WATERFORD, CT- On Saturday, June 17, the Waterford Green Party Town Committee will meet to nominate candidates for public office. This is the second set of municipal elections in which the party will participate and work to build off their past success, according to a release.

In 2015, they saw their first victory with the election of party Co-Chair Joshua Steele Kelly to the Zoning Board of Appeals as an alternate, and in 2016 the Green candidate for State Representative in District 38, Lauren Shaw, more than doubled the number of votes for the Greens from the 2014 election. (To sign up for Waterford breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

The party has grown in size both in and outside the town government. Josh Kelly was appointed to serve as an alternate on the Conservation Commission and as a Justice of the Peace, and Party Co-Chair Baird Welch-Collins has been appointed to serve as a Justice of the Peace and as a full member of the Flood and Erosion Control Board.