Josh Vallieres, the only man to so far pull papers, announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday that he was pivoting to School Committee. The city clerk s office confirmed that they were aware of his decision but as of early Wednesday afternoon he had not yet formally withdrawn or picked up nomination papers for School Committee. The posted on Facebook that he had made the tough choice to suspend his mayoral campaign after much consideration and consultation. I m very grateful to everyone who has supported and contributed to this campaign, he wrote. North Adams Public Schools will be well served in having a recent graduate sitting at the table. To everyone who has supported me so far, I want to take the chance to thank you all, and to assure you that this will be the start of real substantive change in North Adams.
Joshua Vallieres drops out of North Adams mayoral race
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North Adams Council President Hopkins Tenders Resignation
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Offices up for election are mayor for two years; nine City Council seats, also for two-year terms; three School Committee seats for four-year terms and one for three years; and two McCann School Committee seats for four years. This will only be the second time in 36 years that the mayoral race will not have an incumbent on the ballot and both of those elections were in the past four years. Mayor Thomas Bernard announced the day after his state of the city address in February that he would not be seeking a third term and would instead be focusing his efforts on the agenda he d been re-elected on in 2019 that had been disrupted by the novel coronavirus.