City Councilor Announces Colleagues Support To Be Next President

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published November 11, 2013 at 12:24 PM EST

When a new city council is seated in Springfield, Massachusetts this January a majority of its 13 members will be black or Hispanic. It is the first time in Springfield history voters elected minorities to a majority of the seats on both the city council and school committee. City councilor Michael Fenton said he has commitments from his colleagues to be elected council president in January. At 26 , he would be the youngest council president in the city’s history. He spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.

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