The fourth and final candidate to meet for the Washington County Board of Supervisors District 3 special election resides in Ainsworth.

Dwight Miller was nominated by petition to run for the vacant term that ends in 2022, and he was born and raised north of Ainsworth. Miller has spent his entire career as a self-employed farmer, and since he recently retired from row crop farming, he seeks to put his interest in county government to action. Miller says he’d like to expand the property tax base, and eliminate unnecessary regulations that hinder the county’s growth, “Washington County eliminated the zoning to make it possible for landowners to develop their land now. Yet in 2005 Washington County adopted a subdivision and platting ordinance that makes it very hard and sometimes economically unfeasible to move forward with subdivisions out in the rural areas. This is not letting the landowner do what they want to do with their land. It’s hard to get growth going in District 3 if the landowner can’t do what he wants to do with his land. This might be contributing to our decline in population.”

Miller says he’d also like to look at the county’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution system. Miller is running against other petition-nominated candidates Johnathan Bartholomew and Josh Schreiber, and Republican nominee Marcus Fedler in the special election Tuesday, March 2nd. Absentee voting is currently available at the county auditor’s office, and you can find a link to more information here.