Good luck with this! I've always found tiny local elections to be the worst in terms of getting info on what's going on; my go-to is the league of women voters but often they have nothing on it. Last school board election, I ended up watching 45 minutes out of a 1.5 hour town hall with the school board candidates to decide who I was voting for because that was essentially the only info out there. One small race on it, with 3 candidates for 2 places, I could not find out anything about one of the candidates at all except her being quoted in a newspaper about something unrelated years ago. I figured if I couldn't find anything out (even a facebook page, which the other two had) then she wasn't really running in the first place.

In terms of specific ballot questions I definitely want to read those beforehand because sometimes they're worded in a way that you need to vote the opposite of the way you think you do.