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The Wilton Police Department has four new recruits, sworn in on Monday night, bringing the department to fully staffed for the first time in more than a year.Wilton, as with many small departments in the area, has long struggled with recruitment and...
Published: 7/12/2021 4:42:25 PM The Wilton Select Board continued its discussion on police salaries in a mostly non-public work session on Friday. The board scheduled the special work session after its meeting last week, where it discussed with Police Chief Eric Olesen a proposal to increase starting pay for the town’s police officers. During Town Meeting in June, Olesen requested an amendment to increase the Police Department budget by $30,000, specifically for the purpose of recruitment of new officers and retention of the current staff. Olesen presented the Select Board with a proposal f...
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 6/11/2021 11:31:08 AM Wilton voters raised the proposed budget by $30,000 for increased police salaries to attract and retain police officers during Town Meeting on Thursday Wilton voters met outside on Thursday evening in front of Florence Rideout Elementary School, to complete the in-person Town Meeting, which was set at a later date than usual due to COVID-19 considerations. The first matter of business for the town was the budget, set this year at $5,259,397. However, after an introduction to the proposed budget, Police Chief Eric Olesen propos...
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 1/16/2021 2:14:24 PM Wilton police are investigating a hate crime after a resident reported her Black Lives Matter sign was stolen and replaced with a racist note. Ann Putnam of Wilton said Thursday was the second time one of her Black Lives Matter signs was stolen, but this time, the thief also left a hand-written note held down by a piece of pavement on her walkway. Scrawled in black marker on white notebook paper the note reads “N*****R LOVER” in all capitals. “My first reaction was laughter, because it was just so absurd. I thought, ‘What ye...