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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 candidates are Vitalis Dubininkas, Sam Halabi, Jeffrey Keith Harris and Stacey L. Wilson. Here are som...

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 attending for various reasons were Jeffrey Harris and Sam Halabi, running for Place 5, and Blomquist, who i...

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 City Council. With incumbent Shirley Fleming finishing her third term and ineligible to seek reelection...

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. Two expiring KISD board seats are up for grabs — Place 6 and Place 7, currently occupied by boa...

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 applications Tuesday, from Jeffrey Harris and Stacey Wilson, for the same Place 5 seat. Filing for a place on t...