Also on today’s menu:
Pelham Boating Accident
Missing Enfield Man Found In Franklin
Governor Chris Sununu has signed Executive Order 2022-06, creating the New Hampshire Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission, attached to the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council, to establish new, nationally recognized standards for law enforcement officers. The order includes assessing accreditation compliance while promoting self-regulation.
Rather than requiring the new accreditation, the order “encourages” all agencies to voluntarily participate in the accreditation process, which includes training. That is in keeping with other recommendations from the Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community, and Transparency in which the state chose to water down the recommendations, such as one that would have established a separate agency to deal with complaints of officer misconduct. Instead, the legislature bowed to Police Standards and Training and housed the complaints office within that agency.
The new commission will comprise the Attorney-General, or designee; the director of Police Standards and Training, or designee; one state senator recommended by the Senate President; one state representative recommended by the Speaker of the House; three members of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police, nominated by the president of the association and including at least one representative from a small department of 10 members or less; one member of the New Hampshire Sheriffs Association, nominated by the president of the association; one representative from a New Hampshire college or university, appointed by the governor; and one public member, appointed by the governor.
Pelham Boating Accident
A boating crash on July 24 between a personal watercraft and a boat on Long Pond in Pelham left two victims, both transported to Massachusetts hospitals with life-threatening injuries.
A joint investigation between Marine Patrol and the Pelham Police Department determined that the PWC, operated by one female who had another female passenger on board, was traveling at a high rate of speed and struck a boat that was floating, with the engine off, with four occupants on board.
Three of the passengers were able to jump off the boat just prior to being struck, and no one on the boat sustained serious injuries.
Missing Enfield Man Found In Franklin
Conservation officers, members of the Enfield police and fire departments, Canaan Fire Department, a drone operator, and volunteers from the New England K-9 Search and Rescue Team and Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team engaged in a search for Andrew Thompson, 58, of Enfield, who had failed to return from a walk in the woods behind his residence on July 22. Officials say the terrain behind his house is dense forest with wet, swampy areas.
New England K-9 teams searched for Thompson into the early-morning hours of July 24 before resting the dogs, and Enfield police put out a social media post about his disappearance.
Early Sunday morning, authorities received two tips about the man’s whereabouts. A passerby had picked Thompson up and dropped him off to visit family members in Gilmanton. On Thompson’s way back to Enfield, a conservation officer saw him walking in Franklin and gave him a ride back to his residence in Enfield.
Café Chatter: On Gunstock
After seeing Sununu’s letter on the Gunstock situation, it just confirmed to me and many others that Sununu has to go. I wonder if Sununu is connected to the Citizens of Belknap movement where this group is trying hard to confuse people. This means we all need to get on the same page at the primary September 13th and decide who on the ticket will best represent us as Governor. Sununu has shown his two faces several times and now he dishonors the elected officials of Belknap County. You got to ask WHY?
If you are not aware of the group RESOLVE, go to their website wethepeoplenh.org/the-resolve/ and sign up for what may be the biggest voting campaign to organize the voters by suggesting who we the people should vote for by the vetting they do. Yes, this takes trust, but you have time to look into why they suggest who they do. The fight is to get rid of RINOs like Sununu and others and keep NH a place where people want to come, have fun, and maybe move and work here.
Managers at Gunstock need to remember who they worked for, the Commissioners, who are assigned by the Delegation, who the People of Belknap elected. The management team, when they resigned, they left all the folks of Belknap County to figure out what to do on their own. They had total disrespect for the people who employed them, employees and customers. They laughed/made fun and maybe called hate speech (there is email proof of this) of SoulFest, a Christian organization which has rented Gunstock for years. I wonder who else they have disrespected since they already disrespected the people of the county and their customers!
Gunstock reaches far more than Belknap County. When they host events, the people need places to stay, eat, and even shop which bleeds over into several other counties. This management team that resigned really offended more than Belknap County, they insulted and stuck it to us all.
I watched the video and saw Tom was there taking notes. To say the Management team should have had a seat at the table is like saying the managers of each department here in Bristol should sit at the Selectboard table and that is not done, they are called upon when questions are asked. The video I saw looked like these managers rehearsed their resigning. All this to make the Commissioners look like the bad guys. Also, if I was a new commissioner, I would be asking a lot of questions and want to see documents and the management team should have understood this would happen and they didn’t.
Let’s have HOPE for NH and band together as ONE and finish the job by voting the right people into office. I still believe there are many people in NH that love NH and do not want any more of this craziness, wokeness, and mandates. They want NH to be a place they are proud of.
Vote September 13th, the primary and November 8th, the general election.
Remember, to say nothing is to say something, to do nothing is to do something. Every action has a reaction even if that action is saying and doing nothing, so take a stand and get into the battle and let’s have HOPE for NH and WIN!
— John Sellers
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