The Elizabethton City Council will talk with the last two candidates hoping to get the city manager job on Thursday. They met with Lissa Peagler, senior planner with the town of Morristown and Jerome Kitchens, Elizabethton’s financial Director and interim city manager on Friday. Council members can also participate in a Monday one-on-one phone conversation with the two. On Thursday the Council will interview the two final candidates Steven Nielson, development coordinator for Johnson City and Jeffrey Morse, town manager of Valdese North Carolina. Council members then converse by phone with Nielson and Morse on Friday. Pat Hardy, municipal management consultant with the University of Tennessee’s Municipal Technical Advisory Service is assisting the council during the search and the four finalists were chosen from 130 applications. (bg)