selectman
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selectmen
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A Massachusetts selectman recalled that the steel sent “a funny feeling” up his arm after he laid a hand on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
As selectman, he threatens to co-opt it using eminent domain.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2025
“It’s a tremendous loss for the town,” first selectman Tim Keeney told reporters on the scene Wednesday morning.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
He was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1962 and was first selectman of Greenwich before winning seats in the U.S.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
“Then watch your words. May I remind you I am a selectman in this town? I am no traitor!”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Two months before the vote, Danville’s town attorney, Matt Serge, had advised O’Neil and the other selectmen that the vote likely wouldn’t stand.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
In the Vermont towns of Wilmington and Dover, selectmen mandated mask-wearing in public places — which Dover Police Chief Randy Johnson said wouldn’t have happened if not for the twins’ deaths.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2020
Nearly all of the state’s 221 towns are holding local elections Tuesday with voters going to the polls to choose selectmen, school board members and other officers.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2020
But in county after county, they pushed through at-large systems, so everyone voted for a slate of five or seven supervisors or selectmen.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2019
At a table at the end of the room sat Captain Samuel Talcott, Magistrate from Wethersfield to the General Court of Connecticut, and a group of men whom Kit knew as the town selectmen.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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