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Blaine County Sheriff's race heats up with BBQs and pig roasts

With regular ballots to be mailed on October 12 and general election voting set for the polls on Tuesday, November 6, the two contested offices in Blaine County (sheriff and open county commissioner seat) are heating up. In the sheriff's race between Deputy Lt. John Colby and Undersheriff Frank Billmayer, two barbeques and a pig roast have already added 'heat' to the contest. Colby held what supporters billed as a "BBQ and Family Night" back in late August (see "Journal" story of August 22). Billmayer's supporters recently held a barbeque at the Eagles in Chinook and followed up with a pig roa...