SANFORD — Six people, including two incumbents, are looking for election to two three-year City Council terms in municipal elections, set for Nov. 3.
As well, there is a race for a single one-year term, in which incumbent and longtime councilor Alan Walsh will face a challenge by John Tuttle, a former state legislator .
Incumbents Fred Smith and Richard Wilkins are both looking for re-election to the two three-year terms, and are challenged by former councilor Dianne Connolly, former School Committee member Donald Jamison, Leonard L. Kinney, and Lucas Lanigan, who has also previously run for council. Both Connolly and Lanigan are members of the Planning Board, and would be required to resign those positions if elected to the council. Sanford candidates run at large, and so for the two three-year terms, the two highest vote-getters from the slate of six candidates will be elected.
Jonathan Mapes is unopposed for his second threeyear term on the Sanford School Committee.
John Cochin is unopposed for Sanford Water District, while Paul Demers and Kevin Eaton will duke it out for a three-year term as a Sanford Sewerage District trustee.
The deadline for nomination papers to be returned to the City Clerk’s Office was 4:30 p.m. Monday.
Candidates elected Nov. 3 take office on Jan. 1, 2016.
— Senior Staff Writer Tammy Wells can be contacted at 324-4444 (local call in Sanford) or 282-1535, ext. 327 or [email protected].
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