2017 The Year in Review | Voters choose many new faces

    It was not a very good year for incumbents in the November municipal elections, but women made a strong showing.
    Voters in Helper elected their first female mayor, Lenise Peterman, and put two new women on the city council, Donna Archuleta and Malarie Matsuda.
    In Price, Michael Kourianos will be the new mayor. Amy Knott-Jespersen won election to the city council in a close race against Joe Christman, and Terry Willis was returned to her seat on the council.
    Harry C. Goslin Jr. will take the helm in East Carbon City after out-polling incumbent Mayor Doug Parsons. Larry Wood topped the field with 216 votes to win a seat on the city council, as did Donald L. McCarty II with 198.     
    Incumbent Wellington Mayor Joan Powell was reelected and Kirt Tatton retained his city council seat running unopposed.
 Karla C. Young finished with 173 and Philip Holt tallied 130 votes.
    Incumbent Scofield Mayor Mike Erkkila retained office with a 22-6 win over Ron Richmond. The race for city council in Scofield also resulted in a tie. Scott H. Deem and Barbara E. Leek each finished with 18 votes, but they also led the field to win the two available council seats. Scott Holman garnered 10 votes and Paul Helsten received 7.
    Voter turnout in Carbon County was only 32.72 percent.