Halloween photos…
HYANNIS – It was a bustling evening in the downtown area. Youngsters were out shaking down the local businesses for free candy. Many were wearing masks…
And then HN came across the familiar sight of someone down on the sidewalk…
Thank God this spectacle was a good half a block away from where the little ones were working their Halloween racket…
The man on the ground was passed out cold, but breathing. He’s a young man and father who recently got involved with other people with serious addiction issues. He’s normally a very hard worker who has been having some trouble staying clean and sober in recent months. HN has always known him to be a good person with a big heart. What landed him on the streets is uncertain… This type of scene, however, is not an unusual HyTown story.
The man was checked out by rescue workers and then transported to the BPD to sleep it off in jail…
Meanwhile across town, state social workers and police removed and took custody of young children from a residence that had been investigated for drug activity earlier in the week…
Back on Main Street, young HyTown moms hustled their children from store to store… all hoping for the best…
Later after the bars closed, cops had what turned out to be a friendly interaction with two men who had been chasing each other around a parking lot on North Street… Police initially were unsure, but after getting the rest of the story, cops realized the two guys were just horsing around. Everyone parted as friends, and police made sure they got home safely, by calling the two young men a cab…
Other than some minor scuffles as the bars were breaking up, it was a relatively quiet Halloween evening in Hyannis… young families with children out early… later the bigger kids hit the bars… some people struggling to keep it together… others working hard to just keep it together… some, for one reason or another, failing to keep it together… all just doing the best they can.
HyTown, there’s no other place on the planet quite like it… You have to have a special love and concern for the place in order to have any business trying to live a happy life here.
11/1/2014
Robert Bastille,
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