LANSING — Lansing City Council will have two new members in January and welcome back two others after the Nov. 4 general election.

Voters chose newcomers Clara Martinez and Deyanira Nevarez Martinez as new council members and returned council members Jeremy Garza and Peter Spadafore, but to different seats.

Martinez, a dance instructor at Everett High School and a school union official, and Garza, now a Ward 2 councilmember, will represent the entire city as at-large-council members. Martinez received 33% of the votes cast. Garza got 30%

Deyanira Nevarez Martinez, a current Lansing school board member, received 72% of the Ward 2 votes in her competition with Erik Almquist, a former Fennville councilmember.

Councilmember Peter Spadafore, now an at-large member, won the Ward 4 seat, rece

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