Candidates

 Here is the slate of candidates for mayor and city council. Carolyin Harvey and Nancy Maxwell are the only two candidates running for re-election.  Adam Loos is stepping down from his council position to run for mayor and Clare Killman has opted not to run again.  I may be misreading the name but it looks as if Mayor Harvey's son Jarius will be running against her for mayor. LaCaje Hill was on the council for 1 term, failing to win re-election in 2023

The following candidates filed nomination petitions for Mayor of Carbondale.

 

Mayor

1 – Adam Loos, 512 W. Pecan St.                                                                     (October 26, 8:09 a.m.)

2 – Carolin Harvey, 109 South Tower Road                                                (October 26, 1:03 p.m.)

3 – Patrick Noel, 611 Randolph Rd                                                                  (October 26, 2:31 p.m.)  

4 – May, F.S., Harvey K. Jairus, 621 N. Springer, St.                              (October 26, 4:08 p.m.)

5 – John Gardner, 4440 W Pleasant Hill Rd                                                (October 26, 4:46 p.m.)

The following candidates filed nomination petitions for Carbondale City Council Member. 

 

City Councilmember

1 – Dr. Ryan J. Reed, Sr., 1704 W Taylor Dr                                                 (October 19, 8:00 a.m.)

2 – LaCaje Elijah Hill, 603 S Skyline Dr                                                          (October 19, 1:10 p.m.)

3 – Nancy R. Maxwell, 1408 Bobette Lane                                                  (October 19, 4:17 p.m.)

4 – Yahaira L. Vargas, 700 West Main Street Ste. A                               (October 19, 4:18 p.m.)

5 – Jasper Futch, 1211 W Short Dr                                                                    (October 21, 2:10 p.m.)

6 – Casey Allen VanWinkle, 3212 West Kent Drive                 (October 26, 10:22 a.m.)

7 – Chastity Mays, 107 South Glenview Drive                                           (October 26, 11:13 a.m.)

8 – Robert Bruce Pierce, 703 N. Allyn St.                                                     (October 26, 11:42 a.m.)

9 – Jason Endicott, 707 N McKinley St                                                           (October 26, 11:54 a.m.)

10 - David “Zen” Dhabolt, 401 W Elm St Unit B                                       (October 26, 3:43 p.m.)

Trick or Treat on Main Street

 Good turnout for the event yesterday or as Carbondale Main Street called it, the Candy Walk.  I counted at least three dozen locations particpating with over 450 trick or treaters through the door at Castle Perilous Games & Books. have no idea how many people went to the Safe Halloween event at Murdale.

Horstman's Cleaners

 According to a post on soical media Horstman's Cleaners, closed since last April, will reopen on October 27. Glad to see Carbondale will have dry cleaning again, rather than having to haul items to Marion.

Brad's Auto Repair

 Brad's Auto Service has moved from its Emerald Lane location to the long closed quick oil change shop located behid Wooly Wash ar 400 North Glenview.  Certainly a more visible location but I think a bit more promotion would help

Halloween

 it would be nice if there were a centraized location people could post information about Halloween activities taking place in town.  Murdale Safe Halloween has events this Saturday, Carbondale Main Street has its Candy Walk this Saturday and there are a number of events next week but there is no centralized place for individual organizations to post about their costume contests or other events going on that people might be interested in.

Homecoming

 For all of the activities surrounding SIUC's homecoming, I saw surprisingly little promotion about it. There were some stories in the paper and on social media as well as a couple of flyers posted about but I would think the city and SIUC would put up banners on the light poles advertising it for the week before.  Instead, what I saw up there were banners promoting Halloween (still important)  and the Off the Rails series of concerts, which ended a couple of weeks ago.

Drones Downtown

 A couple of drones flew over downtown shortly after 6 p.m. releasing some sort of spray in their wake.  Hoping this has something to do with Homecoming but the spray was grey colored rather than SIUC shades.