One Contested Race, So Far, on Williamstown Election Ballot
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town has one contested election and one elected office in search of a candidate with 11 days left to file paper for May's election.
Town Clerk Mary Kennedy said Friday that as of midday, there was one known contested election among the 10 seats that will be up for grabs.
The Planning Board, which has been the locus of much debate about the direction of town zoning bylaws in recent years, has one seat on the ballot.
Chairwoman Amy Jeschawitz has returned papers in a bid to retain that seat, and she has one challenger so far, Dante Birch, one of several residents who have been regular contributors from the floor of Planning Board meetings.
Planning Board seats have terms of five years.
The board of trustees of the David and Joyce Milne Public Library has four three-year seats on this spring's ballot. So far, incumbents Bridget Spann and Peter Mehlin have returned nomination papers, and incumbent Deb Dimassimo has taken out papers but not returned them as of noon on Friday.
The fourth seat, currently held by Mary Alcott Ferger, has no aspirants at the moment.
The town's current representative on the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School Committee (McCann Technical School), David Westall, has taken out papers for his three-year seat but had not returned them as of Friday, Kennedy said.
Papers have been returned by Town Moderator Adam Filson, who will be running for another three-year term.
The two incumbent members of the Select Board, Jane Patton and Jeffrey Thomas, each have taken out nomination papers. Thomas has returned his with the required 30 signatures.
Kennedy said interested candidates for any of the seats can pull papers right up until the March 26 deadline. Those papers, with the signatures of 30 residents, must be returned by 5 p.m. on that day.
The town election is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14.
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