Jessica Stölen
Editor
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Who is on the local ballots?

This year’s State General Election will be held November 5th. The deadline to file for candidacy for local municipal and school district offices was Tuesday, August 13th.

Election filings that will appear on the local ballots are listed below. Local municipal and school board seats are non-partisan. State seats with partisan filings are indicated below. Presidential candidates have a later filing deadline and can file until August 26th.

Local municipal and school filings are listed below. Reported filings from the Minnesota Secretary of State Website were current at the time of print the morning of Wednesday, August 14th.

Montevideo

Mayor: James Bulman, Erich Winter

Council Member (elect two): Dean Matthys, Beverly Olson, Darla Schmidt, Barbara Simonson

Milan

Mayor: Ron Anderson

Council Member (elect two): Anakin Bryan, Jeff Higgins, Tim Hookom, Teresa L. Olson

Special Election for Council Member: Bruce Loose

Watson

Mayor: Todd Tongen.

Council Member (elect two): Jill German, Nathan Jordahl.

Big Bend Township

Town Supervisor Seat One: Jason Lee

Montevideo School Board:

School Board Member (elect two): Travis Birhanzl, Jarrod W Miller, Sarah Norman.

Chippewa County

County Commissioner District 2: Kurt Stranberg

County Commissioner District 3: David Nordaune

County Commissioner District 4: Jon Hokins, Bill Pauling

Soil and Water Supervisor District 3: Aaron Ahrenholz

Soil and Water Supervisor District 5: Jerry Schwitters

Yellow Medicine County

County Commissioner District 3: Troy Bruflat, Mitch Kling

County Commissioner District 5: Richard Hemish, Glen Kack

Soil and Water Supervisor District 1: Thomas J Remmele

Soil and Water Supervisor District 2: Jerry Nelson

Soil and Water Supervisor District 5: DeLon Clarksean

U.S. Senator

Joyce Lynne Lacey, Independence-Alliance; Rebecca Whiting, Libertarian; John Berman, Republican; Loner Blue, Republican; Joe Fraser, Republican; Alycia R. Gruenhagen, Republican; Patrick D. Munro, Republican; Raymond D. Petersen, Republican; Christopher Seymore Sr., Republican; Royce White, Republican ; Steve Carlson, Democratic-Farmer-Labor; Ahmad R. Hassan, Democratic-Farmer-Labor; George H. Kalberer, Democratic-Farmer-Labor; Amy Klobuchar, Democratic-Farmer-Labor; Ole Savior, Democrat.

U.S. Representative District 7

Steve Boyd, Republican; Michelle Fischbach, Republican; Al (John) Peters, Democratic Farmer-Labor.

Watch future editions of the Montevideo American News for candidate questionnaires to find out more about this years candidates.