In Lenoir City, three incumbents and three challengers have all qualified for the council race. Guess we'll find out if the voters in Lenoir City are as sick of their government as they say they are.

The Loudon election is a little different this election. Normally, all the council seats are on the ballot at the same time. The council voted some months ago to split up the seats so that there would only be two seats on the ballot in a given election. That required sitting up the ballot with two of the seats being four year terms and two of the seats being two year terms. The mayor seat remains the same four year term. The winners of the two, two year term seats will have to run again in two years. At that time, those will then be four year terms. In all future elections, two of the seats will be on the ballot every two years.

Two candidates have qualified for the mayor's seat. Three candidates have qualified for the two four year term seats and five candidates have qualified for the two, two year term seats. That election should be interesting to watch.

In Greenback, the incumbent mayor has qualified to run for re-election, uncontested. Three of the four incumbent aldermen/persons have qualified to run for re-election. However, there will be four seats on the ballot. No one qualified for the fourth seat. The first action of the new board will be to appoint someone to fill the vacant seat.

All of the city elections are at large, nonpartisan. This means that the top vote getters win and no one runs with any party affiliation.

I'll be reporting on many aspects of the city races when we get closer to election time.