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Michael Maloney recalled for kindness, love of his work

By Kay Lazar

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 14, 2012

There was one last thing Michael Maloney needed to attend to before heading off into retirement after 26 years as a cop, a task he wouldn’t leave to others. “He couldn’t talk about it,’’ Karen Anderson, Greenland’s town administrator, recalled Friday, “but he said he would take care of it.’’ It was typical Maloney, a small-town police chief never hesitant to work a traffic detail or serve a search warrant. And it was that last matter that cost him his life.

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