In 2020, Adam Murphy ran against Woody Hartley for the latter’s Select Board seat and lost. Murphy is back in the race this year, this time running against Select Board Chairman Brad Morse, whose term is up.
The term is three years.
Morse is running for reelection in one of only two contested races in the 2022 Rochester Election that will take place on Wednesday, May 25, at the Senior Center on Dexter Avenue. The deadline to submit papers to the Board of Registrars was April 6.
A Hartley is involved in Rochester’s other contested race, as Rochester School Committee Chairperson Sharon Hartley, Woody Hartley’s wife, is running for reelection against Melissa Anne Goneau. The term is three years.
In a connected race, a vacancy to fill one two-year term on the Rochester School Committee is being contested by three people: Jason Chisholm, Gregory M. Hardy and James L. O’Brien. Having been appointed by the Select Board to fill a vacancy on the committee last year, Chisholm has been serving on the local school committee and representing Rochester on the Old Rochester Regional and Joint school committees.
All other elections in Rochester consist of uncontested races, and all but one candidate, Michael T. King, are incumbents. King is looking to join incumbent Kimberly A. Burt for three-year terms to fill two open seats on the Library Trustees.
The only other office seeking to fill two seats is Constable, where incumbents David L. Hughes and Marc S. Slabodnick are running for reelection to three-year terms. Hughes is also running for reelection to the Park Commission (three-year term.)
Other incumbents running uncontested for reelection to their offices are: Planning Board Chairman Arnie Johnson (five years), Highway Surveyor Jeffrey Eldridge (three years), Diana S. Knapp (Board of Assessors, three years), Lori A. Souza (Cemetery Commission, three years), Glenn R. Lawrence (Board of Health, three years), and Richard J. Charon (Water Commission, three years.)
By Mick Colageo