Lybbert, Worley vie to be Quincy's next mayor

QUINCY — The race to succeed Jim Hemberry as mayor of Quincy was winnowed down to two candidates yesterday — current city council member Paul Worley and former council member Scott Lybbert.

Lybbert earned the most votes in Tuesday’s four-way primary, garnering 278 votes, or 38.13 percent, ahead of Worley’s 251 votes, or 34.43 percent.

Seeing their chances to become mayor end with this election were challengers Ricardo (Ric) Garces, who took 124 votes, or 17.01 percent, and Ricardo Ruesga, with 76 votes, or 10.43 percent.

A total of 729 votes, not counting write-in ballots, were cast in the Quincy mayoral primary.

“I’m excited about what’s been happening in Quincy already,” Lybbert, a 55-year-old maintenance supervisor and team leader at potato processor Lamb Weston, said.

Lybbert, who served on the Quincy City Council for 12 years and lived in Quincy for 16, said he wants to make Quincy “a destination.”

Worley, who currently works at the city’s wastewater treatment plant and has been on the city council for the last 16 years, said he wants to be mayor to help oversee some of the projects the city is working on, like a new public safety building and the water treatment and reuse projects for the city’s growing number of data centers.

“We’ve got a lot of projects going. I would like to see the follow through,” Worley said.

Both Worley and Lybbert will face each other in the Nov. 7 general election.

Charles H. Featherstone can be reached via email at countygvt@columbiabasinherald.com.