By Sarah Kessinger Nearly all of the area candidates for local and state offices have confirmed they will speak at a public forum at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 17 in the Marysville City Building.The candidate forum, sponsored by the Advocate, KNDY Radio and Blue Valley Tele-Communications, will feature a question-answer format and will be video-recorded for broadcast before the Nov. 6 ... Read More »
The Kansas Department of Agriculture reminds prospective candidates for the state’s five grain commodity commissions to begin collecting signatures for the 2013 election. Corn, wheat, grain sorghum, soybean, and sunflower producers must gather signatures from fellow producers in their region by November 30, 2012. Districts 7,8, & 9 will hold elections. Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, and Riley Counties are part of ... Read More »
Prairie Hills School District will host five candidates for the superintendent position over the next week. Each candidate will visit all of the schools in the District. Candidates will also participate in several meet and greets during their visit. 8:45 AM Meet/Greet Bern HS 10:15 AM Meet/Greet Sumerfield 11:30 AM Meet/Greet Axtell JH/HS 2:00 PM Meet/Greet Wetmore 4:15 PM Meet/Greet ... Read More »
Several candidates have filed for election to school boards this week. Gary Stohs, who will complete his fourth term on the Diller-Odell Public Schools Board of Education, filed for re-election Thursday. Stuart Vitosh has also filed as a non-incumbent candidate for the Diller-Odell school board. At Southern Public Schools, Carmen McKeever filed for re-election to the six-member board. McKeever was ... Read More »
Grain growers in central Kansas who plan to campaign for a seat on one of the state’s five grain commodity commissions—corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, wheat or sunflowers—should be gathering petition signatures now to meet the Nov. 30, 2010, filing deadline. The 2011 election will cover districts four, five and six, or the central third of Kansas. District four includes Clay, ... Read More »
Do Kansas Democrats have a candidate who can go the distance with Sam Brownback in next years’ Governor’s race? Political observers in the state are beginning to look at Tom Wiggins who emerged as a candidate last week after appointing a treasurer for a 2010 bid. Wiggins is a former pharmaceutical company executive who returned to Kansas from California early ... Read More »
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