By Darrell Halen 

Two men appointed to the Pelham Board of Selectmen last year to fill vacancies are among the three candidates seeking to win election to the board in March.

Two three-year seats are available. Alfio Torrisi, who made an unsuccessful run for the board last year, is making another attempt.

The other candidates are Douglas Viger, who was appointed to the board in June when Thomas Domenico moved out of town and William McDevitt, a former selectman who returned to the board in November after Ed Gleason resigned.

Viger made a strong third place finish last year, when two seats were up and five candidates made bids.

The only other contested race on the town ballot is for two cemetery trustee positions. Three candidates are running. They are Richard W. Jensen, Timothy Zelonis and Edwin Baker.

One-, two- and three-year terms for trustee of trust funds were available but no one signed up to run for them.

Other candidates are:

Philip R. Currier, moderator, two years; Charlene F. Takesian, treasurer, three years; Kim L. Boland, supervisor of the checklist, three years; Angele Diack, Daniel Guimond and Robert S. Sherman, Budget Committee, three three-year seats; Douglas H. Fyffe, Ann Susan Snide, library trustee, two for three years; and Jason Croteau and Paul Dadak, Planning Board, two seats for three years.

The school district ballot features contests for two seats on the school board.

Incumbent Linda Mahoney is being challenged by former School Board member Raymond P. Perry for a three-year seat.

Mahoney is seeking her second term. Perry served on the board from 2001-04.

A one-year seat on the board is available because Michael Conrad, who was reelected to a three-year term in 2006, is leaving the board a year early. He cited a new job and family matters as reasons for stepping down.

Three candidates are running: Joseph Farris, Linda Koehler, and Lorraine Dube, who almost won a seat last year when she made her second bid for the board.

Other school district candidates include: Patricia Murphy who filed to run for clerk; Kenneth Dunne, who is running for moderator; and Patricia Murphy, who is running for treasurer. Those are three-year positions.

The polls will be open at Pelham High School from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11.