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Early voting wraps up today
07:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Today is the final day to vote early in area city and school district elections.
In Denton, four City Council races and two at-large school board seats are on the ballot. Voters in Corinth, Krum and Aubrey will select a mayor. School board elections also will be conducted in Aubrey, Argyle and Pilot Point.
Election day is Saturday.
In Denton school board races, incumbent and retired professor Curtis Ramsey is seeking his sixth term against real estate agent Sheryl English for Place 1. In Place 2, incumbent Jeanetta Smith, a retired schoolteacher, faces city finance employee Tony Puente.
Voters in four Denton City Council districts will cast ballots for candidates to represent them on the seven-member council.
In District 1, which covers central and Southeast Denton, incumbent and retired nutrition coordinator Charlye Heggins, who hopes to clinch her third term, will face freelance journalist Eliborio “Eli Gemini” Beltrán and self-employed businessman Bob Clifton.
Running in District 2, which covers the city’s northeast and far-east region, are retired principal Dalton Gregory, information technology manager Michael Roby and real estate appraiser Roger Strahan. The candidate elected to the seat will succeed Rudy Moreno, who won the seat in a special election last year. Moreno is not running for the full two-year term.
Five candidates are running for the District 3 position, which represents the city’s central and northwest region. They are marketing specialist Jim Engelbrecht, computer analyst Amy Manuel, business owner Hatice I. Salih and college students Sam Casey and Andrew “Teets” Teeter. Council member Jack Thomson will leave the position this year because of term limits.
District 4 incumbent Chris Watts, a lawyer and real estate investor, is running for his second term against write-in candidate and substitute teacher Phil Kregel. The district generally includes southwest Denton.
In Corinth, voter turnout has been low, with 192 ballots cast last week, said Corinth City Secretary Kim Pence.
There, council members Shannon Bryan and Paul Ruggiere are running to replace Mayor Vic Burgess, who did not seek re-election.
Pence said she anticipates voter numbers to increase today and Saturday.
“We’re hoping it’s more than what it’s been the last seven days of early voting,” Pence said Monday. “It’s really hard to tell. I hoping it will be a good turnout, but you never know.”
A phone call to the city of Denton on voter turnout was not immediately returned Monday.
BRITNEY TABOR can be reached at 940-566-6876. Her e-mail address is btabor@dentonrc.com .
Early voting for Saturday’s city and school district elections ends today. Voters can cast their ballots in area elections at the following locations and times today:
Argyle school district
Administration Building, 800 Eagle Drive
• 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Aubrey
City Hall, 107 S. Main St.
• 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
Aubrey school district
Central Administration Building, 415 Tisdell Lane
• 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Copper Canyon
Town Hall, 400 Woodland Drive
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Corinth and Denton school district
Corinth City Hall, 3300 Corinth Parkway
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Denton and Denton school district
City Hall, 215 E. McKinney St.
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Hickory Creek
Town Hall, 1075 Ronald Reagan Ave.
• 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Krugerville
City Hall, 5097 U.S. Highway 377 South
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Lake Dallas
City Hall, 212 Main St.
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Krum
Administration Building, Board Room, 809 E. McCart St.
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Oak Point
City Hall, 100 Naylor Road
• 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 7 p.m.
Pilot Point school district
District Administration Office, 829 S. Harrison St.
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sanger
City Hall, 502 N. Elm St.
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Shady Shores
Community Center, 101 S. Shady Shores Road
• 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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