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During the Arborgeddon storm, mayors became unusually important and unusually petulant. To an unprecedented degree, the towns seemed cut loose from their moorings. The state couldn't deliver much help and the utility -- well, why even go there.
Toward the end of the cycle, there were, of all things, elections -- which seemed especially critical, given the new significance of the mayors, and strangely beside the point, given the way people's energies and attentions went elsewhere.
Today you'll hear four stories: The mayor of West Hartford, who drew increasingly angry at the lack of aid coming to his town, the Mayor of New Haven, coming back for years 19 and 20 in office, the Mayor of Vernon, leaving to run for Congress after guiding his town through the recent outages and the newly elected mayor of Middletown, stepping into a police chief controversy.
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