Four Westbrook School Committee seats are open for the Nov. 6 elections.

Greg Smith is the only incumbent running. Newcomers Alex Stone, Maria Dorn and Suzanne Bearor are also running to replace Tim Crellin, Don Perkins and Jay Casavant.

All seats are uncontested, and all candidates are Democrats.

Stone, 34, is running in Ward 1. He and his wife are the parents of two children, 6 and 2. He works as a property manager for ELC Management in Portland. He has previously run for a seat on the city council.

Stone sees consolidation as a big issue to be tackled. “If it’s done right, I think it’s great,” he said.

Stone enjoys going through budget processes and looks forward to working on the school department’s budget this year.

Smith, 45, is running in Ward 2. A commercial lender for Northeast Bank in Portland, he is married with two children, 16 and 12.

Smith is the vice chairman of the school committee, and is running for his first full term. He filled the last three years of Tim Driscoll’s term after Driscoll was elected to the state Legislature.

Smith said the committee has leaned on his banking expertise in going through the budget process. He sees the coming years as a challenge because the student population is not growing, but he wants to sustain what he thinks is a great program in Westbrook.

Dorn, 41, is running in Ward 5. She is married with four kids, ages 13, 11, 10 and 5. She is an administrator at the Longcreek Youth Development Center. She jokes that she is running because of peer pressure, but said she has been wanting to run for a long time. She sees the coming years as a good time to get involved because of the huge projects involving consolidation, the construction of the new middle school, the use of the old junior high and the search for a new superintendent.

Dorn’s experience at the youth development center has taught her that education is one of the top issues in childhood development and keeping kids out of jail. She is a firm believer in alternative education because many kids just don’t learn like they used to.

Running for the at-large seat, Bearor, 37, is a mother of two, 7 and 5. She has worked for L.L. Bean on and off since 1988, her most recent stint beginning in 2003. She works in loss prevention in Freeport.

Bearor said she wanted to get involved just to be part of the process as her kids are both in school. She wants to focus on the budget to ensure problems don’t arise as they have in other districts. She believes consolidation could be a good thing if it is a fiscally responsible venture.