Sunday, January 31, 2016

Eight candidates vying for two selectmen seats in Winchester

By Meghan Foley Sentinel Staff
 
WINCHESTER — An eight-way race will determine two seats on the town’s board of selectmen. Residents Brandon Day, Tory W. Frazier, Ben Kilanski, Robert Leustek, William A. “Bill” McGrath, Richard C. Pratt, Herbert “Chan” Stephens and Raymond C. Williams have filed for the three-year terms up for election in March.
The positions are filled by Theresa G. Sepe, who won’t seek re-election, and Stephens.

Also, the five-member board will appoint a third selectman following the resignation of Kenneth Berthiaume, which takes effect today.
Berthiaume, in the first of a three-year term, submitted his resignation earlier this month, but it came after the filing period for elected town offices had closed.
The town’s attorney, Barton L. Mayer of Concord, told voters at Saturday’s deliberative session that even though town elections are next month, selectmen would have to appoint someone to fill Berthiaume’s seat for a year because his resignation came after the filing period.
Then someone would be elected at town meeting next year to finish the final year of Berthiaume’s term.
Berthiaume said Saturday he decided to resign for health reasons, including a hearing impairment. He said he no longer felt he was able to do the job voters elected him to do, because of the problem, he said.
“I hate to leave, but there comes a time,” he said. “I wasn’t serving them as well as I could.”
Also to be decided by voters is a race for a one-year term on the Conant Library Board of Trustees that pits Denis V. Murphy 2nd and Linda Chase.
Murphy is also running unopposed for a one, two-year term as town moderator.
Gustave A. “Gus” Ruth and Michael Doherty are running for two, three-year terms on the planning board; Marcia Racine and Bonnie G. Leveille are running for two, three-year terms on the Conant Library Board of Trustees; Joan Gratton is running for one, three-year term on the Thayer Library Board of Trustees; Bridget E. Pearce is running for one, three-year term for supervisors of the checklist; Valerie S. Cole is running for one, three-year term on the Musterfield Cemetery Committee; and James M. Tetreault is running for one, three-year term for town clerk and tax collector.
No one filed to run for one, three-year term on the Conant Library Board of Trustees; one, three-year term as a trustee of trust funds; one, three-year term on the Thayer Library Board of Trustees; and one, one-year term on the Thayer Library Board of Trustees.
Town elections are March 8, town meeting day.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Theresa G. Sepe on your way out do not let the door hit you in the gluteus maximums.

Anonymous said...

Finally a choice! It's time to get out and vote. Please, if you don't get elected this year run next year and the year after. People have not performed the way that we thought that they would. Ok-blog get off your butts and vote!

Anonymous said...

Hope that Berthiaume didn't shoot us in the A--, he got what he needed, a job for his wife.

Anonymous said...

There are new names here that most people do not know for BOS. Will there be a Meet The Candidates night to have these folks say who they are and what they are all about??? Where do they stand on key issues????

Anonymous said...

Guess we should just write our own names in for selectmen, none of the 8 candidate's are anyone that should be in town office. I say just get rid of all the positions.

Anonymous said...

Some of them are pretty scary............................

Anonymous said...

True, about as scary as a couple that are leaving.

Anonymous said...

What is scary is the people we have now in office now. Let's not vote people that are part of the problem and not part of the solution. I can say will all honesty Tory Frazier and Chan Stephens are not the ones to hold office.