WATERFORD — Three candidates for offices are running unopposed in Friday’s annual town election.

Selectman Randy Lessard, chairman of the board, is seeking election to his second term. Road Commissioner Brad Grover is also seeking re-election to his post.

Oxford Hills School District Director William Colbath is not seeking re-election this year, but Barry Patrie is running for the post.

Polls are open at the municipal building from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. March 4. The Town Clerk’s Office will be open at 8:30 a.m. to register new voters, Town Clerk Betty Bigonski said.

Patrie, who has been a summer resident since 1991 and a permanent resident since 1997, said if elected he will bring both teaching and business experience to the position. He has also served on the town’s Finance Committee.

“I have the experience of being a teacher in the classroom so I understand that side, and I also have extensive business experience that I can bring to the table as well,” he said. He has been teaching high school for the past five years, four of them as mathematics teacher at the Lake Region High School in Naples.

Patrie said he and his wife ran the Wicked Good Store in Lovell for seven years.

He has a master’s degree in civil engineering and was in private practice in that field for more than 30 years before moving to Waterford.

Bigonski, who has worked for the town for nearly three decades, is completing the final year of a three-year term to which she was elected.

Voters agreed last year to make the clerk’s position an appointed one starting in 2011, so after March 4 the clerk will be answerable to the Board of Selectmen.

The town meeting gets under way at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 5, in the municipal building on Valley Road.

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