By ROBERT MERRILL
Assistant editor
The dust has settled on the municipal election filing period in Preston, and there will be no race for mayor or two incumbent council members on election day on Nov. 8 unless there is a write-in candidate.
The filing deadline was Friday at 5 p.m. Incumbent Mayor F. Lee Hendrickson filed for mayor for the four-year post. Four-year seats held by Councilwoman Saundra Hubbard and Councilman Neal Larson are both up for election. Both filed for re-election, but no one filed to oppose them either.
The deadline when a write-in candidate must declare his/her intention is Oct. 11 at 5 p.m. at the city clerkâs office, according to county election clerk Camille Larsen. She said even if no write-in candidates file in Preston, a city election will still have to be held, according to Idaho law. (See the full story in The Preston Citizen.)
