Week in Review

Johnston's Top Stories for Sept. 10 —14

Coverage of the Sept. 11 primary and a couple of odd police reports collected the most clicks last week.

  Sept. 10: Join Johnston's Next Cash Mob Tonight In the spontaneous spirit of 'cash mobs,' we posted a quick reminder of the one held Monday night by the North Central Chamber of Commerce — and reached a lot of readers. Sept. 11: What Do I Need to Know About the Primary? Local voters wanted to be informed about last Tuesday's primary vote, and JohnstonPatch helped in that effort with our concise guide to the day's balloting. Sept. 12: Fuoco Takes 2nd Council Term, Petrarca Loses House Seat, Lombardo Wins After a fairly late night posting Tweets and Facebook updates from Tuesday's voting, we posted a wrap-up of the results on Wednesday morning that hit the top of the chart. Sept. 13: Man Nabbed on DUI Tries to Use 'Get Out of Jail Free …

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Fuoco Takes 2nd Council Term, Petraca Loses House Seat, Lombardo Wins

In the Johnston primary vote, incumbent Town Councilwoman Eileen Fuoco defeated two challengers to retain the Ward 1 seat, while state Sen. Frank Lombardo won and Rep. Peter Petrarca lost.

  As of 10 pm last night, the Rhode Island Secretary of State website reported that incumbent Eileen Fuoco had won the three-candidate Democratic primary for Johnston Town Council Ward 1, and incumbent Sen. Frank Lombardo retained the Rhode Island Senate Dist. 25 seat. Rep. Peter Petrarca lost his re-election bid to Democratic challenger Gregory Costantino in the state House Dist. 44 primary. [The vote tallies are based on 12 of 13 precincts reporting as of 10 pm, or 92 percent of the Johnston vote. Results are unofficial until the Board of Elections counts mail-in ballots and certifies the results.] For the second time in a row, the Ward 1 seat was decided in September among three hopefuls. Fuoco collected 46 percent, or 171, of the votes…

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Campaigns Make Final GOTV Push

Volunteers — and candidates — were at Johnston Democratic Headquarters trying to garner more votes in the last few hours of today's primary.

  The number of voters casting ballots in today's primary in Johnnston crept above 2,000 just before 6 pm today, with volunteers working the phone banks at Democratic Headquarters to get more people out to the polls. "If [people] haven't voted, the phone banks are occupied here with volunteers making phone calls to those identified voters that we know are supporters of the endorsed candidates, and we'll get them out," explained Democratic Chairman Richard DelFino. "Games are won in the fourth quarter, and this is where we think the organization is going to make a difference." As expected in Ward 1, where incumbent Councilwoman Eileen Fuoco is in her second consecutive three-way Democratic primary, the two polling places there reported the …

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