Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Laurie Cole, Edythe Kelleher, Mike Polychrones and Jane Seeman win back their seats.
(Updated with candidate comments 10:38 p.m.):Nearly five percent of Vienna's voters put their faith behind the four incumbents running to stay in their Mayor and Town Council seats in Tuesday's town elections. Laurie Cole, Edythe Kelleher, Mike Polychrones and Jane Seeman all won re-election to their council and Mayor seats, respectively. They’ve all served for at least a decade. They'll start two-year terms July 1. About 4.97 percent of Vienna's 11,218 active registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday's elections. Seeman received the most votes, with 504. Kelleher received 489, Cole received 454 and Polychrones received 428. There were 38 total write-in votes across all four seats. Twelve absentee ballots were filed. Seeman said she was …
Polls close at 7 p.m.
Residents who came to vote Tuesday night in the Vienna Town Elections said they were generally happy with the way the town was run, and wanted to support the people who made that possible. Laurie Cole, Edythe Kelleher, Mike Polychrones and Jane Seeman are all seeking re-election to their council and Mayor seats, respectively. They’ve all served for at least a decade. A slow voter pace early Tuesday morning picked up around lunch time, poll workers said, but was still behind the kind of numbers seen in a contested election. As of 5:30 p.m., 485 people came to vote -- about 4.32 percent of the town's 11,218 active registered voters. Just after 6 p.m., that total went above 500. Fran Griffin, who was lived in town since 1985, said she owns a …
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Voters head to the polls today to choose which candidates will fill three open Vienna Town Council seats along with Vienna Mayor. Unlike last year's race, in which four candidates vied for three spots, the 2012 ballot features incumbents for all four positions with no challengers. Polls open at 6 a.m. this morning at the Vienna Community Center, 120 Cherry St., SE. They are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Council members Laurie Cole, Edythe Kelleher and Mike Polychrones, and Mayor Jane Seeman, will all run for re-election to their seats, which each of them has held for at least a decade. For more about the candidates, click here. Get election, daily and breaking news email updates from Vienna Patch by signing up for newsletters here. For …
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Longtime Vienna resident seeks seventh term at top of the town
Part of a series of four candidates running in Vienna's town elections May 1. For information on all candidates, click here. M. Jane Seeman has lived in Vienna since 1968. Government Experience Community Experience Professional Experience Before her first run for Mayor in 2000, Seeman hadn't given much thought to serving in Vienna's top elected office. But she was certainly familiar with how the town was run: Her husband, Rodger W. Seeman, had served on the town council for a decade before his death 16 years ago. Jane was appointed to fill his unexpired term in 1996, and then went on to win two more council seats, in 1997 and 1999, on her own. "This town has been so good to my family and to me and it’s just he place that I love," Seeman …
Friday, March 9, 2012
Lifelong Vienna resident says he'll continue to protect town's identity
Part of a series of four candidates running in Vienna's town elections May 1. For information on all candidates, click here. Mike Polychrones is a lifelong resident of Vienna. Government Experience Community Experience Professional Experience Polychrones, 52, has lived in Vienna his entire life. When he was a child, Maple trees still lined Maple Avenue; Vienna Woods, where he lived with his parents and lives today with his wife Patricia, was a new development that nearly "doubled the population in town." In the years that followed, Vienna moved forward in balance with the surrounding areas -- but when Tysons and Merrifield development and the possibility of Metro growth started to gain momentum, Polychrones thought Vienna needed to create …
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Incumbent seeks sixth term in office
Part of a series about the four candidates running in Vienna's town elections May 1. For information on all candidates, click here. Edythe Kelleher has been a town resident since 1994. Government Experience Community Experience Professional Experience Kelleher said she's always liked working with people, gathering input and working out compromises -- but after doing that for several years as a member of Fairfax County Supervisor Penelope Gross, she "wanted to serve in my own community," Kelleher said. As she approaches her sixth term in office, Kelleher, who has lived in Vienna since 1994, says she plans to focus on keeping those voices in the discussions about several large town decisions, including the Maple Avenue Vision and how to keep…
Bonnie Garnto
1:23 pm on Sunday, March 11, 2012
Mayor Seeman is such a great person - and so involved with the community. It is always such a pleasure to see her. She has such a genuine concern about the Town of Vienna. more ›