Articles written by Connie Hakola

Connie Hakola|Jan 11, 2012

Often we hear (and repeat) only the negative on our area police officers, so I would like to give a positive word to one of our officers. I am sorry I didn’t get Officer Gary’s last name, but it is a small town, so hopefully he knows who I am speaking of. A young person coming to visit came in upset because her friend was in the driveway speaking with the policeman who had pulled her over. He had stopped her for a California stop. He hadn’t seen her when she stopped ahead of the sign. She felt it was undeserved because she had stopped ahead of... Full story