Demuzio successor to be chosen Thursday

The Carlinville City Council has set a special meeting for 6 p.m. Thursday to pick a successor to Mayor Deanna Demuzio’s who died Tuesday.The eight-member, nonpartisan council will choose an acting mayor from among its members, and that person will serve until voters choose the next mayor in the spring election, according to Dan O’Brien, city attorney.Demuzio, 77, died at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis, according to her daughter, Stephanie […]