GOP primary for council seat is a rarity in Cumberland

By SANDY McGEECUMBERLAND — For the first time in decades, a Republican primary for town office will be held in this heavily-Democratic town. In northern Cumberland’s District 5, the winner of the rare Republican primary will go on to compete against the winner of the Democratic primary in the November election.Running in the Republican primary is Christine M. Avella of 200 Heroux Boulevard and Mark G. Dosdourian of 26 Alton Ave. Avella, an office service manager for Rhode Island Housing in Providence, is a graduate of the National Graduate School in Falmouth, Mass., and a graduate of Johnson and Wales University.  She has three adult children and four grandchildren.Dosdourian, who is endorsed by the Republican Town Committee, is a project manager for a survey and septic system design company in Cumberland. He is a 1980 graduate of the University of Rhode Island. He is secretary of the Republican Town Committee and a communicant of Sts. Vartanantz Armenian Apostolic C...
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