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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.

There is a five-person race for three seats on the select board, a race for a Board of Health seat and a race for two seats on the Planning Board.

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 ...

An effort to recall the chairman of the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen is underway, but the selectman himself said he’s not worried.