Lauding Tim O’Connor, a public servant extraordinaire

Tim O’Connor, the first Democratic Speaker of the House in the modern era, died Tuesday. This file photo from the Brattleboro Reformer was taken in his office in 2011.
(This story by Bob Audette first appeared in the Brattleboro Reformer.)
By all accounts, Timothy J. O’Connor Jr. was kind, fair, amicable, no-nonsense, intelligent and witty.
The list of adjectives does not end there, but suffice it to say, Brattleboro, Windham County and Vermont are all the better because of O’C