First Concord School Board Candidates File

The 2015 Concord School Board election got its first candidate filing today as Nathan Fennessy signed up to run for a full three-year term on the board.

Fennessy is currently filling out the remainder of Oliver Spencer’s board term, who resigned in June after changing employment that didn’t allow him time to attend board meetings.

Fennessy is an attorney with Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios LLP. He is a member of the firm’s litigation, construction law, and government affairs groups, and resides in Concord with his wife and three sons. He ran unsuccessfully for the District B school board seat last year.

Also filing on Sept. 8, was Clint Cogswell, the president of the school board and a former principal, who has served on the board since 2008, when he won a one-year seat to fill out the vacancy of out-going member Betty Hoadley.

Council candidates also emerge

Five Concord City Council candidates filed to run today including three incumbents and two challengers.

At-Large Concord City Councilors Stephen Shurtleff and Mark Coen both filed to run again for four-year terms. Shurtleff is running for his third term and Coen his second. Also, Dan St. Hilaire, a previous at-large councilor who switched over to Ward 10 two years ago, has filed to run from that ward again this year.

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New candidates running include Jim Baer, who filed to run at-large after just missing in 2009, and Jennifer Kretovic, who was the Ward 2 councilor between 2011 and 2013, and unsuccessfully challenged Ward 3 Councilor Jan McClure.

Nicholas Wallner also filed to run for another term as Ward 5 Ward Clerk and Jim Fowler is also running for Ward 7 Ward Clerk.