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Bruno Tassone joins Castlegar mayor’s race

It will be a three-way race for mayor in Castlegar, as Bruno Tassone filed his papers today to run against incumbent mayor Lawrence Chernoff and fellow incumbent councillor Deb McIntosh.

The nomination deadline was 4 p.m.

Eleven people are running for councillor, including three incumbents. They are:

(x) denotes incumbent

Heaton-Sherstobitoff, Sue (x)

Hergert, Nicole

Lamont, Gordon

Maddocks, Tyler

McLeod, Cherryl

McFaddin, Maria

Price, Bergen

Rye, Dan (x)

Smitheram, Brian

Sylvest, Janna

Vassilakakis, Florio (x)

McLeod, Maddocks, and Sylvest also ran in a 2016 byelection that saw Arry Dhillon join council. Dhillon did not seek re-election.

Greg Nesteroff
Greg Nesteroff
Greg has been working in West Kootenay news media off and on since 1998. When he's not on the air, he's busy writing about local history. He'll soon publish a book about the man who founded the ghost town of Sandon.

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