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Aaron Frank, Town Manager While April 18 is officially the start of Volunteer Appreciation Week, were using the next three weeks to honor our dedicated and hard-working volunteers that sacrifice their time to support the Town of Colchester, including Rescue staff, firefighters and all those who serve on our many boards and commissions. We couldnt do it without you! Thank you. Volunteer Appreciation Week - April 2021 Colchester Rescue Squad On behalf of the Town of Colchester, we would like to r...

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Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WILMINGTON — Hearing no objections to plans to fully reopen town buildings to the public later in the summer, Town Manager Scott Tucker said he would be “holding the fort until July.” At the Select Board meeting held remotely Tuesday, Tucker said he listened to the governor’s news conference earlier that day in which the Vermont Forward Plan was announced to outline three phases of reopening sectors of the economy after re...

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That figure is down from 2018’s total of 22 deaths related to drugs. The regions average for 2015-2019 is 0.13 deaths per 1,000 population. A spokesperson for NHS Borders said: “We are working hard with partners from a wide range of agencies to deliver actions which could help prevent drug-related deaths.” This work includes reviewing the circumstances of each drug-related death, ensuring “rapid” access to drug treatment and increasing the number of people in treatment. Nati...

Efforts to tackle Scotland’s drug death crisis have been branded a failure as another record number of people dead was reported. The official figures for 2019 showed that the number who died increased again, from last year’s record, to 1264. In Glasgow, the number of men and women who died from a drug related death was similar to last year’s record total. In 2019 there were 279 deaths in the city, just one fewer than in 2018. There were 191 men and 88 women who died. It is an ...

Drug-related deaths: Dundee records 72 deaths in 2019 Updated: December 17, 2020, 11:02 am © DC Thomson Drug deaths across Tayside are among the worst in Europe – for the second year running. A report out today by National Records Scotland (NRS) revealed 118 drugs deaths occurred across Tayside in 2019, an increase of nine from the previous year. In total there were 1,264 drug-related deaths registered in Scotland in 2019, 6% (77) more than in 2018. This was the largest number ever recorded,...

In 2000 the figure was 292 across Scotland. By 2010 it was 485. In Glasgow in 2000 it was 96 and by 2009 it had increased to 135, before a fall the following year. A decade later and the latest available statistics, for 2019, released today show it has more than doubled in the last decade. Anecdotal evidence from people involved in drug support services expect the trend has continued and even more people have been dying in 2020. There has been an increase in recent years in the pres...