Politics & Government
Election Day 2012: What's on the Ballot? [POLL]
Today is election day for Brookline, with a town-wide seat open for election, as well as a selection of Town Meeting Members seeking re-election against newcomers.
While a larger election is coming up in November, today to pick a new Library Trustee, and a handful of Town Meeting Members for upcoming terms.
Patch is here to give you all of the voting info you'll need in one place:
When the time comes, go to the check-in table at your polling place and tell the poll worker your street, house number and then name (in that order). They will hand you a ballot and provide you with instructions. If you're not sure which precinct you are in, check "Where do I vote, MA" and input your address, or consult the town's 2012 Precinct Index.
Find out what's happening in Brooklinewith free, real-time updates from Patch.
Not sure where your poll location is? Mouseover the map to the right.
With the exception of one, the town-wide races are not contested. That contest is for a seat on the Board of Library Trustees, between and . Patch sat down with both candidates to get to know them, and also received Letters to the Editor .
Find out what's happening in Brooklinewith free, real-time updates from Patch.
There are a number of local precincts with Town Meeting Member contests, namely Precinct 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, and 14. There is also a write-in campaign for what may be an otherwise empty seat in Precinct 11.
After looking through the larger town-wide elections scroll down to find your precinct, polling place, and Town Meeting Members.
Below is the preliminary ballot from the Brookline town website:
Selectmen
Vote for two candidates for three-year terms:
- Betsy DeWitt - 94 Upland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Kenneth Goldstein - 111 Holland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
Moderator
Vote for one candidate for a three-year term:
- Edward "Sandy" Gadsby - 60 Glen Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
Constable
Vote for one candidate for a three-year term:
- Joseph Figler - 276 Cypres Street.
Town Clerk
Vote for one candidate for a three-year term:
- Patrick Ward - 12 Edwin Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
Trustees of the Public Library
Vote for four candidates for three-year terms:
- Carol Axelrod - 323 Clark Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Vivien Goldman - 19 Conant Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Regina Healy - 10 Griggs Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Carol Trohen Lohe - 25 Salisbury Road.
Vote for one candidates for a two-year term:
- Puja Mehta - 50 Jamaica Road.
- Kristen Uekermann - 147 Mason Terrace.
School Committee
Vote for three candidates for three-year terms:
- Barbara Scotto - 26 Crowninshield Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Pen-Hau "Ben" Chang - 342 Tappan Street.
- Abigail Schoenbaum Cox - 18 Osborne Road.
Scroll down to your precinct to find your polling location, and the Town Meeting Members seeking election.
Precinct 1 – Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street, (Monmouth Street Entrance)
Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:
- Cathleen Cavell - 27 Monmouth Court. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Neil Gordon - 87 Ivy Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Carol Hillman - 287 Kent Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Barry Miller - 1160 Beacon Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Andrew Ghobrial - 83 Ivy Street
- Sean Lynn-Jones - 53 Monmouth Street
Vote for up to one candidate for a two-year term:
- Peter Ames - 90 Ivy Street
- James Franco - 126 Amory Street
Vote for up to one candidate for a one-year term:
- Jonathan Cutler - 12 Churchill Street
- Michael Robbins - 105 Colchester Street
Precinct 2 – Coolidge Corner Branch Library, 31 Pleasant Street
Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:
- Barbara O'Brien - 342 Saint Paul Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Linda Olson Pehlke - 48 Browne Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Edward Richmond - 74 Parkman Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Eunice White - 135 Pleasant Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Susan Roberts - 69 Green Street
Precinct 3 – Theresa Morse Apartments, 90 Longwood Avenue
Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:
- Kathe Sternbach Geist - 551 Brookline Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Jane Gilman - 140A Sewall Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Laurence Kragen Koff - 20 Harrison Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Dennis Doughty - 57 Perry Street
- Donald Gene Leka 140A Sewall Avenue
Precinct 4 – Town Hall 333 Washington St. Room 103
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Sarah Axelrod - 41 Bowker Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Edith Brickman - 33 Pond Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Ingrid Cooper -30 Brook Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Frank Farlow - 8 Bowker Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Martha Farlow - 8 Bowker Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Nadine Gertds - 56 Linden Place. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Sharon McCarrell - 82 Brook Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- John Mulhane - 45 Brook Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Mariah Nobrega - 6 Juniper Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Donelle O'Neal, Sr. - 68 Village Way. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Joseph Robinson - 41 Brook Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Virginia Smith - 12 Linden Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- David Trietsch - 52 Linden Place. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Carlos Ernesto Morales - 32 Juniper Street
- Shawn O'Neal - 22 High Street
- Marjorie Siegel - 59 Linden Street
- Robert Volk - 45 Linden Street
Precinct 5 – (New) Lincoln School, 19 Kennard Road
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Richard Allen - 158 Cypress Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Blake Cady - 24 Walnut Place. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Dennis DeWitt - 94 Upland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Betsy Shure Gross - 25 Edgehill Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- David Hamlin - 6 Wellington Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Hugh Mattison - 209 Pond Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Randolph Meiklejohn - 161 Cypress Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Phyllis O'Leary - 16 Jamaica Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Andrew Olins, 242 Walnut Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Lenore von Krusenstiern - 302 Walnut Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Niel Wishinsky - 20 Henry Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Angela Hyatt - 87 Walnut Street
- Puja Mehta - 50 Jamaica Road
- Claire Stampfer - 50 Sargent Crossway
Precinct 6 – BHS Schluntz Gymnasium, 115 Greenough Street
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Catherine Anderson - 106 Davis Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- John Bassett - 26 Searle Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Arthur Wellington Conquest III - 115 Tappan Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Annette Gregson - 20 Buckminster Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Sytske Humphrey - 46 Gardner Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Brian Kane - 4 Lincoln Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Virginia LaPlante - 58 Welland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- M. K. Merelice, 22 White Place. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Kerry O’Donnell - 42 Brington Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Clinton Richmond - 3 Greenough Circle. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Ian Roffman - 20 Searle Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Kim Smith - 22 Brington Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Ruthann Sneider - 30 Perry Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Robert Sperber - 21 Lowell Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Christopher Dempsey - 43 Brington Road
- Ian Polumbaum - 17 Blake Road
Precinct 7 – Arthur A. O'Shea House, 61 Park Street
Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:
- Susan Cohen - 23 Littell Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Susan Ellis - 431 Washington Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Elizabeth Goldstein - 66 Perry Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Jonathan Margolis - 49 Harvard Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Sloan Sable - 50 Harris Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Jonathan Lewis - 104 Harvard Street
- Christopher Oates - 42 Saint Paul Street
Precinct 8 – Devotion School Gymnasium, Stedman Street Entrance
Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:
- Francis Caro - 27 Elba Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Maya French - 9 Bradford Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- David-Marc Goldstein - 22 Osborne Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Anita Johnson - 41 Osborne Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Lisamarie Sears - 137 Fuller Street
Precinct 9 – Senior Center, 93 Winchester Street
Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:
- Joyce Jozwicki - 183 Winchester Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Pamela Katz - 29 Columbia Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- William Powell - 16 Columbia Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Martin Rosenthal - 62 Columbia Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Harold Mark Siminansky- 99 Winchester Street
- Judith Vanderkay - 16 Columbia Street
Vote for one candidate for a two-year term:
- Julius Levine - 40 Williams Street
- Gregory Rogers - 37 Winchester Street
Vote for one candidate for a one-year term:
- Liza Brooks - 36 Russell Street
Precinct 10 – John W. Kickham Apts, 190 Harvard Street
Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:
- Linda Davis - 125 Park Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Wendy Henry - 1401 Beacon. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Finn Peter Skagestad - 24 Griggs Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Benjamin Stern - 125 Park Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Michael Sanders- 677 Washington Street
Vote for one candidate for a one-year term:
- No one.
Precinct 11 – Driscoll School, New Gymnasium, Washington Street Entrance
Vote for up to fifteen candidates for three-year terms:
- Dixon Bain - 69 Summit Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Paula de Fougerolles - 66 Summit Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Joseph Ditkoff - 145 Mason Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Joanne Homer - 69 Summit Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Bobbie Knable - 243 Mason Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Kenneth Lewis - 232 Summit Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- David Lowe - 177 Mason Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Rebecca Plaut Mautner - 12 York Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Maryellen Moran - 100 Winchester Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Josh Tolkoff - 39 Jordan Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Kristin Uekermann - 147 Mason Terrace. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Karen Wenc - 84 Summit Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Scott Bookman - 1600 Beacon Street
- Carol Oldham - 1496 Beacon Street
With only 14 candidates running for 15 seats, there is a write-in campaign for Shanna Giora-Gorfajn (a )
Precinct 12 – BHS Schluntz Gymnasium, 115 Greenough Street
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Michael Burstein - 50 Garrison Road. (Candidate for Re-election) (A )
- Bruce Cohen - 289 Tappan Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Lee Cooke-Childs - 136 Rawson Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Harry Friedman - 27 Claflin Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Jonathan Grand - 120 Beaconsfield Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Stefanie Greenfield - 154 University Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Casey Hatchett - 84 University Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Amy Hummel - 226 Clark Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Jonathan Karon - 124 Winthrop Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- David Klafter - 63 Winthrop Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Judy Meyers - 75 Clinton Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Michael Oates - 96 Dean Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- A. Joseph Ross - 648 Washington Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- William Slotnick - 118 Gardner Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Donald Weitzman - 123 Buckminster Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Chad Ellis - 26 Chesham Road
- Mark Lowenstein - 158 Winthrop Road
Precinct 13 – Newbury College Auditorium, 129 Fisher Avenue
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Carla Benka - 26 Circuit Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Roger Blood - 69 Cleveland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Chris Chanyasulkit - 16 Corey Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Jonathan Fine - 57 Willow Crescent. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Andrew Fischer - 21 Bartlett Crescent. (Candidate for Re-election)
- John Freeman - 530 Clinton Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Francis Charlton Hoy - 295 Reservoir Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Ruth Kaplan - 24 Spooner Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Werner Loje - 25 Salisbury Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Paul Saner - 462 Chestnut Hill Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Lee Selwyn - 285 Reservoir Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Barbara Senecal - 345 Clinton Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- John VanScoyoc - 307 Reservoir Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Joanna Baker - 1824 Beacon Street
- Jamse Conviser - 29 Englewood Avenue
- John Doggett - 8 Penniman Road
- Peter Keelan - 1754 Beacon Street
- Marian Mazynski - 736 Washington Street
Precinct 14 – Heath School Gymnasium, 100 Eliot Street
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Robert Basile - 333 Heath Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Clifford M. Brown, 9 Hyslop Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Linda Carlisle - 233 Fisher Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Gill Fishman - 79 Holland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Deborah Goldberg - 37 Hyslop Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Georgia Johnson - 80 Seaver Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Roger Lipson - 622 Chestnut Hill Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Pamela C. Lodish, 195 Fisher Avenue. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Cameron Merrill - 119 Eliot Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Chou Chou Merrill - 149 Eliot Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Michael Merrill - 149 Eliot Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Shaari S. Mittel - 309 Buckminster Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Paula Friedman - 170 Hyslop Road
- Fred Levitan - 1731 Beacon Street
- Benjamin Rich - 130 Buckminster Road
- Brenda Rich - 130 Buckminster Road
Precinct 15 – Fire Station #6, 962 Hammond Street
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Edwin Alexanderian - 945 Hammond Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Mariela Ames -25 Whitney Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Anthony Andreadis - 687 Heath Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Eileen Connell Berger - 112 Wolcott Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Michael Berger - 112 Wolcott Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Paula Jo Coelho - 559 Heath Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Jane Flanagan - 854 Hammond Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- John Hall - 85 Sears Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Janice Kahn - 63 Craftsland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Richard Nangle - 854 Hammond Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- William Arthur Reilly - 47 Grove Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- James Rourke, Jr. - 679 Hammond Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Deborah Rudman - 320 Woodland Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Ab Sadeghi-Nejad - 125 Arlington Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
Precinct 16 – Putterham Branch Library, 959 West Roxbury Parkway
Vote for up to fifteen candidates:
- Robert Allen - 296 Russett Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Danilo Avalon - 9 Goodnough Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Beverly Basile - 902 West Roxbury Parkway. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Regina Frawley - 366 Russett Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Thomas Gallitano - 146 Bonad Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Scott Gladstone - 383 Russett Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Alisa Jonas - 333 Russett Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Gerald Koocher - 285 Beverly Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Joshua Safer - 223 Bonad Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Arthur Sneider - 223 Beverly Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- Joyce Stavis-Zak - 44 Intervale Road. (Candidate for Re-election)
- John Basile - 1040 West Roxbury Parkway
- Stephen Chiumenti - 262 Russett Road
- William Pu - 249 Beverly Road
- Irene Scharf - 250 Russett Road
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.