Voters in Athol and Royalston will head to the polls Monday, April 7, for the town elections in each community. There are competitive races for Selectboard in both towns.

In Athol, Kala Fisher, Mitch Grosky, Katalin Krieger and Marc Browning Maxwell are vying to fill two seats on the board.

Fisher is an incumbent currently completing her first three-year term on the board. Grosky, long active in town affairs, has served on both the Selectboard and Athol Royalston Regional School Committee in years past. Krieger, a member of the town’s Energy Committee and the Zoning Board of Appeals, is making her first bid for elective office, as is Maxwell.

Incumbent Stephen Raymond, who just completed 15 years on the board, opted against running for re-election to a sixth term.

There are no other contested races listed on Monday’s ballot for Athol. Those running unopposed include Lawrence McLaughlin, Town Moderator; incumbents Lee Chauvette, Tammy Duquette, and Laura Robinson, Athol Royalston Regional School Committee; and Kevin Matera, constable. There is no candidate to represent Royalston on the regional school committee.

In Royalston, incumbent Mark Thompson is running unopposed for a three-year term on the Selectboard. However, three people are running to fill the one year left in the term of Shelby Bronnes, who resigned from the board in January.

Candidates include former board member Linda Alger and political newcomers Chris Deveneau and Steven Egan. Alger served a total of 18 years on the Selectboard between 1997 and 2018, when she chose not to seek reelection.

Deveneau works for the state Department of Corrections and serves part-time on the Royalston Police Department. Egan is chair of the Royalston Police Department Study Committee.

Incumbents running unopposed include Barbara Richardson, town clerk; Gary Winitzer, assessor; Michael Richardson, Cemetery Commission; Adrea Crete, Board of Health; Jeffrey Mangum, library trustee; Kyle Nartowicz, Planning Board; Nancy Melbourne and Gary Winitzer, John N. Bartlett Fund Trustees.

Polls in both communities will be open from 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Monday. Balloting in Athol will take place in Memorial Hall at Town Hall, 584 Main St. Voting in Royalston will take place in the first-floor community room at Town Hall, 13 On the Common.

Greg Vine can be reached at gvineadn@gmail.com.