The April 5 town election will feature contests for two selectmen’s seats, School Committee, Town Clerk and sewer commissioner.

At the Feb. 16 deadline to submit completed nomination papers, 12 incumbents and challengers had thrown their hats into the ring for seven available positions.

The lineup for two open seats on the Board of Selectmen ensures that at least one newcomer joins the board. Two-term Selectman Stephen Holmes has announced that he will not seek re-election. Patrick Tropeano, who currently chairs the board, is seeking re-election, while three challengers have filed papers to run for selectman.

In April, voters will be asked to vote for two of the four, with the top two vote-getters winning the seats.

While the signatures submitted by Tuesday still need to be certified in order for a candidate’s name to appear on the ballot, here’s a look at how the races are currently shaping up.

In announcing his intention to seek re-election, Tropeano said he believes he has been part of a board "that has accomplished so much . . . Gone is the bickering, attacks on personnel. Years of [mismanagement] have been turned around."

Challenging him will be plumbing contractor John Ferranti, newcomer Anthony Scarsciotti and Michael Frates, a retired Amtrak employee who ran unsuccessfully for selectman in 2014 and 2015.

Ferranti of the East Wareham-based Ferranti Plumbing & Heating Co. said he is running because “I want to see if I can help out and make Wareham a better place.”

He said he would be “keying in on Municipal Maintenance” with an eye toward increasing manpower in what he called an “understaffed” department.

A former assistant plumbing inspector, Ferranti said he grew up in Wareham. “I see what goes on, and I want to make it a better place.”

In his third campaign for selectman, Frates again stresses his more than 20 years of labor relations experience with Amtrak.

“My priorities are keeping taxes low and under control, seniors in town and ensuring that we deal with the opioid crisis,” he said.

In confronting the opioid epidemic, he said it would make sense to follow the lead of communities that focus on getting people treated, not jailed. “There are programs out there where people can seek help without fearing incarceration,” he said.

Scarsciotti, who could not be reached for comment by Wareham Week’s deadline, is a newcomer to elected politics. His late wife, Mary Eileen, served on the Zoning Board of Appeals for more than a decade prior to her death in December. The couple moved to Wareham in 2002.

For School Committee, incumbent Rhonda Veugen is being challenged by Mary Morgan, who until recently worked in Wareham schools.

Veugen says that, as a parent of a 9-year-old, she is in a unique position to see “firsthand the accomplishments this district has achieved over the last three years.”

Challenger Morgan lists as her qualifications more than 18 years working in Wareham schools, many of them with special education students.

“I have seen a lot of wonderful things happen in the school system, but also have lot of concerns,” she said, listing among them the plan to move eighth graders to the high school, special education programming and the budget.

Morgan said she left her Wareham job to take a position with the Rockland public schools to allow her to run for School Committee without any conflict of interest.

Town Clerk Mary Ann Silva, who has held the job for a total of more than 17 years, is seeking another 3-year term. She is facing a challenge from Loren Franklin of West Wareham.

Although this is Franklin’s first run for town office, she said she has been coming to the town since she was 17 years old and bought a home here in 1996.

“I loved coming here, love the community, love the mixed cultures. That is why I decided to move down here,” she said last week.

As a qualification for the full-time, paid Town Clerk’s position, Franklin said she has “a good 30 years of admin experience, and the Town Clerk’s positon is a great admin positon. I know it’s a job I could do well. . . I hope I get hired so I can send my children off to college.”

Silva also could not immediately be reached for comment.

Sewer Commissioner Marilyn Jordan is running for re-election to her seat representing sewer users. She faces a challenge from Peter Dunlop, chair of the Council of Aging, for the three-year seat.

Uncontested contests on the ballot include Moderator Claire Smith’s and Assessor Roxanne Barboza’s bids for re-election.