Four-way race for mayor of Newton

A preliminary election will include four candidates for mayor this September, with three challengers seeking to unseat Mayor Setti Warren.

Warren, Alderman Ted Hess-Mahan, whistleblower Jacqueline Gauvreau Sequeira and Second-Life Computers vice president Tom Sheff all got the requisite 400 signatures in by Tuesday?s 5 p.m. deadline, and each candidate?s signatures have been certified, according to City Clerk David Olson. Sequeira was the last to get her papers in, having dropped them off at City Hall at the close of the business on Monday.

The preliminary election will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Voters will be allowed to select one candidate.

Voters in Ward 1 will also have a preliminary election for the ward seat on the Board of Aldermen, with Allan Ciccone Sr., Alison Leary and Roger Morrocco Jr. all getting in their papers. Those candidates are seeking to fill the seat held by Alderman Scott Lennon until June, when he won the special election to fill the at-large seat vacated by the death of Carleton Merrill.

The top two vote getters in each race will move on to the general municipal election on Nov. 5. Candidates have until Aug. 15 to withdraw from their races and have their names taken off the ballot.

The following is a list of candidates to have their nomination papers returned and certified.

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Mayor

Setti Warren

Ted Hess-Mahan

Jacqueline Gauvreau Sequeira

Tom Sheff

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Ward 1

Allan Ciccone Jr., Alderman-at-Large

Scott Lennon, Alderman-at-Large

Allan Ciccone Sr., Ward Alderman

Alison Leary, Ward Alderman

Roger Morrocco, Jr. Ward Alderman

Ellen Gibson, School Committee

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Ward 2

Susan Albright, Alderman-at-Large

Marcia Johnson, Alderman-at-Large

Emily Norton, Ward Alderman

Eve Tapper, Ward Alderman

Margaret Albright, School Committee

Andrea Steenstrup, School Committee

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Ward 3

Ted Hess-Mahan, Alderman-at-Large

James Cote, Alderman-at-Large

Anthony Salvucci, Ward Alderman

Angela Pitter-Wright, School Committee

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Ward 4

Leonard Gentile, Alderman-at-Large

Amy Mah Sangiolo, Alderman-at-Large

Jay Harney, Ward Alderman

Diana Fisher, Gomberg School Committee

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Ward 5

Deborah Crossley, Alderman-at-Large

Brian Yates, Alderman-at-Large

Christopher Steele, Alderman-at-Large

John Rice, Ward Alderman

Steven Siegel, School Committee

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Ward 6

Victoria Danberg, Alderman-at-Large

Greg Schwartz, Alderman-at-Large

Richard Blazar, Ward Alderman

Ruth Goldman, School Committee

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Ward 7

Ruthanne Fuller, Alderman-at-Large

Marc Laredo, Alderman-at-Large

R. Lisle Baker, Ward Alderman

Matthew Hills, School Committee

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Ward 8

David Kalis, Alderman-at-Large

Richard Lipof, Alderman-at-Large

Cheryl Lappin, Ward Alderman

Margie Ross Decter, School Committee

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