Candidates face Feb. 14 deadline to sign up

With less than a week left for candidates to file, only two local governments have drawn enough interest to have contested elections this spring.

Citizens wishing to serve on one of seven local board have only until Friday, February 14, to sign up at the appropriate administrative offices.

As of Monday, the Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District and the City of Howardwick have enough candidates to warrant having elections.

School board incumbent Reneé Mott has filed for re-election to the school board and will be joined on the ballot by challengers Kyle Davis and Chrisi Tucek. There are two seats up this year on the Clarendon CISD Board of Trustees. The other incumbent, Weldon Sears, has not filed for re-election as of Monday.

Howardwick has five people running for three seats. Terms of Aldermen Mary Grady, Johnny Hubbard, and Marietta Baird are expiring. Grady and Baird are seeking re-election and will be joined on the ballot by challengers Jeremy Kindle, Terry Barnes, and Jada Murra.

At the City of Clarendon, Aldermen John Lockhart, Larry Jeffers, and Eulaine McIntosh have all filed for re-election and have drawn no opposition.

Likewise, at the Donley County Hospital District, all four incumbent members of the Board of Directors have filed for re-election without challenge. Those directors are Jan Farris – Place 4, Nikki Adams – Place 5, Mark C. White – Place 6, and Lori Howard – Place 7.

The Hedley ISD Board of Trustees has two incumbents seeking to return to the board. Troy Monroe and Cindy Lambert are running, but Susan Cosby has not yet filed, and there have been no challengers.

Clarendon College has three positions up on the Board of Regents this year, one of which is currently vacant. Regents Darlene Spier and Carey Wann have both filed for their positions, and Guy Ellis has also filed to run for the college board.

All incumbents at the City of Hedley have filed to run. Mayor Carrie Butler and Aldermen Dustin Shatswell and Danny Russell are all unopposed.

Elections are scheduled to be held Saturday, May 2, 2020.