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(Updated) HCAM Presents the 2022 Contested Races Debates on Saturday, April 30th starting at 6:30pm!

By Tom Nappi, News Director
Election 2022

On Saturday, April 30th, HCAM will host our annual contested races debates live from our Studios starting at 6:30pm. HCAM News Director, Tom Nappi will moderate and ask the questions.

We will not be featuring a live audience for the debates this year but invite all community members to watch live on HCAM-TV (Comcast: Channel 8, Verizon Channel 30) or on our youtube page: www.youtube.com/hcamtv.

This year there are 6 contested seats: Constable (2 year term), School Committee (3 year term), School Committee (2 year term), School Committee (1 year term) and Select Board (3 year term).

**Please Note** our first two debates featuring Constable, Housing Authority and School Committee are all cancelled due to unavailability of candidates. These debates will not be made up but candidates will have an opportunity to answer questions in a text format which will be posted to our website.

The Select Board debate is currently ON and scheduled to take place at 6:30pm!
Scheduled Debates (as long as more than one candidate appears)

6:30pm:
Select Board (3 Year, Choose 2)
Mary Jo LaFreniere, John Coutinho, Shahidul Mannan

If any Town Election candidate in any of the races wishes to submit a candidate statement and picture, please email news@hcam.tv. If any candidate in a contested race did not receive an email invite, please contact news@hcam.tv.

Candidates in Contested Town Election races include:

Constable (2 Year, Choose 1)
**Debate Cancelled for this position**
John Cardillo, Bath Malloy, Michael Torosian

Housing Authority (5 Year, Choose 1) -
**Debate Cancelled for this position**
Linda Di Bona - (Candidate Withdrawn), Nancy Drawe

School Committee (3 Year, Choose 1)
**Debate Cancelled**
Nancy Richards-Cavanaugh, Christopher Melton

School Committee (2 Year, Choose 1)
**Debate Cancelled**
Ashley Fogg, Holly Morand

School Committee (1 Year, Choose 1)
**Debate Cancelled**
Jennifer Devlin, Jared Pray

Select Board (3 Year, Choose 2)
Mary Jo LaFreniere, John Coutinho, Shahidul Mannan

Please Note: All Debates are currently cancelled besides Select Board. Candidates in cancelled debates will have an opportunity to answer questions by text which will be posted to our website.

We apologize the day scheduled did not work for many candidates and we will take this into consideration for future debates.