MORRISON – Mayor Roger Drey says he won’t seek a fourth term. Meanwhile, Alderman Sarah Thorndike is circulating petitions to run for the top spot.

“When I end my term in May 2013, I will have served in city government for the past 18 years,” Drey said in a public letter last week. “I will be leaving office then and allowing someone else to take the helm.”

His letter appeared in last week’s editions of the Prairie Advocate in Lanark and the Whiteside Sentinel in Morrison and was posted on TheCity1.com, a Morrison website.