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Aldermen at Amsterdam’s municipality voted Thursday in favor of a motion calling on the city to move the terminal away from its current location close to the central rail station.

From Washington Times • Jul. 21, 2023

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen in 2003 unanimously passed the ordinance laying out penalties for violating orders, but it's not clear if they existed before.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2022

Lewis Reed, president of the Board of Aldermen, Alderman Jeffery Boyd, and John Collins-Muhammed, who resigned last month as an alderman, were indicted on May 25, the U.S. attorney’s office said in a news release.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Aldermen late Monday began considering a proposal to memorialize Anthony Huber with a tree and plaque in the city’s Anderson Park, according to The Daily Mail.

From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2022

The headlines told of a decision by the Board of Aldermen, after four months deliberation, that the local budget could not afford traffic lights at certain dangerous intersections of the town.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers