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Salyersville Mayor’s Residency Battle | Lexington News
In a fiery rematch of their bitter political feud, Salyersville’s current mayor Stanley Howard is back in court trying to remove his predecessor James “Pete” Shepherd from the November ballot, arguing Shepherd doesn’t live in the city — a move Shepherd’s legal team says is a blatant attempt to sabotage his re-election bid. The residency dispute echoes their past battle four years ago, and this time, the judge who sided with Howard in the previous case has recused herself, adding drama to an already tense race. Meanwhile, the city’s crumbling sewage system — which triggered a state of…
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