By Donald Norton

This week we ran into Ward 4 candidate for School Committee seat Ms. Jamie Sue O’Leary (pictured here) a resident of Thurston St. as she turned in her papers to be certified for the election. So far three candidates have taken out papers for the Ward 4 seat  and one, Andre L. Green, is  certified as of Tuesday, June 16 at 1p.m.

This week, only one other person pulled papers at the election department, Ms. Elizabeth Sara Weinbloom of 82 Chandler for Alderman Ward 6. She is the fourth so far to take out papers for the office, the other three being Mr. Lance Davis, Mr. Charles J. Chisholm and Mr. David Lieberman, who are all certified by the election department to date.

The rush is on and the last day to take out papers is this coming Monday, June 22 at 4:30 p.m., and they need to be returned to the Election Department by Wednesday, June 24.

Many of the incumbents are certified to run and it appears that as of now only two wards will have a primary, Ward 4 School Committee and Ward 6 Alderman.

There is still time to take out papers and run for office here in the city. Again, for Mayor you will only need 250 plus 50 registered voters to be on the ballot, Alderman At Large 150 plus 30 to be certified and Ward Alderman only 100 plus 20 and school board from each ward 100 plus 20.

In case you wanted to know, the aldermen receive about $23K per year compensation. This is supposed to be part time and that includes many committee meetings, community meetings and the two official meetings monthly.

If you are considering running, contact the Election Department at 617-623-6600 or go online at www.somervillema.gov, the city’s website.