Former state representative candidate Marie Angelides to run for Longmeadow Select Board seat

Five candidates, including two incumbents, have indicated their interest in running for three positions on the School Committee.

Marie Angelides

LONGMEADOW - Former candidate for state representative Marie Angelides is the only candidate who has signaled her intent to run for the seat of current Select Board member Robert Barkett.

Angelides is one of nine residents who have filed nomination papers for the election to be held June 7.

John J. Fitzgerald

School Committee incumbents John J. Fitzgerald and Gwen M. Bruns have also filed papers.

Former School Committee member Mary Vogel is running for a one-year seat on the School Committee along with Michael Clark, who ran for Select Board in 2010 and newcomer Laurie Flynn.

Gwen M. Bruns

Walter Gunn is running for reelection for a five-year seat on the Planning Board. Incumbent Roy Johansen will run for a three-year seat on the Planning Board and Stephen Metz, a member of the Capital Planning Committee, will run for a five- year seat on the Housing Authority.

Angelides ran successfully in the primary against Enrico J. Villamaino, a Republican and Selectmen in East Longmeadow, but lost to Rep. Brian M. Ashe, D-Longmeadow, in the general election last year.

Mary Vogel

Clark, who currently holds a seat on the Finance Committee and ran for a seat on the Select Board in 2010, said he is looking forward to working with the committee if elected. At 21 he would be the youngest member on the board.

Michael Clark

“I am running for School Committee because I think we have a real opportunity to establish priorities for the committee over the next three years. I also see this as a great chance for us to hold our superintendent, her administrative team and the School Committee to a higher level of accountability,” he said.

Laurie Flynn

Flynn, a public relations and communications consultant and mother of two children said she is excited to work with the committee. Clark and Flynn are also members of the Longmeadow Educational Excellence Foundation’s (LEEF) Grant Review Committee.

“As the mother of two young boys, I feel so fortunate to live in a town where parents are actively involved in their children’s education,” Flynn said in a prepared statement. “ I intend to do my part by bringing the same energy and dedication I bring to the Blueberry Hill Parent Teacher Organization and to LEEF to the School Committee.”

The deadline for withdrawing nomination papers is March 30.