The list of local candidates released by the county clerk’s office for the Primary Election on Tuesday, May 11, is as follows (Democrats, except for non-partisan board of education candidates, conservation super-visors and executive committee members, as noted):

Circuit clerk

              Sheila R. Garretson

County clerk

                    Todd A. Knotts

           Michael Dale Ritchie

                 Rick D. Sampson

                   Connie L. Smith

County commission (district)

Shari Lynn Johnson, Center

             Robert Weaver, Lee

       Kathreen Wood, Center

Board of education (district)

      Faye L. Barnhart, Center

        Dotti Nemitz, Sherman

        Steve Whited, Sherman

Marvin “Mike” Wilson, Lee

    Michael Yeager, Sherman

Conservation District Supervisor, Lee

         Norma C. Collins, Lee

         Phillip M. Abbott, Lee

Democratic County Executive Committee (district)

                                    Male

        Richard B. Postalwaite, Center

            Randall Arnold, Lee

Dennis W. Dickson, Sheridan

                                Female

        Loretta Stevens, Center

Melissa K. Nixon, Sheridan

  Shirley Ann Ball, Sherman

     Freda Whytsell, Sherman

Republican County Executive Committee (district)

                                    Male

    Robert G. Duskey, Center

                                Female

     Linda L. McCartney, Lee

According to the secretary of state’s website, candidates for other offices include the following:

State Senate 2nd Senatorial District

Larry J. Edgell, Democrat

House of Delegates 33rd Delegate District

Ronald Blankenship, Democrat, Calhoun County

David A. Walker, Democrat, Clay County

U.S. House of Representatives 2nd Congressional District

Bruce Barilla, Democrat

Shelley Moore Capito, Republican