Newport Selectboard incumbents face challenger in Town Meeting election
NEWPORT — A challenger is vying with two incumbent Selectboard members for two, three-year terms on the board in Tuesday’s election.
James Burroughs, the board’s current chairman and a former Newport Police chief, is running for his second term, while Jeff Kessler, elected in 2007, is seeking a seventh, three-term.
The third candidate, Doug Ring, owns a towing company and has run unsuccessfully for the board in the last three municipal elections. Ring declined a couple of requests to discuss his candidacy.
The incumbents said the new $9 million community center, which opened in March, was a major accomplishment for the board over the last three years, particularly in light of two failed bond votes for the center in 2019 and 2022.
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