By Adam Swift Acting Mayor Patrick Keefe and former mayor Dan Rizzo will square off for the city’s top job on Nov. 7 in the municipal general election. As of press time with unofficial results, Rizzo topped the ballot in the four-way preliminary election for mayor on Tuesday with 2,627 votes, followed by Keefe with
By Adam Swift Acting Mayor Patrick Keefe and former mayor Dan Rizzo will square off for the city’s top job on Nov. 7 in the municipal general election. As of press time with unofficial results, Rizzo topped the ballot in the four-way preliminary election for mayor on Tuesday with 2,627 votes, followed by Keefe with
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Preliminary elections are scheduled in a baker's dozen of communities: Amesbury, Brockton, Everett, Fall River, Framingham, Gloucester, Lawrence, Melrose, Newburyport, Pittsfield, Revere, Salem and Westfield.
By Adam Swift Election officials expect a larger turnout for the Tuesday, Sept. 19 preliminary municipal election that features a hotly contested four-way race for mayor than for the city’s last mayoral preliminary election in 2015. “The last mayoral municipal preliminary in 2015 had 22 percent turnout,” said Election Commissioner Paul Fahey. “Given the high