{"id":96213,"date":"2024-05-02T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=96213"},"modified":"2024-05-02T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:57:12","slug":"sterling-voting-for-library-race-increasing-select-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2024\/05\/02\/sterling-voting-for-library-race-increasing-select-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling voting for library race, increasing Select Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><em>By Jan Gottesman<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Item<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">STERLING \u2014 Voters at the Monday, May 13, town election will have only one contested race to decide. Three people are running for two seats on the Board of Library Trustees: Donald Carter III, Audrey Cutler and incumbent Amanda Sayut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">Voters will also be able to weigh in on expanding the size of the Select Board from three to five members, which was approved at last year\u2019s town meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">The rest of the seats on the ballot are uncontested:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;background-color: #ffffff;display: inline !important;float: none\">\u2022 <\/span>Board of Assessors, three years, incumbent Donlin Murray;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;background-color: #ffffff;display: inline !important;float: none\">\u2022 <\/span>Board of Health, three years, Richard Lane, who is currently filling the two-year seat; and two years, Gail Hassett;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;background-color: #ffffff;display: inline !important;float: none\">\u2022 <\/span>Select Board, three years, incumbent Maureen Cranson;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;background-color: #ffffff;display: inline !important;float: none\">\u2022 <\/span>Department of Public Works Board, three years, incumbent Andrew Parker;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;background-color: #ffffff;display: inline !important;float: none\">\u2022 <\/span>Town Moderator, three years, Richard Lane;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;background-color: #ffffff;display: inline !important;float: none\">\u2022 <\/span>Planning Board, five years, Eric Newman;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;background-color: #ffffff;display: inline !important;float: none\">\u2022 <\/span>Sterling Municipal Light Board, three years, incumbent Eric Darlington; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">\u2022 Wachusett Regional School District Committee, three years, Melissa Wallace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">Polls are open Monday, May 13, from noon to 7 p.m., at the Houghton Elementary School. For more information, call the town clerk\u2019s office at 978-422-8111, ext. 2307.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jan Gottesman The Item STERLING \u2014 Voters at the Monday, May 13, town election will have only one contested race to decide. Three people are running for two seats on the Board of Library Trustees: Donald Carter III, Audrey Cutler and incumbent Amanda Sayut. Voters will also be able to weigh in on expanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}