Another election has come and gone, and while nothing can quite match a Presidential year for turnout, these are the results.

In the City of Stanley, incumbents were returned and Jason Meyer elected to Kent Barby’s former seat in Ward 2. Specifically, Ward 1 saw 65 votes for Rick Hodowanic and one write-in; Ward 2 saw four votes for Jason Meyer, with four scattered write-ins; Ward 3 saw three solid votes for Jacob Huff with seven scattered writeins; and Ward 4 saw 10 votes for Lori Foster with one write-in.

Shifting over to the Village of Boyd, a total of 59 out of 324 or 18.2 percent of locally registered voters turned out to the polls, with Bob Geist snagging 55 votes, while Gwen Krizan took 45 voters and Sarah McQuillan, the daughter- in-law of outgoing Trustee Tom McQuillan, took a total of 52 votes, there being no contested seats in Boyd.

As to uncontested races elsewhere, the town boards of Colburn and Delmar were returned without opposition, each candidate polling in between 83 to 99 votes, no challengers being found. Meanwhile in the Town of Thorp the turnout was 18.9 percent (rounded up) of the

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Poll workers Jerry Dirkes (left) and Norm Christianson smile for the camera from behind a plastic shield at the Stanley Fire Hall, as COVID-19 precautions were still in place at local polling stations. Photo by Joseph Back. ELECTION

FROM PAGE 3 township’s voting population, or 72 out of 381 registered electors. Of these, thirteen were absentee votes.

As to contested races, Art Stolp won outgoing Supervisor Ed Kosik’s seat in Worden with 54 votes to 34 for Jeff Gadke. For Taft, it was a win for incumbency, with Jerry Czubakowski besting Melvin Lorenz with a 12 vote margin to win another term as Supervisor, while Kevin Knox lost to Del Kroeplin by a margin of 11, having run in part to give voters a choice. As for Edson, the vote was for incumbent Don Schesel over challenger Gery Steinmetz by a 29 vote margin of 82 to 53. For the Supervisor 2 seat in Edson, incumbent Michael Sande won out with 103 votes to 30 for challenger Lori Klonowski- Cooley, no other races being contested in Edson.

Further north the Ford town board was returned without opposition, there being no candidate registered for Clerk, with some townships appointing these. As for Gilman, the only race of note was that of Mark Person, the others going to incumbents. Darrell Thompson was elected to the Gilman School Board, with the name ‘Darrell Thompson also that of the Taft town board chairperson.

As to the near east, a referendum set before Lublin voters passed by a vote of 40 in favor to 15 against. The referendum in question would have the clerk and treasurer positions appointed, a move also approved last year by Aurora township with the posts in question highly technical and time consuming, as a partial explanation.

As to the local Stanley-Body School Board, Chad Verbeten won another three-year term to rep-resent Area One, garnering 397 votes total to 138 for Lori Klonowski-Cooley, with four addi- tional write-in votes.

Randy Madlon won out over Richard Pulcher for Lublin Village President with 39 votes to 20 for Pulcher, while Wilson saw incumbent Aaron Vizier best challenger Dusty Bergman with 34 votes to just 15. Ed Shilts received 42 votes to two write-ins, and all other positions in the township were unanimously in favor of the incumbent officeholders.