Voters in four Rhode Island municipalities will be going to the polls Tuesday, three picking mayors and/or municipal councils and in the fourth deciding the fate of a $10-million sewer bond.

In Woonsocket, City Council President Leo T. Fontaine and retired police officer Todd R. Brien are running to see who will succeed Mayor Susan D. Menard, who is not running for reelection.

In Central Falls, incumbent Mayor Charles D. Moreau is seeking a fourth term against newcomer Hipolito E. Fontes, who needed an American Civil Liberties Union-sponsored lawsuit to get on the ballot.

Because of a 2008 charter change, the winner of the Central Falls mayoral election will serve a four-year term, not two years.

In Jamestown, five Democrats and two independents are running for five positions on the Town Council. The Democrats are Michael G. White, Robert D. Bowen, William H. Murphy, Robert W. Sutton Jr., and Michael F. Schnack. The independents are Michael F. Smith and Ellen Winsor. Three Democrats and one independent are running for three seats on the School Committee.

A number of charter issues are also on the ballot in Jamestown, including one that would move the town’s elections to even-numbered years, the same as those of Rhode Island’s statewide officers.

Woonsocket and Central Falls also have City Council elections. Twelve candidates are running for seven citywide spots on the Woonsocket City Council, eight for five seats on the School Committee. In Central Falls, there are two-candidate contests in City Council Wards 1, 2, 4 and 5.

Also headed into the hands of a local electorate is a $10-million sewer bond in North Kingstown that, if approved, would connect areas in the Post Road and Camp Avenue area. The project will also cover improvements to wastewater treatment facilities in town.

Though some 30 residential properties will be connected, the bulk of the project covers 205 commercial acres along Post Road, from the Route 403 overpass to the YMCA.

The Woonsocket mayor’s race will determine who succeeds seven-term incumbent Menard. Brien ran unsuccessfully against Menard in the last two city elections; he lost the 2005 race by around 2,000 votes, but narrowed it to about 900 in 2007.

Fontaine, an eight-term councilman, is running for mayor for the first time. City Council members in Woonsocket are elected citywide, and since winning his third term in 1997, Fontaine has come in first among as many as 14 candidates in every election; he received more votes than Menard or Brien in 2005 and 2007.

Fontaine and Brien emerged as the top two finishers in a four-candidate primary last month, with Fontaine topping Brien, 1,872 to 1,409.

In Central Falls, Fontes had a sort of primary of his own, though he only needed one vote: that of U. S. District Court Judge William E. Smith.

Smith ordered Fontes’ name be put on the ballot when he ruled, in a suit brought by the Rhode Island Affiliate of the America Civil Liberties Union, that parts of the Central Falls City Charter’s rules governing how candidates gather signatures on their candidate petitions were unconstitutional.

Andy Smith and Alex Kuffner contributed to this story.Candidates in the Nov. 3 municipal elections

Central Falls

(contested races, nonpartisan)

Mayor: Charles D. Moreau, Hipolito E. Fontes

City Council, Ward 1: Eunice Delahoz, Eugene J. Racquier; Ward 2, Richard G. Aubin, Edna S. Poulin; Ward 4, James A. Diossa, Jeremiah A. O’Connor; Ward 5, William Benson Jr., Adam Issa.

Woonsocket

(nonpartisan)

Mayor: Todd R. Brien, Leo T. Fontaine.

City Council (7 elected at-large): David B. Ashworth, Christopher A. Beauchamp, Stella G. Brien, Daniel M. Gendron, Roger G. Jalette Sr., Phillip E. Labrecque, Kathryn LeBlanc, Michael E. Moniz, William D. Schneck Jr., Suzanne Jean Vadenais, John F. Ward, Thomas W. Wrona.

School Committee (5 elected at large): Marc A. Dubois, Anthony Joseph Gabriele, George E. King, Evelyn G. Mack-Loggins, Linda M. Majewski, Anita Ann McGuire-Forcier, Eleanor M. Nadeau, Vimala D. Phongsavanh.

Jamestown

(contested races)

Town Council (5 elected): Democrats Michael G. White, Robert D. Bowen, William H. Murphy, Robert W. Sutton Jr. and Michael F. Schnack; independents Michael F. Smith and Ellen Winsor.

School Committee (3 elected): Democrats Catherine L. Kaiser, Dana K. Long and Julia Held; independent Sav Rebecchi.

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