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With incumbents stepping down, and one member having won last year's recall, there are now two more new faces on the Select Board.

Voters in Fairhaven have re-elected Stasia Powers to the Select Board for a three-year term and added two new board members at this year's town election.

FAIRHAVEN — Fairhaven residents have spoken. Select Board Chair Daniel Freitas will no longer sit on the town's highest board after voters decided overwhelmingly to recall him in the July 26 special election. According to the unofficial election results, out of 2,345 ballots cast, 1,903 were in favor of recalling Freitas, more than four times the 419 votes against. Replacing Freitas on the Select Board will be School Committee member Stasia Powers, who won with 807 votes against Sustainability Committee Vice Chair Leon Correy III (785 votes) and Public Works Board member Cameron Durant ...

FAIRHAVEN — The Board of Selectmen set a date for a Special Town Election for the recall of Selectmen Chair Daniel Freitas: Monday, July 26. A recall petition against Freitas was certified by the Town Clerk after exceeding the required signatures of 20% of the town’s registered voters — 2,384 signatures were needed, and 2,521 signatures were received.  Freitas, who is still serving as Chair of the Selectmen, is calling for an investigation into the authenticity of the signatures on the petition.  Freitas had to recuse himself from this portion of the May 10 Selectmen meeting where, ...

FAIRHAVEN — The group seeking to recall Board of Selectmen Chair Daniel Freitas is proclaiming a victory after the town’s Board of Registrars certified that the petition exceeded the amount of signatures required to pass. Signatures from 20% of the town’s registered voters, or 2,384 signatures, were required for the recall petition to pass. According to notice issued on May 3 and signed by the Registrars Office and Town Clerk Carolyn Hurley, 2,521 signatures were verified.  In response, Freitas is calling for an investigation into the validity of the petition.  Attorney Ernest Horn, ...