See you in November

LUCAS COUNTY, Ohio - Voters in Oregon and Toledo voiced their opinion Tuesday with a push of a computer screen in their city's respective mayoral primaries.

In the race to be Oregon's next mayor, Councilman Michael J. Seferian and incumbent Marge Brown garnered enough votes to face each other in the November general election. Mayoral candidate Marvin Dabish finished in a distant third.

Seferian, though, took an estimated 54 percent of the vote in Tuesday's primary.

With current Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner not running for re-election, six candidates took aim for his seat. It looks like Democrat Keith Wilkowski and Independent Mike Bell will battle it out in the next six weeks in advance of the November general election.

Wilkowski and Bell topped Republican Jim Moody, Democrat Ben Konop, and Independents D. Michael Collins and Opal Covey.

Voters in the Glass City also had their say in selecting the top 12 city council candidates, out of a field of 23 at-large seats, who will move on to November's election. Rob Ludeman, George Sarantou, Joe McNamara, Phillip Copeland, Steven C. Steel, Polly Taylor-Gerken, Adam J. Martinez, Kevin Milliken, Constantine P. Stamos, Tricia Lyons, Terry Shankland, and Terry Biel appear to have moved on.

Toledo voters had to decided between two issues - Issue 1 in how the Glass City's three-quarters percent income tax is allocated, and Issue 2, which would reduce at-large council seats from six to three.

Issue 1 failed by a 18,709 to 15,943 count while Issue 2, known as the Nine is Fine issue, also failed, but by a slimmer margin - 17,928 to 16,119. If Issue 2 was approved, three at-large seats would have been eliminated from Toledo's charter. The move would have created three at-large super districts and trimmed the council primary winners from 12 to six.