We interrupt our series on the police station to bring you a story in keeping with coming of St. Patrick’s Day this week. The influence…
Category: 150 Years of Excellence
After two centuries of being shuffled about the private residences of the constables and chiefs and sharing space with other town departments, the Wilmington Police…
When the Wilmington Memorial Public Safety Building was dedicated in October of 2001, it represented a more than two-hundred-and-fifty-year evolution in the design and concept…
The Wilmington Police Department Ambulance Service operated from 1934 until 1956. Obtaining an ambulance was initially the endeavor of Chief Harry Ainsworth and several concerned…
The 1939 play Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring and the later film adaptation by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant, played out in…
In carrying on over a century of tradition, the department’s first true Honor Guard was finally formed in late 1987. Under the command of Sergeant…
Ahead of the parade marshal, the distinguished gentlemen of the town and the school children in decorated wagons, marched Wilmington’s Finest. On Saturday May 29,…
On November 11, 2021, at the end of the eleventh hour, Wilmington’s Veterans Day exercises came to a close. Led by the moan and skirl…
In case of emergency call 9-1-1. That statement seems simple enough in today’s technology driven society, the touch of three buttons and help is on…
On page six of the Boston Evening Globe of January 26, 1917, there appeared the five-line death notice of A. Porter Pearson of North Wilmington.…