Candidate Night to be held on April 24

Apr 19, 2021

Voters interested in learning more about the candidates for various boards ahead of the Town Election on May 4 should mark their calendars for 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 24.

Wareham Community Television will be hosting a Candidate Night, where those vying for seats on town boards and committees will field questions asked by the event’s host, Indiana Troupe. 

The following candidates have confirmed their attendance:

Sewer Commissioner — sewer user seat, three-year term

• Sandy Slavin (incumbent)

School Committee — two open seats, three-year term

• Apryl Rossi (incumbent)

• Geoffrey Swett 

• Brennan McKiernan

Board of Selectmen — one open seat, three-year term

• Alan Slavin (incumbent)

• Glenn Lawrence

• Patricia Wurts (write-in candidate)

Candidates who are running for office but have not yet confirmed their attendance — including Ronald Besse, who is running for School Committee — have been invited and may choose to attend. 

The event will be broadcast live on WCTV’s Public (Comcast 9, Verizon 30) and Government (Comcast 95, Verizon 29) channels. 

Anyone interested in watching who doesn’t have a television can tune in to the event on WCTV’s website at www.warehamtv.org, by hovering their cursor over the “Watch” tab, navigating down to “Live Streams” and selecting either the Public or Government streams. Alternatively, the event will also be streaming on WCTV’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/warehamtv.  

Candidate Night will be conducted via a Zoom webinar, which only the candidates, the host and the event supervisor will be able to join. 

While Troupe — a Wareham High School sophomore and the AV Club president — hosts the event, Christian Fernandes, WCTV’s assistant director and education coordinator, will be the event supervisor, announcing rules, timing candidates’ responses and managing the webinar. 

Wareham Week will be interviewing all candidates for contested offices who agree to an interview and subsequently publishing candidate profiles ahead of the election.