RUTLAND — A race for two seats on the Select Board gives voters options when they vote in the annual town election, as well as a decision on whether they want to buy a firetruck using a debt exclusion.
Seeking the three-year seats on the Select Board are Harry Sechman, Leah Whiteman, Ralph Caloiaro Jr. and Leroy Clark.
Sechman and Whiteman are incumbents; Clark is a former member of the board.
The single three-year seat on the Wachusett Regional School District Committee is being sought by incumbent Brett Beardmore and challenger Richard Randall.
Other positions are uncontested, but voters will consider a debt exclusion to fund a new ladder firetruck. The amount and appropriations approval for that would be done at the annual town meeting but the ballot vote is required as well under the Proposition 2½ tax-limiting law.
Uncontested positions are: Town moderator for three years, incumbent Randy Jordan; town clerk for three years, incumbent Anita Carlson; assessor for three years, Jeffrey R. Gibbs; Board of Health for three years, Scott Gilroy; Planning Board for five years, Britton Bradford; a second Planning Board seat to fill the remaining two years of a position has no candidate; Library Trustees, two seats for three years, Jean Grant and Richard Lopez; Southern Worcester County Regional Vocational School District Committee for a three-year seat, Ann Marie Pantos.
A Candidates Night was slated for April 30 in the Rutland Public Library.
The polls are open May 13 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for precincts 1 and 3 at Naquag Elementary School, 285 Main St.; and for Precinct 2 at the Rutland Public Library, lower level, 280 Main St.
All registered voters received a vote-by-mail postcard sent out by the state. The deadline to apply for a vote-by-mail ballot is Monday, May 6, at 5 p.m. For a vote-by-mail application, see the town clerk’s website. No early in-person voting is planned for the town election.
