Charles Suiter Jr. are

low.

Justice Albert Leo Marconi (District 2), Justice Hubert Bass (District 3), Justice Stacy Allen (District 4), Justice Claude “Shorty” Steele (District 6), Justice Kenneth Cross (District 9), Justice Lisa O’Neal (District 11), and Justice Ronnie Sturch (District 12) are all unopposed.

Crittenden County Coroner William “Bill” Wolfe will be challenged in the Democratic primary by Emily Burnett, and Crittenden County Circuit Court Clerk Terry Hawkins will face challenger Lisa Marie Turner.

In other county races, County Judge Woody Wheeless, Assessor Kim Hollowell, County Clerk Paula Brown, Tax Collector Ellen S. Foote, and Treasurer

Charles Suiter Jr. are

all unopposed.

There is no opposition for any of the candidates in the county constable races: Rodney Davis (Black Oak), Michael Ray Bass (Proctor),

Billy Thomen (Lucas),

Eddie C. West (Mississippi), Gary Ray Kelly (Jasper) and Steve Johnson (Jackson) are all unopposed.

Another important decision voters will have to make in the election centers around a pair of measures concerning a county hospital.

“This is an important vote for our county,” said Quorum Court Justice Lisa O’Neal. “This isn’t for a new tax. The tax is already being collected. It’s just moving the tax over to the new Baptist-Crittenden hospital. There are two items on the ballot, and it’s a ‘yes, yes’ to support and fund the new hospital.”

The first measure, Ordinance No. 2015-18, continues the collection of the one-cent sales and use tax levied for a five-year period within Crittenden county to construct and equip a new medical surgical hospital facility as well as the cost of certain health care-related services to be provided by the new hospital, and redirects those funds toward the county’s agreement with Baptist Memorial Health Care.

The second measure is for the issuance of hospital bonds in the “maximum aggregate

principal amount of

$25,150,000 for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the costs of the construction and equipping of a new medical surgical hospital facility,” the new Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden. The new hospital will be leased to Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, a Tennesseebased nonprofit corporation. Baptist will have the option to purchase the new hospital for nominal consideration on or after the 10th anniversary of the opening of the new hospital in exchange for Baptist’s agreement to operate the new hospital for 15 years after Baptist purchases the new hospital.