Residents re-elect Kubes and McGuire to council

Voters in Montgomery re-elected its incumbents in the race for two city council seats. Brad “Butch” Kubes was re-elected with 720 votes. Also re-elected was incumbent Mick McGuire with 594 votes. The race also had two other candidates, Jason Kabes, who received 484 votes, and Bob Taraba, who received 203 votes.

Tom Eisert was elected to the mayor’s seat with 1,033 votes. He ran unopposed.

Like around the country, voter turnout was high in Montgomery. When the polls opened in Montgomery at 7a.m., there were 1,735 registered voters. Eisert and 41 write-ins for the Mayor seat totaled 1074 votes cast, or 61 percent.

For the TCU School Board, the four candidates on the ballot were all re-elected. Incumbents Dale Buss received 2,618 votes; Michelle Borchardt received 2,400 votes; newcomer to the board, Joshua Beulke, received 2,202 votes, and Marsha Franek received 2,491 votes.

Read more about the other elections in this week’s printed edition.