APR2023

BRISTOL • BRIDGEWATER • ALEXANDRIA • HEBRON • PLYMOUTH
2023 VOL. 3. NO. 4
Postal Customer
By Donna RhoDes
BRISTOL – Thanks to a collaboration between Bristol Elementary School and their neighbors at TD Bank, fifth- grade students were able to take part in a Financial Literacy Pro- gram in February, which con- sisted of two in-school sessions with representatives of TD Bank and finished with an up-close and personal look at financial procedures at the bank itself.
Bristol’s TD Bank Store Man- ager Barbara Rosendahl said she and BES Principal Linda Green were chatting one day about available programming for the students. In the course of their conversation, Rosendahl mentioned that her banking in- stitution has a comprehensive Fi-
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The Many Faces of a “Solitary Man”
By William nieman
When the alarm rang the morning of October 14, 2015, our solitary man, Car- roll Brown, was already awake and preparing for what would be a hectic day. He looked out the bedroom window to check the weather. Some white clouds brushed under an otherwise blue sky; they were a portent of a brief morning shower. The day’s temperature would range in the sixties, a customary mid-October warmth for the coastal town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
For the two and a half de- cades leading to this eventful day, Carroll had climbed the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services ca- reer ladder. He had become one of that Department’s fore- most authorities in preventing or containing damages caused by the discharge of environ- mentally hazardous products such as fuel oil. His manage- rial skills combined with that knowledge would be tested
Carroll Brown entertains while a youngster enjoys the music.
today as he would direct a com- prehensive oil spill response exercise. That effort would in- volve coordinating personnel, land transportation, boats, and barges. The workforce would roll out and position a floating
wall of thousands of feet of orange rubber hot dog-shaped balloons that would form an oil containment boom. The boom would be manipulated to move the spill to skimming barges that would remove the oil from
the water. Today’s emergency response exercise was a vitally important preparation for the probability that Portsmouth might experience, as it had in
SOLITARY MAN
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