Nominations Watch: Who’s Pulled Papers?

With 11 days left, there’s now a three-way race for two Tewksbury School Committee seats

Here are your neighbors who have taken out nomination papers for Town of Tewksbury elected offices as of this morning. The deadline for turning in signature papers is 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 16.

Chris Moncada said he saw a number of strong candidates step forward for Select Board, and after conversations with voters, felt his experience with the Center Elementary School PAC would allow him to be effective on the School Committee, which is in the midst of negotiations. While he’s officially withdrawn from the Select Board race, Moncada isn’t ruling out a run in the future. His campaign has issued a statement, and we’ll update his intro letter shortly.

As of this morning, Jomarie Buckley, John Deputat, Vincent Fratalia, Bridget Garabedian and James Mackey have returned enough voter signatures to officially qualify for the ballot.

An * denotes an incumbent, and a (Q) indicates that the candidate has qualified to be on the ballot by turning in papers with at least 50 registered voters’ signatures.

Offices open for election in the year 2024 are: 

Select Board (2 Seats) 
▪ James F. Mackey III* (Q)
▪ Jomarie Buckley (Q)
▪ Thomas Bowley
▪ Eric Ryder

School Committee (2 Seats) 
▪ Bridget L. Garabedian* (Q)
▪ Collin McNaught
▪ Christopher Moncada

Planning Board (1 Seat) 
▪  Vincent Fratalia* (Q)

Board of Library Trustees (2 Seats) 
▪ Bonnie Page*  
▪ Chris Castiglione*
▪ Jonah McCreary

Board of Health (Two 3-year seats, one 2-year seat for unexpired term)  
▪ George Ferdinand, three-year seat
▪ George Ferdinand, two-year seat (may be on the ballot only once)
▪ Steve Dalin, three year seat

Housing Authority (1 Seat) 
▪ John Deputat* (Q)

Shawsheen Valley Technical High School Committee (1 Seat) 
▪ Robert Hutchins

Interested in running? Nomination papers for Town of Tewksbury elected offices are available at the Town Clerk’s Office, Town Hall, 1009 Main St. Office hours are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Tuesday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Friday 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  

The last day for candidates to file their nomination papers is Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 before 5:00 p.m., at the Town Clerk’s Office. Fifty valid registered Tewksbury voter signatures and addresses are required to be put on the ballot.

The Annual Town Election will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2024, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Learn more about running for office in Tewksbury here.

The Carnation thanks the Town Clerk’s office for facilitating coverage of the election.