WINDHAM — Windham voters will fill several seats in municipal elections this fall, including two on the Town Council. 

Two councilors, Vice Chairman David Nadeau and Brett Jones, are running to keep their seats on the seven-member council. Those are the only two council seats up for grabs.

Nadeau represents the town’s East District and has at least one challenger so far in Rebecca Cummings.

The deadline to file papers as a candidate in Windham’s Nov. 7 election is Monday, Sept. 25, at 4 p.m.

Cummings and Nadeau have already returned their candidate papers to the town clerk. 

The East District consists of “the area bounded on the North by the centerline of Route 115 from its intersection with the Little Sebago Lake outlet to the Gray line, on the East by the Towns of Gray, Cumberland, Falmouth and Westbrook, on the West by the centerline of Route 302 from Westbrook to its intersection with the Varney Mill Road, thence by the centerline of the Varney Mill Road to its intersection with the Ditch Brook, thence by the thread of the Ditch Brook to Collins Pond, thence by the middle of Collins Pond to the Little Sebago Lake outlet and Route 115,” according to the Windham Town Charter. 

While candidates for each of the town’s four districts must reside in that district, the entire town votes to elect all of the council candidates. At Large candidates can live in any of the town’s districts. 

Clayton Haskell has taken papers out to run for both the East District seat and Jones’s current At Large seat, according to Town Clerk Linda Morrell. Morrell said that Haskell can only run for one of the seats, and must decide between the two when he returns his candidate papers. 

While Jones has taken out but not yet returned papers, he said he intends to return the papers for his current seat. 

This will be Jones’ first time running for the council. The council voted to appoint him in February to fill the vacancy left after the death of Councilor Tommy Gleason. 

In addition to the municipal election, Windham voters will also elect two RSU 14 School Board members in November. Both Kate Brix and Pete Heanssler have taken out papers to run for reelection, but neither had returned those papers to the RSU 14 central office as of Wednesday. No one else had yet taken out papers, according to an official at the central office.

Both the council and School Board seats have three-year terms. 

Windham voters will also elect a town clerk and a trustee for the Portland Water District. Current clerk Morrell said that she plans to take out and submit papers, but that no one else has done so for the position so far. Nadeau is the only person who has returned papers for the water district trustee position as of Wednesday, though Louise Douglas has taken them out. Douglas said she plans to return them by the deadline. 

Morrell said that if elected to both, Nadeau would be able to serve as a member of the council and water district board at the same time. 

Matt Junker can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @MattJunker.