The filing deadline for those perspective candidates seeking non-partisan seats in Albany and Clinton County in November is now just days away, but as of this past Saturday, August 4 — (with 10 days remaining prior to the deadline), filing for some nine total seats stayed at a slow pace.

Within a week’s period, only two additional persons filed for office–one each for school board and city council. This brings the total number of non-partisan candidates to six and all who had filed through last Saturday were incumbents already holding their respective offices.

The two newest candidates to file included incumbent District Four school board member Junior Cecil, who is seeking his second term and long-time Albany City Councilman Tony Delk.

Through the end of last week, three total candidates had filed for three school board seats and only three persons had filed for one of the six seats that make up the Albany City Council.

Other than the non-partisan races that will be on the local ballot, there will be one other local race in Magisterial District Three, comprised of the Snow, Seventy Six and Piney Woods precincts. There will be no contested race in the Fifth Magisterial District as no Democrat candidate was nominated during a meeting of that party’s executive committee last week.

(A separate article on the Democrat party meeting to select magisterial candidates can be found beginning on page 1.)