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Familiar And New Faces Elected To Council, Rice School Board

The City of Eagle Lake will have one new councilman following the May 11 election.

In a four-way race for three council seats, incumbents Michael Cooper and Tony Tyler won re-election and along with challenger Benny Landrum.

Cooper gathered the most votes with 211, Landrum had 156, Tyler had 135 and incumbent Dennis Davis had 126.

The Rice school board will see two new faces, as Bryan Wiese and John Carey, Jr. won seats.

Wiese, 391, defeated Dave Curry, 135, for position number 5 on the board, which had been held by Carolyn Baird, who did not seek re-election.

Carey, 307, defeated Anna Perez-Hailey, 205, for position number 7, which was held as a special election to fill the position left vacant by the death Joe Lee Perez last fall.

Perez-Hailey, Joe Lee’s sister, had been appointed by the board to fill that seat until the special election.

Regena Williamson, who was unopposed for re-election, received 331 votes.   [-end of story-]

 

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