By Annette Newcomb~EDITOR
We’ve got a few horse races lined up for the April 1 elections.
The villages of Twin Lakes and Silver Lake both have a full slate of candidates seeking election.
Both have five candidates seeking three open positions.
Randall School also has a contest with four candidates seeking two open seats.
Polls for the Tuesday, April 1 spring elections will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Village/Town races:
• Village of Twin Lakes: incumbents Mike Moran, Tom Connelly and Jeremy Knoll are seeking re-election and are being challenged by Barb Andres and Pat Kail. The top three candidates will be seated;
• Town of Randall incum-bents Supervisor No. 2 Bob Gehring is seeking reelection; Supervisor No. 4 Mike Hal-vorson is not running for reelection; Mike Halvey, a former town supervisor is running for the supervisor No. 4 position.
• the Town of Wheatland will not have a spring elec-tion because the three-man board is holds elections on even years;
• Village of Paddock Lake incumbents Barbara Brenner, Gloria Walter and Kathlyn Barry are seeking reelection and Anthony Hansen is chal-lenging;
• the Town of Salem has two incumbents seeking ree-lection, board supervisors Dennis Faber and Mike Cu-lat; challenging is Amee Janus;
• for the Village of Silver Lake, incumbent Cyndy Schwebke has chosen not to run. She is a current trustee and her term expires in April.
Incumbents Paul Snellen and Sotiria Wilber are seek-ing reelection. Also running is former village president Roger Johnson; former trus-tee Chris Willkomm; Janet Barger and Carolyn Dodge.
School races
• Lakewood School has four seats open and four can-didates running. Kurt Ander-son opted not to seek re-election. Running for election is incumbent Jennifer Mat-lock; Rhett Suhre, Norman Bashirian and Barb Andres.
• Wilmot Union High School has three seats open and three incumbents seeking re-election: Barbara Tietz, Sam Barranco and Barbara Wetherbee;
• Westosha Central High School: The only position with opposition is Paris. Vil-lage of Bristol (2 year term to complete the current term), incumbent Steve Richter.
Township of Paris (3 year term) incumbent John Hol-loway and Dustin Beth;
For Town of Salem (3 year term), incumbent Mary Anderson.
• Wheatland Center School has two terms expir-ing and two incumbents seek-ing re-election: Timothy Driscoll and Merril Kerkman;
• Randall School: Four candidates seeking two, three year terms. Incumbents seek-ing re-election are Val Lass and Jan Brockway. They are being challenged by Jim O’Connell and Tracy Stro-ther.
• Trevor-Wilmot Grade School has three candidates seeking two seats: Incum-bents Tom Steiner and Bill Barhyte are seeking reelec-tion and are being challenged by Eric Themanson.