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BRATTLEBORO The Massachusetts man accused of driving the wrong way on Interstate 91 on Sunday, Dec. 13, causing a head-on collision and injuring five people, now faces four drunk driving charges.
Bernard J. McDonald, 65, of Westborough, Mass., is scheduled to be released from Brattleboro Memorial Hospital on Monday and will be arraigned at Windham criminal court later in the day, according to Windham County Deputy State s Attorney Steven Brown.
McDonald had been arraigned on 15 charges in absentia with the consent of his court-appointed lawyer last week so that court officials could impose conditions on his movements after release from the hospital. He was ordered not to drive nor consume alcoholic beverages.
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BRATTLEBORO â The Community Safety Review Committee is starting to see the shape of recommendations being developed by facilitators to make the town feel more safe.
âWeâre at a critical point in our process,â Emily Megas-Russell, one of the two facilitators hired by the town for the project that will result in a report due at the end of the month, said at the committee meeting held remotely Monday.
Responses from Town Manager Peter Elwell on questions posed at the last meeting were read to the committee on Monday. He said neither the Brattleboro Police Department nor the rest of town government plays any role in the school resource officer position â it is staffed by the Windham County Sheriffâs Office and overseen by the Windham Southeast School District, with no funding from the municipal budget.
Burlington Free Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. It was Christmas, and Linda Luxenberg couldn t wait to spend it with her son Travis in his new home. She had purchased a log cabin in Waitsfield, Vermont and called it Nice Place. There, Linda Luxenberg hoped, her son, who has severe autism, would be safe from the chaos that ran his life for years. This boy is going to have Christmas at Nice Place, with his sisters and his mom, she told the Burlington Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network. She furnished the home and bought her son new clothes. Trav was in heaven. But what followed was less than idyllic.
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BRATTLEBORO â For the second day in a row, accused wrong-way driver Bernard McDonald was unable to appear in court due to the injuries he sustained in a head-on collision on Interstate 91 in Dummerston Sunday evening.
McDonald, who is a patient at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, does not understand what is going on, his court-appointed lawyer Albert Fox told Judge John Treadwell. McDonald, 65, who lives in Westborough, Mass., told police he was in Vermont on Sunday visiting a daughter in Chester. He faces a total of 15 charges, and prosecutors expect to file additional charges once test results come back. McDonald told police he had been drinking beer earlier in the day, and police said there was a strong odor of alcohol on his breath after the crash.