Return Your Mail Ballot So That It Arrives By December 2
The deadline to apply for a mail ballot for the special election was November 12 and has now passed.
Mail ballots were mailed from the Secretary of State to voters between November 11 and 14. If you made the November 12 application deadline, you will have received your mail ballot.
If you received a mail ballot, fill it in and sign according to the instructions that were included and then mail it using the envelope provided or drop it off at Town Hall at 4540 South County Trail, (Rt. 2), Charlestown.
You can return your ballot by mail, but make sure there is time for it to be received by December 2. If you are in Charlestown, you can place your mail ballot in the special ballot box outside Town Hall anytime between now and December 2, 2025.
Bonnie Van Slyke, the author of this post, is a candidate for Town Council in the December 2, 2025 election. She was a member of the Charlestown Town Council from 2014 to 2022. She was the Town Council Liaison to the Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission, and Senior Citizens Commission. She is a former officer and member of the Board of Directors of the Frosty Drew Observatory & Science Center, a former Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals in Harvard, MA and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Harvard Conservation Trust. Bonnie is a freelance copy editor, technical writer, and publications specialist. You can learn more about Bonnie on her profile page.
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I hope that the CCA is working hard to get people out to vote. It is time to make a change in the way the current council treats the citizens of the town. I know that Bonnie will be a minority on this current council, however maybe this council will get the message. The town forces businesses to design the buildings to meet the “rural character” of the town, yet they are doing nothing to protect or prevent that “rural character” from being built up!!! Zoning be damned, let’s just keep building! This council did nothing to challenge the state overruling the rights of towns and cities to enforce their own zoning ordinances. Keep the developing at the current pace and the next building with rural character will be a new school system. The population of South County has increased tremendously over the years. If one doesn’t realize this, just take a ride on Rt. 1. What used to be 3-4 months of beach traffic on the weekends has now turned to every day traffic throughout the year. Who is protecting our ground water. I know one family who had to put in a special filtration system in their home because their well was contaminated with E.coli bacteria from the sewage runoff from a house that was built on a hill behind them. And this has happened in a plat that is zoned 2-3 acre lots. Ground water is something every property owner ought to be concerned with, unfortunately ground water is taken for granted. Regrettably ground water is viewed as something that only the “tree huggers” whine about so they can preserve open space lands. One very disgruntled tax payer here for sure!!!