County court clerk to retire
Carol Thompson, clerk of court for Green County Circuit Court, is retiring and submitted her resignation effective at 4 p.m. Dec. 31, 2013, to judges James Beer and Thomas Vale. The judges appointed Barbara Miller, current deputy clerk of court, to fill out the unexpired term. The next clerk of court election is in the fall 2014.
Miller has 29 years of prior service with Green County, including serving as Judge Beer's judicial assistant for two of those years. In their letter Dec. 5 to inform Miller of their appointing her, the judges noted she is very familiar with the various aspects of court, including traffic, child support, small claims, civil, criminal and family procedures. Miller will be sworn in at 4:01 p.m. Dec. 31.
MONROE - Hang up your stockings, string up the lights and whip out your pens.
Candidates hoping to get on the ballots for the spring election have already started to register their campaigns and to circulate their nomination papers.
The first day to circulate nomination papers was Dec. 1, and candidates have until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7 to file their nomination papers and other ballot access documents. Non-candidacy papers for elected officials choosing not to run again are due Dec. 27.
The City of Monroe can expect to see a rematch of its 2010 mayoral race, when Bill Ross and Tyler Schultz vied for the position against incumbent Ron Marsh. Ross won that seat in 2010 and again in 2012. Schultz went on to become the Ward 10 alderman in 2011 and Ward 5 alderman in 2012.
Early registers for the spring election also include Michael Boyce, incumbent for Ward 3 alderman. Boyce ran against Ross for mayor in 2012. Boyce said he is not intending to run for mayor this time around.
Louis Armstrong, who upset Thurston Hanson for the Ward 7 seat on council, is registered to retain that seat.
Aldermen Chuck Schuringa for Ward 9 and Schultz for Ward 5 have filed non-candidacy papers.
Schuringa is coming off the council after serving more than six years total. He was originally appointed to fulfill a Ward 10 vacancy in January 2007 and won the election in April the same year. He also won the 2009 election, before Schultz pulled the seat in 2011. But when ward boundaries changed in 2012, aldermen Schultz opted to run in the new Ward 5 and Chris Beer was out of boundaries of her Ward 9. The change up left Ward 9 open for Schuringa to return and Ward 10 defunct.
As of 2 p.m. Dec. 12, no other filings or registration with the city have taken place.
As of Thursday, no nominations papers have been filed for any of the 31 Green County supervisors seats that are all up for election in April 2014. The county does not keep track of who has taken out nomination papers - only those who return to file them.
Mary Hart, District 5, Monroe, has filed non-candidacy papers. County District 5 boundaries correspond with those of City Ward 5, on the southwest side of the city.
It's still an open book on Monroe School District Board of Education. The three-year terms for Michael Boehme, Larry Eakins and Brian Keith are up. School officials said as of 11 a.m. Thursday, no one has registered as a candidate and no one has submitted non-candidacy papers.
Candidates hoping to get on the ballots for the spring election have already started to register their campaigns and to circulate their nomination papers.
The first day to circulate nomination papers was Dec. 1, and candidates have until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7 to file their nomination papers and other ballot access documents. Non-candidacy papers for elected officials choosing not to run again are due Dec. 27.
The City of Monroe can expect to see a rematch of its 2010 mayoral race, when Bill Ross and Tyler Schultz vied for the position against incumbent Ron Marsh. Ross won that seat in 2010 and again in 2012. Schultz went on to become the Ward 10 alderman in 2011 and Ward 5 alderman in 2012.
Early registers for the spring election also include Michael Boyce, incumbent for Ward 3 alderman. Boyce ran against Ross for mayor in 2012. Boyce said he is not intending to run for mayor this time around.
Louis Armstrong, who upset Thurston Hanson for the Ward 7 seat on council, is registered to retain that seat.
Aldermen Chuck Schuringa for Ward 9 and Schultz for Ward 5 have filed non-candidacy papers.
Schuringa is coming off the council after serving more than six years total. He was originally appointed to fulfill a Ward 10 vacancy in January 2007 and won the election in April the same year. He also won the 2009 election, before Schultz pulled the seat in 2011. But when ward boundaries changed in 2012, aldermen Schultz opted to run in the new Ward 5 and Chris Beer was out of boundaries of her Ward 9. The change up left Ward 9 open for Schuringa to return and Ward 10 defunct.
As of 2 p.m. Dec. 12, no other filings or registration with the city have taken place.
As of Thursday, no nominations papers have been filed for any of the 31 Green County supervisors seats that are all up for election in April 2014. The county does not keep track of who has taken out nomination papers - only those who return to file them.
Mary Hart, District 5, Monroe, has filed non-candidacy papers. County District 5 boundaries correspond with those of City Ward 5, on the southwest side of the city.
It's still an open book on Monroe School District Board of Education. The three-year terms for Michael Boehme, Larry Eakins and Brian Keith are up. School officials said as of 11 a.m. Thursday, no one has registered as a candidate and no one has submitted non-candidacy papers.