Community activist Jessica Brennan one of five running for vacated Niskayuna Town Board seat | The Daily Gazette
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A community activist on Sunday announced her candidacy in the November election for a recently vacated Town Board seat.
Jessica Brennan, founder of Nisky NOW, which stands for Nutrition on Weekends, and The Nisky Attic, is one of five candidates to be interviewed Monday by the Niskayuna Democratic Committee for the party’s endorsement.
The other candidates are Nicholas Buonanno, a member of the Schenectady County Young Democrats, and editor of the Troy Record and Saratogian; Feng Chen, a former principal of the Capital Region Chinese School and engineer at GE Global Research; Brendan Kennedy of the New York State Bar Association; and Leslie Gold, a member of the planning board and a longtime activist in the Democratic Party.
Several vying for support for Niskayuna Town Board seat | The Daily Gazette
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NISKAYUNA – With just a little over a week to go until the Niskayuna Democratic and Republican committees must announce candidates to run in a special November election for the vacant town board seat both committees are still working through possible candidates.
The committees must let the county Board of Elections office know by July 22 whom they will support to replace Rosemarie Perez Jaquith after she announced she was resigning her seat effective July 1 because she was moving to Washington D.C.
The Democratic Committee is expected to meet July 19 to pick its candidate, said Denise Murphy McGraw, who is the chairwoman of the committee for the town.
SCHENECTADY — Two young Democrats who have never run for office are applying to fill the two pending vacancies on the Schenectady City Council. Brendan Savage…