Hi tkc,
There is no appearance of impropriety that I can see. Just a person with two jobs: my guess is that Sprague's wife asked her husband to give an entry level job to a bright young local lady and he said yes. Nothing wrong with that. No one has provided evidence that she's a Sprague relative or that she has a sweetheart deal. Hence there's no evidence of impropriety or of a conflict.
You are a wiser person than to be sucked in by the partial presentation of innocent facts as if they are something more than they are. There's nothing here but nastiness and insinuation.
Spragues are fair game. But a young person getting a break is not.