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“I never take anything for granted,” Allen, who was first elected in 2017, said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. “I think there were good candidates out there, we got to know each other in various forums, and it will be a different council. We’re losing some experience on council.” No matter what happens in the Nov. 2 municipal election, the seven-member City Council will look much different in 2022 because only one of City Council’s current members whose seat is on the ballot — Allen — chose to seek re-election. That means there will be at least three new members o...

Plenty is at stake in Tuesday's municipal primary including three state constitutional amendments and a ballot referendum.

No matter what happens at the polls, the seven-member panel will look much different in 2022.  However, only one of City Council’s current members whose seat is on the ballot, Democrat Liz Allen, chose to seek re-election. Besides Allen, a former reporter and editor at the Erie Times-News who was first elected to City Council in 2017, the other Democrats on the ballot are Jasmine Flores; Elspeth “Kate” Koehle; Kendrick Tate; Cory DiLoreto; Marcus P. Yuille; Maurice “Mo” Troop; and Chuck Nelson, a pastor who lives in the city’s west bayfront.   Flores, Koehle and Tate are running...