Residents ask mayoral candidates to keep Belfast great

A little more than a week before Election Day, the city's two candidates for mayor appeared alongside two uncontested city councilors at a candidates' forum at Belfast Free Library. Mayor Walter Ash and challenger Samantha Paradis shared their accomplishments and visions with of a crowd of 50 people and fielded questions from attendees who repeatedly praised the city, and in the same breath, voiced concern that its popularity would be its undoing.