Who's On The Ballot In Shrewsbury For The 2023 Election?

SHREWSBURY, MA — Shrewsbury's spring 2023 election is a little over a month away, and the list of candidates running this year has been all but finalized.

Candidates can still withdraw by March 30, but enough candidates returned papers by the March 14 filing deadline to create contested races for select board, school committee and the housing authority. A fourth race will pick three library trustees, but only three candidates signed up to run.

Several incumbents have bowed out of the 2023 election, including Shrewsbury School Committee Vice Chair Jason Palitsch, Select Board Chair Maurice DePalo — who was first elected to the board in 1993 — and library trustee Joan Barry.

Here are the candidates who had returned papers and are set to run, according to the town clerk:

Select Board (pick two)

• Beth Casavant (i)
• James Brown
• Siobhan Costello-Weber
• Carlos Garcia
• Rajesh Uppalapati

School Committee (pick two)

• Sandra Fryc (i)
• Rachel Sharifipour
• Rajesh Velagapudi

Shrewsbury Housing Authority (pick one)

• Kathleen McSweeney (i)
• Anand Sharma

Trustees of Public Library (pick three)

• Elizabeth Powers (i)
• April Prince (i)
• Barbara Trudel

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified a library trustee candidate as not running in 2023.