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Election 2017: 3 family members on ballot in city races Tuesday
Donna and Steve Reeves credit their son Albert for their diving into local politics
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Three members of the Reeves family are running for office this week. Steve Reeves, left, is running for mayor of Clermont, son Albert Reeves is running for a seat on the Gainesville City Council in Ward 4, and Donna Reeves is seeking election to the Clermont Town Council in Ward 4. Steve and Donna Reeves have nine papillons. - photo by Scott Rogers
Neighbors and passers-by on Main Street in Clermont recognize the Reeves family home as the one near the post office with all those little dogs running around their fenced-in yard. Most of the family’s nine dogs were born in the stately house built in 1918, which Steve and Donna Reeves bought in the mid-1990s. Compared with what they would have spent to build a dream house in Hiawassee, the couple joked the price — under $180,000 — seemed so good for such a spacious house on a great location with hardwood floors and sprawling yard that maybe there was something wrong with it like ghosts or something.