If you’ve ever wondered why the state needs to strengthen its government transparency law and assess meaningful penalties to officials who seek to violate it, look no further than the plight of residents in Claverack, who have spent the last two months trying to get to the bottom of a

The residents have rightly questioned how it came to be that William Rich Michael was elevated to the position of town clerk after the resignation of then-Town Clerk Mary Jean Hoose without any record of the appointment being made and without any formal process demonstrated to seek potential candidates to fill the vacancy.

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