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Hunters, husband help find missing Merrimack woman

MERRIMACK – A worried husband and two observant hunters are being credited for quickly finding a 69-year-old woman who had fallen into a roadside ditch yesterday around dusk.

Police Capt. Michael Dudash said a resident of the Woodland Park neighborhood called police shortly after 4 p.m. to report that his wife, who has dementia, had gone for a walk and had not returned. It was growing dark and starting to snow.

Police dispatched four cruisers to the area and contacted A Child Is Missing, a Florida-based program the department contracts with that automatically sends recorded alerts to all telephone numbers listed in Merrimack, according to Dudash.

About 10 minutes later, he said, two hunters came upon the woman in a ditch near the intersection of Patten and Joppa roads. A police cruiser happened to pass by at that moment, and the woman was taken home, where an ambulance met her. "She was checked out and she's fine," Dudash said.

"She was very thankful for everybody that helped her."

Dudash said the woman was lucky. "If it wasn't for the hunters, there was a good chance you could drive by and you wouldn't even see her."

And with the darkness and worsening weather, he said, "If a car went off the road, she easily could have been run over."

It's the second time in a two-week period the town police department has activated the reverse 911 system, according to Dudash.

Yesterday's alert triggered several return calls from residents who volunteered to participate in a search party; instead, they were told the news that the woman had been found, he said.

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Leonard “Butch” Callinane Found Mowing the Lawn

NEW BOSTON, N.H. -- State and local police found 73-year-old New Boston man who had been missing for 10 hours.

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Police said Leonard "Butch" Callinane, of 114 Beard Road, was last seen at about 1 p.m., when his son said he was mowing the lawn.Callinane's son said he came home at 5 p.m. and couldn't find his father, so he reported him missing.New Boston police and fire officials are staged a massive search along with police departments from Weare, Bedford, Francestown, Goffstown, Mont Vernon and the New Hampshire State Police Department.K-9 units were out with crews searching on foot, all-terrain vehicles and with the use of handheld infrared cameras. They focused their search in the area of Lowell and Beard roads.His family said he suffers from mild dementia. Callinane just moved in with his son in New Boston six months ago.Callinane was taken to a hospital by ambulance to be checked out.

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Vladimir Winchell Missing in NH

MERRIMACK, N.H. -- Police in Merrimack are asking for help finding a man last seen Monday morning.

Relatives of Vladimir Winchell, 79, said he was driving a silver 2006 Toyota RAV4 in Bedford, N.H., at about 10:30 a.m. before he disappeared. He may have been wearing khaki pants and a green Army jacket. He does not have a valid driver's license.The family said Winchell has been showing increased signs of dementia.Anyone with information was asked to call Merrimack police at 603-424-2222.

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