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Candidate Lists for Cortez, Mancos, and Dolores 2018 Municipal Elections

Austin Cope

The 2018 Municipal Elections will be held on April 3rd.

They are by mail only. Ballots will be mailed on March 19th.

 

Cortez City Council (5 open seats):

Jonathan Walker

Gary Noyes

Orly Lucero

Michael J. Lavey

Jill M. Carlson

Lance Mcdaniel

Sue Betts

Geof Byerly

 

Dolores Town Board of Trustees (4 Open Seats):

Melissa Watters

Tobie Baker

Tracy Murphy

Jennifer Stark

Janneli Miller

Debra Jorgensen

Janice Heman

Leigh Sand

Timothy Mueller

Duvall Truelsen

Brian Rantz

 

Dolores Mayor (1 open seat):

 

Jerry Whited

Chad Wheelus

 
Mancos Town Board of Trustees (4 open seats):

Steve Kennedy

Fred Brooks

Betsy Harrison

Cindy Simpson

Brent McWhirter

 

Candidate lists for Cortez and Mancos were provided by Montezuma County Clerk Kim Percell. The candidate list for Dolores was provided by Dolores Town Clerk and Administrator Lana Hancock.

 

UPDATE: 2/1/18, 5pm: We now have added the Dolores Mayor candidates to the list.

 

Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.