write up some issue questions for the candidates (similar to the newspaper interviews), e-mail them to them and give them a deadline for a response. Tell them you are going to post them on a local discussion board. See what they have to say.
Nemesis did that for some of the county races in Dickenson County. We could post the Q&A as a link so it could be read by all at any time and they wouldn't have to scroll through the messages.
Go for it......you know more about the issues there than I. Let me know what you decide.