Incumbent supervisors Albert Troutman and Charles Larry Holder filed for re-election on June 20. As of early Thursday morning no other candidates had emerged.
The filing period opened June 12.
The conservation board is a nonpartisan office, the same as the Board of Education, but the filing period is always in the summer months. Filing for partisan offices and other nonpartisan offices was held in February. Candidates will be named on the ballot in November, along with candidates for all other offices.
The Soil and Water Conservation board supervises a variety of conservation programs funded and administered by federal, state and local governments.
PLANNING -- The Moore County Planning Board is among the public bodies changing their meeting dates this month because of the Fourth of July holiday schedule.
The board will meet Thursday, July 13, at 6 p.m. at the historic courthouse in downtown Carthage. The board usually meets on the Thursday after the first Monday in the month.
TRIBUTE -- Former Southern Pines attorney Sam Poole was among the Democrats paying tribute to the late Terry Sanford and former Gov. Jim Hunt at a fundraising event in High Point last week.
Sanford, who died several years ago, served in the state legislature before his election as governor and later to the U.S. Senate.
He went on to become president of Duke University and made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for president during those years. The Laurinburg native practiced law in Fayetteville for a number of years, was a former paratrooper and a former FBI agent.
Hunt served an unprecedented four terms as governor, with a two-term gap between his first and second tenures, as allowed by state law. He was among the speakers for the barbecue dinner, attended by an estimated 500 at Centennial Station in High Point.
The first Sanford-Hunt dinner was held in conjunction with the state Democratic convention, held in Raleigh during the weekend.
MOORE DEMS -- George H. Wilson Jr., chairman of the Moore County Democratic Party, did not attend the Sanford-Hunt dinner but did attend the state Executive Committee meeting on the final day of the state convention.
Clare Ruggles, county party treasurer, and Cynthia Reeves, a board member, did attend sessions of the state convention.
LOBBYING -- The General Assembly did not move according to the wishes of the N.C. Coalition for Lobbying Reform, which called a news conference Thursday morning to complain about the lack of reform measures making it through the 2006 session.
The Under the Dome column in The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday that a bill setting up the state's first ethics law for the executive branch has passed the House but has not reached the floor of the Senate. Dome also said that neither chamber has discussed proposals to ban most gifts from lobbyists.
Supporters of lobbying restrictions don't agree on all the provisions of these bills.
Florence Gilkeson can be reached at 947-4962 or by e-mail at florence@thepilot.com.
