No contests await Alna voters at the polls Friday, March 24. Elections are at the fire station from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The annual, open town meeting follows at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 25 at the fire station. Coreysha Stone will be the lone candidate.
Two of Alna’s three selectboard seats will be on the ballot in March and neither incumbent is running. In separate email responses to questions, Third Selectman Charles Culbertson and Second Selectman Linda Kristan reflected on their time on the.
Alna firefighter Paul Crandall responded to none of the car mishaps town officials said happened in a Wednesday, Jan. 5 icing event. He lives on Head Tide Hill Road, the hill had not been sanded and he did not want to be in the Sheepscot River below.
Over and over Dec. 1, Alna selectmen faced more of the same criticism, and some new, for their handling of town business. This time, Second Selectman Linda Kristan also faced past selectman Doug Baston’s call for her to step down. Kristan responded.
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Neither of the Alna selectmen whose seats are up for election March 26 sought to stay on, and voters will have choices for both seats. Nominations closed at noon Tuesday. Town Clerk Sheila McCarty said Kyle Levasseur and Linda Kristan will be on the ballot for the second selectman’s seat Doug Baston now holds; and Christopher Cooper and Charles Culbertson are running for third selectman, the seat Greg Shute now holds.
Road Commissioner Jeff Verney will be unopposed on the ballot for another one-year term; and recent Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 board appointee Kristina Verney is running unopposed for that seat, McCarty said.