{"id":2683,"date":"2016-05-01T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2016-05-01T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:00:25","slug":"annual-town-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atotw.com\/archive\/?p=2683","title":{"rendered":"Annual Town Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear fellow Hanoverians:<\/p>\n<p>The Annual Town Election of our local officers begins this coming Saturday,<br \/>\nMay 7th, at 8:00 a.m. at Hanover High School&#8217;s gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>On the ballot this year are 10 open seats:  Board of Assessors (3 year<br \/>\nterm), Board of Health (3 year term), Board of Public Works (3 year term),<br \/>\nBoard of Selectmen (3 year term), Moderator (1 year term), Planning Board<br \/>\n(5 year term), Planning Board (3 year term), School Committee (3 year<br \/>\nterm), Town Clerk (3 year term), and Trustee of the Public Library (3 year<br \/>\nterm).<\/p>\n<p>There are declared candidates running for 7 of those seats; three seats<br \/>\n(Assessors, Health, and 3 year Planning Board) will therefore be determined<br \/>\nby write-in votes.  There are two contested races &#8211; School Committee and<br \/>\nBoard of Selectmen &#8211; each have two candidates running.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete listing of the seats available and the candidates running<br \/>\nfor those seats, go to:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.hanover-ma.gov\/sites\/hanoverma\/files\/file\/file\/town_election_2016_candidates.pdf<br \/>\n.  Further information about the candidates may be made available in this<br \/>\nspace later this week if I receive it by Tuesday at 4 p.m.  The Hanover<br \/>\nWoman&#8217;s Club Junior&#8217;s Candidate&#8217;s Night continues to be re-broadcast<br \/>\nregularly on Hanover Community Access TV.  The schedule may be found here:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/hanoverctv.org\/schedule.htm .<\/p>\n<p>Polls close at 6:00 p.m. Saturday night.  Unofficial results are always<br \/>\nannounced outside the gym within a half hour of the close of the polls.<\/p>\n<p>If you will be out of town and need an absentee ballot, your application<br \/>\nhas to be received in the Town Clerk&#8217;s Office by noon on Friday the 6th.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact me, Town Clerk Catherine<br \/>\nHarder-Bernier, at clerk@hanover-ma.gov, or my office at (781) 826-5000<br \/>\nx1079.<\/p>\n<p>See you Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>For &#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221;,<br \/>\nCathy H-B<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8220;Around Town on the Web&#8221; (&#8220;ATOTW&#8221;) has been a valued push notification<br \/>\nsince the spring of 2004 &#8211; long before there were push notifications!<\/p>\n<p>For submission guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions<br \/>\nabout &#8220;ATOTW&#8221;, please go to http:\/\/www.atotw.com.<br \/>\nTo search for archived &#8220;ATOTW&#8221; news, view the archive<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nIf you would like to be added to this distribution list, click here<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nPlease follow the link in the response e-mail to validate your<br \/>\naccount. 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