Community Corner
Citizens for Milford Hosting Series of Four Candidate Forums
Get Informed! Send Your Questions for the Candidates in Advance and During Live Broadcasts on Milford TV
Citizens for Milford will be hosting a series of four Candidate Forums—one for each of the contested races—beginning the last week of April. Each of the forums will be broadcast live on Milford TV (Comcast Channel 8 and Verizon Channel 38), as well as on its other platforms.
Citizens for Milford member José Costa will moderate the forums. Each forum will begin with a two-minute opening statement from each of the candidates. A highlight of each forum will be the exchange of challenge questions between the opponents.
Following the challenge questions, the moderator will pose questions that have been submitted from the public. Milford residents are invited to submit questions during each forum by either calling a phone number displayed on the TV screen or posting messages to the Citizens for Milford Facebook page. Also, residents are encouraged to send questions in advance by posting on Facebook or emailing them to CitizensforMilford@gmail.com. The moderator will make every effort to ensure as many voter questions as possible are posed to the candidates.
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The forums will take place at 7:00 p.m. as follows:
- Library Board of Trustees candidates on Tuesday, April 28
- Board of Selectmen candidates on Thursday, April 30
- School Committee candidates on Tuesday, May 5
- Highway Surveyor candidates on Thursday, May 7
Citizens for Milford Chairman Steve Trettel states, “Providing information to voters during our Town Election season is an ongoing commitment for Citizens for Milford. With the Town Election postponed to June 16, we are pleased to modify our typical forum format for these challenging times and urge all voters to tune in and participate by sending questions for the candidates.”
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The Town Crier newspaper is once again Citizens for Milford’s media partner for the Candidate Forums. “As Milford’s local newspaper, delivered to all homes and businesses in town, The Town Crier strongly believes in encouraging citizen participation in Milford’s town government,” said Publisher Alfred Holman.
Milford TV’s live-stream platforms include the following: Comcast TV Channel 8; Verizon TV Channel 38; MilfordTV.net; VOD; ROKU; Twitter: @Milford_TV; Facebook: @MilfordTV; and Instagram: milfordtv.
All four forums will be video recorded and broadcast in the days leading up to the election on Tuesday, June 16. In addition, Milford TV will publish the videos on their video-on-demand page on their website MilfordTV.net/vod. Citizens for Milford will also provide links to each video on its website and Facebook page as soon as it is available.
More information about the forums is available on the Citizens for Milford website CitizensforMilford.com.
About Citizens for Milford
Citizens for Milford is a volunteer, nonpartisan, grassroots organization, which includes a diverse group of citizens who care about our community. Participation in our projects and events is open to everyone in Milford. More information is available on the group’s website CitizensforMilford.com.
