NORWAY – Voters will choose two selectmen and validate a $35.8 million school budget when they go to the polls Tuesday.

Four candidates are running for two open seats on the board: incumbent Bill Damon, Wes Wentworth, Warren Sessions Jr. and former Selectman Robert “Bobby” Walker.

Les Flanders announced he would not seek re-election because of family commitments.

Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the fire station, Town Clerk Shirley Boyce said.

Norway voters will also join others in SAD 17 in the second vote on the budget approval process. Voters from the eight district towns approved a $35.8 million budget for fiscal 2009 on Thursday.

Despite attempts to reduce the budget or increase it to add instructional staff, Superintendent Mark Eastman said the majority of voters Thursday saw that the Budget Committee had done the best they could to hold taxes as low as possible while providing a quality education to students.

“That vote was an endorsement of that,” Eastman said of the committee’s work to provide the best resources for the students with the available money at hand. “We heard this when we went out to the communities. The Budget Committee has done an excellent job.”

There will be no mention of what the budget amount is or what is contained in the budget, and no ability to change the budget during Tuesday’s validation referendum.

In other election news, longtime school director Donald Gouin is running unopposed for a three-year seat.

Karen Hatch is seeking a three-year seat on the Norway Memorial Library Board of Trustees being vacated by Marilyn Eaton.