The marshal's line, carried back to 2012

Patrick J. Howard in office by 2012; no predecessor reached

Howard's first reached year moves from 2014 to 2012, on the salary record. The audit schedules carry no police line at all — none of the three reached schedules names a marshal or chief — so the line runs on the other carriers. The Gateway salary record's person history for Patrick J. Howard runs 2012 to 2025 without another name in the office: "Marshal" in 2012 and 2013, "Town Marshal" 2019–2022, "Police Chief" in 2023 and 2025, "Police" in 2024 — the title variance of conflict C7 printing whole on this one carrier alone, before the minutes' "Chief Patrick Howard" (May 2025) and the January 2026 minutes' report headed "POLICE CHIEF:" are added. The aggregator's year list jumps 2013 to 2019; the framing pass's independent reaches (the 2015 Court of Appeals "Police Chief," the 2017 hazard plan's "Marshal") fill those years at their own strengths, and the carrier's silence there is a carrier gap, not a service gap. In his first reached year his deputies were Richard Jaronik — the "Rick Jaronik," assistant chief, of the 2015 record — and Bill Boyer, both styled Deputy Marshal; Brandon Lent, the deputy of the 2025 record, stands as Deputy Marshal by 2020 on the same record. No predecessor is named at any reached strength: Howard holds the title from the first year the salary record reaches, and his start within 2012, and any marshal before him, stand open with the town's pre-2012 minutes as settler.