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With less than a week left for people to sign up to run in the March 31 Annual Town Election, there remains only one potential candidate for the two available seats on the Planning Board. Two races, for Select Board and a Sudbury School Committee seat, are now contested. People have declared their intention to run for all other positions on the ballot.
Anuraj Shah, a current member of the Planning Board, has filed his intention (“pulled papers”) to run. The other incumbent whose term expires this year, Justin Finnicum, has not pulled papers, nor has any other person.
At this point, both the Select Board and the three-year Sudbury School Committee seat races are contested.
The Select Board race has three official candidates for the two available seats: Radha Gargeya, Lisa Kouchakdjian, and Kevin Matthews.
For the one three-year seat on the Sudbury School Committee, Elizabeth Sues and Jessica McCready are now official candidates. Kathleen Bell has also pulled papers for that seat but has not returned them.
A separate race will be held for the one two-year seat on the Sudbury School Committee, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of Mary Stephens. To date, only one person, Allison Vanderels, has indicated an intention to run for that seat, and she is an official candidate.
The two Sudbury School Committee seats are separate races because of the difference in term length.
Three people have also pulled papers for the two seats on the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee. John Ryan, Jr., is an official candidate. Lee Hannauer Gross and Valerie Friedholm have not yet returned papers. If all three return their papers and the Town Clerk certifies the signatures, that will be a contested race.
One person has pulled papers so far for each of the six other positions on the ballot. Not all of those people have returned their papers to become official candidates. See the list below.
The deadline for prospective candidates to file their intention to run is Thursday, Feb. 6. Nomination papers (“signatures”) must be returned by Feb. 10. To appear on the ballot, prospective candidates must file an intention, gather the signatures of at least 50 registered Sudbury voters, and return those signatures by the Feb. 10 deadline. The Town Clerk’s office must certify those signatures, at which point the person is an official candidate whose name will be on the ballot.
According to the Town Clerk’s office, as of noon Jan. 31, the following people have filed their intention to run. An asterisk (*) indicates an official candidate whose name will appear on the ballot.
Select Board – contested race
(2 seats, 3 years)
Radha Gargeya*
Lisa Kouchakdjian*
Kevin Matthews*
Board of Assessors
(1 seat, 3 years)
Trevor Haydon
Goodnow Library Trustees
(2 seats, 3 years)
Jill Caseria*
Katina Fontes
Board of Health
(1 seat, 3 years)
Carol Bradford*
Park and Recreation Commission
(2 seats, 3 years)
William Granger Atkeson
Mara Huston*
Planning Board
(2 seats, 3 years)
Anuraj Shah
Sudbury School Committee
(1 seat, 3 years)
Kathleen Bell
Elizabeth Sues*
Jessica McCready*
Sudbury School Committee
(1 seat, 2 years)
Allison Vanderels*
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional District School Committee
(2 seats, 3 years)
Lee Hannauer Gross
Valerie Friedholm
John Ryan, Jr.*