As Election Day approaches, the mayoral race for the new Ogden Valley city, set to materialize next January, is intensifying.

Campaign signs have been defaced, backers of each hopeful — Shanna Francis and Janet Wampler — have taken to social media to praise those they back and criticize those they oppose alternately.

“Facebook has gotten really nasty and dirty, and it’s really sad. Like I said, you would think this was Chicago or Detroit or New York or L.A. It’s little Ogden Valley,” Francis said.

The would-be mayors of what will be one of Utah’s newest cities, meantime, say they’re staying above the fray. Aside from selecting the city’s first leader, voters will also elect five city council members to help run the new Weber County city in municipal voting that culminates next Tue

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