Incumbents win Scott City School Board race; Oran, Scott County Central results in

Scott city voters returned incumbents and elected a young newcomer in Tuesday night's school board election.

Winners tonight are: Scott Amick, president of the board, with 26.5 percent of the vote; fellow incumbent Sally Porch, with nearly 22 percent of the vote; and Daniel Lance, a 2005 Scott City graduate, who ran for the first time was elected with 18 percent of the vote.

Beth McDonough Cox, challenger and co-chairwoman of the district's dress code committee that helped the board craft its controversial dress code policy finished out of the running, with 17.5 percent of the vote, as did challenger Gary Haynes, making his third run at the school board. Haynes finished with nearly 15 percent of the votes.

Other school board races

In the Oran School District, Wesley L. Jones Jr. picked up 215 votes, the most of any of the candidates, earning 26 percent of the vote.

The other two winners were Vance Todt, with 181 votes (22 percent), and Judi Henson, 173 votes (21 percent).

Scott County Central School District's top vote-getter was Michael Blissett, with 145 votes, or 27 percent of the vote. Other's elected were, W. Ray Shoaf, 123 votes (23 percent); Tony Lackey, 96 votes (18 percent).