City, school elections coming up

By Emily Banks Wooten
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Today (Thursday) is the deadline to register to vote in the May 4 elections. May 4 is the uniform election date for 2024, the day in which many local political subdivisions, such as cities, school districts and water districts have their regular general elections for members of their governing bodies or special elections to fill vacancies. Early voting will run from April 22 through May 3.

Corrigan-Camden, Goodrich and Onalaska Independent School Districts (ISDs) would have held trustee elections on May 4. However, as no one other than the incumbents filed, the three districts were able to cancel their elections and deem the incumbents reelected.

In the Corrigan-Camden ISD, Incumbents Leslie Kilgore and Paul David Evans will remain in Positions 4 and 5, respectively. In the Goodrich ISD, Incumbents Timothy Harrell and Rosalie Blackstock will remain in Positions 3 and 4, respectively. In the Onalaska ISD, Incumbents Karina Roberts and Kimber Stolley will remain in Positions 3 and 6, respectively.

The City of Onalaska will elect a mayor and two “at large” council members on May 4. Incumbent Mayor James Arnett is seeking reelection. Other individuals running for mayor are Robert F. Simard and Paul Laverty. Three people are seeking election to two “at large” seats that are presently held by Kevin Arnett and T.D. Jennings. The three people running are Kevin Arnett, J.R. Chance and Kathy Black Lott. As these are “at large” positions, the two people with the highest number of votes will be elected to the positions.

Two positions on the Board of Directors of the Memorial Point Utility District will be on the ballot – those presently held by Nathan Hale and Charles Reyna.

The Polk County Enterprise has a policy to run a free announcement with photo in the newspaper for every candidate running for office, allowing the candidates to have the opportunity to introduce themselves and their vision to readers. The photo should be a large .jpg and the announcement should be typed in a Word document not to exceed 400 words. Both should be emailed to the editor ([email protected]) or may be brought into the office on a flash drive. The deadline to submit an announcement and photo is 5 p.m. April 12.