Experience: Incumbent.

Platform: Increase police protection, oppose rent control, increase tax base.

Thomas Watkins

Platform: Encourage neighborhood solutions to crime problem, restore citizen control over neighborhoods, support rent control.

Alice Wolf

Experience: Incumbent mayor, former School Committee member.

Platform: Broaden property tax base, create "safety net" for disadvantaged, increase police protection, support rent control.

School Committee Candidates

Bob B. Buckley

Experience: masters in education and management from Cambridge College, served as director of the High Tech Program at Roxbury College for six years.

Platform: modernizing teaching methods and curricula.

Peter V. Cignetti

Experience: former PTA president of the Fitzgerald school, member of numerous school committees.

Platform: Putting a disillusioned central administration back in touch with parents, students and fiscal responsibilities.

Ronald S. Crichlow