DURING TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS — Candidates Morris Bryant, Mark Morris,

Radford Trent and Coleman Speece were busy greeeting voters at the

South Boston Armory on Tuesday. (Danny Lamberth photo)

 

 

 

Municipal elections across the County resulted in few changes to town

council make-ups. In the Town of South Boston Mayor Carroll Thackston

who was running unopposed, was the top vote getter with 370 votes.

Incumbent Council members Morris Bryant with 348 votes, Sandra Thompson

with 328 votes and Coleman Speece with 306 votes will join newcomer

Mark Morris, who got 345 votes, to  fill all the seats. Speece who had

the lowest number of votes among those elected will serve only two

years to fill the unexpired term of the late Don Thompson, while the

others will serve four year terms.

Challenger Radford Trent who collected 272 votes was unsuccessful in

his bid for a seat on Council. The terms of two incumbent Councilmen,

Ed Owens and Bill Snead, did not expire this year and Councilman Chris

Elliott did not seek re-election.

In the Town of Halifax, two newcomers, Bill Confroy and Holt Evans,

will join Councilmen Jack Dunavant, Dick Moore, Cabell Daniel and Allen

Stevens to round out that governing body, along with Mayor Leon

Plaster.  Incumbent members Phil Hollis and Charles Parker did not seek

re-election. Confroy led the ticket with 163 votes, followed by Evans

with 105. Making unsuccessful bids for the Council seats were Tommy

Reagan who collected 56 votes and Randy Savage who picked up 27 votes.

In Virgilina Ralph O. Murray, Jr., who was running unopposed, received

40 votes of confidence while Council members Kirke C. Hooper got 36, R.

Owen Murray, Sr. 35, Jason Johnson 34 and Tammy Elliott and Thomas

Keith Tuck, Jr. each received 30.   Mary Helen Gravitt narrowly missed

the field with 28 votes.

Scottsburg Mayor Ira R. Wilkerson, II, also unopposed, was re-elected

with 29 votes while Robert Elliott and Russell Puckett each collected

24 votes, James Edward Stoner, Sr. 23, Robert A, Guthrie 22 and Connie

Glass 20 to fill the open Council seats. Harvey Mark Perkins was

unsuccessful in his bid for Council with 19 votes.