VOTERS PICK WHITENER, TEETERS AT WOODLAND

MARBLE HILL -- Voters Tuesday elected sawmill operator Henry Whitener and former teacher's aide Sheila Teeters to the Woodland Board of Education.

Teeters was the top vote-getter in the six-candidate field. She received 229 votes, followed by Whitener with 208.

Perry Bennett received 162 votes, Douglas A. Lindley received 158, Marcia Jackson received 141 and Kenny Trentham received 113.

In the Marble Hill municipal election, voters elected retired businessman Robert F. "Bob" Green as Ward 1 alderman. He defeated Darrell Bostic, who works for a Bloomfield area manufacturer.

Some 13 percent of Bollinger County's 8,000 voters or 1,041 went to the polls, election officials said.

In the Meadow Heights School District, voters re-elected Harold Miinch and elected Bob Wissore to school board posts. Miinch received 277 votes, Wissore 215 and Jim Boyd 124.

Three candidates were unopposed for Marble Hill city offices. They were Mayor Ben Ellis Jr., Ward 2 Alderman Michael Morris and Brenda Hughes, who was elected as city collector.

In other uncontested races, voters elected Loris Lincoln and Karen Wells to the Glen Allen town board, Jan VanEs and Tim Burchett to the Zalma school board, Dorothy Vangennip and Roy Vandeven to the Leopold school board, James Boyd, Jim Busby and Lindell Hahs to the Sedgewickville town board, and Georgia Cookemboo, Collette Wilfong, Linda Pape and Dolores Jackson to the Zalma village board.

Bollinger County voters approved both state constitutional amendments. Amendment 3 was approved, 830 to 148. Amendment 4 passed, 660 to 258.