His modifications, he recounted, drew the attention of an environmental police officer, a state forest ranger, a member of the town's conservation commission and a town representative.
She wanted to demonstrate how easy buying a gun was, she told the police, but she was arrested after a town representative saw her carrying the weapon under a white cloth.
Christopher von Keyserling, a 71-year-old Republican town representative, was arrested last week for an incident that occurred on December 8.
Late in the winter, the town's Representative Town Meeting pledged support for larvicides, which the town intends to float in 6,000 catch-basins.
"Intellectually, those people who pay attention to what's going on do know it's coming," said John W. Bill Sheehanan, a member of the town's Representative Town Meeting, a legislative body.
But a recent threat at knife point against one of the Muslim town representatives may upset this delicate process, Mr. Woodhead says.
"There has been a 70percentt increase in people bringing their reusable bags since the ban has been in effect," said Liz Milwe, one of the four town representatives who sponsored the bill.
At the end of the meeting, students, acting as town representatives, should vote on whether to allow the monument to be erected and discuss the results of the vote.
This ruling is self-evidently correct based on the very words from town representatives, who make their motives clear.
On the local level, the town uses the representative town meeting form of government, led by a town manager and a board of selectmen.
