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Two months before the vote, Danville’s town attorney, Matt Serge, had advised O’Neil and the other selectmen that the vote likely wouldn’t stand.

His funeral in Greenwich, Connecticut, a town where he was once the first selectman, drew family, friends and politicians from both parties.

He was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1962 and was first selectman of Greenwich before winning seats in the U.S.

Days after the first wave of hotel checkouts, the town’s selectmen voted to hire a private security firm to patrol some areas where drug use had increased.

In Southborough, the selectman who became angry after Ms. Barron called him “a Hitler” addressed the episode at a later meeting, where he said he was “sorry that I became visibly upset with the resident.”