SUMNER — The town of Sumner will not be conducting a primary election for municipal offices in April, Town Clerk Toni Clark announced Friday afternoon.
"I just spoke with the Secretary of State's Office. We are able to dispense with the election," she said.
They can do that — thus, saving the cost of hiring poll workers and renting touchscreen voting machines from the county, among other expenses — because none of the town's six political qualifiers has an opponent.
The mayor is unopposed, and there are only five candidates for the town's five-member at-large Board of Aldermen.
Incumbent Mayor Jackson Webb IV and incumbent at-large aldermen William W. Boggan, Jack Flautt III, Pamela M. Fortner, Frank Mitchener Jr. and Charles H. Robinette III, are unoppposed. Therefore, they will automatically begin a new, four-year term on July 1.
