First responders successfully located a missing Crotched Mountain School student with help from a sharp-eyed retired State Trooper who happened to be in the area.
An 11-year-old boy was reported missing from the Crotched Mountain School in Greenfield a little after 9 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 15, Greenfield Police Chief Brian Giammarino said.
First responders from Greenfield, Hancock, Antrim, Lyndeborough, Francestown, Wilton Ambulance, plus State Police and NH Fish and Game arrived, intending to search the woods around the mountainside campus, he said.
Meanwhile, retired State Trooper Scott Tracy was fishing on Sunset Lake with his son and a friend when he saw all the cruisers go by. Tracy noticed a young man sitting on the dock at the lake, and, on a hunch, called and asked if the police were looking for a missing child. “How do you like that?” Giammarino said. Tracy had found the missing student, and police were able to call off the search after about an hour and a half, he said.