🌱 Nantucket planning chief placed on leave amid employee complaints
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- Nantucket planning chief placed on leave amid employee complaints
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📰 News we're reading
• Investigation launched into complaints against planning chief in this Mass. town (masslive.com) — Nantucket planning director Leslie Snell is on paid leave while an independent investigator examines employee complaints involving workplace relationships and safety concerns. Town counsel stressed that nothing has been proven and said any connection to her earlier drunken-driving arrest in Yarmouth remains uncertain. The investigation could take four to five weeks. 
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