Hetland elected mayor of NYM, Maki, Nesland elected to council
News | Published on November 12, 2024 at 4:10pm GMT+0000 | Author: Tucker Henderson
0Two new faces elected to NYM School Board
By Chad Koenen
Publisher
Latham Hetland was overwhelmingly elected as the new mayor for the City of New York Mills. Hetland, who was currently serving as a member of the city council, received 609 of the 617 votes cast for the position. He will take over for Marsha Maki, who did not file for re-election as mayor but was elected to a four-year term on the city council.
Maki received 364 votes for one of two positions on the city council, while fellow incumbent Jerry Nesland received 403 votes to also win a seat on the NY Mills City Council. Challenger Sommer Dow received 267 votes to finish in third place.
In the city of Ottertail, Ron Grobeck was overwhelmingly re-elected to another two year term as Ottertail Mayor. Grobeck received 258 votes, which was 54.9 percent of the vote. William Layman received 112 votes for mayor and current city councilwoman Janet Hill received 100 votes for the position.
Michael Windey received 358 votes, or 88.4 percent of the vote for one of two open city council positions. A second city council position will be elected by write-in candidate.
In Bluffton, incumbent Tim Pavek received 103 votes to be re-elected as the city’s mayor. He received all-but 10 write-in votes for the position.
Ryan Kerkaert and Brian Nesland were elected to two four-year terms on the Bluffton City Council with 98 and 89 votes respectively, while Mary Lou Carlson won a special election on the city council with all 115 votes cast for the seat.
One of the closest elections of the night locally was for a seat on the NY Mills School Board. Eight people filed for four open positions on the school board. Incumbent Derek Braukmann was the top vote getter with 1,261 votes, while Jodi Seelhammer with 1,130, Ethan Kern with 1,107 and Kristina Ehnert with 899 votes were all elected to the school board. Also receiving votes for the school board were Teresa Pederson with 826 votes, Amber Rastedt with 546, Jayne Whiteford with 392 votes and Adam Tervola Hultberg with 367 votes.
In an election that featured all write-in votes, incumbent mayor Troy Beiswinger received 31 write-in votes to be re-elected mayor for another two years in the City of Deer Creek. A total of 23 people received a write-in vote for mayor, but only Beiswinger received more-than three votes.
Danny Hendershot was re-elected to another four-year term on the Deer Creek City Council after leading the way with 29 write-in votes. Nicole Helmrichs received the second most votes to also be elected to the city council with 12 votes. A total of 23 people received at least one vote to serve on the Deer Creek City Council.