PHOTOS: Selectmen, School Committee Races to be Decided as Election Day Arrives in Foxborough

Candidates for Foxborough's Board of Selectmen and School Committee are out in force with their campaign teams Tuesday holding signs and conversing with friends and voters outside the Ahern Middle School.

It's Election Day in Foxborough for both the town election and the special U.S. Senate primary. By day's end we will know the winners of the two local contested races - selectmen (three candidates, two open seats) and school committee (four candidates, two open seats) and we will get a better understanding of who Foxborough favors to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate.

Polls opened at 7 a.m. inside the Ahern Middle School gymnasium and as of 11 a.m., 1,806 ballots were casted. Town Clerk Robert Cutler, Jr. said while it is impossible to track who is voting in what election - or both elections - he said plenty of voters have "taken two ballots."

Through the first four hours of polling, Cutler said "there's been a steady flow of voters, not overcrowded."

The Town Clerk, who is running unopposed for re-election Tuesday, said he expects "about" 35 percent voter turnout or 3,500-4,000 voters by day's end.

"It will get busy around dinner time," Cutler said.

Polls are open until 8 p.m. Foxborough Patch will publish the results as soon as they become available. In the meantime, get out and vote!

On the Ballot

There are 17 candidates on today's town election ballot with 10 candidates running unopposed and two contested races for seats on the Board of Selectmen and school committee.

Three candidates are running for two selectmen seats as John Gray Jr. is running against incumbents Lynda Walsh and Jim DeVellis, who are both seeking re-election.

In the school committee race, four candidates are running for two seats. Incumbents Kathleen Adair and Martha P. Slattery are running against Catherine (Kate) Maureen Owens Kominsky and Stephen P. Udden.

Christina M. Belanger is running unopposed for her seat on school committee (two-year term).

Here’s a complete list of who’s on Tuesday’s ballot:

• Library Trustee (3-year term): Joseph Lally; Susan M. Burlone
• Board of Water & Sewer Commissioners (3-year term): Robert Garber
• Town Clerk (3-year term): Robert Cutler
• School Committee (2 open seats; 3-year term): Kathleen Adair; Catherine Maureen Owens Kominsky; Martha P. Slattery; Stephen P. Udden
• School Committee (2-year term): Christina M. Belanger
• Board of Selectmen (2 open seats; 3-year term): John R. Gray Jr.; Lynda Walsh; James J. DeVellis
• Town Moderator (3-year term): Francis J. Spillane
• Board of Health (3-year term): Eric S. Arvedon
• Planning Board (3-year term): Ronald P. Bresse
• Board of Assessors (3-year term): Robert J. Hadge
• Housing Authority (5-year term): Susan E. Perez

And here's a look at who's on the ballot for the special US Senate primary:

Democrats

Stephen Lynch

Edward Markey

Brett Rhyne (write-in candidate)

Republicans

Gabriel Gomez

Michael Sullivan

Daniel Winslow

To view Foxborough Patch's voter's guide to the 2013 Town Election, click here.