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8- news The Obstlrver, Thursday, May 22, 1997
KEN KIRSCHNER-TWO YEARS LATER:
State's top cop works at being the best
,
for Thr Obsrn ',.,.
Every mornmy, Southmgton's.
Kenneth KIPH ..'hncr gets a
case repun on hI> .Ie,k by 9 a m
On an dverage ddY, the Ii" mdY
contdln murders, bomb thrcJt~.
and bad plumbmg As Public
Safety COmlTIlSSlOner, State Po-
11q: Colonel Klr.chner sees lUst
abo ut everything rhe past two
years have forced hun to dr JW
o n his twenty years of experience
as a cop.
"I thought I knew a lot before
I got here," he saId, "but
unnl you Sll m thIS seat you IU;(
Jon't know. ThIS Job has a very
WIde umbrella" KIrschner salJ
thdt one of the JOlng
lab and foren~lCS
expen
Dr. Henry
Lee arc JUst
several of the
examples
whIch
schner refers.
"There's real-
1).- not a JO
we (:an't handle
"
Another
key for hun IS
tru,tlng hIS
Instincts.
Those 10-
,tincts have been tempered by
In the State PolIce :--Iartrusting
your
umts
The Publrc Safety Comm,,- dm fortundte to h."
510n SUpCl"'\lSCS not only the \.\orked In many of the depJn­
State Pohce but also the DIVI- ments I supervISe: he sardo " I
Slon of Fire Emergency Jnd knuw what these people go
BUlldrng ServIces and the Office through."
of Emergency ,\\anagement KIrschner trusted hIS rn-
"I hJve some 01 the most stln,-ts when he hedrd ahout d
qUdhfied people m the ,;urld ,\\rddlebun ,,,,mdn whu \\d'
workJng ior me," Klrschner re- kJlIed by a' tractor trdrler tirrvmg
fleeted In an mtervlew at hiS to work He knt'w th.lt ~on of
.\Jlddleto",,!! offi~e_The .. Slate . !hmg was beco!"l.!'jLt':'.o COIll-
STATE POUCE COMMANDER
KEN KIRSCHNER
Connnucut's
hlgh\\ J\" an.1
that large
truc..·k~ were
prubdhlv getting
Jway
with bendrng
the mles. After
some investigation,
he launched a
hIghly successful
campaIgn
to
crackdown on
traffic safety.
As I"'n of tbe
progrAm KIr~(, .. hncr Jilt some on­
SHe resean:h
~rs. ner
them (0 know how Imporunt It
was for thelll to do the tob of
traftic enforcelllent And they
really have stepped II up." As a
re,ult, bad lTucls are finallv
l'Omm!( off the road, he sardo .
Industria110t sales lagging;
EDe considering site worl{
By ANDREW T. OLIVASTRO
stofFlJ:ntfT
As the Fmance Board was setnng
the mIll rate barely a stone's
throwaway m the Town Hall annex,
the EconomIc Development
CommISSIon was m full S''lng trymg
to Increase the Ioc-.. I taX base m
the basement of Town Hall.
'1 be EDC welcomed It S
newest member, R:rclr: Krught who,
along with Dbminic UiNeno and
Chalrmln Fr.m MassUCCI, recommended
une of three proposals to
the 10wn Counerl for lot No.5 In
Clptaln LewIS Indusmal Park:
"V,Ie ",,11 send the recommendanon
to the counerl and hope to
get some feedback from there on
what dlTecoon we can take," saId
MIchelle Stronz, the town's ceonomll
coordmatur.
'Ibe commISSIoners also dr