(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - KJ Harris has filed for reelection to the Ketchikan City Council. Harris has served three terms on the council and told SitNews, "Three terms and I want to do another one. I care."

When asked why he decided to run for another term Harris said, "I want to keep doing what I'm doing, trying to serve the community." Harris filed for reelection on August 6, 2014.

The filing period opened on Friday, August 1st and ends at 5:00 pm on August 25, 2014.

The local municipal election is October 7, 2014. The Ketchikan City Council seats to be filled are currently held by Marty West, KJ Harris and Dick Coose.

The Ketchikan Borough will several seats up for election - one two-year term Mayor seat currently held by Dave Kiffer; three three-year term seats currently held by Agnes Moran, Michael Painter and Glen Thompson;and two three-year term seats currently held by Michelle O'Brien and Misty Archibald. Filing for office also began on August 1 and will end August 25.

Edited by Mary Kauffman

On the Web:

City of Ketchikan Elections/Voting Information
http://www.city.ketchikan.ak.us/departments/clerk/elections.html

Ketchikan Gateway Borough Election Information
http://www.borough.ketchikan.ak.us/172/Elections

SitNews ©2014
Stories In The News
Ketchikan, Alaska

Articles & photographs that appear in SitNews may be protected by copyright and may not be reprinted without written permission from and payment of any required fees to the proper sources. E-mail your news & photos to editor@sitnews.us Photographers choosing to submit photographs for publication to SitNews are in doing so granting their permission for publication and for archiving. SitNews does not sell photographs. All requests for purchasing a photograph will be emailed to the photographer.