The November general election is now less than three months away and the ballot for local races voters will have to choose from is set, following the passing of the Tuesday, August 9 deadline last week.

A total of 17 people filed for four separate seats–however, only 13 names will actually be on the city and county ballots in several precincts.

A total of four individuals–the amount that will make up the Clinton County Soil Conservation District Board–will be automatically seated and their names will not be on a county-wide ballot.

Those four individuals include Greg Abston, Roger Beard, Kathy Conner and Steve Peddicord.

Of contested races, three school board districts and all city council members, 13 people filed, including five for the three board seats and eight individuals for a seat on the Albany City Council, which is for a two-year term.

Two current school board members will run unopposed this fall. Jeff Sams, in District Two, the Seventy-Six and Cave Springs area, and Paula Key, current board chairperson, in District Three, the Highway, Speck and Illwill precincts, will not have opposition.

In District Four, which includes the town precincts of North, East and West Albany, three persons, including incumbent Crystal Irwin, have filed. Two newcomers are also in the race in that district, including Donald Story and Gary Norris.

School board members are elected in staggered years and serve four-year terms.

A total of eight people, including five incumbents, filed for city council, with Brad Thrasher the only incumbent not filing for re-election.

Those filing for council seats include incumbents Leland Hicks, Tonya Claborn Thrasher, Steve Lawson, Tony Delk and Frankie Stockton, as well as three newcomers, Jarrod Parrigin, Carl Ferguson and Jon Cowan.

The race of Albany Mayor, which is elected each four years, will not be on the ballot until the fall of 2018.

This federal election year is considered by many to be one of the more important elections in recent decades, and will see Americans elect a new United States President, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives (Congress), and one-half of the make-up of the United States Senate.

In Kentucky, all six congressional races will be on the ballot and one of the two U.S. Senate seats will be up for grabs. The overall outcome will decide not only the next President, but which political party will have the majority in both the U.S. House and Senate.

County Clerk Shelia Booher reminds Clinton residents that Tuesday, October 11 at 4 p.m. is the deadline (for non-registered voters) to register in order to be able to vote in the November 8 general election.

More information on other deadlines, including absentee balloting and so forth will be published in the coming weeks.

Anyone with questions about their voter registration status or election information in general may call the County Clerk’s office during normal business hours at 387-5943.