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Shootings shatter N.H. town’s tranquility

Greenland residents worry attack on police will permanently change their way of life

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 13, 2012

In unassuming towns like Greenland, it’s how messages are quickly relayed: Marquee signs with moveable plastic letters, easily spotted from the town’s few main roads. The morning after a shooting that left Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney dead, and four other police officers wounded, messages of compassion cropped up on signs around town.

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