The Lincoln Township Board of Trustees will interview three candidates for the new position of township manager this Thursday.

The three candidates are Ralph Bansen, Andrew Gebhard, and Michael Landis.

Bansen is a lieutenant with the Lincoln Township Police Department, Gebhard is an engineer with Christopher B. Burke Engineering in South Bend, and Landis is a former city administrator for Gibraltar, Michigan. That’s a community in Wayne County.

The three candidates will be interviewed starting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Lincoln Township Trustees are moving to create the position of township manager to replace the current position of supervisor. The goal is to hire someone in September so they’re ready to be on staff at the start of the new year, when current Lincoln Township Supervisor Dick Stauffer steps down.

Trustees are taking questions from the public to pose to the manager candidates this week. Questions can be sent to info@lctberrien.org.

Meanwhile, Lincoln Township Clerk Stacy Loar-Porter tells us both write-in candidates to be the next township clerk received enough votes in the August primary to appear on the November ballot. They are Democrat Nealie Andrews and Republican Michael Brown.