Stockbridge Updates will publish “Stockbridge Candidates Q & A” before election day in May 2021. We will videotape the candidates’ answers or print them, whichever the candidate prefers. We invite all running to retain their seats and to those challenging them to please contact Stockbridge Updates and schedule an interview. To assure fairness, we will collect statements and answers whenever the candidate is ready and publish them all in the same issue. SU will provide space/time for an opening statement and then ask three questions of each. The “Stockbridge Candidates Q & A” will appear in the May 1 issue of Stockbridge Updates. Thank you. An informed electorate is the first priority of Stockbridge Updates.
Carole Owens, Managing Editor
Open seats in 2021
3-year terms: Moderator, Selectman, Board of Assessors, Board of Health, Tree Warden, Sewer and Water Commission
5-year terms: Planning Board, Planning Board, Housing Authority
Appointments: Finance Committee, Berkshire Regional Planning Commission — alternate
The current occupants of the seats are:
- Gary Johnston, Moderator
- Ernest (Chuckie) Cardillo, Selectman
- Gary Pitney, Chair, Board of Assessors
- Charles Kenny, Chair, Board of Health
- Peter Curtin, Tree Warden
- Donald Schneyer, Chair, Sewer and Water Commission
- Christine Rasmussen, Planning Board
- Gary Pitney, Planning Board
- James Welch, Housing Authority
- Jay Bikofsky, Chair, Finance Committee
Thank you all for your service. Good luck to you and to the contenders.
Open positions will appear on your ballot. The people currently in the seats may choose to run again or decline to run. All those wishing to run will submit nomination papers by April 28 with the requisite signatures. That earns them a place on the printed ballot.
Stockbridge votes for candidates at the voting booth and on the issues at Town Meeting.