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Newcomer Andrew Herman points to his name outside a polling location at the Warren YWCA on Tuesday. Herman defeated longtime 2nd Ward Councilman Alford Novak for the Democratic nomination. No Republicans or independent candidates are seeking the seat in November.
WARREN Andrew Herman had his children in the car with him as voters went into the Warren YWCA casting votes to determine whether he would win the Democratic nomination to run for the city’s 2nd Ward seat.
It was worth the wait as Herman appears to have narrowly won the seat with 51 percent of the vote over longtime Councilman Alford Novak, who received 49 percent of the vote, according to incomplete and unofficial results from the Trumbull County Board of Elections.
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WARREN A science teacher with “big ideas” is running to defeat one of the city’s longest-serving council members in the race for the Democratic nomination for the city’s 2nd Ward seat.
Newcomer Andrew Herman, 54, is seeking to unseat Councilman Alford Novak, 68, who has been on council for 30 years.
The primary election will take place May 4.
Herman, a science teacher and coach in the Howland Local School District, said he has the ideas and time to make Warren a better place.
“I’ve always had a volunteering spirit and now that my kids are grown up, I have more time to do things,” Herman said. “We need to make the city more attractive to convince businesses to move into the city.”