Familiar Faces Qualify For Newberry Elections
By Meghan Porterfield
March 12, 2021
The list of qualified candidates for the City of Newberry’s municipal election was finalized this week.
The current mayor, Jordan Marlowe, will be re-elected for his third consecutive term, as no one else entered the race against him.
The seat for City Commission Group 4 will be taken by the incumbent commissioner, Tim Marden, or his challenger, Joy Glanzer.city commissionElectionJordanmayorNewberry 2021-03-12
Newberry commissioner with COVID-19 ‘doing well’
Coleman no longer requires the ventilator, Marlowe said, though he remains hospitalized.
“Commissioner Coleman isn’t out of the woods yet, and there are many more in our community who continue to need our thoughts, prayers and help,” Marlowe wrote.
Members of Newberry’s government have spoken out against some of Alachua County’s COVID-19 policies, including the mask mandate inside county businesses. Newberry’s noncompliance with pandemic emergency orders made the city ineligible to receive Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act funds from the federal government.
Coleman, a commissioner since 2014, is known for stirring up controversy. He s been in altercations with neighbors and at a bank in town, and some coworkers at city hall have found him to be offensive. Other residents and Marlowe defended him at a 2018 meeting and he later offered an apology for having been a distraction.