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Early voting gets underway Monday for the Harker Heights municipal election, which will take place May 1. Two seats on the Harker Heights City Council are up for election on the ballot, with two candidates vying for the Place 2 seat and four seeking the Place 5 seat. In the Place 2 race, incumbent Michael Blomquist faces a challenge from Howard “Scot” Arey. In Place 5, incumbent Jody Nicholas is term-limited, and four residents are seeking to take her place on the council dais. The ca...

HARKER HEIGHTS — Nineteen residents and three of the candidates running for places on the Harker Heights City Council in the May 1 election gathered Thursday evening at the home of Brenda Johnson, 717 Coyote Circle, for the second Front Yard Forum. The first forum was held on April 1. Candidates present Thursday were Vitalis Dubininkas and Stacey Wilson, running for Place 5 and Howard “Scot” Arey, running against Michael Blomquist, the incumbent in Place 2. Candidates not attendi...

That’s apparently not the case — at least from the viewpoint of local candidates. As the filing period closed Friday for the upcoming May 1 municipal and school board elections, all eight races in the Killeen area are contested. Moreover, the three local elections — Killeen City Council, Killeen ISD school board and Harker Heights City Council had drawn a total of 25 candidates for eight seats. Six of those candidates are seeking a single seat — District 1 on the Killeen Cit...

Sam Halabi has filed to run for Place 5, currently occupied by Jody Nicholas. Nicholas is term-limited. Place 2, currently occupied by Harker Heights Mayor Pro Tem Michael Blomquist, is up for grabs as well. Blomquist has filed for reelection to the seat, but no other candidates have filed. No area residents filed applications to run in the Killeen City Council race or the Killeen ISD school board race. All four Killeen City Council district seats are up for grabs in the upcoming May election. ...

Three people have filed to run for one Harker Heights City Council seat as of Tuesday. The City of Harker Heights will be holding an election May 1 to elect councilmembers to the Place 2 and Place 5 seats currently occupied by Michael Blomquist and Jody Nicholas, respectively. Nicholas is term-limited and therefore unable to run for re-election, per the city charter. Vitalis Dubininkas filed an application to run for the Place 5 seat on Friday. Harker Heights received two additional application...

Candidates who wish to run for Killeen city and school board elections can now file an application do so. All four district seats for the Killeen City Council will be open for the May 1 election. Two Killeen school board seats are also up for election on the same date. Councilmembers Debbie Nash-King and Steve Harris will be eligible to run again, but due to term limits, Shirley Fleming will not be allowed to run again. The District 3 seat will also be up for election that was previously held b...

"today," with matt lauer and ann curry. live, from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning, im matt lauer. >> and im ann curry. good morning, everybody. is jerry sanduskys attorney is calling his decision to waive this right to a preliminary hearing a tactical one. >> well, it comes with a lot of other comments. it came as a shock to a lot of people, especially many of sanduskys tuesdayers prepared to share their stories in open c...

well reveal the answer, live today, wednesday, december 14th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and ann curry. live, from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning, im matt lauer. >> and im ann curry. good morning, everybody. is jerry sanduskys attorney is calling his decision to waive this right to a preliminary hearing a tactical one. >> well, it comes with a lot ...