Three new faces will join the Whitfield County Board of Education after Tuesday’s Republican runoff.
Bill Worley and Rodney Lock each won seats on the county board.
Worley, with 55 percent of Tuesday’s vote, edged out Tony Stanley for the at-large seat. Lock took 54 percent of the vote to defeat opponent Jessica Swinford for the District 2 seat.
Louis Fordham was the only candidate on the ballot for the District 4 seat. He claimed that seat during the July 20 primary without opposition. Worley and Lock didn’t get the 50-percent-plus-one-vote margin required by law during that initial run, so they had to go to the runoff.
All three incumbents – Tim Trew, who held the District 2 post, District 4 member Jerry Nealy and at-large member John Thomas – opted not to run for re-election. There are no Democrats on the November ballot, so tonight’s winners will claim the seats.