Village board seats up for grabs in Barrington area
An earlier story said officials from Barrington Hills were unavailable to be reached, when in fact they had submitted their candidates correctly to a Daily Herald email address.
No contested races for village president materialized in the Barrington area by the time filing closed at 5 p.m. Friday.
But things will be hopping for the village boards.
North Barrington Village President Albert Pino has filed for re-election without competition. In Tower Lakes, where President Kathleen Leitner is not running again, Trustee David R. Parro is the only candidate to have filed.
However, every village board in Barrington, North Barrington, South Barrington, Lake Barrington, Inverness, Barrington Hills, Tower Lakes and Deer Park has three seats open.
• In Barrington, six residents have filed petitions to run for the three seats. Two of them are current trustees Robert Windon and Jim Daluga. The four challengers are Mike Kozel, JoAnn Fletcher, Maureen E. Yates and Jason Lohmeyer. Kozel, Fletcher and Yates are running together as a slate.
• Six candidates have also come forward in Lake Barrington: Trustees Andrew Burke and John Schaller and challengers Lou Incandela, Christopher Pearson, James C. Thompson and Agnes M. Tomasian.
• In Barrington Hills, six candidates filed paperwork ahead of the Monday deadline. The ballot will feature challengers Mary Naumann, Bryan C. Croll, Michelle Nagy Maison and Brian D. Cecola, as well as incumbents Karen Selman and Patty Meroni.
• South Barrington residents will choose three trustees from four candidates. Challenger Hina Patel filed petitions, as have trustees Louis Matuska Jr., Stephen Guranovich and Bernard Kerman.
• In North Barrington, three sitting trustees and a former trustee have filed for the three open seats. Trustees Pete Boland, Janice Sauer and Lawrence Weiner are running for re-election. Joining them is John Schnure, who has been a trustee twice before, from 1997-2001 and 2005-2007.
The trustee races in Inverness, Deer Park and Tower Lakes will be uncontested because three or fewer candidates are running for village boards there.
In Inverness all three incumbents whose terms are up in 2015 are running for re-election - John Willis, Timothy Tiedje and Russel P. Fitton III. In Tower Lakes, trustees Joseph R. Skurla and Donna Schardt filed, as well as newcomer Paul Kierig.
In Deer Park, only incumbent Mark VanRyan and challenger Jeff Michalski filed by Monday's deadline. The third open spot on the village board will be filled either by a write-in candidate or by appointment.
Because the filing deadline has passed, the only way for another candidate to come forward is to file a Declaration of Intent form by Feb. 5 - 61 days before the April 7 election.