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The voter turnout for the Fall River general election on Tuesday is being called "steady."

FALL RIVER — Police Chief Jeffrey Cardoza said the situation could be lot worse for his department when it comes to the challenge of hiring new police officers and retaining others who might be tempted to take early retirement. Unlike the New York City Police Department — which reportedly saw a 75 percent increase in the number of uniformed officers either quitting or retiring in 2020 as compared to 2019 — Cardoza said there hasn’t been anything resembling a mass exodus of Fall River cops during the past year. He said “a couple” of officers left the department last year before be...

Hetzler, who serves as president of the Fall River Industrial Park Association, says he has no hard evidence that a company or companies decided against doing business in Fall River, as result of negative publicity while Correia was in office from 2016 to 2020. But he says it’s plausible that it might have occurred. “If they were 50-50 and undecided, it might have been enough for them to go somewhere else,” Hetzler said. “The political climate was not very stable,” he added, “and maybe they didn’t want to take a chance. “But we have a more stable leadership now and a lot of go...