By Sara Strong
Two current county employees will compete for the office of Rock County Auditor Treasurer in the November election.
Deputy auditor treasurers Gloria Rolfs and Lisa Ahrendt DeBoer made it through the primaries with the majority of the votes Tuesday.
Rock County Auditor Treasurer Margaret Cook said voter turnout was high for a primary - with 30.41 percent of registered voters typically voting for primaries.
The results were:
Gloria Rolfs, 625
Lisa Ahrendt DeBoer, 399
Johnna Bowron-Ahrendt, 209
Nic 'O Lena Bosch, 147
Ona Reker, 96
Kim Gehrke, 52
Candace R. Reese, 68
In other county politics, cities other than Luverne had their filing deadline Tuesday.
In Hills, Wendell Bengtson, Linus Svoboda, Keith Elbers and David McGuire filed for two four-year council seats. Jim Jellema filed for the two-year mayor seat.
In Beaver Creek, current mayor Al Blank filed for another two-year term. Burdell Willers and Arlyn Gehrke filed for two four-year council seats, and Carolyn DeBoer and Daryl Fuerstenberg filed for one two-year council seat.
In Steen, Mel Van Batavia filed for another two-year term as mayor and Robert Sandbulte, Leonard Otkin and Brad Bosch filed for two-four year council vacancies.
In Magnolia, four people filed for two vacant council seats and incumbent mayor Fabian Deutsch will run again. The four-year term council candidates are Becky Kruger, Steven DeGroot, Sheila Jones and Marvin Kroontje.
In Kenneth, the only information available as of Wednesday was that mayor Walter Kopp filed for the office again.
In Jasper, there won't be a race as one person will fill each office on the polls. Mayor David G. Smith refiled; councilman Jay Blaine Smith filed again, and Ilene DeBates and Maureen Bell will take the other seats.