School Board race goes to recount

The ballots are all counted, but at least one race in Wythe County may have to be counted again.

In the four-person School Board at-large race, Julia Tomiak, as of a week past Election Day, holds a fourvote lead with 2,049 votes to Mack Pruett’s 2,045.

Martin earns award

Nurse Nikki Martin was named the Wythe County Community Hospital DAISY Award winner.

DAISY Award recipients are registered nurses who exemplify the nursing values: Extraordinary Compassion, Courage, Integrity, in every situation. These individuals consistently demonstrate excellence in the delivery of patient care and promotion of their professional nursing practice. Other nominees included the Women’s Center team, Brittany Bramlett, Kim Shortridge, Haley Shinault, Shirley Puckett, Patricia Boardwine, Tiffany Hall and Julia Akers.

The Voter Registrar’s office certified the election on Tuesday; however, Preutt requested a recount. Voter Registrar Lennon Counts said he hopes to have the final results by Jan. 1, 2024. In another close race, the official count shows incumbent Treasurer Lori Guynn beating Lisa Shelton by 282 votes. Guynn had trailed earlier on Election Night counts, but appears to have been put over the top by early voting. The rest of the races were much less hotly contested and sometimes not at all. A case in point is the open School Board seat that had no one running. Write-in votes put Chalmer Frye back on the board for another term.

Incumbent Moe Musser received 98 percent vote in the Circuit Court Clerk race. Incumbent Mike Jones received 98 percent, too, in the commonwealth’s attorney’s race, and Sheriff Charles Foster got 98 percent in his uncontested race.

Adam Linkous won the Commissioner of Revenue post with 63 percent of the vote. In the Board of Supervisors races, Stacy Terry re- turned to the board with 77 percent of the vote. Fellow incumbents Rolland Cook and Jamie Smith also won re-election with 97 percent and 98 percent of the vote, respectively. Dickie Morgan claimed the Zion Precinct seat with 56 percent of the vote.