{"id":212752,"date":"2026-03-10T06:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212752\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:34:18","slug":"oakland-general-town-election-to-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212752\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland General Town Election to take place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h917557-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Oakland residents, the town&#8217;s general election is approaching this Tuesday, March 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h917557-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Oakland residents can stop by Oakland Presbyterian Church at \u00a0218 E. Oakland Ave., Oakland, to cast a vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h917557-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Before you vote, know what&#8217;s on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h917557-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Two candidates are running for Seat #4 on the Town Commission: Current Seat #4 Commissioner Joseph McMullen, and 15-year Oakland resident Anne Fulton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h917557-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">To learn more about each candidate, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangeobserver.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/11\/meet-the-candidates-oakland-town-commission\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h917557-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Besides voting for the Seat #4 Commissioner, voters also will vote on six charter amendments addressing town commission vacancies, voting thresholds, requirements for run-off elections, qualifications for town commission, conflicting charter amendments, and errors and omissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h917557-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandfl.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/5522\/Charter-Ballot-Questions\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see in-depth reasonings for each amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h917557-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland residents, the town&#8217;s general election is approaching this Tuesday, March 10.\u00a0 From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-212752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}