Voters ousted mayors across the region Tuesday night, opting to give new local leadership a try in 2012.
Incumbent mayoral candidates lost at the polls in Kelleys Island village, Norwalk, Put-in-Bay village, Gibsonburg, Port Clinton, Fremont, North Fairfield, and Green Springs.
That leaves only one incumbant mayor, Lowell Etzler in Greenwich, in office.
The results for all area mayoral races are below. An asterisk denotes the incumbent.
Sandusky County Live, an area news blog, talked to incoming Fremont mayor here.
KELLEYS ISLAND VILLAGE MAYOR
Kyle Paine: 126
Robert Quinn*: 113
MILAN VILLAGE MAYOR
Todd Barber: 91
John Fox: 83
Steven Rockwell: 346
BELLEVUE MAYOR
Donald Berkey: 1,453
Carl Mira*: 1,077
NORWALK MAYOR
Rob Duncan: 2,456
Sue Lesch*: 2,087
GREENWICH MAYOR
Lowell Etzler*: 204
Gary Sprague: 160
NORTH FAIRFIELD MAYOR
Cheryll Pfanner*: 38
Daniel Traxler: 62
Cy Wheeler: 34
PORT CLINTON MAYOR
Debra Hymore-Tester*: 909
Vincent Leone: 1,057
PUT-IN-BAY VILLAGE MAYOR
Judith Berry*: 41
Margaret Ruth Scarpelli: 57
FREMONT MAYOR
Jim Ellis: 2,402
Terry Overmyer*: 1,856
GIBSONBURG MAYOR
Edward Herman Jr.*: 348
Gregory Gerwin: 473
GREEN SPRINGS MAYOR
Theodore Rutherford*: 98
Jesse Lee Darr: 99
Comments
I'll never forget when Mayor Lesch of Norwalk defended the owner of Casa Fiesta after the salmonella (or whatever it was) outbreak, and declared "I ate lunch there today and I'm not sick!" Great sympathy for those who were ill for weeks afterward.
And she did little or nothing to keep Value King grocery store in town either.
Goodbye!