Absentee voting for local municipal elections will begin next Monday, September 21.
Kenai Peninsula Borough Clerk Johni Blankenship detailed the Assembly seats that voters will decide on through October 6.
Blankenship: “We have District 1, the Kalifornski seat, District 6 East Peninsula, District 9 South Peninsula, and we have school board seats that are also up. That’s District 2 Kenai, District 5 Sterling/Funny River, and District 8 Homer.”
District one has four candidates: incumbent Kelly Wolf versus David Wartinbee, Gary Knopp, and Robin Davis. Districts six and nine have two candidates each: Dawson Slaughter and Willie Dunn are running for the outlying Homer area seat and Kenn Carpenter is campaigning against Brandii Holmdahl for the Seward seat.
In Soldotna, registered voters will decide on a new mayor where Pete Sprague is running unopposed. For the city’s council, Seat A incumbent Paul Whitney is being challenged by Fred Sturman and Seat C incumbent Linda Murphey is contending with Dan Nelson.
Kenai voters will decide between Bob Molloy, Mike Boyle, and Jim Glendenning for the Kenai City Councils two open seats.
Also beginning next Monday, September 21, KSRM will host candidate forums on air between the hours of 4-6 pm all week.
The schedule is as follows:
