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POLICE CHIEF ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT

Old Town police chief Warren Gold has announced his retirement from his office.  After protecting and serving our community faithfully, he has decided that he can better serve by moving beyond simply protecting to healing.

"It's not an outlandish change," Gold says.  "Before I enlisted in the military at my parents' insistence, I had almost completed my residency and actually interviewed at several hospitals."

Although plans were laid for Gold to work at several military hospitals after completing basic training, he left the military and entered the police academy, from which he graduated with distinction.  He then began his law enforcement career, culminating in his promotion to co-chief of Old Town at the mayor's request.

"He will be missed," says Gold's fellow police officer and co-chief, Vera Brown.  "I wish him well in his new endeavors.  If he devotes even half the time and energy that he did to his office, then Old Town's citizens will be well served...and healthier for it, too."

STONE FAMILY WELCOMES BABY GIRL

Mr. Percival "Percy" Stone and Ms. Cordelia Stone nee Dylans are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Brenda.

Mr. Stone is the younger brother of well-known Old Town exorcist Miles Stone.  He has one daughter, Sarah, from a previous marriage that ended in a mysterious divorce.  The first Mrs. Stone disappeared while on a hiking tour in Patagonia and was not heard from for nearly a year, then sent divorce papers that had been filed in Marseilles, France, through a parcel service in Venice, Italy.  Investigators were unsuccessful in locating her.  However, handwriting analysts determined that the signature on the papers--which included a document ceding custody of her daughter and the surrendering of all visitation rights--was definitely written by the absent Mrs. Stone, and Mr. Stone was granted full custody of his daughter.

Mrs. Stone is the younger sister of Old Town theorist Kyle Jones, husband of the sister-in-law of Dennis Jones, the famous Broadway star.  This is Mrs. Stone's first marriage and first child.

FORMER CHIEF DECLINES BECOMING CHIEF

Former police chief Warren Gold has declined the offer to become Chief of Hospital Staff at Old Town Memorial Hostpital.

Upon his retirement from the police force, Gold returned to the career he originally planned to follow, beginning as a medical technician rather than something higher, despite his prior qualifications.  "Because of how long I've been out of practice," he says, "I want to start at the beginning again, to learn about all the new equipment and techniques that have become the norm since my prior residency.  Not the Beginning-beginning, of course, not medical school again," he adds with a smile.

Gold came up for promotion following the discovery of a cure for a previously untreatable podiatric condition.

When asked by co-workers why he rejected his promotion, Gold answered that he didn't want to deal with "those issues" again.  "Personnel...board of directors...investors...it's all little different from being Police Chief where instead of a board you're dealing with the town council, and instead of investors you're also negotiating with the town council.  I'm happy to let someone else deal with that mess."

"He's good at what he does," fellow Medical Researcher Lucille Adonii comments.  "Maybe it's from being in the military and in law enforcement, but he doesn't look at the data the same way most of the rest of us do.  It lets him see and understand things that we miss simply because we aren't looking at it from the same perspective."

ANNOUNCING THE MARRIAGE

Of Mr. Henri Gold to Ms. Carolina Blake.

Mr. Gold is the youngest son of well-known exorcist and chairwoman of the Gold Group, Mrs. Jacqueline Gold.  He is also the nephew of famous exorcist and philanthropist Jacques Verde.  He is currently a nationally-published Fashion Columnist.

Ms. Blake is the younger sister of Ms. Virginia Trenton, of the Trenton family, Old Town's richest family.  She is currently employed at the local circus with plans of becoming a Lion Tamer once she completes her training.