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Appointments committee recommends confirmation of four mayoral appointees, including veterans service agent
Summary
On March 17, 2025, the Gardner City Council Appointments Committee voted unanimously to recommend full-council confirmation of four mayoral appointees: Corey Hasselman as veterans service/burial agent and three reappointments to the Council on Aging—Ron Darmethka, Paul Leoni and Paul Crowley.
The Gardner City Council Appointments Committee on March 17 recommended that the full City Council confirm four mayoral appointments, including the mayor’s nomination of Corey Hasselman as the city’s veterans service agent and veterans burial agent, and reappointments to the Council on Aging for Ron Darmethka, Paul Leoni and Paul Crowley.
Mayor Nicholson told the committee that Hasselman has been “a great asset to us in the city,” and that the committee had interviewed Hasselman at a prior meeting. The mayor also described each Council on Aging nominee as active volunteers who work with the senior center’s programming and staff.
The distinction between the veterans service agent and the veterans burial agent was explained to the committee as a matter of state law: the…
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