One-year Anniversary Of Police Officer's Death Observed

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published June 4, 2013 at 12:49 PM EDT

One year has passed since veteran police officer Kevin Ambrose was shot and killed in Springfield Massachusetts. It had been more than 25 years since a Springfield police officer had died in the line of duty. Springfield Police Commissioner William Fitchet is asking people everywhere today to show support for police by putting on a blue light or placing a blue ribbon on a tree or a pole. WAMC”s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the aide to the commissioner, Police Sergeant John Delaney

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.

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