Baird files to challenge Aguiar for county commissioner

The Hot Springs County Clerk’s office has now issued official results from the August 20 Primary Election. There were 1,748 total ballots cast in the county, 1,593 Republican, 105 Democrat, 50 non-partisan and 2 blank ballots.

In the Hot Springs County Commissioner race, Bob Aguiar received the most votes on the four-person republican primary ballot with 528. Phillip Scheel received 428 votes, Mike Chimenti received 337 votes and Joe Martinez received 251 votes. No democrat candidates appeared on the ballot. Aguiar will advance to the general election along with former commissioner Jack Baird. After the primary, Baird obtained the required 44 signatures on a petition and will appear on the general election ballot in November as an independent.

The deadline to file for Hot Springs County district seats was Monday, with the exception of the newly formed Senior Citizens Service District. For the senior district, candidates have until Friday, August 30 to file with the county clerk.

For school district, eight candidates have filed for four available seats. Incumbents Clay VanAntwerp and Nicole Weyer are running for reelection. Marshall Keller was recently selected by the board to fill a seat that was open upon Will Farrell’s resignation and Keller is running for election. Other candidates running include Justin Budd, Beth Lewis, Jessica Lippincott, Benjamin M Postma and Jean Skelton.

Incumbent Chip Axtell filed for one of two open seats on the Conservation District, one rural and one urban.

Clint Huckfeldt is running for one open seat on the Fire Protection District.

For Cemetery District,incumbents Cindy DeVries and Barbara Tomes Vietti along with Margaret Stansillare running for three available seats.

For Hospital District John Anderson and John V Fenton are running for two seats. Dave Koerwitz is not running for reelection and Bill Williams resigned from the board.

We will print the candidates running for the Senior Citizens Service District in next week’s IR.

For full HS County primary election results you can visit their website at hscounty.com.