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Greensboro City Councilwoman Trudy Wade will face at least one challenger in her District 5 race. Art Boyett filed today, the first day of candidate filing at the Guilford County Board of Elections.

Wade said she plans to file Wednesday.

This gives Scoop a chance to preview some of the info we hope to put on our in-development 2009 election Web site. This is only the bio information. Later we will add more about the issues of the race.

By the way, is there anything that is NOT included in this bio box that you might want to know about your council candidates? Let us know.

City Council Candidates 2009

Name: Arthur “Art” Boyett

Seat seeking: District 5 city council

Age: 66, DOB Sept. 12

Residence: 810 A Carriage Crossing Lane, Greensboro

Relationship status: married to Beth, two grown children

Contact info (e-mail, cell, work, home, best): 336-207-9246 cell, boyett2009@gmail.com

Web site/Twitter/Facebook: on Facebook

Occupation, job title and workplace: retired college accounting professor, most recently at Guilford College

Political experience: never run for office before

Other experience: acting in community theater; starred in "Twelve Angry Men" at Greensboro Community Theater

Campaign manager: Beth Boyett

Treasurer: currently himself; will be Seth Baldwin

Consultants: none

Upcoming campaign events: tba

Have you ever been arrested: no

Have you ever been sued: no