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April 5

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Voters Head to Polls While Campaign Workers Make One Last Push

Voters trickled into precincts this morning to vote in several local races. Polls close at 7 p.m.

Turnout at several precincts was slow this morning as voters cast their ballots for several local races. Voters will choose the next mayor of Chesterfield, city council representatives, directors on the Parkway and Rockwood school boards, a position on the Monarch Fire Protection District Board of Directors and the St. Louis County assessor. At times, it seemed there were more campaign workers than voters at the polls. Many of them chatted as they waited for opportunities to speak about the candidate they support. Louise Nation, wife of Ward 4 candidate Bob Nation, said she thought the eight campaign workers she was with outside of the Jewish Community Center were more respectful of each other than in years' past. Nation and Trish …

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Assessor Candidates Face Off in Public Forum

At an event organized Saturday by the Affton and Lemay chambers of commerce, L.K. Wood and Jake Zimmerman both stressed the need to revamp the property assessment system.

AFFTON—Two candidates running for St. Louis County Assessor—one with over 30 years of real estate experience and the other with a political and legislative background—both promised they would get property assessments right the first time. Republican candidate and long-time realtor L. K. “Chip” Wood faced Democratic candidate and current Missouri State Rep. Jake Zimmerman (83rd Dist.) this Saturday in a candidate forum co-sponsored by the Lemay and Affton chambers of commerce at Bayless High School. Each candidate had 15 minutes to explain how they would straighten out what both said was a broken assessment system and then answered questions from an audience of about 75 St. Louis County residents. The St. Louis County Department of Revenue’…

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6:05 am on Sunday, March 20, 2011

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Rockwood Board of Education Candidates Q and A: Roger Stock and Kevin Mabie

Rockwood Board of Education candidates Roger Stock and Kevin Mabie respond to several questions from Chesterfield Patch.

Editor's note: Chesterfield Patch sent the following questions to each of the six candidates for the Rockwood School District Board of Education. We are running the candidates' responses in ballot order, two at a time. Wednesday we ran responses from Keith Kinder and Stephen Smith. Answers from Matt Doell and Mike Geller will run on Friday. Candidates are running for three open spots on the school board. Terms last three years. The election is April 5. Roger Stock Stock has worked in the Rockwood School District for 19 years. He was the principal of Chesterfield Elementary School for 11 years and served as the executive director of elementary and early childhood education for eight years. Before working in Rockwood, he was a teacher, …

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