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Gaetano Putignano, chairman of the Rockingham Select Board, and others participate in the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House, in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Monday, March 1, 2021.
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Deb Wright listens to people speaking during the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House Monday night.
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Doug MacPhee, of Rockingham, addresses the Select Board during the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House Monday night.
Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer
Rockingham hosted the Rockingham Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Opera House, in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Monday, March 1, 2021.
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BELLOWS FALLS â Rockingham residents will have plenty of choice for the three open seats on the Rockingham Select Board at Town Meeting in March.
With Select Board members Gaetano Putignano and Ben Masure not seeking re-election, more than a half dozen people have filed for a seat, with most of the candidates filing for both the open three-year seat and one of the two, one-year seats.
Such a strategy is legal, Vermont election officials have said in the past, but successful candidates may only hold one seat.
Among the candidates are three named Wright: Bellows Falls Village President Deborah Wright, as well as her husband Cass Wright, have both filed two different seats; also filing for two seats is Jonathan Wright of Bellows Falls, who is no relation to Deborah or Cass Wright. Jonathan Wright was a former Bellows Falls village trustee until June. Cass Wright briefly served on the Rockingham Select Board a few years ago,