John Vieau, Joe Morissette Top Chicopee Mayoral Preliminary Voting

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published September 18, 2019 at 10:40 AM EDT

The president of the Chicopee City Council and a former police officer turned high school vice principal will face off for mayor of the second-largest city in western Massachusetts.

Voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide the first mayoral preliminary contest in Chicopee in 20 years.

With the ballot set for the election in November, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Matt Szafranski, Editor-in-Chief of Western Mass Politics & Insight.

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