COVENTRY, R.I. (WLNE) — Months of heated discourse in Coventry finally came to a head as both the council president and town solicitor resigned from their posts.

Now-former Coventry Town Council president Hillary Lima spoke with ABC6 Thursday for the first time since her resignation .

“It got to the point where the environment surrounding my public role, the hostility, the vitriol, all the threats, the cyberbullying, the harassment,” Lima said. “It was time to put my health first, my family first, and my career first.”

Lima stepped down alongside former town solicitor Stephen Angell, both of whom had been on the receiving end of scathing criticism at meetings and online over the past months.

Tensions first boiled over back in April , when a pair of town councilors resigned, citin

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