Talk of the Towns, March 26, 2019
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WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED at 102 Belair Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the predawn hours of April 17, 2003, they observed two teenagers poking their heads out of second-floor windows. One of the teens was 17-year-old Frances Choy, who, awakened by her mother’s scream of “Frances, there’s a fire!” had called 911 on her cell phone. The other was Kenneth Choy, Frances’s 16-year-old nephew. Inside the house, a fire was burning with such intensity that it had melted wall fixtures, and thick smoke had trapped Frances, Kenneth, and Frances’s parents Jimmy and Anne Choy in their bedrooms.
Anne Choy would be pronounced dead later that morning at Good Samaritan Hospital, but as a headline in the next day’s
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Independent Bank Corp. and Rockland Trust Company Appoint Warren Fields and James O’Shanna Morton to Board of Directors
January 21, 2021 GMT
ROCKLAND, Mass. (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 21, 2021
Independent Bank Corp. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: INDB), parent of Rockland Trust Company, today announced the appointment of Warren Fields and James O’Shanna Morton to its Board of Directors. Rockland Trust also simultaneously appointed Mr. Fields and Mr. Morton to its Board of Directors. Each of the appointments will be effective February 1, 2021.
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James O’Shanna Morton, CEO of YMCA of Greater Boston
The two new appointees are Warren Fields, president and CEO of Pyramid Hotel Group in Boston, and James O’Shanna Morton, CEO of YMCA of Greater Boston, according to a Thursday press release. Both appointments are effective Feb. 1.
Fields is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration in New York. In 2019, he was named to the Massport board of directors by Gov. Charlie Baker. Before joining PHG, he served as vice president of development operations for Promus Hotel Corp. of Tennessee, which was later sold to Hilton Hotel Corpo. In 1999.
Springfield police leaders criticize reform bill: ‘Getting it done fast was more important than hearing from people’
Updated Jan 17, 2021;
Posted Jan 17, 2021
3/16/2020 -Springfield- Springfield police commissioner Cheryl Clapprood speaks during a meeting at City Hall. In the rear is is Mayor Domenic Sarno. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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SPRINGFIELD Three weeks after the state enacted a major police reform bill, city police say they are left in an awkward position of waiting to find out exactly what reform will look like.
Springfield Commissioner Cheryl C. Clapprood and the heads of the department’s two unions each said this week that they welcome police reform in general. But they questioned how the law is being rolled out, and worried about a number of uncertainties not stipulated within the bill’s 129 pages.