BOLLINGER COUNTY SCHOOL, MUNICIPAL RACES DECIDED

MARBLE HILL -- Voters in Bollinger County elected candidates to positions in four school board and five municipal races during Tuesday elections.

Voters elected two candidates to fill two-year positions on the Leopold, Meadow Heights, Woodland and Zalma school boards of education. Most of the races had more than two candidates, although none were close contests.

Gary Vandeven and John Bohnsack each received 101 votes as the only two candidates for the Leopold Board of Education. Voters in the Leopold School District also approved a Proposition C rollback on its tax levy by a vote of 87 to 19. This will result in an additional $43,800 dollars in state aid to the district next year.

Voters in the Meadow Heights School District had a field of five candidates for its Board of Education. Terry Propst received 261 votes and Gregory E. Ellis won 250 votes to win the two available positions. Phyllis Bollinger, Roy L. Allen, and James M. Johnson received 198, 196, and 195 votes, respectively.

Steven Upchurch received 222 votes, and Bill Rhodes won 188 votes to win seats on the Woodland school board. Doug Lindley received 130 votes in the election.

In the Zalma Board of Education races, Steven A. Dickensin and Dale G. Fish are the new school board members. The two candidates received 222 and 188 votes, respectively, beating out Bruce Huffman, who received 135 votes, and Richard Kline, who received 13 votes.

In addition to the board of education races, Bollinger County voters also elected village councilmen, town trustees and city aldermen in municipal races for Glen Allen, Marble Hill, Sedgewickville and Zalma.

There were no declared candidates in the Glen Allen trustee races, but write-in candidate Eldon Woodfin had seven votes and Allen Clark received six votes to win the positions.

Wilma Moody was uncontested in her bid for Ward I alderman for Marble Hill. In a Ward II race, Charles H. Bollinger beat out John Slinkard when he received 48 votes to Slinkard's 20.

Five of the six candidates who ran for the board of directors of Zalma were elected to office. Collete Wilfong, Linda Pape and Delores Jackson each received 14 votes, and Diane Elledge and Ellen Lemons had 13 and six votes, respectively. Georgia Cookemboo received two votes in the election.

There were eight write-in candidates in the race for Sedgewickville Village Council. Winners in the race were declared candidates Lynn James, who received 13 votes, and Tammy Whaley, with five votes. Other candidates receiving votes were Kenny Hahs, with four votes, and Terry Campbell, who had two votes.

Each of the following candidates received one vote: Kathy Busby, Jim Busby, James Boyd, Tim Crites, Mary Long, Michael Davis, Sandy Campbell and Nolan Crank.