By CRAIG FREILICH

NORWOOD -- A former village mayor has agreed to sit on the Board of Trustees to fill out the term of a member who resigned with two years left in his term.

Former Mayor David Fenton was appointed in a unanimous vote by the board at their last meeting Sept. 18.

Fenton has had a long career of public service in St. Lawrence County.

Aside from his service as a trustee and mayor in Norwood, and as a current member of the Norwood village planning board, he served in several posts in Potsdam.

The Potsdam High School graduate was an officer with the Potsdam Police Department for more than five years, served a stint as head of the Potsdam Housing Authority, was village treasurer for more than 10 years, and retired from village work after more than four years as Potsdam village administrator.

He is now working as fiscal officer in the St. Lawrence County Community Development Program Finance Department.

Mike Zagrobelny stepped down as trustee with two years left in his four-year term when he moved to Waddington.

Fenton says he’s “looking forward to getting to work on some issues” that hold his interest, including getting the burned out “old school cleaned up, and getting some solar panels on the Municipal Building.”

The next election for that seat will be in 2020.

Fenton says he might run for the seat at that time, “but we’ll see how it goes.”