Former city manager claims council seat

VERGENNES — Former longtime Vergennes City Manager Mel Hawley defeated former city alderman David Small in Tuesday’s runoff election, 427-379, or 53%-47%, for a council seat that carries a term that runs through this March. Turnout was about 39%, even higher than the Sept. 22 special election in which Hawley originally defeated Small by one vote, 339-338, for one of four council seats on the ballot that day.  That close vote triggered a Sept. 25 recount that uncovered a Sept. 22 hand-counting error and prod … (read more)

VERGENNES — Barring another tie, Vergennes residents will pick the seventh member of their city council this coming Tuesday, and it’ll either be former longtime City Manager Mel Hawley or former councilor David Small, a sales and marketing professional.  … (read more)

VERGENNES — Friday morning’s painstaking recount of the race for the final of four Vergennes City Council seats produced a tie. A special election that must by law be held with the next 30 days will decide the victor.  Former longtime city manager Mel Haw … (read more)

VERGENNES — In what officials said was strong turnout for a special election, Vergennes voters on Tuesday chose three political newcomers and former longtime city manager Mel Hawley, out of a field of 14 candidates, to fill four vacancies on the Vergennes … (read more)

VERGENNES — In what officials said was strong turnout for a special election, Vergennes voters on Tuesday — out of a field of 14 candidates — chose three political newcomers and former longtime city manager Mel Hawley to fill four vacancies on the Vergenn … (read more)

VERGENNES — Former longtime city manager Mel Hawley, former mayor and multi-term councilor Mike Daniels, and former multi-term councilor Ziggy Comeau are among the candidates who by Thursday had already filed paperwork for the Sept. 22 special election to … (read more)

VERGENNES — In a 10-minute Vergennes City Council meeting on Tuesday Mayor Lynn Donnelly announced the special election to fill four vacancies on the council will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 22.  City residents will choose two councilors whose terms will ru … (read more)