matter of continuing to include a school resource officer in the budget. It will be fascinating to see how the controversy is resolved.
Valley News columnist Jim Kenyon and staff writer Tim Camerato have done a fine job framing the issue. To say the community is divided is an understatement. The vote on the nonbinding referendum was inconclusive (1,011 to 1,006) and, according to reports, letters and other public comment has been similarly divided.
As head of a New York independent school for 19 years and as a frequent visitor and “principal for a day” at a number of public schools in Harlem and the Bronx, I have relevant experience.
Suspect in Hartford shooting appears in NH court
Modified: 5/3/2021 9:52:01 PM
NORTH HAVERHILL A 40-year-old man who pleaded not guilty last week to a charge he broke into a Hartford home and shot a man was back in another court Monday morning on an unrelated drug case out of New Hampshire.
Calvin Therrien, who does not have a permanent address, was ordered held without bail on a felony drug possession charge during a virtual hearing in Grafton Superior Court Monday. Therrien, who appeared virtually for the hearing from the Grafton County jail, did not speak throughout his court appearance.
The charge stems from an arrest Lebanon Police made in late 2019 when they pulled over a car Therrien was riding in that contained heroin and marijuana, according to an affidavit written by Lebanon Police Officer Ben Bailey. Therrien initially pleaded not guilty to the drug charge and was released on bond in March 2020.
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Gone but not forgotten: Ceremonies honor Missouri officers who made the ultimate sacrifice
There are now 716 names that can be found along the walls of Missouri’s Law Enforcement Memorial outside the state Capitol in Jefferson City. Those names are sitting on the Wall of Honor to pay tribute to officers who gave their lives to protect and serve others.
Missouri Law Enforcement Memorial (Photo courtesy of Missouri Department of Public Safety’s Flickr page)
Eight names of officers who died in the line of duty in 2020 and seven others killed between 1907 and 1946 were added to the wall as part of annual ceremonies to remember Missouri’s fallen men and women in blue.