Government

There will be several contested races in next month’s municipal elections in Mills County.

In Glenwood, incumbent mayor Kim Clark is being challenged by Trent Good. Two candidates  - Matt Gray and Jessie Lundvall - are running for a seat on the city council being vacated by Steve Fornoff.

Contested races are also on the ballot in Henderson, Malvern, Pacific Junction and Silver City.

The following candidates are seeking election in the Nov. 5 election:

Upon further review, a former Mills County Treasurer’s Office employee who was convicted of stealing funds from the auto licensing department will not have to serve 25 years in prison.
 
On Monday, Mills County District Court Judge Timothy O’Grady reconsidered the sentence he had handed down in January and suspended Tammy Gammon’s sentence to five years of supervised probation.

With construction work still taking place all around them, employees at the Mills County 911 Communications Center have settled in at their new office in the basement of the county courthouse.

The enlarged, state-of-the-art communications center, has actually been up and running since late June and the facility is receiving rave reviews.

“I may be a little biased, but as far as I’m concerned it’s the best in the state,” Mills County Communications Center Tom Ling said.  “It’s a show center.”

The news keeps getting worse for the Glenwood Public Library.

Last month, workers carrying out brick restoration work at the library uncovered additional masonry damage that could add more than $60,000 of additional repair work. Workers uncovered the  damage as they removed bricks from the facade of the century-old building. City administrator Brian Kissel said the additional work brings the estimated cost of the entire project to around $160,000.