In a key council race, Nicholas Mavodones Jr., five-term incumbent and four-time mayor, won the at-large seat representing the whole city.
Randy Billings
Staff Writer
Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
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Competition thrives in three Portland City Council races
PORTLAND – Three seats are up for grabs on the City Council. Five-term incumbent Nicholas Mavodones Jr., 52, is being challenged by 30-year-old Wellington “Wells” Lyons, an attorney and co-owner of Rogue Industries, for the at-large seat representing the whole city. Two-term incumbent Kevin Donoghue, 33, is being challenged by 40-year-old Justin Benjamin Pollard, the […]