151 contests with public online voting in Massachusetts — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
North Shore and Merrimack Valley Massachusetts · Eagle-Tribune (Gannett)
North Shore and Merrimack Valley Massachusetts high school Athlete of the Week fan vote from Eagle-Tribune (Gannett; eagletribune.com), spanning Lawrence, Andover, Haverhill, and Newburyport-area schools. The exact vote cap and close day aren't independently published for this paper; the poll follows the free, unlimited, no-account pattern documented at Gannett sibling The Enterprise in Brockton.
The Enterprise (Gannett)'s South Shore fan vote for the week's standout Brockton-area high school performance, run as separate boys' and girls' polls each week, hosted via AOL/Yahoo Sports, with unlimited voting through Monday at noon.
Statewide Massachusetts · Gatorade Player of the Year (playeroftheyear.gatorade.com)
Annual Gatorade recognition for Massachusetts's top softball player, chosen by nomination and a state selection panel at playeroftheyear.gatorade.com rather than public vote. The 2024-25 honoree posted 232 strikeouts in 102 innings pitched with a 0.412 ERA. All 380-plus MIAA member schools across eight districts are eligible.
The High School on SI multi-sport fan vote covering Massachusetts spring athletes across baseball, softball, lacrosse, and other spring sports. Unlike the football-specific poll (which closes Sunday), this ballot closes Monday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — and it puts a Taunton pitcher and a Belmont Hill lacrosse midfielder on the same list.
The High School on SI / SBLive spring fan vote for the best Massachusetts prep baseball performance of the week. SI editors nominate around ten players from across the state, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Monday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a day later than the Massachusetts football POTW closes on Sundays.
Statewide Massachusetts · High School on SI / SBLive Sports
The statewide High School on SI / SBLive Sports fan vote for the top Massachusetts prep basketball performance of the week, running through the MIAA winter season. Editors publish a fresh nominee ballot on the same si.com hub used for the state's other weekly polls, and anyone can vote with no account required.
The statewide SBLive / High School on SI fan vote for the best Massachusetts prep football performance of the week. Andy Villamarzo's editorial team nominates roughly eight players across all eight MIAA divisions — public and private — and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m.
Statewide Massachusetts · High School on SI / SBLive Sports
A statewide winter fan vote from High School on SI / SBLive Sports that singles out one standout Massachusetts girls basketball performance each week of the MIAA season. The ballot runs on the same si.com hub used for the network's other Massachusetts weekly polls, and casting a vote needs no account or sign-up.
Statewide Massachusetts · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Season-end sport-specific fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/massachusetts, recognising the best Massachusetts prep athlete by sport each school year. Statewide coverage of all MIAA member schools; voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on the stated date; no per-vote cap.
High School on SI / SBLive runs a weekly fan vote for the best Massachusetts softball performance of the week. Editors nominate around a dozen players; anyone can vote without an account. Unlike the football poll (Sunday close) and baseball poll (Monday close), the softball ballot shuts Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific — a mid-week deadline that most campaigns miss.
Springfield · MassLive (Advance Local)
Free weekly fan poll at masslive.com, run by MassLive (Advance Local), honouring standout Western Massachusetts and Pioneer Valley prep athletes each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account required.
Springfield · MassLive (Advance Local)
MassLive's fall-only Athlete of the Week ballot runs weekly at masslive.com from late August through November, drawing nominees from Western Massachusetts football, soccer, field hockey, and cross country programs across the 62-school PVIAC conference. Readers vote once per device per hour, no sign-up needed, until the poll closes Thursday or Friday.
Springfield · MassLive (Advance Local)
MassLive's spring Athlete of the Week ballot runs weekly at masslive.com from mid-March through late May or early June, drawing nominees from Western Massachusetts baseball, softball, track and field, lacrosse, tennis, and golf across the 62-school PVIAC conference. Readers vote once per device per hour, no sign-up needed, until the poll closes Thursday or Friday.
Springfield · MassLive (Advance Local)
Free weekly winter fan poll at masslive.com, run by MassLive (Advance Local), spotlighting standout Western Massachusetts PVIAC basketball, hockey, wrestling, gymnastics, and swimming athletes from mid-November through early March. One vote per hour per device, no account required, ballot typically closes Thursday or Friday.
The Taunton Daily Gazette (Gannett)'s weekly fan-vote poll for the standout boys high school performance across Taunton, Berkley, Dighton, Rehoboth, and the Bristol Aggie coverage area, hosted via a Yahoo Sports/Gannett embedded widget, opening weekly and closing Monday at noon, run separately from the paper's girls poll.
The Herald-News runs The Herald News Football Player of the Week, a weekly reader vote for Massachusetts high school football on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/16288916. Confirmed seasons reach 2022, 2024, and 2025, and the 2026 season is underway: this week's ballot runs September 18 through September 27. Supporters can also reach the vote through heraldnews.com, the newspaper's own site. A category list and a per-voter limit are not published for this weekly ballot.
The Herald News Girls Soccer Player of the Year is a Massachusetts high-school soccer vote that The Herald-News runs on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. The Herald-News has confirmed three editions so far, 2022, 2024 and 2025, with the most recent cycle closing in December and a 2026 round expected next. The ballot names no fixed opening or closing day, no category breakdown and no per-voter rule for the current cycle. A supporter who wants the current picture should treat the live poll.fm page, not this guide, as the final word on whatever The Herald-News posts each December.
The Herald-News runs The Herald News Girls Track Athlete of the Year, a girls track and field fan vote on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Two editions are confirmed, 2022 and 2025, with the most recently confirmed ballot placed in June before it closed. A category list, a daily vote limit, and the next nomination window are not published anywhere on that ballot; The Herald-News's own poll.fm listing is where each will eventually surface.
The Herald News runs the Preseason Fan Choice Boys Soccer Player of the Year vote for Massachusetts high school boys soccer, hosted on Crowdsignal's poll.fm at poll.fm/15982370. Confirmed rounds reach 2022, 2025, and 2026. The 2026 round's own instructions were direct: "Don't wait, vote now and often for your favorite choice," and voting for that round is confirmed to close September 25 at midnight. No category list or per-voter cap is published beyond that instruction.
The Herald News Preseason Fan's Choice Girls Volleyball Player of the Year is a Massachusetts fan vote that The Herald-News opens each September before its volleyball season begins, carried through Crowdsignal's poll.fm service. A fresh ballot went live in September 2026, the program's third confirmed edition after 2022 and 2025. Day-level opening and closing dates for the current round are not printed on the page beyond that month.
Hometeam runs The Hometeam Field Hockey Player of the Week, a Massachusetts high school field hockey fan vote balloted on the Crowdsignal poll.fm platform. The program's confirmed seasons are 2022 and 2024, and the 2024 series voted through October. Hometeam publishes no opening or closing date for any weekly ballot, no category roster beyond the single question, and no rule on repeat clicking, so those details stay with the live form.
Greater Boston · WBZ-TV / CBS Boston
WBZ-TV (CBS Boston) runs the Massachusetts MVP of the Week as a staff-selected feature, not a fan-voted poll — the sports desk picks a weekly honoree from community nominations and profiles them on cbsnews.com/boston. Past subjects include a Bishop Feehan quarterback and a Deaflympic gold medalist. No ballot, no vote cap.
MetroWest Daily News runs the (Quincy) Boys Lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year as a fan ballot hosted on Crowdsignal, serving the Massachusetts high school lacrosse community. The 2022 and 2025 editions are both confirmed, and the most recent voting window landed in April. The publisher leaves exact open and close dates, any category breakdown, and a per-supporter rule off the ballot page, so supporters should read the live poll before backing a nominee.
The (Quincy) South Shore Field Hockey Player of the Year honors one high school field hockey player from the South Shore communities of Massachusetts, decided by fan vote on the Crowdsignal platform at poll.fm under the South Shore name. Editions are confirmed for 2022, 2024 and 2025, with voting falling across November and December. The organizer publishes no advance calendar; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Banker & Tradesman invites its Massachusetts readers to vote for the best vendors serving the residential real estate, commercial real estate and banking industries. The 2026 ballot sits on the publication's own website, carries a one-vote-per-person rule, and is set to publish its winners in the November issue. Just this single 2026 cycle of the program has been verified, and the organizer has not printed open and closing dates for the window.
The Best of Boston Readers' Poll is Boston Magazine's annual public reader vote for Greater Boston businesses, running since 1979 with one vote per email address per category.
Boston Magazine's Best of Boston Readers' Poll voted 30 categories in 2025, decided the cocktail-bar race by a 10.69% margin, and runs alongside a separate roughly-250-winner editors' list, with a 2026 soiree already planned for the next round of results.
Cape Cod LIFE Magazine's Best of Cape Cod is a write-in readers' awards program at capecodlife.com/best-of-cape-cod-2026, now in its 35th year as of 2026. Readers write in businesses across 60-plus categories; the 2025 cycle recorded 827 gold and silver winners from tens of thousands of write-in votes.
Plymouth Magazine invites its readers to vote for the best Plymouth has to offer in an annual readers' poll carried on plymouthmag.com itself. Confirmed editions run from 2019 through 2026, with voting open throughout January. The publisher prints no limit per supporter and no eligibility text on the ballot page, so those details are worth checking against the live form each cycle.
North Shore Magazine's annual Best of the North Shore readers' poll covers Salem, Beverly, Gloucester, and Newburyport, published each year at nshoremag.com/bons/[year]/. The confirmed live page currently shows the 2026 results, meaning voting for that cycle has already closed.
OnCape Magazine's reader vote across consumer categories for Falmouth, Mashpee, Bourne, and Sandwich, distinct from the Cape-wide programs run by Cape Cod Life and the Cape Cod Times.
Valley Advocate's annual reader vote for Pioneer Valley and Western Massachusetts businesses, spanning food, bars, arts, shops, services, and education categories across Northampton, Amherst, Holyoke, Chicopee, and Easthampton. Running more than three decades, with 2026 voting live now.
Northshore Magazine runs the BONS Wedding Awards 2026, a public-vote best-of ballot celebrating wedding professionals across the North Shore of Massachusetts. The vote form lives at nshoremag.com under the magazine's own masthead. Confirmed editions ran every year from 2022 through 2026, and the program qualifies as annual. The exact voting window, any cap on repeat voting and the full category roster are not printed in advance, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
BOSS (Best of South Shore) is South Shore Home, Life & Style Magazine's reader nominate-then-vote awards program across 200+ categories, with winners revealed in the Summer print issue.
Boston Globe Magazine's annual Best of the Best feature, journalist-selected with reader engagement rather than a public vote count. The 2026 edition spans 28 categories and 300+ choices, adds a new Cape Cod dining category, and publishes as a June 7, 2026 special edition at bostonglobe.com/magazine/boston-best.
Boston.com's recurring reader-poll series for Greater Boston, running individually themed online polls rather than one annual multi-category ballot. The only confirmed 2026 instance is Best Cape Cod Town, voted directly at boston.com, separate from Boston Magazine's Best of Boston program.
A March reader poll from The Enterprise decides girls basketball's top player in its Brockton, Massachusetts coverage area. Edition years on the program's history are 2022 and 2025, and the 2026 ballot closes Thursday, April 2. Each supporter may cast a single daily vote; opening day, nomination details and eligibility terms go unstated on the poll page.
Run by the Brockton Enterprise, this girls volleyball preseason honor lets readers choose the player of the year for Brockton, Massachusetts and nearby communities. The Crowdsignal poll sits at poll.fm, with 2023 and 2025 as the edition years on file and September holding the 2025 window. Opening and closing days appear only on the live poll, so plan any push from there.
Each fall week, Massachusetts readers pick a Cape and Islands football player of the week on a Crowdsignal ballot hosted at poll.fm. One weekly voting window runs Monday through Sunday across the September to November season. Confirmed editions of the series ran in 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and the latest ballot lives at poll.fm/16202042.
Gannett's YourChoiceAwards program for Cape Cod, run in partnership with Cape Cod Times, covering more than 125 local business categories across a nomination round and a separate public voting round, with the confirmed 2026 voting window set for March 17-31 at yourchoiceawards.com/capecod, also mirrored at capecodtimes.gannettcontests.com.
YourChoiceAwards runs the Central Mass Community Choice Awards, an annual readers-choice ballot for Worcester-area businesses at yourchoiceawards.com/centralmass. The confirmed structure spans Beauty & Health (23 subcategories), Dining (24 subcategories), and Services (30-plus subcategories) inside a total the organizer counts at 150-plus categories, with the remaining groups unconfirmed in the public record checked here.
Brockton · CommunityVotes Brockton
Nominations for CommunityVotes Brockton run July 3 through October 25, hosted through a local CommunityVotes partner at brockton.communityvotes.com rather than by a South Shore newspaper. Archived pages confirm two prior editions, 2024 and 2025. Archived pages also show CommunityVotes Brockton present in 2026. Unlike BOSS - Best of South Shore, a separate program covering the coastal South Shore rather than Brockton's inland market, CommunityVotes Brockton answers only to the national CommunityVotes network. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle for whatever isn't covered here.
A best-of ballot for Fall River, Massachusetts, organized by CommunityVotes with a local partner attached and hosted on its own CommunityVotes platform. The 2026 ballot accepts nominations from August 20 through December 13, and supporters put forward favorite businesses, people and services. This is the first confirmed edition of the program, so the category roster and any later cycle are matters for the live page.
lowell.communityvotes.com has stood confirmed across three straight years, 2024 through 2026, run through a local CommunityVotes partner for Lowell, Massachusetts. This program is distinct from the separately run Lowell Sun Readers Choice program in the same city. The 2026 nomination window runs July 3 through October 25; no category list or vote cap shows up past it, the live ballot itself settles both each cycle.
Most Massachusetts readers'-choice ballots answer to a magazine or a newspaper. CommunityVotes Lynn doesn't; it's part of a national network instead, hosted at lynn.communityvotes.com for this Massachusetts city. Two editions are confirmed, 2024 and 2026, though the confirmed archive trail goes quiet in between. The 2026 nomination window runs July 3 through October 25. Past that window, the page names no category list and no fixed vote cap; even now, confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
CommunityVotes New Bedford is the 2026 Community Voting Awards Platform for New Bedford, Massachusetts, operated under the CommunityVotes name with a local partner. Unlike Boston's magazine and reader ballots, this one is scoped to a single coastal city. Nominations opened July 3 and close October 25, and supporters nominate favorite businesses, people and services. The ballot sits at newbedford.communityvotes.com, and the voting phase that follows nominations carries its own dates on the live site.
CommunityVotes Quincy is the local best-of ballot for Quincy, Massachusetts, presented by CommunityVotes with a local partner. The 2026 platform is live and nominations run from July 3 to October 25. Supporters nominate the Quincy businesses, people and services they rate. The voting window dates, the ballot's categories and any rule limiting repeat support are absent from the page, so check the live site before planning a push.
CommunityVotes Somerville is a best-of style ballot for businesses, people and services in Somerville, Massachusetts. It is run under the CommunityVotes name and hosted on the platform's own market subdomain, somerville.communityvotes.com. The 2026 cycle is the only edition confirmed, and its nomination period runs from August 20 to December 13. The page is live now, which makes this the ballot to read if you support a Somerville business this cycle. What the categories look like, how often a supporter may nominate or vote, and whether the program continues into 2027 are not printed on the source page this summary rests on.
Springfield · CommunityVotes Springfield
CommunityVotes Springfield runs a nominate-then-vote business ballot for Massachusetts's third-largest city, at springfieldma.communityvotes.com. July 3 through October 25 spans the confirmed 2026 nomination stretch here. Archived pages tie the address to 2024 too, though 2025 doesn't carry that same year-specific confirmation. That window's category list and vote cap don't appear anywhere on springfieldma.communityvotes.com, so treat the live ballot itself each cycle as the place to check for either detail.
Worcester businesses and their customers nominate and vote through CommunityVotes Worcester, a consumer favorites ballot hosted at worcester.communityvotes.com. Nominations for the 2026 cycle run August 4 through November 29, and the site asks visitors to sign up for email alerts about when voting begins. The program ran in 2025 and returns for 2026 on the CommunityVotes platform, which has hosted community voting awards since 2014.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette's annual Readers' Choice ballot, run by the daily newspaper based in Northampton, Massachusetts, covering Hampshire County and the Pioneer Valley. Voting runs online at gazettenet.com; confirm the category list and dates on the live 2026 ballot each cycle.
Massachusetts's Daily News Boys Basketball Fans Midseason Player of the Year lets fans pick a high school boys basketball standout at the season's midpoint. Imperial Valley Press is the organizer behind the program, and Crowdsignal's poll.fm form carries the ballot. Editions are on the books for 2022 and 2025. The 2025 poll closed in January with a Millis nominee at 45 percent of 12,062 votes. Its exact opening and closing dates go unpublished.
The Daily News Boys Indoor Track Athlete of the Year is a season-closing public-vote award for Massachusetts high school boys indoor track, run by Daily News Boys Indoor on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ballots are documented for 2023 and 2025, and the 2025 vote ran during April. The ballot lists nominees paired with their schools, and supporters cast a plain public vote. Exact window dates and voting rules are not printed with the poll.
Imperial Valley Press presents the Daily News Fans Baseball Player of the Year, a Massachusetts high school baseball fan vote presented on Crowdsignal. Editions ran in 2022, 2025 and 2026, the window falls in July, and the 2026 ballot is closed with 2027 bringing the next cycle. Nominees in the latest edition come from towns including Medway, Wellesley, Ashland, Holliston, Franklin, Natick and Millis.
Massachusetts track families decide the Daily News Fans Boys Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, a fans' ballot the MetroWest Daily News stages every summer on Crowdsignal. This cycle's voting ends at noon on Thursday, July 9. The 2022 and 2025 editions stand confirmed, and the ballot prints nothing about categories or how often one person may vote.
This page is a reference for the Daily News Fans Boys Soccer Player of the Year, a fan-voted high school boys soccer award for Massachusetts communities. Imperial Valley Press is listed as the organizer, and the ballot lives on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host. Confirmed editions fall in January across 2022, 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 vote stayed open for a single week, ending at noon on Friday, January 23.
High school field hockey in Massachusetts has a fan-decided season award in the Daily News Fans Field Hockey Player of the Year, run by Imperial Valley Press on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/16564714. Editions are documented for 2023, 2025 and 2026, each voting in January. The 2026 poll closed with a leading entry at 44 percent on 17,788 votes and a runner-up at 24 percent on 9,755 votes.
Massachusetts high school football supporters pick a Player of the Year through a fan poll run under the Daily News Fans name by Imperial Valley Press. Crowdsignal carries the ballot at poll.fm/16616055, and the voting window falls in February. Edition years attached to the program are 2023 and 2026, and a closed 2025 ballot with published vote totals also sits on the platform. The organizer prints no precise window dates and no per-supporter rule.
Imperial Valley Press organizes the Daily News Fans Midseason Baseball Player of the Year, a Massachusetts high school baseball honor decided by fan votes on a Crowdsignal poll page. The 2026 voting shut at noon on Friday, May 15, after roughly a week of open polling at the midpoint of the spring season.
Imperial Valley Press puts the Daily News Fans Preseason Boys Basketball Player of the Year in front of Massachusetts readers each winter, inviting them to crown a boys high school basketball standout before league games begin. The ballot sits on poll.fm, a Crowdsignal property. Three cycles are on the books, 2022, 2024 and 2025, and each one's window sat inside December. Nominees appear beside their schools, and a supporter picks one name and submits. Day-level dates, per-person limits and eligibility rules stay unpublished between cycles, so the live ballot governs.
Each week of the Massachusetts fall football season, Imperial Valley Press opens a fresh Daily News ballot on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, letting fans pick a standout player. Seasons are on the books for 2023, 2024 and 2025, with voting between September and November. The link here points at the Week 7 ballot, now closed, which keeps the final percentages and vote totals on view for every nominee.
A Massachusetts high school hockey honor decided entirely by public vote on Crowdsignal, whose ballots live at poll.fm, run under the Daily News name by Imperial Valley Press. Editions are on file for 2023 and 2025, and the most recent ballot covered Feb. 24 through March 2 before closing. Nominees come from schools such as Lincoln-Sudbury, Hopedale, Medway and Algonquin, and supporters pick a player straight from the list.
Enterprise Early-season runs a public vote naming an early-season girls soccer Player of the Year for Massachusetts high school programs. The ballot sits on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/14386761, where readers pick from a nominee list drawn from schools across the region. Confirmed editions ran in 2022 and 2024, and in the latest edition voting fell within September. Exact open and close dates, category details and any per-supporter rules are not printed ahead of time.
Massachusetts boys hockey supporters pick their Player of the Year in a poll run by The Daily News, with the ballot hosted by Crowdsignal on poll.fm. The 2026 vote stayed open for one week and closed at noon on Monday, May 25. Confirmed editions run in 2023 and 2026, and the poll is now marked closed. This page explains who runs the vote, how supporters cast a ballot, what the publisher leaves unpublished, and how this poll sits beside other Massachusetts high school sports votes.
Massachusetts' season-capping fan vote for high school girls hockey comes from the Fans Daily News publisher, whose ballot sits on Crowdsignal's poll.fm platform. The 2026 edition stayed open for a week and shut at noon on Thursday, May 21, finishing with the leading nominee on 51 percent of 249 votes. Published years so far are 2022 and 2026, and the program is marked annual.
WFHN, the Massachusetts radio station broadcasting as Fun 107, runs the For The Best Dad Advice In Our Fathers Day Contest on its own site at fun107.com. Listeners choose among twelve favorite pieces of dad wisdom, and the winning saying earns a gift basket and a certificate from the Charred Oak Tavern. The contest's confirmed editions are 2025 and 2026, and the station has not printed the exact voting dates.
MetroWest Daily News runs a preseason fan award for Massachusetts high school girls track and field, the Girls Track & Field Fans Preseason Player of the Year, hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Weekly ballots such as the Eagle-Tribune's refresh every seven days; this one is a single preseason window each March. The 2025 edition closed at noon on Tuesday, March 30, and 2023 is also confirmed. The voting page is poll.fm/15251396.
HBA of Greater Springfield runs Parade of Homes, a Western Massachusetts builder and remodeler showcase at hbaspringfield.com/parade-of-homes. The program is confirmed active; its category list, cycle dates, and exact public-vote format are not detailed here, so confirm specifics on the official site each cycle.
HBRAMA's statewide Parade of Homes People's Choice pairs a Massachusetts builder and remodeler showcase of finished homes with public home tours, then lets visitors cast an online vote for a favorite entry at hbrama.com. Confirm each cycle's exact dates and category list on the organizer's own site.
MassLive and the Springfield Republican's Reader Raves readers-choice ballot for Springfield and Western Massachusetts, run online through a Second Street voting form rather than the "Best of" branding used elsewhere in the state.
A best-of ballot for businesses and organizations across the Metro South area of Massachusetts, the Community's Choice Awards is run by the local Gannett / USA TODAY Network paper through Your Choice Awards. The 2026 voting round ran August 10-24, following a June nomination round, with winners announced October 11, 2026. Supporters cast a daily vote in each category, and voting in 25 or more categories enters them in a $250 sweepstakes.
YourChoiceAwards runs the MetroWest Community Choice Awards with MetroWest Daily News, recognizing 360+ area businesses across 120+ categories. The 2026 nomination window opened June 1; the close date, any vote cap, and finalist-round details should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.
Boston Magazine's New England Travel Awards ask readers across the region to name their own favorite resorts, festivals, and travel destinations, with the ballot itself living at bostonmagazine.com. The publisher operates out of Boston, Massachusetts, and has taken this program through two confirmed rounds, one in 2025 and another in 2026. Right now, the active cycle has a firm closing point, voting wraps Friday, June 5, and a results feature is slated for the October 2026 issue. What isn't spelled out anywhere on the page is a category breakdown or any stated limit on repeat voting by the same supporter, so a nominee weighing a push has two dates to plan around and little else printed. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
Preservation Massachusetts, a statewide historic preservation education and advocacy organization, hands out the People's Preservation Choice award through an online public vote hosted on its own website. Confirmed editions run across 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026, with the award introduced in 2019. The 2026 cycle ran through June, and the winner was announced at Fenway Park's 521 Overlook on June 11, 2026.
The Patriot Ledger, a Massachusetts newspaper covering Quincy, Holbrook and Hanson, decides its QCY girls basketball honour through a public vote on Crowdsignal. Two editions stand confirmed, 2023 and 2025, each decided in March. The ballot at poll.fm/15239592 lists high school nominees with no printed per-supporter rule or eligibility text.
YourChoiceAwards runs the South Shore Community Choice Awards at yourchoiceawards.com/southshore, recognizing 450+ Massachusetts businesses across 120+ categories from dentists and salons to restaurants, realtors, and contractors. The 2026 nomination window opened June 1; category rules, any voting cap, and the close date should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.
South Shore Field Hockey Early-Season runs a public Player of the Year vote for high school girls field hockey, carried on the Crowdsignal platform through poll.fm for the South Shore region of Massachusetts. The vote ran in 2022, then returned in 2025 with the 2025 edition sitting in a September window. The organizer prints no exact open or close dates in advance, so supporters should watch the live ballot itself.
2 confirmed editions of the South Shore Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year are on file, 2022 and 2026. The ballot runs on Crowdsignal through the poll.fm address poll.fm/17189511 under the South Shore name for high school girls lacrosse in Massachusetts. The 2026 poll carried a July voting window and has since closed, with the leading tally at 43 percent against 41 percent for the runner-up.
The South Shore Softball Early-Season Player of the Year is a regional fan poll for Massachusetts high school softball, run under the South Shore Softball Early-Season banner through Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Its confirmed editions are 2022 and 2026, and the live ballot falls in April. Unlike the statewide Gatorade softball award, it draws nominees from South Shore schools.
This page is a factual reference for the South Shore Softball Early-Season Player of the Year ballot, a fan-voted high school softball award carried on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Confirmed editions run in 2022 and 2026, with the live window falling in April. The 2026 ballot has closed. The organizer is the South Shore Softball Early-Season programme itself, and the market is the South Shore region of Massachusetts.
This page documents an early-season high school volleyball fan vote for the South Shore region of Massachusetts, run under the title Vote for South Shore Volleyball Early Player of the Year and associated with Quincy. The ballot lives on the Crowdsignal polling service under its poll.fm address. Two cycles are confirmed, 2022 and 2025, and the vote has been treated as an annual series. The voting window falls in September.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts anchors The Best of The Berkshires, a Berkshire County readers'-choice ballot run by TheBerkshiresBest.net at theberkshiresbest.net/survey/. Its confirmed history spans two editions, 2025 and 2026, cast through six eBallot links plus a "Vote For One Business" option. Nomination and voting dates are not yet posted; the live survey page is what actually settles them each cycle.
Central Massachusetts high school football crowns its Player of the Year through a fan ballot on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The organizer is listed as Central Mass. Ballots ran in 2022 and 2024, with each window in December. The 2024 poll is closed and its final tallies stay visible on the page, so supporters can read the outcome for themselves.
The Enterprise, a Massachusetts newspaper, runs a public fan vote naming a Brockton-area baseball Player of the Year. The ballot runs on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, with 2022 and 2025 the confirmed edition years and June the 2025 voting month. The latest ballot shows closed, so the next edition and its timing have to be read from the publisher's live page when it appears.
The Enterprise, the Brockton-area newspaper, runs a preseason Player of the Year ballot for high school boys lacrosse in Massachusetts. Voting is hosted by Crowdsignal on poll.fm, and the most recent confirmed ballot ran in April 2025. Confirmed editions sit in 2022 and 2025, and those two years are what makes the program annual. The 2025 ballot has closed, and the publisher has not printed the next round's open and close dates, any vote cap, or eligibility rules; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Enterprise runs a preseason honor for Massachusetts high school boys basketball, decided by reader vote on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. The ballot's 2022 and 2025 cycles are both confirmed, with voting concentrated in December. The 2025 ballot at poll.fm/16397270 carries a closed marker in its title, and the publisher prints no dated window, no category roster, no per-supporter rule and no nomination round anywhere on the ballot page. A supporter planning a push around this poll has to work from the December pattern and treat everything else as unpublished.
The Enterprise, a Massachusetts newspaper, runs a weekly public vote naming a female high school athlete of the week. The ballot runs on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, and the representative poll is the Oct. 30 edition. Confirmed seasons are 2022 and 2024. Nominees on that ballot came from schools including Bridgewater-Raynham, West Bridgewater, Abington and Southeastern. The organizer states that votes are unlimited. Exact open and close dates for each weekly window are not printed ahead of the poll.
One seasonal ballot, one winner: that is what separates this program from the weekly athlete polls other Massachusetts publishers host. The Gardner News, a newspaper headquartered in Gardner, Massachusetts, puts its baseball Player of the Year vote on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, and seasons have run in 2025 and 2026 with the window anchored to June. Nominees are area high school players listed by school. The paper prints no advance closing date for the poll.
The Gardner News, the daily newspaper serving Gardner, Massachusetts, runs a public vote naming a Boys Cross Country Athlete of the Year. Crowdsignal's poll.fm service carries the ballot, and the 2022 and 2024 editions are both confirmed, with the 2024 voting window falling in December. Runners from Gardner, Oakmont, Narragansett Regional and Monty Tech have appeared on the slate. Opening and closing hours are not printed ahead of a cycle, so supporters should read the live poll before building a campaign.
Gardner, Massachusetts's The Gardner News Coach of the Year lets readers pick a high school coach on Crowdsignal. The 2025-26 ballot gathers coaching nominees from Narragansett, Murdock, Gardner and Oakmont across baseball, football, field hockey and girls basketball, and the publisher states the poll runs until August 5 at noon.
The Gardner News Early Season puts up the Early Hockey Player of the Year ballot, letting the public decide a high school hockey honor around Gardner, Massachusetts. Crowdsignal supplies the voting page at poll.fm, and the nominee list ties players to communities including Gardner, Leominster and Oakmont. The 2023 and 2025 cycles are the ones on file, and the window falls in December. Exact dates and rules text are not printed with the ballot.
The Gardner News Team of the Year is a summer public vote run by The Gardner News, a newspaper in Gardner, Massachusetts, with the ballot posted at poll.fm under Crowdsignal. Readers pick a single local high school team from a slate that includes Narragansett football, Quabbin field hockey and Gardner boys soccer. The vote has confirmed editions in 2025 and 2026, with voting between July and August.
Run by the Massachusetts newspaper The Herald-News, the Herald News Baseball Player of the Year lets fans decide the honor on Crowdsignal's poll.fm ballot. Confirmed years are 2022 plus the 2025 and 2026 pair, and June holds the voting window. The newest ballot title carries a poll closed notice, so supporters arriving now see the nominee list without a live vote button to press.
Unlike the statewide Massachusetts athlete ballots, this program is a basketball-only player of the week vote run by The Herald-News for high school players in Massachusetts. Each round's ballot sits on Crowdsignal at the poll.fm link listed on this page. The confirmed February 2026 window ran from February 19 to February 26, 2026, and confirmed edition years reach back to 2022.
Massachusetts high school soccer supporters decide The Herald News Boys Soccer Player of the Year by voting on the Crowdsignal poll at poll.fm. The Herald-News, the newspaper behind the award, has confirmed editions in 2022, 2024 and 2025, each with voting in December. The most recent ballot is closed, and the 2026 edition has not yet been dated.
The Herald-News, a Massachusetts newspaper, runs a year-end public vote naming its Boys Track Athlete of the Year. The ballot sits on the poll.fm polling site operated by Crowdsignal, and the 2025 edition closed after a June window. The ballot ran in 2022 and again in 2025, with a further edition expected in 2026. The leading nominee on the closed 2025 ballot drew 56 percent of 5,601 votes. The precise opening and closing days are not printed anywhere by the publisher.
The Herald-News, a Massachusetts newspaper, runs the Midseason Softball Player of the Year as a fan vote, with the softball ballot living at poll.fm under Crowdsignal. The award's edition years on file are 2022 and 2025, and the 2025 poll was live during May. That ballot page now marks the poll closed. The day the next softball ballot opens and the day it closes, plus any ceiling on repeat submissions, are not printed by the organizer, so readers should check the live ballot before building any plan.
The Herald-News, a Massachusetts newspaper, lets readers pick a preseason softball player of the year in a fan ballot hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm before the high school season begins. Edition years on file are 2022, 2025 and 2026, with voting falling in March. The latest ballot, poll 16815183, is closed. The publisher has not printed the exact days the vote opens and shuts, nominee rules or any limit on repeat responses, so those details belong to the live page when it opens.
The Herald-News, a Massachusetts newspaper, lets readers pick a softball Player of the Year by public vote. Fans, families and classmates supply the support, with nominees drawn from programs such as Joseph Case and Atlantis Charter. Crowdsignal hosts the ballot at its poll.fm address; confirmed ballots are on the books for 2022, 2025 and 2026, and each vote has come in June.
The Hometeam Boys' Soccer Player of the Week is a Massachusetts high school soccer vote run by Hometeam, with the ballot hosted on Crowdsignal through poll.fm. Edition years on file are 2022 and 2024, and voting falls in October. The 2024 ballot closed with the leading Sutton entry at 63 percent of 9,281 votes and the Millbury entry at 19 percent of 2,790 votes. Window dates, categories and vote rules go unpublished on the ballot page.
Central Massachusetts' weekly boys' soccer honor is decided entirely by readers. Hometeam Central Mass., the region's high school sports desk, posts each weekly ballot to Crowdsignal's poll.fm service during the fall season, with the 2025 polls running between September and November. Confirmed editions date to 2022 and 2025. The currently linked ballot is closed, and exact weekly dates are not printed on it.
Hometeam Central Mass. runs a weekly public vote naming a field hockey player of the week for Central Massachusetts. Crowdsignal hosts the voting at poll.fm, and the most recent confirmed season ran from September through November of 2025. Supporters simply pick a nominee and press vote. The organizer has not printed the precise open and close times for any given week, so check the live poll before planning a push.
This Hometeam Central Mass. honor lets readers crown the region's top high school football player on a Crowdsignal ballot that lives at poll.fm/16347439. Cycles on file are 2022 and 2025, and each window lands in December. The latest ballot now reads Poll Closed, and its leading tally stood at 34,307 votes, a 27 percent slice of the poll.
Hometeam Central Mass. hands a weekly softball honor for Central Massachusetts high schools to its readers, and the ballot is a Crowdsignal poll at poll.fm. Seasons are on the books for 2022, 2025 and 2026, with voting falling in the April to June softball window each time. The live ballot is a plain public vote: readers open the poll, pick one nominee, and submit. The organizer prints no per-ballot dates, no per-supporter voting rule and no eligibility text, so supporters should read the current ballot before rallying votes.
Hometeam runs the Hometeam Football Player of the Week, a Massachusetts high school football poll that lives on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal ballot service. Seasons are confirmed for 2022 and 2024, and the 2024 season used seven weekly ballots from October into November. The working ballot address is poll.fm/14667318. Hometeam prints no fixed calendar dates, no per-supporter voting rule and no advance list of weekly nominees.
Massachusetts high school girls basketball has a fan vote of its own: the Hometeam Girls' Basketball Player of the Week, run by Hometeam on Crowdsignal's poll.fm. The series has confirmed editions in 2022 and in 2025, with ballots falling between December and March. Each weekly ballot is a single question naming nominees from towns across the state, and the most recent poll closed with a decided result.
The Hometeam Girls' Soccer Player of the Week is a Massachusetts high school girls' soccer fan vote run by Hometeam, with the balloting handled on Crowdsignal's poll.fm platform. Two seasons are confirmed, 2022 and 2024, with the 2024 voting inside October. The latest ballot has closed, and its result screen publishes the share each finalist earned.
The Old Colony Memorial Athlete of the Week is a weekly public vote for Massachusetts high school athletes. The Old Colony Memorial runs the program, which is hosted on the Crowdsignal platform. The voting window runs from September to June, but the exact dates are not published. The program is open to athletes from various sports and schools across Massachusetts. How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Patriot Ledger, the Massachusetts newspaper at patriotledger.com, runs this boys volleyball honour as a public vote on a Crowdsignal poll.fm ballot. Voting in the current cycle closes Friday, July 10, and the 2023 and 2025 runs are confirmed. The ballot names no categories and sets out no per-supporter rule; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
This Massachusetts high school sports ballot crowns a female athlete of the week across South Shore schools. Voting happens on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, and published ballots have shown unlimited voting with afternoon deadlines on weekdays. The series has confirmed editions in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, so a new shortlist appears on a weekly rhythm through the school year. Nominations for future ballots travel by email, and the exact criteria behind each weekly shortlist are not spelled out anywhere.
A midseason honor for high school football players in the South Shore region of Massachusetts, this ballot runs through the Crowdsignal poll tool at poll.fm rather than through a newspaper's own balloting tool. Confirmed editions ran in 2022 and 2024, with the live window falling in October. The 2024 ballot stated that votes are unlimited and that voting closed Monday, Sept. 21 at noon, with emailed votes excluded from the count.
Each school year the Taunton Daily Gazette asks its readers to name a Boys Athlete of the Year from the high school players it covers around Taunton, Massachusetts. The paper has run the vote in 2022 and again in 2025. The 2025-26 ballot lives on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal polling platform, and stays open through noon on Monday, Aug. 24. The paper counts a single vote from each person every hour and discards anything sent by email.
Each summer the Taunton Daily Gazette hands its readers a ballot asking who deserves to be named Fans' Choice Baseball Player of the Year, and the 2026 edition ran on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, closing at noon on Tuesday, July 28. Editions are confirmed in 2025 and 2026, which makes the vote an annual fixture. The newspaper has printed no category roster and no rule about repeat voting for this ballot, and the nominee slate changes with each season's crop of high school players in the Taunton, Massachusetts area. This page lays out the window, the mechanic and the vote's neighbours across the state.
Run by the Taunton Daily Gazette, this seasonal public-vote honor lets readers decide the top high school boys lacrosse player in its Taunton, Massachusetts market. The ballot is published on Crowdsignal, reached through poll.fm. The confirmed edition years are 2025 and 2026, and voting falls in June and July. The 2026 ballot has closed with a winner decided by fan support.
The Taunton Daily Gazette runs a Fans' Choice ballot asking readers who the mid-season field hockey player of the year is in its Massachusetts coverage area. Voting happens through Crowdsignal at poll.fm, and the 2025 ballot has already closed. Documented runs sit in 2022 and 2025, and the precise opening and closing dates of the next round should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle.
Each fall the Taunton Daily Gazette asks its readers to pick a weekly football Player of the Week through a Crowdsignal-hosted ballot. Confirmed seasons ran in 2024 and 2025, with weekly ballots from September through November. One recent ballot stayed open through noon on Sunday, Sept. 27. The newspaper counts only votes cast inside the poll itself, one per person per hour.
The Taunton Daily Gazette runs a Girls Athlete of the Year ballot for high school sports readers in Taunton, Massachusetts. Voting happens on a Crowdsignal poll at the poll.fm domain, and the paper's 2026 fans-choice girls track-and-field ballot stayed open through noon on Thursday, July 30. The current award is a public vote with no fee to take part. What the organizer has not printed anywhere is the category roster behind the award, so anyone planning a nomination push should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Taunton Daily Gazette asks readers to pick a preseason hockey player of the year before the Massachusetts high school season begins. The ballot sits on the poll.fm polling site that Crowdsignal operates, and the 2024-25 ballot has closed. Confirmed runs came in 2022 and 2024, with the 2024-25 window sitting inside December. The newspaper publishes no start or finish dates on the ballot itself, so supporters who want the next window need to watch the Gazette's own pages.
Boston Magazine asks its readers to nominate their favorite resorts, festivals, and attractions across the New England region in its Travel New England Travel Awards. The ballot lives on the magazine's own website, and the current cycle closes voting on Friday, June 5, with results promised for the October 2026 issue. Confirmed cycles so far cover 2025 and 2026.
The Boston Music Awards is a music-industry award program for Boston, Massachusetts, run by bostonmusicawards.com on the organizer's own site. Its public vote lets supporters back the city's artists, with the highest combined total deciding each winner. Confirmed editions run across 2020 through 2026, and the 2026 public voting window opens October 2, 2026 at 12:00pm and closes in November. The 2025 ceremony was held December 17, 2025 at Big Night Live.
Unlike its Eagle-Tribune counterpart, this programme puts a girls high school ballot on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, run under the Daily News name with Imperial Valley Press listed as organizer. Editions ran in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. That June 1-7 ballot closed at 73 percent of 9,413 votes for the leading nominee. Massachusetts readers pick the weekly winner.
A January reader vote for Massachusetts high school girls hockey, run by Imperial Valley Press on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The ballot lists nominees by school, and the 2026 edition has closed with final tallies displayed. Confirmed years on the ballot run 2022, 2025 and 2026, while the January open and close dates go unprinted on the poll page.
The Gardner News, a Massachusetts newspaper based in Gardner, runs a public vote to name a high school hockey Player of the Year. The ballot is hosted on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, and confirmed editions ran in 2023, 2025 and 2026, with voting concentrated in the March window. Unlike the weekly athlete honors elsewhere in the state, this is a hockey-only award decided by reader votes inside a single month.
Old Colony Memorial, a Massachusetts community newspaper in the Wicked Local network, invites readers to pick an Athlete of the Week from a short list of local high school nominees. The weekly ballot runs on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, with fresh nominee slates during the school year from September through June. Confirmed editions span 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Coaches submit nominees by email, readers select one name and press the vote button, and the paper has printed no per-reader limit or eligibility wording.
This page describes the VOTE: Cape and Islands High School Girls Lacrosse Player of the Week poll, a spring public vote for high school girls lacrosse in Massachusetts. Crowdsignal runs the ballot at poll.fm, the organizer is listed as Islands, and each weekly round opens Friday and closes Thursday. The poll sits beside a wider set of Massachusetts high school athlete ballots on this site.
The Patriot Ledger runs a public vote naming its Boys Tennis Player of the Year, with the tennis vote hosted by Crowdsignal at the poll.fm address 15690270. The 2026 window closes Tuesday, July 14 at noon, and the newspaper states voting is unlimited. This boys tennis ballot has confirmed runs in 2022 and 2025. The paper publishes no category roster for the award, so supporters should confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
The Gardner News, a Massachusetts newspaper based in Gardner, runs a weekly reader poll naming its high school athlete of the week. Ballots are hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, with a fresh nominee slate each coverage week. Confirmed seasons run from 2023 through 2026. The poll linked for this program covers May 25-30, and every individual ballot prints its own deadline.
The Gardner News asks its readers in Gardner, Massachusetts to pick the field hockey player of the year in a public vote hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Confirmed editions ran in 2022, 2024 and 2025, with the voting window falling in November and December. The newspaper has not printed exact open and close dates or a per-supporter rule, so supporters should read the live ballot before planning anything around it.
The Gardner News, a Massachusetts newspaper based in Gardner, asks readers each preseason who deserves its Field Hockey Preseason Player of the Year title. Readers answer through a Crowdsignal poll whose address is poll.fm/15985756. Editions for 2024 and 2025 are on the books, and voting falls inside September. The precise open and close days, the roster for the coming cycle and any per-supporter rule stay under wraps until the ballot itself appears.
The Gardner News, a newspaper in Gardner, Massachusetts, runs a fan-voted award asking readers to name the Girls Soccer Player of the Year. The ballot is conducted on Crowdsignal, the polling service at poll.fm. Confirmed cycles ran in 2010, 2022, 2024 and 2025, and the voting window falls in November and December. The exact open and close dates, the nominee rules and any per-supporter limit are not printed ahead of the live ballot.
The Gardner News, a newspaper based in Gardner, Massachusetts, runs a preseason poll asking readers who its Girls Soccer Preseason Player of the Year should be. Voting happens on Crowdsignal, the platform whose ballots are served from poll.fm, and any visitor can take part. Confirmed editions ran in September 2024 and September 2025, and the publisher has not printed a close date or a per-person rule for the next round.
The Herald-News, a Massachusetts newspaper, runs a weekly high school athlete ballot hosted on Crowdsignal at poll.fm. Ballots rotate through the school year, with a winter window of Feb. 16-21 and a fall cycle covering soccer, field hockey, golf and cross country performances from Sept. 7-12 that closed on Sept. 20. Confirmed edition years run 2022, 2024 and 2025. The publisher prints no standing rules text, so a supporter who wants to plan a push around the format has to work from whatever the live ballot shows that week.
This Massachusetts fan vote asks readers to pick a standout weekly baseball player for The Herald-News coverage area. The ballot is hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm/17049499, and the 2026 edition carried a title naming the week of May 18 to May 23 before the poll closed. Voting in that cycle stayed possible through July 3. This poll's confirmed edition years are 2022, 2025 and 2026, and the publisher titles every fresh ballot for its own week during the baseball season.
The Herald-News, a Massachusetts newspaper, puts its Midseason Baseball Player of the Year question to readers through a Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm. The most recent confirmed ballot was live in May 2025 and now shows closed results, with an earlier documented edition in 2022. Exact window dates, category details and any per-supporter rule are not printed on the published ballot, so the live page is the authority for each new cycle.
Hometeam's weekly fan ballot for Massachusetts high school boys' basketball has two seasons in its published history, 2022 and 2025. The poll.fm site run by Crowdsignal carries the voting, and ballots across the recent season carry dates from December through March. Nominees represent schools spread across the state, from Bartlett and Sutton to Doherty and Whitinsville Christian. Hometeam announces no fixed calendar for any individual round, so supporters follow the live poll page week by week through the winter.
Hometeam Central Mass. asks its readers one question each cycle: which local high school athlete deserves the weekly honor. Each round is posted to poll.fm, the Crowdsignal voting service, and the confirmed edition years are 2022 and 2025. Voting windows fall between November and March. The latest ballot closed with a 43 percent to 37 percent split at the top, and the towns whose schools appeared include Clinton, Hopedale, Northbridge, Sutton and West Boylston.
Hometeam Central Mass. puts high school baseball in Central Massachusetts up to a public vote each week of the spring season. Supporters pick a Player of the Week through Crowdsignal at poll.fm, and confirmed seasons span 2022, 2025 and 2026, with voting concentrated from April through June. The most recent closed poll showed the leader at 68 percent with 1,007 votes.
Hometeam Central Mass. puts up a weekly spring ballot naming a boys' lacrosse player of the week for central Massachusetts high schools. The vote is hosted by Crowdsignal through its poll.fm service, and confirmed seasons cover 2022, 2025 and 2026, with voting falling between April and June. The organizer prints no nomination deadline, no per-supporter rule and no round dates beside the ballot, so supporters should read the live poll before rallying votes.
The South Shore High School Boys Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year ballot lets the public pick a seasonal honoree for Massachusetts boys outdoor track. It runs on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, with confirmed editions in 2022 and 2026. The 2026 voting window falls in June and closes on Monday, July 6. Nominees represent South Shore communities including Duxbury, Cohasset, Abington, Canton, Brockton and Milton.
South Shore supporters cast ballots in the South Shore High School Male Athlete of the Week through Crowdsignal's poll.fm host. The vote covers high school boys sports across the South Shore region of Massachusetts, and confirmed editions ran in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. This round closes Monday, September 21 at noon, and the organizer states votes are unlimited.
Taunton-area supporters decide the Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Indoor Track Fans' Choice Athlete of the Year on a public poll hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm. The ballot for the 2024-25 season closed after the winter campaign, and the Gazette's own announcement for the 2026 Fans' Choice track award kept polls open through noon on Thursday, July 30. Confirmed editions of the fan vote ran in 2022 and 2025, and the Gazette describes it as a once-per-person-per-day ballot.
The Taunton Daily Gazette asks its readers a single question each fall season: which field hockey player deserves the paper's Player of the Year honor. Voting happens through the Crowdsignal service at poll.fm, with confirmed editions in 2022 plus 2025; the 2025 window fell inside December before that poll closed. This page lays out the ballot, the mechanic, the schools involved and what the publisher has and has not published about the rules.
The Taunton Daily Gazette lets readers decide its Fans' Choice Boys Indoor Track Athlete of the Year for the 2025-26 season. The Gazette's boys indoor track ballot closed at noon on Sunday, March 22, hosted at poll.fm/16747478 on Crowdsignal. Confirmed editions fall in 2022 and 2026, and the current poll is marked closed.
Worcester Business Journal's annual Best of Business readers-choice award, voted publicly at wbjournal.com across 54 confirmed 2026 categories spanning law firms, incubators, golf courses, and restaurants, with winners celebrated each January at Worcester's Beechwood Hotel after a four-week November ballot.
WFHN, the Fun 107 radio station broadcasting from fun107.com, runs a public vote inviting listeners to back Jillian Zucco, Miss Massachusetts, ahead of the Miss America pageant in New Jersey on September 10th. The ballot lives on WFHN's own fun107.com domain, and the vote page has appeared across eight edition years between 2018 and 2026. Exact window dates, ballot categories and any per-supporter limit are not printed on the page.
In Our Mother Daughter Lookalike Contest is an annual public-vote pageant run by WFHN-FM/FUN 107 for its Massachusetts audience, hosted on the station's own site at fun107.com rather than a third-party platform. A local partner, Roots + Daisies Beauty Parlor, narrows the field to 10 finalists, and the public then picks the winner. Two cycles are confirmed, 2025 and 2026. The exact voting window and any per-voter rule are not printed on the station's page; confirm both on the live ballot each cycle.
Dakin Humane Society runs a pet photo fundraiser ballot on the GoGo Photo Contest platform for supporters across Massachusetts. The confirmed voting window closes at midnight Eastern Time on Sunday, September 13, 2026. The ballot carries a calendar reservation and ordering feature alongside the entry vote. Only the 2026 edition is confirmed so far, and several ballot details remain unpublished by the organizer.
Last Hope K9 Rescue funds its own Calendar Contest through GoGo Photo Contest's entry page, gogophotocontest.com/lhk9rescue. A $10 fee enters a photo and a $1 charge buys one vote, and the confirmed page names two editions, 2024 and 2026. When this cycle's voting window opens and closes is not stated there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
MetroWest Humane Society, an animal shelter based in Ashland, Massachusetts, runs the 2026 Pet Calendar Photo Contest, a public-vote pet photo fundraiser hosted on GoGo Photo Contest. Confirmed editions have run from 2018 through 2026, with the 2026 voting phase tied to December. The ballot itself names no entry fee, category roster or per-supporter vote limit, so supporters should read the rules page on the live site before entering or voting.
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MetroWest Humane Society runs its Pet Calendar Photo Contest for supporters of the animals at its Ashland, Massachusetts shelter. The ballot lives at gogophotocontest.com/mwhs-2026-calendar, part of the GoGo Photo Contest network. The page's own dated language spans nine confirmed contest years, 2018 through 2026, longer than most shelter calendar drives get to claim. Past that run of years the page stops volunteering specifics: no category list, no per-voter limit, and no published nomination or voting window appear anywhere on the current page. One detail does survive in the contest's own notes: a pet dressed as "Santa Claws" may land on the calendar's June page rather than December, since a printed month doesn't have to match the month a photo was actually taken. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
WBSM runs The SouthCoast Pet and Pet Owner That Look the Most Alike, a pet-lookalike vote for the SouthCoast region of Massachusetts, published at wbsm.com. Owners submit a pet-and-owner photo, WBSM narrows the field to a top 10, and the public then votes for a grand prize winner among them. Confirmed editions run 2021 and 2025. WBSM has not put a date on the next cycle yet; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.
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