SETX \u2014 Voters across Southeast Texas headed to the polls on election day to decide a slate of local races and a special election for Texas Senate District 4, with contests on ballots in Jefferson County, Port Arthur, Nederland and Orangefield.<\/p>\n
In Jefferson County, voters are casting ballots in a special election for state Senate District 4. The seat is open because Brandon Creighton stepped down to become the chancellor of Texas Tech University. Democrat Ron Angeletti and Republican Brett Liggin are on the ballot, and the winner will serve through November, when both are running again for the permanent seat.<\/p>\n
Several Port Arthur races are also on the ballot. Councilman Willie Bae Lewis is facing challengers Taylor Getwood and Artrell McCullar Sr. In District 2, incumbent Tiffany Hamilton-Everfield is not running for re-election. In District 3, incumbent Doneane Beckcom is facing Warren Pena and Charlie Lewis Jr.<\/p>\n
The Port Arthur ISD school board general election includes two at-large seats. Candidates include incumbent Kenenth Lofton Sr., Carolyn Brown and Nathaniel Collins Jr., with the top two vote-getters earning seats.<\/p>\n
In Nederland, one city council seat is up for grabs, with incumbent Randy Sonnier running against Keith Bass for the Ward 3 seat. Nederland ISD voters are also choosing two at-large trustees from six candidates: incumbent Kay DeCuir, along with challengers Linda Clavijo, A.J. DeLage, Nathan Huckaby, Stacy Lewis and Edgar Maddox. The top two will serve three-year terms.<\/p>\n
In Orangefield ISD, voters are considering a $13 million bond issue for improvements to the baseball and softball field and the stadium.<\/p>\n
Polling locations listed for Jefferson County are:<\/p>\n
Marion & Ed Hughes Public Library (Meeting Room), 2712 Nederland Ave., Nederland, TX 77627<\/p>\n
Jefferson County Sub-Courthouse (Foyer), 525 Lakeshore Dr., Port Arthur, TX 77640<\/p>\n
Port Arthur Library (Lucy Stiefel Gallery), 4615 9th Ave., Port Arthur, TX 77642<\/p>\n
Jefferson County Courthouse (Lobby), 1085 Pearl St., Beaumont, TX 77701<\/p>\n
Orange County voting locations listed are:<\/p>\n
Orange Public Library, 220 N. 5th St., Orange 77630, Ira Williamson Meeting Room<\/p>\n
Orange County Precinct 1 POD, 8520 MLK, Orange 77632, Main Room<\/p>\n
Orange County Precinct 3 POD, 2010 Hwy 87 S, Orange 77630, Main Room<\/p>\n
Orange County Expo Center, 11475 FM 1442, Orange 77630, Dupont Room<\/p>\n
Raymond Gould Community Center, 385 Claiborne St., Vidor 77662, Main Room<\/p>\n
All polls close at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SETX \u2014 Voters across Southeast Texas headed to the polls on election day to decide a slate of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-276944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}