Rindge rescinds hiring hero
On Jan. 15, 2025, at the joint meeting of the Rindge Selectmen and Budget Advisory Committee, Police Chief Malynowski began the meeting by badging her ninth full-time officer detective Martin as a “hero.” That ninth full-time police officer position was rescinded by Rindge voters on March 10, 2026. Martin was named a hero for a Dec. 21, 2024, incident concerning a car accident, and a person ending up treading water off Route 202 in Rindge. We got very few details. A lifesaving effort, unlike the chief had ever before seen in her many years employed in police work, was accomplished by a Rindge police officer. I am wondering about this incident: why wasn’t anything seen in the newspaper? No personal video or even photos on Facebook page(s) seen? Weird? Not strange at all, that our ninth officer detective Martin, hired by the chief, announced on Facebook December 15, 2024, didn’t appear to get any “real news” coverage on that hero-awarding Dec. 21, 2024 incident, other than the after-the-fact pinning of the paper badge at the joint meeting, seen on TownHall Streams Jan. 15, 2025? I remember when the Rindge detective worked as a Peterborough officer; he was recognized in the newspaper for being a hero, I’m pretty sure they called it that, right? For not shooting a mentally disturbed man with a gun, I believe it was. Yes, there was quite a write-up in the newspaper on that one. Weird, chief in 2025, I don’t think she mentioned he was now a two-timing hero.