Chesterfield Town Elections take place Monday

CHESTERFIELD — There are four Planning Board vacancies on Monday’s town election ballot, may mean lots of appointments being made by the Select Board, according to local officials.

Planning Board members Fred Drake, Eileen McGowan, Jack Lyons and Sarah Hamilton are either not seeking reelection or stepping down and Daniel Henshaw is the only candidate running for a fifth Planning Board spot.

Patricia Colson-Montgomery of the Select Board is up for reelection to a three-year term. Mary Anne Severance-Rys is running as a write-in candidate for a three-year term as assessor.

Board of Health member Margaret “Peg” Whalen seeks reelection for a three-year term, as well as Library Trustee Jennifer Peotter.

Other three-year uncontested races include Donald Willard III for a Chesterfield/Goshen School Committee seat, Constable Daniel Blair, Tree Warden Christopher Ryan, Tax Collector Lenore Pittsinger, Town Clerk Sandra Wickland and Treasurer Margaret “Meg” McWherter.

Polls open at noon and close at 7 p.m. at the Community Center, 400 Main Road.

Samuel Gelinas is the hilltown reporter with the Daily Hampshire Gazette, covering the towns of Williamsburg, Cummington, Goshen, Chesterfield, Plainfield, and Worthington, and also the City of Holyoke....