Town Election 2025

An invitation to Saugus voters: You are welcome to watch a candidates’ forum for the Board of Selectmen next Wednesday night; early voting tomorrow and last chance to register to vote in the Nov. 4 Town Election

By Mark E. Vogler

SAUGUS – The serious candidates who seek a seat on the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee, the Housing Authority or the Saugus Town Meeting have been campaigning for weeks – knocking on doors in the neighborhoods, standing on sidewalks with campaign signs and making themselves visible to the voters in whatever ways they can. Eleven days remain until voters go to the polls in the Nov. 4 Town Election and decide the makeup of their local government for the next two years.

For those who want to vote early, tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 25) will be the lone day for in-person early voting, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Community Room at the Saugus Public Library. For those town residents who haven’t registered yet, tomorrow is also their last chance. Voters should use the Taylor Street entrance to the library.

For those citizens who still don’t know who the nine candidates are in the race for the Board of Selectmen, there’s a great opportunity for you to watch and listen to them share their views on a wide range of town issues next Wednesday (Oct. 29) in the second floor auditorium at Saugus Town Hall at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

If you would like to offer a few town-related questions to be drawn from a fishbowl that night, questions from the public will be accepted until 5 p.m. today. Readers should email the questions to mv***@*****st.net. Please insert in the subject line of your email “Candidate Night 10/29”. As the previous forum sponsored by SAVE focused specifically on environmentally based questions, the focus of this forum is to hear candidates’ positions on broader subject matter that comes under the purview of the Board of Selectmen or concerns that selectmen may address, if elected.

The candidates’ forum is being organized by a group of Saugus citizens and The Saugus Advocate. The event will be filmed and broadcast by SaugusTV on local cable television. Janice Jarosz and Saugus Advocate Editor Mark E. Vogler will be the co-moderators for the evening. Joe Vecchione will provide assistance to the moderators by keeping track of the time.

Saugus Boy Scout Troop 62 will kick off the event with a color guards unit for the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Saugus High School Acapella Group has been invited to perform the National Anthem.

As of the newspaper’s deadline, all nine candidates have committed to attending the forum. This will be the final opportunity to see them all together, sharing a common purpose: running for election to represent the citizens of Saugus for the betterment of their community.