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Methuen had several fiscal issues while Jajuga was on the City
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Methuen City Councilor James McCarty. Jajuga's son is a captain on the police force and McCarty "opposed Jajuga's efforts to settle the contract and threatened to lay off police officers or reorganize the police superior officers, which would have cut Jajuga's son's position."
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from 1991 to 2001. On June 25, 2019, Jajuga announced he would not be running for re-election as
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