Area city council and school board elections are today.

Candidates for city council in the cities of Ackworth, Bevington, Bussey, Cumming, Hamilton, Harvey, Marysville, Milo, New Virginia, Sandyville, St. Marys and Swan will all run unopposed. In Lacona, Norwalk, and Pleasantville, five candidates filed to fill the three at-large spots on their councils. 

Candidates running for Lacona City Council are:
Kaylene Gall
Lela Bales
Ron Clark
Larrie Williams
Julie Stanley

Candidates running for Norwalk City Council are:
Andy Boerjan
Jason Brown
George Meinecke
Jeff Caldwell
Ed Kuhl

Candidates running for Pleasantville City Council are:
Aaron Hurt
Chelsea Kain
Brandon Pennington
Kyle Patterson
Rachel Lopez

The Carlisle, Hartford, and Melcher-Dallas City Councils have four candidates running for three at-large spots. 

Candidates in Melcher-Dallas are:
David Johnson
Mark Herold
Leonard Mason
Dalton Lovell

Candidates in Carlisle are:
Andrya Carter
Beth Sauter
Krista Beck
Daniel Carver

Candidates in Hartford are:
Andrea Jors
Sophia Eckert
Greogry Jennings
Steven Sutton

For school board elections, Southeast Warren has three candidates running unopposed for the three open district spots. Melcher-Dallas, Pleasantville, and Twin Cedars each have four candidates running for three at-large positions. At Martensdale-St. Marys, there are two contested races for districts four and five and Norwalk has six candidates running for three at-large positions.

Candidates for Running for the two open seats for the Martensdale-St. Marys School Board are:

School Board #4:
Brenda Halverson
Heath Banks

School Board #5:
Nicole Bunch
Colleen Lynch

The six candidates for Norwalk school board are:
Daniel Doerfler
Jacob Heuser
Emily Blom
Kate Baldwin
Donald W. Cook
Michelle Kelly

The four candidates for Melcher-Dallas school board are:
Matt Bennett
Allen Rogers
Dean Lewin
Jill Benz

Candidates running for Pleasantville School Board are:
Mark Core
Carol Beier
Whitney Holz
Ammie McGraw

Candidates for Twin Cedars are:
Casey Crozier
MaKenzie Burk
Mike Weldon
Jade Mockenhaupt

At PCM, 11 candidates filed for five open district positions on the school board. All five districts open will be contested and the candidates in those races are:

District 2:
Scott Grass
Rebecca Bartelma
Greg Ingle

District 3:
Brent Fridley
Kelsey Fiorentin

District 4:
Rod DeHaai
Arica Brinegar

District 5:
Jeremy St. Peter
Brandon Teeple

District 7:
Samantha Van Wyk
Steve Nearmyer

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