Thanks. Sounds like there is at least one honorable reporter in the area.
Yes, but this opens up a whole new can of worms:
The confusion, she said, is that Labonte’s son in-law was taking part in the chat thread. Labonte also has a son who is a Wrentham police officer, but Groves isn’t a policeman and has never been connected with the Wrentham Police Department.
"I think there’s been a lot of confusion for two years," said Firth this week. "I think the confusion is around the fact that it was a relative (of Labonte) involved."
Firth said she is disappointed the chat thread has sparked so much rumor and has been allowed to fester over two years in the town’s undercurrents. "I find it unconscionable that it was ignored," she said.
Greg Pazurchek, meanwhile, said on Monday that, while the internet posting was disturbing, he never felt directly threatened. He is questioning why the thread has been brought up now, and why it has been allowed to get so out of hand, especially since, he said, Labonte could have stopped the entire conversation Feb. 6 simply by pointing out that his son-in-law, and not his police officer son, was involved.
"Why is he adding fuel to the fire instead of saying, ‘Wait a minute, this isn’t a police officer. Yeah, the guy (Groves) was trying to help me and some arbitrary person wrote this alleged threat’?" Pazurchek said, noting that, at the time the chat thread was active, "I knew it wasn’t a cop."
****Well Greg, if you knew it all along, why did you not step in to tame the allegations & rumor of your associate Firth?
***Well, Firth sits next to GL at every meeting, how did she not in small talk ask "what's up with this guinnessboy thing"?
*****she shot first and asked questions later, she did not communicate with anyone on this issue, she ran wild with her witch hunt...............
I did like the Bellingham reporting though, clean cut, precise, mostly factual, except for Greg's bias on how this could have been handled better........