“A new year always brings renewed optimism, and I look forward to making this the greatest year ever,” Stafford Mayor Greg Myhre said at the town council’s reorganization meeting of Jan. 5. Councilman Tom Steadman was appointed council president.

Myhre reminded everyone the state is still under an extended state of emergency due to COVID. He called the drug companies’ race to the vaccine “a true testament to American ingenuity and determination” and “the quickest that a safe and reliable vaccine…