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Freeport's first African-American mayor to be sworn in
Freeport residents made history last month when they elected their first African-American mayor, Andrew Hardwick, a Democrat whose slate unseated the team of three-term incumbent Republican Mayor Bill Glacken. Five days before his Monday swearing-in ceremony, mayor-elect Hardwick was still pinching himself. "I stopped slapping myself. My hands are too big. It hurts," he joked. In a wide-ranging...
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