2012 Taghkanic Election Returns

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Meet the Candidates

Meet & Greet 

Deborah Gilbert

&

Jerry McAward

Family Fun and Activities
Free Food, Snacks and Drinks
Door Prizes, Costume Contest and More
1- 3 PM Saturday October 29
At the Corner of Taghkanic and Livingston Road
(GPS - 795 Taghkanic Road)

Debora Gilbert for Taghkanic Town Board

Debora Gilbert

Taghkanic Town Board

Debora Gilbert, a resident of Taghkanic since 1985, is a freelance reporter for The Columbia Paper. Since 2005 she has worked for The Independent, The Daily Mail, and The Register-Star newspapers. She grew up near Chicago where she attended New Trier High School before earning her BA degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and a master’s degree in fine arts at Columbia University. Gilbert, who has covered voting issues since 2006, began writing about Taghkanic during the Republican challenge to absentee ballots in the election of 2008. She went on to cover the town's regular board meetings and other aspects of town life. What she learned about the town's financial problems troubled her. The town is currently undergoing an audit by the state for perceived financial irregularities.

"The board is not accomplishing what it could, and there is not enough sense of working together to solve problems. We need some new town board members who are willing to reach out to every resident and look at both sides of each argument.”  She proposes the town adopt Robert’s Rules of Order “and abide by it. Our meetings are not run well, and that deters participation which is a huge opportunity cost going forward.

She sees both reporting for local newspapers and serving on a town board as opportunities to perform public service. She will bring communications, research, and public relations skills developed in her work as a reporter to bear in a position on Taghkanic’s town board.