(Undated) Today, is election day...polls are open 7am to 8pm. In Monticello, all voting was done early or by absentee ballotts. Two candidates, Eric George and Tim Young, will run for Monticello Mayor to replace longtime Mayor Doug Allen.
Both candidates are businessmen. Young currently serves on the Monticello City Council.
The seven candidates for Monticello City Council are Scott Christensen, Rick Clark, Steve Duke, Matt Keyes, George Rice Jr., Brenda Sturdevant, and Monte Wells.
Regardless of who wins, it will be the first elected office for both council members, as all seven candidates have never held elected office.
The two winners will replace incumbents Brad Randall and Craig Leavitt, who will not seek an additional term.
In Blanding, four residents are running for two open seats on the City Council. They include incumbents Charlie Taylor and Robert Ogle, and challengers Taylor Harrison and Keele Johnson.
Calvin Balch is running unopposed for Blanding Mayor. The current Mayor, Toni Turk, withdrew from the race after the filing period.

Moab city races

This year, voters will choose from among three candidates to fill two open seats on the Moab City Council. Moab City Council incumbents Jeffrey Davis and Kyle Bailey are seeking re-election in the Nov. 5 general election and Heila Ershadi is seeking her first term on the council. Moab City Council representatives are all elected at-large, so the two candidates who receive the most votes will win those seats.
Moab will also elect a mayor this year and Moab Mayor Dave Sakrison is running unopposed for re-election.

Spanish Valley Water and Sewer Improvement District

Four candidates are seeking three open seats on the Spanish Valley Water and Sewer Improvement District board. Incumbents Gary Wilson, Mike Holyoak and Tom Stengel are all seeking re-election. Spanish Valley resident Bill Love is seeking his first term on that board.

Castle Valley races

The town of Castle Valley will vote to elect a mayor and two council members. Castle Valley Mayor Dave Erley is being challenged for the mayor’s position by Oscar Duncan. Duncan’s name will not appear on the ballot because he filed as a write-in candidate last summer. Voters who wish to cast their ballots for Duncan must write his name on the ballot for the mayoral race.
Three seats are open on the Castle Valley Town Council, however, only two candidates are seeking election.
Jazmine Duncan is running for one of the four-year council seats and Tory Hill is seeking the two-year council seat.

Castle Valley Fire Protection District (no election)

The Castle Valley Fire Protection District fielded two candidates for the two seats that are open on the three-person commission. Bob Russell and Leta Vaughn will fill the seats currently held by board chairman Dave Vaughn and treasurer Ron Mengel. Because there were only two candidates for two open seats, the fire protection district is not required by state law to hold an election.

>>In A First, LDS Meeting Welcomes Young Females

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The LDS Church says its semiannual general women's meeting will now include girls under the age of eight. The "Tribune" says the new church meeting will replace its annual general Relief Society and Young Women conferences. A release from the church's First Presidency said female LDS Church members will be "strengthened and blessed" by their inclusion at the meetings.

(Moab Utah)- National Park Service units in Utah and across the nation will offer free entry Nov. 9-11 as a tribute to all military personnel for Veterans Day. More than 401 parks will be open and free to everyone. While entry fees are being waived during the weekend, other fees — such as camping — will still be required.

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(Richfield Utah) - Champions of wilderness and historic preservation on Monday were hailing a Utah federal court ruling that invalidates parts of a BLM management plan that authorized a 4,277-mile "spider web" of motorized routes in the Richfield resource area.U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled the Bureau of Land Management failed to minimize the impacts of motorized use on the land and its resources and to inventory archaeological sites as required by federal law. SUWA legal director Steven Bloch called it: "It’s a huge victory for Utah redrock wilderness."

The Richfield plan covers 2.1 million acres in Sevier, Garfield, Wayne and Piute counties, an area bound by Capitol Reef and Canyonlands national parks, then extending north up the Sevier Valley. The Henry Mountains, Factory Butte, the Dirty Devil River and Muddy Creek are among the planning area’s more notable landscapes.The judge upheld many aspects of BLM’s handling of the Richfield plan, but he pronounced it a failure in regards to regulating motorized use and protecting ancient American-Indian sites and artifacts and other cultural and historical resources.

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