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Editor's note: In mid-February, Steven Levenberg of Sebastopol World Friends penned an article about Ukraine-Russia tensions. A follow-up to the initial article, sent to SoCoNews on March 8, is below. 

With voter guides arriving at voters’ residences beginning March 3 and vote-by-mail beginning March 14, the Town of Windsor’s special election campaign is drawing to a close. First three, now two, the candidates vying for a long-vacant fifth town council seat to serve a six-month term beginning in May and ending in December have been campaigning for nearly two months now. Despite the brevity of the term, candidates will help the town council decide on some critical issues relating to the future of the Town of Windsor, including the fate of the Civic Center project, the selection of a new town manager, how to address long-term financial problems and, potentially, the makeup of the council itself.

In its second such event, CSTAR, a nonprofit that raises money for Windsor schools, is holding a read-a-thon this month, with slightly higher fundraising ambitions than last year.

At the third of four required formal public hearings regarding the Town of Windsor’s redistricting process, which began in September of last year, the Windsor Town Council selected a final map at their March 2 meeting.