Today, Tuesday, November 7, marks the day for Carbon County Municipal general elections. Registered voters who did not participate in the early voting process will visit their designated polling location from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm to place their vote.

“If you live in Helper, Spring Glen, you will vote at the LDS Stake Center in Helper. If you live in Price City, the polling place is the school district office. Wellington City and East Carbon City will vote at their city halls,” said Carbon County Clerk/Auditor, Seth Oveson. “And then we have a vote center, again this year for anyone and that’s at the county fairgrounds.” The Carbon County Fairgrounds Event Center is located at 310 South Fairgrounds Road.

This year’s general election has been an exciting campaign for voters. “We have all of the city elections, which actually impact people more than probably some of those federal elections anyway. Because they deal with the actually problems we have, every day here in Carbon County,” stated Oveson.

Helper City residents will vote for one mayoral candidate, current Mayor Ed Chavez or his opponent, Lenise Peterman; and the four individuals running for a seat on the city council is Gary Harwood, Donna Archuleta, Tim Riley and Malarie Matsuda.

Price City candidates feature two political newcomers competing for the mayoral seat, Michael Kourianos and Rick Adams; contenders for city council is Terry Willis, who is currently on the city council, Amy Knott-Jespersen, Joe Christman and Jesse Sloan.

Since the primary elections in Wellington City, there were two write-in candidates vying for the city’s leadership role, Paula Noyes and Gary E. Rich, both will join, Joe May; as for city council, Kirk Tatton is singly running for that seat.

East Carbon City residents will vote for one mayoral candidate current Mayor Doug Parsons or his challenger, Harry Goslin Jr.; four individuals competing for city council are Larry Wood, Karla Young, Donald McCarty and Phillip Holt.

Scofield City’s two mayor candidates Mike Erkkila and Ron Richmond; individuals running for city council are Paul Helsten, Scott Holman, Scott Deem and Barbara Leek.

It is important for voters to know their candidates before they hit the polls. “Go to vote.utah.gov and you can put in your address and it will pull up a sample ballot of all of the races that you are allowed to vote in. The biggest criteria you have to live in the geographic area that’s covered. So, if I live in Price City, I can vote for Price City offices, but not Wellington City offices,” stated Oveson. If voters have any questions but would like to speak with someone may do so my calling the county clerk’s office at 636-3224.