Council seats draw four candidates
By David Harry
Staff Writer
Two South Portland City Council seats attracted four candidates and are the only contested city races on the November ballot.
Albert A. DiMillo Jr., Donald M. Russell III, Alan R. Livingston and incumbent Thomas E. Blake will vie for three-year council terms in the Nov. 2 election. Incumbent Councilor Linda Boudreau has decided not to seek re-election.
DiMillo has been a vocal critic of plans to renovate and expand South Portland High School, Livingston is a current member of the Board of Education in District 5, and Russell a local marketer and pollster who offered to poll residents about the high school project as councilors deliberated the bond question last month.
Three Board of Education seats, five warden seats, five ward clerk seats and a trustee seat on the Portland Water District also are on the ballot.
Board of Education incumbents Richard L. Carter in District 1 and Sara B. Goldberg of District 2 are unopposed in bids for new three-year terms, and no candidate filed to run for the District 3 seat now held by Jerald McQueeny.
The field for five warden seats is filled by Philip J. Gaven in District 1, Timothy J. Baker in District 2, Alan K. Gay in District 3, Mark G. Potter in District 4 and Linwood R. Leland in District 5.
Except for Kathryn G. Adams in District 3, no candidates filed for the ward clerk seats. Portland Water District Trustee John E. Brady is unopposed in his bid for a five-year term serving South Portland and Cape Elizabeth.
City councilors were to determine how much voters will be asked to spend on expansion and renovation of South Portland High School during the second reading of a bond ordinance at Wednesday’s council meeting.
At the first reading Aug. 25, councilors approved a bond amount of $44.2 million by a 4-2 vote, with councilor Maxine Beecher absent. The meeting Wednesday was held after the Sentry deadline.
City polling locations are at the Boys and Girls Club at 169 Broadway for District 1, the American Legion Hall at 413 Broadway for District 2, the South Portland Community Center at 21 Nelson Road for District 3 and District 4 and the Redbank Community Center on MacArthur Circle West for District 5. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Staff Writer David Harry can be reached at 282-4337, ext. 219
Staff Writer
Two South Portland City Council seats attracted four candidates and are the only contested city races on the November ballot.
Albert A. DiMillo Jr., Donald M. Russell III, Alan R. Livingston and incumbent Thomas E. Blake will vie for three-year council terms in the Nov. 2 election. Incumbent Councilor Linda Boudreau has decided not to seek re-election.
DiMillo has been a vocal critic of plans to renovate and expand South Portland High School, Livingston is a current member of the Board of Education in District 5, and Russell a local marketer and pollster who offered to poll residents about the high school project as councilors deliberated the bond question last month.
Three Board of Education seats, five warden seats, five ward clerk seats and a trustee seat on the Portland Water District also are on the ballot.
Board of Education incumbents Richard L. Carter in District 1 and Sara B. Goldberg of District 2 are unopposed in bids for new three-year terms, and no candidate filed to run for the District 3 seat now held by Jerald McQueeny.
The field for five warden seats is filled by Philip J. Gaven in District 1, Timothy J. Baker in District 2, Alan K. Gay in District 3, Mark G. Potter in District 4 and Linwood R. Leland in District 5.
Except for Kathryn G. Adams in District 3, no candidates filed for the ward clerk seats. Portland Water District Trustee John E. Brady is unopposed in his bid for a five-year term serving South Portland and Cape Elizabeth.
City councilors were to determine how much voters will be asked to spend on expansion and renovation of South Portland High School during the second reading of a bond ordinance at Wednesday’s council meeting.
At the first reading Aug. 25, councilors approved a bond amount of $44.2 million by a 4-2 vote, with councilor Maxine Beecher absent. The meeting Wednesday was held after the Sentry deadline.
City polling locations are at the Boys and Girls Club at 169 Broadway for District 1, the American Legion Hall at 413 Broadway for District 2, the South Portland Community Center at 21 Nelson Road for District 3 and District 4 and the Redbank Community Center on MacArthur Circle West for District 5. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Staff Writer David Harry can be reached at 282-4337, ext. 219
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