As we have stated before, this will be one wild election year for our small town of Carlisle!! The petitions had to be in and finalized by 4:00pm on August 20th to the Warren County Board of Elections in order to be eligible to candidate for the open and challenged City Council seats. There are an outstanding nine petitions that were turned in by the deadline on the 20th!

This is the most activity we have seen in the City Council election in what we can tell the history of Carlisle. There has been much chatter, gossip, and competitiveness already coming out of the challenges for this election year. Hold on to your seats it will be a wild election year in the City of Carlisle.

Bottom line though is this, everyone in Carlisle needs to take it upon themselves to be educated on the candidates and be sure to actually go out and VOTE!!! Let's make this not only a historic amount of candidates but a historic amount of VOTERS!! BE INFORMED AND VOTE!!

Mayor Tim Humphries has told us that four years ago all the seats of City Council were unopposed and this will generate potential new changes to the face of our City Council.

Carrie Branson did not turn her petition in and bowed out of a race against her two challengers for Ward 2, Scott Boschert and Sharon Shelton.

Here are the City Council races as they have been turned in:

Chad Johnson (www.votechadjohnson.com) and Cheryl Sweezy are challenging incucumbent Dennis Bowles in the At Large Seat.

Bryan Green (www.votebryangreen.com) will challenge Mary Thompson, who has served the community for 20 years at the Ward 1 seat.

Scott Boschert and Sharon Shelton will run against each other for the Ward 2 seat that was vacated by Carrie Branson.

Richard "Rich" Smith will challenge Randal "Randy" Winkler, who has served 8 years at the Ward 3 seat.

Chad Johnson organized a meet and greet the At Large candidates last night at the Whistle Stop as previously reported by Carlisle Daily. We will post an article later today on how that meeting went.

See other articles on this year's City Council election:

Carlisle Daily City: This will be one wild election year for ...

Meet Your At Large City Council Candidate on August 20th

Updated look at petitions in for City Council Candidates