Polls open for Middleboro Town Election

MIDDLEBORO — Contentious races for seats on the Middleboro Select Board and School Committee have been picking up steam for weeks. Middleboro elections will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, Saturday April 4.

Voters will face three contested races for impactful positions that lead the town’s operations, school system and safe housing access for positions on the Select Board, School Committee and Housing Authority.

On the Middleboro Select Board, two incumbents will fend off a newcomer challenger in Tracie Craig-McGee, who is a lifelong Middleboro resident and a former town employee of Lakeville for 25 years.

The terms for both the board’s chair, Mark Germain, and member Thomas White expire this year. Germain, a two-term incumbent, has served as chair for four of his six years on the board, and White is wrapping up his first three-year term on the board.

The most contested election lies in the race for three, three-year termed seats on the School Committee. An additional seat was added to the committee last year, and the terms for incumbent Chair Jessica Chartoff and member Allin Frawley expire this year.

Chartoff and Frawley are among the most senior members on the committee, and are among six candidates running for the seats. The incumbents will vie to keep their seats as four newcomer candidates with varying backgrounds challenge their reelection bids. 

Alex Cook, a lifelong Middleboro resident and district alumni, said they regularly volunteer with the Middleboro High School theatre program, and are involved in the Middleboro Performing Arts Booster Club.

Leah Machado currently serves on the Mary K. Goode Elementary School Council and the school’s Parent Teacher Association. She has three children who attend the district. She has been a nurse for 23 years, and currently does patient case management.

Sean Mokeler, a project manager for a Braintree-based electrical company, has two sons who graduated from the district in recent years. He’s lived in Middleboro for about 26 years and said with his sons graduated, he wants to use free time to invest in the school district.

Krysten Phillips and her husband are district alumni, and her two children attend Middleboro public schools. She currently works as a nurse managing patients’ cases, and also works as a community-based psychiatric visiting nurse.

On the Housing Authority, incumbent Nancy Thomas is running for reelection for her five-year term seat, and new candidate Sarah Person is also vying for the seat. The housing authority provides safe and sanitary housing for Middleboro residents of low to moderate incomes.

Middleboro elections will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 4. Polling locations for different precincts are as follows:

Precinct 1: Oak Point Club House, located at 202 Oak Point Dr.

Precincts 2, 4, 6: Middleborough High School, located at 71 E. Grove St.

Precinct 3: South Middleborough Fire Station, located at 566 Wareham St.

Precinct 5, 5A: Council on Aging, located at 558 Plymouth Street

Precinct 7, 7A: John T. Nichols Middle School, located at 112 Tiger Dr.