FREMONT – Residents will cast their votes in several closely watched races in local city, village, township and school board elections this year, and the Sandusky County Board of Elections released a list of candidates and issues that will be on the ballot in November.
Included in those elections will be the Fremont mayoral race, where incumbent Mayor Jim Ellis will face off with Republican challenger Daniel Sanchez in the November election.
There will also be six candidates vying for three Fremont City Council at-large seats and nine candidates in a wide-open Woodmore Local Schools school board contest.
Director Barb Tuckerman released the lists of candidates who have filed for the November 3, 2015 general election Wednesday afternoon after the filing deadline. Tuckerman said in an email the candidates have not been double checked nor certified by the board.
She said any changes will be reported at a later date.
Fremont Auditor Paul Grahl and Law Director Jim Melle, both Democrats, will run unopposed in the election.
Dan Henning and Jamie Hafford filed to run for the city council president position.
There will be six candidates-three Republicans and three Democrats- vying for three at-large Fremont City Council seats.
Democratic council incumbents Joe Michles and Tom Knisely will be joined by fellow Democrat Richard Zilch Jr. as they compete with incumbent Republican councilman Julie Kreilick and candidates Denis Otte and Brian Smith for the three open council seats.
Woodmore’s school board race will feature nine candidates. Incumbents Julie Bowman, Steve Huss and Corinna Bench will be joined by Dan Hoppe, who currently sits on the board as an appointed replacement for Grant Cummings.
Cara Brown, James Kamman, Kelly O’Connor, Samuel Preston and Sean Rizor also filed to run for Woodmore’s school board.
In other local races, Steven Fought, Kenneth Cantrell and Randy Maynard are running in Gibsonburg’s mayoral race.
Jean Jackson, Brent Stanley and Gary Smith filed to run for Clyde City Council, with Bellevue Mayor Donald Berkey running for re-election against Kevin Strecker.
Other school board races include four Fremont City Schools candidates running for three seats.
Joseph Berger, Maria Garza, Shantel Laird, Taneshia Denise Slater and Jolene Meyers all filed to run for Fremont’s school board.
There is a county-wide, Board of Developmental Disablities five-year, two-mill renewal levy for operating expenses on the ballot, as well as a five-year, one-mill renewal levy for the Birchard Library District for current expenses.
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