Joining former Alderman Jack Connelly and Progressive candidate Marty Martinez in the special election to fill the vacant Alderman at Large seat this past week was popular East Somerville resident Elio LoRusso, who ran once before. But yet another interesting name surfaced this weekend – that of Erin Mackey – the daughter of recently departed and very popular former State Rep. Joe Mackey, who is throwing her hat in the race for the special election. That would mean, according to our count, four people as of now running for the special seat vacated seat by State Rep. Denise Provost.
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Speaking of the special election, seems like it’s taking forever to set a date, but we’ve been told that he Board of Aldermen are very close to setting up the time frame for the primary and then the election final. Since this is a city election year, the person that wins the special election will have to turn around and run all over again in 8 or 9 months.
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We hear that there are some serious inquires and people considering running in some of the wards this year. We hear, but he can’t confirm, that local activist in Magoun Square, Joe Lynch, is seriously considering a run against current Ward 5 Alderman Sean O’Donovan…we hear that another person is also considering a run for this seat as well. We have heard in Wards 3 and 4 there are some people thinking about running for ward seats as well.

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Rumors were running all over last Friday regarding the “resignation”,
or was it a gentle shove out the door, for James G. Kostaras, the
Executive Director of Strategic Planning and Community Development.
Does this mean that long time favorite local guy Phil Erocllini will be
making the move into that position as “Acting”…sure it does…seems that
Mr. Kostaras didn’t make too many friends in the city here including on
the Board of Aldermen, never mind in his own department. 
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As far as the Mayor Joe is concerned, we’re thinking he should be just fine, but someone will probably run against him – the question is whether it will be a known name or not. We haven’t seen or heard too much about former mayoral candidate Tony LaFuente other than he had a fundraiser of sorts at his house for Progressive Marty Martinez for his Alderman at Large special election race…at least that’s what we heard, but nobody from News Talk was invited Рwe think the invitation was sent to the wrong address.
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Congratulations to the following Somerville Police Officers on their recent promotions to Sergeants–Rico Isidoro, Michael Mulcahy, William Rymill, Jr. and John Gobiel–they are all good guys and deserve it…we wish everyone one of them the best.
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Congratulations goes out to Somerville High School student, Jessica Diaz for being the winning participant in the Somerville Lions Club speech contest that was hosted recently by Lion Gene Brune last week with her winning essay. Ms. Dias will move on to the “Zone in Belmont”, where she will compete against other area district zone champions all hoping to move up to the next level to become the Champion and the Lions Mid Winter Conference is being held this coming February in Braintree.
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