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Kari Strouth Special to the Journal & Sun After 31 years as a member of the Randolph Police Department, patrolman Steve Elman has left the job he never intended to have. Elman, whose last day with the department was July 6, has been a licensed plumber longer than he was a police officer. More than three decades ago, Elman worked with his father in a family-owned plumbing business, and was content. He and his cousin intended to take over the business one day, and his life was planned out. Then, it seems, fate invented. “My uncle called me one day and said you’re taking the police exam” E...

Randolph man chronicles escape from Laos as a child Kari Strouth Communists. That’s who invaded Boun Sandraow’s homeland in Laos when he was 5. Men with guns who took over his village, forced them out of the mountains and down to the farmlands. Communists who imprisoned his father and treated him so poorly that when he was finally released from his “reeducation camp,” he died. When Sandraow was 10, he decided it was time to escape those Communists and find a better life in what he thought was the promised land of Thailand. “Some people would talk about Thailand," Sandraow said. "In ...