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Rockport Select Board Candidates’ Night, May 31

Tue, 05/30/2017 - 3:30pm

    PenBayPilot.com and the Town of Rockport are jointly holding a Candidates’ Night for the seven candidates who are seeking election to the Rockport Select Board at the June 13 polls, the day before annual Town Meeting.

    The forum will be held at the Rockport Opera House downstairs meeting room, 6:30 to 8 p.m., and will be streamed live at livestream.com/Rockportmaine 

    If you can’t make it to the forum but want to submit a question, call or text Lynda Clancy, 207-706-6657, to get it posed to the candidates.

    The forum format will allow for each candidate to deliver an opening statement, and then each will have two minutes to respond to questions from the floor. If warranted, there will be time or follow-up questions. Candidates will also each be allowed two minutes for closing statements.

    There are two open three-year seats on the Select Board, currently occupied by Chairman Bill Chapman and Geoff Parker. The incumbents are both running again, and are now facing four others: Ted Skowronski, Anastasia Ileana Fischer, Doug Cole and Mark Kelley.

    There were two candidates who took out papers to fill a Select Board seat that was vacated earlier in April when Brendan Riordan resigned, but only one, Thomas Gray, returned his papers. 

    The list of Rockport candidates for all open seats on town and school boards and committees is as follows:

    ROCKPORT 
    Select Board - Two three-year terms (currently held by William Chapman and Geoffrey Parker)
    • William Chapman 
    • Geoffrey Parker
    • Theodore Skowronkski
    • Doug Cole
    • Anastasia Ileana Fischer
    • Mark Kelley

    Select Board - One two-year term (currently vacant)
    • Thomas Gray 

    Library Committee - One three-year term (currently held by Paul Charbonneau)
    • Heaven Bartlett 

    Library Committee - One one-year term (currently vacant)

    • Brooke Kehoe
    • Cheryl Liechty 

    MSAD 28 School Board Director (to serve concurrently on the Five Town CSD School Board) - One three-year term (currently held by Faith Vautour)

    • Sarah Bradley-Prindiville 

    Budget Committee - Three three-year terms (currently held by Stephanie Kumble, Heaven Bartlett and Thomas Murphy)
    • Heaven Bartlett 
    • Stephanie Kumble
    • Thomas Murphy