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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Fall ballot inkedSTAFF WRITER
Fostoria area voters have a lot of choices in front of them for the November election in the areas of city government and none when it comes to the board of education.
Deadline for placement on the ballot for the Seneca County Board of Elections was Aug. 20 at 4 p.m., with the write-in candidate deadline falling at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The ballot is now set for November.
Incumbent Joseph E. Droll and soon-to-be former Fostoria Board of Education member Linda R. Anderson are vying for the Fostoria City Council president position.
All Council seats are up for grabs. Paul Feasel is unopposed for the Ward 2 seat, but incumbents Don Myers, Teresa J. Lee and Thomas E. Lake will each face newcomers Paula Dillon, Lupe Martinez and George Scott Jr. for wards 1, 3 and 4, respectively.
Council-at-large seats number three and six people are attempting to fill them. The top three vote-getters from incumbents Barbara L. Marley, Jerry A. Nelson and Georgianna Widmer; and new faces, David A. Bettenhausen, Greg Flores and Allyson Murray; will take those positions.
Board of education seats available are those currently belonging to Debra Ward, Jo Hollingsworth and Anderson.
Due to Anderson's bid for Council president, she is not running for another term as a board member. Ward and Hollingsworth also opted out of another run.
The three candidates for the three seats are Patrick D. Grine, David Guernsey and Anthony Thompson.
Fostoria voters will also vote on a proposed charter amendment which will change the Fostoria City Charter to adopt the council-manager form of government.
Fostoria Community Schools will place a 2.76-mill bond issue over 28 years to help build a new kindergarten through fourth-grade school which would generate $8,418,096 for the local share of school construction of an Ohio Schools Facilities Commission project, a 0.5-mill state-required maintenance levy for the new school and a 0.4-mill levy to raise $122,000 for locally funded initiatives (LFIs), or items the state will not fund. The total tax request is a single issue on the ballot totaling 3.66 mills.
Hopewell-Loudon board of education has three seats open for the November election. Four people are running. Mary Ruth Crandall, Fostoria; Linda Depinet, Tiffin; Robin Gorrell, Tiffin; and Gregory F. Siebenaller, Bascom, are all on the ballot.
Hopewell-Loudon board of education is also asking the voters' approval for two issues. The first asks for a 0.5-percent income tax, as well as 5.98-mill property tax over 38 years. This would fund the community's part of an OSFC project to construct a K-12 school. The second issue would fund the LFIs of an auditorium and a new athletic facility at 2.18 mills over 38 years.
Jacob Edward Brickner, Richard A. Findley, Paul A. Harrison, Stephen P. Naderer and Ann L. Watkins, all of Fostoria, are running for the two seats as Jackson Township trustees. Larry Holman, Steve Painter and Kevin G. Reinhart, all of Fostoria, are running for two positions as Loudon Township trustees.
The two positions for Hopewell Township trustees are unopposed and will go to Richard J. Gosche, Bascom; and Lori J. Zoeller, Fostoria. The two positions for Seneca Township trustees are also unopposed and going to James Faber, New Riegel; and Kenneth J. Palmer, McCutchenville.
Three people are running for the two open seats for Liberty Township trustees. Edward B. Brickner, Fostoria; and Joseph H. Kimmet and Jerome P. Miller, both of Tiffin; will contend for those spots.
Cynthia Hughes, Alvada; Darlene Mack, Carey; and Mary Reinhart, New Riegel; are running for three seats on the New Riegel board of education which will commence Jan. 1, 2010, and Jennifer Lee Theis is running unopposed for the seat on the New Riegel board of education that expires Dec. 31, 2011.
Those running for member seats on the governing board of educational service center are Diane M. Baker, Kansas, for the first district; and T. Dwain Sayre, McCutchenville, for the third district. Both are running unopposed.
No candidate filed for the seat on the governing board of the educational service center to represent Hancock County or for the Vanlue, Arcadia or Lakota boards of education seats, but Nicholas Baker is running unopposed for the Bettsville board of education seat.
The Bettsville local school district is placing a replacement 0.5-mill levy over five years on the November ballot for recreational purposes for the H.P. Eells Park by the Bettsville Recreation Board.
Villiam E. Klaiss Jr. and Michael T. Twigg are the only candidates for the four seats available on the Bettsville Village Council.
Deirdre Bakies, Larry R. Bouillon, Nancy Ann Courtney, Howard J. Elchert, Richard Kessler II, Dale D. Nye, Jerry A. Schreiner, Lenny Theis and Ralph U. Theis are all attempting to win one of the four seats available on the New Riegel Village Council.
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