Kittery election filing period opens. 5 Town Council, School Committee seats available.
KITTERY, Maine — Two Town Council positions and three seats on the Kittery School Committee will be on the ballot in the fall general election.
Nomination paperwork became available Thursday for residents interested in declaring candidacy for elected positions up for grabs in November. According to Town Clerk Karen Estee, the town’s filing period will remain open until Aug. 4, the last possible day residents can throw their name in the candidate pool.
Expiring seats on the seven-member Town Council are currently occupied by Councilors Jeffrey Pelletier and Mary Gibbons Stevens.
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Pelletier has years of experience on both the Town Council and the School Committee, and his term, which commenced in 2019, will end on Nov. 14. Stevens is a freshman councilor who won election to a shortened seat in June 2021 after ex-councilor Charles Denault resigned from Town Council in the spring of last year.
Terms for all elected seats in Kittery last for three years. In her election, Stevens assumed the remainder of Denault’s term, which will end on Nov. 8.
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The seats of both the town School Committee’s chairperson and vice chairperson, Julie Dow and Kim Bedard, are set to end in November. The third available School Committee seat that will be on the fall ballot is held by member Rhonda Pomerleau. All were elected to their seats in November 2019.
Nomination papers can be obtained on weekdays Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Estee’s office located at 200 Rogers Road.
The fall municipal and state general election will occur on Tuesday, Nov. 8 inside the Kittery Community Center gymnasium.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: KIttery ME election 2022 filing period begins for town, school races
