CONWAY — Mike Cryans, Democratic candidate for executive councillor for District 1, hopes third time's the charm.
In early 2014, Cryans and current incumbent Joe Kenney went toe-to-toe in a special election to fill the seat of the late Ray Burton, who had held the seat continuously from 1981 to 2013 and had a first term in the late 1970s. Kenney won.
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