Emilia Teasdale in The Columbia Paper reports that in Chatham, after Town Board member Tom Meyn died October 20 of cancer, he has been replaced in the coming election on the Republican, Conservative, and Independence Party lines by Jean Rohde, a current Town Board member and Democrat. Rohde had announced her retirement, but says that Meyn asked her to run in case his health got worse. Now she's switching to "No Party" and taking the endorsements. “I'm still going to vote the way I think,” she told Teasdale, commenting on her party switch. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.