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A Newsletter on Public Safety in Sherborn

An introduction to the column – by Penn Young

The idea for a regular column about Public Safety here in Sherborn, about the mechanics of providing it, and more importantly, the people who ensure it, came out of two things. The first was the stolen car crash and attempted armed carjacking on North Main St. the day before last Thanksgiving. The second was a coffee the COA hosted in mid-December for residents to meet the new Chief of Police, Thomas Galvin.

Meet Tom Galvin Police Chief

He has a golden doodle named Rudy. There’s a good deal more to Tom Galvin, Sherborn’s new Police Chief than that, of course, but it’s a good place start. It’s good to add that he has a wife with her own career and two teenage daughters who are serious athletes. And that he and his family live in a small town. In other words, Chief Galvin has much in common with the residents of the town he now serves.

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