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11 file for*
town council
By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Following months of speculation that a full slate of candidates for Washington’s Town Council would not file by Tuesday’s deadline, a total of 11 residents declared their candidacies for the May 1 election.
x Incumbent Mayor Dean Morehouse is seeking reelection to that post, and faces no opposition on the ballot in a bid for his second term.
Treasurer Brad Fisher, first elected to the council in 1978, is also running unopposed for another term as the town’s treasurer and head of its water authority.
Nine residents, including three incumbent councilmen, as well as three Planning Commissioners, are seeking the five seats on the Town Council.
William Wickens, who also serves as the council’s representative to and the chairman of the town’s Planning Commission, is seeking another term.
Reinhardt Lynch, who was appointed last year to the seat vacated by Nancy Thomasson when she moved out of town, is looking for his first election to the council following two unsuccessful candidacies in 1984 and 1986.
Council Secretary Ray Gooch, who was appointed two years ago when Dorothy Clater resigned her seat, is also seeking his first elected term on the council.
Former councilman and mayor J. Newbill Miller also filed for a seat on the council. Mr. Miller was the Hampton District representative on the county’s Board of Su- ' pervisors, until he declined to run for another term in 1987, announcing his retirement after 20 years of service in county and town government. In recent months, Mr. Miller has been an outspoken opponent of the expansion of The Inn at Little Washington.
Three members of the town’s Planning Commission have filed candidacies for the town election. Mark Bailey,
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