Here are the candidates for several area 2025 municipal elections

Virginia (Ginny) Hines lives in Port Wentworth. She is a graduate of the Port Wentwort Police Department's Citizen's Police Academy. She is a founding member of the Rice Hope Neighborhood Watch and has volunteered as a fire fighter, EMT, and Girl Scout leader. 

Ginny is retired. She previously worked as a municipal clerk, chief election inspector, and in education. 

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Ginny's campaign for Port Wentworth City Council Member is her first run for public office. 

Supports prioritizing careful budgeting and responsible management of public funds to meet current needs and ensure long-term sustainability.

Supports responsible financial management to meet current needs while protecting long-term sustainability.

- Supports responsible financial management to meet current needs while protecting long-term sustainability.

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Plans to enhance community responsiveness by listening and responding to residents' concerns with urgency and empathy.

Plans to improve community responsiveness by listening and addressing  residents' concerns with urgency and empathy.

Plans to strengthen access to information and decision-making processes to ensure transparency and rebuild trust in local government.

Plans to increase access to information and decision-making to ensure transparency and rebuild trust in local government.

Plans to encourage greater civic participation and collaboration between city officials and residents to shape public policy.

Wants more civic participation and collaboration between city officials and residents to shape public policy.

- Plans to improve community responsiveness by listening and addressing  residents' concerns with urgency and empathy.
- Plans to increase access to information and decision-making to ensure transparency and rebuild trust in local government.
- Wants more civic participation and collaboration between city officials and residents to shape public policy.

Public Services

Believes rapid development should only occur with public input, data-driven decisions, and careful consideration of all the facts.

- Believes rapid development should only occur with public input, data-driven decisions, and careful consideration of all the facts.

Housing & Urban Development

As of September 3, 2025, Ginny Hines’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Public Safety

Supports "thoughtful, equitable development that preserves the character of Port Wentworth while encouraging innovation and opportunity."

Wants "thoughtful, equitable" development that preserves the city's character while promoting innovation and opportunity.

- Wants "thoughtful, equitable" development that preserves the city's character while promoting innovation and opportunity.

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Ginny Hines

Virginia (Ginny) Hines has been living in Port Wentworth for one year this December. She is a retired professor of education, retired municipal clerk, and retired chief election inspector. She is a graduate of the PW Citizen's Police Academy. She is also the founder of the Rice Hope Neighborhood Watch and has volunteered as a fire fighter, EMT, and Girl Scout leader. She lives in the Rice Hope community.

Virginia (Ginny) Hines has been living in Port Wentworth for one year this December. She is running to promote shared governance, ensure transparency, uphold fiscal responsibility, enhance community responsiveness and guide smart growth and development, according to her website.

Plans to prioritize careful budgeting and responsible stewardship of public funds to meet current needs and prepare for long-term sustainability.

As of September 3, 2025, Ginny Hines did not have a website or any information online.

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ArtLise Alston-Cone holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics teacher education from Bennett College, a degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College, and both a master's degree in science and a doctorate degree in education and organizational and educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University. She has 2 children. 

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ArtLise works as a curriculum specialist at the Department of Juvenile Justice. She previously worked as a mathematics instructional coach with the Savannah Chatham County Public School System and as a field service specialist at Pearson. 

ArtLise currently serves as a member of the Port Wentworth City Council. She was elected in 2023 and is serving her first term. 

As of September 3, 2025, Artlise Alston- Cone did not have a website or any information online.

Plans to increase resources for the up and downtown areas and foster more partnerships for the city.

Wants more resources for downtown and uptown areas and build more city partnerships.

- Wants more resources for downtown and uptown areas and build more city partnerships.

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Plans to improve infrastructure, especially traffic.

- Plans to improve infrastructure, especially traffic.

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Artlise Alston- Cone

ArtLise Alston-Cone (Incumbent) was sworn in for Port Wentworth City Council in November 2023, filling the At-Large Post 1 seat after it was vacated. She has been a resident of Port Wentworth for the last 17 years and is an educator in the area.

Wants to increase resources for the up and downtown areas and foster more partnerships for the city.

- City council members work together with the rest of city council to set and implement city policy. 
- City council is tasked with ensuring the health, comfort, and safety of residents of the city 
- City council members work with the mayor to govern city departments, such as the police department, fire department, transportation department, and parks and recreation department. 
- City council members represent either the whole city or residents of a specific district. 
- Most city council members in Georgia are elected in odd years to four year terms. Elections are nonpartisan. 