One Upset in April 1 Election

Voters delivered a big upset in the April 1 election, with Jacksonport farmer and town supervisor Randy Halstead in a landslide win over incumbent Dale Wiegand for the Door County Board of Supervisors District 16 position.

“I’m happy with it. Jacksonport really came out for me,” Halstead said the day after his win.

Asked which committees he hopes to be assigned to, Halstead said, “The obvious one is the LCC (Land Conservation Committee). I’m a farmer. Other than that, I’ll take whatever. I’m looking forward to a new challenge and I’ll try to do as good a job as I’ve done for the Town of Jacksonport the last five years.”

Chairmanship of the Land Conservation Committee will be up for grabs since Chairman Hugh Mulliken decided to give up his District 19 county board seat and make what turned out to be a successful run for one of the two seats open on the Liberty Grove Town Board.

In a very close race, challenger Mulliken’s 253 votes to incumbent Gary Farber’s 249 votes ensured him a seat on the Liberty Grove Town Board. The other seat goes to incumbent Lou Covotsos who earned 293 votes.

Those who saw the Liberty Grove candidate forum on March 22 may recall that Mulliken suggested town supervisors be paid $1 a month remuneration for their work on the board until the town’s debt is paid off. Supervisors currently earn $5,000 a year and $35 per diem per meeting.

“I’d like to add that as an item on the agenda,” Mulliken said the morning after his election. “As long as the town needs money, there’s no reason to pay the supervisors. None of them needs the money, I think. That’s just kind of a minor start. I think the town really needs to take a look at what they’re doing.”

In the Southern Door School Board race, Pamela Parks with 759 votes, and Katie Schnorr and Mike Toneys with 713 votes each won the three seats in that six-person race.

Contested Races

County Supervisor District 1

David Englebert:  182 votes, 47.64%

John Bur:  200, 52.36%

County Supervisor District 16

Dale Wiegand (i):  72 votes, 38.71%

Randy Halstead:  113, 60.75%

Liberty Grove Town Board

Gary Farber (i):  249 votes, 30.89%

Lou Covotsos (i):  293, 36.35%

Hugh Mulliken:  253, 31.39%

Sevastopol Town Board

Chuck Tice (i):  246, 33.70%

Victoria Cerinich:  178, 24.38%

Dan Woelfel (i):  306, 41.92%

Sister Bay Village Board

Virginia Phelan:  86 votes, 15.72%

Pam Abshire (i):  163, 29.80%

Nora Zacek:  133, 24.31%

Patrick Duffy (i):  163, 29.80%

Southern Door School Board

Pamela Parks:  759, 19.64%

Dean Gerend:  514, 13.30%

Dustin Miller:  543, 14.05%

Katie Schnorr:  713, 18.45%

Kelly Tassoul:  620, 16.04%

Mike Toneys:  713, 18.45%

Uncontested

County Supervisor District 2

John Neinas (i):  211 votes, 100%

County Supervisor District 3

Roy Engelbert (i):  227 votes, 99.56%

Write-in vote:  1, 0.44%

County Supervisor District 4

Jon Koch (i):  156 votes, 99.36%

Write-in vote:  1, 0.64%

County Supervisor District 5

Tim O’Connor (i):  136 votes, 100%

County Supervisor District 6

Susan Kohout (i):  93 votes, 96.88%

Write-in vote:  3, 3.13%

County Supervisor District 7

Ben Meyer (i):  21 votes, 100%

County Supervisor District 8

Daniel Austad (i):  38 votes, 92.68%

Write-in vote:  3, 7.32%

County Supervisor District 9

Kenneth Fisher (i):  29 votes, 100%

County Supervisor District 11

Charles Brann (i):  43 votes, 97.73%

Write-in vote:  1, 2.27%

County Supervisor District 12

Mark Moeller (i):  28 votes, 100%

County Supervisor District 13

Kathy Schultz (i):  37 votes, 100%

County Supervisor District 14

Leo Zipperer (i):  125 votes, 95.42%

Write-in vote:  6, 4.58%

County Supervisor District 15

Richard Biz Birlee (i):  208 votes, 99.05%

Write-in vote:  2, 0.95%

County Supervisor District 17

David Enigl (i):  100 votes, 98.04%

Write-in vote:  2, 1.96%

County Supervisor District 18

Holly Runquist (i):  117 votes, 98.32%

Write-in vote:  2, 1.68%

County Supervisor District 19

Don Sitte:  154 votes, 96.86%

Write-in vote:  5, 3.14%

County Supervisor District 20

David Lienau (i):  280 votes, 98.94%

Write-in vote:  3, 1.06%

County Supervisor District 21

Joel Gunnlaugsson (i):  335 votes, 96.82%

Write-in vote:  11, 3.18%

Baileys Harbor Supervisor

Robert Schultz (i):  63 votes, 52.94%

Barbara Anschutz (i):  56, 47.06%

Town of Egg Harbor Supervisor 3

Steven Schopf (i):  79 votes, 100%

Town of Egg Harbor Supervisor 4

David Enigl (i):  73 votes, 100%

Town of Gardner Supervisor 3

Michele Ploor (i):  123 votes, 100%

Town of Gardner Supervisor 4

Glenn Dart (i):  137 votes, 100%

Gibraltar Supervisor

Brian Hackbarth (i):  59 votes, 42.14%

Karl Stubenvoll (i):  73, 52.14%

Write-in vote:  8, 5.71%

Town of Washington Supervisor

Kirby Foss (i):  169, 49.13%

Elizabeth Holmes (i):  135, 39.24%

Write-in vote:  40, 11.63%

Village of Egg Harbor Trustee

Bruce Hill (i):  27 votes, 48.21%

John Heller:  29, 51.79%

Ephraim Trustee

Stephen Sauter (i):  31, 37.35%

Tim Nelson (i):  46, 55.42%

Write-in vote:  6, 7.23%

Forestville Trustee

Robert Jahnke (i):  63, 46.32%

Lora Jorgensen (i):  64, 47.06%

Write-in vote:  9, 6.62%

Sturgeon Bay Alderman District 2

Ronald Vandertie (i):  45, 97.83%

Write-in vote:  1, 2.1%

Sturgeon Bay Alderman District 4

Rick Wiesner (i):  29, 100%

Sturgeon Bay Alderman District 6

Stewart Fett (i):  30, 100%

Maplewood Sanitary District

John Sewel (i):  21, 84%

Write-in vote:  4, 16%

Sevastopol Sanitary District

Patrick Weising (i):  21, 75%

Write-in vote:  7, 25%

Gibraltar School Board

Fred Anderson (i):  743, 52.58%

Wendy Minten:  659, 46.64%

Write-in vote:  11, 0.78%

Sevastopol School Board

Jane Luebker:  412 votes, 44.83%

Jay Zahn:  503, 57.43%

Sturgeon Bay School Board

Joel Kitchens:  208 votes, 32.5%

John Hauser:  229, 35.78%

Tim Jennerjohn:  202, 31.56%

Washington School Board

School board President Robert Cornell decided not to run and no one ran for the open seat. Write-in candidate Kevin Krueger won with 82 votes to fellow write-in candidate Timothy Garland’s 77 votes.