Duxbury has school board candidates, but is one short for selectboard

January 27, 2026  |  By Lisa Scagliotti

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With a particularly long roster of open local offices to fill in the March election, Duxbury has attracted candidates for most of the openings on the Town Meeting Day ballot. 

The Duxbury Selectboard has four of its seats up for election this year, due to the fact that two positions had no candidates run in 2025 and were filled by one-year appointments. 

Three of the board members whose terms end in March have filed to run for election: veteran Mari Pratt and newcomer Matt Schroeder, first appointed in 2025, both filed for one-year terms; Gwenna Peters, also appointed last year, will run unopposed for the remaining two years on an unexpired term.

Board member Jamison Ervin is not running for re-election and no one filed to run for her three-year seat. 

Duxbury Town Clerk Maureen Harvey and Assistant Clerk Bonnie Morse shared the candidate filings on Tuesday. 

Both of Duxbury’s representatives to the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board are running for election: Cindy Senning and Emily Dolloff. Senning has been on the Harwood board since 2021; Dolloff was first appointed in 2025. 

Other Duxbury candidates running unopposed are: Dan Senning for town moderator, Alan Quackenbush for lister, Eric Potter for first constable, James Welch for second constable, and Jessica Engles for cemetery commission. Duxbury elects members to a budget committee, which has two openings this year, but no candidates filed to run for those seats, Morse said. 

Candidates may still come forward to run as write-ins for election. Any town offices that remain open after Town Meeting Day would be filled by appointment by the selectboard.