Municipal candidate fields set

A handful of candidate qualifying took place on the last two days of open candidate books for this year’s municipal elections in Oconee County.  Those elections will take place in each of the county’s five municipalities on November 2.  At the noon hour deadline today, here were the fields of candidates–For Walhalla’s three council seats:  Tyler Jordan, Grant Keehn, Keith Pace, Josh Roberts and Amy Welch; for Westminster three available council seats:  Robert Adams, Dale Glymph, Yousef Mefleh, James Powell, Susan Ramey, and Audrey Reese; for Seneca’s election:  for mayor, Dan Alexander; for the four available council seats: Lakeesha Benson, Alphonso Gaines, Dana Moore, Ronnie O’Kelley, and Stuart Pohl; for Salem council seats:  James Barker and Russell Patterson; and for West Union council seats:  Kathy Frederick and Carla Hancox.