PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — In this off-year election, one incumbent Presque Isle City Councillor and two local school board members are running for their seats without opposition.
According to Presque Isle city clerk Tom King, there is one seat up for grabs on the city council and only one candidate who completed nomination paperwork.
Running for that position will be Randy Smith, the superintendent of the University of Maine’s Aroostook Research Farm, who currently is wrapping up his first four-year term on the council.
For the board of directors of Maine School Administrative District 1, King said that there are two open seats.
For district 5 in Presque Isle, Robert Cawley has completed nomination paperwork for what would be his fifth three-year term. Cawley, an executive with Katahdin Trust Bank, first was elected to the school board in 2003.
The other open board member seat for district 9 in Presque Isle has no official nominated candidates, but the current board member from the district, Lori Kenneson, is expected to run as a write-in candidate, according to King. Kenneson, a dental hygienist, would be serving her eighth term on the school board.
