Falmouth's Susan Moran has been sworn in as the new State Senator, succeeding former State Sentor Vinny deMacedo who retired from the Senate to take a job in higher education.
Moran was sworn in by the Governor wearing a face mask and abiding by social distance guidelines during the ceremony.
Moran will have a short turn around to re-election. She will have to run for re-election in November. She has already submitted those signatures to get on the ballot.
The Senator says she is going right to work on the budget. She says she wants to surround herself with experts on the issues.
She says she will be heavy into constituent service as well.
The Governor, who swore in Moran, says that he could have done the ceremony virtually. But he said he thought that it was important for the Senator and the families in order to come to the State House for the pomp and circumstance.
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