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Paula Vogler, Correspondent
SHARON – After a tumultuous year, Sharon’s School Committee will go forward with three new members to work with.
Newcomers Prisnel Dominique and Wenxiao Guo Tiano won three-year terms to the Committee with 27.5% or 1,648 votes and 30% or 1,822 votes respectively along with Veronica Wiseman who received 16% or 944 votes. Incumbent Katie Currul-Dykeman did not win in her re-election bid, receiving 784 votes while challenger Inna Belenky received 786 votes, both receiving approximately 13% of voters ballots.
Tanya Lewis and Aviron Shemtov won the two one-year seats to fill vacancies, one of which was the result of former school committee chair Judy Crosby resigning in March when she was forced out as chair. Lewis received 37% or 1,509 votes cast while Shemtov received 27% or 1,086 votes. Incumbent Heather Zelevinsky was unsuccessful in her bid for the one-year seat receiving 15% or 599 votes while a fourth candidate, Chethana Naik, received 22% or 877
Paula Vogler
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SHARON A 25-year career as a police officer will come to an end for Police Chief John Ford when he retires at the age of 65 at the end of the month.
“It’s a hard separation,” Ford said. “Retirement is tough for everybody. After police service and fire service you become a citizen again. But I had a normal job before this. I never felt like a cop.”
Ford had followed in his father’s footsteps, a 40-year Sharon police veteran. After teaching music for 16 years, Ford decided to leave his job at Sharon Middle School when he was hired as a Sharon police officer at the age of 40.
EASTON While her father continued recovering from a 2007 stroke at the same time her mother was diagnosed with inoperable cancer in 2019, Pratima Penumarthy of Easton became a caregiver for both.
She said she always had a great relationship with her parents and was ready to take on the challenge.
Because of those experiences, she started the Facebook group, Caring for Aging Parents (Indian American way), in June 2019. She shares resources with others going through similar situations and offers support to those who needed advice navigating the options out there to find help.
“I saw that a lot of people in my community did not know where to go to get resources, how to apply to get (professional) caregivers, how Medicare works, how Medicaid works,” Penumarthy said. “Many didn’t realize there are online networks.”
Paula Vogler
Special to Wicked Local
EASTON - If he had stayed with his first course of study, Fire Chief Kevin Partridge would have had a long career as an electrical engineer.
Instead, after starting as a volunteer firefighter in Swansea in 1984 and switching his major to fire science, Partridge, 55, is in the midst of a long fire safety career spanning over 35 years, the last nine of which have been spent serving as Easton’s chief.
“I had a friend who was looking into joining the volunteer fire department (in Swansea) and told me about it,” Partridge said. “One of the volunteers, who is now my brother-in-law, lived in our neighborhood. Once I got in Swansea, I took a whole bunch of firefighter classes.”