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NORTHAMPTON Brandon Downy can tick off several reasons he’s thankful he went to jail, but none is as big as this instead of pretending he’s a good father, as he used to do, he can proudly say he actually is one now.“It’s a very difficult thing to.
SOUTHAMPTON With more than one third of the town’s population over the age of 60, the Southampton Council on Aging has been working to expand its programming to meet the needs of its growing elderly population.In doing so, the council has hired.
COVID plays havoc on Massachusetts county sheriff budgets; overtime costs rise exponentially amid pandemic
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“But then, here came the virus,” he said.
Cocchi is the first to admit that, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, overtime spending for the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department went through the roof. By year’s end, the department’s anticipated $200,000 surplus became a $7.4 million deficit. Overtime spending went from $1.3 million in 2019 to $8.6 million in 2020.
That works out to a 571% year-over-year increase.
“That’s a lot of money. Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “That is above and beyond what we normally spend.”