CONWAY — Mary Carey Seavey faced her former colleagues on the Conway Board of Selectmen at Tuesday's meeting and told them that she lost respect for some of the board in the wake of employee complaints against former Selectman John Colbath, who resigned weeks before she did
In a follow-up interview Wednesday, Seavey said her comments were aimed at selectmen's chair Steve Porter and Selectman Ryan Shepard.
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I applaud Ms. Seavey's desire to give the public some sense of why she resigned. Yet the article here reports that she said nothing in her appearance at the selectman's meeting. Obscure generalities about unprofessionalism are so unspecific as to be useless. Current selectmen are not candid and sadly so are recent former selectman.
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