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Candidate filing set to kick off for Tuesday, April 4, elections

Fling to continue until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17
Candidate filing set to kick off for Tuesday, April 4, elections

Candidate filing for the Tuesday, April 4, elections will begin next week.

Filing for municipal and school-board seats will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, and continue through 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17.

Aldermanic seats are up for election in Green Park and Sunset Hills.

In addition, seats held by Crestwood Mayor Gregg Roby and Green Park Mayor Bob Reinagel are up for election.

Three seats on the Grantwood Village Board of Trustees are up for lection.

Four seats on the Lindbergh Board of Education and three seats on the Mehlville Board of Education are up for election.

Also up for election in April is a seat on the Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Directors.

In Crestwood, Roby’s mayoral seat will be up for election in April.

Roby, a former Ward 3 alderman, was elected in 2014, defeating incumbent Jeff Schlink. Schlink, a former Ward 2 alderman, defeated incumbent Roy Robinson in 2011 to win election to the mayoral post.

In Grantwood Village, up for election in April are trustee seats held by Chairman Kevin Kelso, Public Works Commissioner Mark Kienstra and Building Commissioner Rick Wagner.

The seats carry two-year terms.

In Green Park, up for election in April will be Reinagel’s mayoral seat. He was appointed to the post after the resignation of Mayor Tony Konopka in 2012 and elected to two-year terms in 2013 and 2015.

Aldermanic seats held by Michael Broughton of Ward 1, Tim Thuston of Ward 2 and Joe Monteleone of Ward 3 are up for election.

The seats carry two-year terms.

Broughton was unopposed two years ago, while Thuston has served on the board since 2007. Monteleone was appointed to the board in 2010 and won election to the seat in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

In Sunset Hills, aldermanic seats held by Dee Baebler of Ward 1, Steve Bersche of Ward 2, Keith Kostial of Ward 3 and Mark Colombo of Ward 4 are up for election.

The seats carry two-year terms.

Baebler was appointed to the board in 2010 and won election in 2011, 2013 and 2015. Bersche and Kostial won election two years ago.

Colombo was appointed to the Ward 4 seat earlier this year, replacing Mayor Pat Fribis in the seat she held for eight years before she was elected mayor in April.

In Lindbergh, four seats are up for election on the Board of Education.

Seats held by President Kathy Kienstra, Vice President Don Bee and Treasurer Vicki Lorenz Englund are up for election.

The seats carry three-year terms.

Also up for election is a seat held by Gary Ujka that carries a one-year term.

Ujka, who was elected to the board in 2014 but lost his re-election bid in April, was appointed to fill the seat held by Kate Holloway, who lost her battle with cancer on Feb. 25. Holloway was first elected to the board in 2012 and re-elected in 2015.

Kienstra and Bee have served on the school board since 2008. Englund has served on the board since 2011.

In Mehlville, Board of Education seats held by President Samantha Stormer, Vice President Jean Pretto and Venki Palamand are up for election.

The seats carry three-year terms.

Stormer and Pretto were elected to the board in 2014.

Palamand was elected to the board in 2007 alongside Larry Felton, who is the board’s longest-serving member. Palamand was elected president of the board in 2011 and held that post until he was defeated in his re-election bid in 2013. He was elected to the board again three years ago.

A seat held by Aaron Hilmer on the Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Directors is up for election.

The seat carries a six-year term.

Hilmer, who serves as chairman, has been a board member since April 2005. He won election that year and was re-elected in 2011.

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