Candidates for Sallisaw municipal offices and for Sequoyah County school districts began filing their declarations of candidacy Monday. The filing period will end at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Kathy Webb, Sequoyah County Election Board secretary, said.

Your TIMES will publish a complete list of those who filed to run for office in the Dec. 13 issue.

The posts open in the Sallisaw elections are Ward No. 1 and No. 3 commissioners. Both are for a term of three years. The Sallisaw election will be held Feb. 9, and a runoff election, if needed will be held April 6.

As of Wednesday morning, those who had filed for the posts on the Sallisaw Board of City Commissioners were the incumbents: W.G. “Butch” Lamb in Ward No. 1 and Clayton Meadows in Ward No. 3.

Those filing for school board posts are:

•Belfonte School Office No. 2 — none filed

•Brushy School Office No. 2 — David Lee Philpot, the incumbent

•Central School Office No. 5 — Roger D. Crawford

•Gans School Office No. 5 — Jeremy Taylor

•Gore School Office No. 3 — Michael D. Friend, Arthur Cotton Carter and Jeremy Lane

•Gore School Office No. 4 — James Terrell Cameron Jr.

•Gore School Office No. 5 — Richard Smith, Bill Raskey and Charles “Bud” Baker

•Liberty School Office No. 2 — George E. Lawson Jr.

•Marble City School Office No. 1 — Pauline Pettit

•Moffett School Office No. 2 — Sylvester Carolyna

•Muldrow School Office No. 5 — Chad Sutton

•Roland School Office No. 5 — Roger Brunk

•Sallisaw School Office No. 5 — William Orendorff

•Vian School Office No. 5 — C. Patrick Sullivan

The board of education post will be decided at the annual school election on Feb. 9. Webb said if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast in the election, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes will meet in a runoff election April 6.