Monday, December 3, 2012
Fran Creamer will step down Dec. 21.
For the second time in two weeks, a Seekonk School Committee member has resigned. Fran Creamer announced at the meeting Monday night that she would step down Dec. 21 because she and her husband are moving to Jacksonville, Fla. David Quinn submitted a resignation letter Nov. 20 stating he planned to leave Seekonk. Creamer has served on the committee since 2006. She also served from 1997 to 2000. The Board of Selectmen and school committee will vote on replacements for Creamer and Quinn Dec. 19. School committee Chair Mitch Vieira said a notice would be placed on the school district and town's websites Tuesday morning with information on how people can apply. The application deadline will be Dec. 12. Receive updates to this story and other …
The committee is one member short following last month's resignation of David Quinn.
The Seekonk School Committee will meet tonight for the first time since member David Quinn resigned because of plans to move out of the town. A discussion about the vacancy is included on the agenda. The decision of who will replace Quinn will be made by a joint vote of the Board of Selectmen and the school committee. Mitch Vieira, school committee chair, said at last week's selectmen meeting that the decision should be made Dec. 12 or 19. He said he planned to post a notice on the school district's website requesting applications. Quinn's replacement would finish his term, which ends in April. That seat and the one occupied by Fran Creamer are up for renewal in next spring's town election. Tonight's meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the …
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
David Quinn is leaving the town.
Seekonk School Committee member David Quinn resigned Tuesday afternoon. According to his resignation statement submitted to the Town Clerk's Office, he is leaving Seekonk. "The reason for my resignation is that I am relocating my residence out of the town of Seekonk," Quinn wrote. "I believe I no longer qualify to sit as a member of said school committee." A Seekonk native, Quinn earned a committee seat in an uncontested election in 2010. His replacement, who will serve the rest of Quinn's term through April, will be appointed by the school committee and board of selectmen. The April election will include a contest for Quinn's former seat and the one occupied by Fran Creamer. She has not announced whether she plans to run for a new term. …
Terese Bohaxiu-Dicastiglione
7:49 am on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Fran, you have served the Seekonk community in many capacities and I am sorry to see you leave. But since you are leaving Seekonk, any possibility you could take Bob McLintock with you? more ›