Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Several city and county races

Multiple candidates have

filed for three of the eight

Prescott City Council seats as

well as several Nevada County

offices, including sheriff, justice

of the peace and constable.

The sheriffs race began

early with three candidates filing

their intention to seek office.

Incumbent Bobby Carlton will

face Prescott Police Department

officer Danny Martin and former

sheriffs office employee

Judy Ferguson. Carlton has

been in the office two years,

having beat out incumbent

Steve Otwell in 2006.

Two JPs face opposition.

Donny McGuire, incumbent in

JP district 3, has filed his intention

to seek another term while

Danny Miller has also filed for

that position. Three are seeking

the JP district 8 seat currently

held by Arvan Mason. Mason

was beat out in the 2006 election

by Sonny Buster but Buster

died before taking office and

Mason was asked by members

of the quorum court to serve the

term. Mason now faces Harold

Vines and Scott Harding for the

seat.

On the city level, Robert

Loe, incumbent for Ward 1,

position 1, will face challenger

Adam Guthrie Jr. Prescott is

divided into four wards, each

with two seats  one elected by

voters of that ward and one

elected by a city-wide poll.

Larry Baker, who holds position

2 of Ward 1, does not have an

opponent.

In Ward 2, incumbent

Howard G. Austin is unchallenged

but there are three who

filed for position 2 of Ward 2.

They are incumbent Gary

Lowdermilk, Ron Murphy and

Elaine Williams. Williams

served part of a term on the

council as a representative of

Ward 3, but resigned when she

moved from that Ward. By law,

representatives must be qualified

to vote in the ward they represent

in order to serve.

The seat Williams vacated,

Ward 3, position 1, was declared

vacant and has not yet been

filled though Jorge Nassar, former

mayor and local businessman,

has filed his intention to

seek that seat. Nassar is unopposed.

Jerry Wilson currently holds

the Ward 3, position 2, seat and

is facing teacher Dennis Pruitt

and local pastor Arthur Menard.

The Ward 4 positions held by

Susie Meeks and James Roy

Cornelius are uncontested.

County positions for judge,

county clerk, circuit clerk, treasurer,

assessor, district court and

coroner are all uncontested and

being sought by the incumbents.

Four of the nine county constable

positions have multiple

candidates as well. Mike

Mullins, who has recently spoke

out regarding constable authority

and responsibilities, is not

seeking office.

Voters of Boughton

Township will choose between

Kevin Taylor Sr., Davey Jones,

Carolyn Mullins and Clint

Mullins. In Georgia Township,

Gary Hicks and Ben Ratcliff

have each filed. Tim McBrayer

and J.W. Casto are seeing the

Emmet Township position.

Robert Henninger and Larry

Miller are each running in

Taylor Township. That position

is currently held by Sean Clark

who filled an unexpired term

but said he had no intention of

running.

Constable positons at

Albany, Caney, Parker, Liberty

and Missouri townships are

uncontested.