Connie Ball Wins Vice Mayor As City Council Is Elected

The city of Newport will have a new city council when they meet in December. The top 5 vote getters were Connie Ball…who will be the vice-mayor…the other four members will be Louanna Ottinger, Randy Ragan, Steve Smith and MIke Hansel. The one new face on the council will be Randy Ragan as he basically replaces Mike Profitt on the council.

Connie Ball finished first in every precinct. Louanna Ottinger finished second in all but one of the precincts. In that precinct, which was West End, she finished behind Randy Ragan who also finished second in the early voting numbers.

Roland Dykes of course gets a second term as he ran unopposed.

That race for the CLB District 3 Post 2 was finally decided last night as Tracy Stepp defeated Terry Dawson 651-618. Those two had finished tied in August.