North Andover election: the results are in
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North Andover’s local election Tuesday saw Janice Phillips and Richard Vaillancourt emerge as victors in the Select Board race, and Pam Pietrowski and Andrew McDevitt won seats on the School Committee.
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Vaillancourt won a fourth term on the Select Board and came in on top with 2,440 votes. Before being elected to that board in 2012, Vaillancourt served on the Zoning Board of Appeals for six years and as an officer on the board of the North Andover Merchants Association.
“It feels great. You run a clean campaign, you run a positive campaign, and people respond to that. They don’t respond to negativity. And I think that’s what we saw a lot of that negativity especially the last couple of days.”
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Accountant and local mom Rebecca Stronck is running for one of two seats on the North Andover School Committee, a campaign she says was ignited by the current COVID-19 crisis and related school closures.
“The seed was planted in my mind when I watched my own children’s academic spirit start to deteriorate under the current method,” Stronck said.
Her children Emily, age 10, and Gabriel, age 8 are in fifth grade and third grade, respectively, and they’re in the district’s hybrid learning model attending school some days and having remote learning on others.
“My children love school. They love to learn. They love to be there,” Stronck said. “Socially, emotionally and academically, they weren’t getting challenged and weren’t getting pushed forward to the extent that we wanted them to be.”
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Pam Pietrowski has worked in education for a long time, but she’s never met challenges like we’ve seen the past year. And that’s brought her to the North Andover local election, running for a spot on the School Committee. COVID-19 has presented challenges like we ve never before seen, while only exacerbating existing challenges that have long-been put off, Pietrowksi said after returning her nomination papers to Town Hall. I gave it a lot of thought before deciding to take this plunge, but I think my perspective, background, and personal experiences can all be assets to moving our district forward.
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Dave Brown is one of five candidates running for two seats on the North Andover School Committee. (Ed Wheeler Photography)
NORTH ANDOVER, MA Dave Brown is running for a seat on the School Committee in the March 30 town election.
A management consultant and engineering teacher, Brown is one of at least five candidates who have taken out papers to run for two open seats on the committee. He faces incumbent Andrew McDevitt as well as Rebecca Stronck, Pamela Pietrowski and Joe Hicks.
Friday was the last day papers were available. They are due back to the town clerk s office on Tuesday. As of Monday, 12 candidates had taken out papers across all open seats.