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Clarkston: Sparks, Goodsell, Godfrey By Irene Hannagan CLARKSTON -- Two council seats in Clarkston were filled Tuesday night. Unofficial returns showed the four-year seat winners as Jane Sparks and Bryan Goodsell. Sparks finished the night with 129 votes and Goodsell with 119. Both candidates were running along with incumbent Kelly May, who had 114 votes when judges were finished counting. Incumbent Brent Godfrey and former Mayor Randy Jardine were seeking the open two-year seat. His current experience pushed Godfrey ahead by five votes with a total of 100 votes. Jardine finished the night out with 95. Clarkston town council members will make the numbers official at the upcoming council meeting on Nov. 13. Hyde Park: Suisse, Wheeler, Skidmore By Jennifer Geisler HYDE PARK -- According to unofficial returns, the total number of votes for each candidate are as follows: Rodger Clark, 394; Reed Elder, 339; Mark Winn, 187; Jim Skidmore, 434; Charles Wheeler, 456; David Suisse, 492. Hyde Park has three City Council terms expiring at the end of December. Robert Balls, Allen Balls and Charles Wheeler are among those three. Charles Wheeler will keep his seat on the council for another term. Jim Skidmore and David Suisse will replace Robert Balls and Allen Balls with their terms beginning in January of 2004. Hyrum: Miller, James, Stipes By Loni Stapley HYRUM -- Unofficial results have the apparent winners for City Council seats as Stephanie Miller, incumbent Councilman Bruce James and Douglas Stipes. Miller led the pack of candidates with 655 votes, followed by Stipes with 557 and James with 555. Bonnie Nielsen received 523 votes, Rod Garner tallied 508 and Ron Beal had 410. Two write-in candidates, Bart Baird and Mary Leishman, received 33 votes and 6 votes respectively. Out of the 3,614 registered voters in Hyrum, 1,153 went to the polls -- a turnout of 31.9 percent. District 3 had the highest voter turnout at 40 percent, while District 5 had the lowest at 24.6 percent. Mendon: Brandley, Larson, Gardner By Joel Featherstone MENDON -- The election began Tuesday morning with only one person on the ballet even though there were three seats on the City Council up for grabs. That changed, however, when the polls closed at 8 p.m. and there were 22 write-ins. RoseAnn Brandley, who was on the ballet, took a place in the council with 69 votes. The two write-ins that won were Allen Gardner with 42 votes and incumbent Leslie Larson with 47 votes. City recorder Paul Cressal said Larson ran again at the last minute after Mayor Sydney Larsen talked her into it. Cressal said many of the other write-ins got just one or two votes. Nibley: Harrison, Wells, Larsen By Emilie Holmes NIBLEY -- Two of three city council incumbents were re-elected Tuesday in a race in which the challenger received more votes than either incumbent. Incumbents Jay Harrison and Scott Wells and challenger Scott Larsen were elected by 188, 199 and 204 votes, respectively, while incumbent Todd Hansen and Paul Berntson received 175 and 163 votes. Longest-serving councilman Hansen was ousted by less than 15 votes. Slightly more than 200 voters turned out to vote. A sixth candidate, Todd Fenton, pulled out of the race two weeks before the election, citing family responsibilities. Larsen, who indicated during a Meet the Candidates forum two weeks before elections that he would be most interested in planning and zoning for the city, might get that opportunity. Hansen was the council member over planning and zoning, among his other responsibilities such as emergency preparedness, EMT coordination and helping to plan Heritage Days, Nibley's biggest yearly celebration. Larsen also ran for a council seat two years ago, but lost. North Logan: Wentz, Williams, Galbraith By Earl Scott NORTH LOGAN -- There will be two new city councilmen in North Logan the next four years. Serving one term, Bruce Lundquist lost his seat in the primary election and two-term councilman Gordon Younker finished fifth in the general election. In Tuesday's unofficial vote count, incumbent Rodger Trent Wentz garnered the highest total with 664 votes to keep his seat. Newcomers Mark Williams, 649 votes and Scott Galbraith, 648, won seats. Cary Watkins, 616, Younker, 576 and Patricia Northenor, 358, rounded out the vote totals. Northenor was a former member of the North Logan Planning Commission, and Watkins currently serves on the commission. Also on the ballot was the creation of a cemetery district, which failed, 542 to 498. Paradise: Winn, Anderson By Tyler Riggs PARADISE -- With the votes counted, Paradise voters have selected longtime town residents Dale Anderson and Gerald Winn to serve on the City Council for the next four years. Voters were asked to select two candidates to fill the seats left open by Nancy Lauritzen and Karen Rinderknect. Unofficial vote totals had Winn receiving 125 votes, an impressive number considering 139 voted in the election. Winn served on the council from 1998-2002. Anderson received the nod from 104 Paradise voters, while Paul Mower, who has lived in Paradise for only three years, received 38 votes. The voters put high value in the long-time town residents. Both Anderson and Winn have lived in the town for more than 20 years. Town Recorder Amy Winn said the turnout was about what was expected. About 17 percent of Paradise1s 800 residents turned out to vote. "Our active registered voters is like 900 people, but not all of those are eligible to vote in this election because they live in unincorporated county," Winn said. Providence: Gomm, Johnson, Liechty By Kelly Hafen PROVIDENCE -- With the polls closed and the ballots counted, unofficial results confirmed who would fill the seats on the City Council. Stacie Gomm was the top vote-getter, grabbing 475 votes. Incumbent Councilman Deon L. Johnson will maintain his seat on the council seizing 452 votes. Following in third with 450 votes, Ronald Liechty will fill the remaining seat. The elected City Council members will each serve four-year terms. The remaining three candidates were eliminated from the open seats. Lanny B. Herron fell just short with 422 votes, Bryan D. Cox finished the election with 402, and Dean W. Hurd with 355. Election Day in Providence produced a 28 percent turnout. River Heights: Greenhalgh, Yancey, Gines By Tamber Mickelson RIVER HEIGHTS -- More than 400 residents went to the River Heights City Building to cast their votes for City Council members. Five names appeared on the ballot, vying for three four-year seats. Three of those names may soon appear on the city's letterhead. According to Tuesday's unofficial returns incumbent Councilman Brent Greenhalgh led vote-getters with 283 votes. Incumbent Councilwoman Mary Anne Yancey trailed closely behind, tallying 274 votes. Newcomer Robert Gines grabbed the other seat with 252 votes. Gines, 35, will replace Noel Cooley when Cooley finishes his term. Gines said he wants to be "the voice of the people" and ensure that "growth is done in a manner residents wants." He said he wants to encourage community service and achieve a "greater sense of community." Gines is the sales manager at Silicone Plastics in Millville and is father to three daughters ages 12, 9 and 3. He said his family is a soccer-family and he is a dance-dad. Greenhalgh is a 41-year resident of River Heights. He was born in St. Anthony, Idaho, and moved to River Heights in 1963. He is the father to nine children and currently operates Brent's Auto Repair Inc. in Logan. During the past four years on the council he oversaw the city's road and street projects. He helped complete the 10th East project and the chip and seal project. In his upcoming term Greenhalgh said he plans to improve sidewalks and "continue to work hard for the safety of the community." Yancey lives in the Riverdale area of River Heights and said she plans to represent the west side of the city well. She said she looks forward to finishing the projects she helped start and is glad to have the opportunity to help develop River Heights Cemetery. Yancey oversees parks and recreation and helps with the tee ball program and said she likes to "cater to the tiny ones." Smithfield: Wood, Buttars, Hunsaker By Heather Strasburg SMITHFIELD -- Six candidates vied for three seats on the City Council in this year's municipal elections. According to unofficial results the winners are Brent C. Buttars with 836 votes, Deon Gibbons Hunsaker with 720 and William "Dee" Wood with 1180 votes. Incumbent Preston Watts received 648 votes, while incumbent Keith J. Fortie received 693 votes. Warren P. Hullinger received 492 votes. Out of 5,034 registered voters, 2,729 individuals voted. Tremonton: Stokes, Reese, Wood By Rachel R. Keoppel TREMONTON -- Elections were held in Tremonton on Tuesday. There were three candidates that were up for election. All three candidates ran unchallenged. The positions that were open were four-year terms as councilmen. The results that were given here are unofficial ballots, and were made available at 9 p.m. The ballots showed that Stanley Stokes received 274 votes, Jeff H. Reese received 278 votes and Pyran P. Wood received 274 votes. Of the 5,592 residents in Tremonton only 289 residents came to vote. The voters' total works out to be a 9 percent turnout.
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