By Andrew Macdonald
- MacPolitics: Political Moves In Lunenburg
His Worship, Mayor Jamie Myra tells The Macdonald Notebook he will be on the ballot in next fall’s municipal vote.
Myra took 70 per cent of the vote in a special mayoral by-election last summer in Lunenburg.
His day job is running a seventy-year-old haberdashery in Lunenburg – one of a few remaining independent clothing stores in the Maritimes.
The mayor says there is still lots of work to do, including unifying a town divided over the former mayor’s plan to develop housing on Blockhouse Hill Park.
Created in 1758 by the second Governor of NS, Charles Lawrence, who took over from Edward Cornwallis, the park is under threat by a town council-driven plan to erect a massive housing development on the park, part of the 1758 creation of Lunenburg Common Lands.
Mayor Myra wants to unify the townspeople. A lot of residents in town became critical of former mayor Matt Riser’s plans for Blockhouse, and his plan to sell the historic Lunenburg Academy, and a now aborted plan to allow food trucks near the 30 or so eateries in the town – some world class restaurants.
Jamie Myra is Mayor of Lunenburg. He says he will be on the ballot in this coming fall’s elections. He won a by-election last summer taking 70 per cent of the mayoral vote against opponent, Gale Fullerton for town mayor.
Riser ended up resigning as Mayor of Lunenburg before his term ended, and a special by-election took place last summer, convincingly won by Jamie Myra.
So far there are no other mayoral contenders for the job.
Ed Halverson’s future.
In other political news in the Town of Lunenburg, town councillor Ed Halverson is expected to run on a provincial ticket.
A former radio reporter on the South Shore, and a six-month long reporter with business news service allNovaScotia, Halverson currently works in outreach for the NS Liberal Party.
Councillor Ed Halverson is considering a run as the Liberal candidate in Lunenburg in the next provincial election, according to town chatter. (Contributed).
There is strong chatter he will run for Lunenburg MLA on the Grit ticket, pitting him against incumbent Tory MLA and cabinet minister, Susan Corkum-Greek.
Halverson is part of the town council driving a proposed massive housing development on Blockhouse Hill Park – a plan opposed by the majority of the town, if you consider more than 1,000 folks have joined Friends of Blockhouse Hill’s Facebook page, to oppose the massive housing development. That group is not exactly going to warm to a candidacy by Halverson.
