NK Rotary Recognizes Police, Fire Persons of Year

The North Kingstown Rotary Club honored NK Police Officer Nick L. Ambrosino and NK Fire Captain Gregg Morash for their accomplishments over the past year at their regular lunchtime meeting at Gregg's.

Police Chief Thomas Mulligan said Ambrosino was recognized for his "diligence and passion." During 2012, Mulligan said, Ambrosino had 66 arrests including one in April 2012 that resulted in the forfeiture of $12,068. In February 2012, he completed a follow-up investigation into a breaking-and-entering at a business and residence on Yorktown Road, resulting in an arrest and recovery of a stolen car, Mulligan said.

Ambrosino joined the NKPD in December 2006. He lives in Glocester.

Fire Capt. Gregg Morash was recognized for his work on helping establish a communications grid for rescues on Narragansett Bay. According to Chief Fenwick Gardiner, Morash first mapped Narragansett Bay, then had to catagorize it into sections or quadrants. 

Today, he said, a agreement with other municipalities on the bay dispatches the appropriate units along with the U.S. Coast Guard to water rescues.

Morash joined the NKFD in September 1992; he made lieutenant in 200 and captain in 2008. Morash lives in Tiverton.