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As a little girl in third grade, Katie Matson recalls learning about the theory of evolution. It was a theory that confused her, because it didn’t match what her father would talk about when she and her siblings gathered around to hear him read scriptures from the Bible.

Her mother, by then, had passed away, and Katie had come to love her teacher very much. Katie knew the teacher had a college degree; compared to her father’s eighth-grade education, she found herself thinking that her teacher might know more than her father did.

While out campaigning, Democratic Carroll County judge-executive candidate Bobby Lee Westrick said one of the main concerns he’s hearing about is the growing heroin problem.

 Clay Cable says he’s enjoyed traveling across Carroll County in pursuit of the Democratic Party nomination for county judge-executive.

Speaking to the Rotary Club of Carrollton March 26, Cable said he decided to run for the post a little over a year ago when he learned that Harold “Shorty” Tomlinson planned to retire from the post.

“I’ve had a lot of fun out here doing it and seeing the people,” Cable said. “The county’s a lot bigger than you think when you start walking it, believe me.”

Carroll County judge-executive candidate Kathy Goff wants the citizens of Carroll County to take pride in their community and be involved in order to create change. She addressed the Carroll County Rotary Club April 9, the third speaker in a five-part series with all of the judge-executive candidates coming to a club meeting.

Goff told the members they may not have known this, but she was the first female inducted into the Carrollton Rotary Club, and “I hope to be the first female county judge.”