Wiscasset voters will have contests to decide for three of the seats on the town's new school committee.

Nominations closed at 5 p.m. December 5. Colleen Bennett and Wenonah Wirick each turned in papers for the seat with the first term to expire, in June 2014. And Douglas Smith, Sharon Nichols and Steven Smith all turned in papers for the two seats whose terms end in June 2016.

Eugene Stover and Glen T. Craig will be on the ballot for the two seats with terms ending in June 2015.

The election is January 7 for the five-member panel that has half a year to plan Wiscasset's first year outside Regional School Unit 12. Wiscasset is on its own starting July 1, 2014. The town voted November 5 to leave the district.

Absentee ballots will be available Monday, Dec. 9.