Dan Freitas

A former Fairhaven Select Board chair is in the ICU following a sudden medical emergency last week.

Fairhaven's Select Board announced Tuesday that it has appointed Angie Lopes Ellison as the new Town Administrator, after offering her the job on Feb. 10.

Fairhaven's Select Board has made its choice for Town Administrator, after former Uxbridge town manager Angie Lopes Ellison was offered the position late last week.

Voters in Fairhaven will be casting ballots for three Select Board members this spring after the state legislature approved expanding the board today.

Fairhaven residents voted overwhelmingly to recall Select Board Chair Daniel Freitas in the town's July 26 special election, and will replace him with School Committee member Stasia Powers.

The signatures have been certified to force a recall election of Fairhaven Selectman Dan Freitas, who had said he would resign but now has retained counsel.

It appears as though Dan Freitas, the chairman of the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen, is about to resign his seat rather than face a recall election.

An effort to recall the chairman of the Fairhaven Board of Selectmen is underway, but the selectman himself said he’s not worried.

In a surprising upset on Monday night, Dan Freitas won the race for Fairhaven Board of Selectman knocking off incumbant Geoff Haworth by a large margin. The former Board of Public Works member won with 580 votes. Former school superintendent Bernard Rodericks came in second with 526 votes, Haworth received 387 votes, and Patricia Pacella finishing with 162 votes...