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Cheyenne County voters will have their hands full and their markers busy with several pages on the General Election ballot this year.
The Sidney City Council has four names on the ballot: Bob Olsen, Blake Mackey, Brad Sherman and Roger M. Gallaway. Gallaway has been a teacher with Sidney Public Schools with more than 20 years experience. He teaches business, computers and serves as one of the District's technology facilitators as well as assistant track coach. He has been on the city council since 2013, currently serving as the vice-mayor.
Bob Olsen has lived in Sidney for 21 years. Prior to Sidney, he worked in Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Idaho and California. He studied journalism at Brigham Young University-Idaho, and served as news director and general manager at several television stations in Colorado and Nebraska as well as radio broadcasting. He and his family moved to Sidney in 1996 to accept a position with Security First Bank. He has been the Security First Bank Director of Insurance since 1997, and president of Sidney's Security First Bank from 2005 to 2016. Olsen has been on the city council since 2017.
New to the ballot are Blake Mackey and Brad Sherman.
Voters are to select three.
One candidate is on the ballot for a two-year term: Burke Radcliffe.
Voters will also be able to choose two candidates for the Sidney Airport Board. There are two candidates on the ballot: Jason Petik and Kelly M. Price. Airport Authority board members serve six-year terms.
The Village of Lodgepole has two names to fill two seats in its election: Bret Bondegard and Diane Block. Voters in the Village of Gurley are seeking to fill two trustee seats; no candidates are on the Gurley ballot. The Village of Dalton is seeking new trustees but received no candidates. Likewise, the Village of Potter needs to fill two trustee seats, but received no candidates.
Nebraska Revised Statutes allows the mayor and council to fill vacancies of an unexpired term. NRS 32-569 allows for a board to call a special meeting to fill vacancies when needed.
For the Sidney School Board, there are three candidates and three open seats. Sidney School Board incumbents Brenda Smith and Thomas A. Von Seggern are seeking a return to their seats, and Michael J. Palmer is new to the board.
Cheyenne County voters in the Potter-Dix school district will see six names on the ballot: Linda S. Schoemaker, Keri Rasmussen Mendoza, Joseph Nicklas, Mike Rotert, Betsy Galloway-Carew and Chandell Oleson. Voters are to choose three of the six.
Leyton School District voters of Cheyenne County will be choosing three of six candidates. Candidates for Leyton include Cary L. Linton, Anne Rexroth, Galen Bartling, Ryan H. Borges, Samuel S. Schmacher and Lloyd E. Searles.
Creek Valley School District voters will be choosing three board members from six candidates. Candidates for Creek Valley are Vicki R. Brown, Doug Mashek, Troy Isenbart, Travis Williams, Aaron Stegeman and Roger Hodges. Hodges and Brown currently serve on the school board.
Cheyenne County voters also have several unopposed elections. Melody Keller is seeking the office of county assessor, Paul B. Schaub is seeking to return as county attorney. Beth E. Fiegenschuh is seeking to return as county clerk, Debra Hume wants to return as Clerk of the District Court.
Adam E. Frerichs is running unopposed to be Cheyenne County Sheriff.
District 2 Commissioner Darrell Johnson is running unopposed to return as county commissioner.
Democrat Shelley A. Bowlin is seeking the office of County Treasurer.
Voters will also get to choose between Republican Deb Fischer, Democrat Jane Raybould and Libertarian Jim Schultz for U.S. Senate, Republican Adrian Smith and Paul Theobald for Congress, incumbent Republican Gov. Pete Rickets and Lt. Gov. Mike Foley and Democrat challenger Bob Krist and Lt. Governor Lynne M. Walz; Republican Secretary of State Bob Evnen and Democrat Spencer Danner; State Treasurer John Murante (Republican); Attorney General Doug Peterson (Republican); and Auditor of Public Accounts Charlie Janssen (Republican) and Jane Skinner (Democrat).
Voters will also choose between Robin R. Stevens or a write-in of choice as member of the State Board of Education District 7, retain Judge Julie A. Martin as Judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court, a six-year-term; Judge James Michael Fitzgerald to a six-year term as Judge of the Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court; retain Judge Derek C. Weimer for a six-year term for District Court District 12; Judge Russell W. Harford retained as judge of the District 12 county court for a six-year term.
Cheyenne County voters will also get to consider R.J. Savely, Jr. for the Western Community College Board of Governors District 2.
Statewide issues include consideration of Initiative Measure 427. A vote for Initiative Measure 427 amends the State's Medicaid state plan to expand eligibility for medical assistance to cover certain adults ages 19 through 64 whose incomes are 138 percent of the federal poverty level or below as defined by federal law, and to maximize federal financial participation to fund the expansion.
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