{"id":2127,"date":"2012-02-03T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2018-05-08T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:27:36","slug":"city-manager-paul-beecher-out-at-south-hadley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2012\/02\/03\/city-manager-paul-beecher-out-at-south-hadley\/","title":{"rendered":"City Manager Paul Beecher OUT at South Hadley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t it just a few weeks ago the Town of South Hadley Ma. gave Paul Beecher a checkbook and free reign regarding some project in town?<\/p>\n<p>I think it was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/01\/south_hadley_town_administrato_3.html\">And now, just before town meeting, Paul Beecher has hit the road to spend more time with his family.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In his letter of resignation to the selectboard, Beecher stated that he and his wife plan to relocate to the Seattle area, where their daughters and grandchildren live, according to Judge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a press release, Judge stated: &#8220;The selectboard wishes Paul and his family the best. In respect for Mr. Beecher\u2019s privacy, the selectboard has declined any further comment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The South Hadley Selectmen are mute on his leaving, wishing him well and keeping the matter private. <\/p>\n<p>They knew exactly how he managed every other municipality before he came to Massachusetts. Kansas City, Dover, Kingman, all were glad to see him go.<\/p>\n<p>So now it is South Hadley, Ma. wishing him well and no comment.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in touch Paul, taxpayers in NH want to follow your career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ed Naile Wasn&#8217;t it just a few weeks ago the Town of South Hadley Ma. gave Paul Beecher a checkbook and free reign regarding some project in town? I think it was. And now, just before town meeting, Paul Beecher has hit the road to spend more time with his family. In his letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,12,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town-government","category-dishonorable","category-where-are-they-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}