MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA — Town leaders and residents are grieving the loss of longtime municipal stalwart Jeffrey Bodmer-Turner who died May 18. He was 76.
Bodmer-Turner had served on several municipal boards. He also served the Manchester Essex Regional School District for 17 years as a computer lab teacher assistant, computer director at Essex Elementary School, a volunteer at the Memorial Elementary School library, and as president of the Manchester-Essex Teachers Association.
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