Coleman wants to continue to serve

Among the candidates for mayor this year is Forrest Coleman-Weisz. An independent contractor since he was 19 years old, Coleman-Weisz said he’s been in a service-based industry and knows how to talk to people.

Coleman-Weisz said he is a very civically minded person. “I own a business that’s in the public eye and provides a service. I joined the fire department in 2012 because it’s an all-volunteer fire department and I believe in this town . . . I feel like running for town council or, in this case, mayor is the next step in that. I believe in this town and I want to see it succeed. Some of the decisions that have been in previous years in regard to infrastructure, budgetary items and how we are working with others has influenced me into the position of needing to run for mayor and create a more stabilized economy for all of us.”

Among the issues Coleman-Weisz wants to tackle are the landfill and sanitation, ordinances that discourage industry, building up our infrastructure, stabilizing our economy and opening communication between town and council.

“We are a small enough county that we do have to work together. Things that happen in the county will affect the town, and things that happen in the town will affect the county, so if our commissioners and our municipality are not talking to each other and working together we run into a real big issue.”