Contested races and school bonds: Part two of a guide to Dunklin County's upcoming elections

Editor's note: This is the second and final installment of a two-part series regarding contested races in April elections at Dunklin County. The first installment appeared in Thursday's edition of the Delta Dunklin Democrat.

With April elections just around the corner, registered voters in cities throughout the county have a few decisions to make.

Special School Bond elections, "Proposition Project K.I.D.S," are on tap across school districts at Kennett, Campbell, and Holcomb.

The Kennett No. 39 School District seeks $3.25 million; Campbell asks voters to approve $2.45 million; and Holcomb seeks voters' approval for $1 million. The funds are loans and provide for extensive upgrades to school security, structural repairs, demolition projects, and general improvements, all without changing the districts' debt service levies, so no tax rate increases are slated for voters to approve the measures. The propositions call for the issuance of general obligation bonds to affect repayment.

At Kennett, voters will select two school board members to serve three-year terms from a pool of four candidates, Larry Boone, Matt Freeman, Jeff Laden, and DeLoris Aikens.

Registered voters at Malden have the opportunity to choose two directors for its school board from a field of five candidates, Russell Miller, Lynette Jenkins, Heather Beckett, Debra Wilkerson and Lytyron (Fred) Robinson. These are three-year terms.

At Senath-Hornersville, two school board seats are up for grabs among Joel Morton, Landon Small and Kristina Reed. Those elected directors serve three-year terms.

Campbell voters will choose two school board directors to serve three-year terms. Candidates are Tony Jaques, Clinton J. Akridge, Harry Hatton II, Larry Day Morris, Jr., and Kim Beckett.

Clarkton candidates for three-year school board terms are Tyler Miller, Raymond Cowart and Tammy Loughary.

Candidates for director's seats at Pemiscot County Special School District Board of Education are Derek Jackson, Amy Davis Boone and Danny Glass. Two of the three will be chosen for three-year terms.

In local governmental races, Arbyrd voters will choose between David McCoy and Johnny Zolman for North Ward Alderman and either Bruce Leonard or Brandy George for South Ward representation.

A three-way race for mayor developed at Campbell among incumbent Randall Baker, Brian Wicker and Charlie Jackson. This is a two-year term.

Jacob Weeks and Ricky J. Talcott are candidates for the Campbell Ward 1 two-year term, and a three-way race for Ward 2 alderman materialized among candidates Cary Whorton, Joyce Eskew and Cale Weeks, also two-year terms.

Holcomb voters will choose between Jason Champlin and Debra D. Padgett for a two-year North Alderman term.

Candidates for a two-year mayoral term at Hornersville are incumbent Terry Lee and his opponent, Chris Coleman.

Constituents may write-in candidates of their choice for every seat, and will simply vote yes or no regarding school bonds.