first selectman

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“It’s a tremendous loss for the town,” first selectman Tim Keeney told reporters on the scene Wednesday morning.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024

“It was really amazing to see how many people came out,” Eric Wellman, the town’s first selectman, said.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

“It’s been done before, and every situation that’s out there ends with negative consequences,” Rudy Marconi, first selectman of Ridgefield, Conn., said this week, via the Ridgefield Press.

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2019

I don’t remember what happened to them, and the first selectman and some people were standing there, and I said, “What happened?”

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2018

"Mebbe all so, but I don't like hens, not for a minit," growled the first selectman, squinting sourly through his tobacco-smoke at the dancing fowl.

From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Day, Holman