Councillor Ruthzee Louijeune celebrated her re-election with her parents at dBar on Dorchester Avenue. Louijeune was the top vote-getter in Boston on Tuesday— winning 43,127 votes. Seth Daniel photo Less than one-fifth of Boston’s electorate trickled to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new crop of city councillors in an election that will bring a marked shift in the personnel and dynamics to the 13-member body. The new faces will include John FitzGerald, who posted a decisive victory over Joel Richards in the race to succeed Frank Baker as the District 3 councillor.

Polls open on Tuesday, 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. Boston’s local election cycle toggles between higher turnout years, with campaigns for City Council and Mayor, and “off years,” with only a race for the council. But 2023 is shaping up to be one of the “way off” years, when a dearth of expected at-large vacancies and candidates can flatten the curve on voter turnout.

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On Jan.12, 2010, I woke up to a sunny day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In a few hours, I would be heading to Toussaint L’Ouverture Airport to fly back to Boston after a two-week vacation in my parents’ homeland, a break from the winter cold that my big family looked forward to every year. I gave hugs and kisses to my dad, my aunts, uncles, and grandmother who had decided to extend their stay a little longer. My little brother, two of my aunts, and I headed home.

By JONATHAN DREW Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Marine caught smuggling guns into Haiti told investigators he wanted to help the country's military learn marksmanship and defeat ``thugs'' causing instability, according to a criminal complaint. The criminal complaint filed last week in a North Carolina federal court charges Jacques Yves Duroseau with smuggling firearms. Prosecutors say Duroseau flew from North Carolina to Haiti with baggage including eight firearms but lacked needed authorization to take them abroad.