November2021

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2021 VOL. 1. NO. 12
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NOVEMBER
Bristol
Community
Services
Stepping Up
This Holiday
Season
By Brittany amalfi
The holidays are the time of the year where there’s a huge need to give back to the commu- nity. Fortunately, the Bristol Food Pantry out of Bristol Community Services goes above and beyond. I had the pleasure of speaking with Susan Colby, the Executive Director, and Diane Payne, the Assistant Director, as they gave me a little history of the food pantry and what they do around the holiday season.
It all started a little over 50 years ago by Colby and Payne, who saw a need in the commu- nity. They started collecting food and clothes, and for 45 years,
FOOD PANTRY
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Plymouth’s New Police Chief: Alexander Hutchins By Donna rhoDes
PLYMOUTH – Alexander (“Alex”) Hutchins reached a milestone in his law enforce- ment career when his family gathered on Oct. 12th before the Plymouth Board of Se- lectmen to affix the pins des- ignating him as the town’s new police chief.
Before that appointment, Hutchins had already accumu- lated a long history of serving and protecting the public and came to the board last month with the recommendation of Plymouth’s newly retired chief, Steve Lefebvre.
Hutchins grew up in the Plymouth area in his dad Clint Hutchins’ footsteps, the son of a police officer. “[As a boy] I was in and out of the police department, seeing and learn- ing what it was like to be on a police department,” he told the town during a public hear- ing in early October.
Lefebvre already recom- mended Hutchins, who had
As his wife Amada looked on, Alex Hutchins’ children Brecken and Kennedy attached a pin to their dad’s uniform, designating him as Plymouth’s new Chief of Police at the Select Board meeting held on Oct. 12th at the Plymouth Town Hall.
served as his Deputy Chief, and at that hearing, Hutchins
lauded his friend and former chief for his influence over the
POLICE CHIEF
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