MATTAPOISETT Select Board candidate Jodi Lynn Bauer wants to keep the character of Mattapoisett intact.
A lifelong resident, Bauer said when she heard of Selectman Paul Silva’s decision not to run for another term, she felt “the time was right.”
A member of the Tree Committee, Bauer also once served on the Community Preservation Committee and is active with the Mattapoisett Congregational Church and Mattapoisett Boy Scouts.
“Both my boys are Eagle Scouts,” she noted.
Bauer said she knows Mattapoisett will grow and expand, but would like to see it happen at a “controlled rate.”
“Because we know it’s gonna happen I just don’t want to see us overpopulate,” she said.