Former Fire Chiefs Running for Select Board

Former Fire Chiefs Running for Select Board

By Joe Siegel

Two former Seekonk Fire Chiefs are running for Select Board in the April 2 town election.

Michael Healy, who resigned from the board last November, will be competing with former board member David Viera. Vice Chairman Chris Zorra is running for another term. There are two open seats.

“My other commitments have become too great for me to be able to fulfill the requirements of my position on the board,” Healy wrote in his resignation letter. “I feel it is best for me to make room for someone with the time and the energy to devote to the position on the board.”

Another competitive race is for the Town Clerk position recently vacated by Florice Craig. The winner will serve the remainder of Craig’s term, which is two years. The candidates include Kristen L’Heureux, John Pozzi,Jr., Chris Rizzo, and Sandra Escaler, who ran for the position in 2020.

There are two open three year seats on the Seekonk School Committee. The candidates include Joshua Troiano, a 2023 graduate of Seekonk High School, along with Lisa Rizzo, Alicia MacManus, Scott Thomas, and Luis Sousa.

Planning Board chairman David Sullivan is running for another five year term. There is also a one year term available.

Other candidates include:

• Joyce Solomon for Board of Assessors – three year term
• Cynthia Corbett and Sharon Connors for Library Board of Trustees – two three year terms
• Irene Frechette, George Ryder, and Jeffrey Starr Mararian for Water Commission – one three year term

The deadline to return nomination papers to the Town Clerk’s office was February 12.