Dan Valenti to Moderate May 3 Lenox Candidate Event

Email: berkshiregreens@gmail.com

Lenox contact: Judy Merritt, 413 637 4668

Lenox Select Board Candidates Forum

Set for Tuesday, May 3, at Lenox Library. Candidates to confirm by April 14.

LENOX, Massachusetts -- The four candidates running for two Select Board seats have been invited to take part in a one-hour forum on May 3 at 7 p.m. sponsored by the Berkshire Greens Political Action Committee and moderated by writer and broadcaster Dan Valenti.

The forum, to be held at the Lenox Library, will be filmed by CTSB-TV and cablecast at least once before the May 9 election. It will be held if at least two of the invitees accept.

The candidates are Kimberly Reopell Flynn, currently Select Board chairman, and a real estate paralegal and fitness trainer; Select Board member John McNinch, a tavern owner; David Roche, a local banker, businessman, and 2009 candidate for Select Board; and Eric Vincellette, a financial advisor and member of the Lenox Finance Committee.

The Berkshire Greens PAC has also sent the four a questionnaire asking their positions on more than a dozen topics including alternative energy, tax fairness, local economies, food systems, the Housatonic River PCB cleanup, health insurance reform, and the town budget.

info on questionnaire: http://www.green-rainbow.org/content/lenox-candidates-questioned-issues

The Berkshire Greens PAC, chaired by Dr. Michael Kaplan of Lenox, promotes grassroots democracy and future sustainability, among other values. It was formed in March 2011.

Valenti, author of several books on baseball and other subjects, writes a weekly column for The Pittsfield Gazette, blogs at PlanetValenti.com, and last year founded Planet Media Books. He has extensive experience moderating debates and forums in Berkshire County for both statewide and local races. He and his wife live in Stockbridge.

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Berkshire Greens Political Action Committee
50 Richmond Ave.
Pittsfield MA 01201
Michael Kaplan, Chair / Wanda J. Boeke, Treasurer