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The weeklong period for candidates to file for municipal office ended Monday, and highlights included a flurry of last-minute filings that necessitated a primary in Oakley, nearly a dozen people running for three positions in Coalville and the Hideout mayor filing for reelection with a half hour to spare.
Mayors and at least two councilors are up for election in municipalities across the state, and there will be contested mayoral elections in Hideout, Coalville and Oakley.
There will likely be new mayors in Oakley, Coalville and Francis, as the incumbents did not file to run again, while in Henefer and Kamas, the incumbents are running unopposed, and will retain their positions barring successful write-in campaigns.
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The candidate filing window for municipal races in Summit County opens Tuesday, the official start to election season and the time when electoral hopefuls can officially declare their pursuit of office.
There are numerous seats open on the East Side, with the mayor’s office and at least two city or town council seats on the ballot for each municipality. And there appears to be ample room for new leadership, with three of five mayors saying they will not run again.
Candidates looking to fill any of these seats must file with the clerk in their municipality by 5 p.m. Monday, June 7. If there are more than double the amount of candidates than seats if five people vie to fill two council seats, for example there will be a primary election Aug. 10.
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Kamas Valley History Group is on a roll.
While it awaits IRS approval to become an 501( c)(3) nonprofit, it plans to open its new mobile museum during an all-day celebration that will include a ribbon cutting, arts and crafts, old-time foot races and live music on Memorial Day, said the group’s secretary Kate Wynn.
The program will be presented by Kamas Action, a group of community members that is leading projects for the revitalization of Kamas Valley, she said.
“The ribbon cutting will start things off and be done under the flagpole at Kamas City Hall,” Wynn said.
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A bureaucratic restructuring years in the making, and one that may still take years to finalize, has at its core a simple request.
“The expectation for an ambulance to come when you call, and to come in a reasonable amount of time, is exactly the same on both sides (of the county),” said Francis Mayor Byron Ames last fall in a meeting of Summit County councilors and East Side mayors.
It was one of the first public airings of a request that officials said has been in the works for years: for East Side communities to operate their own emergency services.