Frank Connolly

Frank B. Connolly (Arch ’72 CM) has published two books on local government after a career in Connecticut local government as a town planner, town manager and school business manager. Local Government in Connecticut, 3rd Edition, has been used as textbook in the state, and Hidden Agendas: Inside Town Hall, is novel about the shenanigans that take place in local government. He was recently featured in Bow and Stern, a publication of his flotilla in the U.S.Coast Guard Auxiliary for his work as a certified instructor teaching boating safety. He attended UVA’s Senior Executive Institute. 

Frank B. Connolly (Arch ’72) has published a second book, Hidden Agendas Inside Town Hall. The novel follows the fighting and political shenanigans that take place in an imaginary Connecticut community as it struggles with a proposed land development. Mr. Connolly’s first book, Local Government in Connecticut, 3rd Edition, was published in 2013 by Wesleyan University Press and won the press’s 2013 Driftless Award for an outstanding book on a Connecticut topic or written by a Connecticut author.