BRATTLEBORO — There will be four candidates running for the two one-year seats on the Selectboard, while the current holder of a three-year seat will be unopposed for re-election.
Town Clerk Hilary Francis announced Monday that, at the deadline for filing candidate petitions for the March 7 election, no one turned in papers to run for the three-year seat now held by David Schoales, according to a news release.
All the action will be for the one-year seats as David Cadran, Avery Schwenk, Brandie Starr, and Tim Wessel will compete for the two seats that are being vacated by Board Chair David Gartenstein and former Chair Dick DeGray.
Cadran served for two years as a Representative Town Meeting member from 2013 to 2015. He was an alternate on the Development Review Board from 2013 to 2015 and a Planning Commission member from 2013 to 2015. He recently returned to Brattleboro after living and working in New York City.
Schwenk ran for a one-year seat on the Selectboard last year and was narrowly defeated by DeGray. He is the co-founder of the Hermit Thrush Brewery. A native of Minnesota, he moved to Brattleboro from Philadelphia and worked as a paramedic before becoming a full-timer brewer.
Starr, a political newcomer, is the marketing administrator and executive assistant to the CEO at Brattleboro Savings & Loan. She has lived in town for about a decade.
Wessel has worked in video and film production for more than 25 years and also is a landlord in town. He has been a Brattleboro resident for about a decade and has served on the Brattleboro Community Television board and has been a Representative Town Meeting member.