By Dave Taylor
In the race for the six seats on the Lewisport City Council, seven candidates were on the ballot, including all six incumbents. The final result was either going to be status quo or that one council member would be going home.
When the votes were counted the council had a new member, Josh Roberts, a school teacher at Hancock County Middle School and first-time challenger. Roberts earned the second-highest vote total with 522, bested only by Wes Pate’s 549.
Other incumbents, in order of vote totals, were: Mary Rummage, 471; Marsha Johnson, 467; Mary Hawkins, 429; Kelly Vanover, 407; and Josephine Hagan, 354.
Hagan will rotate off the council and out of the seat she’s held for most every term since 1975. Although she faced the same fate in 2016, losing in an election that had 12 candidates and saw four incumbents swept off the council, she was re-elected in 2018.
Lewisport’s mayor, Chad Gregory, ran unopposed and won for his fifth term.
