SORRENTO — Town Clerk Kathi Moore was fired at Wednesday night’s Select Board meeting, following a disciplinary hearing that Moore chose to have held publicly in front of dozens of the town’s residents.
Select Board members Rob Wilpan and Diana Gazis approved the motion to terminate Moore from her positions as clerk, tax collector and treasurer, citing “dishonesty” in Moore’s inclusion of a personal legal bill on a July financial warrant that she submitted to the board, and they signed.
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