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Previously, he served on the Greenwich board of selectmen for one term in the 603s.
"The ghost cop," said Bill Levakis, a member of the town's board of selectmen, who had positioned the cruiser just so.
Both live in Exeter, N.H., where he teaches math at Phillips Exeter Academy and she is a member of the town's Board of Selectmen.
Just this week, Emerge Massachusetts alumna Mehreen Butt was elected to the Wakefield Board of Selectmen, winning her seat in a crowded field of six people.
"I deliberately and specifically filed a warrant to change the name of Board of Selectmen to Board of Selectwomen," Michael Burstein, a town meeting member, told NECN.
Lawyers for the Islamic Society and for the town's Board of Selectmen have been negotiating in closed-door sessions, and both sides declined to comment on the specifics of the talks.
"It hit a peak, it leveled off, and now we're trying to find ourselves," said Will Notte, 45, the president of the board of selectmen and a fifth-generation Rutlander who supports the refugee proposal.
Jackman, Maine's board of selectmen voted 4-0 to give Tom Kawczynski the boot Tuesday morning, paying him a $30,000 severance package in exchange for him agreeing not to sue the town of roughly 800 people.
The Board of Selectmen of the town of Dighton voted Wednesday to euthanize five of the 11 dogs that Ryan Hazel was caring for while their owner, who has a background in dog training, was out of town.
Brookline, Massachusetts, leaders will soon consider two proposals aimed at changing the name of its Board of Selectmen, one of which would see the body's name changed to the Board of Selectwomen, according to NBC's New England Cable News.
Back home, Ms. Whitaker contacted the town's board of selectmen and soon found herself sitting in Washington Depot's town hall and meeting with its community leaders, many of whom were men over 65 who had never watched the show.
Cara Letendre, the chairwoman of the board of selectmen, said Blandford officials had only had preliminary discussions about merging forces, but the idea seemed like a possible solution for an aging town with little industry to fuel a tax base.
Former Police Chief Richard Lee said Croydon, N.H.'s board of selectmen told him he needed to turn in his uniform and vehicle "immediately" after it voted to dissolve the one-man police department, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.
But fast-forward nearly a decade and he overwhelmingly won the support of the voters of his hometown, Dennis, Massachusetts — a seaside community on Cape Cod where, in a landslide victory on Tuesday, he earned a seat on the town's board of selectmen.
CHICAGO ACTIVISTS DEMAND RAHM EMANUEL RESIGN AHEAD OF ANTI-VIOLENCE RALLY "We have had multiple public meetings with our police force and have offered them the opportunity to engage and provide their opinions for the direction of the force," a statement from The Board of Selectmen said, according to the outlet.
Belchertown's executive authority consists of a Board of Selectmen, which expanded from three members to five in 1964: Belchertown Board of Selectmen.
He also served on the board of selectmen of Winterport.
Last Board of Selectmen of Somerville, Massachusetts From 1841 until 1872, the Town of Somerville, Massachusetts was governed by the Board of Selectmen. From 1842 to 1868, the Board of Selectmen was made up of five members. In 1869 the board was expanded to nine members. When Somerville became a city in 1872, the head of government became the Mayor of Somerville.
Southbury has a six-member Board of Selectmen, including First Selectman, Jeff Manville (R).
Internally, Rutland uses a town meeting style system of governance. As of 2019, the Board of Selectmen is composed of Sheila H. Dibb, Jeffrey A. Stillings, Mitchell Ruscitti, Leah M. Whiteman, and Wayne A. Walker. Terms for the board of selectmen are staggered.
The town is administered by a board of selectmen. The town has a planning board.
Woodbridge is governed by a 6-member Board of Selectmen. In April 2006, Edward Maum Sheehy (Democrat) became First Selectman. Since 2017, Beth Heller is the First Selectwoman in Woodbridge (Democrat). Sheehy served on the Board of Selectmen for 27 years as a regular selectman.
Two candidates who had supported the initiative were not elected to the town's Board of Selectmen.
As a New England town, Ayer is governed by town meeting and a three-member board of selectmen.
His son, also called Robert Taft Jr., born 1674, was among the first Uxbridge Board of Selectmen in 1727.
Smola began his career in politics in 1997 at the age of 20, when he became the youngest elected member of the Palmer planning board in the city's history. Three years later, he became the youngest elected member on the Board of Selectmen; he served both offices simultaneously. While serving in Palmer, he served as chairman of the Board of Selectmen (2002–2003 and in 2004); the Pioneer Valley Planning Commissioner; and the education liaison to the Palmer Public Schools (for 2 years). As the chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Smola oversaw a local government transition that replaced the 3 member Board of Selectmen and Open Town Meeting with a Town Manager and a 9-member Town Council, first elected in November 2004.
A New England town board of selectmen meeting The board of selectmen or select board is commonly the executive arm of the government of New England towns in the United States. The board typically consists of three or five members, with or without staggered terms. Three is the most common number, historically.Fairlie, pp. 156-7.
Prior to being elected to the House of Representatives, Cray served on the Board of Selectmen of Palmyra for 10 years.
Lynnfield uses the open town meeting model common in New England with a Board of Selectmen overseeing the operation of the town.
Prior to being elected to the House, Sydney was a member of the Brookline, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen from 1992 to 1998.
State Representative Tom Conroy, State Senator Barry Finegold and former member of the Brookline Board of Selectmen Deb Goldberg were the Democratic candidates.
The current Board of Selectmen as of June 2020 includes Timothy Chapin (Chairman), Alex Bezanson (Vice-Chairman), Michael Kolodziej, Kevin DiMarzio, and James Connolly.
The Town Manager serves as the chief administrative manager and chief fiscal officer of Saugus, Massachusetts. He or she is appointed by the Board of Selectmen.
Like most New England towns, East Kingston has a government run by a Board of Selectmen. The town holds town meetings held in the town hall.
In 2010 Cresta was elected to the Board of Selectmen in Middleton, Massachusetts, a community he once represented during his tenure in the House of Representatives.
All of the other towns elect a 5-member Board of Selectmen as the executive policy-setting board, and utilize Town Meetings as their legislative body.
Sample Ballot. Retrieved April 1, 2016. Santos renewed her term; Hull lost out to new Board of Selectmen add- on Anthony J. Longo and Peter J. May.
Brian M. Cresta (born April 22, 1969 in Stoneham, Massachusetts) is an American politician who currently serves on the Middleton, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen. He previously served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001 and as a member of the Wakefield, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen from 1991 to 1994. From 1998 to 2001 he was also the Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party.
Danvers has a Plan E form of government, which is a combination of a representative town meeting and town manager. It also has an elected board of selectmen.
Orange is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 13,956 at the 2010 census. The town is governed by a Board of Selectmen.
He directed many plays for the company. Cleveland joined the Republican Party. He was elected to serve on the board of selectmen of Tamworth, New Hampshire in 1950.
Topsfield is governed by an Open Town Meeting and an elected five-member Board of Selectmen who appoint the Town Administrator. One or two members of the Board of Selectmen are elected each year to serve for three years. The current members are John K. Spencer, Chair, Lynne Bermudez, Clerk, Boyd Jackson, ‘Vacant (8/2019)’ and A. Richard Gandt. The Board of Selectmen has evolved through more than three hundred years of tradition and custom. In addition to those duties dertrmined by Massachusetts General Law and established by custom, the Selectmen's powers and duties are determined by state law and the Town’s bylaws. Since 2009, following a vote of Town Meeting to update the Town’s General By-Laws, the Selectmen have appointed a Town Administrator as serve as an agent of the Board and to oversee day to day operations and the delivery of Town Services provided under the legal authority of the Board of Selectmen.
Hudson Town Hall, built in 1872 The Town of Hudson has an open town meeting form of government, like most New England towns. The current executive assistant, who is an official appointed by the board of selectmen responsible for the day-to-day administrative affairs of the town and who functions with authority delegated to the office by the town charter and bylaws, is Thomas Moses. The Board of Selectmen is a group of publicly elected officials who are the executive authority of the town. There are five positions on the Hudson Board of Selectmen, currently filled by Joseph Durant, Scott R. Duplisea, John M. Parent, Fred P. Lucy II, and James D. Quinn.
On November 2, 2010 Falzone lost his bid for a sixth term to Saugus Board of Selectmen Chairman and owner of the Kowloon Restaurant Donald Wong by 382 votes.
Glendon was raised in Dalton, Massachusetts. Her father, Martin Glendon, an Irish-Catholic Democrat, was a reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and also chaired the local board of selectmen.
Callahan served on Sutton's long range planning committee, school committee, and board of selectmen. From 2003 to 2011 she represented the 18th Worcester district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. While serving in the House, Callahan was also an assistant professor in the graduate school of nursing at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In June 2016, Callahan was appointed by the Millville board of selectmen to serve as the community's first town administrator.
The Board of Selectmen consists of five at-large members. The Board serves as the chief policy makers of the Town. Selectmen are ineligible to hold any other town office.
Hull won the election by 31 votes, avenging her defeat of three months prior and filling a vacant seat on the Board of Selectmen. Hull's new term lasted through April 2017.
In 1769, the Fosters built the first frame house in Pondtown. In 1771, Pondtown was incorporated as the town of Winthrop and Foster was elected to its first board of selectmen.
He was a member of the Finance Committee, chairman of the board of selectmen, and Town Counsel. In 1960 he was president of the City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association of Massachusetts.
In 2002 the town hired a Town Administrator to work for the board of selectmen and oversee day- to-day operations. Policy and major decisions are still verified by the town meeting.
The five-person Board of Selectmen is responsible for the general supervision of the town, with executive and legislative responsibilities. The Town Clerk is the custodian of town records (namely land records).
The house belonged to Stillman Parker, a local shoe manufacturer who also served on the town's board of selectmen. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Forsaith, a Democrat, then served on Auburn's Board of Selectmen for almost 15 years up to his death. He died of natural causes on 15 August 1982 in his home on Chester Turnpike.
On October 9, 2018, the Kennebunk Board of Selectmen cancelled the station project over concerns about the suitability of the site. In July 2019, the owners listed the building for sale for $939,000.
The town still maintains the town meeting as its form of government with a board of selectmen. The town also has eight boards & commissions, including Inlands & Wetlands, Planning & Zoning and Board of Education.
Thomas Edward Bodett was born on February 23, 1955, in Champaign, Illinois, and raised in Sturgis, Michigan. , he resided in Dummerston, Vermont, where he is a member of the town's board of selectmen.
He built several churches in Boston, of which New North (built 1802–1804) is the last standing. Serving from 1791 to 1795 on Boston's board of selectmen, he resigned due to business pressures but returned in 1799. From 1799 to 1817, he was the chairman of Boston's board of selectmen continuously, and served as a paid police superintendent, improving the city's streets, drains, and lighting. Under his direction, both the infrastructure and civic center of Boston were transformed into a dignified, classical style.
The Provincetown Airport is overseen by the Airport Commission, a five-person board appointed by the Provincetown Board of Selectmen. The town also appoints an airport manager. Currently, the manager is Arthur "Butch" Lisenby.
Wilbraham has a Board of Selectmen in which there are three members, each serving a three-year term. The town has an open town meeting rule and an annual town meeting is held every spring.
Before he was mayor, Brown worked for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company supervising the stonework used in the construction of the company's facilities. Brown was elected in 1840 to the Manchester, New Hampshire Board of Selectmen.
Robert Aldersey Vinal (March 6, 1821 – April 12, 1887) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and on the Board of Selectmen of Somerville, Massachusetts.
Colt was a member of the Milton Board of Selectmen from 1973 to 1982 and was chairman for three years. Colt remained active in politics following his move to Wenham, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Hamilton-Wenham Open Space and Housing Committee from 1987 to 1989 and the Wenham Board of Selectmen from 1990 to 1995. In 1995, Colt succeeded his friend Forrester Clark in the Massachusetts House of Representatives after Clark gave up his seat to run for Massachusetts State Auditor.
He served as state's attorney for Windham County in 1783, and also as a member of Brattleboro's board of selectmen from 1783 to 1784. Knight also served again as Brattleboro's town clerk from 1783 to 1787.
He also served on the town's board of selectmen during the Revolutionary War years, and filled other municipal offices as well. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1978.
Jonathan Stone (April 29, 1823 – November 26, 1897) was a Massachusetts politician who served on the Common Council, and as the twelfth and last mayor, of Charlestown, Massachusetts; and on the Revere, Massachusetts, Board of Selectmen.
While in the Maine Legislature, Andrews was a vocal opponent of Maine's tax on gasoline and diesel. After leaving the Senate, Andrews was elected to the York Board of Selectmen. In May 2014, she was elected chairperson.
Henry Paddack (April 2, 1838 – 1920) was an American businessman and politician who served as the Treasurer; a member of the Board of Selectmen of Nantucket, Massachusetts and as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
On October 14, 1968, Wilkinson was named Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts. He had previously been a finalist for the job in 1962, but the Board of Selectmen decided to give the job to John O. Stinson.
From 1841 until 1872 Somerville was run by the Board of Selectmen, because up to that point Somerville was still incorporated as a town. The Mayor is the current head of the municipal government in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Austin Belknap (July 18, 1819 – December 9, 1902) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as a member, and last Chairman, of the Board of Selectmen of Somerville, Massachusetts, and as the third Mayor, of Somerville.
Berry was a shipwright and owned a ship yard at Back Cove, Falmouth, now Portland, Maine. He was also chairman of the Board of Selectmen in Falmouth, Maine in 1753 and 1754 when Stephen Longfellow was clerk.
However, the Board of Selectmen objected to Stinson's spending increases. This dispute came to a head when the cost of constructing the new junior high school unexpectedly increased. On March 7, 1967, Selectman Frederick Wagner introduced a motion to fire Stinson, citing the town's "sky-rocketing tax rate" and Stinson's "cool indifference" to the Board of Selectmen. The board voted 4 to 0 to suspend and fire Stinson, with the town manager's only supporter on the board, Vernon W. Evans, unable to attend the meeting due to illness.
Some towns, such as Woodbridge, elect their first selectmen to be the chief administrative officer of the town even though the position is technically part-time. The first selectman is also a voting member of the board of selectmen and can cast a tie-breaking vote in the board of finance. In other towns, the position is full-time. In towns such as Beacon Falls, Bethany, Orange, and Simsbury, the losing first selectman candidate can earn a seat on the board of selectmen, depending on the number of votes he or she garners.
It was attended by residents from Saugus as well as from surrounding communities. Seated on the stage were dignitaries from Saugus and Lynn, including the Saugus Board of Selectmen, Lynn mayor Samuel M. Bubier, and former Lynn mayors James N. Buffum and Hiram N. Breed. The dedicatory address was given by Wendell Phillips. Mayor Buffum then made a speech and was followed by Building Committee Chairman E. P. Robinson, who made a brief speech followed by a formal handing over of the building's keys to Board of Selectmen Chairman E. W. Newhall, who also spoke.
In many towns, the budget is split between general government, administered by the Board of Selectmen and the school district administered by the Board of Education. The school district include one town or several towns, which join into a "regional" (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire) or "unified" (Vermont) school district. School districts in New England do not have separate taxation powers, and must receive their revenues from member towns. Typically, after the Board of Selectmen or School Board settle their respective budgets, they are submitted to the Board of Finance for review.
Denmark has a Town Meeting-Selectmen-Town Manager form of government and is governed by a municipal charter. The three member Board of Selectmen is elected at large on a non-partisan basis for staggered three-year terms. The Town Manager is appointed by the Board of Selectmen for an initial term of up to two years and may be reappointed in successive terms of up to three years each. Denmark's is currently seeking a Town Manager as Ephrem Paraschak left the position as of June 0f 2014.
On February 16, 1948, Shurtleff was unanimously chosen by the Board of Selectmen to become the first Town Manager of Saugus. On February 1, 1950, Shurtleff resigned as Town Manager to accept a similar job in Medford, Massachusetts.
Raye and his family resides in Perry, Maine. Karen Howard Raye, his wife, is a member of the Perry Board of Selectmen. He is a member, trustee and Church Council Chairman of the North Perry United Methodist Church.
Schamberg is a retired teacher. Schamberg served as mayor of Orwell, Ohio for 14 and a half years. He was elected to the Wilmot (N.H.) Board of Selectmen in March 2015 and is now serving his second term.
Henry H. Gilmore (August 31, 1832 – December 24, 1891) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served on the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Medford, Massachusetts and as the Mayor of The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jefferson's government consists of a three-member Board of Selectmen, A Chair Selectman is chosen each year, this person oversees the monthly meetings. There is no Town Manager, a Town Clerk runs maintains the day-to-day operations.
Holderness is governed in the traditional New England style, with a five-member board of selectmen as its executive branch, and the traditional Town Meeting as its legislative branch. Municipal elections and Town Meetings are customarily held in March.
In 1737, Davenport was the Stamford town tithingman, and in 1738, he was the town surveyor. He also served on the Stamford board of selectmen (1746–1777) for 31 years, and in the Connecticut State Militia as a colonel.
Frank P. Bennett (May 2, 1853 – February 8, 1933) was an American journalist, magazine publisher and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and as a member of the Everett, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen.
These bills are House Bill 1336, House Bill 1789, and House Bill 2037. A town law, enacted by the town's board of selectmen in April 2008, prohibits the sale of Salvia divinorum in the Town of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
However, Anthony Longo was voted off of the Board of Selectmen/Town Council after receiving fewer votes than the only new member to be elected in 2019, Jonathan Chines.(Holmes, Bob). Longo Out, Chines In For Wakefield Town Council. Wakefield Patch.
Tuckerman's political career began as a member of the Hamilton Board of Selectmen. From 1929 to 1931 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. From 1937 to 1941 he was a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council.
Cresta was elected in 1991 to the Wakefield Board of Selectmen. At the age of 21 he became the youngest Selectman ever elected in Wakefield's history. During that time Cresta worked as a Legislative Aide to State Senator Richard Tisei.
John S. Cate (March 25, 1839 – October 11, 1906) was an American business executive and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, a member of the Board of Selectmen, and as Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts.
William Brewer was a Massachusetts politician who served on the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Roxbury, Massachusetts, as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and from, 1811 to 1812, as the sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
Forguites was born in Forest Dale, Vermont. He graduated from Brandon High School. Forguites served on the Town of Brandon Board of Selectmen and on the Otter Valley Union High School Board of Directors. Foguites was involved with the banking business.
For more than 30 years Ayer was the town assessor, and also served four terms on the board of selectmen, and eight years as town clerk. He lived here until 1888. His brother Thomas lived next door on Grove Street.
That same year he was elected to the board of selectmen and named its chairman. During his first year on the board, the selectmen voted 4 to 0 to suspend and fire Town Manager John O. Stinson due to the town's "sky-rocketing tax rate" and Stinson's "cool indifference" to the board of selectmen. Stanley Day, the head of a local engineering firm, was selected by the board to serve as temporary town manager. On July 31, the board chose Paul H. Boucher over Day in a 3 to 2 vote for the permanent job, with Hansen voting for Boucher.
From 1963 to 1967, Cunningham was a Saugus town meeting member. He also served as acting town moderator. In 1967, Cunningham was elected to the Saugus Board of Selectmen. He topped the ticket with 4,388 votes and was named chairman of the board.
Vernon Wynne Evans (January 5, 1895 – 1975) was an American politician and educator from Saugus, Massachusetts who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Superintendent of the Saugus Public Schools, and as a member of the Saugus Board of Selectmen.
She served in the Senate until 2002. Kilkelly was born in Bath, Maine. She earned both a B.S. and M.S. from New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University). Prior to serving in the Legislature, Kilkelly served on the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen.
Thomas Holmes is an American executive. Holmes was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, where his father, John Thomas Holmes, was chairman of the Board of Selectmen. Holmes' father died when Thomas was 10 years old. Holmes graduated from Wilmington High School in 1941.
He attended the public schools, Leicester Academy and graduated from Brown University in 1892. He became a wool merchant. Olney was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1902. He was Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Leicester.
He ran again in 1914, but withdrew from the race in August, saying that he could not spare the time necessary to run for Congress. Bennett served on the Saugus Board of Selectmen in 1913. He was Saugus Town Moderator from 1918 to 1937.
John O'Connell (24 June, 1826 - 20 August, 1909) was a U.S. shoe manufacture, and political figure who was a member of the Board of Selectmen and, in 1893, the third Mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts. O'Connell was born on June 24, 1826 in Middleton, Ireland.
In 1969, Needham was elected to the Belmont, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen. He won with 58% of the vote to nearest opponent's 37%. He remained on the board until 1978, when he was elected town moderator of Belmont. He retired from this position in 1990.
Incorporated in 1717, the town is governed under the New England open town meeting system, headed by a five-member elected Board of Selectmen whose duties include licensing, appointing various administrative positions, and calling a town meeting of citizens annually or whenever the need arises.
The Town Manager is appointed by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Selectmen for a term of years determined by the board. The Town Charter requires that the Manager be # "Especially fitted by education, training and experience to perform the duties of the office" # "Be appointed without regard to his political beliefs". # "Need not be a resident of the town or the Commonwealth" The town manager shall be sworn in by the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, the Town Clerk, or a justice of the peace. When the position becomes vacant, the Selectmen shall fill the office as soon as possible by appointing a temporary Manager.
The executive agency of town government is an elected, part-time board, known as the Board of Selectmen or Select Board, having three, five, or seven members. Between sessions, the board of selectmen interprets the policy set at Town Meeting and is assigned numerous duties including: approving all town non-school expenditures, authorizing highway construction and repair, serving as town purchasing agent for non-school items, issuing licenses, and overseeing the conduct of all town activities. Often the part-time selectmen also serve as town assessors, overseers of the poor, and as road commissioners. Generally, there are other elected town officers whose duties are specified by law.
Denis E. Guyer (born July 11, 1966 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American politician who represented the 2nd Berkshire District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2005–2011. He had previously served as a member of the Board of Selectmen in Dalton, Massachusetts from 2001–2004.
From 1991 to 2000, Switzler was a member of the Wellesley Board of Selectmen. In 2010, Switzler ran as a write- in candidate for his old House seat. He gained enough signatures to win the Republican nomination, but lost in the general election to incumbent Alice Peisch.
He then served as an assistant commissioner and director of the Division of Hearings in the Department of Public Welfare from 1981 to 1983. In 1983 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Saugus Board of Selectmen. From 1983 to 1992, Cornetta ran a private law practice.
Shurtleff was born on July 28, 1910 in Middleborough, Massachusetts. He attended Williston Academy and Brown University. Shurtleff worked as a writer for the Middleborough Journal and The Standard-Times. In 1937, while working for the Journal, Shurtleff was elected to the Middleborough Board of Selectmen.
Hawkes was born on December 4, 1816 to his mother, Theodate Pratt Hawkes, and father Ahijah Hawkes. His father was the chairman of Saugus' first Board of Selectmen. His mother descended from immigrant Richard Pratt from Maldon, County of Essex, England; His father from immigrant Adam Hawkes.
Hansen also served as a member of the town's Finance Committee. In 1964 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the board of selectmen. In 1965 he was named town moderator. In 1967, he was hired as a junior engineering aid in the Essex County engineer's office.
On June 24, 1991, the Board of Selectmen voted 3 to 2 against Mackenzie's reappointment as Director of Veterans' Services on the grounds that they did not want him to practice law while serving as the town's veterans' agent. MacKenzie currently operates a law practice in Burlington.
He was made a Freeman of this town on 2 November 1632. He built his home on the west side of Holyoke Street near Harvard Square. He was chosen to be on the Board of Selectmen for Newtowne, and held this position from 1634 to 1635.
Robert Gilchrist was the eighth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey. Born around 1790, Gilchrist became the president of the Jersey Board of Selectmen from 1835 to 1836. He succeeded Henry C. Taylor as mayor. He served two years from April 19, 1850 to May 2, 1852.
Like many New England towns, Hampton Falls has a town meeting/board of selectmen form of government. The current selectmen are Edward Beattie, Mark Lane, and Lou Gargiulo. Town meeting is held annually in the school auditorium, and elections are conducted using a New Hampshire Senate Bill 2 system.
Rodney Wallace (December 21, 1823 - February 27, 1903) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, Wallace attended the common schools. He engaged in the manufacture of paper. He was a member of the Board of Selectmen of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1864, 1865, and 1867.
He subsequently served on the Board of Selectmen in 1652-1654, and again in 1659. In 1653 he took up a collection for Harvard College. Wheelock held the position of representative to the General Court in Massachusetts for Medfield in the years 1653, 1663, 1664, 1666, and 1667.
Stephanie Roper became a Budget Committee member and, later, Supervisor of the Checklist. Scott Roper was elected to the Board of Selectmen in 1999 and reelected in 2002. Several others who took part in the renovation also were elected or appointed to positions in town government once the project was completed.
Michaud was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Maine in the 2014 election. While initially considered a favorite by some analysts on account of the general unpopularity of incumbent Paul LePage, he lost by a margin larger than expected. He currently holds a seat on the East Millinocket Board of Selectmen.
In 1815, Cheever was elected to Saugus' first Board of Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor. In 1821, 1829, 1830, and 1831, Cheever represented Saugus in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. During his political career, Cheever frequently competed with his brother Joseph Cheever. Cheever died on April 21, 1843.
Sarah K. Peake is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Democrat, she has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 2007. She represents the Fourth Barnstable district, a Cape Cod district that includes her hometown of Provincetown. She previously served on the Provincetown Board of Selectmen.
From 1886 to 1887 Bennett served as a member of the Everett Board of Selectmen. Bennett was a Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Everett from 1891 to 1894. During his tenure in the House, Bennett was gained a reputation for determinedly opposing any policy he found questionable.
In 1894, Bennett moved to Saugus, Massachusetts, and soon became active in town affairs. He served as Town Moderator and on the Board of Selectmen and School Committee. In 1898 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a candidate for Speaker of the House in 1900.
Charles N. Decas (born October 5, 1937 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American politician who was Sheriff of Plymouth County, Massachusetts from 2000 to 2001, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 to 1997, and a member of the Wareham, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen from 1974 to 1977.
In 1927, Mullen moved to Saugus, Massachusetts. That same year he was involved in a dispute with police chief Roland Mansfield, which resulted in Mullen trying to remove Mansfield from office. In 1928 he was a candidate for the Saugus Board of Selectmen. He finished in last place with 700 votes.
He served for two years on the board of selectmen, and served one term in the state legislature. Ayer's brother Albert, also prominent in local affairs, lived in a house that was originally adjacent to this one on Brooks Street, but has since been separated from it by infill construction.
Flora Baum was the Postmistress, appointed by President Woodrow Wilson. The Baum's had four children: Alice, Dorothy, Joan and Joseph Baum, Jr. (Bud). For many years Bud was on the Board of Selectmen and was the Fire Chief. Gilford Butler was a local attorney and chairman of the school board.
Conway has a council–manager form of government. The council consists of a five-member board of selectmen who are elected, while the town manager is employed by the selectmen to be the chief administrator of the town. The town adopted this form in 1956. Thomas Holmes is the town manager of Conway.
Wilmington has an open town meeting, a board of selectmen and a town manager. The current town manager is Jeffrey Hull. Five of the town's six districts are represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by David Robertson, the last is represented by Ken Gordon. The town's state senator is Bruce Tarr.
Klimm began his political career as a Barnstable Town Meeting member. In 1981, he was elected to the town's Board of Selectmen. At the age of 25, he was the youngest Selectmen in Barnstable's history. He remained on the Board until 1987, when he became Southeast Regional Director of the Massachusetts Housing Partnership.
From 1878 to 1881 Paddack was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1892 Paddack was elected the Treasurer of the Town and County of Nantucket, Massachusetts he served as treasurer for eleven consecutive years, Paddack also served as a member of the Nantucket Board of Selectmen for ten years.
In 1950, Means was elected to the Essex Board of Selectmen. He did some of his campaigning while collecting garbage for the town (Means used the garbage as pig feed). Later that year he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1954 he was the Republican nominee for state treasurer.
Petrolati, the son of a paint and wallpaper store owner, grew up in Ludlow, Massachusetts. After graduating from Western New England College, he returned to Ludlow, where he worked for State Senator Martin Reilly and served on the town's board of selectmen. In 1986, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Patricia A. Walrath (born August 11, 1941 in Brainerd, Minnesota) is an American politician who represented the 3rd Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 to 2009, was a member of the Stow, Massachusetts, Board of Selectmen from 1980 to 1986, and the Stow Finance Committee from 1977 to 1980.
The left rear corner has two levels of porches. The oldest portion of this rambling 2.5 story wood frame house was built c. 1816 by Moses Corey, a farmer, on land purchased from his father-in-law. Corey was prominent in local affairs, serving on the board of selectmen and the school committee.
Collins was a 30-year resident of Saugus, Massachusetts. He spent one year as a town meeting member and one term (1977 to 1979) as a member of the Board of Selectmen. He then spent ten years as a member of the Board of Appeals. In 1991 he was named Town Manager of Saugus.
He was a member of Beverly's last board of selectmen before Beverly adopted a city government in 1895. Stopford ran for the 19th Essex Massachusetts House of Representatives seat in 1896. He finished fourth in a district in which the top two vote getters were elected. In 1924, Stopford was elected Mayor of Beverly.
The Brookline Board of Selectmen and the Brookline Historical Society worked in conjunction with Race Architectural Restoration Enterprises, Inc. (R.A.R.E., Inc.) to successfully accomplish the task of moving the delicate, historically important structure. The project took years of planning and preparation prior to the actual move. The building was reset on a solid stone foundation.
The local government of Morris is run by three selectmen elected by the town at large. The First Selectman is the full-time chief executive and administrative officer responsible for the day-to-day operation of the town government. The Board of Selectmen establishes administrative and personnel policies and executes town policies and regulations.
Geoffrey D. Hall (born October 10, 1948) is an American teacher and politician who represented the 2nd Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991 to 2009. He previously served as a member of the Westford, Massachusetts Housing Authority from 1989 to 1992 and the Westford Board of Selectmen from 1983 to 1989.
Cutler began her political career in 1923 when she ran for the Needham, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen. She lost by 57 votes. She ran again in 1924 and won. She was the first woman to hold elected office in Needham and only one of two female selectmen in Massachusetts at the time of her election.
Coolidge was a member of the Board of Selectmen of his native town for three years. He served as member of the Democratic State Central Committee. Coolidge served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1875. Coolidge was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893).
Christine Powers is an American politician and librarian from Maine. A Democrat, Powers was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from December 2012 until December 2016. She has served on the Naples Board of Selectmen since 2002 and as Director of the Naples Public Library. She replaced Richard Cebra as State Representative.
The state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is Elizabeth Warren. The state's current junior (Class II) Senator is Edward Markey. On the local level, the town uses the representative town meeting form of government, led by a town manager and a board of selectmen. The current town manager of Plymouth is Melissa Arrighi.
Retrieved March 21, 2013. (about which more below). A number of other matters are handled by different committees in the town, such as the Finance Committee, or FinCom, the Zoning Board of Appeals, and the School Board. The Town Hall houses the Board of Selectmen and the Finance Committee, as well as other town boards and offices.
Herlihy was born in Queens, New York and received a B.S. in Education from the University of Hartford. He taught in the Simsbury School District and then worked in the insurance business. In 1983, he started his insurance business in Simsbury: the T. J. Herlihy Insurance. From 1987 to 1990, Herlihy was on Simsbury's Board of Selectmen.
Traditionally, the first selectman acts as chief administrative officer. As with all politicians in New England, it was originally a part-time position. Most modern towns that have part-time first selectmen limit their function to chairing the board of selectmen and performing certain ceremonial duties. Actual administration of the town is handled by the town manager.
Hiss, 210, 386. Although Durham benefited from levying taxes on the residential portions of Shiloh, the town also feared that block voting by Shiloh residents might dominate the town meeting, the school board, or the board of selectmen or, that in the event of bankruptcy, its members might become dependent on town charity.Hiss, 242-43, 394; Nelson, 139.
John Aldis was a representative to the Great and General Court of colonial Massachusetts in 1683 and served for 12 years on the Board of Selectmen in Dedham, Massachusetts. He was the only son of Nathan Aldis and his wife Mary. Aldis had a son also named John. Aldis was admitted as a townsman on January 1, 1650-51.
Peter Woodward (died May 9, 1685) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court in 1665, 1669, and 1670. He also served on the board of selectmen for 16 years, with his first term beginning in 1643 and his last ending in 1670. His daughter, Ann, married Robert Hinsdale, probably in England. He died May 9, 1685.
Samuel Morse (1585-1654) was an original proprietor of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on the board of selectmen for two years. He was also a founder of Medfield, Massachusetts when it broke away from Dedham. He was elected a selectman before joining the First Church and Parish in Dedham. He was a signer of the Dedham Covenant.
Yerxa's grandfather, who served on the Cambridge board of selectmen, first interested him in politics. From 1948 to 1951 he was a member of the Boston City Council. From 1953 to 1957 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He then served one term representing the 3rd Suffolk District in the Massachusetts Senate.
In 1949, he and his wife, Margaret McKean Read, daughter of Margarett Sargent, moved to Saracen Farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts. From 1953 to 1955 he was a member of the Ipswich Board of Selectmen. In 1954 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He resigned from the House in 1959 amid a public scandal surrounding his marriage.
The town hall was closed during the renovations and the offices were moved to the former high school extension building on Main Street. A reopening ceremony was held on November 17, 1998. Board of Selectmen chairman Janette Fasano served as the master of ceremonies and delivered the opening and closing remarks. Father John Mulloy delivered the invocation.
222 Josiah was a farmer, and soldier, and Lydia was a colonial mother and homemaker. Josiah became a prominent citizen in early Uxbridge. He was a farmer, local official, and Massachusetts legislator. Josiah went on to serve a number of terms as a member of the Board of Selectmen, as town clerk, and as town moderator.
Phineas Jones Stone (May 23, 1810 – August 12, 1891) was a Massachusetts politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a member of the Board of Selectmen for the Town of Charlestown, Massachusetts, as a member of and president of the Common Council and as the seventh mayor of the City of Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Gage was the Chairman of the Augusta, Massachusetts, Board of Selectmen, in 1803. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He also served as Treasurer of Kennebec County from 1810 to 1831. Gage was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819).
Edward Standish Bradford was an American wool manufacture and politician who served as a member of the Webster, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen, on the Common Council of the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature, as the 21st Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and as the 35th Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts.
From 1887 to 1889 Cate served as a member of the Everett, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen. In 1889 Cate was elected as a Republican, (over Independent Republican Thomas Leavitt who had earlier lost the Republican nomination to Cate), to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In the legislature of 1899 Cate served on the Committee on Street Railways.
During his tenure on the board, Evans and fellow selectman C. F. Nelson Pratt paid out of pocket for repairs to a bridge frequently used by Saugus residents that the town could not pay to fix because it was on private property. He also led an effort to make the Board of Selectmen an unpaid board.
Since its incorporation in 1715, Hopkinton has retained its original Open Town Meeting form of government. The town's day-to-day affairs had been directly overseen by an elected Board of Selectmen until 2007, when the Town's Charter Commission created a Town Manager position with more discretion, although the Town Manager still reports to the Selectmen.
Low went on to earn a Master of Arts and Ph.D. from Columbia University, and from 1917 to his retirement in 1960 he served on the Dartmouth faculty as a professor of chemistry. Low also served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the Hanover, New Hampshire board of education and board of selectmen. He died in 1973.
Christine R. Savage (born August 5, 1931) is an American politician from Maine. Savage served in the Maine Legislature from 1994 to 2008, including six years in the Maine House of Representatives and eight years in the Maine Senate. She also served on the Union Board of Selectmen. Savage studied public administration at the University of Maine.
Boucher met with an FBI agent on October 17 to turn over documents relating to alleged misuse of federal funds spent on equipment for the school. In November 1967, Boucher was hospitalized after a recurrence of a respiratory ailment. On February 20, 1968, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously not to renew Boucher's six-month contract.
In 1856 Colburn was elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a member of the Dedham, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen, Board of Assessors and, Overseers of the Poor. In 1857 he was the Chairman of the Committee on Parishes, Religious Societies, Etc. In 1858 he was the Chairman of the Committee on Railroads and Canals.
Dwight was on the very first Board of Selectmen in Dedham. He served for 16 years with his final term ending in January 1653/54. He was "one of the highest ranked men" in the town. Dwight was one of just ten men, or 5% of the population, who made up 60% of the leadership of the town.
Eight months after his hiring, the Board of Selectmen voted to remove him from office on the grounds that they believed that his job performance had been unsatisfactory, that he had failed to demonstrate a clear pattern of leadership for the town, failed to communicate effectively with the Board of Selectmen and Town Meeting, and consistently proven to be uninformed or misinformed on the status of projects. After his dismissal he sued the town, claiming that they had violated his Due Process rights by failing to identify further the grounds for his removal, preventing him from cross- examining Board members under oath at the public hearing, and dismissing him "without any justifiable cause or basis in fact." He was awarded $30,000 in damages, but the decision was overturned on appeal.
April 26, 2016 Election Results - Final. Retrieved May 2, 2016. 2016 Special Election (July) A vacancy on the Board of Selectmen was filled by a Special Town Election held on July 19, 2016. The candidates to fill the vacancy were announced as Daniel L. Benjamin, Jr., Mehreen N. Butt, Christopher J. Callanan, Nathaniel David Gayman, Allyson Gael Houghton, and Phyllis J. Hull.
The state's senior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, elected in 2012, is Elizabeth Warren. The junior (Class I) senator is Ed Markey. Chatham is governed by the open town meeting form of government, administered by an elected Board of Selectmen and an appointed Town Manager. The town has four post offices, all located at various points along Route 28.
Williamstown is governed by the open town meeting form of government, and is governed by a board of selectmen and a town manager. The town has its own police department and a volunteer fire department. The town has its own library, Milne Public Library, and other public services. The nearest hospital, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, is located in Bennington, to the north.
MassGIS Towns Data Layer The new Town Charter, which took effect in 2006, was passed in a special election. The Board of Selectmen and Town Meeting were abolished, and legislative powers were vested in an elected Town Council. Executive power, largely ceremonial, resides in the Council President, who is popularly elected. An appointed Town Manager serves as the head of administrative services.
Town and county governments are combined in Nantucket (see List of counties in Massachusetts). Nantucket's elected legislative body is its Select Board (name changed in 2018 from Board of Selectmen), which is responsible for the town government's goals and policies. It is administered by a town manager, who is responsible for all departments, except for the school, airport and water departments.
Fears served on the Gloucester Board of Selectmen from 1872 to 1874. One February 20, 1873, a special town meeting voted 394 to 48 to petition the Massachusetts General Court for a city charter. Fears was chosen to serve on the committee tasked with drawing up the new charter. The charter was adopted at a May 15, 1873 town meeting 689 to 353.
Wentworth uses a town meeting form of government administered by a three-member Board of Selectmen serving staggered three-year terms, with one seat elected each year. In the New Hampshire General Court, Wentworth is in House District 6 and represented by James D. Aguiar (D) and Charles J. Brosseau (R). Wentworth is in Senate District 2 and represented by Bob Giuda (R).
Pamela P. Resor (born 1942) is an American politician who was the Massachusetts State Senator for the Middlesex & Worcester District from her election in 1999 to her retirement in 2009. Resor attended Smith College in the 1960s. In 1978 she was President of the League of Women Voters. From 1981 to 1987 she was a member of the Acton, Massachusetts board of selectmen.
The Provincetown Select Board (Board of Selectmen) is the primary policy- making, planning, and goal-setting agency of the Town of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The Select Board consists of five members elected at-large for three year terms. Terms overlap so that at least one member's term expires each year. The Board meets on the second and fourth Mondays at 6 p.m.
She was reelected in 1925 and was chosen to serve as chairman of the board. When the town created a Board of Health in 1927, she chose to serve on it instead of the Board of Selectmen. She would remain on the board until 1967. Cutler ran unsuccessfully for the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1928, 1930, and 1932 before winning in 1934.
Porter was a member of the Quincy board of selectmen from 1879 to 1880. From 1881 to 1882 he represented Quincy and Weymouth in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1888, Porter was elected Mayor of Quincy in the city's first mayoral election. Porter also served on Quincy's school committee for seven years and was a member of the inaugural Quincy's park commission.
He also served a term as state representative (1905), winning the election by just four votes. According to a profile published in the Springfield Union in 1947, Mr. Bodurtha's "philosophy of life consists in trying to give everyone a 'square deal.'" For his service to the community, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously in 1960 to name the Agawam stretch of Mass.
Also, the offices of tax collector and tree warden switched from being elected positions to appointed positions. STV was abandoned after the 1950 election. On February 15, 1948, the Board of Selectmen unanimously selected James Shurtleff, who had been recommended by the International City Managers Association, to serve as the first town manager of Saugus, Massachusetts. He took office on April 1.
This is a list of Mayors of Lawrence, Massachusetts. The Mayor of Lawrence is the head of the municipal government in Lawrence, Massachusetts. There was no Mayor of Lawrence from April 14, 1847 until March 21, 1853, because up to that point Lawrence was still incorporated as a town. The Town of Lawrence was administered by the Board of Selectmen.
Edward Alleyn (died 1642) was a businessman and early American politician. He served on the first board of selectmen in Dedham in 1639 and was a frequent representative to the Great and General Court beginning in 1638. He was town clerk for two years, having first been elected in 1639. As a businessman, he was involved with establishing an iron foundry.
Belvoir Terrace in 1912 Lenox employs the open town meeting form of government, and is governed by a board of selectmen and a town manager. The town has its own full-time police, fire, ambulance, and public works departments. The Lenox Library, founded in 1856, has occupied the former county courthouse since 1874. It is a member of the regional library network.
Holmes began her political career as a town meeting member in Brookline, Massachusetts. She also served on the "Committee of Thirty", which reviewed appropriations and articles on the annual town meeting warrant. She was also an active member of the Massachusetts Republican Party and the Brookline Republican Town Committee. In 1923, Holmes was an unsuccessful candidate for the Brookline board of selectmen.
The defining feature of a New England town, as opposed to a city, is that a town meeting and a board of selectmen serve as the main form of government for a town, while cities are run by a mayor and a city council. For example, Brookline, Massachusetts is a town, even though it is fairly urban, because of its form of government.
In 1854, he was elected to Burlington's board of selectmen. After Burlington was incorporated as a city, he served as its second mayor from 1866 to 1868. He served on the board of aldermen from 1869 to 1871, and performed the mayor's duties after the resignation of Daniel Chipman Linsley. He again served as an alderman from 1874 to 1875.
John W. Scibak (born May 4, 1953) is an American politician who represents the 2nd Hampshire District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He is a former South Hadley, Massachusetts Town Meeting Member (1990–2002) and was a member of the South Hadley Board of Selectmen from 1991 to 2002.Massachusetts Legislature profile He was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Gilmore served on various town and city offices in Medford, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Medford, Massachusetts he was a member of the Board of Selectmen, Overseer of the Poor, Highway Surveyor and Assessor. In Cambridge he was a member of the Common Council and Board of Aldermen. Gilmore also represented Cambridge and the Third Middlesex District in the Massachusetts State Senate.
Searsport's government is organized around a town meeting system and is characteristic of a New England town, with an annual town meeting held every March and special town meetings held at various times during the year. A five-member Board of Selectmen (with its members serving three-year terms) is elected on the Tuesday before the annual meeting and it, along with the Town Manager, run the town's daily affairs, including overseeing town water, sewage treatment, law enforcement, fire protection, emergency medical service, recreational programs and a library. They may not pass a budget or most ordinances without town approval at the annual or a special town meeting. The town does not have a mayor, but the Board of Selectmen does choose a Chair who is responsible for running the Board's meetings and who is considered the chief executive officer for the town.
A minimum of 75 registered voters is required as a quorum to hold a town meeting and vote on town business. The quorum requirement was reduced from 100 in 2009 because at times, meetings were failing to achieve a quorum. Important budgetary issues approved at a town meeting must be passed by a subsequent ballot vote. Maynard's elected officials are a five-member Board of Selectmen.
Coughlin's career started at age 20, when he became the youngest member of Dedham's School Committee. In 1995, he became the youngest member of Dedham's Board of Selectmen. He served as both Vice Chair and Chair of the Board. In 2002, Coughlin ran for state representative from the 11th Norfolk district, defeating incumbent Maryanne Lewis in the Democratic primary and Joseph A. Pascarella in the general election.
Old Park School in 1909 The core of Milford's governing system is the representative town meeting, where elected citizens can voice their opinions, but more importantly, directly effect changes in the community. Along with a Board of Selectmen, Town Administrator, Planning Board, Finance Committee, etc., the citizens of Milford have input into how the town is run. The Massachusetts Department of Correction is headquartered in Milford.
Howland ran for the Freetown Board of Selectmen in 1999 and was defeated by Lawrence N. Ashley. In 2000, Howland ran again and defeated incumbent selectman Robert A. Robidoux. He served for one term, from 2000 - 2003. In 2002, he was elected to the Massachusetts House from the 12th Bristol District,Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Eagle Printer Inc.
In 1969, the last major alteration was the installation of large plate girders to support the weight of traffic, which were concealed from view with the addition of exterior sheathing. The cost of the project was originally estimated at $50,000 in 1967, , and noted that any changes in the appearance of the bridge would have to be approved by the Kent's Board of selectmen.
Michael J. McCarthy (October 23, 1890–June 12, 1955) was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Commissioner of Veterans' Services. McCarthy was born on October 23, 1890 in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He spent his entire life in the town. He was a member of its board of selectmen for 19 years and town clerk for 21.
Hinsdale was elected to the first board of selectmen when the Greenfield was separated from Deerfield in 1753. By 1787, when his estate was inventoried, Hinsdale had unambiguously been operating a tavern here, as well as a cooper's shop. The tavern continued to be operated by his sons. After 1836 the tavern was operated by others, and was closed in 1860, apparently due to the temperance movement.
In March 2019, Green-Rainbow Party member Jim Snyder-Grant ran for Acton Board of Selectmen and won over 1,000 votes (nearly a third of the vote in a three-way race) and lost by 31 votes. GRP member Edward 'Tar' Larner was re-elected to the Concord Housing Authority and GRP member Matthew Moncreaff was elected to the town of Princeton Select Board.
The town of Uxbridge was a business incubator for the cashmere wool industry, satinets, and power looms in the textile industry of America. Effingham Capron, John Capron Sr. and Colonel John W. Capron were pioneers in textile manufacturing in America. John Willard Capron also served multiple roles in the community. He was Postmaster, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Notary, and served in the state legislature.
She subsequently served on the board of selectmen until 1991, when she was elected first selectwomen of Westbrook. Daily was first elected to the Connecticut Senate from district 33 in 1992. Following her lung cancer diagnosis, Daily announced in May 2012 that she would not stand for reelection later that year. Daily died of lung cancer at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford on July 30, 2015.
Tillotson returned to Vermont after retiring from the army. Initially he resided in Springfield and practiced law with Alban J. Parker, who went on to serve as Vermont Attorney General.Hughes, Vermont Bar Association, page 66 He later lived in retirement, first in Northfield, and later in Newfane. Tillotson remained active, including serving on Newfane's Board of Selectmen and authoring numerous articles on American history and other topics.
In 1919, Pratt was elected to the Board of Selectmen where he would later serve as chairman. In 1925, he made headlines for his plan to arm 100 hand-picked citizens in order to deter bandits from operating in Saugus. Pratt dropped his proposal for a "vigilance committee" at the next meeting. On August 4, 1935, Pratt was 15 minutes late to a Selectmen's meeting.
In 2018, he was elected to the Board of Selectmen in East Millinocket, his hometown. On March 28, 2019, Michaud was nominated by Gov. Janet Mills to serve as a trustee on both the board of the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System. Michaud endorsed Michael Bloomberg as a nominee for President of the United States in the 2020 Maine Democratic primary.
In 2013 he was elected to the board of healthcare firm Healthways Inc. after an activist shareholder threatened a proxy fight over its performance; See generally two years later he was appointed president and CEO. He restructured the company and rebranded it as Tivity Health. Tramuto was elected to the Town of Ogunquit Board of Selectmen in 2006 and served two terms as chairman.
Albert L. "Al" Nash (May 13, 1921 – February 4, 2015) was an American politician and businessman. Born in Millbury, Massachusetts, Nash went to Millbury High School and then served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and was a tail gunner. Nash owned a dry cleaning business in Worcester, Massachusetts. He served as the water commissioner and on the board of selectmen.
Richardson's political career began in Winchester, Massachusetts, where he served on many town boards. He was a member of the Finance Committee from 1926 to 1929, the Board of Selectmen from 1929 to 1931, and the Planning Board from 1936 to 1961. He also served on the Board of Appeal and as a Town Meeting member. In 1936 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate.
In 1891 he was appointed by Governor William Russell to represent Massachusetts at the National Farmers' Congress in Sedalia, Missouri. In Saugus he served as a Town Moderator. He was chairman on the town's Board of Selectmen and the Overseers of the Poor. In Salem, Hawkes was an expert on woodland titles at the Registry of Deeds; This was a "favorite" position he held late in life.
The Town of Fall River, Massachusetts (also known as the Town of Troy, Massachusetts from 1804 to 1834) was led by a Board of Selectmen from 1803 until its re-incorporation as a city in 1854. Prior to 1803, it was a part of Freetown and was led by the Freetown Board of Selectmen.A Centennial History of Fall River, Mass. by Henry H. Earl, 1877.
It received approval from the Ludlow Board of Selectmen the same year with the expected date of completion in mid-2010. The unit has not yet been completed, as MMWEC has cited a need for additional funding before the project is can be completed. The town does not plan to provide this funding. Additionally, recent maintenance has extended the lifespan of the plant through 2030.
Deborah Beth GoldbergDeborah Beth Goldberg Has Wedding (born May 11, 1954) is an American politician and lawyer. She is the Treasurer of Massachusetts, serving since January 2015. She was a member of the Board of Selectmen for the town of Brookline, Massachusetts from 1998 to 2004, serving the last two terms as chair. Goldberg was a candidate in the 2006 Massachusetts Democratic primary election for lieutenant governor.
The Town of Lenox approved a sign permit for the property in the summer of 2010. These permits are in addition to the restaurant permit for the original horse Stable, already in place. (Town of Stockbridge, MA; Board of Selectmen Special Permit Hearing January 6, 2003). New roofs have been installed on the Butler's Cottage, the Gardner's Cottage, Stable and other support buildings at the estate.
Most freemen could participate in Town Meeting, though they soon established a Board of Selectmen. Power and initiative ebbed and flowed between the two bodies. The settlers then undertook the difficult task of establishing a church, drafting its doctrinal base, and selecting a minister. In early days nearly every resident was a member but, seeking a church of only "visible saints", membership declined over time.
Chester L. Burnham (February 26, 1908 - June 10, 1978) was an American politician from Maine. A Democrat from Naples, Maine, Burnham served 3 terms (1964-1970) in the Maine House of Representatives. He also served for 30 years on the Naples Board of Selectmen as well as working a general contractor with Burnam Brothers. He died on June 10, 1978 in a Portland hospital.
Elijah Crane (August 29, 1754-February 21, 1834) was a Canton, Massachusetts farmer, and inn keeper, who served as the first Town Clerk, and on the first Board of Selectmen of Canton, Massachusetts. Crane was also the first representative to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Canton, and the sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from May 16, 1810 to 1811 and from June 20, 1812 to 1834.
John M. Ward (February 17, 1865 – ?) was an American politician and farmer from Maine. A Republican, Ward served two terms (1928–1932) in the Maine House of Representatives, representing the town of Limestone, Maine in Aroostook County. Ward, who inherited the family farm in 1883 upon his father's death, was a lifelong farmer. He was also a longtime member of the Limestone Board of Selectmen.
Franklin County Courthouse Farmington is the largest town, and county seat, of Franklin County. As a result, it has a number of regional administrative buildings such as a courthouse and DHHS branch. It is governed by a board of selectmen who meet at Town Hall on alternating Tuesdays at 6:30 PM. Daily administration is by a town manager, and the town holds an annual town meeting in March.
The Parker Tavern, built 1694, is the oldest surviving building in Reading. It was owned and operated by Ephraim Parker, who was the great- grandson of Thomas Parker, who was one of the founders of Reading and probably named the town. The tavern is now a museum. The town of Reading was initially governed by an open town meeting and a board of selectmen, a situation that persisted until the 1940s.
They also review fiscal guidelines for the annual operating budget and capital improvements program and make recommendations on these to the town meeting. In addition the board serves as the local road commissioners and licensing board, and appoints members to most of the town's other boards, committees, and commissions. The day-to-day running of the town government is the responsibility of a town manager, appointed by the board of selectmen.
In 1798, Fisk moved to what is now Barre City, Vermont, but was then a village in the Town of Barre. While owning and operating a farm, Fisk received his credentials as a Universalist minister and began to preach. He also studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law as the first attorney in Barre. In 1799 he was elected to the town's board of selectmen.
Burlington is governed by a 126-member representative Town Meeting (18 representatives elected per precinct) and a five-member executive Board of Selectmen. Burlington Cable Access Television (BCAT) is a non-profit Public-access television cable TV facility that was formed in 1987. BCAT operates three: Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels. Town meetings and events can also be seen on demand on BCAT's website.
Michael J. Coppola (December 7, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts – August 26, 2005 in Attleboro, Massachusetts) was an American politician who represented the 1st Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2001–2005. He had previously served as a member of the Foxborough, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen from 1989–2001. Coppola died on August 26, 2005 from colon cancer. He was succeeded as State Representative by his widow Ginny Coppola.
The first selectman is the head of the board of selectmen in some New England towns. Historically, the first selectman was the one who received the largest number of votes during municipal elections or at a town meeting. More recently most towns have chosen to elect the first selectman in a separate election, much like a mayor. While the principle remains the same in most towns, the function has evolved differently.
Congress also sent correspondence to the Board of Selectmen of each town to organize and train the militia due to the immediate military threat from Great Britain. Additionally the Congress prioritized the manufacture and purchasing of as many weapons as needed for defense. A committee was then formed in order to better communicate with the other revolutionary New England governments, as well as colonial governments in Canada.Lincoln 1838, p.106.
David M. Torrisi (born September 18, 1968 in Methuen, Massachusetts) is an American attorney and politician who represented the 14th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Torrisi graduated from the University of Vermont in 1990 and found work as a child care counselor. He later served as an aide to Congressman Marty Meehan. From 1996 to 1999, Torrisi served as a member of the North Andover Board of Selectmen.
McGrail served on the Wakefield, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen from 1971 to 1973. Elected at age 22, he is the youngest Selectman to serve in the Town's history. In 1972 Steve McGrail defeated 20-year incumbent State Senator Fred Lamson (R-Malden) to become the youngest State Senator in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From 1973 to 1977, he represented the 4th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts Senate.
They explored the land to (present day) Charlestown, Massachusetts, between the Mystic and Charles rivers, where they made peace with the local Indians. On February 10, 1634, the order creating a Board of Selectmen was passed, and Richard and William Sprague signed it."The Cranston-Johnston Spragues of Rhode Island", transcribed from History of Rhode Island by Susan W. Pieroth (American Hist. Soc. 1920). Available at RI USgenweb archive.
Locke served on the Wellesley, Massachusetts, Board of Selectmen from 1959 to 1962 and was the board's chairman from 1961 to 1962. From 1961 to 1969 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He then served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1969 to 1993. He was the Assistant Minority Floor Leader of the Senate from 1971 to 1989 and Minority Floor Leader from 1989 to 1993.
In March 2011, Phelan was offered the position of town administrator of Holbrook, Massachusetts. The Holbrook board of selectmen voted 5 to 0 on March 8, 2011, to appoint Phelan as interim town administrator. That October he was offered the permanent position. In December 2011, Phelan was criticized by members of Holbrook's school committee for discussing school regionalization with the town manager of Abington, Massachusetts, after town meeting voted against it.
Tramuto was elected to the Town of Ogunquit's board of selectmen in 2006 on a write-in campaign. He served two three-year terms. While chairman (2007–12), he represented the town to the governor of Maine on issues related to education and health. In 2010 the governor appointed him to the State of Maine Economic Growth Council, which develops and evaluates the state's long- term economic growth plan.
Peake earned an A.B. from Colgate University and a Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law. Elected to the Provincetown Board of Selectmen in 2002, she first ran for state representative in 2004, facing Republican incumbent Shirley Gomes. Gomes, running for a sixth term, defeated Peake by 55 percent to 42 percent. When Gomes decided against seeking re-election in 2006, Peake once again ran for the seat.
He was elected Maine Secretary of State in 1838 and in 1841. He was an overseer of Bowdoin College 1838–1876 and president of the board for sixteen years. He served as chairman of the Winthop board of selectmen 1844–1848. Benson was elected as a Whig to the (Thirty-third Congress) and as an Opposition Party member to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857).
In 1786, Smith was elected Peterborough's town clerk, and in 1787 he was elected as the town's surveyor of highways. In addition, Smith served terms as town agent and a member of Peterborough's board of selectmen. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1788 to 1791. As a House member, Smith voted against the impeachment of Woodbury Langdon, a judge of the state superior court.
Hansen was reelected in 1967. On February 20, 1968, the board of selectmen voted unanimously not to renew Boucher's contract. To replace him, the board selected Clarence Wilkinson over former Keene, New Hampshire City Manager Frank A. Saia by 3 to 2 vote, with Hansen voting for Saia. He was reelected again in 1969, but chose not run for reelection in 1971 so he could accept the position of town accountant.
From 1920 to 1924, Evans represented the 13th Essex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. First elected at the age of 21, he was the youngest person ever elected to the Massachusetts General Court. In 1924, he was a candidate for State Senate in the Seventh Middlesex District, but lost in the Republican primary to Charles P. Howard. In 1925, he was elected to the Saugus Board of Selectmen.
In 1955, Evans was elected to the Saugus Board of Selectmen. In 1958, the Board selected John B. Kennedy to serve as Town Manager. Evans, who voted for temporary Town Manager Arthur Gustafson instead of Kennedy, chose not to swear him in and Town Clerk Ruth E. Stevens administered the oath instead. In 1961, the Board voted to ban dancing and other entertainment on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Station D-2, SP Yarmouth On the national level, Harwich is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and is currently represented by William R. Keating. The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Elizabeth Warren, elected in 2012. The junior senator is Ed Markey, elected in 2013. Harwich is governed by the open town meeting form of government, led by a town administrator and a board of selectmen.
Brown "caught the political bug" in 1992 when he was elected property assessor of Wrentham, Massachusetts. In 1995, he was elected to the Wrentham Board of Selectmen. He successfully ran for the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1998, representing the 9th Norfolk District for three terms. Brown again moved up the ladder of state politics to the state Senate in March 2004 when he won a special election to replace Democrat Cheryl Jacques.
While working for the Fire Department, Madden returned to school and graduated cum laude from Boston College in 1995. In 1999, Madden was elected President of the Massachusetts Fire Chiefs Association. In May 1999, Weymouth residents voted to change the Board of Selectmen/Town Meeting government form to the election of a Mayor and Town Council form. Madden decided to run and was elected in November as the first mayor of Weymouth.
Wakefield holds yearly major town meetings to discuss the budget. As it is a town, not a city, Wakefield's main decisions are made, in the New England style, by a Board of Selectmen, which works in collaboration with a town administrator. Stephen Maio is the town administrator as of 2020. Administrator Maio hosts a "Town Administrator's Report" monthly on the public-access television cable TV station, WCAT-TV"Town Administrator's Report Going Live" – WickedLocal.
Station D-2, SP Yarmouth On the national level, Brewster is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and is currently represented by William Keating. The state's senior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, elected in 2012, is Elizabeth Warren. The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2013, is Edward Markey. Brewster is governed by the open town meeting form of government, led by an executive secretary and a board of selectmen.
Moore had already been published by then, but her major critical success followed. She was lauded critically by contemporaries and later commentators for her social commentary, wit and language in writing, and her depictions of rural Maine, following in some degree the trail blazed by Sarah Orne Jewett and others. Mayo published five novels before becoming involved in local politics; she was the first woman to serve on the Tremont board of selectmen.
The town of Oxford is governed by an elected, five-person Board of Selectmen and an appointed town manager. The town's police department consists of one Chief of Police, one captain, two sergeants, four full-time patrol officers and several reserve (part-time) patrol officers. The town has an on-call fire rescue department made up of several dedicated members. It is run by a fire chief, two deputy chiefs, and several officers.
Wood was a prominent local citizen, serving on the town school committee and board of selectmen. He was also an early abolitionist, and it is believed the property housed fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. It was operated by the Woods as a hotel and stagecoach stop until 1844, and by Isaac Hall afterwards, until it was closed because the railroad rendered the stagecoach system obsolete. The property was purchased by Rev.
Henry Chickering was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and for six years on the Dedham Board of Selectmen. He may have been the brother of Francis Chickering, with whom he served in the General Court. He was granted land in Salem, Massachusetts in 1640 and was made a freeman in 1641. Chickering was a deacon of the First Church and Parish in Dedham.
Chelsea was settled as part of Boston in 1624 by Samuel Maverick under the name of Winnisimmet (meaning "good spring nearby"). In 1739, Winnisimmet, along with the settlements Rumney Marsh, and Pullen Point (excluding Hog Island and Noddle's Island) was incorporated as a town. Upon its incorporation the town named after Chelsea, a neighborhood in London, England. Under this form of government, Chelsea was governed by a Town Meeting and Board of Selectmen.
Prior to serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Representative Boldyga was a member of the Southwick Board of Selectmen and Parks & Recreation Commission. Outside politics Boldyga has worked as a police office in Simsbury, Connecticut, an auditor for Deloitte & Touche LLP, and has held various positions in the insurance and financial services industry. Representative Boldyga holds a B.S.B.A in accounting from Western New England College and also a graduate of the Connecticut Police Academy.
14 On 26 September 1644, Samuel Chapin was chosen for a committee of five to order the prudential affairs of the town. This prudential committee was in reality the first board of Selectmen in Springfield. The Selectmen, or Townsmen as they were sometimes called, were generally five in number. They were elected by a vote of all the freemen of the town at the town meeting, and were to serve for one year.
Daniel Tyler Jr. (born February 5, 1899, died May 22, 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts) was a Massachusetts political figure who served as Chairman of the Republican State Committee from 1950 to 1953, the Massachusetts State Housing Board from 1953 to 1957, and the Massachusetts Transit Authority from 1961 to 1963. He was also a Delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention from Massachusetts and a member of the Brookline, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen.
In Massachusetts, all towns with fewer than 6,000 residents must adopt an open town meeting form of government. Massachusetts towns with 6,000 or more residents may optionally adopt a representative town meeting form of government.See amendment LXXXIX of the Massachusetts Constitution. The Board of Selectmen summons the town meeting into existence by issuing the warrant, which is the list of items—known as articles—to be voted on, with descriptions of each article.
Several checks were issued, and deposited in an escrow account, before the hoax was uncovered. The funds were returned and the matter dropped. In 1985, self-appointed representatives of the town of Ripton contacted the U.S. Air Force and invited them to situate antennas for a post- nuclear war communication system in their town. Robbins Phillips, chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Ripton, stated that the antennas would make good nesting places for eagles.
Israel's father, Robert Taft Jr. was a founder and founding Selectman on the first Board of Selectmen, of the colonial town of Uxbridge, in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The town of Uxbridge was incorporated as a separate town from Mendon in 1727. Robert Taft Jr., was the first known elected political figure in the famous Taft family, a dynasty in American politics. Robert Taft Jr., was a prominent citizen of Mendon and Uxbridge.
Ely refused to express any opinion on the matter and stated that the matter was for the Racing Commission to decide. A charter was granted to the Saugus Racing Association, Inc. by the Secretary of State's Office in January 1935 with Mullen listed as an incorporator. In 1935, he filed a complaint against the Board of Selectmen with the Massachusetts Attorney General's office for failing to publish a list of townspeople eligible for jury duty.
Kingsbury was admitted as a freeman in Watertown on March 3, 1635/6 and settled in Dedham in 1636. He was one of the 12 men who petitioned the General Court to incorporate Dedham as a separate town, though they asked for it to be called Contentment. He held various town offices in Dedham, including pound keeper. Kingsbury was a town proprietor and was elected to the very first board of selectmen in 1639.
He was a Republican, and held the distinction of never losing an election over his three decades in elected office in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts. Cellucci was first elected to public office as a member of the Hudson Charter Commission in 1970. Subsequently, he was elected to the Hudson Board of Selectmen, on which he served from 1971 to 1977. In 1976, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he served until 1985.
Marble was unsuccessful in his bid for election to a full term; he was 71 at the time and the Republican party decided to nominate a younger candidate. They settled on Edwin C. Burleigh, who was nominated and won the general election. Marble left office at the end of his term on January 2, 1889. He remained active in his local community, including service on the school board and chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
Meschino was elected to the Town of Hull's Board of Selectmen in 2004. She served two three-year terms, with one year as Chairman. In 2006, she was appointed as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Beaches Commission. She also currently serves on the Metropolitan Area Planning Council's Executive Committee, and on the Hull Capital Outlay Committee. In spring 2016, she ran in the special election for the Massachusetts State Senate seat representing the Plymouth & Norfolk district.
His other manufacturing interests were in Caryville, Northborough, and Southborough, Massachusetts and at Proctor, Vermont. Mr. Taft was president of the Blackstone bank, and the Uxbridge Savings Bank. Taft represented Uxbridge in the Massachusetts state legislature in 1847, and was frequently called to serve on the Board of Selectmen. He was a member and officer of the First Congregational Society of Uxbridge, and of the Uxbridge Lodge of International Order of Odd-fellows.
While working for Polaroid, she attended Suffolk University Law School where she received her J.D. degree with a concentration in patent law in 1976. Hopkins left her Polaroid lab in 1989 and began working as the deputy general counsel at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. She retired in 1999 from the Massachusetts DEP, but continued to work in her community, becoming the first African American elected to the local Framingham Board of Selectmen.
The state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate, elected in 2012, is Elizabeth Warren. The junior (Class II) senator, elected on April 30, 2013, is Ed Markey. Wellfleet is governed by the open town meeting form of government and a board of selectmen, who employ a town administrator to oversee day-to-day business. The town has its own police and fire departments, headquartered on Route 6 near the town center.
Saugus Town Hall front view Since 1947 Saugus has had a Plan E form of government, which is a combination of representative town meeting and Town Manager. Saugus was the first town in Massachusetts to accept this form of government. This plan included a Single transferable vote voting system, but this was abandoned in 1950. Elections for all seats on the Board of Selectmen, School Committee, Town Meeting, and Housing Authority are held biennially in odd-numbered years.
On February 19, 1962, Stinson was appointed Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts by the Saugus Board of Selectmen. He was chosen out of a field of 35 applicants, with three members voting for him and two voting for Clarence Sayward Wilkinson. His appointment was on a six-month temporary basis, but the board would later give him the job permanently. During his tenure as town manager, Saugus opened two new elementary schools; the Oaklandvale School and the Lynnhurst School.
His dismissal came one day after a number of supporters held a public reception honoring him for being the town's longest serving manager. Following Stinson's dismissal, over 4,000 residents signed a petition in support of him. His supporters also led a recall effort against the Selectmen who voted for his dismissal. The firing did not become official as the Board of Selectmen did not vote on a final resolution of removal and Stinson was allowed to return to work.
The Seventh Plymouth district is represented by Alyson Sullivan. The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate by John Keenan, as a part of the Norfolk and Plymouth District, which includes Holbrook, Quincy, Rockland and part of Braintree. The town is patrolled by the First (Norwell) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police. Abington is governed by the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a town manager and a board of selectmen.
Robert I. Rotberg, "Mugabe Doesn't Need an Excuse", Foreign Policy, 28 December 2010 In 2014, Rotberg was defeated by Suzie Barry in his bid to become Selectman of Lexington, Massachusetts. In Feb 2016 Rotberg crafted local legislation that would "prohibit the manufacture, sale, ownership, or possession of assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines in the Town of Lexington". This measure was unanimously opposed by the town's Board of Selectmen, Chief of Police, and Town Counsel.
The regulations would also prohibit occupancy of the residential units until a substantial portion of the commercial structures were constructed.. A property tax abatement plan was approved by the Portland Board of Selectmen in March 2017. On February 1, 2018, the five member Portland Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to approve the project. Review of the building plans and application for a traffic permit from the state is expected to take between three and six months.
Since 2000, Citizens' Hall has been more appreciated by local residents. In 2002, the Board of Selectmen voted to paint Citizens' Hall—which previously always had been white—a light grey color to contrast with the building's white trim. The board hoped to convey the building's architectural importance to the town by emphasizing the nineteenth-century stickwork and trim that few who use the building notice. Today, Citizens' Hall continues to be used for social functions.
The Boston Board of Selectmen was the governing board for the town of Boston from the 17th century until 1822. Selectmen were elected to six-month terms early in the history of the board, but later were elected to one-year terms. In colonial days selectmen included William Clark. At the time of the American Revolution, the selectmen were John Hancock, Joseph Jackson, Samuel Sewall, William Phillips, Timothy Newell, John Ruddock, John Rowe and Samuel Pemberton.
Nathan Aldis was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on that town's Board of Selectmen in 1641, 1642, and 1644. He served in a variety of other positions in the town and served as a deacon at First Church and Parish in Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant. In 1642, John Elderkin sold half of his rights to the mill on Mother Brook to Nathaniel Whiting and the other half to John Allin, Aldis, and John Dwight.
However, he soon found himself to be just as active as ever. By 1825 he was Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. One of the Board's various duties was the licensing and regulation of the "purveyors of ardent liquors", which he refused to grant until the regulations were more strictly enforced. Due almost completely to his influence, and despite horrific unpleasantness, opposition, and threats which terrified the "womenfolk" of his large household, Newton stayed dry and sober that year.
The Town Manager has authority to prosecute, defend, and compromise all litigation to which the town is a party. He can employ special counsel to assist the town counsel whenever he deems it to be necessary. The Town Manager shall perform any other duties, consistent with his office, that the Board of Selectmen may assign to him. The Town Manager may without notice investigate the affairs of any division, department, officer, or employee under his control.
Clement A. Riley (November 20, 1905 – May 31, 1988) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles from 1957-1963. A nine-year member of the Norwood Board of Selectmen, Riley was appointed to the Civil Service Commission by Governor Paul A. Dever in 1951. In 1954 and 1956, Riley was a candidate for Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts. He lost in the Democratic primary both times to John Francis Kennedy.
Robert Taft Jr. was a founder and founding Selectman on the first Board of Selectmen, of the colonial town of Uxbridge, in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The town of Uxbridge was incorporated as a separate town from Mendon in 1727. Robert Taft Jr. was the first known elected political figure in the famous Taft family, a dynasty in American politics. A prominent citizen of Mendon and Uxbridge, Robert Taft Jr. died in Uxbridge, Worcester County, in 1748.
Paterson was elected to the Lenox board of selectmen and as a town assessor. The town's proprietor's also chose him to serve as their clerk, which required him to maintain records of land transactions and ownership. He was elected to represent Lenox in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in both 1774 and 1775. He also represented Lenox at the 1774 Berkshire Convention, held in Stockbridge, Massachusetts to discuss how to respond to the Boston Port Act.
Fall River Government Center This is a list of mayors of the City of Fall River, Massachusetts, from 1854 to present. Fall River was led by a three- member Board of Selectmen from 1803 until its re-incorporation as a city in 1854. From 1854 until 1902, mayoral elections were held every year and mayors served one-year terms. In 1902, the mayoral term was increased to two years, which lasted until the city charter was changed in 1965.
Colonel William Scollay (1756-1809) was an American developer and militia officer from Boston during the American Revolution who gave his name to the infamous Scollay Square. He was the only surviving son of John Scollay, a strong supporter of colonial rights and a member of Boston's Board of Selectmen in 1764. William was extremely active in the community and was named a Colonel in the Boston Regiment. The Scollays originally came from the Orkney Islands.
Tobey served on the Temple school board and the board of selectmen. In 1914 he was elected to the state legislature as a candidate of the Progressive Party. He was a friend and disciple of the progressive Republican Robert P. Bass, a former governor. New Hampshire progressivism was characterized by an effort to democratize the processes and make equitable the administration of government and to challenge powerful economic interests such as the Boston and Maine Railroad.
On 24 May 2011, the town of Middlefield approved a plan to sell the ski area to Alpine Ridge LLC, a Pennsylvania-based operator of ski areas. At the time, Alpine Ridge said it planned to upgrade facilities at the area, with a reopening by December 2013. However, on 25 October 2011, the town of Middlefield announced that Alpine Ridge had on 20 October informed the town's board of selectmen it no longer plans to buy the ski area.
Wragg served on the Needham Board of Selectmen from 1914 to 1920 and in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1919 to 1924. In 1924, Wragg was elected to the Massachusetts Senate. During his tenure in the Senate, Wragg chaired the Joint Committee on Municipal Finance and the special commission on public expenditures and was a member of the rules, conservation, and public welfare committees. From 1931 to 1955, Wragg also served as Needham's town moderator.
Richard Seltzer, President of the SBA, noted that "The ability to achieve a 5.5 foot drawdown is a major milestone in improving and restoring the health of the Bowl. It represents a triumph of cooperation between the Board of Selectmen and the SBA." NHESP subsequently determined that a species of snail common in some other states, but present only in Stockbridge Bowl and nearby Laurel Lake. would be endangered by such a significant drawdown, and has withdrawn its approval of it.
His other ventures included undertaker, furniture sales, cigar store owner, and insurance agent. His professional and civic memberships included the Odd Fellows, Elks, Improved Order of Red Men, Bennington Board of Trade, and Bennington County Fish and Game Club. A Democrat, Harris was chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party from 1900 to 1914. He served in several local offices including town lister, justice of the peace and member of the board of selectmen, and president of the village board of trustees.
The junior (Class I) senator, elected in a special election replacing John Kerry in 2013, is Ed Markey. Kingston operates under the open town meeting form of government, led by a town administrator and a board of selectmen. Kingston's town offices moved into a new building in 2003, closer to its animal control and highway department facilities on Evergreen Street, on the opposite side of Evergreen Cemetery from the old building. The town operates its own police and fire departments.
In 1943, Shurtleff, who had no prior experience in the day-to-day administrative operations of a town, was named Town Manager of Mansfield, Massachusetts. In 1945, Shurtleff dismissed Police Chief John Haines and named Lawrence Barrows to succeed him. Haines refused to turn over his badge and the keys to the police cruiser and maintained that he was still chief. Two months later, a Special Town Meeting voted to direct the Board of Selectmen to reinstate Haines as Chief.
Shirley Gomes (born January 23, 1940 in Harwich, Massachusetts) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995–2007. A member of the Board of Selectmen from 1987–1995, Gomes first ran for the Massachusetts House in 1992. She ran unopposed in the Republican primary, but lost to incumbent Robert Lawless in the general election. Lawless did not run in the following election and Gomes defeated Democratic nominee Jerry Houk 68%–24%.
John Winthrop, with whom Bellingham often disagreed Bellingham immediately assumed a prominent role in the colony, serving on the committee that oversaw the affairs of Boston (a precursor to the board of selectmen). In this role he participated in the division of community lands that included the establishment of Boston Common.Goss, p. 263 Not long after his arrival, he purchased the ferry service between Boston and Winnessimmett (present-day Chelsea) from Samuel Maverick, along with tracts of land that encompass much of Chelsea.
In 1940, property owner Godfrey Lowell Cabot offered the site to the United States Navy for use as the location of its main New England dirigible base. In 1948 he donated the land to Northeastern University. In 1950 a proposal was made to construct a $5 million gasoline storage plant on the site. In 1970 developer George W. Page and property owner Martin DeMatteo presented the Board of Selectmen with a plan to build a 60,000 seat stadium on the property.
Peterson first became involved in politics through his election in 1984 to the Grafton Planning Board. Soon after, he was elected to the Board of Selectmen, a position in which he served for five years. In 1994 Peterson was elected to represent the 9th Worcester district, consisting of Grafton, Northbridge and Upton, as well as parts of Westborough. He has served on the Rules and Natural Resources and Agriculture committees, and had a seat on the Joint Committee on Higher Education.
Francis Chickering was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and on that town's Board of Selectmen for 15 years. He was also a teacher in the first public school in America, today known as the Dedham Public Schools. He arrived in Dedham in 1637 from Suffolk, England with his wife, Ann, and admitted as a freeman in 1640. Together they had Elizabeth in 1638, Bethia in 1640, and Mercy in 1648.
The roughly rectangular building had 1.5 story enclosed porch extensions on both sides. By the 1880s the building had been dedicated exclusively for municipal use, and in 1887 it underwent major alterations. Its upper galleries were built over to provide a full second floor, and the western porch was converted for use by the board of selectmen above, and a kitchen facility below. The eastern porch was converted into a vestibule area with ticket booth and cloakroom, and became the new main entrance.
Charles M. McGowan (November 13, 1923 - May 26, 2013) was an American businessman and politician. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, McGowan served in the United States Army during World War II. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Framingham State University and was a real estate appraiser and broker. He served on the Dedham, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and was chairman. In this capacity he served on the Blue Ribbon Commission honoring John Andrew Barnes, III, the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
Cregg served on the Methuen Board of Selectmen from 1923 to 1926 and represented the 5th Essex District in the Massachusetts Senate from 1925 to 1929. In 1928 he chaired a special legislative investigative committee that looked into allegations made by William M. Forgrave that legislators held a "wild party" at the state house and that members of the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety improperly diverted confiscated liquor. The committee found that there was no evidence to support the charges.
Brewer started his political career on the Barre Board of Selectmen, where he served from 1977 to 1984, eventually becoming the board's chairman. He also worked as an aide to state Senator Robert D. Wetmore from 1980 to 1988. He became a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1989 and moved onto the Massachusetts Senate in 1997, where he served until his retirement in January 2015. In the state Senate he represented the Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin District.
The American Taft family began with Robert Taft Sr. who immigrated to Braintree, Massachusetts circa, 1675. There was early settlement at Mendon, Massachusetts circa 1669 and again in 1680 at what was later Uxbridge, after the King Philip's War ended. Robert's homestead was in western Mendon, in what later became Uxbridge, and his son was on the founding board of selectmen. In 1734, Benjamin Taft started an iron forge, in Uxbridge, where some of the earliest beginnings of America's industrial revolution began.
The issue had been brought up two previous times. The first time it was approved by town meeting, but rejected by the voters. The second time it was approved by town meeting, but the vote was brought up for reconsideration and then blocked by parliamentary procedure. In addition to creating the office of Town Manager, the Plan E form of government also expanded the Board of Selectmen from three members to five and changed the electoral system to Single transferable vote.
Most towns generally operate on the town meeting form of government, where the registered voters in the town act as the town legislature, and a board of selectmen acts as the executive of the town. Larger towns and the state's thirteen cities operate either on a council–manager or council–mayor form of government. There is no difference, from the state government's point of view, between towns and cities besides the form of government. All state-level statutes treat all municipalities identically.
Jonathan Chapman (January 23, 1807 – May 25, 1848) was an American politician, serving as the eighth mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1840 to 1842. Chapman's father also named Jonathan Chapman served as a member of the Town of Boston's Board of Selectmen. Chapman attended Phillips Exeter Academy and he graduated from Harvard College and studied law under the direction of Judge Lemuel Shaw. Chapman was elected mayor in December 1839; he was sworn into office in 1840; he served three one-year terms.
Lusher had unmatched political influence in Dedham and was one of the most powerful men in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was one of ten men, constituting five percent of the adult male population, who were reelected so many times to Dedham's seven member Board of Selectmen that they filled sixty percent of the seats between 1639 and 1687. He served 29 one-year terms in total. He was town clerk for 23 years, having first been elected in 1641.
In New Hampshire, various libertarian activists, in response to the decision, sought to use eminent domain to seize Justice David Souter's farmhouse in Weare, New Hampshire and build a hotel (the "Lost Liberty Hotel") on the site.Eminent domain this! Justice's farm is target, Associated Press (June 29, 2005). The proposal was not supported by the town's five-member board of selectmen, and Weare voters rejected the activists' attempt to place a proposal on the local ballot to seize Souter's farm.
The intention at the time was to sell 12.5 acres to a developer who planned to build fewer homes. However, the developer defaulted on payments in 2010 and forfeited a deposit on the land, leaving the town in the hole. Advocates then launched a fund-raising campaign to prevent any residential development on the land. In May 2015, Town Meeting members voted to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell the 12.5 acres to the Wright-Locke Land Trust for $8.6 million.
The Town of Lamoine elects a five-member Board of Selectmen who serve as the municipal officers of the municipality. They employ a full-time administrative assistant, a full-time Town Clerk, Tax Collector, part-time Code Enforcement Officer and Transfer Station Manager. The Board of Assessors is an elected three member body. The Lamoine School Department is a 5-member elected board which employs a part-time superintendent of schools and is responsible for operation of the Lamoine Consolidated School.
In 1944, Reading adopted the representative town meeting model of local government in place of the open town meeting. This retained the representative town meeting and board of selectmen, but focused policy and decision making in a smaller number of elected boards and committees whilst providing for the employment of a town manager to be responsible for day-to-day operations of the local government. Basketball player Bill Russell lived in Reading in the 1960s at 1361 Main Street, but later moved to 701 Haverhill Street.Goudsouzian, Aram.
Chandler was Deputy Majority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1997 to 1998; Majority Leader of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1998 to 2000; and Speaker of the House from 2000 to 2004. He served as House Speaker Pro-Tempore from 2010-2012 and was elected House Republican Leader following the 2012 election. In addition to his House duties, Chandler has served on the Bartlett Board of Selectmen since 1974 and has been chair of the Board for the last 10.
Spicer served on the Framingham Human Relations Commission and the Democratic Town Committee. She was elected to Framingham's representative Town Meeting in 2016, where she served as vice-chair for Precinct 6, and on the Standing Committee on Ways and Means. Spicer was elected Framingham's first mayor in November 2017, following town's decision to change the format of the local government from a Board of Selectmen to a mayor and City Council. Senator Elizabeth Warren held the bible for Spicer's swearing in on January 1, 2018.
Subsequently, the Board of Selectmen, Police Department, and other town agencies also moved into the building. A $20,000 renovation—utilizing volunteer labor—resulted in the construction of bathrooms, the introduction of a heating unit, and moderately better insulation for the building, but much of Citizens' Hall's charm was covered or painted over. Neglect of the building continued into the 1990s, by which time the town was faced with the question of whether to build a new town hall or more properly renovate Citizens' Hall.
From 2014 to 2015, Flanagan was majority leader (second to, and appointed by, the Speaker of the House) in the New Hampshire House of Representatives; due to that, Flanagan is also on the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. Flanagan is a Republican, representing Hillsborough 26 since 2010. Previously, Flanagan was on the Brookline Board of Selectmen through 2013. He is currently serving his third term as a member of the New Hampshire House, Hillsborough County, District 26, representing the towns of Brookline and Mason.
Hunt served as president of the North Attleborough Republican Town Committee and was later elected to the town's Board of Selectmen. In 1936 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, representing the 1st Bristol District. In 1938 he served as chairman of a special commission that studied the conditions surrounding the practice of osteopathy. The following year he was appointed chair of a special commission that investigated the granting of pardons during the administrations of former Governors James Michael Curley, Charles F. Hurley, and Joseph B. Ely.
French was born on May 2, 1802, in Berkley, Massachusetts to Samuel and Celia (Crane) French. Samuel French held a number of political offices in Berkley. He served as Berkley's Town Clerk for four years, was a member of the board of selectmen for six years and the School Committee for nine years, and represented the town in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for four years and the Massachusetts Senate for three years. He was also delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853.
During the confrontation, Stone kicks Genest in the groin. Soon after, Genest proceeds to taunt Stone by vandalizing a police car and killing the station cat as well as writing the word "slut" on both. Along with being the board of selectmen chair, Hathaway is also a wealthy bank owner and leader of "The Freedom’s Horsemen", a local militia group. It is Hathaway who orchestrates the payoff and termination of the previous police chief, Tom Carson, after Carson learns of the money laundering operation.
Warning out of town was a widespread method in the United States for established New England communities to pressure or coerce "outsiders" to settle elsewhere. It consisted of a notice ordered by the Board of Selectmen of a town, and served by the constable upon any newcomer who might become a town charge. When persons were warned out of a town, they were not necessarily forcibly removed. The first warning out in Plymouth Colony was recorded on June 6, 1654, in the village of Rehoboth.
Rice served as the first Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts when it became a city in 1852, and he was also the first president of MassMutual Life Insurance Company. Rice also served as the third Sheriff of Hampden County, Massachusetts and on the Board of Selectmen of West Springfield, Massachusetts, Additionally, Rice served for five years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Springfield.Ward, Andrew Henshaw. 1858. A genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, Publisher. 379pp.
On March 12, 2013, the Kingston Board of Selectmen created the Adams Center Board of Trustees "to secure optimal use of the Adams Center for the benefit of the Citizens of Kingston." Restoration allowed the building to be used as a venue for multiple cultural events. From 2012 to 2019, the building was available for rental for group events, small conferences, corporate meetings, seminars and private functions. In the spring 2019, the Adams Center was placed under the control of the Director of the Kingston Public Library.
In July 2009, zebra mussels were discovered in Laurel Lake in Lee, prompting the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game to close Laurel Lake's boat ramp. A number of lakes around the area responded by closing their ramps, including Stockbridge Bowl. The Monterey Board of Selectmen voted to close Lake Buel's ramp and on July 22, the ramp was blocked off with a concrete barricade and padlocked chain. A non- native invasive species, zebra mussels were originally native to the lakes of southeast Russia.
Warrants for the payment of town funds must be approved by town manager. The town manager must submit an annual budget to the Board of Selectmen. He is also responsible for writing estimates of the probable expenditures of the town government, statements showing the town's expenditures, and statements showing all the revenue collected by the town. He shall report the probable amount to be levied and raised by taxation to cover all expenses and liabilities of the town and provide an estimate of the tax rate.
The Board of Selectmen elected Sheehy First Selectman by a 3 to 2 vote, along party lines, to replace Amey Marella (Republican), who stepped down to accept a job as Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. Before becoming First Selectwoman in 2001, Marella was an attorney with the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Edward Sheehy was reelected in May 2009 to another two-year term. On April 22, 2013, Sheehy died suddenly at the age of 73 while still holding the First Selectman's office.
The closure of Sears left the mall with Macy's as its only anchor. On June 29, 2018, the out-parcel Toys "R" Us was closed after the chain filed for bankruptcy and closed all US locations. On January 9, 2019, it was announced that Macy's would be closing on March 31, 2019 as part of its plan to close 9 stores nationwide. In January of 2019, the Swansea Board of Selectmen discussed a proposal to take the mall property by eminent domain for redevelopment.
Paul A. Schmid III has served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 8th Bristol district since 2011. In the 189th session (2015–2016), he assumed a leadership position as the Chairperson, Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture, a committee he joined in 2011. He was previously a member of the Board of Selectmen in the town of Westport from 2009 to 2011. Prior to that, he served 5 1/2 years on the Finance Committee, serving as chair for three years.
Sullivan was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and lived most of his life in Tewksbury, Massachusetts where his father and grandfather had been on the town's Board of Selectmen. Sullivan would later serve on the Board himself. He graduated from Austin Preparatory School in 1975, from UMass Lowell with a degree in political science, and from Simmons College with a Masters in Communications Management.WBZ NEWSRADIO 1030 - Paul Sullivan (1957-2007) Sullivan began his career as a columnist and political editor for the Lowell Sun in 1991.
Early Dedham records show Hinsdale was a faithful attendant on town meetings and he appears to have been a valuable and public spirited member of the community. He was elected a member of the very first Board of Selectmen on July 18, 1637 and was reelected on May 17, 1639, December 31, 1639, and January 1, 1645. On March 13, 1639 he was admitted freeman of Massachusetts Colony. He was one of the eight founders of the First Church and Parish in Dedham on November 8 1638.
In March 2012 the Board of Selectmen created a Charter Advisory Committee to review the Town's governing document and to recommend changes. The committee consisted of Thomas R. Polito, Jr., Joseph Pascarella, Kevin Mawe, Jay Donahue, Brian Keaney, Cherylann Sheehan, and Camille Zahka, and met more than 25 times before presenting their findings to the Selectmen in August 2013. The Selectmen sent the recommendations on to Town Meeting, who presented them to Town Meeting. The Town Meeting approved all but one, calling for term limits.
Part of the former Boston & Maine depot building, used for passenger service from 1873 to 1965, was to be leased for use as a waiting area. On October 9, 2018, the Kennebunk Board of Selectmen cancelled the station project over concerns about the suitability of the site. NNEPRA officials are looking into the feasibility of relocating the station in Portland. The Portland Transportation Center is located on a branch line, which adds 15 minutes to travel time for trains to or from Brunswick as they must leave the main line.
"Thomas Debevoise, Prosecutor, 65, Dies""Debevoise to Head Law School" He became Dean Emeritus in 1982, and served as trustee emeritus from 1983 to 1995. In 1984 Vermont Law School awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Debevoise was president of the Woodstock Foundation from 1982 to 1995; this organization was founded by Laurance Rockefeller and Mary French Rockefeller to promote conservation and sustainable land use. He was also involved in several civic causes and took part in local government, including service on Woodstock's board of selectmen.
Pliny A. Crockett (November 16, 1873 – March 8, 1958) was an American banker and politician from Maine. Crockett, a Republican from Hollis, York County, served two terms in the Maine House of Representatives (1925-1928) and two in the Maine Senate (1929-1932). He was a prominent elected official in Hollis, including four years on the Board of Selectmen, six years as Superintendent of Schools and six years on the School Committee. During his four years in the Maine House, he served on the Education Committee, including a term as house chair in 1927–28.
The town is represented in the Massachusetts Senate as a part of the Second Plymouth and Bristol district, which includes Brockton, Halifax, Hanover, Whitman and portions of East Bridgewater and Easton.Index of Legislative Representation by City and Town, from Mass.gov The town is patrolled by the First (Norwell) Barracks of Troop D of the Massachusetts State Police.Station D-1, SP Norwell Hanson is governed by the open town meeting form of government and is led by current Town Administrator John Stanbrook and a five-member Board of Selectmen.
Station D-7, SP Bourne On the national level, Falmouth is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. Falmouth is governed by the representative town meeting form of government with 9 precincts of 27 members each serving three-year terms and is led by a five-member board of selectmen serving rotating three-year terms. The town operates its own police and fire departments, with a central police station and five fire stations. The fire department also operates the town's ambulance service with four-ambulances staffed 24/7.
Boxford employs the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a board of selectmen and a town executive secretary. Boxford has a police department, a fire department with two branches in the main villages, two post offices, a public works department and a library, which is located within the town hall. A second library was located in West Boxford, but due to budget constraints it was closed in 2008. The nearest hospitals are Merrimack Valley Hospital in Haverhill to the north, Lawrence General to the west, and Beverly Hospital to the south.
Thomas J. Herlihy, Jr. (November 29, 1956 - May 8, 2015) was an American politician and businessman. Herlihy, a Republican, was a resident of Simsbury, Connecticut. He was sworn in as a member of Simsbury's Board of Selectmen on December 7, 2009. Herlihy was the State Senator for the 8th Senatorial District from 1999 to 2009, representing the northwest suburbs of Hartford in the Farmington Valley and Litchfield County in the Connecticut Senate, including the towns of Avon, Barkhamsted, Canton, Colebrook, Granby, Hartland, Harwinton, New Hartford, Norfolk, Simsbury, and Torrington.
In 1991, he was elected to the Board of Finance and served as chairman in 1996. In 1997, he became the State Representative for the 16th Assembly District, a position he held until his election to the Senate. While at the General Assembly, Senator Herlihy was honored by the Connecticut State Firefighters Association for spearheading efforts to provide thermal imaging equipment for fire departments throughout Connecticut. After retiring from the Senate after five terms, Herlihy was once again re-elected to the Board of Selectmen on November 3, 2009.
On September 13, 1961, Princi was appointed Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston by President John F. Kennedy. He received his commission from President Kennedy on September 29 in a ceremony held at Hammersmith Farm, the home of Kennedy's mother-in-law. He was sworn into office the following day by Walter A. Van Dalla, chairman of the Winthrop Board of Selectmen, at Winthrop Town Hall. While serving as Customs Collector, Princi worked 60 to 70 hours a week and continued to work at his law practice.
Adler later sought, unsuccessfully, to have the Board's decision reviewed by Richard Blumenthal, who was Connecticut's Attorney General at the time. The Board of Selectmen responded to these outcomes by creating "a committee to review the town's code of ethics."Selectmen's Minutes of 5/11/2005 Retrieved 12 September 2011 As a result, a new ethics ordinance was enacted by the Town of Clinton in November 2006, which became effective in January 2007.Clinton's new Code of Ethics Retrieved 12 September 2011 This new ordinance was successfully implemented for the first time in early 2012.
After graduating from law school, Cantwell served as an assistant district attorney for Norfolk county. He was also elected to the Board of Selectmen in Marshfield in 1996, and held that position for three years (he also served as chairman of the board). After his tenure at the Norfolk county District Attorney's office, Cantwell took a position as a staff attorney for United States Representative William Delahunt. Cantwell was also a co-owner and partner of Graeber, Davis and Cantwell, a small general-practice law firm in Quincy, Massachusetts.
On September 11, 1960, the Saugus Board of Selectmen requested Kennedy's resignation. Kennedy did not resign and at the next meeting, the Selectmen voted 4 to 1 to fire Kennedy. Kennedy's dismissal came one month after three new Selectmen were elected in a special recall election (all of whom voted to remove Kennedy). One of the reasons for firing Kennedy, according to Selectman Frederick Wagner, was the manager's decision to put curbing on the sidewalk in front of his Taylor Street home instead of on a sidewalk where children more frequently walked.
In 1798 Quincy was appointed Boston Town Orator by the Board of Selectmen, and in 1800 he was elected to the School Committee. Quincy became a leader of the Federalist party in Massachusetts, was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1800, and served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1804–5. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1803. From 1805 to 1813, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives where he was one of the small Federalist minority.
Fairfield's town hall The town government consists of the three-member Board of Selectmen, a Representative Town Meeting (RTM), the Board of Finance, a board of education, a Planning and Zoning Commission (TPZ), and many other politically appointed commissions, boards, and committees. The current First Selectman is Brenda Kupchick (R). The town has no criminal or civil court system and all trials are held and handled by the Bridgeport Superior Court system. However, the town does also offer access to a Juvenile Review Board (JRB) for certain juvenile cases outlined by the Fairfield Police Department.
Window openings are framed by drip moulding, and the roof is adorned with dormers that have steeply pitched roofs in the Gothic style. The Linden Square area was subdivided in the 1840s by Thomas Aspinwall Davis on family farmland, its layout designed by Alexander Wadsworth. This house was built on land from several parcels in the subdivision in 1844-45 for William Ingersoll Bowditch, who lived here until 1867. Bowditch was active in local politics, serving on the board of selectmen and as moderator of the town meeting.
In 1880, he served one year as a member of the Freetown Board of Selectmen. Peirce was married in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts on December 13, 1849Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 Ancestry.com to Irene I. Payne until she was granted a divorce from him on May 1, 1875, and the couple had one son living beyond infancy, Palo Alto Peirce, who was many years the town clerk of Freetown. He was elected a life member of the Old Colony Historical Society on April 2, 1855, and a resident member on October 11, 1886.
Dalton was not significantly involved in politics until 1774, when the tensions of the American Revolution were rising but the American Revolutionary War had not yet started. He was elected to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and the Newburyport board of selectmen in 1774, and was an active proponent of indendepence after the war broke out. His contributions included provisioning of ships from his merchant fleet to the Penobscot Expedition of 1780. Dalton served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1782 to 1785, and served as its speaker in 1784.
Except for a brief period working in Boston, Pillsbury remained in Warner until 1851. During his time there, he was elected to the town's board of selectmen, served as postmaster and town treasurer, and also served in the New Hampshire General Court from 1850 to 1851. In 1851 he moved the family to Concord, New Hampshire where he was appointed to oversee the construction of the county jail. Later that year he began working with the Concord Railroad, a company he remained with for the next 24 years.
His son, Robert Taft Jr., was a member of the founding Board of Selectmen for the new town of Uxbridge in 1727. A branch of the Massachusetts Taft family descended from Daniel Taft Sr., son of Robert Taft Sr., born at Braintree, 1677–1761, died at Mendon. Daniel, a justice of the peace in Mendon, had a son Josiah Taft, later of Uxbridge, who died in 1756. This branch of the Taft family claims America's first woman voter, Lydia Taft, and five generations of Massachusetts legislators and public servants beginning with Lydia's husband, Josiah Taft.
On January 9, Superintendent Richard Langlois announced that Diorio had been on paid leave since December 18 pending an inquiry "into the management of certain financial and other affairs of Saugus High School." On April 10, 2013 an independent audit into the Saugus High School student activities account was released to the Board of Selectmen. The audit described Saugus High's record keeping as shoddy and in some cases in violation of state law. The audit also questioned $17,000 in stipend payments made to Diorio between 2006 and 2013.
Municipalities also have powers necessarily implied by those express powers, and those essential to the local government's existence, but this authority is narrowly construed, in contrast to the practice in most of New England. For statistics on New Hampshire municipalities and comparisons to municipalities elsewhere in New England, see New England town. Cities are governed by Boards of Aldermen (in Manchester and Nashua) or City Councils (all other cities). In towns, the executive power is the Board of Selectmen, except that some towns, especially larger ones, are governed by a Town Council.
He began his public service career serving on the Charter Revision Commission in Plainfield while a student at Eastern. After moving to Pomfret he joined the Pomfret Volunteer Fire Department, later serving as the fire company president. He was elected by town meeting to the fire district board and appointed by the board of selectmen to serve as the deputy emergency management director for the town. In February 2016 he announced that he was seeking the Democratic nomination for an open house seat in the Connecticut General Assembly.
In 2008, Murphy went back on the road as a driver and those two periods became the basis for his book. In the years between, he lived on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts and worked as a businessman and community activist. Murphy served in several public service positions on Nantucket notably as Chairman of the Nantucket Board of Selectmen, Police Commissioner, and as Airport Commissioner. As a businessman he and his wife Pamela owned and operated several luxury retail enterprises and represented the cashmere manufacturer Johnstons of Elgin from an office in New York’s garment center.
The town of Dennis is governed by an open town meeting form of government, and is led by a board of selectmen, which delegates day-to-day operations to a town administrator. The town has a police department, and the fire department headquartered near the intersection of Routes 28 and 134 with a branch station off of Route 6A. There are post offices in each of the five villages, as well as libraries. The central library is located in Dennis Port, and all are a part of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing library network.
Connecticut town meetings are bound to a published agenda. For example, in Connecticut, a Town Meeting may discuss, but not alter, an article placed before them, nor may they place new items on the agenda. If a Town Meeting rejects a budget, a new Town Meeting must be called to consider the next proposed budget. State Law allows the Board of Selectmen to adopt an estimated tax rate and continue operating based on the previous budget in the event a Town Meeting has not adopted a new budget in time.
Reilly took the position that 38 states expressly denied recognition to same-sex marriages and that residents of other states could obtain licenses. Localities that supported the right of same-sex couples to marry resisted both those interpretations. On April 11, Provincetown's Board of Selectmen decided their town clerk would approve marriage license applications from any couple that swore, as was customary, that their marriage was lawful. The town manager said: "We've never been the marriage police with heterosexual couples, and we're not about to start with same-sex couples".
Forrester Andrew "Tim" Clark, Jr. (born November 30, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American investment banker and politician who represented the 4th Essex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1979 to 1995 and again from 1997 to 1999. Prior to serving in the House, Clark was a member of the Hamilton, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen. He was the Republican nominee for Massachusetts State Auditor in 1994, but lost in the general election to A. Joseph DeNucci. In 1995, Clark was succeeded in the 4th Essex District his friend James Colt.
In August 2013, the New Hampshire Department of Transportation began another study of layover and station sites. A number of station and layover site options were presented in May 2014, and three final options were released in September 2014: a station and layover just past NH-125, a station there with the layover moved just south of the state line, and a station and layover near NH-121A. However, the Plaistow Board of Selectmen voted for the "no build" option to not extend commuter rail to the town in April 2015.
His pedigree is unknown, and it is uncertain from where in England he came, but his wife was from the parish of Nayland, in Suffolk, and their first three children were born there. The Arbella arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1630, but the passengers disliked the location as a place for a permanent settlement, so they proceeded to Charlestown and were among the first settlers of Watertown, near Mount Auburn, Massachusetts. Stearns was declared a freeman on May 18, 1631; he was elected to the area's Board of selectmen several years later.
He declined to seek re- election to the seat in 2004, and was succeeded by Palmer Board of Selectmen Chairman Todd M. Smola, a fellow Republican and Hillman's former aide. In 2005, Hillman was suggested by Governor Mitt Romney to be considered for the position of U.S. Marshal for Massachusetts. The following year the lieutenant governor, and Republican nominee for governor, Kerry Healey, chose Hillman as her running mate for the 2006 election. The pair lost to Deval Patrick and Tim Murray in the general election in November by a wide margin.
MacKenzie served ten months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Allenwood. After his release in October 1978 he did paralegal work in the offices of attorney Richard M. Riley and State Senator Michael LoPresti Jr. On August 19, 1981 the Burlington Board of Selectmen voted 3 to 2 to make MacKenzie the town's Director of Veterans' Services. In December 1983 the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners ruled that MacKenzie was eligible to be a lawyer in spite of his conviction. He went on to pass the bar and practice law part-time.
By Tuesday, Amherst Town Manager Louis Hayward had a dilemma. Compounding the problem was the fact that in South Amherst, construction of a new well in Lawrence Swamp was still at least a month from completion. This issue then caused the Amherst Board of Selectmen on the following Monday to declare a water emergency, with the aim of cutting water usage by one quarter by banning all outside use of water. Additionally, authorization was given to selectman to approach the neighboring town of Hadley and purchase water from them.
The government is usually entrusted to an elected board or council, which may be known by a variety of names: town or village council, board of selectmen, board of supervisors, board of commissioners. The board may have a chairperson or president who functions as chief executive officer, or there may be an elected mayor. Governmental employees may include a clerk, treasurer, police and fire officers, and health and welfare officers. One unique aspect of local government, found mostly in the New England region of the United States, is the town meeting.
Moses Fellows (November 7, 1803 – September 25, 1879) was an American politician who served as the fourth mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire. Fellows was born to Simon and Dorthy (Bartlett) Fellows in Brentwood, New Hampshire on November 7, 1803. While he lived in Brentwood, until he resigned in 1827, Fellows was a Sergeant in the New Hampshire Militia. Fellows was Chairman of the Manchester Board of Selectmen in 1842-1843 and 1846, also in 1846 a member of the Manchester board of Aldermen, and a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1847–1848.
Winchester's town government of Selectmen and Town Meeting members has remained essentially unchanged for most of its existence, until the renaming of the Board of Selectmen to the Select Board in 2018. A 1970s survey listed Winchester as "one of the top fifteen suburbs" in the nation (Ladies Home Journal, August 1975). The town is part of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex district. In 2008, Winchester voted 59% for Democrat Barack Obama and 39% for Republican John McCain. Comparatively, in 2012, Winchester voted 55% for Democrat Barack Obama and 44% for Republican former governor Mitt Romney.
In 1974, Cunningham was chosen by the Board of Selectmen to replace Robert Hagopian as town manager. He was later given a five-year contract by the board and the School Committee granted him a two- year leave of absence from his position as assistant principal of the Saugus Junior High School. During his tenure, Cunningham was heavily involved in getting community development grants and funds for new sewers and water extension programs. In 1975, $30,000 in municipal funds (about $19,000 in cash and $11,000 in checks) were stolen from a vault the Collector–Treasurer's office.
The executive branch of the town government consists of a three-person Board of Selectmen elected by the residents. The Selectmen appoint a Town Administrator who is in charge of daily operations. The legislative branch is a representative town meeting, with eight districts each electing 36 representatives, plus ex-officio members and a Town Moderator to run the annual meeting. Belmont is part of the 24th Middlesex District (for the Massachusetts House of Representatives), the 2nd Middlesex and Suffolk District (for the Massachusetts Senate), and Massachusetts's 5th congressional district (for the United States House of Representatives).
Framingham's Home Rule Charter was approved by voters on April 4, 2017, and took effect on January 1, 2018. On that date, Yvonne M. Spicer was inaugurated as Framingham's first mayor. Elections are held in November of odd-numbered years, to elect a full- time mayor serving a four-year term, and an 11-member city council comprising nine district members serving two-year terms and two at-large members serving four-year terms. The mayor replaced the Board of Selectmen as the chief executive, and the City Council replaced Representative Town Meeting as the legislative body.
Lee is the least populous municipality in Massachusetts not to use the open town meeting form of government; instead, it uses the representative town meeting, and is led by a board of selectmen and a town administrator. Lee has its own police, fire and public works departments, as well as a post office. The town's library is a member of the regional library networks. On the state level, Lee is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.
Shortly thereafter, in 1852, Winthrop was incorporated as a town in its own right with a Board of Selectmen and Open Town Meeting form of government. In 1920, Winthrop was the second town in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to apply for and receive a Charter for a Representative Town Meeting, which continued to 2006. As noted above, Winthrop adopted a home rule charter in 2005 with a council-manager form of government and is no longer governed by a representative town meeting. It is now legally a city, but chooses to be known as a town that has a city form of government.
The Massasoit Community College Police Department was established in 1966 at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States. The Massasoit Police Department primarily derives its law enforcement authority from Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 73, Section 18 (Board of Trustees & Board of Higher Education) and Chapter 15A, Section 22 as granted by the Commonwealth's legislative branch. This is similar to a board of selectmen appointing municipal police officers. However, the administration chooses to instead appoint officers as special state police officers under Massachusetts General Law Chapter 22C, section 63, a law reserved for private education institutions.
He was a member of the Fall River Board of Selectmen from 1851 to 1854, and served as the first Mayor of Fall River under the new city government from 1854 to 1855. He was elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1863). Buffington was chairman of the Committee on Accounts (Thirty-seventh Congress,Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses), and the Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-seventh Congress). Buffington was mustered into the service April 24, 1861, and discharged June 15, 1861.
Endicott was active in Dedham civic affairs, and served as a member of the town's Board of Selectmen for twenty years. Endicott also served as an assessor, auditor, overseer of the poor, and was on the Board of Health for twenty-one years. Endicott served as president of both the Dedham National Bank and the Dedham Institution for Savings, until there was a law passed by the Massachusetts state legislature that a person could not hold office in a savings bank and a national bank at the same time. Endicott also served as director of the Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Born on a farm near Harmony, Maine, he moved with his parents to Hartland, Maine in 1891. He attended the rural schools and Hartland Academy, and taught school. Smith served in the Maine House of Representatives from 1899 to 1903 and from 1919 to 1923; he engaged in the retail clothing and hardware business in 1901, and was Hartland's superintendent of schools from 1903 to 1906. From 1904 to 1907, he was a member of the Hartland board of selectmen, and moved to Skowhegan, Maine, having been elected sheriff of Somerset County, serving from 1905 to 1909.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1806. He first began practicing in Fairhaven, Massachusetts before returning to practice in Plymouth. Sampson first became involved in politics as a member of the Board of Selectmen for Plymouth. In 1816, he was elected as a Democratic-Republican to succeed Congressman William Baylies and represent Massachusetts's 8th congressional district in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, to July 26, 1820 when he resigned due to his appointment by President James Monroe as Collector of Customs at Plymouth on July 26, 1820, and served until his death.
The Town Manager shall attend all regular meetings of the Board of Selectmen, except for meetings at which his removal is being considered. He has jurisdiction over the rental and use of all town property and is responsible for the maintenance, repair, and construction of all town buildings. The Town Manager is responsible for purchasing all supplies, materials, equipment (except schools books), and for awarding contracts for all town departments. The Town Manager is directly or indirectly responsible for administering all of the town's general and special laws as well as all by-laws and regulations established by the Selectmen.
The township form of government has a group of elected officials (the township committee) which serves as both the executive and legislative authority. This form of government is one of the oldest and is derived from the town meeting form of government used in New England, where the township committee has similar functions to the board of selectmen. The township committee has either three or five members elected at-large. Every year, the committee chooses one of their members to be the "mayor", becoming the moderator for meetings of the township committee but having no special powers.
Ignatius Haskell was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and came to Deer Isle with his brother and father in 1778. They established a number of businesses, including a grist mill and shipyard, and Haskell was one of the town's leading citizens. He served on the board of selectmen, made substantial contributions toward the construction of a meeting house (no longer standing), and served in the state legislature. In 1791 he married the daughter of a wealthy Newburyport family, and built this house, of much greater sophistication than is typical for much of coastal Maine of the period, in 1793.
A copy of all ACT 250 permit applications must be submitted (by the applicants) to the RPCs for review. The Northeast Kingdom is unique, as it benefits from an agency that is both an Economic Development Commission as well as a Regional Planning Commission, the Northeastern Vermont Development Association and Regional Planning Commission (NVDA). Under a state legislators' study to lower state government spending, lawmakers have been looking to the Northeast Kingdom's RPC/EDC as a model for possible consolidation of agencies throughout the state. Municipalities are governed by an elected Board of Selectmen and managed by an elected town or city clerk.
Nahum Parker (March 4, 1760November 12, 1839) was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Parker was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. During the Revolutionary War he served in the Continental Army at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. He settled in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire in 1786, was a member of the board of selectmen from 1790 to 1794 and clerk and town treasurer from 1792 to 1815. Parker was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1794 to 1804 and in 1806-1807; in 1804 and 1805 he was a member of the Governor's council.
The Town Meeting Warrant is a document composed of the articles to be voted on. Any elected or appointed board, committee, or town officer or ten petitioning voters may request that an article be included on the warrant. Each article to be voted on is directed by the Board of Selectmen to an appropriate board or committee to hear and provide the original motion at Town Meeting. All articles which require expending of funds are directed to the Finance Committee; articles dealing with planning and zoning to the Planning Board; articles relating to by-laws to the By-Law Committee, and so forth.
The Agreement stated that the signatories were to abide by the town ordinances and laws, maintain orderly conduct, and resolve differences between themselves peaceably. The first house lot in Medfield (12 acres) was granted to Ralph Wheelock. The house lot was at the intersection of North and Main streets on the west side of North and extended almost to Upham Road (which used to be called Short Street). His planting field was directly across Main Street from his house lot and ran along Pleasant Street, extending almost to where Oak Street is today. Ralph served on the first Board of Selectmen (1651).
Prior to 1822, there was no Mayor of Boston, because Boston was incorporated as a town. In Massachusetts, a town is typically governed by a town meeting, with a board of selectmen handling regular business. Boston was the first community in Massachusetts to receive a city charter, which was granted in 1822. Under the terms of the new charter, the mayor was elected annually. In June 1895, the charter was amended, and the mayor's term was increased to two years. In 1909, the Republican-controlled state legislature enacted strong-mayor charter changes it hoped would dampen the rising power of Democratic Irish Americans.
He was compact administrator for the Interstate Compact on Juveniles, and was a member of the Connecticut Commission on Child Support. He also served on the State Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. In his home town of Westport, Connecticut, Marcus currently serves as a Justice of the Peace and as vice-chairman of the Westport Democratic Town Committee. He has served as a member of the board of selectmen, vice-chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission, member of the Board of Assessment Appeals, member of the Charter Revision Commission and chairman of the Democratic Town Committee.
Since travel at that time was hazardous, Hall became an innkeeper at his farm, which was considered benefactor to the traveling public rather than businessman. Mr Hall was one of two appointed as Surveyor of Highways petitioned the General Court in 1793 for a tax of one penney per acre to be used for the improvement of roads within the town. A member of the board of selectmen, Hall served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He was appointed judge of the court of common pleas by Governor John Taylor Gilman in 1805, solicitor and Sheriff in 1812.
In 1814, Makepeace was a signer of a petition that requested that Lynn's Second Parish be set off as a separate town known as Westport. The plan was abandoned, however the following year the Second Parish separated from Lynn and became the Town of Saugus. Saugus' first Town Meeting was held on March 13, 1815 and Makepeace was appointed to the position of Sealer of Weights and Measurers and elected to the town's first Board of Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor as well as its first School Committee. He later he served as Saugus' Town Treasurer.
Showing up drunk to an interview for a job as police chief for the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts (loosely based on the real town of Marblehead, Massachusetts), Stone is hired because the corrupt president of the town board of selectmen thinks he will be easy to control. Stone quickly notices that the town has big league crimes, struggling with the mob, white supremacists, wildly errant wives and a triple homicide, and that his job will be more difficult than he expected. But, he proves up to the task, beginning with making a corruption case against the town council president and arresting him. In the novels Stone typically carries a .
Plymouth has experienced rapid growth and development in recent years. It became more accessible to Boston in the early 1970s with improved railroads, highways, and bus routes, and the town's inexpensive land costs and low tax rates were factors in the town's significant population rise, which grew from 18,606 residents in 1970 to 45,608 residents in 1990, a 145% increase in 20 years. Plymouth has surpassed several Massachusetts cities in population, but it is still officially regarded as a town and continues to be governed by a board of selectmen rather than a mayor. Plymouth spans several exits on the town's primary highway Massachusetts Route 3.
In 1636 the Boston Board of Selectmen ordered that two town residents be given land in current day Winthrop, Massachusetts in exchange for them forgoing their rights to land on the island. In 1920, Fort Duvall, a Coast Artillery fort, was constructed on Little Hog Island. A pair of 16-inch guns were emplaced on the island and later fortified with reinforced concrete casemates just prior to World War II. One of these fortifications is still visible under a condominium complex at the north end of the island, where it is currently used as parking space. The fort was declared surplus after the war.
After receiving its charter in 1838, Biloxi was classified as a township and elected a president and a board of selectmen. On the eve of the American Civil War, these titles were changed to mayor and aldermen and were part-time positions. In 1919, Biloxi voters opted to have a new full-time government with a mayor and two commissioners elected to four-year terms. This system remained in place until voters again amended the city's governing structure in 1978, approving a mayor-council form of government with a city- wide elected mayor and councilmen elected from seven wards in the city, which went into effect at the 1981 elections.
After about eight hours of discussion, the town voted for the $186,600 plan. To oversee the renovation, the Board of Selectmen appointed a building committee consisting of builder Phil Brooks, former selectman Bill Stephenson, and three other local residents. However, as the interest of the three others waned, Brooks brought other members aboard: Lafayette Artillery members Walter Holland and Edna Worcester; historian and lifelong resident Stephanie Abbot Roper; geographer Scott Roper; and carpenter, lifelong resident, and Artillery member Walter Holt. Brooks, who contributed tremendous amounts of time and materials to the project, coordinated volunteer efforts with Worcester, while Holland and Holt initiated the demolition and construction stages of the renovation.
Gay also replaced Guild as Town Treasurer. Those from the village, upset that they had been turned out of power, began complaining that the election was illegal because there had not been enough warning given in advance of the town meeting that served as an election. The old board of selectmen, including those members just voted out of office, invalidated the election and called for a new one to be held on March 27. In that election Guild was returned to both his posts as selectman and treasurer, but Fisher and Fairbanks both lost again and were replaced with men from other parts of town.
LA homicide detective Jesse Stone, who already has a penchant for drinking, really begins to hit the bottle after he discovers his wife, actress Jenn Stone, is having an affair with her agent. They divorce and after his drinking leads to his termination from the LAPD he decides to get as far away from his now ex-wife as possible. Despite showing up to the interview intoxicated, he is hired as chief of police for the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts. He later learns that this is because the corrupt Board of Selectmen chair, Hasty Hathaway, is looking for a lush that they can push around.
Pratt was the leading opponent of the Plan E form of government in Saugus. Plan E would create the office of Town Manager, expand the Board of Selectmen from three members to five, change the electoral system for town elections to Single transferable vote, and change a number of elected positions to appointed positions. The Plan E form of government was adopted following a June 2, 1947 referendum in which the proposed form of government was supported 3,252 votes to 816. Pratt was also a leading opponent of rezoning part of the old Town Farm property so a shopping mall (the New England Shopping Center) could be built there.
The Town Manager shall supervise and direct the administration of all departments, commissions, boards and offices, except for the Board of Selectmen, School Committee, Board of Appeals, Board of Library Trustees, election officers, and the registrars of voters. He may reorganize, consolidate or abolish departments, commissions, boards, or offices under his control, establish new ones as he deems necessary, and may transfer the duties, powers and appropriation of one department, commission, board or office to another. He is in charge of fixing the compensation of all town officers and employees under his control. He can dismiss any officer or employee of the town, except for employees of the school department.
The Town Manager is responsible for appointing members to the Planning Board, Board of Public Welfare, Board of Health, Board of Youth and Recreation Commissioners, Board of Cemetery Commissioners, Board of Assessors, as well as the Fire Chief, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Town Collector, Town Accountant, Superintendent of Public Works, Tree Warden, and Town Counsel. All of these appointments must be approved by a majority of the full board of selectmen at an open session. The Manager may also assume the duties of any office which he is authorized to fill by appointment. The town manager is the chief fiscal officer of the town.
Jeremiah Nelson (September 14, 1769October 2, 1838) was a Representative from Massachusetts. Nelson was born in Rowley in the Province of Massachusetts Bay on September 14, 1769 to Solomon and Elizabeth (Mighill) Nelson. He graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1790. He engaged in the mercantile business in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He was a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1803 and 1804, was elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1807); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1806 to the Tenth Congress. In 1811, he served as chairman of the board of selectmen of Newburyport.
On February 20, 1962 the Board of Selectmen voted 3 to 2 to appoint John O. Stinson Town Manager with Evans voting for Clarence Wilkinson. Evans would later become a supporter of Stinson and was the only Selectmen who opposed his firing in 1967, although he was unable to attend the meeting due to illness. Evans would vote to appoint temporary manager Stanley Day to permanently succeed Stinson, however Paul H. Boucher was chosen by a 3 to 2 vote. The Board would unanimously vote to fire Boucher six months later and Clarence Wilkinson was appointed to succeed him on a 3 to 2 vote, with Evans once again supporting him.
On July 31, 1967, Boucher was chosen by the Saugus Board of Selectmen to serve as Town Manager on a six-month trial basis. During his tenure as manager, the town fought the state government to close the M. DeMatteo dump on Massachusetts Route 107. After the town declined a request by State Health Commissioner Alfred Frechette to keep the dump open, Governor John A. Volpe signed an emergency order that would reopen the dump. The town refused to comply with this order and the dump was not reopened until the state Department of Public Health was granted temporary restraining order by the Suffolk Superior Court.
In 1936 Mullen was elected to the Board of Selectmen. On August 4 he was elected Chairman of the Board by a vote of 2 to 0. The absent member, C. F. Nelson Pratt was Chairman prior to the meeting and was informed when he showed up 15 minutes into the meeting that he no longer held the position. That October, Mullen was accused by Pratt of coercing Works Progress Administration workers by threatening to have them fired if they did not vote for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and telling them they were expected to attend a Democratic Party Rally at Saugus Town Hall.
Following the death of Ted Kennedy, the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate was John Kerry (last re- elected in 2008) until he became Secretary of State; that seat has been occupied by Ed Markey since July 16, 2013. The other (Class II) senate seat is held by Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, elected in the November 2012 elections and sworn in as senator in January 2013. Provincetown is governed by the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a town manager and a board of selectmen. The town has its own police and fire departments, both of which are stationed on Shank Painter Road.
Bruce Poliquin, the incumbent representative for the second district, defeated Democrat Emily Cain in the 2016 election in a rematch of the 2014 election where Poliquin was first elected. Poliquin ran for the Republican nomination unopposed. Cain did not challenge Poliquin again, instead taking a job with the progressive group Emily's List. Initially, six candidates filed for the Democratic nomination — United States Postal Service employee and activist Phil Cleaves, carpenter and former Maine State Senate candidate Jonathan Fulford, Assistant Majority Leader of the State House of Representatives Jared Golden, shopkeeper and former chair of the Isleboro Board of Selectmen Craig Olson, businessman and former State Senate candidate Tim Rich, and conservationist Lucas St. Clair.
Nonviolent crime in Walpole in 2005 Violent crime in Walpole in 2005 Walpole, like most New England towns, has a board of selectmen. In exchange for tax revenue, the town provides its residents with public schooling, recreation, police and fire protection, and other general municipal services. For separate quarterly payments, the town provides water and sewer services. Laws are enforced by the Walpole Police Department. In 2005, no murders were committed in Walpole. Despite having no homicides, nonviolent crime in the town rose in 2005 compared to 2004. In 2005, there were 58 violent crimes per 100,000 people, a drop from 89 in 2004. There were 13 total violent crimes committed in Walpole in 2005.
From 1969 to 1975 he served on the East Bridgewater Board of Selectmen. From 1971 to 1975 he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 8th Plymouth district as a Democrat.Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1971-1972)Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1973-1974) From 1975 to 1981 he served in the Massachusetts Senate representing the Bristol, Plymouth and Norfolk district (1975-1979) and the 2nd Plymouth district (1979-1981).Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1977-1978)Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1975-1976) He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives seat in Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in 1980.
Rudolph Francis King (November 2, 1887 - September 10, 1961) was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1937 to 1944 and was House Speaker from 1943 to 1944. Born in Horton Bluff, Nova Scotia, he had previously served as a member of the School Committee, Board of Assessors, and the Board of Health and Cemeteries and was the town moderator and chairman of the board of selectmen in Millis, Massachusetts. King resigned from the House on August 16, 1944, to become registrar of motor vehicles. In 1946 he was nominated by Governor Maurice J. Tobin to serve as State Commissioner of Public Works, but refused the offer.
In 1832 he received from President Van Buren the appointment of deputy United States marshal and took the census of thirteen towns in Rockingham county. In 1842 he moved to Manchester and engaged in the West India goods trade, but in 1845 he was appointed postmaster by President Polk and served four years. He had been in 1844 chairman of the board of selectmen and in 1849 was elected as the third mayor of the city by theDemocratic Party on October 3, 1849, and was sworn in on October 6, 1849. In 1850 he was the chief engineer of the fire department and the same year was appointed special justice of the police court.
Although the cannon remains in Lyndeborough, technically it is on loan from the federal government. By the 1950s, as interest in the Lafayette Artillery Company ebbed and the Washington's Birthday celebration ceased as an annual event, the condition of Citizens' Hall declined. Occasionally the town would spend money to repair the structure, as in the 1950s when the Board of Selectmen voted to purchase new windows, replace sills, and add a second-floor fire-escape door to the building. Finally, in the mid-1960s the town's population—which had more than doubled since 1930—necessitated the movement of the annual Town Meeting from the old town hall at Lyndeborough Center to Citizens' Hall.
Stephan Morse was born in Springfield, Vermont on April 1, 1947 and was raised and educated in Newfane. Morse graduated from the University of Vermont in 1969 and worked as a painting contractor until 1984, when he became executive director of the Windham Foundation, a philanthropic agency in Grafton that was formed to aid in the restoration and historic preservation of rural and village areas of Vermont.Biography, Stephan A. Morse, Introduction to Stephan A. Morse Papers, Vermont Archives and Records Administration, undated A Republican, Morse served as Newfane's Zoning Administrator from 1971-1974. He was a member of the town's Board of Selectmen from 1974 to 1977, and was Chairman from 1975 to 1977.
Georgetown is the only Colorado municipality that still operates under a charter from the Territory of Colorado which includes a Police Judge as Mayor and a Board of Selectmen instead of a Town Council. The building of the narrow gauge Colorado Central Railroad up the canyon from Golden in the 1870s further increased the central position of the town. Although most of the railroad was later removed, a portion remained between the town and Silver Plume and is operated today as a tourist railroad called the Georgetown Loop. The town experienced its greatest growth and prosperity during the Colorado silver boom of the 1880s when it rivaled Leadville to the west as the mining capital of Colorado.
Moses Newell played an active role in civic affairs in the town, almost from the date West Newbury was incorporated as a town on February 18, 1819. He was on the board of Selectmen intermittently from 1822 to 1860, and served as moderator at town meetings at various times during those years. His son, Captain Richard Newell, traveled for most of his life on ships, but he lived in the house after his retirement. A member of the Marine Society of Newburyport, Richard Newell was born in 1834 and went to sea as a young boy of 15, according to an account he wrote himself in the chronicles, "The Marine Society of Newburyport".
Before it was re- incorporated into Windham, Willimantic had a series of mayors; the Town of Windham was administered by a board of selectmen until 2009, when it changed to use a town council/town manager system with an elected mayor. As part of Windham, it is part of Connecticut's 2nd congressional district; in the Connecticut Senate, the 29th district, and in the Connecticut House of Representatives, most of it is in the 49th district, with some western parts in the 48th district. Willimantic was the county seat of Windham County from 1893 to 1960, when the county system was abolished. The Windham Judicial District building is in downtown Willimantic as well.
The legislature enacted "An Act to incorporate the City of Jersey, in the County of Bergen" on January 28, 1820. Under the provision, five freeholders (including Varick, Dey, and Radcliff) were to be chosen as "the Board of Selectmen of Jersey City," thereby establishing the first governing body of the emerging municipality. The city was reincorporated on January 23, 1829, and again on February 22, 1838, at which time it became completely independent of North Bergen and was given its present name. On February 22, 1840, it became part of the newly created Hudson County.Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. pp. 146–147.
By the close of the American Revolution there rose a need for practical knowledge in the applied sciences, outside of the public schools which only taught reading writing, latin and basic math. In June of 1787, Carleton launched his career in lecturing, and by August 1, 1787 the Boston Board of Selectmen approved his application to open a school, teaching surveying, gauging, mensuration, algebra, geometry, geography, astronomy, dialling, navigation, gunnery, architecture. An advertisement for his school can be found in the Peter Short 1791 ciphering book found in the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). A surviving example of one of his teaching texts can be found at the Boston Athenaeum, Compendium of Practical Arithmetic.
Lydia and Josiah settled in Uxbridge. They had eight children between 1732 and 1753: Josiah (born 10 May 1733), Ebenezer (born somewhere between 20 August 1735 and 16 October 1735), Caleb (born between 15 January 1739 and 19 September 1756), Asahel (born 23 April 1740), Joel (born between 15 August 1742 and 19 February 1747), Joel (born between 19 February 1748 and 30 August 1749), Bazaleel (born 3 November 1750), and Chloe (born 7 June 1753). Josiah became a prominent citizen in early Uxbridge as a wealthy farmer, local official, and Massachusetts legislator. He served several terms as a member of the Board of Selectmen, as town clerk, as town moderator, and in the Massachusetts General Court (1753).
Town Hall Great Barrington employs the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a board of selectmen and a town manager. Great Barrington has its own public services, including police, fire and public works departments. The town has two libraries, with the main branch, Mason Library, at 231 Main Street in Great Barrington, and a branch library, Ramsdell Library, at 1087 Main Street in the village of Housatonic, both of which are part of the regional library network. The town is home to Southern Berkshire District Court,"South Berkshire District Court", State of Massachusetts as well as Fairview Hospital, the largest hospital in the southern end of the county (based on the number of beds).
The redrawn 1st district currently represents all municipalities in Belknap (except for the town of Center Harbor); the entirety of Carroll, and Strafford counties; all of Rockingham County; the municipalities of Bedford, Goffstown, Manchester, and Merrimack in Hillsborough County; the town of Campton in Grafton County; and, the town of Hooksett in Merrimack County. Republican Frank Guinta, who has represented the 1st district since January 2011, was defeated by Carol Shea-Porter for re- election. Vern Clough, a retired barber, and Rick Parent, who ran in the Republican primary for the seat in 2010, unsuccessfully challenged Guinta in the 2012 Republican primary. Brendan Kelly, the chairman of the Seabrook Board of Selectmen, ran as a Libertarian in 2012.
A graduate of Cardinal Spellman High School and Princeton University, Walsh's political career began shortly after he graduated from college when he helped a friend who was running for the Abington School Committee. Although his friend lost a close race to an incumbent, Walsh was appointed to the Abington finance committee. At the age of 26, he was elected to the Abington Board of Selectmen, where he would serve from 1983 to 1993. He also spent three years as a member of the Plymouth County Charter Commission. During the 1998 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Walsh served as field director of Brian J. Donnelly’s campaign. In 2002 he was the campaign manager for the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s Coordinated Campaign.
Tupper also began to serve in local government; he was elected to the Boothbay Harbor board of selectmen in 1948, and was selected to serve as chairman in 1949. As a selectman, he took a lead role in creating the town's police department, and his other initiatives included adopting the secret ballot for election of town officials, competitive bidding for town equipment and services, and the town manager form of government. A Republican, Tupper served as member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1953 to 1954, as assistant state attorney general from 1959 to 1960, and as commissioner of the state Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries from 1953 to 1957.
While the Meeting soon appointed selectmen to handle most of the town's affairs, it was the meeting that created the Board and the Meeting could just as easily dissolve it. However, "its theoretical powers were for the most part symbolic" and "[f]ormal review of the acts and accounts of the executive was sporadic and at best perfunctory." After creation of the Board of Selectmen, meetings were generally called only twice a year and usually did not stray far from the agenda prepared for them by the selectmen. In fact, the Meeting would often refer issues to the Selectmen to act upon or to "prepare and ripen the answer" to a difficult question.
Democratic incumbent Joe Courtney, who has represented the 2nd district since 2007, said in February 2011 that he would not run for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Joe Lieberman. Courtney ran for re-election. Doug Dubitsky, a lawyer who ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for the 2nd district in 2010; Paul Formica, the First selectman of the East Lyme Board of Selectmen; and Daria Novak, a business consultant and former State Department employee who also ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary in 2010, all sought the Republican nomination to challenge Courtney. State Representative Christopher Coutu had also planned to run, but dropped out of the race in May 2012.
Benjamin Church was the featured speaker in 1773, followed the next year by John Hancock. In emotional language, the early speeches reminded listeners of the killings of civilians in Boston by British soldiers while touching upon themes such as the dangers of standing armies in times of peace and opposition to the policies of the British Parliament that the speakers believed violated colonial rights. The final observance of Massacre Day was in 1783. With the end of the American Revolutionary War and the securing of American independence, the Boston Board of Selectmen thought it was appropriate to replace the holiday with Independence Day, held on July 4 in honor of the Declaration of Independence.
English engaged in the lumber business, banking, and manufacturing. He was a member of the New Haven board of selectmen from 1847 to 1861, and a member of the common council in 1848 and 1849. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1855 and of the Connecticut Senate from 1856 to 1858, and was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1860. English was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1865. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864. He left his ill wife to vote at the U.S. Capitol, where, despite being a Democrat, he voted in favor of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery in 1864.
He engaged in the retail sale of automobiles and the hardware and plumbing business, as well as the newspaper publishing business in Skowhegan. He later engaged in banking and real estate. From 1914 to 1932, he was a member of the Skowhegan board of selectmen, and served in the Maine State Senate from 1923 to 1929 where he was an ardent opponent of the Ku Klux Klan that was at the time in its ascendency; he was chairman of the State highway commission from 1928 to 1932, and was a member of the Governor's council from 1933 to 1937. Smith was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses, serving from January 3, 1937 until his death, in Washington, D.C., in April 1940.
The measure would create two trusts to fund the hotel project, one to cover legal expenses and another to hold donations to provide "just compensation" for Souter's property. Clements announced an effort to add the proposal to the agenda of the Weare town meeting, and in late August, NPR and ABC reported he had managed to gain the 25 signatures required to place it on the ballot. Clements pursued financing and public relations efforts in support of the project. Supporters of the initiative held a rally in Weare on January 21 and 22, 2006, attended by supporters from as far away as Washington State and Texas, and supported of hotel backer Joshua Solomon's candidacy for election to the Weare Board of Selectmen in March 2006.
There is also no universal rule for whether county or city officials other than the mayor (such as city council, board of aldermen, board of selectmen, planning and zoning commission members, and code enforcement board members, or city manager or police chief or fire chief) are given the title; as these may be different state by state.Robert Hickey, Councilman. Certain quasi-judicial positions in local government, such as the Board of Adjustment or Special Master who adjudicates code enforcement, may be referenced with "the Honorable" in front of their name, collective or individual. Members of the White House staff at the rank of special assistant, deputy assistant, assistant to the president, and Counselor to the President are accorded the title.
Norton Public Library The town has an open town meeting form of government, with a town manager and a board of selectmen governing the town. The town is served by the central police station (next to the town hall on Route 123), three fire stations (Station 2 on Route 123, Station 1 in Chartley (currently closed), and Station 5 (Fire Alarm) in Barrowsville), and two post offices (Norton, next to the town center and Wheaton College; and Chartley, near the Attleboro line along Route 123). The town's public library is located next to the town hall, although the original still stands on Route 140 at the town green. There is also a senior center located along Route 123 near the high school.
In 2006 and 2007, Orchulli, as a newcomer to small-town politics, led the local Darien (CT) Republican Party to its largest defeat in the history of the town's municipal elections. In November 2007, in the town where Republicans outnumber Democrats 3 to 1, Orchulli and the Republicans lost control of the Board of Selectmen to the Democrats by a vote of 65% to 35%, unprecedented for the town and mirroring Orchulli's 66% to 32% defeat by Dodd three years earlier He was the state Republican Party finance chair in 2007. In addition, he was a board member of the Connecticut Development Corporation for over three years, a quasi-state government organization which looks to retain and grow jobs in the state.
Joseph R. Gallitano (April 12, 1946 – November 21, 2017) was an American attorney and politician who represented the 1st Plymouth District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 1999 was and a member of the Plymouth, Massachusetts board of selectmen from 1979 to 1982 Gallitano was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and graduated from Bogota High School. He attended the Boston University College of Communication where he majored in Public Relations, ran track and rowed crew. After college, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served during the Vietnam War, and he continued serving in the Naval reserves until being honorably discharged in 1972. After military service, he attended law school at the New England School of Law.
Town councils in Massachusetts are essentially city councils in towns which have adopted a city form of government but prefer to retain the "town of" in their names. In several communities which have adopted such a government, the official name of the community is "The City known as the Town of..." The legislative body of a legal town in Massachusetts is a town meeting; the executive board is a board of selectmen. In addition to having the structure of a city with a mayor and council, cities in Massachusetts can enact ordinances, while towns may adopt by-laws, which are subject to the approval of the Attorney General. City ordinances are presumed to be legal unless challenged and set aside in court.
The Board of Selectmen was presented with The Sale of Marblehead by the Indians to the White Settlers, a wallboard painting with which J.O.J. had been photographed while he was still alive. Now titled The Purchase of Marblehead (and sometimes referred to as The Deed Painting), this Frost work was donated with the stipulation that it always hang in the room where the deed is housed. Currently hanging in the Selectman's Room of Abbot Hall, near the iconic Spirit of ’76 by Archibald M. Willard, Frost's painting is a lasting tribute to the artist's drive to record the earliest history of his beloved town. Until 1998, the paintings owned by the MHS continued to be displayed upstairs at the Jeremiah Lee Mansion.
After settling in Massachusetts, Ames built a seventeen-room estate in Tewksbury known locally as "the Castle" on Prospect Hill, now called Ames Hill, in 1906. In 1986, the Ames Hill Castle was purchased by local developer John D. Sullivan; Sullivan then illegally converted the house into a multi-unit rental property. However, Sullivan has been subject to several court rulings for zoning violations on the property, including one in 1991 and again in 1999. In August 2010, Sullivan's attorney brought forth a proposal to Tewksbury's board of selectmen for modifications to the Ames Hill Castle, to fall under the Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit Act: Chapter 40B, which would allow him to legally maintain the property as a multi-unit rental.
On February 16, 1948, James Shurtleff was unanimously chosen by the Board of Selectmen to become the first Town Manager of Saugus. Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site In 1948, archaeologist Roland W. Robbins began excavating the site of the Saugus Iron Works, which had become hidden by underbrush since its closure. Based on the archeological evidence gathered by Robbins as well as historical documents and conjecture, the First Iron Works Association, with funding from the American Iron and Steel Institute, reconstructed the Saugus Iron Works. The Saugus Iron Works was opened on September 18, 1954, and operated as a private museum from 1954 until April 5, 1968, when it was renamed the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site and became part of the National Park Service system.
On October 5, 2012, Evans' mother died after knee surgery. Evans stated that his mother, who suffered from sleep apnea, was not monitored by hospital staff, did not have her sleep apnea machine, and "was dosed out on morphine" at the time of her death. Following her death, Evans filed lawsuits against a number of groups and individuals, including Steward Health Care System, Cerberus Capital Management, Governor Deval Patrick, and the Massachusetts Nursing Association. On June 25, 2013, Evans filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Hampton, New Hampshire Board of Selectmen for "conspiracy to commit fraud" and "intentional infliction of emotional distress" after the Board voted 3 to 2 against Evans' request to erect a plaque to honor his deceased mother on a town street corner.
The Board of Finance is one of a variety of names (Budget Committee, Finance Committee, Ways and Means Committee, Appropriations Committee, Advisory Committee, or Warrant Committee are used in different parts of New England) for a body that reviews local government budgets in towns or school districts that have the town meeting form of government. Whether the board is appointed or elected, and whether it is merely advisory or has authority over the budget, depends on state and local laws. Its role is to act as a balance against the Board of Selectmen or School Board, which usually set the budget and present it to the public at town meeting. Typically the Board of Finance is seen as being more cost-conscious than the governing body - that is, it prefers smaller budgets.
Their parents were Elizabeth Farrington Davis and John Peters; the Peters family had long been prominent in local affairs, and her father served as chairman of the town's board of selectmen. The details of Clarissa's early education are not known, but it has been suggested that she studied at the Franklin Academy, the first incorporated school in Massachusetts to admit women and the institution attended by her sister Emily from 1836 to 1838. Early in her professional life she is believed to have taught at the Blue Hill Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. She is known to have been in that town in 1831, and it is thought that she may have received some instruction in watercolor painting from Jonathan Fisher, a local polymath and graduate of Harvard University.
After settling in Burlington, Weston became active in politics, and was an advocate of abolishing slavery. He moved from the Whig Party to the Free Soil Party, back to the Whigs, and then to the Republican Party as the abolition movement coalesced and expanded during the 1840s and 1850s. In addition to advocating the abolition of slavery, Weston was also active in the temperance movement. Prior to Burlington's incorporation as a city, it had a town government, and Weston served as a justice of the peace, and was a member of the board of selectmen in 1829, and from 1850 to 1853. From 1836 to 1847, Weston was Chittenden County's register of probate, and he was the assistant secretary of the Vermont Senate in 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840.
On May 2, 1952, Lawrence was named Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts. In 1953 he sold the land opposite Saugus High School to developers for the construction of the New England Shopping Center (which was later redeveloped into the Square One Mall). On January 31, 1956, the Board of Selectmen passed a preliminary resolution to hold a vote to remove Lawrence from office on March 3, 1956, as they no longer had confidence in him as town manager, they had been informed that he no longer wanted to serve as town manager, and the interests of the town would be best served by removing him from office. On February 3, 1956, Lawrence filed an injunction in Essex Superior Court that would prevent the Selectmen from removing him from office and prevent Charles C. DeFronzo from becoming temporary manager.
During the 1990s, MLT's major project has been obtaining a home of their own to stage small productions, conduct workshops, and provide space to store and build sets, to rehearse, as well as store props and costumes. The desire to do smaller plays in addition to MLT's yearly big musicals resulted in the production of an original play One Civilized Person in 1995 as a part of the Marblehead Festival of Arts and later, productions of Exit the Body, The Cemetery Club and Bullshot Crummond, all staged at the Tower School in Marblehead. 1998's major production of The Wizard of Oz staged at the Aldrich Center played to sold out audiences. During the production of The King and I in the Fall of 1999, the Marblehead Board of Selectmen awarded the School Street Firehouse to Marblehead Little Theatre.
Provincetown Town Hall Town Hall, seen through the base of the Pilgrim Monument Provincetown is governed, like most New England towns, by the Open town meeting form of government. In the Town Meeting form of government, the citizens, gathered in the town meeting, act as the legislative branch and approve the budget and amend the town's bylaws, while the popularly elected Board of Selectmen act as the executive branch and hire and oversee the Town Manager, meet regularly to determine policy and appoint members of other boards and commissions. Provincetown is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Fourth Barnstable District, which includes (with the exception of Brewster) all the towns east and north of Harwich on the Cape. The seat is held by Democrat Sarah Peake, a former Provincetown selectman.
Boucher served as a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education, where she was chair of the state’s policy and long-range planning committees. Boucher served on the Wilton Board of Selectmen and the town of Wilton’s Council on Public Facilities and Insurance Committees. She was also active in the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. In the past, she has served as an advisory board member of the New Canaan Nature Center and as a member of the Our Lady of Fatima Fundraising Steering Committee, Greystone Estates Association Board of Directors, Advisory Board of New Canaan Cares, Wilton League of Women Voters, Wilton Historical Society, Board of Directors of the Wilton Chapter of the AFS, and Friends of the Wilton Library. From 1986 to 1994, she also served on the Wilton Board of Education, during which time she served as both the board’s chair and secretary.
Mallary was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on February 21, 1929, and was the son of attorney R. DeWitt Mallary and Gertrude (Robinson) Mallary.Massachusetts Birth Index, 1901-1960 and 1967-1970, entry for Richard Walker Mallary, retrieved April 21, 2014 He was educated at Bradford Academy in Bradford, Vermont, and received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College in 1949.Vermont Secretary of State, Vermont Legislative Directory and State Manual, 1965, page 1132 Mallary operated a dairy farm in Fairlee, Vermont from 1950 to 1970, where he was subsequently elected chairman of the Fairlee Board of Selectmen, serving from 1951 to 1953. His mother served terms in both the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate, and he followed her into state politics by running successfully for the state House in 1960. He served from 1961 to 1969, advanced to chairman of the appropriations committee and held the position of Speaker from 1965 to 1969.
Cheshire Town Hall Cheshire's voters have split tickets frequently in recent statewide elections. In 2004, President Bush won a narrow plurality over John Kerry. Bush had lost the town in his 2000 bid. In 2006 Cheshire voters gave strong support to Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell, independent U.S. Senate candidate Joe Lieberman and local Democratic House candidate Chris Murphy, who defeated incumbent Nancy Johnson. In the 2008 presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat Barack Obama with 8,177 votes over Republican John McCain with 6,839 votes. Voting tallies for the 2016 presidential election are as follows: Hillary Clinton (D) 7,212, Donald Trump (R) 6,907, Gary Johnson (Lib) 519, and Jill Stein (Grn) 178. Cheshire voted for Republican majorities to its Board of Selectmen every election from 1915 to 1971, and then to its Town Council every year from 1973 to 2001, when voters elected a Democratic majority (6-3) for the first time. In 2003, a Republican majority (5-4) was elected.
He was always active in the Republican party, serving for many years on the town committee, often as chairman; frequently being delegate to the state and other conventions of his party. He was first elected moderator of the Natick town meeting, after a sharp contest in 1870. He was particularly well fitted for this duty by parliamentary knowledge, experience in presiding, and knowledge of town business, and often served the town, the last occasion being 1896. He was the tax collector in 1870 and 1871; representative to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1871-1872, serving on the committee on labor in 1871 and on probate and insolvency and woman suffrage in 1872; chairman of the Natick board of selectmen 1874, 1876, and 1881; member of the board of health 1874; overseer of the poor for three years; member of the school committee 1873; on many important town committees; deputy sheriff 1877-1886 inclusive; trial justice of the Natick Court 1886 to 1892.
Baton Rouge was granted the right to incorporate in 1817 under legislation approved by Louisiana's second governor, Jacques Villeré. The city was chartered the following year and led by a magistrate who was chosen among the popularly-elected, five-member board of selectmen. Selectmen were up for election annually. Early mayors also served one-year terms. The office had a two-year term in the 1880s and was increased to four years in duration in 1898. The first mayoral election in 1846 was between James Cooper (who had previously served as a magistrate) and John Dufrocq, a Whig Party member who won the balloting. In 1856 another noteworthy race occurred, this time between Know Nothing mayor Joseph Monget and his Democratic challenger, Edward Cousinard; after actually tying in the popular vote, the commissioners of election decided to award the election to the incumbent. Cousinard later won the mayor's seat himself in the 1857 election. The city's government essentially ceased to exist for the duration of the Civil War, once the Battle of Baton Rouge had begun in 1862. It was also largely stripped of influence at one point by the First Reconstruction Act, which was issued in 1867.
The right of a municipality to "warn out" one of its inhabitants was based on the theory that a city has a common law duty to care for its inhabitants when they cannot support themselves; therefore, it was reasoned, the city had the right to "exclude from inhabitancy persons for whose conduct or support they did not desire to be responsible." According to another theory, the right to exclude inhabitants was derived from the principle that "the estate of any inhabitant of a town is liable to be taken in execution on a judgment against the town". The practice of warning out replaced an earlier practice in which admission to a town as an inhabitant, or purchase of property within a town, required a vote of the present inhabitants or the Board of Selectmen. As cities grew, and it became difficult to enforce the requirement of approval prior to residency, municipalities began to make a distinction between residency and inhabitancy: those residents who were not admitted to inhabitancy could be "warned out", and thereby the town would be spared liability for the resident in case of poverty.
In 1845, retired businessman Henry Grew took his family on vacation to an area south of the City of Boston, in what was then the western section of Dorchester, and came to a spot in the Neponset River valley with an unexpectedly pleasant view of the nearby Blue Hills. He purchased several hundred acres of land there (which later became known as "Grew's Woods", partially preserved today as the Stony Brook Reservation and the George Wright Golf Course) and moved to the area in 1847. (Grew later served as chairman of the new Town of Hyde Park's first Board of Selectmen and was one of its most prominent citizens.) During the next few years, a group called the Hyde Park Land Company bought about 200 acres of land in the area and began building houses around a small and unofficial passenger stop on the Boston and Providence Railroad that had developed at Kenny's Bridge, located on the road from Dedham to Milton Lower Mills (the road was River Street, and the station today is Hyde Park Station). At that time, the closest actual station was in the manufacturing district of Readville (formerly Low Plains) in Dedham.

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