January 7th, 2019 by WCBC Radio

Ray Morriss was officially sworn in during ceremonies Monday afternoon and is now Cumberland's mayor. Also taking the oath to begin second terms on the city council were Seth Bernard and Richard Rock Cioni. The council's first task will be to appoint a new council member to fill the vacant term of Dave Caporale who resigned his seat in November shortly after being elected as an Allegany County Commissioner. Although there were originally a total of 16 applicants for the vacant seat tone of those has since withdrawn- leaving 15 candidates to be interviewed this week for the open seat.