selectmen in English

noun
1
a member of the local government board of a New England town.
In 1843 Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident of Salisbury, Connecticut, asked the town's board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotly contested local election.

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1. 8 Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.

2. 12 According to traditions,[www.Sentencedict.com] the selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years.

3. Report to the Bolton Board of Selectmen from the Bolton Charter Review Commission - February 25, 2021

4. The Chairwoman of the town’s Ethics Commission is asking the Board of Selectmen for more funding to hire an outside legal team to rewrite the town’s ethics code.

5. The branch fishin' for Bullpouts at the that our schoolmaster ain't simply fllrtin* with the muses when he originates that epic; no sir, he means business; an' whenever I throws it into the selectmen 1 does it jestice

6. Benchley’s story begins well enough but quickly devolves into irritatingly familiar soap opera dynamics and melodramatic narrative set-pieces; the sexually frustrated housewife, the ‘heated’ cliched exchanges between the beleaguered police chief and Town Selectmen and there are set-pieces in the book which are so stilted and wooden that

7. ‘An Abutter has several opportunities during the Public Hearing process to voice concerns about a given subdivision that may alter the final design or decision.’ ‘Also in July, a group of river Abutters, selectmen and Olson met and came up with the idea of creating a town committee to consider flooding and dam-management issues.’