The annual town election season on the Vineyard is shaping up to be an active one this year, with contests for selectmen and also other elected positions in at least four Island towns.
The deadline for filing nomination papers was Feb. 27 in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and West Tisbury, where annual town elections will be held in April.
In Edgartown, incumbent selectman Margaret Serpa is seeking a seventh term on the board. She will be challenged by Juliet Mulinare, the town’s former chief procurement officer and current dredge committee administrator, and Joseph Monteio, a restaurant owner and executive chef at the Atlantic restaurant. There is a race for a single seat on the Edgartown board of health, with Meegan Lancaster and Joseph Alstat both seeking election.
Donna Lowell-Bettencourt, Paul Pertile, and Leslie Baynes are all running for seats on the Edgartown finance committee.
And in another contested race, incumbent Edgartown planning board member Fred Mascolo is facing a challenge from Robert Slayton.
The Edgartown town election is April 16. The town meeting is two days earlier, on April 14.
In Oak Bluffs, incumbent selectmen Mike Santoro and Brian Packish are both seeking re-election. Mr. Packish, who is currently chairman of the selectmen, is running for a second term.
Mr. Santoro is running for a fourth term. Two challengers have also taken out papers to run for selectman: Ryan Ruley, who works as a police officer in Edgartown, and Richard Day Weiss, who currently sits on the town finance advisory committee.
Oak Bluffs is the only Island town with a five-member board of selectmen.
There is also a race for finance advisory committee in Oak Bluffs, where three seats are up for grabs. Incumbents Robert Gaffey, Maura McGroarty and Richard Day Weiss are facing a challenge from Sherry Countryman and Kerry Mark Leonard.
On the Oak Bluffs water district, incumbent commissioner Raymond Moreis Jr. is facing a challenge from Maura McGroarty.
The Oak Bluffs town election is April 16. The town meeting is April 14.
In Tisbury, incumbent selectman Melinda Loberg is seeking a third term. She will face a challenge from Larry Gomez, an innkeeper, member of the town finance committee and former one-term selectman. Melanie Englert, a landscaper and newcomer to town politics, is also running for selectman.
The Tisbury town election is April 14. The town meeting is March 31.
In West Tisbury, incumbent selectman Kent Healey is running for a second term. He will face a challenge from Michael Bellissimo, who is the town representative on the Dukes County Regional Housing authority.
There is also a race for land bank commission in West Tisbury, with Leon Braithwaite and Peter Wells both running for a vacant seat.
The West Tisbury town election is April 16. The town meeting is April 14.
Chilmark and Aquinnah hold their town meetings and elections later.
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