Candidate forum to take place Tuesday

League of Women Voters are hopeful weather will stay at bay

SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y.>> Tuesday night at 7 p.m. the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County will sponsor a candidate forum at Fort Hardy Youth Center in anticipation of Tuesday, March 21’s election. Five candidates have been invited to the forum where residents in the Village of Schuylerville are encouraged to attend and ask questions for the candidates.

Daniel Carpenter and Jason Young are running for mayor, while residents will select two trustees out of Bryan Drew, James Miers and Nicole Proctor.

Carpenter (D) is a current trustee. If he doesn’t win, he retains his trustee seat.

Young (R) is a political newcomer. He owns Clark’s Steakhouse in Schuylerville. Miers (R) is a current trustee. Drew (D) is a political newcomer.

Proctor (R) is running on a bipartisan ballot line with Carpenter and Drew. Proctor is also a political newcomer.

The League of Women Voters of Saratoga County have sponsored forums for voters for about 50 years now.

“Over the years we keep selfevaluating and making sure we’re using the right practices to remain fair, impartial and inform the voters,” said voter service chair Ann Kril.

The League of Women Voters has been active since 1920.

“Our goal [is] to inform the voters on candidates and issues,” said Kril. “We don’t support any candidate or party, and that’s been our reason for being around for 97 years.”

The event, as of Sunday, will still take place, but the impending weather could cause a problem.

“We just hope that the weather doesn’t happen, or it’s not bad enough that we can’t get there,” said Kril.

The League recently cancelled another candidate forum for the Village of Ballston Spa that was scheduled for Thursday. All of the Republican candidates failed to reply, so the League was forced to cancel. Due to League rules, they cannot present a candidate forum with only one party present

or with only one candidate for each open seat.

“We are disappointed that this forum cannot proceed as originally planned,” said Kril in a statement. “In these times of divisiveness, it would be good to have a community discussion so that all residents and all candidates can interact.”