MALONE — Two finalists will interview in a quest to be the next superintendent of the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton Board of Cooperative Educational Services, the district announced Friday.

One is currently the superintendent of a rural school district in western New York. The other is a former music teacher and then superintendent in northeast Franklin County who then moved on work in the Albany area.

Joseph Engelbert will interview with FEH-BOCES’s stakeholder and community groups on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Since July 2013 he has been superintendent of the Warsaw Central School District, east of Buffalo. For five years before that he was a junior-senior high school principal in the LeRoy Central School District. He began his career in 1999 with St. Anthony School in Batavia teaching social studies, science and health to students in grade 5 through 8. He received his teaching certificate from Canisius College in Buffalo and his bachelor’s degree in history from St. John Fisher College in Rochester.

Dale Breault Jr. will interview with FEH-BOCES’s stakeholder and community groups on Thursday, Oct. 17. Since 2014 he has been director for the Northeastern Regional Information Center at Capital Region BOCES, and spent the prior as that center’s assistant director. For five years before that he was superintendent, business manager and chief information officer for Chateaugay Central School. He began his career in 1995 as Chateaugay’s vocal and general music teacher. He received his teaching certificate from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams and his master’s degree in school music education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

The community sessions on each candidate’s interview day will begin at 6 p.m. each evening at the FEH-BOCES, 23 Husky Lane, Malone. Each candidate will provide a 25-minute presentation, followed by a question-and-answer period.

FEH-BOCES covers all of Franklin County as well as the Lake Placid Central School District in Essex County and the Long Lake and Raquette Lake districts in Hamilton County — 10 districts in all. It provides vocational education at campuses in Malone and Saranac Lake, and also offers other services to school districts. It is one of 37 BOCES districts statewide. Steven Shafer has been its superintendent since 2007 and is retiring.