Six people pull nomination papers to replace Ward 1 City Councilor James Oliveira
Nomination papers became available on Monday, May 22nd and since then Christopher Amaral, Jose Andre, Melissa Costa, Chris Cotter,Peter Boswell and Mark Ventura have pulled papers and indicated Ward 1 as their choice.
We’ll provide more details on each should they officially become candidates. Each still needs to submit 50 valid signatures to the election office.
Current Ward 1 New Bedford City Councilor James Oliveira will not be seeking re-election this year. He replaced Linda Morad in 2012, who is now an at-Large Councilor.
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