Greater Nashua
Aldermen choose Ravan to fill Ward 1 seat
NASHUA - In an 11-1 vote, the Board of Aldermen recently chose James Ravan to replace Stephen Chess as the city’s Ward 1 alderman. Chess resigned from his position last month following the birth of his second daughter. During his interview on May 20, Ravan said he moved to Nashua in 1980, then to Lowell, Mass. and returned to the Gate City in 2020. “We were away for seven or eight years but we came back because I love Nashua,” he said. Ravan now has a Friday radio show with his wife, State Rep. Susan Elberger (D-Nashua), called “Susan and Jim Talk Nashua.” Despite working in information technology for a number of years, Ravan said “even the technical jobs are people jobs.” “There's a road that we could walk and the question is can we get everybody on the same road, if we can do that then we win,” he said. Ravan also called attention to the board's ...
