Early voting opens Saturday

Online voter registration has closed for the March 25 primary election, and early voting will begin Saturday, the St. Mary Registrar of Voters Office said.

Early voting will be 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. each day March 11-18, except Sunday, when the offices will be closed. You can vote at the Registrar of Voters Office on the third floor of the courthouse in Franklin or at the Morgan City office at 301 Third St. (tax collection office).

All registered voters will be asked to decide on a proposed charter amendment that would raise the parish president’s salary from the current $12,000 a year to the average of the salaries of mayors in the parish’s five municipalities, currently nearly $50,000 a year.

Voters in St. Mary Parish School Board District 4 will choose a board member. Interim member Debra R. Jones of Franklin, who was appointed after Pearl Rack resigned from the board, is being challenged by Mark R. Romero, also of Franklin, for the remainder of Rack’s term