Area municipalities will have a handful of contested races in Wisconsin’s Spring General Election on April 7.
There will be open polling places on Feb. 18 for a primary election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Candidates on the primary ballot for that position include Daniel Kelly, Edward A. Fallone and Jill Karofsky.
The spring general election ballot on April 7 will include Wisconsin’s Presidential Preference Primary.
The following people have turned in papers to run for the spring general election in area municipalities:
City of Monroe
Incumbent Mayor Louis Armstrong is being challenged by former Monroe mayor Bill Ross. The mayoral position in Monroe is a two-year term.
Incumbent alderpersons seeking to renew two-year terms include Donna Douglas, Mickey Beam, Michael Boyce, Richard Thoman and Rob Driver.
Recently resigned city administrator Phil Rath filed papers to be a candidate on the spring election ballot.
The top-five candidates who receive votes will receive two-year terms on the council.
City of Darlington
Incumbent Mayor David Breunig is being challenged by Erin Gallagher and Mike McDermott. This will necessitate a Feb. 18 primary in order to reduce the field to two candidates.
The same primary will include candidates in the first aldermanic district where incumbent Cindy Corley is being challenged by Bernard Biraki and Ray Spellman.
In the second aldermanic district, incumbent Stephen Pickett is running unopposed.
In the third aldermanic district, Joshua Goebel filed papers to be on the ballot. Incumbent John Sonsalla did not file papers for re-election.
Green County
There will be two contested races for the Green County Board of Supervisors.
In District 16, incumbent Arthur F. Carter, who is currently the county board chairman, is being challenged by Lori Stern. In District 30, Skip Miller and Dawn Marie Sass have both filed papers to be on the ballot.
There is no candidate on the ballot for District 14, which means the person receiving the most write-in votes in that District will be asked if they want to serve in that position.
County Board candidates running unopposed include Linda Boll, District 1; Gary Neuenschwander, District 2; Joe Snow, District 3; Jerry Guth, District 4; Kate Maresch, District 5; Michael L. Furgal, District 6; Steve Borowski, District 7; Joan Rufenacht, District 8, Richard Thoman, District 9; Oscar G. Olson, District 10; Alex R. Lonien, District 11; Harvey Mandel, District 12; Jeff Williams, District 13; Nick Hartwig, District 15; Dennis Schwartz, District 17; Barbara Krattiger, District 18; Aaron Withee, District 19; John Bernstein, District 20; Russ Torkelson, District 21; Harvey W. Kubly, District 22; Karl Blumer, District 23; Erica Roth, District 24; Kristi Leonard, District 25; Jodi Hoesly, District 26; Roger Truttmann, District 27; Beth Luchsinger, District 28; Mark Gundlach, District 29; and Herb Hanson, District 31.
Village of Albany
There are three incumbents running to renew two-year terms as trustees including Burt Hefty, Tanya Stephen and Fred Johnson.
Village of Argyle
Village President Tom Moore is seeking his second 2-year term. He is running unopposed.
There are three incumbents running to renew their positions as trustees including Kody Bartels, Chris Holcomb and William Goepfert.
Village of Belleville
There are five candidates running for three positions as village trustee.
Incumbents Maxine Ward and Gary Ziegler filed papers to renew their terms. Other trustee candidates who filed paperwork to be on the ballot include Melissa Francois, Terry Kringle and Ronald Babler.
Current trustee Michael Parkin did not file papers for re-election.
Kringle has previous experience as a village trustee.
Village of New Glarus
There are three candidates running for three, two-year positions as village trustee.
Incumbents Chuck Phillipson and Tammy Newberry submitted papers to be on the ballot. New candidate Lori Wirts filed papers to be on the ballot.
Incumbent Petra Streiff did not file paperwork to run for another term.
Village of South Wayne
There are two positions for two-year terms and both incumbents, Haley Larse and Mindy Stauffacher, are running unopposed.
Browntown and Gratiot
The villages of Browntown and Gratiot use the caucus system to gather candidates for the spring general election. Information on the candidates for those villages will not be available until later this week into next week.
Monroe School District
The April ballot will show four available spots for Monroe School Board members; three spots will serve three-year terms and one spot will serve a one-year term. The one-year term will fill the seat that was vacated by Amy Bazley and is presently held by Tim Wolff, who was appointed June 19, 2019.
The three-highest vote recipients will serve in the three-year terms and fourth-highest vote recipient will serve a one-year term.
Incumbents on the ballot include Nicole Matley, Cheryl McGuire, Jim Plourde and Wolff. Other candidates who filed to paperwork to be on the ballot include Jeffrey Prophett and Jordan Nordby.
Black Hawk School District
There is a total of four, three-year terms up for election.
Incumbent John Satterlee filed papers to run for his second term. Candidate Jessica Seffrood filed papers to be on the ballot. There are two school board positions for which no candidate filed election papers, meaning the top-vote-getting, write-in candidates will be asked to serve on the board.
Incumbent Steve Holland did not file papers to appear on the ballot for another term.
Other election notes
Area school districts including Albany, Argyle, Belleville, Brodhead, Darlington, Juda, New Glarus, Monticello, and Pecatonica will have elections. There will be elections at the town level this spring.
The presidential preference primary on April 7 will help determine which candidate goes on the November 2020 fall general election ballot. Twelve candidates prepared paperwork to be on the ballot for the Democratic Party primary in Wisconsin. About half of those who are on the ballot have publicly announced they are no longer seeking office.