DIGHTON Two candidates are vying to fill an open selectmen s seat in the upcoming election a retired teacher who previously served on the D-R school committee and a financial analyst who serves on the Commission on Disability.
Retired teacher Leonard Hull will be facing off against financial analyst Jennifer Duczkowski in the April 10 election to fill the seat being vacated by longtime Selectman Nancy Goulart, who is retiring after the recent loss of her husband to COVID-19.
Jenn Duczkowski
Duczkowski explained her reasons for running in simple terms. It comes down to service. I want to start to give back to my town, she said.
John Walcek. Photo by: Meghan Neely
After more than three decades with the department, Wareham’s Chief of Police John Walcek will retire on April 17.
Walcek announced his upcoming retirement from the department on Thursday, March 4. Walcek was sworn in as chief of police in February 2020. Before that, he served as acting chief for nearly two years.
A department press release said Walcek will “actively serve” as chief of the department until April 17, and noted that “leadership changes will be announced in the upcoming weeks.”
Walcek said he considers his time serving Wareham’s residents an “honor and privilege.”
“I am as proud to be a Wareham police officer today as I was the first day I walked a beat on Main Street the 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. shift, May 31, 1987,” he said. “Wareham is blessed to have a police force made up of dedicated professionals, supported by the Town Administrator as well as the Board of Selectmen.”
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âMy name is Shanda Foster and I want to celebrate New England Black History by honoring my mother, Jeanne Foster, for both her teaching role of over 30 years in the Boston Public Schools, and also as the Co-Founder/Founding President and now current Vice President of the Afro-American Alumni Association at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, MA. When my mother attended Bridgewater State College as a freshman, she was the first Black woman that her roommate from Andover had ever met in person. That was only in 1973. Jeanne knew, first hand, how much diversity was needed on that campus, and she made it her mission to change that. Black Excellence has always been something Jeanne wanted to strive for, and she instilled that in my sisters and I at a young age. Every year during Black History Month, of my elementary school life, I was in ch