A veteran police officer in the western Massachusetts town of Hadley is apologizing for posting a comment on his police department's Facebook page suggesting that two black customers getting arrested at a Starbucks after refusing to leave isn't as important as two sheriff's deputies getting shot to death while eating at a restaurant.
Sergeant Kenneth Hartwright spoke in front of about a dozen people at a community meeting called to discuss what he called a "very shortsighted and insensitive" comment, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
The traffic nightmare on the approaches to the Sagamore Bridge is over — at least for a while — now that all four lanes are open again.
For the past month the Sagamore, one of two automobile bridges that span the Cape Cod Canal, has been reduced to one lane in each direction. Backups getting off the Cape have frequently been two to three miles long, and backups getting onto the Cape have often been a mile or more.
