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      The general election is November 05th. If you are trying to figure out who will be on the local ballot, all you have to do is look at the primary winners. No Democrat or minor party candidate filed to run against any of the Republican primary winners as their filing window just closed. The primary winners will be your elected officials. The recorder, who was appointed to replace Penny Titus, was not elected in the primary but will be on the general ballot unopposed. Also, this list does NOT include school board seats. Nor does it include precinct committeemen or state delegates as those races are determined in the primary and are over. As we get closer to November 05th. I will obtain a sample ballot and post it on my Facebook page, so you know what things look like before going to the polls. The goal was a Republican sweep for the county, and we got one. Here's hoping for another sweep in 2026 when the Assessor, Auditor, Superior Court Judge, one Commission...

      As we celebrate the birth of our nation this weekend, let's remember how we got here.  We got here mostly with blue-collar people working hard and making our country special.  Not only was that happening in our nation, but it was also happening locally as well.  Yesterday we lost one of those local blue-collar people who was not only special to me, but to the community also.  I didn't know much about Don Alderman's personal life, but I did know about his professional life.      Don was always at the other end of the telephone when I called 564-4747.  I started out at the Delphi Police Department in the mid to late 1980s as a radio operator.  I was given a list of numbers from Horn Funeral Home to summon an ambulance to Alderman's for a wrecker.  I didn't know much about either business because I sat in a small room with radios and telephones.  But it wasn't long until I was hired as a police officer and was expo...

      In the State of Indiana, when an elected official leaves their seat after being elected by a major political party, that party has a caucus to replace that person.  The official can retire, resign, die, or whatever the reason has caused them to leave, it doesn't matter.  All that matters is that the major party that they represented when they were elected basically 'owns' that seat and they have the right to fill it if it is emptied.  Again, that is done by caucusing the party's precinct committeemen and going through a process to fill the seat.      What are precinct committeemen?  Every county has them.  Some have a large number, and some have smaller numbers.  Carroll County has 19 total representatives.  Most townships have one apiece and some have two or even three, depending on factors to determine the numbers.  You will see each precinct have candidates on your ballots every four years.  If the elect...