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The Repository
Massillon voters who closely follow Washington High School football will see familiar names on the November election ballot.
The Stark County Board of Elections on Monday voted to certify five nonpartisan candidates for the Nov. 2 ballot.
Two of the candidates are a father and son who are both seeking to serve on Massillon City Council. They both were quarterbacks for Washington High.
Lee Hurst, 50, is running to be Massillon council member at large. Hurst will seek one of three council seats in a five-person race.
Hurst, who also was a kicker as well as quarterback, led Washington High School to the state semifinals in 1989. He later became a head high school football coach at Crestline High School in Crawford County in 2013 and West Muskingum High School in Zanesville in 2016. He also was a girls softball coach at McKinley High School in 2015 and was an assistant freshman football coach for Washington High in 2015.
MASSILLON – Democrats have the only contested races in the upcoming May 4 primary election for City Council.
Races in Wards 4 and 6 both place two Democrat candidates against each other for the party nomination, en route to the November general election.
A glance at Massillon Ward 6
Vying to replace City Councilwoman Linda Litman for the open Ward 6 seat are Democrats Joe Herrick and Bob Fothergill. Litman is switching gears, and is the lone candidate for city treasurer in November.
Herrick, 59, is a retired Massillon Police Department captain who said Litman s pending departure from council prompted him to run. I saw an open seat, and thought now is as good of time as any to try, said Herrick, who is making his first bid for public office.
The Independent
MASSILLON – Police Chief Keith Moser is aiming to rework the numbers of higher-ranking officers in the Police Department, a proposed alteration that s getting some pushback within the ranks of City Council.
The Massillon Police Department has two captains, four lieutenants and six sergeants. The chief wants to reallocate through attrition, keeping the higher tier at 12, but consist of one captain, three lieutenants and eight sergeants.
Sergeants work more as first-line supervisors, according to Moser, who said his change would spread out officer oversight within the department more evenly. Lieutenants, he said, should handle more administrative duties. Basically, right now it s lieutenants and sergeants doing (much of) the same job, the chief said, adding that his proposal also eventually would save the city money.