Patricia Murphy
NEW MILFORD — Six-term Republican mayor Patricia Murphy said Monday that she will run for a seventh term in the 2015 election.
“I’ve already told some people,” Murphy said. “There’s a couple of good projects coming up that I’ve worked hard to get the money for. I’m not going to step down now that they’re happening.”
The Century Brass Mill on Scovill Street in New Milford is slated for demolition in the spring with plans to move the Department of Public Works to the site and develop an industrial park on the rest of the 64 acre property.
Some $550,000 in funding is coming from the state for the planned roundabout on Still River Drive at Grove Street and Pickett District Road.
Andy Grossman, chairman of the Democratic Town Committee, gave assurances Monday that the Democrats will have a mayoral candidate in the 2015 race.
“We will be announcing in the next few weeks,” Grossman said. “There will be a Democrat running for mayor in New Milford.”