SWANSEA — Scott Holcomb, principal at Taunton High School, has been selected as the town's next superintendent of schools.

At a school committee meeting at the police department's community room on Thursday night, the committee voted 5-0 in favor of Holcomb, choosing him over the other two finalists, Joseph Case Junior High School principal Robert Silveira and Craig Levis, an educational consultant and the former superintendent and assistant superintendent in Coventry, Rhode Island.

Holcomb's hiring is contingent upon successful contract negotiations which would be held, in executive session, at a future special meeting.

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