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By Mike Gaffney | WickedLocal Jim Rivers, the town’s director of information technology, has accused former Town Manager Scott Crabtree of asking him to delete all documents and emails from his town-issued computer. Rivers met with the Board of Selectmen last Wednesday to discuss a personnel complaint he brought regarding Crabtree, who the selectmen fired on Oct. 29. On Sept. 12 Rivers said Crabtree directed

By Mike Gaffney | WickedLocal Scott Crabtree is out as Saugus town manager. The Board of Selectmen voted 4-1 last Wednesday to adopt with good cause a final resolution for the removal of Crabtree as town manager. Selectman Debra Panetta cast the lone vote against the motion. Crabtree had requested a public hearing in the wake of the board’s 4-1 vote Sept. 15 to support

The Worcester, Massachusetts law firm of Reardon, Joyce & Akerson, P.C. announces that, for the sixth time, Andrew J. Gambaccini, an associate with the firm, has been selected as a Massachusetts Rising Star by Law and Politics Media, Inc. The award follows a rigorous, multi-phased process of review and is limited to attorneys under the age of forty who have been members of the bar

By Brian Lee Telegram & Gazette A hearing officer found insufficient evidence to conclude that police Sgt. Joseph J. Brooks hit and severely injured a police dog with his police vehicle and then lied about it. The hearing officer, Joseph M. Zeneski, found no cause for the town to take disciplinary action against Sgt. Brooks for the events of June 4, when police found the

By Brian Lee | Telegram WEBSTER — A hearing during which Police Sgt. Joseph Brooks was accused of striking and injuring a police dog with his vehicle on June 4 wrapped up Wednesday at Town Hall. The 14-year veteran of the department is on paid leave and is fighting for his job amid two theories about what happened to the Dutch shepherd, named Radar, just

by KC Myers PROVINCETOWN — Former Police Chief Jeff Jaran says he will fight his termination last year by the town at an arbitration hearing Oct. 30. The selectmen fired Jaran, Provincetown’s police chief for about five years, in December after months of controversy related to his alleged angry outburst at The Squealing Pig pub after an N.W.A. rap song containing anti-police lyrics played on

SOUTH HADLEY – Little has been discussed publicly about more than $10,000 stolen from the Police Department several years ago, with most details coming from a complaint filed recently by a police union against the town on a separate matter. The four-year investigation began in 2007 and concluded in 2011 with no charges being filed. “The Northwestern District Attorney’s office’s investigation into that matter was

By Jim Russell SOUTH HADLEY – The police officers union has filed in Suffolk Superior Court a complaint of contempt against the town for refusing to refund $222,870 in back pay to an officer who was fired in 2009 and rehired in 2013 following an arbitration ruling. According to the complaint, interest on the amount is accruing at $625 per week. The action follows a

By Lyle Moran | Original Article LOWELL — A Superior Court judge has denied a police sergeant’s request for a preliminary injunction preventing the city and Police Superintendent William Taylor from promoting two other sergeants whom he alleges live in New Hampshire. Sgt. Steven O’Neill alleged in a Superior Court complaint that Lowell police Sergeants Donald Crawford and John Cullen live out of state, in

By Lyle Moran | orignal article LOWELL — Police Superintendent William Taylor is making three promotions to lieutenant in the midst of an ongoing legal case in which two potential promotions of other sergeants are being challenged in Superior Court. Taylor said Friday he is promoting Sgts. Gregory Hudon, Steven Coyle and temporary Lt. Matthew Penrose to lieutenant. The promotions become effective Sunday. Coyle, an