Wayland Patch 4/5/11: Incumbents All But Carry the Elections in Wayland. The blustery and unpredictable weather didn't stop Wayland residents from showing up to cast their votes in Tuesday’s town election. And most of those voters put their support behind the incumbents. Two of the three seats open on the School Committee went to incumbent candidates and both open seats on the Board of Selectmen went to candidates seeking re-election.
Wayland Town Crier 4/6/11: School Committee chairman out in Wayland. Ellen Grieco was the only challenger to win a town office yesterday, defeating School Committee Chairman Louis Jurist by 80 votes. Grieco had 1,203 votes to Jurist's to 1,123 to win a one-year seat on the board. "I'm thrilled," Grieco said. "I'm very excited, and I'm looking forward to putting my best effort forward for the Wayland schools." School Committee members Barbara Fletcher and Beth Butler won re-election, receiving 1,274 and 1,411 votes, respectively. They defeated challenger Alexia Obar, who had 1,156 votes. Selectmen Steve Correia and Joseph Nolan also kept their seats.
Based on unofficial tallies, winners in today's contested elections are: Board of Selectmen (three year terms): Steve Correia and Joe Nolan School Committee (three-year terms): Beth Butler and Barb Fletcher School Committee (one-year term): Ellen Grieco Commissioner of Trust Funds (three-year term): Russell Kopp The Debt Exclusion: Passed Winners in the uncontested races were: Board of Assessors (two [...]
WAYCAM.tv Ask the Candidates Live. Host: C. Peter R. Gossels interviews the upcoming Candidates and home viewers ask the Candidates question they phone in. Recorded March 29, 2011.
Wayland Town Crier 3/30/11: Wayland School Committee candidates discuss the issues. The five candidates for the Wayland School Committee slots sat down last week at the League of Women Voters’ Candidates Night and discussed their priorities with seeming unanimity.
Wayland Town Crier 3/30/11: Board of Selectmen candidates make their case. The Wayland League of Women Voters held its 61st annual Candidates Night last week, hosting the three candidates for two slots on the Board of Selectmen, incumbents Steven Correia and Joseph Nolan and challenger Don Bustin.
WaylandeNews Q&A with the School Committee Candidates WaylandeNews has submitted the following set of questions to each of the candidates. Candidates were given 11 days to respond, and we requested that candidates adhere to a word-limit of 200 words per response, though indicated we would try not to truncate longer responses if the overall document [...]
WaylandeNews submitted a set of six questions to each of the candidates. Candidates were given 11 days to respond, and we requested that candidates adhere to a word-limit of 200 words per response, though indicated we would try not to truncate longer responses if the overall document remained of reasonable length. Many responses exceeded this [...]
Videos of opening statements from all five School Committee candidates are available here. Videos posted courtesy of Wayland Patch
Wayland Patch 3/25/11: Candidates’ Night Draws Large, Inquisitive Crowd (Part 1). The crowd spilled into the hallway outside the Large Hearing Room at the Wayland Town Building Thursday night as candidates for the upcoming Town Election took to the stage to introduce themselves and answer questions. Hosted by the League of Women Voters, the event [...]
Wayland Town Crier 2/16/11: Four contested races in upcoming Wayland town election:
Wayland Town Crier 5/12/10: Kinney and Bladon win in close races at Town Election. Wayland’s local election brought out close races on Tuesday, with Shawn Kinney winning the open School Committee seat by just 50 votes over Beth Butler. In the race for the open seat on the Board of Selectmen, John Bladon defeated Don Bustin by a vote of 1,320 to 1,161.
The Town has voted in the 2010 Local Elections (and state senate race). Town Meeting begins at 7:30pm on Thursday night at Wayland High School. The warrant for Town Meeting is available online here. Results of the voting are shown below: Debt Exclusion: Passed Contested Races: Board of Selectmen: John Bladon defeated Don Bustin School [...]
MetroWest Daily News 5/5/10: Candidates debate for Scott Brown's Senate seat . In the only debate before the May 11 special election, state Senate hopefuls Peter Smulowitz and Richard Ross last night squared off on the economy, health care and job growth. At the event, moderated by Town Clerk Gail Bernardo, each candidate offered opening statements to a large audience at King Philip Middle School before diving into the hot-button issues. Voters will hit the booths next Tuesday to fill Scott Brown's seat in the state Senate. The district includes Wayland, Millis, Sherborn, Needham, Wrentham, Norfolk, Plainville and North Attleborough as well as parts of Natick, Franklin, Wellesley and Attleboro.
Wayland Town Crier 5/4/10: How the dual election on May 11 will work. The League of Women Voters of Wayland wants to make sure that all voters understand the somewhat complicated procedure for the election on May 11 – so let us explain.
Wayland Town Crier 4/6/10: Democrats spar at State Senate candidates forum in Needham. The race for the State Senate seat vacated by Scott Brown heated up last night at Broadmeadow Elementary School, as the two primary Democratic candidates squared off in a public forum hosted by the Needham League of Women Voters.
Town Election Results for elected officials and ballot questions. Turnout: 38.5% with 3489 votes cast out of 9070 eligible voters.
Wayland Town Crier 4/8/09: Results are in: Winners are Astley, Dieffenbach, Pope and Fay. Residents returned Jeff Dieffenbach to another three-year term on the School Committee and elected newcomer Malcolm Astley to the same board. In the Board of Selectmen’s race for two three-year terms, residents elected former state Rep. Susan Pope with 2,174 votes. [...]
Below is a brief summary of election results for today’s Town Elections. We will have complete results on our website during the day tomorrow. Debt Exclusions: Question 1 passed with 73% voting in favor (2494-912) Question 2 passed with 72% voting in favor (2432-930) Board of Selectmen: Tom Fay and Sue Pope were elected to [...]
Wayland Student Press Network 4/1/09: Interviewing Susan Pope, selectmen candidate.
Wayland Town Crier 4/2/09: Selectman candidates talk economy. he town’s financial health was the most popular topic with voters at Candidates Night, an annual forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Questions for the candidates ranged from the town’s unfunded pension liability to the candidates’ specific ideas for regionalization or consolidation of services with [...]
Wayland Town Crier 4/2/09: Tight race for School Committee. In two joint appearances last week, the five contenders for two open School Committee seats answered questions submitted through a moderator at the League of Women Voters Candidates Night and on a local cable show. Candidates Malcolm Astley, Jeffrey Baron, Jeff Dieffenbach, Steven Glovsky and Paul [...]
Wayland Town Crier 3/19/09: Election season: Disagreements about domain name and private meeting. School Committee candidate Jeff Baron denies he did anything wrong by registering a domain name (soswayland.com) that is strikingly similar to that of SOS (soswayland.org) even after it was intentionally used to cause mischief.
In an effort to help voters understand candidate positions on a wide variety of issues, we solicited question suggestions from the Board of Selectmen and School Committee candidates, and then send them all a set of questions on Thursday, February 26. We required responses by March 9. We limited answers to 100 words for each question [...]
