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School trustees elected in Saturday's elections will have to be able to hit the ground running, says board chair Melissa Hyndes, who was not re-elected but still holds her Port Moody trustee job until early December.

Greg Moore is back in the mayor's chair after he handily beat rival Eric Hirvonen in Saturday's election. He and new councillor Laura Dupont will join five incumbents for the inaugural meeting at Wilson Centre on Dec. 1.

Several new faces will appear around the table at School District 43 board of education meetings after Saturday's civic election.

It's back to school for trustees newly elected and re-elected to School District 43.

After nearly a decade of serving on Port Moody council, Gerry Nuttall said he plans to enjoy his forced retirement with more travel and time with family. "I lost the election but I won my freedom," Nuttall said with a chuckle Tuesday morning.

An early-morning crash in Port Moody on Sunday has left a man in his 30s dead after his vehicle plunged off the embankment off David Avenue near the Noons Creek bridge. The Port Moody Police responded just after 12:30 a.m.

Richard Stewart will occupy the mayor's chair in Coquitlam for another four years after winning Saturday's civic election in a landslide, almost tripling the vote count of his closes challenger, longtime politician Lou Sekora.

It was a landslide tonight (Saturday) for Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore, who easily clinched his third term, trouncing rival Eric Hirvonen in the civic election.

It's going to be four more years for Mike Clay, who was re-elected to the Port Moody mayor's office for a second term in a victory tonight that saw him win 4,261 votes - 811 more than his challenger, Gaetan Royer, who earned 3,450 votes.

Tri-City voters wanted change in their School District 43 board of education and change is what they got, electing five newcomers in Coquitlam, Port Moody and Port Coquitlam.