Dateline: February 21, 2002

Filing underway for local races

Filing began Monday for seven local governments holding elections this year. Interested citizens have until March 20 to sign up for the ballot.

The City of Clarendon will elect three members to the Board of Aldermen for two-year terms. The terms of Billy Jack Land, Mac Stavenhagen, and Mark White are expiring. White is filling out the unexpired term of former alderman Smiley Johnson.

The City of Hedley will choose a mayor and two aldermen. Those two-year positions are currently filled by Mayor Janie Hill and Aldermen James Lee Potts and Leon Ward.

Three two-year aldermen positions are up for election in the City of Howardwick. Those seats are now occupied by Nancy Davis, Lynn Dishong, and Vernon Byars.

Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District has two trustees up for election this year. The three-year terms of Weldon Sears and Lance Thornberry are expiring.

Hedley Consolidated Independent School District will also elect two trustees to three-year terms. Those are currently held by Rhonda Shaw and Anthony Knowles.

The Clarendon College District will elect three members to the Board of Regents for six-year terms. Tommie Saye, Jack Moreman, and Bill Sansing (filling the unexpired term of R.L. Gilkey) are up for election this year.

The Donley County Hospital District will elect four members to the Board of Directors for two years. The following positions will be on the ballot: Place 4, Jerry May (serving the unexpired term of Anna Gay Ceniceros); Place 5, Carolyn Moffett (serving the unexpired term of Helen Land); Place 6, Onita Thomas; and Place 7, Jim Douglas (serving the unexpired term of Sue Leeper).