Ballot Includes

Candidates

For Mayor, Alderman,

School Board

By NELSON MORAIS

Staff Writer

Early voting for the upcoming Greeneville city election begins Wednesday, May 14.

The ballot for the Greeneville city election, which is June 3, will include three candidates vying for the office of mayor, two candidates for re-election to the two Second Ward alderman seats, and five candidates seeking the two Second Ward school board seats.

Greeneville Mayor Darrell Bryan is a candidate for re-election, and is being challenged in the town's non-partisan municipal election by Alderman Laraine King and frequent candidate Eddie H. O'Brien.

Mayor Bryan will be seeking a fourth two-year term. King has been a Greeneville alderman from the First Ward for five years. O'Brien has not held public office but has run in several local elections.

All Greeneville residents may participate in this election, whether they live in the First Ward or the Second Ward.

Two veteran Greeneville aldermen, W.T. Daniels and Sarah E.T. Webster, are assured re-election on June 3 since no one has filed to run against them in the Second Ward.

Only residents of the Second Ward may vote in this election.

School Board Candidates

Vying for election to four-year terms on the Greeneville Board of Education representing the Second Ward will be:

* Jerry L. Anderson, the school board's chairman;

* Cindy Lee Luttrell, a school board member who is also seeking re-election;

* Olivia Roberts Lodge, a Realtor with Realty Executive;

* Fred Quarles, who is retired from the engineering department of Eastman Chemical Company; and

* Debra Sandercock, a pediatric nurse practitioner at Greene Mountain Pediatrics.

Only voters who live in the Second Ward may vote in this year's school board election.

The Greeneville Board of Education has five citizen members and one student member. The student member is elected by the student body of Greeneville High School.

In one year, two school board members are elected from the First Ward. During the next year -- as is the case in 2008 -- two school board members are elected from the Second Ward. In the following year, one at-large school board member is elected.

Vote At Election Office

Early voters for the June 3 election may cast ballots from May 14 to May 29 at the Greene County Election Commission office at 218 North Main St. from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The office will be open two Saturdays, May 17 and May 24, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The office will be closed Monday, May 26, for Memorial Day.

Aug. 7, Then Nov. 4

On Aug. 7, voters will participate in the county general election and the Republican and Democratic state and federal primary elections.

In addition, the Town of Baileyton will hold an election Aug 7 for the positions of mayor and two aldermen.

State and federal Republican and Democratic winners in the Aug. 7 primaries will face each other, along with independent candidates, in the Nov. 4 national and state general elections. That election will also decide the U.S. presidency.

For more information, please contact the Election Commission office at 798-1715.