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08/01/2011 12:00 AMTwenty-four years ago, Dorothy Bean answered a newspaper advertisement. She walked into the former Town Hall, now Memorial Town Hall, for a job interview with the Board of Education. She didn't get the job. Someone in the education office kept her application, however, and passed it along to then-Town Clerk Elizabeth "Betty Ann" Lynch, who was looking for a records clerk. Bean got the job.
Lynch retired some years later and Ruth Harris was named town clerk. It was in 2004 when Harris retired and the Board of Selectmen named Bean to the position. The town was smaller then, and the town clerk's office was smaller too – literally, Bean recalls. "We were in the old Town Hall then."
Bean plans her last day for Aug. 31. What will she do in retirement? "Enjoy life. At the moment, there are no definite plans," she says.
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