Stockbridge Updates will publish “Stockbridge Candidates Q&A”
Stockbridge Updates invites all those running to retain their seats and those challenging them to please contact Stockbridge Updates and schedule an interview. In the May 1 issue, before election day, SU will print or videotape the candidates’ opening statements and answers to three questions.
To assure fairness, we will collect statements and answers whenever the candidate is ready and post them all in the same issue. Contact SU to be included in “Stockbridge Candidates Q&A”. Thank you. An informed electorate is the first priority of Stockbridge Updates.
Taken out papers:
- Christine Rasmussen: Planning Board
- Jamie Minacci: Moderator
- Jimmy Welch: Housing Authority
- Gary Pitney: Planning Board & Board of Assessors
- Charles Kenny: Board of Health
- Collected signatures and returned papers:
- Donald Schneyer, Water & Sewer Commissioner
- Gary Johnston, Moderator
- Mark Faber, Tree Warden
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.
The people currently in the seats may choose to run again or decline to run. All those wishing to run will return nomination papers with requisite signatures by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 to gain a place on the printed ballot.
Carole Owens, Managing Editor
Stockbridge votes!
Stockbridge votes for candidates at the voting booth and votes on the issues at Town Meeting.
The population of Stockbridge is 1731; the total number of registered voters is 1507. That means 87% of residents are registered voters. However, the number of ballots cast at the annual Town Meeting in 2019 – pre-COVID – was 556. During COVID, at the 2020 annual Town Meeting, 204 voted – more than voted at Town Meeting. In the local election of 2019, 548 voted – fewer than at Town Meeting. During COVID in 2020, 556 voted. Candidates for local positions with 3-400 votes won. 87% registered to vote; 36% exercised their right to vote, and 23% of registered voters elected our local representatives.
