March 28, 2024

Town Clerk's Corner

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A reminder to Seekonk registered voters that nomination papers are ready for pick up now for the April 3rd town election. Signatures of fifty Seekonk registered voters are required and papers are due back in this office by 5:00PM on February 13th. Town offices that will be on the ballot are: Board of Assessors (one), Board of Selectmen (two), Seekonk Housing Authority (one), Library Board of Trustees (two), School Committee (one), Water Commissioner (one), Town Clerk (one), Town Moderator (one), and Planning Board (one).

The annual Seekonk census forms will be arriving in your mail within the next couple of weeks. Please correct any errors, sign and date the form and mail it back in the return envelope as soon as possible so we can update our census and voter data base. There will be a yellow dog licensing renewal form in with the census. All dog license renewals are due by March 31st. We do not switch the program over to 2017 until the early part of February, but you can mail the form with the fee and a current rabies certificate and a self-addressed envelope and when we are switched over to 2017, we will mail the license and the rabies certificate to you.

January 16th is Martin Luther King Day so the Town Hall will be closed. We don’t have a date yet for the annual rabies clinic that we do with Rehoboth, but it will be in March on a Saturday. That is a great clinic to get your dog or cat current with their rabies vaccination and license the dog at the same time.

Kiwanis Club’s annual Taste of the Towns will be held on March 7th from 6:00 PM-9:00 PM at the Clarion Inn on Fall River Avenue. There will be food tasting from area restaurants, wine and beer tasting, raffles, a 50/50 raffle and an auction. Tickets are $30.00 per person and are available in this office along with the raffle tickets. Proceeds from this annual fundraiser help children.

The annual Save a Pet auction will be held the end of March at the Ramada Inn on Taunton Avenue. There will be more information on this fundraiser in local papers and on the Save a Pet web site. This is the major fundraiser for the Seekonk animal shelter. Three nights worth of merchandise is sold with donations from very generous local residents and businesses. We also have donations from celebrities and animal lovers from all over the country.

Hope that everyone enjoyed the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Also hoping that we don’t get too much snow!

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