{"id":195626,"date":"2025-08-06T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=195626"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:11:06","slug":"six-people-running-for-van-wert-city-council-at-large-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/six-people-running-for-van-wert-city-council-at-large-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Six people vying for three council seats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If their nominating petitions are deemed valid, six people will run for three Van Wert City Council At-Large seats this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deadline to file petitions with the Van Wert County Board of Elections was 4 p.m. Wednesday. Director Pam Henderson said she hopes to have all petitions checked and validated by Friday. Invalid petitions are usually due to a shortage of required signatures or the candidate\u2019s eligibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of the candidates are incumbents seeking re-election: Judy Bowers, who is serving her second term and Jana Ringwald, who is finishing her first term. The remaining four candidates are Hall Block, Darin J. Figel, Dewaine Johnson and Kirby Kelly. Petitions submitted by Block and Ringwald have already been ruled valid. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Incumbent Councilman At-Large Jeff Kallas is not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incumbent Council President Thad Eikenbary is running unopposed, along with three other incumbent council members \u2013 First Ward Councilman Jeff Agler, Second Ward Councilman Greg Roberts, and Third Ward Councilwoman Julie Moore. Incumbent Fourth Ward Councilman Bill Marshall opted against running for re-election. He\u2019ll be replaced by Eric Hurless, who is running unopposed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johanna M. Quarles is the only person to file for Van Wert city treasurer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Convoy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four people filed to run for four village council seats \u2013 Gregory A. Black, Michael Dirr, William B. Dull and Neal Orsbon. In addition, just one person, Donal Duncan, filed to run for the Convoy Village Board of Trustees of Public Affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elgin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one filed to run for mayor and no one filed for any of the four seats that are up for election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middle Point<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four people filed to run for four village council seats \u2013 Adam Blockberger, Tonya L. Hoghe, Lisa A. Merkle and Shane Shugart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ohio City<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie R. Mulvey Linn was the only person to file for mayor. The unexpired term will end December 31, 2027. Four people filed for four seats on Ohio City Village Council \u2013 Gloria L. Agler, Robin E. McConn, Timothy E. Moody and Charles Zappa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four village council seats are coming open and two people filed to run \u2013 Eric Baker and Stephen Yoder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venedocia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two people filed petitions to run for an unexpired term as mayor \u2013 P.J. Burnett and Vernon Hobbs. The term will end December 31, 2027. In addition, four council seats are up for election but just two people filed to run \u2013 Doug Price and Isaac Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willshire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four people filed to run for four village council seats \u2013 John T. Havill, Bryan Hess, Denise Knowles and Gaige Slaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wren<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four council seats are up for grabs, but no one filed petitions to run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor If their nominating petitions are deemed valid, six people will run for three Van Wert City Council At-Large seats this fall. The deadline to file petitions with the Van Wert County Board of Elections was 4 p.m. Wednesday. Director Pam Henderson said she hopes to have all petitions checked and validated by […]<\/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-195626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 00:46:08","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\/195626","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=195626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195678,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195626\/revisions\/195678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}