Election coverage designed to help

Our diverse region and readership have decisions to make. We hope this week’s Local Candidates Forum provides some help for voters who open their mail-in ballots to cast decisions on races they may not have even realized were occurring.

Readers should know that candidates were notified that we wanted them to answer three simple questions, but only via an email and a front-page article in last week’s paper. If you don’t see a reply from them this week, there could be several reasons for that, including that they’ve been away and didn’t know of the opportunity to write a response. That was the case for Elmer City Mayor Mary Jo Carey.

Nevertheless, we hope the format is helpful to our readers.

Scott Hunter

editor and publisher