NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — It looks like the city may avoid a preliminary election, based on the number of candidates as of last week. 

 

There are two candidates certified for the November ballot: Jennifer Macksey is running for her third term in the corner office and Scott Berglund, a sales representative, is challenging her. Richard David Greene, who has taken out papers in the past for office, has not returned papers for mayor. 

 

Fourteen people have taken out papers for City Council, including all nine incumbents. Of those, Peter Breen, Bryan Sapienza and Ashley Shade have had their signatures certified. 

 

Newcomers  Aprilyn Carsno, Virginia Riehl, Joshua Vallieres, Thomas Wallace and Lillian Zavatsky have not returned papers. 

 

Carsno twice unsuccessfully ran for mayor against Macksey; Riehl has become involved in local housing efforts and was recently appointed to the Planning Board; Zavatsky is also a housing advocate and works at the Brien Center; and Vallieres was briefly city clerk and served on the School Committee. 

 

School Committee incumbents Richard Alcombright, Emily Daunis and David Sookey are running for re-election; they are being challenged for one of the three seats by Eric Wilson, who ran unsuccessfully in 2023. Wilson has had his signatures certified.

 

Incumbents Gary F. Rivers and Tyler Gibeau have returned papers for the two seats on the McCann School Committee.

 

A preliminary election would be required if at least one of the positions had twice the number of candidates as seats plus one. Should Greene return papers for mayor, an election would be held to narrow the field to two.