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Seven Qualify for City Council Race

August 18, 2016 By Dick Cook 0 Comments

Seven people have qualified to run for East Ridge City Council in the November 8 Municipal Election.

According to the Hamilton County Election Commission, Gregg Shipley filed his papers before the noon deadline on Thursday, August 18 to qualify. It is Shipley’s first run for elective office.

Shipley will join Jim Bethune, Matthew DeGlopper, Esther Helton, Doris Rogers, Robert Stahl and Brian Williams vying for two City Council positions.

The seats on the council they wish to hold will not have incumbents running. Councilman Denny Manning will have served 12 years on the Council and is term limited. Vice Mayor Marc Gravitt, who is also District 30 State Representative, has chosen not to seek re-election to the East Ridge City Council.

Bethune served one term on the Council before launching an unsuccessful bid for mayor in 2014.

This is DeGlopper’s first bid for elective office in East Ridge. He is a small businessman, and he and his wife have two children who attend East Ridge Elementary School.

This is also Helton’s first run for political office. Helton is a lifelong resident of East Ridge. 

Rogers, a retired banker, ran for council in 2014, narrowly losing out in a bid to become the first woman elected to the East Ridge City Council.

Stahl is a banker who also ran for council in 2014. He has served on the city’s beer board for a number of years and has also served on several Charter Study Committees for the city.

This is also Williams’ first bid for elective office. He is employed in information technology with Quanta Services. He has served on the city’s beer board, including being a past chairman. He is married to Shelley Williams, a lifelong resident of the city and a graduate of East Ridge High School.

 

 

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.


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