Ahead of next month’s municipal election here for mayor and the First Ward council seat, the League of Women Voters of Kent County will sponsor a candidates forum open to the public on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 6 p.m. in the second-floor meeting room of Chestertown town hall. The Evening Enterprise reports the candidates are Nikita Beck-Burt, Meghan Efland and Mark Mumford for mayor and Shelia Austrian and Dwight Zilinskas for the First Ward council seat.