A special election is Tuesday, Jan. 21. The polling place is the Chestertown firehouse, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
This is a special election, only for voters in the First Ward. The Evening Enterprise reports the winner of Tuesday’s election, who will be sworn in at the council’s first meeting in February, will serve out the remaining 11 months of Tim O’Brien’s term. O’Brien resigned in October as litigants prepared to file a lawsuit against the mayor and council because O’Brien continued to serve after moving out of the ward from which he was elected.