{"id":195303,"date":"2025-07-28T20:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=195303"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:37:56","slug":"marshall-wont-run-for-council-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/07\/28\/marshall-wont-run-for-council-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall won&#8217;t run for council again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two current members of Van Wert City Council will not seek re-election this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At-Large Councilman Jeff Kallas announced earlier this year that he won\u2019t run for another term and Fourth Ward Councilman Bill Marshall confirmed Monday night that he won\u2019t be on the ballot in November.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bill-Marshall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195304\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to give someone else a chance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining six incumbent council members \u2013 First Ward Councilman Jeff Agler, Second Ward Councilman Greg Roberts, Third Ward Councilwoman Julie Moore, At-Large Councilwomen Judy Bowers and Jana Ringwald \u2013 said they plan to seek re-election, along with Council President Thad Eikenbary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline to file petitions with the Van Wert County Board of Elections&nbsp; to appear on the November 4 ballot is just over a week away, 4 p.m. Wednesday, August 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, only three people have filed and had their petitions validated \u2013 Agler, Eric Hurless (Fourth Ward) and Hall Block (At-Large).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Two current members of Van Wert City Council will not seek re-election this fall. At-Large Councilman Jeff Kallas announced earlier this year that he won\u2019t run for another term and Fourth Ward Councilman Bill Marshall confirmed Monday night that he won\u2019t be on the ballot in November. \u201cIt\u2019s time to give someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 17:54:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195316,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195303\/revisions\/195316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}