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There is only one contested race in the upcoming town election and it will pit a former Board of Selectman member against an incumbent for the one available seat.
Former Board of Selectmen Lorne Lawless and Allen Smith are the target of an meetings lawsuit and new board wants to discuss with trial pending
Somerset Council on Aging Director Shauna Geary was fired in February. Now the Board of Selectmen is being sued in a lawsuit brought by five voters.
The two-member board voted unanimously to accept McNeil's resignation, effective May 5. On April 23, they sent a letter to the chief informing him that they would not renew his contract, which was due to expire this August. They offered no explanation in the letter for the decision. McNeil became chief of the Somerset Police Department in 2014. Before that, he served as a police lieutenant in Randolph. Last Wednesday, 100 people tuned in to the selectmen meeting, held over Zoom, many of them to express their support for McNeil. They included Holly McNamara, who resigned as a selectman last ...