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By Richard Kerns
Tribune Staff Writer
KEYSER – The field is set for this year's Keyser City Council election, with two familiar names added to the candidates' list before Friday's filing deadline, making for a field of six men vying for three open Council seats.
Former Keyser mayors William “Sonny” Rhodes and Roger Newlin both threw their hats into the ring Friday, filing as candidates for the June 5 City Council election.
The two join four candidates who have already filed: Clinton Faulk and Ed Miller – both incumbent Council members -- and Terry Liller and Mark Trenum.
Bill Roy, the third incumbent Council member, is not seeking re-election.
The election will be for four-year terms, so that if the winners serve their entire term, they will be in office until June, 2016.
Under the vote of a prior City Council to eliminate annual elections, saving the city thousands of dollars in paid holidays for city workers and poll-worker salaries, the other two Council members and the mayor were elected last year to three-year terms.
When those seats are up for election in June, 2014, they will also be for four years, so that the city will then conduct staggered elections every two years, with four-year terms of office.
For the first time in recent memory, there will be no Keyser city election next year.
As part of the new system, the city also eliminated primary elections, so that all six candidates will be on the ballot June 5.
By Richard Kerns
Tribune Staff Writer
KEYSER – The field is set for this year's Keyser City Council election, with two familiar names added to the candidates' list before Friday's filing deadline, making for a field of six men vying for three open Council seats.
Former Keyser mayors William “Sonny” Rhodes and Roger Newlin both threw their hats into the ring Friday, filing as candidates for the June 5 City Council election.
The two join four candidates who have already filed: Clinton Faulk and Ed Miller – both incumbent Council members -- and Terry Liller and Mark Trenum.
Bill Roy, the third incumbent Council member, is not seeking re-election.
The election will be for four-year terms, so that if the winners serve their entire term, they will be in office until June, 2016.
Under the vote of a prior City Council to eliminate annual elections, saving the city thousands of dollars in paid holidays for city workers and poll-worker salaries, the other two Council members and the mayor were elected last year to three-year terms.
When those seats are up for election in June, 2014, they will also be for four years, so that the city will then conduct staggered elections every two years, with four-year terms of office.
For the first time in recent memory, there will be no Keyser city election next year.
As part of the new system, the city also eliminated primary elections, so that all six candidates will be on the ballot June 5.
