NewsApril 8, 1998
PERRYVILLE -- Perry County voters decided the two contested races on Tuesday's ballot. In Perryville's Ward 1, incumbent Roger Prost won re-election to the city's Board of Aldermen, defeating William D. Richardet by 142 votes to 127 votes. And in Longtown, Darrel Tanz and Roy Lohman won seats on the village Board of Trustees...

PERRYVILLE -- Perry County voters decided the two contested races on Tuesday's ballot.

In Perryville's Ward 1, incumbent Roger Prost won re-election to the city's Board of Aldermen, defeating William D. Richardet by 142 votes to 127 votes.

And in Longtown, Darrel Tanz and Roy Lohman won seats on the village Board of Trustees.

Tanz garnered 10 votes, Lohman eight and Wilbert Hacker pulled five votes in the race.

Turnout was "pretty bad" in Perry County Tuesday, said County Clerk Randy Taylor.

Countywide, 1,114 ballots were cast out of the county's 10,337 voters, for a turnout of less than 11 percent.

The other municipal and school races in Perry County were uncontested.

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In Perryville, all of the incumbents were re-elected, including Mayor Robert J. Miget, Collector Wilma Weinkein, City Marshal Eugene H. Besand, Municipal Judge Robert Hershey and aldermen Frank "Bill" Bergman and Paul R. "Butch" Flentge, Wards 2 and 3, respectively.

For the Perry County School District 32 Board of Election, incumbent Caroline Pontillas and newcomer Jeff Volkerding won three-year terms. Incumbent Tom Wesolek, appointed to the board last year to fill an unexpired term, was re-elected to complete that term.

In Altenburg School District 48, incumbents Albert Boettcher Jr., Roger Schlicting and Caroline Littge were all re-elected to three year terms.

In the city of Altenburg, incumbents Gregory Hecht, Ward 1, and Robert Birk, Ward 2, were re-elected to the Board of Aldermen.

In Frohna, Mayor Marvin Scholl and aldermen Dennis Hecht and Boyd C. France, Wards 1 and 2, respectively, were re-elected.

And in Biehle, Rhonda Buchheit, Nick Buchheit and Rudy Buchheit all won new terms on the Board of Trustees.

Amendment 3 passed in Perry County, 872 to 185. Amendment 4 also passed 742 votes to 286.

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