BRATTLEBORO — It looks like there will be contested Selectboard races after all.
After a brief moment of concern earlier this month that not enough candidates would step forward to run for three vacancies on the board, a full slate of candidates turned in their nomination papers to Town Clerk Annette Cappy before the Monday afternoon deadline.
The elections for town and town school district officers will be held on Tuesday, March 5. Early voting will begin on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
For the three-year seat on the board being vacated by Dora Bouboulis, Spoon Agave will face Kate O'Connor who, after an unsuccessful bid for state representative last year, will be making her first run for the Selectboard.
Six candidates will run for the two one-year seats being vacated by Dick DeGray and Chris Chapman: John Allen, David Cadran, Ian Kiehle, Phil Kramer, Donna Macomber, and David Schoales.
Allen is a former Selectboard member who served from 2008 to 2010.
Schoales is on the town school board and is also seeking another term to that board.
Kiehle unsuccessfully ran for the Selectboard in 2008. Macomber is co-director of the Women's Freedom Center, Kramer is a medical equipment supplier, and Cadran serves as an alternate on the Development Review Board.
There is also a race to succeed Tim O'Connor as town moderator.
Lawrin Crispe, a local attorney who pinch hit for O'Connor when he took ill at last year's Representative Town Meeting, is running against violinmaker and arts advocate Douglas Cox.
The annual Representative Town Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, March 23.